OU Battles Baylor

[Oliver Hardy]

Kim Mulkey sends her best regards tonight.


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[OKUman]

How long will Joe put up with this embarrassingly inept program.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

53 points! That’s about 25 more than I thought we’d score.


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[soonerstar]

87-53. Another embarrassing loss. Coale needs to be gone. ASAP

 

[SoonerSpock]

53 points! That’s about 25 more than I thought we’d score. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

But we did average 9 points/quarter and were down by only 27-59 after three. Fortunately the 7 Baylor reserves played 88 minutes or 44% or the game.

 

[annabelle]

pathetic

 

[Speedy17]

Baylor has won the Big 12 9 times in a row. With the talent and coaching difference between these two teams in will be another decade before OU competes for a conference title.

 

[SoonerSpock]

Baylor has won the Big 12 9 times in a row. With the talent and coaching difference between these two teams in will be another decade before OU competes for a conference title.

That may be a very positive prospective for Sherri and staff. Personally I don't see it happening in the next decade unless there is a coaching change. Then maybe it can happen in 5-6 years. JMHO.

 

[Sooner81]

This has gotten so bad that no one cares to even talk about the game and only 4-500 butts in seats now (Baylor had 6,200). Joe C has to step up and usher Sherri out. She is DONE!!!

 

[Soonerbay]

But we did average 9 points/quarter and were down by only 27-59 after three. Fortunately the 7 Baylor reserves played 88 minutes or 44% or the game.

Mulkey subbed in players 4-5 at a time like she was playing in the local park and rec developmental league with even time for all players. Well, maybe it was park and rec for this game.

 

[Soonerguy06]

I'm sure she barely got her butt up off her seat the entire game but I guarantee you Mulkey was up walking around stomping up and down that sideline all game. I'm sure DieHard SC fans would say she's a better person and a better Coach regardless but I don't agree. I would much rather have a little firecracker like Mulkey that has the passion she has and instills the discipline that she does in her players at my University. SC used to be like that but not anymore. When these players dribble on their feet or throw a pass to no one in plain sight she just smiles and shakes her head a little bit like it's kind of funny. I'd be screaming in their faces telling them to play like a damn division 1 player that is on a scholarship but I suppose that's just me.

 

[SoonerSpock]

I'm sure she barely got her butt up off her seat the entire game but I guarantee you Mulkey was up walking around stomping up and down that sideline all game. I'm sure DieHard SC fans would say she's a better person and a better Coach regardless but I don't agree. I would much rather have a little firecracker like Mulkey that has the passion she has and instills the discipline that she does in her players at my University. SC used to be like that but not anymore. When these players dribble on their feet or throw a pass to no one in plain sight she just smiles and shakes her head a little bit like it's kind of funny. I'd be screaming in their faces telling them to play like a damn division 1 player that is on a scholarship but I suppose that's just me.

Better you keep your cool, correct them, implement consequences and impact playing time rather than show your lack of discipline too. Now if Sherri could learn the concept of consequences and pine time things might improve a little.

 

[SoonerinNC]

I think putting players on the bench for a mistake is overrated.

If you watch the better teams they have a rotation plan and pretty much stick to it. If Sherri goes into a game with a plan I'm not sure she sticks to it. She seems to bench some players who make a mistake and ignore multiple mistakes by other players. You can tell that Pellington is playing nervous realizing she is on a short leash and consequently tries to do too much and gets 4 turnovers in about 7 minutes of play.

Practice is the place to develop discipline. If you can't develop trust in a player in practice the game is no place to apply discipline. If you can't develop trust in them in practice then they don't deserve to be in the game in the first place. In the games you need your best players on the court. And the players need to have teammates with whom they are familiar. When you suddenly throw a Penso in the game after many games with no or few minutes it can be a problem. Penso admittedly is a good passer but she makes a fair number of passing mistakes that are overlooked because of the more spectacular ones that work out.

No question this season is lost so why not get every minute of experience for the players we need to depend on next year.

And we were burned again by Baylor's transfer point guard. They had a strong returning cast and possible the best freshman class in the country. But they needed a point guard and went out and got one. What a concept.

