MBB TPT2 TRANSFER PORTAL THREAD 2

[hoopsaustin]

I was talking mass subs like Grinnell does. 5 in 5 out every couple of minutes. Moser doesn't do that.Sherfield and Hill both played over 32 mpg
, Los and Groves played 28 and 25+ mpg, then J Groves played 20.....after that when you get down to 8-10 it went down to like 11, 12 & 13 minutes. Past #10 it went down to 4 mpg

That's what I was talking about when I said it's hard to get minutes past 8-9 or 10 guys.

That's not a Moser thing...thats coaches in general.

I hope we cut down our rotations earlier and quicker than how long it took to bench CJ and JG... CJ may have cost us some games and possibly a ticket imo

 

[WichitaSooner]

I hope we cut down our rotations earlier and quicker than how long it took to bench CJ and JG... CJ may have cost us some games and possibly a ticket imo

Agree with the first part. It wasn't till fairly late January that Oweh started getting run. CJ was taken out of the starting lineup early, but still got too many minutes for quite a while after that. It was strange the way Moser did things. He didn't make many adjustments to the rotation for the first 20 games or so, then over the last few weeks, it was the other extreme and felt like he was randomly subbing guys in an out. I think that by early in conference play, you should have it down to 8-9 guys for the most part. Within each game, you can see which of the four bench guys are playing best and adjust accordingly, but there needs to be some reason to it.

 

[BoulderSooner]

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[mict085]

Is this transfer thing going to be strung out until school starts in the fall? Or are we done?

 

[BoulderSooner]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/_adamcrowley/status/1670221907398914051?s=20[/TWEET]

this could get interesting

 

[TINY]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/_adamcrowley/status/1670221907398914051?s=20[/TWEET]

this could get interesting

Would be great to get a 4 from them.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Clemence has decided to return to KU. The plan is to redshirt this season, although he will be eligible since he never actually enrolled at UCSB. I was hoping we would never have to see him hit a three against us!

 

[61sooner]

Maybe no more portal players for OU next season. Have to go with what we have. Does this bunch look like a tourney team at what odds, 50-1?

 

[WichitaSooner]

Maybe no more portal players for OU next season. Have to go with what we have. Does this bunch look like a tourney team at what odds, 50-1?

Genuinely curious to see people's thoughts on this. I agree with your premise that it doesn't look like we will sign anyone else, or at least no one else of note, so we have a good idea of what our roster will be.

 

[Soonerguy06]

I'm going to wager we will not make the tourney, but hopefully we will be better than last season. It's hard to say because at this point before the last 2 previous seasons I thought we'd be better and we ended up worse

 

[WichitaSooner]

I'm going to wager we will not make the tourney, but hopefully we will be better than last season. It's hard to say because at this point before the last 2 previous seasons I thought we'd be better and we ended up worse

We would have to be much better than last season to make the tourney -- probably about five additional wins. I don't think we have improved that much, and the conference will be a bear again, so I just don't see it.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

We would have to be much better than last season to make the tourney -- probably about five additional wins. I don't think we have improved that much, and the conference will be a bear again, so I just don't see it.

Disagree.
We were a fringe tourney team last year. With all our close losses against good/great teams, being slightly better likely gets us in the tourney

Having said that, I don't see it happening

 

[WTSooner]

Disagree.
We were a fringe tourney team last year. With all our close losses against good/great teams, being slightly better likely gets us in the tourney

Having said that, I don't see it happening

We MIGHT have been fringe the way you are describing it, but not in terms of our record. We missed the tourney by SEVERAL games.

 

[WTSooner]

Maybe no more portal players for OU next season. Have to go with what we have. Does this bunch look like a tourney team at what odds, 50-1?

No idea. I don't like making predictions like that because so much can happen. It could end up that the schedule makes a difference. Not sure if the Big 12 is going to try to "balance" it, but if they go with an 18 game schedule, we're going to play some teams once, and some twice. If we get some tough teams that we are playing twice, and/or maybe not a great schedule for home vs away on the teams we play once, who knows. Also haven't seen the entire OOC schedule.

