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Longhorn Basketball: Western Carolina Catamites
Posted by HenryJames on November 18th, 2009 under Basketball
Wait. Catamounts. That sounds even dirtier.
This game is supposed to be on ESPNU, but various people on the internet have informed me via the internet that the game isn’t listed in some of their guides. So who knows?
But we’ll throw this up there for anyone who can actually see the game.
Western Kentucky will be led by Dikembe Mutombo’s nephew, Harouna. You’re going to get sexed, Harouna. But you will not like it.
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Ga. Tech — last in the ACC in free throw shooting at 64% — 13 for 13 tonight.
sizzlechest said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I just got back from Rite-Aid where I’ve stocked up on Calamine lotion for this matchup.
sizzlechest said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Game’s on now on ESPNU, BTW.
sizzlechest said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Who wants to sex Mutombo?
Limonjello said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I also just got back from Rite-Aid, but I stocked up on KY lotion due to HJ’s headline.
Diego said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Slow start so far. I didn’t get to see the first game so it’s nice to see the freshmen finally.
tangentorange said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Mutombo’s not a bad player.
HenryJames said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
[basketball observation]
HenryJames said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Carolina spends 30 seconds trying to get a good look and then up throwing up crap.
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I can’t quite pin point it, but something’s not right between the ears with J’Covan. I’m pretty sure he’s going to get into several fights this year.
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Why hasn’t J’Covan played in two years?
dick said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I haven’t noticed Bradley yet, any reason why?
tangentorange said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
n-ea: ” I can’t quite pin point it, but something’s not right between the ears with J’Covan”
In watching the game how does this conclusion cross your mind? WTF?
tangentorange said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
@Dick
has two fouls
HenryJames said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Balbay stole that one like a gypsy.
sizzlechest said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Bradley picked up his 2nd foul at the 14 min mark.
anonymous said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Not sure on Bradley, I noticed the same thing.
He threw up an airball on a three earlier. Maybe that pissed Barnes off.
HenryJames said:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
J’Covan looks like his nickname should be ‘Peanut.’
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
tangent, his antics after the play is dead, coupled with how chirpy and intense he is during play is going to set someone off. I think Brown is oblivious to it. Boy can play though, there’s no doubt about that.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
“n-ea: ” I can’t quite pin point it, but something’s not right between the ears with J’Covan”
In watching the game how does this conclusion cross your mind? WTF?”
Where do you come up with that? J’Covan has been smiling the entire game, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen somebody so happy just to be on the court. He also played by far the best of anybody this half. Guy will be a superstar sooner rather than later.
HenryJames said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
James needs to stop trying to dribble in traffic under the basket.
tangentorange said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
@ Blake Borron
My point exactly.
HenryJames said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Johnson can have a nice season just off putbacks.
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Ok, please go back and read my orginal posts. I said nothing about his ability to play the game. Ron Artest smiles a lot when he plays too. He’s intense, he’s always talking…ok, that’s what it is…my first impression of the guy is that his mannerisms remind me of Artest.
HenryJames said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I saw some of the stuff you’re talking about when he got in that guys face after he made a basket and got in the guy’s face on defense.
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
holy crap, AB!
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
What site should I use to find out how many minutes players are playing in the box score? ESPN and Yahoo dont show it.
uthookem said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Check out the gametracker at texassports.com
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Our perimeter man defense is pretty unreal. Team IQ on defense looks to be pretty high too. I can’t wait to see them play against a lttle better competition.
nordberg said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
That Bradley dunk was unreal.
I know it’s hard to say this on a team with 14 scholarship players, but Bradley and Hamilton need to be playing more. I guess that will gradually increase as the season goes on.
Also, I like the lineup that has Balbay at the point, Brown at SG, and Hamilton at SF. What I dislike is Mason and/or Ward playing with Balbay. I guess I’m just scarred from last year. We’ve got shooters now; let’s play them.
