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Texas Southern Recap

Posted by Trips Right on December 16th, 2008 under Basketball

Look, I’m probably going to get hammered for this, but I was encouraged by the win. Should we have run this team out of the gym by 20 at the half? Sure. Am I concerned that Texas has allowed back to back undermanned opponents to make it a 40 minute contest? A little bit. But humor me for a second and allow me to make a case for why this win was more encouraging than it was concerning.

First, let’s place the schedule in context. Texas is coming off big wins vs. UCLA and Villanova on opposite coasts. They come back during finals week and play Texas State. It takes a cocktail of viagra and levitra to get up for that one. And of course, Texas wasn’t up for the game and the Bobcats got every loose ball and nearly every 50/50 rebound. Texas State also took our less than energetic perimeter defense off the dribble relentlessly for easy buckets and boards. Fine. Certainly an effort that left much to be desired.

Next, Texas plays an 0-8 Southern team that hasn’t played in a week. So, naturally Texas is somewhat flat and naturally TSU isn’t. Texas struggle in route to a 16 point win in a game in which it trailed by seven late in the first half. A game that on its face is cause for most observers to wonder what the hell is wrong with what ostensibly is a top 5 team. What’s encouraging about that, you ask? Well here goes…

Defensively, the Horns had little energy (read motivation) on this end of the floor and it showed on some help and recover situations, as well as some loose balls. But this phase wasn’t nearly as bad as the Texas State game. Truth be told, TSU hit a ton of shots that most teams will struggle to hit vs. average competition. Hell, going 58% from the field vs. air on the perimeter is tough to do. And most of TSU’s shots were of the tough perimeter variety. Boyles, Miller, and Henderson hit tough shot after tough shot. Miller looked like Allan f’n Iverson out there, and it wasn’t because Mason and Ward played poorly on defense. Miller was just feeling it. As were 3 other Tigers players that won’t shoot near as well the rest of the year. You just tip your cap to a team that was on. It wasn’t like they were shooting 57% from the layup line.

Offensively, Texas did some things tonight that are very encouraging and should bode well down the road. Against TSU’s man and sometimes matchup zone, Texas played inside-out offense about as well as I’ve seen them in any era. Granted, it’s TSU, but the Horns showed tremendous discipline, namely Abrams, by going into the post to counter overaggressive baseline screen hedging vs. AJ. The result? A monster 7-9 for 19 from big Dex. A 4-4 perfect offensive rhythm night for Connor. And a 10-17 shot selection masterpiece from Abrams, who, by the way, has played 3 terrific shot selection games in a row. I really can’t think of a bad shot he took the entire contest. And you know we hammer him here if he does.

Ward had an unbelievable night penetrating and probing gaps in the matchup zone to the tune of 12 points on efficient 4-7 shooting. His pullup midrange game is too good to be in a true freshman’s repertoire. More importantly, his 7 dimes show that you don’t have to be a Mark Price caliber shooter to effectively attack a zone. Varez’s ability to get in gaps and collapse the zone to find open teammates make him a viable option if teams see the need to zone us because of our overwhelming frontcourt size or general lack of shooters on the floor minus AJ.

And I’d be remiss if I failed to mention that Mason continues to play flawlessly against pressure. Six assists to 0 turnovers against pressure virtually the whole night is super. Having to run the show is hurting other facets of his game as we predicted, but it’s hard not to be impressed with how Mason continues to play lead guard at a high level.

Among my concerns, is that this team outside of Dex and Connor tonight, still miss too many point blank looks. James and Johnson really stood out tonight for their inability to finish. Foul shooting still needs to be over 70% for the team to be a legit top 5 squad. And then there’s the quibble with energy, hustle, and getting after it. Texas gets a pass against Texas State and TSU in this department. If they fail to show up and play hard against Michigan State, then I’ll worry.

And about Michigan State, it sure was nice to get a dry run against a motion offense a few days before the showdown in Houston. Guarding the constant cross screening and down screening of TSU’s flex offense tonight should pay dividends against Izzo’s motion on Saturday. I wonder if Barnes planned it that way.

