Barnes worst team

This was his worst team. 6th place in conference, unranked, and a 1st round loss.

last year’s 2007-08 team (2008-2009)
last to Colorado (lost)

We are the douche.

When we lost to Nevada I was at the Stag’s Head. I believe it was St. Patrick’s Day. Unbeknownst to me, an old friend of mine was bartending and he took what should have been a tab well over $150 and made it around 60. We lost, and I was pissed, but my drunkeness soon asuaged my anger, along with the hooked up bar tab.

Last night, last fucking night was different. I was at Buffalo Wild Wings drinking at a good, but not alarming rate, when out of the blue the beer police came from behind the bar and said they had a rule about how much they could serve a person. Now this has happened to me plenty of times at Hooters, but never at B-dubs.

So to answer the question, this years team was his worst.

That, by the way, was the best thing that’s come out of this basketball season. Knowledge of Magnus’ intimate familiarity with the service and cut-off threshold at Hooter’s as compared to BWW3. Hooter’s — worse food at a higher price than a titty bar, served with jean shorts, cheaper beer, and more stretch marks.

The girls don’t wear jorts at Hooters. They dress like Richard Simmons.

I ain’t talking about the girls Brick.

Jorts is for the skanks at Wolfie’s on 1960.

Hooters does suck, but that ice pack in the pitcher is clutch if you’ve got a slow drinker with you, i.e. a woman.

Are there any women who are not skanks at any place on 1960?

Jorts ‘are.’ ‘ARE.’ The grammar Nazi’s have been in full force lately. I don’t want their eyre.

Brick, Willowbrook/Champions is the closest thing to skank free you can find on 1960. Really they’re there, they are just cloaked better. Baker St. in Willowbrook is the best cougar hunting in America. Hell, I’ve even seen a couple panthers there.

Skanks abound on 1960. I might have the only girl on 1960 who isn’t a skank, or a skeezer, or a cum dumpster.

For this season only, with the players we have, I wonder how the team could have played with Rudy T. coaching.

Second awesomest thing — Magnus gets his woman to go to Hooters with him.

i know i’m questioning one of texas basketball’s sacred cows here, but what exactly has todd wright done to elicit all of the love he gets? kevin durant couldn’t bench press185 pounds after his time in the program, dexter pittman (congrats to him on the weight loss) is a 6’10 center who can’t dunk a basketball in 3 tries after 4 years in the program, and our team seems neither quick, athletic, or explosive. what exactly am i missing?

Rover -
You give 04/05 a pass because of all the injuries/lost players.
You say that 08/09 gave you hope because of Ward’s improvement and potential.

Then, for this year you fail to mention that Ward was hurt early and Balbay was hurt in the middle of the season. I think we lost one other player (S Williams?).

Do we even get to 17-0 w/o Balbay? Potential is great, but hanging your hat on 3 true freshmen is not smart. There aren’t that many 1-and-dones. There are even less that don’t take 2-4 years to develope (Durant gets better every game, and he is in his 3rd season). To think that we had 3 that were going to be in the NBA next year was the result of too much sunshine pumping. This team had some serious setbacks that neither the players nor the coach could control.

We had gone to shit long before Balbay got hurt.

This team is not the worst because of what we saw from Damion James this year. He might be my favorite Longhorn basketball player.

Agreed on Damo being my favorite Longhorn basketball player, I wish him all the best.

This was definitely the worst, by far.

This the most disappointing team because our talent level is higher than those others.

The DGib/Buckman team was the least talented, barely, after the injury to LaMarcus and Tucker’s suspension.

Last year’s team was the hardest to watch. Just watching AJ Abrams, who I don’t hate as much as most, run around like a poodle off fire hydrants trying to get open while we dribbled the ball out front was hideous. They really weren’t that disappointing because I hadn’t drank the kool-aid of them being a sweet sixteen team.

I didn’t like Mihm’s team either, but that was rather early.

I think because how dumb this team is and the utter lack of thought or creativity in our schemes, this may be the toughest pill to swallow. Also because those other teams gave great effort almost every game. This team’s effort was questionable. Dumb and lazy, not a good combo…..

Interesting theory I heard on the radio. I don’t know who was being interviewed, I want to say it was JD Lewis, but I could be wrong. He said offensively, we broke down because Barnes gave the team too much leeway in an effort to not overcoach. He then would become frustrated when they showed their low B-ball IQ, but became infuriated when they wouldn’t learn from those mistakes after reviewing. Have no idea of the validity of it, but it was interesting….

If TJ Ford isn’t your favorite UT basketball player u should ban yourself from all longhorn internets.

I disagree on the lack of effort. We wouldn’t have seen so many comebacks had that been the case. They did play some exceedingly dumb ball and made lazy plays, but I never thought they quit.

I wasn’t trying to say they quit. They just didn’t play hard a lot of the time. Lazy = lack of effort. Example, our transition defense was about 75% effort and 25% stupidity. We loafed down court a lot. The kids didn’t like to lose so they would fight back, but those holes we allowed ourselves to sink in came from effort in a lot cases, IMO….

Gotcha. I agree.

This is the worst coached team ever in Barnes era. Period.
Worst defense over the whole season,
Offense sucked big time and the bench coaching was horrible, ransom’s attitude was better then the coach’s overall this season.
Trips write up pre and post better then the game plan and O schemes.
Hell we could have saved 2 mill by having ransom and Trips coach.
The players also had their own problems and attitudes.
The only bright spot was BC blog on Texas basketball.

