Some meandering thoughts:
1) missed the live game due to attending a Christmas Themed Wedding. A CTW is an interesting item to experience once. Second experience likely never needed.
2) thought that not much can be worse than Dee Kantner the referee (there is a reason that the NBA fired her as they otherwise fought fiercely to promote female refs). I was wrong. Dee Kantner the broadcaster opining about refereeing is far worse. Like her ref days, she was consistently wrong and highly annoying. But with a microphone.
3) Rebecca Lobo spent five minutes explaining how Vic couldn't sub out regulars due to bench issues and then spent two minutes (starting with 90 seconds left in game) praising him for doing the thing she said he couldn't do.
Vic is a dick for pressing up 30+ under five minutes. A huge asshat. CNC shouldn't have hugged him after the game, she should have kneed him in the nuts.
4) people complaining about UT's D fouling are missing the mark. Both D's were allowed to grab, the calls on that end were consistent. Cows were simply more physical, had better depth, played harder.
5) the real complaint about refs was the moving screen calls/noncalls. Cows got away with murder. Their post to post side to side screen were illegal about 95% of the time and saw zero calls. They used a rubscreen on diagonal cuts and diagonal drives and it was illegal every time and basically uncalled. Baylor got called on two moving screens that I saw. CNC should have gone ballistic after the first call (even if it got a technical foul). Some blow ups to change how a game is called are simply necessary. She is too timid. Yelling isn't always enough.
6) 99% of the offensive woes stem from the same root issue……we can't win the dribble and force D rotations. Our two players who can do some dribble creation (Scott and Deng) do it to score and not to create. Unless teams run a pure Princeton motion O, winning the dribble consistently is a prerequisite to every other O scheme.
7) player development is a huge issue. Buggs and Fontleroy simply stopped improving (to any significant degree) two years ago.
8) when teams press and Baylor never attacks for easy baskets, that means the upside is turnovers and easy buckets and there is no downside.
9) the secondary value of pressing Baylor is that half the shot clock is expired before we initiate half-court O.
10) when teams rise high and deny the wings, back cuts to relieve pressure should happen routinely. We clearly have zero idea of how to punish either ball pressure or wing pressure.
11) when your teammate picks up their dribble under pressure, you have one job…..create a passing lane. We stand glued to the court leading to turnovers. Or we push off.
12) Buggs in year four still has little idea of shot selection based on shot clock.
13) Cows had better depth. They are happy recruiting five stars but also recruiting kids that do 1-2 things well on O but play D all out. Maybe we should learn the lesson.
14) The Cows do a great job creating passing angles. We do not.
15) The cows run backside action while running front side action. We stand around on the backside.
16) ideally every defender would be long, have great reach, and be quick. Having none of the above shouldn't be playing.
17) CNC has to see the writing on the wall. New boss and the team is seriously underperforming. Recruiting is a disaster. Time to finish any home repairs.
18) Team is having to make passes and shots into tiny windows because we cannot space the floor (shooting woes) or move secondary defenders with dribble drive.
19) No Scott = .500 in conference if we are lucky.
20) everyone throwing the "hater" label at the realists should apologize profusely. Pollyanna **** the bed today.
1) missed the live game due to attending a Christmas Themed Wedding. A CTW is an interesting item to experience once. Second experience likely never needed.
2) thought that not much can be worse than Dee Kantner the referee (there is a reason that the NBA fired her as they otherwise fought fiercely to promote female refs). I was wrong. Dee Kantner the broadcaster opining about refereeing is far worse. Like her ref days, she was consistently wrong and highly annoying. But with a microphone.
3) Rebecca Lobo spent five minutes explaining how Vic couldn't sub out regulars due to bench issues and then spent two minutes (starting with 90 seconds left in game) praising him for doing the thing she said he couldn't do.
Vic is a dick for pressing up 30+ under five minutes. A huge asshat. CNC shouldn't have hugged him after the game, she should have kneed him in the nuts.
4) people complaining about UT's D fouling are missing the mark. Both D's were allowed to grab, the calls on that end were consistent. Cows were simply more physical, had better depth, played harder.
5) the real complaint about refs was the moving screen calls/noncalls. Cows got away with murder. Their post to post side to side screen were illegal about 95% of the time and saw zero calls. They used a rubscreen on diagonal cuts and diagonal drives and it was illegal every time and basically uncalled. Baylor got called on two moving screens that I saw. CNC should have gone ballistic after the first call (even if it got a technical foul). Some blow ups to change how a game is called are simply necessary. She is too timid. Yelling isn't always enough.
6) 99% of the offensive woes stem from the same root issue……we can't win the dribble and force D rotations. Our two players who can do some dribble creation (Scott and Deng) do it to score and not to create. Unless teams run a pure Princeton motion O, winning the dribble consistently is a prerequisite to every other O scheme.
7) player development is a huge issue. Buggs and Fontleroy simply stopped improving (to any significant degree) two years ago.
8) when teams press and Baylor never attacks for easy baskets, that means the upside is turnovers and easy buckets and there is no downside.
9) the secondary value of pressing Baylor is that half the shot clock is expired before we initiate half-court O.
10) when teams rise high and deny the wings, back cuts to relieve pressure should happen routinely. We clearly have zero idea of how to punish either ball pressure or wing pressure.
11) when your teammate picks up their dribble under pressure, you have one job…..create a passing lane. We stand glued to the court leading to turnovers. Or we push off.
12) Buggs in year four still has little idea of shot selection based on shot clock.
13) Cows had better depth. They are happy recruiting five stars but also recruiting kids that do 1-2 things well on O but play D all out. Maybe we should learn the lesson.
14) The Cows do a great job creating passing angles. We do not.
15) The cows run backside action while running front side action. We stand around on the backside.
16) ideally every defender would be long, have great reach, and be quick. Having none of the above shouldn't be playing.
17) CNC has to see the writing on the wall. New boss and the team is seriously underperforming. Recruiting is a disaster. Time to finish any home repairs.
18) Team is having to make passes and shots into tiny windows because we cannot space the floor (shooting woes) or move secondary defenders with dribble drive.
19) No Scott = .500 in conference if we are lucky.
20) everyone throwing the "hater" label at the realists should apologize profusely. Pollyanna **** the bed today.