I think, overall, our team will be a little better than last year, so I'd say we're probably going to be 2-3 games on either side of the bubble.

 

[WichitaSooner]

No idea. I don't like making predictions like that because so much can happen. It could end up that the schedule makes a difference. Not sure if the Big 12 is going to try to "balance" it, but if they go with an 18 game schedule, we're going to play some teams once, and some twice. If we get some tough teams that we are playing twice, and/or maybe not a great schedule for home vs away on the teams we play once, who knows. Also haven't seen the entire OOC schedule.

I think, overall, our team will be a little better than last year, so I'd say we're probably going to be 2-3 games on either side of the bubble.

It will be the 18-game schedule. I know we play OSU twice, but don't think the league has announced the other four teams we play twice.

 

[WaymanFan]

Disagree.
We were a fringe tourney team last year. With all our close losses against good/great teams, being slightly better likely gets us in the tourney

Having said that, I don't see it happening

I'm an optimist by nature...but a FRINGE Tourney team is a #1 or #2 seed in the NIT - and we didn't make that Tournament, either.

I'm going to stay optimistic and hope we get a last-minute addition. I'll still predict we make the Dance if Uzan and Oweh have the type of freshman-to-sophomore jump that we so desperately need. Kelvin Sampson used to say again and again that players tend to make their biggest improvements from their freshman to sophomore seasons. Obviously, we have countless examples of both this happening and not happening...let's hope for the former.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Disagree.
We were a fringe tourney team last year. With all our close losses against good/great teams, being slightly better likely gets us in the tourney

Having said that, I don't see it happening

We wouldn’t have made the field if the tourney included an extra 20-25 teams last year; that’s not a fringe tourney team in the way I’d define it. And we are one of probably about 50 teams that could say that we could have made it “if” all our close losses had been wins. We were closer to being a 20-loss team than a tourney team, and that’s despite playing a relatively weak noncon that gave us a chance to pad our record. I just feel like there are a lot of things that we would have to improve in order to make it.

 

[TEvans4Three]

We wouldn’t have made the field if the tourney included an extra 20-25 teams last year; that’s not a fringe tourney team in the way I’d define it. And we are one of probably about 50 teams that could say that we could have made it “if” all our close losses had been wins. We were closer to being a 20-loss team than a tourney team, and that’s despite playing a relatively weak noncon that gave us a chance to pad our record. I just feel like there are a lot of things that we would have to improve in order to make it.

Was fine with your pile on, until you said "and that’s despite playing a relatively weak noncon that gave us a chance to pad our record" and "We were closer to being a 20-loss team than a tourney team". That last sentence you are just cherry-picking results again.

Non-Con we went 9-3 and should have been 11-1 on a 66th ranked NC schedule. Finished 54th in KP, overall, but with #2 SOS. Side-stepping one of the hardest (complete) schedules seen in quite some time, I just don't understand some of your dug-in points. I don't think going 11-1 would have got us in the tournament either.

Addressing your 2nd statement, let's look at that. Take all the games we won or lost within 3 points as "swing games".

Wins within 3: 19 WVU, 63 Texas Tech (OT) So, we would be 13-19.
Losses within 3: 73 SHSU, 5 Texas, 29 ISU, 16 Baylor, 5 Texas. 20-12 with 3 more top 25 wins.

I agree, we were not fringe...maybe fringe NIT, but not tourney. (needing lots of teams to decline the NIT too).

 

[allday92]

We wouldn’t have made the field if the tourney included an extra 20-25 teams last year; that’s not a fringe tourney team in the way I’d define it. And we are one of probably about 50 teams that could say that we could have made it “if” all our close losses had been wins. We were closer to being a 20-loss team than a tourney team, and that’s despite playing a relatively weak noncon that gave us a chance to pad our record. I just feel like there are a lot of things that we would have to improve in order to make it.

I think they would have easily made the tournament even with 10 extra teams. OU finished 70th in the NET, the gold standard for the committee. OU had zero quad 3 or quad 4 losses.

 

[steverocks35]

If that's true then why didn't we get into the NIT? Maybe I don't know enough about the selection process.