 

[soonerstar]

Baylor has won the Big 12 9 times in a row. With the talent and coaching difference between these two teams in will be another decade before OU competes for a conference title.

You will never see Kim Mulkey let her program to fall to the depths that Coale has. She has too much pride to do that.

 

[Speedy17]

You will never see Kim Mulkey let her program to fall to the depths that Coale has. She has too much pride to do that.

It is all about recruiting. Sherri's vision of the ideal college basketball player is rooted in the early 2000's not the current environment. The irony is that Sherri introduced the physical environment to the Big 12 with the Paris twins and Abi Olajuwan but failed to understand the importance of it. The question really is what would Mulkey, Summitt or Geno have done with the Paris twins and Olajuwan.

 

[SoonerSpock]

I think putting players on the bench for a mistake is overrated.

If you watch the better teams they have a rotation plan and pretty much stick to it. If Sherri goes into a game with a plan I'm not sure she sticks to it. She seems to bench some players who make a mistake and ignore multiple mistakes by other players. You can tell that Pellington is playing nervous realizing she is on a short leash and consequently tries to do too much and gets 4 turnovers in about 7 minutes of play.

Practice is the place to develop discipline. If you can't develop trust in a player in practice the game is no place to apply discipline. If you can't develop trust in them in practice then they don't deserve to be in the game in the first place. In the games you need your best players on the court. And the players need to have teammates with whom they are familiar. When you suddenly throw a Penso in the game after many games with no or few minutes it can be a problem. Penso admittedly is a good passer but she makes a fair number of passing mistakes that are overlooked because of the more spectacular ones that work out.

No question this season is lost so why not get every minute of experience for the players we need to depend on next year.

And we were burned again by Baylor's transfer point guard. They had a strong returning cast and possible the best freshman class in the country. But they needed a point guard and went out and got one. What a concept.

I agree but normally you play the way you practice. I surmise that the same mistakes we see in practice the coaching staff sees daily in practice. This team does not play good clean fundamental basketball in practice and going into self destruct come game time.

What we as fans see in the games is exactly what Sherri is seeing in practice. And that is see is void of quality basketball players that can she or they can develop over the course of a season. Expectations, coaching and consequences are a part of that development. It is what it is.

 

[soonerstar]

It is all about recruiting. Sherri's vision of the ideal college basketball player is rooted in the early 2000's not the current environment. The irony is that Sherri introduced the physical environment to the Big 12 with the Paris twins and Abi Olajuwan but failed to understand the importance of it. The question really is what would Mulkey, Summitt or Geno have done with the Paris twins and Olajuwan.

Geno had one national championship during the 4 years the twins were at OU. I could see multiple championships with the twins. Coale had 1 final 4 appearance with the twins in their 4 years. Abi was on 3 of those teams with the Paris twins.

 

[inoref]

We all got to remember this is a young team, yes they will get better. How much better remains to be seen. I just don't see this group ever of being better than a 7-10 loss team.
This IMO is the perfect time to make some changes..yes next year would be bad too even with new coach. But if no change is made, IMO no change will be seen on the court things will remain about the same maybe a tiny bit better or even worse. I have a feeling there could be some changes coming fairly soon.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

At this point, why not try anything? What do we have to lose? Nothing. Next year will be just as bad because Sherri will still be coaching -- unless she retire's after this season -- which I wouldn't mind a bit.

I'd go with

Pellington
Murcer
Llanusa
Williams
Lampkin

F it. Give it a go and see what happens. But Sherri is too set in her ways to try anything like that.

 

[Soonerbay]

It is all about recruiting. Sherri's vision of the ideal college basketball player is rooted in the early 2000's not the current environment. The irony is that Sherri introduced the physical environment to the Big 12 with the Paris twins and Abi Olajuwan but failed to understand the importance of it. The question really is what would Mulkey, Summitt or Geno have done with the Paris twins and Olajuwan.

If the Paris twins had gone to UCONN, Texas, Baylor, Tenn, Cal...just about any of the top 10 programs during their era, they would have at least two NC's.