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Really nice on campus arena, and super hospitable people in Austin. Apparently, per overhearing Liam’s mom, this was the first OOC team to win there being new as of last year. Very small feather in the cap. Also overhead AK scored his thousandth point.

Rotation crept down significantly in this one and we’re seeing Danny tighten things up as we head into the meat of the schedule. The 4 non center starters all played 33+ minutes with Hassan and AK playing 35 of a possible 40. I don’t expect that to change as he moves to playing guys he trusts. His leash has grown very short for the bench guys outside the 5.

Great first half, set the tone immediately with tough nosed d. AK was great and the steadying force, Hassan played much more within himself and just kept everything in motion. Was great to see him find SJ for the slip.

Solo played his best half of the year in the first. Liam did a lot of the things well, rebounded the heck out of it. He has a tendency to drive head down to the point he’s practically off balance, and was bailed out a couple times with fouls. He needs to clean that up.

This felt like a game where if they fed Tarris he could have scored on 90% of his takes. I was down on the floor standing next to Tarris, who is an incredibly nice kid, and he is a big dude. Different big.

Game went pretty much as expected, coaching being the major tilt. UT runs nothing and is dependent on iso basketball. Tre Johnson is a super talented kid and does not make the team worse as mentioned, but he’s young and given lack of offense under Coach Rodney, they depend on him. When he gets hot he does get ahead of himself.

Nice win. We own Texas. Good showing by the faithful.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Tre Johnson has "Bad/Mediocre Team Superstar" written all over him. He is ferociously selfish, and he thinks nothing of running down a shot clock on breakdown attempts and then dumping the ball to a teammate to attempt a stat-killing contested shot-clock beater that Johnson caused by burning the shot clock on selfish play. He might get better, but right now he is the kind of player that makes all his teammates worse.

Kaluma has more self-control than I would in that situation where Tre Johnson got in his face.
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Despite his obvious talent he could be a drag on Texas. Hope their coach can make it work.
 
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NutmegDog said:
It's been commented on already, but I'll add my vote to Singare's first-half minutes -- foul plagued though they were -- were a revelation. Now we can sit Samson Johnson and Reed when they pick up their (seemingly inevitable) second fouls and not have to go small -- at least not for too long. If Sinare can come along just a little more, it takes a ton of pressure off the bigs' rotation.
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Gotta be a big boost to get a solid block of minutes and contribute to a nice win. That's the kind of thing that can lead to more.
 
Palatine said:
Their Johnson shot 9-17.
Our Johnson shot 6-7.
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Their Johnson goes by Tre. Ours goes by S l amson. Sometimes it is the motion in the ocean, but who's kidding who, it's usually the size of the boat.
 
HooperScooper said:
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I actually thought of Urkel when I saw the Texas coach.


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A lot of it was probably the Karaban effect but Wednesday felt more like a gutsy, a lot of things went right, thank goodness it was at Gampel type win. This afternoon was the one where you can see this team will be really, really good by February, if not sooner.

He's still got a long way to go to round out his game but it was good to see drives to the basket and improved effort on the defensive end out of Ball while still hitting his usual quota of 3 pointers.
 
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What I think is amazing is the fact that on any given night it could be any of our players that’ll make a difference. Too many teams are reliant on one or two guys and that is what’s gonna make us bulletproof for this year and beyond.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Tre Johnson has "Bad/Mediocre Team Superstar" written all over him. He is ferociously selfish, and he thinks nothing of running down a shot clock on breakdown attempts and then dumping the ball to a teammate to attempt a stat-killing contested shot-clock beater that Johnson caused by burning the shot clock on selfish play. He might get better, but right now he is the kind of player that makes all his teammates worse.

Kaluma has more self-control than I would in that situation where Tre Johnson got in his face.
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I said the same thing to my buddy, but he pushed back saying Texas had no offense and if Johnson hadn't started playing ball hog, Texas would have been crushed.
 
superjohn said:
He's been really bad on defense up until today and we want more out of him but the board has been way too harsh with him. He's averaging 13 ppg and shooting 46% from three on the season, he's already hit a lot of clutch ones. He averaged 3.3 ppg on 32% from three last season.
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Sounds kind of Hawkish
 
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SCNCHuskie said:
Singare: He had no statistical production to mention, but he enabled the two bigs to sit for nine minutes in the first half without picking up a third foul, and also allowed Karaban to stay at the four and not have to move to the five. His contribution was enormous.
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My son & I were at the game and we were talking about this exact point.
 
superjohn said:
Great easy road win against a team that doesn't lose at home. UConn fans gonna flood MSG for the Zags on Saturday.

Total team win-
We have a two headed monster at center again if they can just stay out of foul trouble, which remains a major problem. They were both really good when they played. Hass and Karaban were great. Solo was a lot better on D, he drove some first half and he's an absolute sniper from three. Jaylin is still getting the short end of the stick on minutes.

This was the best ball movement and cutting we've had all season and the defense has been much better the past two games.
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We were at the game, they took the crowd out of it early and kept them out of it for most of the game.
 
Mister P said:
Well said.

Our play kept the the fans sitting on their hands with closed mouths but it seemed like the crowd noise was muted at times by the telecast.
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I was at Moody, and we did a great job of taking the crowd out of it. It got loud a couple of times, but we responded.

Dan had a great timeout in the second half to take the air out of the crowd.

Without the hot start, this could have been a much different game. Great win!

By the way, the Moody Center is nicer than any NBA arena. Spectacular facility. I was blown away.
 
HooperScooper said:
Especially with the shirt buttoned all the way up. And his body is similar. Uncanny resemblance.
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Urkel wore a sweater and henley tees. Big glasses, too. And, the suspenders. UT coach looks nothing like him.

Come back with a Carlton Banks and you'll have something.
 
Chasm64 said:
Despite his obvious talent he could be a drag on Texas. Hope their coach can make it work.
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Meh, he’s gone soon. Kid’s a talent for sure, but he’s no team player.
 
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uconnfan68 said:
Bilas is pretty neutral, and I think he respects our program. I’m sure they wanted a competitive game. We almost didn’t give them one.
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bilas tries hard to be neutral. he's just insufferable. complaining about whatever his thing du-jour is...refs, rules, the NCAA, scheduling...who knows.
 
The weirdest thing to me was that if you only watched this game, you'd never think the two of them did play-by-play for two of the Maui games. They seemed to have no interesting insights from what they saw with their own eyes. Just very bland generalizations that anyone could make from the fact that Texas was struggling to score.
 
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