Anyway, I thought the win was a good one. What did you think?

awiggo @ BON opines here.

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  1. Brian Combs said:

    December 16th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    I’m becoming convinced that this Longhorns are just going to have more close games than we would like. If they keep winning, it’ll make them tougher.

    These games are driving my blood pressure up, though. :-)

  2. EggNog said:

    December 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    While I see some of our struggles the last two games as coming from a lack of desire, I think it has a lot more to do with just poor offense. We didn’t separate from Tx Southern tonight until we started to score some points. Sounds circular in reasoning, but its true. Until we learn how to score points consistently, we will keep all sorts of teams in games with us.

    As far as rebounding goes, we were minus 8 at the half which indicates more than just a lack of effort. We have struggled to dominate teams on the boards, even lightweights. Rebounding should be something that happens even when the offense isn’t clicking. Playing good defense really doesn’t matter if you aren’t scoring points or getting rebounds.

    I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room right now in Damion James. Spending two seconds talking about him is giving him too much of a free pass. He is a poor man’s Chris Owens and will be out of the NBA just as quickly unless there is a drastic turnaround in what he brings for us. His fast break from tonight looked like something you would see from a middle school player, female at that. I think he has scored 2 points in the last two games COMBINED, this when the team was struggling to get separation from both opponents. Its a good thing Pittman and Ward have stepped up, and AJ is playing out of his mind because they are really covering for his disappearance. Unless he is sick or has some personal issue, I would put him on the bench until he decides he wants to play basketball.

    AJ is really playing within the system, and is looking like a tiny Rip Hamilton. His PPG streak his is running on is simply astounding, I don’t care who the opponents are for some of the games. At his size, it should be easy to lock him down, but nobody seems to be able to do so.

    Varez Ward is really showing me things that I like. He may replace Chico Vasquez as my favorite black UT player with a hispanic name. I actually enjoyed watching Chico’s defense all those years, I think he was always underrated. Ward is fantastic with the ball and plays like he wants to win. If he finds a shooting touch and/or gets better on offense without the ball he can be special.

  3. Beaten Dead Horse said:

    December 16th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Agree completely. TSU was shooting shit that I hope not to see many more times in my life. The energy level in the second half was impressive. AJ, Dex and Justin continue to amaze. Damion, not so much.

  4. awiggo from BON said:

    December 16th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    Trips,

    Good stuff. I just posted my review and headed over to see what you thought. Glad to see that I’m not the only one encouraged by tonight’s efforts.

  5. Texoz said:

    December 16th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    We could be developing a decent offense to go with our shut down defense.

    A combo of Dexter & AJ as two reliable scorers will offer problems for defenders because if you focus on those two and they miss, then Damion, Atchley or Gary could have some easy trash buckets.

    If Atchley can find his offensive game to go along with Dex & AJ, then you’re really starting to cook on offense. He definitely seems under 100%.

    I was surprised how TSU controlled the boards. With our bigs that shouldn’t happen. I do think we miss Wangmene some.

    Varez gets a little better each game. I sense he’s going to be substantially better on offense come March.

    Where was Dogus tonight? Seems like he should have played a few more minutes. AJ doesn’t need to play 40. Dogus only had 4.

  6. scagnetti said:

    December 16th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

    Ditto on the Izzo preview. But Damion and Gary HAVE to finish for us to win against sparty

  7. The General said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 7:57 am

    I did not get to watch the entire game against TSU (State) and I was about half watching last night’s TSU (Southern), but I noticed something about both teams, I just can’t come up with a lot of reasons for this correlation to be overwhelming.

    Both TSU’s were very, very athletic. They could get up and down, were at least long where they weren’t tall, and spread the floor well on offense.

    They are more athletic than UCLA (which has hairy white dudes Keefe and Russian-who-is-pwned-by-Chapman in the rotation), Notre Dame (McAlarney, Harangody, Ayers, Jackson, and Hillesland sound like lawyers in a catholic league team and play like one), and Villanova plays ugly and Barnes teams can out ugly anyone.

