Texas at OU

[j2d2]

I can't wait until she is the player we were all waiting for. She's just one of those girls that just looks like a ball player. Once she starts mixing in some shots with that ball handling and passing who knows.

Yes, Maddie moves, holds herself and acts like a ball player. She was really tired and gasping near the end but pressed on.

 

[Stringmusic]

Grit + determination = toughness. This game was won with toughness. This team has it more than any in the past several years.

 

[YCN]

I had a feeling that OU might wiin this game based upon what I've seen of them recently. It appears that they are on a mission to show the world that they really are a very good team. I'm seriously proud of where they appear to be going. And such a young team!

I would have posted earlier but I took a nasty fall outside last night, and I'm STILL bleeding. I have to get stitches over my right eye, and I broke my glasses to boot. If the Sooners hadn't won, I could be downright melancholy right now.

 

[SKSooner]

How many 3 pt shooters does Texas have?

Sometimes you pressure the perimeter so that you can prevent easy ball reversals and easy passes to the wing. Easy ball reversals and swing passes to the wing make it much easier for the guards to feed the post. Depending on the personnel you have, you might choose to defend a team with bigs differently than just sitting in a sagging zone. It would probably be an interesting question to ask Sherri, but just because she didn't sit in a sagging zone like you would expect doesn't mean she didn't have excellent reasons for doing so.

If you go back and look at who was successful against OU when we had Courtney Paris, it was Texas A&M. They certainly didn't beat us with a sagging zone. They pressured the heck out of our guards & made it very difficult for the guards to get Courtney the ball. The teams that sagged on Courtney still gave up 20 points and 10 boards, and our guards killed them, too.

I think Sherri had confidence in her guards' ability to defend the perimeter and didn't want to make it easy on Texas. We doubled the post & pressured the guards to make it hard for the ball to ever get there. It looked like a pretty darned good defensive scheme to me.

Perhaps the coach with multiple Final Fours with all sorts of different personnel knows what she's doing over there on the bench.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Sometimes you pressure the perimeter so that you can prevent easy ball reversals and easy passes to the wing. Easy ball reversals and swing passes to the wing make it much easier for the guards to feed the post. Depending on the personnel you have, you might choose to defend a team with bigs differently than just sitting in a sagging zone. It would probably be an interesting question to ask Sherri, but just because she didn't sit in a sagging zone like you would expect doesn't mean she didn't have excellent reasons for doing so.

If you go back and look at who was successful against OU when we had Courtney Paris, it was Texas A&M. They certainly didn't beat us with a sagging zone. They pressured the heck out of our guards & made it very difficult for the guards to get Courtney the ball. The teams that sagged on Courtney still gave up 20 points and 10 boards, and our guards killed them, too.

I think Sherri had confidence in her guards' ability to defend the perimeter and didn't want to make it easy on Texas. We doubled the post & pressured the guards to make it hard for the ball to ever get there. It looked like a pretty darned good defensive scheme to me.

Perhaps the coach with multiple Final Fours with all sorts of different personnel knows what she's doing over there on the bench.

To bring up how A&M pressured our guards is apples and oranges to the Texas game. Sherri always had guards who could shoot threes. DRob was the exception. So if course the Aggies could not sag inside.

If you noticed, Maddie and Peyton started sagging off in the second half. Even Gabbi was at times depending on who she was guarding. That made it more difficult for Texas to shoot easy layups. Texas won the first half, OU won the second half.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Prior to the game, if you would have told me that OU would shoot 35% from the field and 28% from BTA, I would have bet the farm Texas would win by a pretty wide margin.

Without looking, I am guessing we shot the ball worse than in any win we have had this year. Again, without looking, I'm guessing Texas has not shot the ball that poorly all year.

Games aren't won on paper. When you are supposedly out-manned, just play hard and play smart and good things can happen.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Even though Maddie only scored 1 field goal, she was deadly at the line. Hopefully, we will see her making some 3s and knocking down some 15 ft jump shots. If so, that will be huge going forward.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Kara Lawson ‏@karalawson20 42m42 minutes ago

Huge win for @OU_WBBall last night over rival Texas! Now tied atop Big 12 w/ Baylor at 4-0. Play of the game, Gabrielle Ortiz's deeeeeep 3!

Danielle Robinson ‏@justDROB 3h3 hours ago

Woke up to see that @OU_WBBall took care of business against those Longhorns. BOOMER SOONER! #ProudAlum

Maddie Manning ‏@MaddieManning 9h9 hours ago

Turn up sooner fans we just beat Texas http://instagram.com/p/x3Pu5Bm6It/

Peyton Little ‏@peyton_little 9h9 hours ago

We just dunked on Texas and we're 4-0. http://instagram.com/p/x3PoFpvOvw/

Gabrielle Ortiz ‏@g_RAEted21 10h10 hours ago

Nothing is better than being out on the court with my sisters. Showed them how Oklahoma plays basketball! #Boomer

Peyton Little ‏@peyton_little 10h10 hours ago

And that's how you do it!!!! Huge win tonight over Texas. Couldn't be more proud of this team.

Debbie Antonelli ‏@debbieantonelli 11h11 hours ago North Carolina, US

My big 12 scout in Norman says @SoonersWBB beats @TexasWBB making 81% free throws/playing "D" holdin Texas to 26%FG. Give em look @AP_Top25

 

[SKSooner]

To bring up how A&M pressured our guards is apples and oranges to the Texas game. Sherri always had guards who could shoot threes. DRob was the exception. So if course the Aggies could not sag inside.

