Nope, this is who we are. We make 3's we possibly win. We miss 3's we definitely lose. The coach has no other offensive plans if they arent dropping. Relying on the long ball without a backup plan is a horrible strategy and this is what Shaka wants us to be. The last two years have proven that to be true.
It's hard for me to believe we pay this much to Shaka for a "strategy" I could and would be willing to implement for free just to say I am the Texas Longhorns coach. The saving grace to keep us from winning less than 10 games a year is recruiting/talent. Shaka does a good job getting them here, but these stud athletes are being let down in my opinion.
Think about these final stats:
5 assists - most middle school teams will get 5 assists in a game by accident having a basic offense. This is what happens when your offense isn't designed to "create" shots. They just try to dribble around and take an open shot. After 11 games with a 9-2 start we are 144th nationally in assists per game and #202 in actual assists.. Shaka should be fired on that result alone. I have no idea why any true point guard would want to play here, but wait it gets better.
2 steals - where is the defensive genius assistant Shaka hired to coach this team? That's zero defensive effort. The CMU game was a head scratcher to me because we had the best offensive game of the year shooting over 50% but were still losing with 8 minutes left. We are ranked 218th nationally in steals per game! Hows that possible? Bad defense. Where again is that defensive specialist coach?
9 offensive rebounds and being out rebounded by 13 - that means the ball goes in the air and one maybe two guys are even trying to get the ball. That's either lazy or bad priorities given to them by the coach. I thought the lack of assists were bad until I looked up our rebounding stats. We are ranked 288th out of 353 teams in total rebounding per game. Again, where is our new defensive coach?
We were favored by 1.5 pts, lost by 22 and I dont think it was really that close. I love basketball, but I can't watch this crap anymore. Someone mentioned the Big XII is down this year, but will it really matter? I hope DelConte is looking at more details than the record 'cause it's about to get ugly.
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Last edited: Dec 22, 2019