    So, why does a very athletic team give us problems? I think there has been a noticeable and understandable drop off in effort and that is a contributory issue, but not the problem.

    The other thing that athletes can do is make you pay for overplaying on the perimeter, and both of these teams have done that. I can live with having our aggression used against us.

    We are reasonably athletic, and when are best athletes are not on the floor it is by design not necessity.

    Otherwise, I quite agree with TR. Offensively, this was the most cohesive night we have had. We showed real intent to enter the ball in the post. Varez Ward and Mason were phenominal. Big Dex, welcome to college basketball. And while I saw some shots form AJ that would usually be filed in the not needed category, I think he needs to take 4 a game (that’s two a half for the aggie lurkers) or he isn’t shooting enough.

    The curious case of Damian James I will have to wait until I have more time . . .

  8. 4th and 5 said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    I was at the game and walked out encouraged as well. I have to agree with TR, and those that attended seemed to feel the same way. We all walked out with a genuine sense that the team is heading in the right direction, namely DEXTER-FREAKING-PITTMAN. Seeing the ball get into Dexter’s hands so many times is always encouraging. If he can average 20+ minutes/game for us now… watch out Big XII.

    Barnes made Damion James ride pine for awhile, so he’s noticed his slide too. Atchley showing signs of life on offense was encouraging, and A.J. Abrams, wow. He’s really not forcing it and isn’t looking selfish. I’m starting to see an offensive identity form.

    Gotta get the boards and free throws though before March comes…

  9. Kafka said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    In Damion’s defense, he is going through a big transition this year by going from power forward to small forward. Those are two really different positions with different skill sets and mindsets required to play them.

    It is not surprising that Damion is having troubles in the early part of the season while he is still getting adjusted to playing small forward. The key thing for Damion right now is to be patient, the skills will come. Also, he needs to really focus on being a monster defender/rebounder no matter what position he plays.

    It is really encouraging to see how well Ward is playing. He has looked like a player to me all along. Quite amazing that a 3 star frosh is playing as well as he is. Maybe he should have been rated as a 4 star recruit after all.

    It wil be really interesting to see how Dex does against ‘Sconsin and Mich State. They are going to be flying to try to block Dex’s shot, so I hope that that Dex fakes some of the time when he is shooting the jump hook.

    If Dex will set up on the right side of the post some of the time, it will be easier for him to get post position. Also, he can shoot his jump hook off the board from there with virtually no move, just a very small pivot. This shot allows the D very little time to double team Dex. By setting up on the right side of the post, Dex can also fake the immediate jump hook and then drop step to the hoop and finish with the left handed dunk (in case the D wants to take away Dex’s right hand).

    I also hope that Dex realizes that you get bonus points if you break the defender’s hand when he tries to block your dunk shot.

  10. huge said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Damion played a lot of wing last year. This isnt his first foray out there.

  11. Bob in Houston said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am

    Trips, you are correct, the offense was on fire. 88 points on 63 possessions (thanks, Ken Pomeroy)… by far, the best such ratio of the season.

    Defensively, however, the worst of the season (and only the second time all season that Texas Southern averaged more than a point per possession).

    We can attribute some of that to great shooting, but my theory also is that the entire team is at least a step slow because they’ve been “working through” these games, practicing hard instead of resting (relatively speaking) before games.

    Atchley clearly is not 100 percent, and I don’t think James is, either. I don’t think he’s fumbling the ball for no reason or shooting horrendously from any distance outside of a layup (and missing some of those) if he weren’t hurt.

    Hopefully this team will have its legs back by Saturday (because they’ll need them), and they can’t count on shooting in the high 50s against MSU or Wisconsin. They sure can’t win by relying on Abrams and Pittman.

    But it’s great to see AJ shooting smart, and Pittman cracking 20 minutes, and doing so effectively.