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
uthookem – Thanks
November 18th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Mason and Ward still offensively challenged. Brown, Bradley, and Hamilton must get more time to improve our offensive potential. Mason and Ward cannot be on the floor at the same time especially if Balbay is on the floor.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Brown, Hamilton, Bradley, Dex, and James will hopefully be the starting lineup by conference.
Lucas, Dog, Johnson off the bench.
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Shawn Williams looks like somebody famous. Roy Jones Jr?
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Good game horns, next.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Sloppy game and the scariest thing is we were completely lacking in energy despite only being the second game of other season. The hell is up with that?
n-ea said:
November 18th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
It was a little sloppy and we tried to force the issue a few times, especially on some ill advised alley-opps. IIRC, I think we made 1 and missed 4 resulting in TO’s. We’ve got so many guys getting PT, and 4 freshman…it’ll take time to completely gel and have these guys playing consistent night in and night out. I thought the energy was there, especially on defense. The crowd was out of it though.
CrazyJoeDavola said:
November 18th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I don’t think the lack of energy was physical. That looked like a bored team out there. I’m guessing that’s going to be Rick’s biggest challenge this year … well, that and making sure J’Covan doesn’t go off on the other team inevitably trying to goad him into something silly.
Seriously, WCU looked a little like Baylor out there. Serious chippiness, especially from that Magnus Magnusson guy (or whatever the dirty Swede’s name was).
We’re a bunch of really nifty parts right now, and that will continue to be the case for a while. It will be interesting to see what a disciplined team will do to us, but I can’t see anyone else being able to withstand the storm surge we’ll be sending their way every night.
Right now my fave five are Dex, Damion, J’Covan, Bradley and Balbay.
dick said:
November 18th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
CJD, Hamilton over Balbay.
texoz said:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
First, I was at the game and made a point of watching J’Covan off the ball o see how he was with the refs. He was chatting them up and slapping them on the ass after plays where he was called for a foul, as well as other plays. Also, J’Covan got smacked quite a few times and didn’t lose his cool. After watching this game, and the first game I really don’t have any worries about J’Covan’s behavior. The kid looks genuinely happy to be playing ball for UT.
Other thoughts.
1) W. Carolina Sodomites were all up in our ass. Very chirpy and somewhat physical. For a team that was getting it’s ass kicked, they still played tough.
2) I believe we had 19 turnovers and they had 10 steals. Some of that was due to #1
3) Hamilton and Brown need to learn when to pass and not take an offensive charge.
4) Bradley’s dunk was sick. I didn’t think he had enough elevation or space to make that. Thought for sure it was going to be a lay up. Kid can fly.
5) Our defense is relentless
6) Did not see Chapman (still has flu?) or Hill play. Lots of Wangmene, which is good.
7) It occurred to me that we have 4 players that will be major contributors that didn’t play basketball last year at all.
- J’Covan Brown
- Jordan Hamilton
- Jai’ Lucas
- Alexi Wangmene
8) I’m hoping that when this season ends we’ll look back on Lucas not playing until end of December as a good thing because it means that Brown, Bradley, and Balbay spend more time at PG until then.
dick said:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I don’t think we are going to see Bradley at the point much at all this season. He’s not getting the minutes now there at all and Lucas will come in and suck up whatever minutes Barnes wants to take from the Ward/Balbay/Lucas trio.
CloseToJumping said:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Some bloodthirsty bastards on here. I bet a parlay of Texas -23.5 and under 140.5. Easy money that was never in doubt. Good game, horns.
srr50 said:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Barnes wasn’t particularly happy about the defensive effort in game one, so that was, uh “emphasized” in practice. He made a point of telling the team that they would play defense tonight – or they wouldn’t play.
This squad is quick, tenacious and showing signs of having great anticipation on defense. On the ball defense was terrific tonight, but I was really impressed with the off-the-ball switching and how everyone, freshmen included, played gap defense really well. Texas did a great job of shutting down inside, inducing the kick out pass, and then still getting out on the shooter.
