Texas vs Navy Basketball Post-Mortem

Sexting in binary is 011010000110111101110100

I think Trips was trying to sext in binary but the copious amounts of in-flight tequila was a major deterrent.

Didn’t watch, but just box-scoring it, we appear to have the same thoughts.

Not sure why JCB and TT aren’t starting, but they need to be.

Lucas getting 24 min is absurd. Whither Andrew Dick?

We’re going to need that overall stat line from Jordan quite a few times this year.

I love the distribution across CoJo’s and JCB’s stat lines. Doge’s, not so much.

Finally a post-mortem we can sink our teeth into (sexting aside). What Vash said…all. Exactly how I saw the game with one addition. Was suprised at the maturity the team showed and ability to adjust at the half and play to scheme. Especially the young Maple Leaves. Something the football squad could take a page from. Thanks for the opening game summation.

After last year’s basketball season I think everyone’s expectations for this year are to just make the tournament and win a couple there. I only watched the first half of last night’s game, but they looked relaxed and ready to put last year behind them. Was very impressed with TT. Hadn’t seen him yet. TT has huge potential. He didn’t look like a true freshman last night.

Re: J’Covan. Hopefully, he and his teammates will get better dialed in to J’Covan’s offensive style, which is aggressive passing. A little stick’m on the hands of his receivers might help.

Looking way ahead, if Joseph and TT are here next year, and we call pull D Daniels back in, we could start dreaming about a NC run in 2011-2012. That team will be LOADED.

Forgot to translate Trips txt for you.

1-4 high low pick and pop motion dribble drive screen f garden gnome Hamilton beast mode this team has potential.

This means he’s getting his freak on with 1 to 4 hookers with a variety of fetishes, but he can’t get his “garden gnome” in beast mode.

Todd Fuckin’ Wright.

I’ll give it a try.

“1-4 high low pick and pop motion dribble drive screen”
I’m not aware of this play, but it sounds complex and awesome

“f garden gnome”
Jai Lucas sucks.

“Hamilton beast mode”
Jordan Hamilton is an exceptional player that is on a role.

“this team has potential.”
After last years disaster, I don’t want to get my hopes up… but we have talent.

Vasherized,

Fantastic stuff. You should post more often. Dead on and hilarious. We did miss Trips in the open thread last night. Especially the parts where he posts five times in a row and replies to his own comments. Just kidding Trips.

Hard to get too excited considering the opponent, but the major positive themes for me last night were better ball movement, and better coach/team chemistry. On the downside the end of half after a timeout play was excruciating, and the out of bounds set plays are essentially non-existent.

First: F Vasherized

Secondly, there actually seemed to be a hint of a coherent offensive scheme last night — you know where players cut and screen and move and shit?

Our Canadian imports are the real deal, although I’m sure they spent some time wondering just WTH was going on when a couple of students sitting behind the south goal brought out a Canadian flag — and promptly held it upside down.

53 points and three turnovers in the 2nd half? I’ll take it.

I saw some moments of help defense that were very encouraging … and some less encouraging moments of the ball-man-you triangle being compressed into something decidedly less Euclidian, that left Navy bigs easy hoops underneath.

Given that last year’s team often treated “help” as a 4-letter word, however, I’ll take it.

Nice write up, vasherized.

Good to see my limited basketball knowledge came up with the same starting five.

Oh, and we’ll lose 3-4 games we shouldn’t because we can’t hit free throws – this team would cost you a lot of money at a carnival hoop game.

Our guards can all hit FTs at a high percentage except balbay. None of our bigs are any good from the line so I’m expecting a 70% clip brought down by a 50% clip and average somewhere around 60%. Still shitty but it won’t be our biggest problem this year.

Without Pittman and James, this team just isn’t very physical. Thompson won’t add much bulk during the season and Wangmene / Hill play too stiff in the paint, which leads to clumsy fouls.

More BUBBLE SCREENS!
there.
I said what everyone else was thinking.

My highly accurate, going out on a limb after 1st game, early season forecast/prediction for season:

If Hamilton and Brown play up to their potential, this is a sweet 16 team.

