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Good Sign from Rick Barnes

Posted by Trips Right on March 6th, 2009 under Basketball

From texassports.com.

On this time in the season: I think the most important thing with the team right now is they have got to love coming back to the gym. I think this is grind from right now, mentally. I think if you grind them physically to where they just have nothing left, and if they’re not looking forward to this time of year, I think you’ve really made a mistake with them. Maybe the key right now is to let them have more time to themselves and be short and sweet in your practices. Again, you talk about fresh legs this time of year, but I think mentally is where you’ve got to keep them fresh. Games are getting ready to change in terms of longer timeouts and those types of things. I just think, again, the whole mental makeup right now is the most important thing.

On if the team is mentally prepared: The other night [against Baylor], I thought, mentally, we were. They had as much fun the other night as I’ve seen them have in a long time. We had a little talk after the game against Oklahoma State to get a sense of where they were. We just talked about it. I thought we came out [against Baylor] and it was really after I watched the tape that I could just tell they were excited about playing.

I like the sound of that. Play loose and I think Texas has a solid chance of upending the Jayhawks.

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5 Responses

  1. Snowball in Hell said:

    March 6th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    I have a better shot than Texas.

  2. Bob in Houston said:

    March 6th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    It seems a little late for seashells and balloons.

    I went into the season thinking they were going to win this game, then I hoped they could win, and about the time I considered trying to see this one live I saw them lose to K-State and reconsidered.

    But I agree that if they play loose, they have a chance.

  3. Jim Harrison said:

    March 6th, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    I fucking love to fish. Trips – you have real talent.

  4. Trips Right said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    Well, we had KU on the ropes until AJ spit the bit.

  5. SkymonkeyHorn said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    Too little too late in this ballad by the Master Blaster. This should have been an issue after 15 games but better late then never!

    “I think you’ve really made a mistake with them”.
    No shit, What was your first clue that something was wrong? This “you’ve” is the Master Blaster bag.

    Coach Barnes is a great coach but the last two years have been bad to worse when we talk about a teams mental state and well being. Master Blaster needs to eat 3/4 of that pie.

    Great coaching on MB part, Damion takes four shoots but sits a major part of the second half with 4 fouls, when do you keep a player sitting so he does not foul out of the game? James and Pitman did not foul out so that was a great coaching move by MB…..last conference game and they sit ??????
    I really thought that we would be neck and neck with Kansas for the conference title and beat Kansas at the PHog.
    Time to talk about next year’s 4 new players.

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