GAME 19 - OKLAHOMA (11-7) @ SOUTH CAROLINA (10-8) 6:00pm CST on SECNETWORK

[WichitaSooner]

And he was going to be fired the year he took them to the Final Four, but they made the run through the ACC tournament and made the Big Dance.

OU related: they stole our bid that year.

If only we had fired MMM at that point.

 

[cvangild]

Part of that is they arent good looks at 3 and that is because there is not enough movement on offense and also no sets from Loser.

Not buying that. Pack was hitting these exact same shots earlier in the season...regularly. He doesn't take heavily guarded shots typically...many of these misses are wide open shots. Same with Brown. Hitting 18% won't cut it...period.

 

[cvangild]

There are a lot of factors involved in being effective on offense, not just shooting. We’re a low assist team because our coach has no offensive plan. We play lots of hero ball. The ball sticks and we end up jacking up prayers at the end of the shot clock. The players have no accountability. If you know you have to take good shots and run good offense or you’re going to sit, then you’ll do those things and the shooting will improve. It’s not just “oh well they didn’t make shots.” We also make tons of boneheaded plays. You can chalk that up to a particular player or two if it’s confined to one season but we’ve seen over the last 5 years the Moser pattern of bad passes and dumb turnovers. Moser gets paid more money than most of us can even dream of to make sure these things don’t happen. Good coaches make sure their kids do the little things that lead to winning plays. If you make enough winning plays you’ll win games. Moser’s teams do not do this. If we win it’s in spite of his coaching.

Totally agree on many bone headed plays. It just seems like we can't get out of our own way at times. How many times do we get a steal, only to turn it over. It's maddening. These past two games are what I was primarily referring to though. Both guards missed tons of wide open shots. Shots they have both hit most of the season. I mean Pack was shooting 48% at one point from 3. I get that we are playing better teams in conference, but many of his misses lately are wide open shots. It's maddening.

 

[cvangild]

Well, there are a lot of ugly college basketball games where teams shoot like crap and still win because they defend their butts off. ISU is good offensively this season but was winning with great defense the past few years. Michigan State wins lots of rock fights. Tennessee. Houston, obviously. If a team can only win by shooting well, it says a lot about the identity of the team.

I completely realize that. We aren't those teams. Our guards are small and can't defend as well as the teams you mentioned. We have to do what we (can) do well, and thats score the ball. These past two losses have been close games. If our guards simply shoot their avg, we likely win both, or at least one of these past two games. FOrget Florida...we aren't beating that team with that frontcourt. All I do know is in 3 of our conf losses (SC, Bama, MSU) our starting backcourt is (1-8, 3-14, 2-14) from 3. That's 6 of 36 for 17%. This team cannot afford to do that, with the kind of defensive team we are. We will lose EVERY game when we shoot like that. B-ball is much easier when shots are falling.