Men's Basketball

[Jordan91]

1 hour ago, harveycmd said:

While it's true there isn't as much off the ball movement and motion today (and this is not a positive development or change), every other college team doesn't run isolation with maybe a screen. The better offenses pass the ball around the perimeter looking to get open threes or drive into the lane if they can get a defensive player out of position. It's quite basic and boring, but they do it. Texas doesn't pass.

They had some really good ball movement in the first half against OU. It’s been a struggle since. 

[tylerlindsey2111]

44 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

They had some really good ball movement in the first half against OU. It’s been a struggle since. 

While I agree more teams are foregoing the use of old school "continuity" base offenses, more teams are generally playing out of called concepts that are layered to provide triggers to create advantages in space for their best players (funny enough, a lot of these initial create actions have Princeton as a origin point). Alignment typically is the first call and decision in this, such as a horns look or a domino look or a traditional 5 out spacing. There are still teams running continuity; Auburn runs a version of the Flex, Gonzaga and Arizona are ball screen continuity, etc. But more teams are going with the UCONN model, or attempting to. 

Texas appears to be very limited in their creates, and lack execution in the simplest of these. Leads to a lot of stagnation, a ton of stationary dribbling (not to be confused with driving) and a lot of out of rhythm jump shots, or poor post ups.. (Onyema, anyone?) 

From an offensive philosophy perspective, in essentially year three, this philosophy gives me great concern when paired with style of player being sought by staff.

[syracusehorn]

This is the first year since 1990 that I haven't watched all the games. I just got tired of watching uninspiring performances. The talk of a tournament run seems bizarre to me. I have no idea how that could happen with only 5 or so conference wins, which is all I can see us getting. We had arguably the worst non-conference schedule in the country, and struggled to win those games.