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Message: [QUOTE="RuffRuff, post: 5139387, member: 1268"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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