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Can't help but be impressed by Houston

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I know more people than usual follow Houston right now and check in to see how Josh, Carlton is doing.

They were very impressive. They play for each other. They play smart. They don't try to do too much for their most part and guys stepped up when others got into early foul trouble. I love how they play both ends of the floor with heart and they have PG who can get buy his man and break the defense down initially. Then others guys are moving the ball and moving their bodies to get to open spots and find open looks. It was closer than the final score today, but the way the pulled away the last 7 minutes was very impressive.
 
Spaceman213J said:
I know more people than usual follow Houston right now and check in to see how Josh, Carlton is doing.

They were very impressive. They play for each other. They play smart. They don't try to do too much for their most part and guys stepped up when others got into early foul trouble. I love how they play both ends of the floor with heart and they have PG who can get buy his man and break the defense down initially. Then others guys are moving the ball and moving their bodies to get to open spots and find open looks. It was closer than the final score today, but the way the pulled away the last 7 minutes was very impressive.
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Sampson has done a great job with that team. Lots of options on offense and a great game plan today to try to limit Cockburn’s impact and force others to beat them.
 
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he's an incredible coach and they are recruiting at a high level. wonder how long he wants to do this, his son is apparently the heir apparent down there.

will be curious to see how they stack up when we are in the Big 12
 
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Houston lost 7 of their top 8 scorers from last years Final Four team
They lost their 2 top scorers on this years team in December for the season
This team will appear in their 3rd Sweet Sixteen in 3 years. They beat a top Big10 team each year to get to the Sweet 16
Some "expert" BYer said a few weeks back when Josh Carlton was named All AAC 1st team that Houston is a mediocre team in a crap league.
Houston is heading to the Sweet 16 and Memphis was 2 points away from beating the overall #1 seed. The AAC is not nearly as good as the NBE top to bottom but Houston and Memphis would have been at the very top of the NBE
If Houston is mediocre where does that leave UConn?
Sampson is a great coach and should be in the college basketball HoF and probably the Basketball HoF in the future
 
kobe said:
he's an incredible coach and they are recruiting at a high level

will be curious to see how they stack up when we are in the Big 12
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If Sampson is still there and Cinci doesnt get a decent coach - they will be looking down at you as will the rest of the B12
 
Drew said:
This was the perfect culture play

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But only Our coach who won’t take transfers he doesn’t know already has the perfect culture recipe lol.

Seriously though, sampson is a helluva coach - sasser and Mack were studs. And they didn’t miss a beat.
 
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I'm curious as to how people would react if they compared Sampson's first four years at Houston to Hurley's first four years here?
 
kobe said:
he's an incredible coach and they are recruiting at a high level. wonder how long he wants to do this, his son is apparently the heir apparent down there.

will be curious to see how they stack up when we are in the Big 12
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I agree. It's hard to predict whether recruiting will be helped or hindered by a lateral move. Houston won't be a remote outlier so that shouldn't hurt it.
 
Quality, Functional Depth
 
Kenny11 said:
He is freaking great coach.

Also when he got in trouble years ago it was for excessive text messages. That looks extremely minor now.
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Its not even a violation now, I bet Sampson learned a thing or 2 being in the NBA as well.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
I didn’t realize no starters returned from the FF team. Great coaches reload not rebuild
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Fabian White was basically a starter. He usually played the same or more minutes than Chaney. He had previously been a starter, but they brought him off the bench after his injury and they liked the rotation and kept it.

But absolutely, he developed (Shead, White) and reloaded (Moore, Edwards, Carlton) in equal measures.
 
Be an interesting game if Houston and Villanova meet.

Have they ever played against each other in the tenures of Sampson and Wright?
 
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I think he's been underrated by some and undervalued by some of the places he's coached at.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I'm curious as to how people would react if they compared Sampson's first four years at Houston to Hurley's first four years here?
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Won an NCAA game in year 4, Sweet 16 year 5, ? Year 6 - no tourney but ranked 22nd and reg season champs, Final Four in year 7.
 
gtcam said:
Houston lost 7 of their top 8 scorers from last years Final Four team
They lost their 2 top scorers on this years team in December for the season
This team will appear in their 3rd Sweet Sixteen in 3 years. They beat a top Big10 team each year to get to the Sweet 16
Some "expert" BYer said a few weeks back when Josh Carlton was named All AAC 1st team that Houston is a mediocre team in a crap league.
Houston is heading to the Sweet 16 and Memphis was 2 points away from beating the overall #1 seed. The AAC is not nearly as good as the NBE top to bottom but Houston and Memphis would have been at the very top of the NBE
If Houston is mediocre where does that leave UConn?
Sampson is a great coach and should be in the college basketball HoF and probably the Basketball HoF in the future
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'Houston lost 7 of their top 8 scorers from last years Final Four team'

(overheard from sampson's phone last year at 12:01, or whatever time it was first official to talk to transfers.... ring ring! 'yo josh, Houston. Houston? Houston. u in? Houston, im in')

(along the way, aac awards, stuff...)

'This team will appear in their 3rd Sweet Sixteen'
good move, josh. makin us proud.
 
Kathy said:
Won an NCAA game in year 4, Sweet 16 year 5, ? Year 6 - no tourney but ranked 22nd and reg season champs, Final Four in year 7.
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My question wasn't "how did Sampson do in his first four years at Houston?", I know what Sampson did. What I really want to see is how detractors on the Boneyard will spin or excuse one side while criticizing the other. The first three seasons for each were eerily similar (a strong argument could be made that Hurley did better in each, especially the NCAA vs NIT year three) with the year four difference being entirely a round one win by Houston in a very close game against SD State.

Yes, making the tournament each of the next four seasons, winning at least one game with a final four and two additional sweet sixteens is a hell of an accomplishment (JC can claim having done this only once, 2003-2006) but a lot of the criticism being cast at Hurley may be a bit premature.

On further review: if Hurley's first three years were six games under .500; NIT; NIT; many here would have called for his head the entirety of last spring and summer.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I'm curious as to how people would react if they compared Sampson's first four years at Houston to Hurley's first four years here?
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Well, yeah but Sampson didn’t inherit a weak team in a lesser conference and move to a better one. Do you know how hard that is to do? Ask Dan Hurley. He’ll tell you.
 
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