  12. Trips Right said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    In talking with people that would know, Damion’s got serious feelers out on where he fits in with the League. I think the early feedback has created a situation where DJ is trying to do too much. He’s pressing for highlight reel plays on both ends of the floor, instead of playing sound and letting the game come to him.

  13. Trips Right said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Bob, maybe you’re right about James and he’s not healthy. But he’s still playing above the rim.

  14. Vasherized said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    One of my clients is a scout with the Sixers and they are very interested in Damion. The problem is that he knows it and it’s negatively affecting his play. He gets a little jumpy instead of letting his natural game come to him.

    Thanks for the re-cap, I was unable to catch the game.

  15. Work said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    The only thing Barnes asks from his guys day in and day out are for them to play harder than the other team. The past two games, this hasn’t been the case, and trust me, Coach has noticed.

    This will not be a problem for the next two…

  16. Texoz said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    Trips,
    How about putting up a preview of Mich St. tonight or tomorrow so we have a couple of days to discuss a big match up??

  17. Trips Right said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    I’m working on it. I should have something up after lunch tomorrow.

  18. The General said:

    December 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    Here are my opinions on Damian James’s issues:

    1) He is playing for a contract, and he knows it, but he is a good kid and a team player, so he is hesitant on whether to force his game or let it come to him. Hesitation, bad.

    2) He is playing a new position, and while he has played on the perimeter before, it was as a 4 in a three guard offense. So, he was guarded by a 4 (mismatch), and the middle was wide open with only one post player.

    Now, he is a 3 being guarded by other three’s, and the middle is guarded by two post players, so it is hard to penetrate all the way to the hole (our posts don’t seem to know how to react to a player penetrating from the wing). With the middle clogged up, he basically has three moves to go to:

    A. His two dribble pull up 18 footer, which is pretty sweet, but still not a high percentage shot.

    B. His dribble drive to the elbow or base line and pull up 12-15 footer, which is his best option (and the one he has gone to in crunch time against Villanova and UCLA)

    C. Jack up a three

    That is a tough list to choose from when you are changing positions.

    For some reason, Barnes has shown no inclination to put Atchley in the far corner and Dex at the opposite elbow and post up DJ against smaller three’s. AJ enters the ball and resets in the corner and DJ then has three passing options and a couple of scoring options and Dex y Connor can crash backside.

    4) New position rebounding has been an issue. He hasn’t figured out when and how to crash on offense, and thinks he can rebound with size alone on defense, when he needs to block out that smaller three. Hesitation, hesitation everywhere.

    All that said, Damion still come up with money buckets and rebounds down the stretch against Nova and UCLA. He has played his best basketball late in the game, and seems to wake up a bit when teams get physical with him. That bodes well for the very physical Big XII conference schedule.

    Since the stinking scarlet letter of tweener is no longer enough to keep you out of The League (Carl Landry, Paul Milsap, Craig Davis, etc) hopefully Damian takes a cue from AJ and relaxes about the League and what position he needs to be, and just plays.

  19. Kafka said:

    December 18th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    At small forward, Damion is also now having to guard guys outside who are smaller and quicker than he is. That is difficult and stressful and is probably distracting to him.

    Damion’s dribbling skills are not up to small forward standards yet, either. That makes it tough for him to get his own shot when he gets the ball outside, especially against a defender who is smaller, quicker and willing to give Damion the 3 (until Damion shows that he can hit the 3 reliably).

    Moving Dex to the high post some and letting Damion run a give and go with Dex would permit Damion to get easier shots without having to dribble against a smaller, faster defender.

    Letting Damion be the screener for Mason and then passing Damion the ball off the pick and roll would also get Damion some easier shots.

    As far as posting Damion up, has Damion actually demonstrated that he is an effective post up guy? Can Damion shoot a jump hook well or execute the drop step move? I haven’t actually seen Damion do either.

    It is going to take time for Damion to learn how to play small forward. It is even possible that he does not master the position this season. I’m OK with that because he has been such a warrior for the horns and really took one for the team by playing power forward his first two seasons at UT.

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