Western Carolina is supposed to be good at shooting threes, and they hit 3 of 19 for the night.
Ten Texas players got at least 10 minutes of playing time, and 5 had 21 minutes or more. It was a helluva display of mix and match.
The worst part of the night was free throw shooting. Aside from Damion James, it was pathetic, and baffling.
Offense was sloppy from the start. There were 21 turnovers, although not all were the guards fault. Several times there were nice entry passes and the big men either let them clang off their hands, or they weren’t aggressive enough in blocking out the defender and taking possession. J’Covan was especially robbed of a couple of sweet assists when Dexter simply wasn’t ready for the pass.
I imagine Barnes got what he wanted out of this game. Everyone got his message on defense, and they displayed an effort and tenacity that would make Will Muschamp proud.
They also screwed up enough on offense to give Barnes plenty to work on between now and Monday when they play Iowa in Kansas City.
srr50 said:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Some bloodthirsty bastards on here. I bet a parlay of Texas -23.5 and under 140.5. Easy money that was never in doubt. Good game, horns.
CTJ: It should take the bookies a couple of weeks to figure out that garbage time for this team should have little or no effect on the spread.
Enjoy it while you can. I will.
CrazyJoeDavola said:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
dick, right now, I’ll take Balbay over Hamilton. I don’t expect that will last all season – or even more than a couple weeks max – but this is two games in a row where the team’s performance and energy level significantly perked up once Dogus got on the floor.
If you want to sub Hamilton for Bradley, I wouldn’t mind at all. But both the frosh look a little tentative. I’m hoping Avery’s second-half dunk will get him into destroy mode. For Hamilton, it’s just a matter of time.
It’s amazing that we’re going to be annihilating people this year, and yet may not have a single AA player. Voters are going to look at stat sheets and see a roster stuffed with guys going 10 points 7 rebounds 3 assists 2 steals in 15 minutes of playing time.
Sorry, but no way can anyone doing that come close to matching the production and savviness of Luke Harangody! And John Wall! JOHN WALL!!!!!
hookem625 said:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:26 am
With such a deeply talented team, it’s become widely accepted that Barnes’ greatest challenge will be dividing playing time and putting 5 players on the court that allow for the greatest chance of success at any given time. It’s hard to think that this would be difficult given all that talent but there have been times thus far in which I’ve questioned the personnel decisions (kinda like when Chiles and Kirkendoll are on the field at the same time). For instance, we saw a lineup at one point in the second half tonight that I believed looked like this:
PG- Balbay
SG- Ward
SF- Mason
PF- Johnson
C- James
Essentially it was the ’08 squad sans Abrams. And unless we want to see another second round exit in the tourney, this doesn’t need to become a trend.
ransomstoddard said:
November 19th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Who told Hamilton he was a surefire NBA pick after this year? Man, he better be going to class.
Lactose Intolerant said:
November 19th, 2009 at 6:20 am
ransom, two things. Remember Hamilton didn’t play ball last year so he’s going to be a little rusty for the first month or so. Secondly, I’ve already seen some amazing moves by him in just 2 games. Moves that most 6′7″ men don’t make. Check back in again with him around mid-January and see if you feel the same way.
IUTex said:
November 19th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Hamilton is going to be a great player and has already shown it on the court. My biggest concern with him is that his shot selection and defense gets him deep in Barnes’ doghouse.
Texoz said:
November 19th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Some more items worth noting:
- J’Covan took 3pt attempts, made both and there was no doubt. Very nice stroke.
- J’Covan had 6 turnovers and 3 assists. Should have been the other way around. He had 3 sweet passes that weren’t handled well by the big men. I think Dex dropped 2 of them.
- Gary Johnson played 2 minutes more than Pittman (19 vs 17 min)
- As expected, total domination of the boards UT 47 to WC 32 boards.
