GAME 18 - OKLAHOMA (11-6) vs #18 ALABAMA (12-5) 12:00pm CST on SECNETWORK

[WichitaSooner]

Not arguing your points on the team or Moser, but the Brown FT comment is ridiculous. I fully expected him to make all 3, he’s 89% on the year and is 96% at the LNC. You didn’t say anything about it until after he missed. If you were so certain he was gonna miss one, we all know you..you would have said as much. You’re going out of your way there. Now if the question was did any of us think we’d score to either tie it or win it with a 3 at the end…I totally get that, and would have agreed. In the end, he’s human and did miss one (barely). The bigger issue was that our starting backcourt was 11-35 from the field, and 3 of 14 from 3. And that’s from two guys who have shot 45% & 35% from there on the season. That’s 21%…that was the game imo.

I’m too scarred to think he makes both. And if he does, we won’t stop them.

I did say it during the timeout after he made the first free throw.

 

[SunshinePumper]

Will we ever have a winning conference record again

 

[cvangild]

I did say it during the timeout after he made the first free throw.

Would you have put $ on it?

 

[WichitaSooner]

Will we ever have a winning conference record again

Of course we will. It’s never been easier to turn things around in one season than now. Rosters turn over annually. A good coach can change things instantly. The trick is finding the right guy.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Would you have put $ on it?

lol I mean, I directly proved your point wrong. Your initial post claimed that I didn’t say it till after he missed, and I showed you that I did. It’s nothing against Brown. We could have Steph Curry at the line and I’d expect a miss. Moser’s stink affects everyone.

If any apps allowed you to bet on a specific series of FTs, I’d have been all over it.

 

[cvangild]

lol I mean, I directly proved your point wrong. Your initial post claimed that I didn’t say it till after he missed, and I showed you that I did. It’s nothing against Brown. We could have Steph Curry at the line and I’d expect a miss. Moser’s stink affects everyone.

If any apps allowed you to bet on a specific series of FTs, I’d have been all over it.

He’s only missed 4 all year…out of 57. You’re a risk taker. .

 

[hoopsaustin]

He’s only missed 4 all year…out of 57. You’re a risk taker. .

Loser finds ways to lose. I was waiting for another Oweh Olé defensive special if we ever somehow got the lead..

 

[hoopsaustin]

I watched it at the end of a fun day with my wife and kiddo, so didn't piss me off as much as it should have.

If his rotations and subs made sense, I would be all about it.

The thing is, our team has no real identity, we don't box out for s*** (Aside from Kirill), our offense is professional AAU ball, and we don't play hustle defense at all.

What is the point of a head coach if not to teach discipline on the boards, in an offense, and HUSTLING ON DEFENSE.

Not to mention, players don't improve under him, they just don't. I am over it, complete waste of some years and excitement in the SEC.

Boxing out is the single easiest way to flip anywhere from 1-8 wins a year on average. Of course Loser doesnt demand it. Prolly doesn't even practice it

 

[WichitaSooner]

Loser finds ways to lose. I was waiting for another Oweh Olé defensive special if we ever somehow got the lead..

Yea with 7 seconds left, there was no way they wouldn’t have at least gotten a very good shot off against us. Maybe Moser would have subbed in Dayton and Atak on defense to really try to catch them by surprise.

 

[cowboysooner]

Not perfect, but moser coached a good game against bama. Certainly good enough to win. Pack just picked a bad game to have a bad shooting game. Elite shooters shooting good shots have those kind of games once in a while Pack with a makeable shot to win at the buzzer just doesn’t justify criticism if you are being fair.

Thought overall the kids played well just not quite well enough to beat a very good bama team. Great game to watch in any event

There have been plenty of games where I didn’t think moser handle things correctly but bama wasn’t one of them. Blaming moser for the bama loss just isn’t fair and shows bias


Moser isn’t my favorite coach but he is a decent coach and has done a decent job. Jmo

Many of you made up your mind on porter. That is your right. I am still hopeful we can turn things around.

 

[cvangild]

Loser finds ways to lose. I was waiting for another Oweh Olé defensive special if we ever somehow got the lead..

Porter has many many deficiencies...but Brown's missed FT has absolutely zero to do with him.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Not perfect, but moser coached a good game against bama. Certainly good enough to win. Pack just picked a bad game to have a bad shooting game. Elite shooters shooting good shots have those kind of games once in a while Pack with a makeable shot to win at the buzzer just doesn’t justify criticism if you are being fair.

Thought overall the kids played well just not quite well enough to beat a very good bama team. Great game to watch in any event

There have been plenty of games where I didn’t think moser handle things correctly but bama wasn’t one of them. Blaming moser for the bama loss just isn’t fair and shows bias


Moser isn’t my favorite coach but he is a decent coach and has done a decent job. Jmo

Many of you made up your mind on porter. That is your right. I am still hopeful we can turn things around.

So if that is your opinion, I’d like to hear you explain a couple things. One, on all but one possession in the final three minutes, we had Mo on the court rather than Kirill. On many of those possessions, we were trailing by 3. Kirill was coming off a game where he his four 3s, and he hit another one yesterday. He is clearly a better offensive threat than Mo. What is the rationale?

Two, in that same sequence down the stretch, we got one, at most two, quality shots. Our ball movement was awful, we turned it over twice (once by Mo at the top of the key), and our guards spent way too much time dribbling. Bama, meanwhile, consistently got clean looks for good players. How many times in five years have we seen that pattern play out at the end of a close game?

