#1 Tennessee vs Texas Longhorns

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Didn't watch it.

#1 Tennessee beat us. The Vols took us down by 4 points.

74-70 Final Score

there is no "moral victory" in a loss, but keeping it that close with the nation's top team is promising.
 
Tre Johnson with 26 pts
Pope with 17
Mark with 10

We all knew what Johnson can do. It's good to see Pope coming on. Of all our players, Pope seemed (to me) like the biggest mess in the early part of the season. Also good to see Mark asserting himself. He was good at UH.
 
We're going to hit some SEC teams that we can (and should) beat over the next several weeks. If we even up our conference record to close to 0.500 by early-Feb, we'll be setting ourselves up for a good shot.

1/15 #17 OU
1/18 #8 Florida
1/21 Missou
1/25 #10 TX 8&5
1/29 #23 Ole Miss
2/1 LSU
2/5 Arkansas
2/8 Vandy
 
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If you take a quick glimpse at pretty much any box score for us this year, you can just look at how Shedrick did to see if we won or not. Take a guess how he did tonight.

I get that we don't have the personnel to hang with physical teams, but there's a STARK difference between the games when we "need" Johnson and Pope to go off, and the games when we have all-around play.

Also, our bench was 2-12 and theirs was 9-18.
 
Texas is who they are and the future does not appear bright. The offense is nothing but different players going 1-1. The defense was a little better but not good in the last 5-6 minutes of the game. Texas simply cannot rebound with physical teams. I don’t give them much chance to beat the land thieves or gators on the road. Don’t know much about Mizzou and Aggy is just a better basketball team. As for it being encouraging to only lose by 4, Tennessee did not play a good game. They were sloppy with the ball. They did have 17 offensive rebounds.
 
Chop said:
Tre Johnson with 26 pts
Pope with 17
Mark with 10

We all knew what Johnson could do. It's good to see Pope coming on. Of all our players, Pope seemed (to me) like the biggest mess in the early part of the season. Also good to see Mark asserting himself. He was good at UH.
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It’s still the coaching and the offense, and it's not all Terry. Which coach is teaching the offense? Yes, these guys can score, but most of the time, it's tough shots in the offense. We have no real sets to get guys open or even good shots. This is why it's so much ISO and can't blame the guys. Seems this has been the system. I know some of these guys came from teams that played team ball, and just don't look like themselves in this system or offense, which is sad. We have to start winning some games to make the tourney. What were they teaching this summer? Let's go, coaches; this is on you. We can still do this.🤘
 
I was at the game and was impressed with our defense and offensive organization. They actually played pretty good basketball for most of the night and led a lot in a back and forth game. At least until the last 3 minutes when Tennessee took a 6 point lead as time was running down they reverted back to jacking up quick off balanced 3's when they didn't need to do that.

If this team can learn to stay disciplined for an entire game whether leading or behind they can hang with anyone, but they have to learn how to win.

I sat behind the Tennessee bench and Rick is looking good. He is a true floor general constantly engaging his entire coaching staff and team throughout the game.

Mack was there and walked by several times. He has "grown" a bit since I last saw him. Its nice seeing him back at Texas games.
 
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I was at the game and was impressed with our defense and offensive organization. They actually played pretty good basketball for most of the night and led a lot in a back and forth game. At least until the last 3 minutes when Tennessee took a 6 point lead as time was running down they reverted back to jacking up quick off balanced 3's when they didn't need to do that.

If this team can learn to stay disciplined for an entire game whether leading or behind they can hang with anyone, but they have to learn how to win.

I sat behind the Tennessee bench and Rick is looking good. He is a true floor general constantly engaging his entire coaching staff and team throughout the game.

Mack was there and walked by several times. He has "grown" a bit since I last saw him. Its nice seeing him back at Texas games.
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I saw pictures of the rows behind the basket completely empty. Was that right?
 
It was hard to tell on television but Moody did not appear to be the home court advantage it was two years ago. Maybe it was due to students not being back yet.
This is my overly simplistic and broad view of where Texas is with Terry at the helm. Every conference team puts their home game with Texas as a win and every team that Texas plays at home views it as a realistic opportunity to get a road victory with the upper echelon teams viewing it as a must win to keep pace and a bad loss if they lose. Something will have to change.
 
I’m not on the Court. Just an alum watching so it I generally refer to Texas or them when referring to the team. Do it with any other team sport. But thanks for the one minute analysis of my over fifty years of supporting the Longhorns. Sorry if I cannot be unwavering in how great a coach Terry is despite the clear trend.
 
LHABSOB said:
I saw pictures of the rows behind the basket completely empty. Was that right?
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Correct, the students were pretty much a no-show yesterday. I'm guessing many of them were either not back from Arlington yet or were moving back in from Christmas break. Behind both baskets were mostly empty, but the side court student section behind the bench was full.
 
Chop said:
Didn't watch it.

#1 Tennessee beat us. The Vols took us down by 4 points.

74-70 Final Score

there is no "moral victory" in a loss, but keeping it that close with the nation's top team is promising.
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It wasn't a case of getting down by 20 and making the final score look good. We were +/- 5 points on them pretty much the entire game. I was impressed even in the loss.
 
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