Well, WTF was that? A train wreck is what. That’s how the entire Texas basketball season can be described.
Last post-mortem of the season, so we've got that going for us, which is nice.
If the Big 12 were Dunder Mifflin, Scott Drew would be Dwight Schrute.
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.
Rick Barnes is at 'em.
The most dangerous thing any coach can do is
create heightened expectations in a fan base, deliver on them consistently and incrementally for a decade, and then falter with the team that promises to finally get to the next level; the appointed year that we cement ourselves as a permanent fixture in the basketball elite.
A funny thing happened on the way to burying the 2010 Texas Longhorns. Defense. For all the handwringing and consternation bandied about on this and other sites about the Longhorn's anemic offense, defense carried the day...err...night.
The ability to defend a four guard, spread the floor offense was the difference in winning and losing. Not personnel packages, five out looks, or iso's and two man games. The difference was straight
Perhaps it took back to back defensive pantsings for me to truly get it.
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Avery Bradley fucking flies up the floor with the basketball. Nice dunk off an oop from Durant.
We've discussed at length what to expect from the 2009-2010 Longhorn Basketball team. We've projected
personnel combinations and schemes. We've hit on
minute distributions. And we've made some great friends along the way...
Many of the threads felt like the following.
Awe. The memories.
What we haven't done is discuss the ever increasing possibility that J'Covan Brown, the talented guard from bitch kicking Port Arthur, will join this talent laden squad at