In the first game it was UT 49 to UCI 30. There are going to be very few games where UT gets out rebounded.
nordberg said:
November 19th, 2009 at 7:06 am
“Shawn Williams looks like somebody famous. Roy Jones Jr?”
Hard to say, because all black people look alike.
Bob in Houston said:
November 19th, 2009 at 7:10 am
A little bit like Chris Rock to me.
jinx said:
November 19th, 2009 at 7:30 am
[Chris Rock] What Rick Barnes needs on this team is a Tossed Salad Man. [Chris Rock]
ghostofagroundgame said:
November 19th, 2009 at 7:41 am
It’s going to be a really fun year. I have no idea how you take this much collective individual talent and turn it into a viable rotation. There are at least 12 guys who deserve to play night in and night out, but that can’t really work in basketball. The toughest thing for Barnes is going to be figuring out a 9-man rotation. And right now I have no good idea as to what that should look like, although I’m certain it includes Dex, James, Bradley, Hamilton, Brown, and (begrudgingly) Balbay for now. Oddly enough, getting what he should get from this team might make this Barnes’ toughest coaching job ever.
We looked like an All-State AAU team last night at times — with the obvious exception of the stifling defense — but in the sense that we had no real offensive flow, the plays we ran were two-man pick and rolls and dribble and dish, and the ball movement was tentative. Plus the 21 turnovers and the highlight dunk. It’s going to be a really fun year and I hope this team comes together right.
lowdenswain said:
November 19th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Balbay is the best PG on this team right now. It’s amazing that he consistently gets to the rim without the threat of a shot. It’s like Ginobli going left.
I like Gary Johnson much more as a trash man than a second or third option on offense shooting elbow jumpers. He brought the highest energy level last night.
Jordan Hamilton would be averaging 22 a game for Baylor right now…..if he could take the ball away from LeastDarius Dunn.
Maybe the mirror has contorted my perception…..is Lexi’s head the right size?
Lo Primero said:
November 19th, 2009 at 8:29 am
“My biggest concern with [Hamilton] is that his shot selection and defense gets him deep in Barnes’ doghouse”
I share that concern. He looks to be pressing pretty hard out there on offense, which is understandable given his rust and competition for limited minutes, but Barnes will not suffer poor defense gladly.
travis said:
November 19th, 2009 at 9:09 am
If you all notice it really feels like at that 13 to 14 minute mark in the first half of both of these games, they start to wear down and we start to speed up, I know that the competition hasn’t been any good, but the theory will stay the same.
Wear the other teams down and smother them with good defense… There isn’t a team in the country that can match texas player for player with the exception of KU, our biggest challenge this year will be trying to make a lineup work with so many players and keep them all happy and playing with intensity but whats funny is its also our biggest strength.
When it comes to march and everything matters and your playing day in and day out, this team’s depth will be the reason they get to the final four.
To me this freshman class is downright nasty, they could go to the sweet 16 maybe elite 8 if we have the right bracket by themselves, then you add in our senior leadership that has all-american talent and you’ve got the makings of a team that can be the last man standing… God bless Texas and Will Muschamp
eloy said:
November 19th, 2009 at 9:56 am
hamilton probably forced a few too many shots, for my taste at least, but you can tell that he is going to get his on more than a few nights this season. bradley can f’n elevate, gonna have some higlight espn mashes this year
ransomstoddard- why do you even watch horn sporting events? you could have a bad time at a free pussy and money parade
ghostofagroundgame said:
November 19th, 2009 at 10:08 am
“you could have a bad time at a free pussy and money parade”
Now that’s a turn of phrase I can whole-heartedly get behind.
Vasherized said:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Hard to say, because all black people look alike.
Ha.
Art Vandelay said:
November 19th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
J’Covan looks like his nickname should be ‘Peanut.’
LOL
maybe Skittles?