With Balbay Gone: 3 Ways to Easy Offense

Oh, Trips…

I gave in a long time ago.

this is waaaay too logical for Barnesy…

It’s a shame Mason and Lucas will end up with the lion’s share of the point guard minutes.

Nice post, Trips.

Let’s see how many 80’s songs we can use as analogies for the basketball team this year. Anything to distract us from the box score.

Next up: Motley Crue’s Kickstart My Heart.

The source of Wisdom has spoken and Ricky Barnes said “Pfff” to easy, do it my way.
We go with true senior Mason and his sidekick the short guy that goes by the name of “Jai of the Jungle” . JoJ for short.

Do we see CJB play 25 minutes ?? Or is it another 4-5 minutes and your out of time CJB.

Excellent write up, Trips.

With everything in life, there are trade offs. W/O Pittman you give up rebounding and defense at the rim. Despite his poor season, his shot blocking and space eating are positives defensively unless we employ full court press or 1-3-1 half court press. W/O Dogus and then Mason, I’m frightened of transition defense and so is Rick. However, Rick is going to have to “get over it”. He can instruct Bradley and JCB that they are to run, not walk, back in transition once the ball goes up like a Chinese fire drill. I actually think Barnes has probably done this and they still keep F’n it up, but maybe he can get really upset about it. You know change things up.

We’ll probably stick to our two man Iso’s. High pick’n’roll stuff. But as you said, by having five scorers, you can get some pop outs or perhaps penetration off ball rotation. It’s the best way to go at this time. I don’t know if Barnes will give up Dexter’s presence nor Mason’s steadiness for long stretches. I still think Dex starts and if Mason starts over JCB the next few games at home, then let’s fold up tents and start looking at next season. I’d love to see if Hamilton can run a decent pick n’ roll and have AB as the offside spot up jump shooter, but whatever….

BTW, I have Survivor’s greatest hits on audio cassette if anyone’s interested…..

I feel like jumping in my ferrari and driving around the suburbs of Houston really fast. I’m hurt. I’m angry.

I thought we were getting a Cooper post, finally.

Maximize Number of Ballhandlers. Number one reads like the dry erase board in Vasherize’s bedroom.

This made me start to laugh very loudly. I tried to contain it, so instead i snorted very loudly in my office. I tried to cover it up it up with a cough. Getting stared at.

Look — it’s been true all year and it still is. We are only going as far as Brown, Hamilton, and Bradley can take us. But we still don’t know what happens when we just turn the keys over to them. Maybe now we’ll be forced to find out.

Good write-up, we should have already been doing this.

I don’t think Barnes will be forced to do anything. He seems perfectly content to continue playing the violin while Rome burns down around him.

Certainly coming to an Austin Sports Talk radio show in the next two days no doubt.
 
Is this still happening, Trips?

Let’s see how many 80’s songs we can use as analogies for the basketball team this year. Anything to distract us from the box score.

Next up: Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust.”

Don’t stop, believing….
Hold on to that feeeeeeling…..

Is this still happening, Trips?

One would have to listen to verify that, and it’s just too damn painful.

What ever the opposite song of “You’re the best……..around, noonesevergonnakeepyoudown” that’s our song.

Magnus,

I think that’s “I’m a Barbie Girl?”

Scipio, yes. GK did an entire radio segment featuring a Texas basketball/Rocky III parody the day after I used the same analogy in my Kansas Preview. Then he bragged about the parody on orangebloods. I’m sure he’ll claim it’s a coincidence, and maybe it is. History tells me otherwise.

Yeah, not the first time, unfortunately.
 
Let me think about this.

Primo shit.

So why can we see it but Barnes can’t. The answer is he sees it but has another agenda.

As somebody recently said, he’s in charge of recruiting these guys.

I’ll take D. Trick question. There is never an easy way.

Like a vir-ir-ir-ir-gin

Giving offensive advice to Rick Barnes is like giving offensive advice to Greg Davis. Face it guys, we have two defensive teams that most of the time agasint good competition look lost out there on offense.

Speaking of Like a Man-faced Lesbian -I mean -Virgin…when I used to submit news crime stories to the Morning Call, there was one story in the paper back in 2008 about Sylvester Stallone and his banking career > kind of unfair because it was used to discredit his hero image. The nice element about writing crime stories was the fact that I got real cozy with the police. You can REALLY let your hair down with those chums. If only you knew what I knew about some of these people!

Don’t chance it to ESP-play it safe. The police are there to serve, protect psychics. Now…pass the donuts, Barnes, etc…

I hope you ppl are smart enough to realize that Rick Barnes will never do anything that is logical and actually makes sense hes to dumb to actually do that. The best thing for the team was the balbay injury; he was without question the worse shooter in college basketball. Rick Barnes should’ve never played Balbay I don’t understand the fasination that ppl have with him. If you watched the Ok state game Dexter Pittman actually had the best game he had in a month; that wasn’t by accident that was because Texas was able to play real “legitmate” offensive threats and ok state werent able to play 15 feet off balbay and triple team pittman inside. The problem with Texas has been “spacing” on the court and Balbay was the reason for that that problem; now that hes hurt expect Texas to actually get better and Dexter Pittman to be more of a factor again.

What’s your definition of “legitimate”, sir?