Can Greg Davis coach Basketball?

“Also because those other teams gave great effort almost every game. This team’s effort was questionable. Dumb and lazy, not a good combo…..”

This is what made this season so bizarre for me. This has never been a problem for Barnes’ teams. But I actually questioned this team’s heart and desire to play together many times.

Just want to say I really like this site. Better analysis than Burnt Orange Nation and without the pretentious and holier than thou crap from the moderators.

Thanks for keeping it real and funny as all hell

To be a good coach, you have to have players willing to be coached. I can’t say I saw player commitment to do much of anything Barnes asked of them. I will miss James. Not so much Pittman or Mason … and couldn’t care less if Brown decides to fly the coop.

Hamilton and Bradley can and should improve … if Barnes finds a cure for the cancer that ate this team from inside out.

The thought I’m left with is this: Barnes needs to do a better job of identifying and recruiting Rick Barnes-type players. This team is made up of anti-Royal Iveys and anti-T.J. Fords. I think we can all agree that this team had Final 4 potential with a different coach, and that some of Barnes overachieving teams needed Barnes in order to overachieve.

One more thing: The closest things we had on this team to Iveys and Fords were Balbay and Ward.

That kind of rhymed.

06_UT: you are probably right. I thought about changing the post description to “least favorite Barnes team” because that’s more accurate but I didn’t feel like it.
That said, I’m not sure this team would beat those other two. They would lose Abrams and let him go 7-15 on 3s and the Abrams team played better defense. The 2004-05 team would probably struggle but they zoned well and Buckman would have been a problem inside.

crp: re Todd Wright: Bench pressing 185 pounds has very little to do with basketball acumen at any level, as Kevin Durant demonstrated in his rookie year in the NBA. Texas has had a few teams with less depth than this group and survived fatigue. The 05-06 team with Aldridge had Abrams and Atchley as the first 2 off the bench and survived without wearing down. You can’t really say Pittman hasn’t improved vastly in terms of physical performance. It’s not on Wright that he couldn’t get the ball in the hole, but a few years ago he couldn’t stay on the court for more than 5 minutes at a time.
Beyond Pittman several others grew a lot physically in their time here. James got bigger and stronger, Atchley came as an overgrown guard and became a borderline star, Abrams and Ford were very strong and fit despite having small frames, he has made guys who stay at Texas into tough athletes with stamina.

crp said:
March 19th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

“i know i’m questioning one of texas basketball’s sacred cows here, but what exactly has todd wright done to elicit all of the love he gets? kevin durant couldn’t bench press185 pounds after his time in the program”

OK,given that Durant says he still can’t bench 185#, this is a stupid comment.

As for Barnes, you don’t fire your best coach ever in a sport, unless there is malfeasance. That’s dumb.

“If TJ Ford isn’t your favorite UT basketball player u should ban yourself from all longhorn internets.”

This needs to be stated again. I wondered out loud how long someone had watched Texas Bball to consider James their favorite Horn. I mean I like the guy, but he is down the list for me. Ironically, Durant has climbed to #2 after leaving the school. His love of the team as an NBA pro is awesome.

I suppose anyone could be your “favorite Longhorn basketball player” but Ford did more than just about anyone…although Durant is clearly better. Ford’s supporting cast was better than Durant’s in his sophomore year. Durant’s had more talent (Augustin, James, Abrams) but Ford’s was more developed (Boddicker, Ivey, Mouton, Thomas) and had worked with him for a year already before the Final Four season.

For a favorite James isn’t a terrible choice, he always played hard, he was entertaining and we have lots of memories cause he stayed all four years.

I love Durant. I think that he’s the most talented player to come out of college basketball since Carmelo Anthony. He’s the top class of the NBA and does our school proud, but it’s hard to pick a guy as your favorite ‘Longhorn’ that was ‘one and done’ no matter how good he was/is.

Until recently, TJ was my clear-cut, all-time favorite Longhorn. He still may be, although he’s kinda in the same boat as Durant. ‘two and done’ isn’t much better. I so wish he’d’ve stayed for a third year. I would’ve like to have seen what that team could have accomplished. That would have been way fun. I kinda hold that against him a little bit, too.

Royal Ivy is another one of my favorites. He was asked to do things that he wasn’t really ‘tooled’ for his last year and made the best of it. Several game winners as I remember. I love it when players blossom like that. It’s something that comes with experience, opportunity and a lots of hard work.

Damion is very much like Royal. Showed up with some promise and some questions and left with a large part of it fulfilled and answered. I respect that. IMO, that’s what college is for. Those guys did what you want ‘student-athletes’ to do. Go in with a promise of what can be and then realize it before you come out. Damion is a great four year player. In this day and age that is a rare beast. I can’t think of a player that came further in his basketball development at this school. He can take the ball coast to coast. He can reliably shoot the 3. All the while playing as many minutes as you need and getting you 12 rebs and 10pts worth of stick-backs a game. He’s an awesome warrior. He plays with an effort and fire that a lot of longhorns don’t.

Royal and James always did the dirty work. You have to have those kind of selfless players to make a good team. Too much ego on this year’s team starting at the top.

Damion James should be everyone’s favorite Longhorn Basketball player. He’s shown dedication, love of the school, team, and game, and improved himself to the point where he’s in the top few percent of basketball players in the world. If he’s not your favorite Longhorn, then you have a different criteria for what it means to be a Longhorn that I do.