If you noticed, Maddie and Peyton started sagging off in the second half. Even Gabbi was at times depending on who she was guarding. That made it more difficult for Texas to shoot easy layups. Texas won the first half, OU won the second half.

Texas scored 28 points in the 1st half & 31 points in the second half. We forced 18 turnovers. We played really good defense both halves. It was a tremendous defensive gameplan by Sherri Coale. Just admit it. It's OK to admit the woman really knows how to coach the game of basketball.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Texas scored 28 points in the 1st half & 31 points in the second half. We forced 18 turnovers. We played really good defense both halves. It was a tremendous defensive gameplan by Sherri Coale. Just admit it. It's OK to admit the woman really knows how to coach the game of basketball.

I never said she wasn't. I liked the defensive adjustments she made in the second half. Can you not admit that helped?

 

[sybarite]

Texas shot 25.7% in the first half, and 26.7% in the second half. We shot 32.1% in the first half, 37.5% in the second half. There wasn't a huge change in either. The real difference is that there was more scoring in the second half because we spent two minutes going to the free throw line at the end. We hit nine more free throws in the second half.

With 1:39 left in the game, OU led 59-50. In the last 1:38, OU outscored Texas 11-9. That is a lot of scoring in 1:38.

Wonder if anyone keeps statistics on held balls?

 

[Mr. Carter]

Gioya picked up some terrible fouls. She has to learn to adjust to the refs and how they're calling the game. Had she played more than 9 minutes she goes for 20+ easily.

 

[sybarite]

Gioya is too important to the offense to have fouls trying to rebound against Nneka.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Gioya picked up some terrible fouls. She has to learn to adjust to the refs and how they're calling the game. Had she played more than 9 minutes she goes for 20+ easily.

She did look good on both ends of the court, minus the fouls. She will learn from that.

 

[scrybe]

Gioya picked up some terrible fouls. She has to learn to adjust to the refs and how they're calling the game. Had she played more than 9 minutes she goes for 20+ easily.

I think it may have been more like 30-35 points, Mr. Carter. Gioya looked well on her way to a career game until those officials applied the shackles. And at least a couple of those fouls were purely ticky-tack.

I do agree, however, that Gioya needs to learn to adjust to the idiosyncratic refs of the Big 12. If she can stay on the court 30 minutes per game, the Sooners will be a hard team to beat.

 

[SKSooner]

I never said she wasn't. I liked the defensive adjustments she made in the second half. Can you not admit that helped?

I've seen you post long enough to know where you stand in terms of Sherri Coale's coaching abilities. You don't need to say anything explicit for me to know where you stand. The fact that you routinely question her coaching decisions and her team's fundamentals speaks volumes.

Texas couldn't score in the first half, so whatever she was doing in the first half looked good in my books, too.

If you were coaching, Gioya Carter would never see the floor because she turns it over. Well guess what? Some players turn it over a lot, no matter how well coached they are. But Gioya Carter can make a difference, and that's why Sherri has never given up on her. It's not because Sherri likes turnovers. Though I know you think she does.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

I just want Saturday and then Monday to get here. Now my weekend doesn't have to be all writing, house and yard.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Mr. Carter is right. 3 of Goyia's were silly ticky-tacks; two hand-checking and one over the back against a taller player. Only three times in last five games I think she kind of lost focus or got really too excited.

 

[scrybe]

I've seen you post long enough to know where you stand in terms of Sherri Coale's coaching abilities. You don't need to say anything explicit for me to know where you stand. The fact that you routinely question her coaching decisions and her team's fundamentals speaks volumes.

Texas couldn't score in the first half, so whatever she was doing in the first half looked good in my books, too.

If you were coaching, Gioya Carter would never see the floor because she turns it over. Well guess what? Some players turn it over a lot, no matter how well coached they are. But Gioya Carter can make a difference, and that's why Sherri has never given up on her. It's not because Sherri likes turnovers. Though I know you think she does.

Take that, Norm! (Sorry for chuckling, but SK pretty much nailed that one). LOL

 

[sybarite]

Actually, the worst foul calls of the night belonged to Enempkali. We have all commented on the pushing of Sharane in the back. Having watched the replay of the last ten to fifteen minutes now three times, it is revealing when you see who made the call and under what circumstances. The official that made the call was actually watching the play in front of her and giving the five-second count. If she even saw Nneka shoving Sharane at all, it was out of the corner of her eye. Her attention was directed elsewhere, and she should not have been the one making a call on anything to do with Sharane and Nneka.

I didn't see who did NOT call a foul underneath on Nneka when she arm-barred Kornet to the floor. Kornet was standing still along the baseline. The ball was coming over Nneka's and her heads. Neither was going to get that ball. But, Nneka, in an attempt to get to where the ball was coming down, which would have been behind Kornet, put an arm bar on Kornet's chest, shoving her to the floor as she fell on top of her. NO FOUL?

Nneka also got away with reaching over Maddie's back and tipping a rebound out of bounds, which they called off Maddie. I don't think Maddie got a hand on it. It looked like the only hand that touched it was Nneka's.

Now, exactly what are the traveling rules? When a player catches the ball while sitting down and rolls back until prone, is that not movement? Nneka did that---no call.