Well, WTF was that? A train wreck is what. That’s how the entire Texas basketball season can be described.
Basketball:
Texas lost to Wake Forest in the first round last night. Trips Right somehow found the inner strength to do a final
post-mortem where he also prescribes a month of defensive drills for baby 2010-11 Texas basketball in order to foster its development into a team that can at least dribble towards the basket.
PeterBean was
reflective as well and deals with the future of Barnes at Texas. He concludes, with fairly strong reasoning
Last post-mortem of the season, so we've got that going for us, which is nice.
Trips Right's 33 volume
Decline and Fall of Texas Basketball has not only been required post-disaster therapy for the Longhorn basketball fan (what is your hourly rate, anyway?) but also merits combat pay from BC's executive management.But there is one organ left in the vivisection of Rick Barnes that keeps bugging me: his arguably atrocious handling of Avery Bradley.
I
wrote earlier this season about Barnes' (usually useful) infatuation with psychological achievement drive, arguing
I started this with just under 8 minutes to go in the game. Otherwise this would have been a list of 50.
1.Ladarius Dunn backdoor on Mason at 7:50 in the 2nd Half.
”See Man”
2. Run-out Tweety Carter at 7:10 of 2nd Half. “Get Back MFER and stop the ball”
3. Backdoor Ladarius Dunn at 6:24 of 2nd Half on Mason. Basket good, foul on Mason to boot. Maybe “see your man, especially since you are guarding Dunn”
4.
If the Big 12 were Dunder Mifflin, Scott Drew would be Dwight Schrute.
Here's an article discussing Syracuse's weaknesses and which teams have the necessary components needed to knock off the top ranked team in the country.
Interestingly enough, if you're talking big upsets in the tournament a team like Texas has a lot of what it takes to beat the Orangemen. Baylor is also a team that can give the 'Cuse fits.
You can use the information about the Bears as a little primer
Congratulations to the five Longhorns basketball players
that made the Academic All Big 12 team. This is the second straight year we've led the conference in academic honors after placing
six guys on last year's squad.