March Madness Report: Huge opportunity in Waco (Monday 11:30 a.m. CST)

[ChanmanV]

We shooting lights out right now but Baylor hanging in. Weaver in foul trouble will keep this close. Mitchell has to run out on Bridges. He’s a sharpshooter.

[ChanmanV]

Survived with a healthy lead to halftime with Weaver and Disu in foul trouble. Bodes well in the 2nd half when they are back.

[NothinButDaHorns34]

Color me surprised with how this team has played the first half of this game, But it’s gotta continue into the second half.

[NothinButDaHorns34]

8 hours ago, Neil Leininger said:

The Big 12 can make a lot of teams look inconsistent.

I wonder what magic potion U of H has then? Because they don’t look that way 

[NothinButDaHorns34]

Here comes the inconsistency part of the consistently inconsistency of the men’s longhorn basketball team. 

Edited March 5, 2024 by NothinButDaHorns34

[Hermanator]

Team completely lost focus once Baylor went to a 1-3-1 and Disu went down. Very bad offensive sets and poor defensive rotations. 

Teams that make runs in the tourney can't lose focus like this. This team is close but not quite good enough outside of Abmas who can't win it by himself. 

[Neil Leininger]

Season is over if Disu tore his ACL like it looked like.

[Titleist8412]

I don’t like dumping on our players, but Shedrick got absolutely abused. They targeted him over and over in the second half. 

[dentonhorn]

8 hours ago, Neil Leininger said:

Season is over if Disu tore his ACL like it looked like.

With Disu the absolute upside would be sweet 16, without, win one is the best. Makes a huge difference but this bunch wasn’t going too far anyway. 

[dentonhorn]

9 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Team completely lost focus once Baylor went to a 1-3-1 and Disu went down. Very bad offensive sets and poor defensive rotations. 

Teams that make runs in the tourney can't lose focus like this. This team is close but not quite good enough outside of Abmas who can't win it by himself. 

Coaching does matter, you hire a coach with a mediocre resume and you get what you saw on paper. 

[Gerry Hamilton]

Zero chance to make noise without Disu. And just when Texas was starting to play their best/maximize what they have, of course. 

[MBHORNSFAN]

RT is jag. We will be hiring again in a few years.

[agentmule]

25 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Zero chance to make noise without Disu. And just when Texas was starting to play their best/maximize what they have, of course. 

Disu overcame stomach bug only to injure his knee?!? Poor kid.

[Robert Maislin]

@Gerry Hamilton, what % of UT disappointing on the hard wood this year has been a lacking roster vs Terry not being up for the challenge of the job in game?

 

Couldn't help but notice he again chose to not utilize a TO as we let the game slip away last night on Baylor's big 20-4 run.

[HookemHorns]

40 minutes ago, Robert Maislin said:

@Gerry Hamilton, what % of UT disappointing on the hard wood this year has been a lacking roster vs Terry not being up for the challenge of the job in game?

 

Couldn't help but notice he again chose to not utilize a TO as we let the game slip away last night on Baylor's big 20-4 run.

Not Gerry but I think RT did well with the roster we have. The freshman both bailing really hurt the roster construction, and Shedrick/Weaver/Disu all being hurt during the offseason hurt as well. 
 

IMO we need to see how this offseason goes and how next season turns out. If he can get a good team next year between returning players/freshman signees/portal players than he may have a shot at sticking around. 

This roster was poorly constructed but it is what it is and it’s hard to know how much losing those freshman hurt RT’s vision for this team. 
 

Development has been hit and miss. Hunter seems like he has regressed. Weaver is getting better and better. Mitchell has developed but not as much as I hoped. 

[Neil Leininger]

28 minutes ago, HookemHorns said:

Not Gerry but I think RT did well with the roster we have. The freshman both bailing really hurt the roster construction, and Shedrick/Weaver/Disu all being hurt during the offseason hurt as well. 
 

IMO we need to see how this offseason goes and how next season turns out. If he can get a good team next year between returning players/freshman signees/portal players than he may have a shot at sticking around. 

This roster was poorly constructed but it is what it is and it’s hard to know how much losing those freshman hurt RT’s vision for this team. 
 

Development has been hit and miss. Hunter seems like he has regressed. Weaver is getting better and better. Mitchell has developed but not as much as I hoped. 

More to the point, you can't turn over your roster every year in the portal. If you take a Kelvin Sampson approach you will have a better baseline.

The only HS kid that signed with Texas and has been the program more than one year is Alex Anamewke and Mitchell, that just isn't sustainable long term. compare that to Houston who has Shead, Sharp, Roberts, Francis, Arceneaux, and Walker. All key contributors though Arceneaux and Walker have been injured this season. 

Edited March 5, 2024 by Neil Leininger

[NoDakHornsFan]

@Gerry Hamilton Of course hindsight is 20/20 but if you were making the hire last spring would you have hired RT, or hired someone else who reasonably would’ve took the job?

[Neil Leininger]

7 hours ago, dentonhorn said:

Coaching does matter, you hire a coach with a mediocre resume and you get what you saw on paper. 

So what would say about a coach on his 3rd team that had a 205-140 (.594) overall record, with a 2-4 tournament record was?

[dentonhorn]

21 minutes ago, Neil Leininger said:

So what would say about a coach on his 3rd team that had a 205-140 (.594) overall record, with a 2-4 tournament record was?

What league did that coach participate in? 

[Neil Leininger]

23 minutes ago, dentonhorn said:

What league did that coach participate in? 

NEC, A10, AAC, and Big East.