Three, the game completely flipped in the first minute of the second half. Everyone watching the game could feel it, especially anyone who has watched OU the past few years. As Sooner04 poster, how can Moser see the sloppiness in that stretch (botched defensive assignment, turnover, etc) and not call timeout while we are still up six, rather than waiting and hoping against hope that our guys would figure it out on their own? This happened one week after he let A&M take over the game without using a single timeout.

And as for the argument that we would have won if Pack shot better, Bama had a poor shooting game and was awful at the line. Their star missed about 50 free throws by himself.

In a conference where most games are close (we get blown out more than most teams, though), coaching makes a huge difference in the last few minutes of games. Yesterday was just the latest example of Moser getting worked over during that stretch.

 

[steverocks35]

Not perfect, but moser coached a good game against bama. Certainly good enough to win. Pack just picked a bad game to have a bad shooting game. Elite shooters shooting good shots have those kind of games once in a while Pack with a makeable shot to win at the buzzer just doesn’t justify criticism if you are being fair.

Thought overall the kids played well just not quite well enough to beat a very good bama team. Great game to watch in any event

There have been plenty of games where I didn’t think moser handle things correctly but bama wasn’t one of them. Blaming moser for the bama loss just isn’t fair and shows bias


Moser isn’t my favorite coach but he is a decent coach and has done a decent job. Jmo

Many of you made up your mind on porter. That is your right. I am still hopeful we can turn things around.

Is this parody? He coached a terrible game. He let them drop a 12-0 run on us coming out for the second half before he called a TO. Either that last play he called was designed badly or we didn’t execute it because a 27 foot prayer wasn’t ideal at all. Either way, bad coaching! Get him out of here please.

 

[steverocks35]

So if that is your opinion, I’d like to hear you explain a couple things. One, on all but one possession in the final three minutes, we had Mo on the court rather than Kirill. On many of those possessions, we were trailing by 3. Kirill was coming off a game where he his four 3s, and he hit another one yesterday. He is clearly a better offensive threat than Mo. What is the rationale?

Two, in that same sequence down the stretch, we got one, at most two, quality shots. Our ball movement was awful, we turned it over twice (once by Mo at the top of the key), and our guards spent way too much time dribbling. Bama, meanwhile, consistently got clean looks for good players. How many times in five years have we seen that pattern play out at the end of a close game?

Three, the game completely flipped in the first minute of the second half. Everyone watching the game could feel it, especially anyone who has watched OU the past few years. As Sooner04 poster, how can Moser see the sloppiness in that stretch (botched defensive assignment, turnover, etc) and not call timeout while we are still up six, rather than waiting and hoping against hope that our guys would figure it out on their own? This happened one week after he let A&M take over the game without using a single timeout.

And as for the argument that we would have won if Pack shot better, Bama had a poor shooting game and was awful at the line. Their star missed about 50 free throws by himself.

In a conference where most games are close (we get blown out more than most teams, though), coaching makes a huge difference in the last few minutes of games. Yesterday was just the latest example of Moser getting worked over during that stretch.

Zero times in the Moser era have I thought after a game “wow we really outcoached them!”

 

[steverocks35]

Is this parody? He coached a terrible game. He let them drop a 12-0 run on us coming out for the second half before he called a TO. Either that last play he called was designed badly or we didn’t execute it because a 27 foot prayer wasn’t ideal at all. Either way, bad coaching! Get him out of here please.

Also, I forgot to mention, in a game in which we were struggling to shoot the ball, Atak didn’t play a single second.

 

[One More Rebound]

Coming soon:

The Porter Moser Story

(Close but No Cigar)

 

[hoopsaustin]

Porter has many many deficiencies...but Brown's missed FT has absolutely zero to do with him.

Disagree. We were in the position to need brown's perfect FT performance bc of the razor thin margins we have to win any single game bc Loser sucks butt

 

[hoopsaustin]

Coming soon:

The Porter Moser Story

(Not Even Close AND No Cigar)

FIFY

 

[cvangild]

Disagree. We were in the position to need brown's perfect FT performance bc of the razor thin margins we have to win any single game bc Loser sucks butt

I was simply saying Brown’s FT miss isn’t on Porter. How is that statement at all controversial. He’s a 93% FT shooter…meaning he had about a 80% chance of making 3 in a row (statistically). Had he made it, the game may have gone into OT…although I think there was like 7 secs left at that point…so they had plenty of time to score at the end. If the game goes to OT…our luck, we likely lose, but you would have given yourself life.

When Reid went down awkwardly, I believe his dunk put us up 6. It just seemed to turn quickly when he went out. Sucks because he was playing well.

 

[cowboysooner]

Steve, i agree with you that moser should have called a quik timeout in the second half to try and stop bama momentum. But there are other considerations to consider and you might need the timeout later. My point isn’t that he managef the game perfectly but that he did a good enough job that you can’t put the loss on him.

Certainly in a close game everything matters. A few silly turnovers and primarily a poor shooting game by pack were themainnissues. Not coaching decisions. Imo anyway.

I am not banging the moser drum. Just thought he did a good job getting the kids ready to play after a 3 game skid. Better on defense and good on defense. We were a couple free throws, a missed putback by our biggest player and or a missed 3 by one of the best shooters in ncaa history from winning the game. Plenty to complain about re the year nut not this game (overall imo)