UCA game thread

[nevadanatural]

Dre is looking good early but too many TOs.

 

[loca2874]

Forgot the time of the game pulling it up now

 

[nevadanatural]

I'm liking Taplin. Curtis playing well also, getting open and finding the basket.

 

[TU 1978]

We should have double their score. It doesn't help that we let the guy park in the corner and shoot 3 point shots.

 

[loca2874]

Nice 3 by Woodard

 

[loca2874]

Need more on defense

 

[nevadanatural]

Nice play by Swanny on that miss.

 

[loca2874]

Look at swanny

 

[t-townpod]

Look at swanny

Wake me up when Birt wakes up

 

[loca2874]

Need defense haith

 

[nevadanatural]

Only deficit I've seen so far in Taplin's game is he's playing too far off his man on D.

 

[panicstricken]

ugly game.

bad defense.

we don't look like a NCAA team.

 

[loca2874]

ugly game.

bad defense.

we don't look like a NCAA team.

It's early. Don't panic...panic

 

[Gold*]

From listening to Felton on pre game, it seems like we are playing off on D because of new rule changes. Going for turnovers instead on fg % defense.

 

[ctt8410]

Too many open 3s. This was a problem last year as well.

UCA is terrible defensively. We're getting whatever look we want when we're not lazy with the entry passes.

 

[Gold*]

That shooting foul at beginning of game was all time bad.

 

[cmullinsTU]

My son is adamant that Captain Cane is actually Grover from Seame Street.

 

[nevadanatural]

Juice takin' over!

 

[Gold*]

New banshee!

 

[panicstricken]

We are giving up way to many offensive boards.

Just give me a win.

 

[Gold*]

Ref who called technical is a buzzkill. What a jerk.

 

[ctt8410]

No Taplin this half?

 

[t-townpod]

No Taplin this half?

no way we can redshirt tk

 

[loca2874]

UCA is a good 3-point team

 

[ctt8410]

It's the only thing they did well last year. We've played too much zone today.

 

[Gold*]

How is that not an elbow?

 

[loca2874]

They need to deck that zulhof guy

 

[nevadanatural]

Old Zoloft hit Swanny in the face. The refs have to call that.

 

[Gold*]

That ref doesn't like Haith. He kept warning him and refused to look at video. Just awful.

 

[bigzit]

No clue why TK is redshirting. Stupid decision. Could be the difference b/n NITand NCAA.

Tulsa does not look like an NCAA team.

Defense = bad. 3 point D continues to suck under Haith.

Too many jump shots on offense.

 

[t-townpod]

Old Zoloft hit Swanny in the face. The refs have to call that.

No clue why TK is redshirting. Stupid decision. Could be the difference b/n NITand NCAA.

Tulsa does not look like an NCAA team.

Defense = bad. 3 point D continues to suck under Haith.

Too many jump shots on offense.

Maybe that will get Birt going. He is a key to this team

 

[ctt8410]

Wake me up when Birt wakes up

Did that wake you up?

 

[t-townpod]

Did that wake you up?

He went on a streak with 3 3's and a great drive. We need that from him. He can get his shot off at will but I sure hope he becomes a 35% 3 point shooter.

 

[jesterondirt]

UCA is a good 3-point team

That sounds familiar

 

[TUBballJunkie]

My thoughts from gamecast/box score...

Birt is taking a lot of damn shots.
LOVE the 4 steals each from Woodard and Shaq.
SHAQ ON FTS WTH?!? And missed a lot of fgs.
Dre perfect from the field?? Curtis and Swanny also great %.
Smitty had a bunch of assists.
Yay almost scoring 100!

Also ditto those saying redshirting Edogi isn't realistic.

 

[Tulsafanzz]

This is NOT directed at Junkie or anyone else who for geographic or other legitimate reasons couldn't be at the game today, but .......the large # of missing fans missed a very entertaining game today. There were great passes, great dunks, many nice 3 pointers, some double pump reverse lay ups, more great dunks! Did I mentioned the great posterizing dunks by Shaq & Birt !

Today's second half felt like a throw back to our exciting games of years ago. The only disappointment was our missed shots late that kept us from hitting 100. Very fun game to watch !

 

[Gmoney4WW]

I Just hope a team like Wichita St., with or without Van Vleet, doesn't bottle up Shaq, like teams of similar caliber did last season(SMU, Uconn, etc.)

If he tastes like coca cola, can't hit any jumpers, and we can't find anybody new and/or old to take up the slack, we could look extremely bad. Don't want to be a negative nancy, but I'm waiting till after Teusday to pass any negative or positive assessments. I don't expect that we have to win for me to be happy bout the game. But I do expect that we have to be competitive till damn near the end of the game for me to be happy with our progress.

 

[ctt8410]

I don't expect that we have to win for me to be happy bout the game. But I do expect that we have to be competitive till damn near the end of the game for me to be happy with our progress.

Can't blame you for that. The losses to OU, OSU, and Wichita State last year weren't disappointing because they were losses. They were disappointing because we weren't even competitive for a half.