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Men's Hoops vs UTA

Oldmanastro

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Trailing at half 30-27. These guys need to get out of their shooting slump. And stop allowing offensive rebounds.
 
Our shooting is terrible. somewhere tom penders is chugging a beer and laughing.
 
Most good coaches are total asses! I'm afraid Shakas too nice. Hoping it works for him.
 
do you guys remember how this team progressed last year? at the beginning of december, they were atrocious; by march, they were formidable. this is not a case of a guy in over his head. there may be roster limitations but he will get to the tourney. and his style performs well in the tourney as opposed to conference play because it's a little different. with the one-and-dones making name programs young, as we are, you are susceptible to older, experienced teams. frankly didn't see the game. but will not panic regardless
 
Tourney? You have to be near .500 in league play to make the tourney, and the Big 12 is a beast of a conference. Let's focus on winning another game.

Sincerely,

Jim Mora
 
Way to early to jump on Smart. Why don't we let kids play some more before we start calling for another coaches head. The Strong thing is fresh in their minds too.
We'll, it seems like another "groundbreaking hire".....

This is a bad team. I don't see an NCAAT invite this year.
 
I don't see them making the tourney unless they improve drastically. I'm going to watch with no expectations for the rest of the year and wait for improvement. No sense getting mad or let down by this team anymore.
 
Watching is optional. If I see the record above .500 in Big 12 play, I'll pay attention. Until then, I have other stuff to do.
 
Davis and Yancy need to leave the starting line up now in favor of Jones and Mack.

Help defense and giving up offensive rebounds are atrocious. That's on Coach Smart.

Shooting should take care of itself because the talent is there.

I'm a fan of coach Smart, but I used to cringe when a couple of posters assured us of his status as savior. For his faults, Barnes knew how to coach defense and most of his teams got after it on the boards.
 
Here's a little secret about former VCU head coaches prior to Shaka. Capel, Grant, McCarthy all fired at next head coaching gigs.
 
We don't have a true ball handler. So far no one has shown they can handle presses so when the other team presses we are turning the ball over. Agree that shooting will work out ok.
 
The problem with UT is what I stated at the end of last year in reference to this year. The team lost a lot of experience. Ridley, Ibeh and Connor as your bigs. Felix and Taylor are point guards. Look at this team, you have Shaq as a big. I'm sorry but he's not very good. You have a freshman big that's pretty good but he's a FRESHMAN to go along with another freshman big that has no offensive skills but a shot blocker. This team has NO point guard at all. You need a PG to be able to penatrate to attack and deliver good passes. This team needs to recruit 2 PG's or look to the grad transfer or juco transfer. Yancy is not a point. Davis is not a point. Mack is not a point.. We just have to hope that the team improves. If not, we will see a bad year. I don't want anyone saying, "Strong 2.0". Be patient everyone
 
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One glaring problem, Roach and Allen are supposed to go pro after THIS year. What will we look like next year?
 
Roach won't go pro and if he does, he will fall inline with the likes of Kabongo and Taylor. I could see Allen going pro but he needs to step up this season.
 
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