Good stuff Vasherized. I took away a lot of positives from the game. Hamilton played like a big-timer in the opener, particularly the second half. Good seasons from him and Brown should give us a very capable 7 man rotation with hopefully Wangmenne/Hill giving us some semblence of an 8th.

I thought Jai Lucas looked a lot quicker. Seriously. Todd Wright is awesome.

Good stuff.
 
Agree with all of your takes. I like this team a lot, but they’re undersized and underpowered in the front court. If this keeps up, they’ll play hard and be an enjoyable team to watch.
 
I didn’t like the heavy garden gnome minutes, but Cory Joseph made that bed for us with fouls. Interested to see how the minutes shake out over time.

As far as I’m concerned, srr50 always has been a playa.

Did someone really hit that recliner shot? I got a crack at it a few years back when we played against Villanova but came up well short.

The second half was quite enjoyable to watch. I know it was just Navy, but we were out there doing all the right things.

I disagree that this team lacks toughness from losing Pittman and James. Johnson was our toughest player last year and will be again this year. Hamilton and Brown play with more edge when they play weel, and it looks like the light may be coming on for them both. If they play with the passion and intensity they did last night, we will play with a swagger that we didnt have last year.

Nice Post-mortem Vash,
Tristan looked good for a first game, nice footwork, nice J with a double team to his right shoulder, good hands, looked fresh in the 4th quarter runs better then most bigs. Did shoot his FT 2 different ways needs to settle to a slower shot. Takes a bump and will finish. He’s a good one ,good BB IQ looks for the pass always. Good game, add another 10-15 lbs of Todd and you have a lottery pick.
Joseph is also a quality player, played off the ball most of the time but he is a player, mature like TT and knows where the ball needs to be in the half court, good passer and his 3 will drop when he gets comfortable. Will be another DJ type of player as soon as Barnes plays a pick and pop from the top of the circle. He will make everyone better on the floor, level headed .
Hammy played like a 4 year player last night but it was against Navy, you know he will be drawing the 2nd best defender and at times the best defender from the other team we face in conference. Played within the flow of the game a couple of shots that I was waiting for RB to yank him but overall the poise and attitude was mature and in control. This is the Hamilton that I followed for 5 years before he came to Texas and RB. This was how the kid played, the same way he played in 8th grade and high school.
Balbay looked slow to me with that cast iron kneebrace and his lateral movement was a step slower but not bad for a torn ACL less then an year old. I would say he is about 85-90% .
J’B looks good and active in the 2 slot, made some passes that caught his big not ready like Johnson. Nice that we was smiling I wonder how long that will last. The whole team looked so much better then last year, they were having a little fun out on the floor. Hope it lasts.

IPee, glad to hear from you, I understand that they carved your bunk number in the shower room. Is it true that you supply your own soap. Have a good one.

Isn’t that just somebody making fun of iPowers, smh? I believe he wrote his name with a lower-case “I,” but not sure.

That ain’t ipowers. He has a singular prose borne of East O. angst that cannot be duplicated.

Sailor,

I’m tempted to delete that comment but I’ll let it slide since you, like, run shit around here.

All real and ersatz ipowers and echeeses are summarily deleted.

Vash – He’s a ton quicker in both straight line speed and laterally. Perhaps your mustache is clouding your vision. The comment had little to do with his game and was merely meant to be complimentary of Todd Wright’s workshop on Lemnos.

I don’t mind Lucas playing in spot duty.

Like, very spot duty. 5 mpg stuff.

The mustache changes everything. As Jungleheat recently said, “A beard is merely a security blanket. With a mustache, you’re basically wrestling a Tiger.”

Jai Lucas knows this. Todd Wright changed the way Jai was trimming his mustache and BOOM instant speed burst.

That was your point, no?

navy sagged the D against balbay for just a little bit, covering him up tight mostly. when they did sag, the O stalled out (late 1st half?). just like last year. hate that the kid is such a liability on the O, b/c his D is still nasty, iron man brace and all. he is just such a pure joy to watch on D, favorite part of watching UT right now.

are those really Barnes quotes? hmm.