We have offensive problems....

[AdaSooner]

After last night, I think your guards will see a lot more full-court, trapping defenses in the first half of the court. And probably play a lot of man-to-man to prevent the OU 3-point shooters from getting easy looks. Make OU beat you inside or on the offensive glass. If we had pressured your guards earlier, we might have gotten just that extra steal or two we needed. We're normally a great rebounding team, but your guys really did a good job keeping us off the boards.

After OU fell behind by double digits in the first half, your guards were too busy trying to protect the ball to think about a full court press. Your team turned the tables on us in the second half, and our young guards didn't handle it too well. Interesting how one team's press changed the tide of the game in the first half, and the reverse was true in the second. I was impressed with how hard your kids play. They never gave up when OU jumped out to a big lead.

Mav fans are welcome here anytime you want to stop by. Best of luck the rest of the way!

 

[AdaSooner]

I think OU is going to play a 9 man rotation most of the year unless Hornbeak or Cousins stops getting PT. Grooms is going to get minutes either as the starting pg or backup. Cam Clark and Fitzgerald are going to get minutes. Hield is one of the best players on the team so he is going to get minutes.

I think it would be foolish to not let Sam Grooms have all of the backup pg minutes. He doesn't make a lot of mistakes and that is exactly what you need from your backup pg.

I agree, Denver. I said eight or nine because I honestly can't see Casey getting a lot of minutes against the better teams we'll face later on. I think Tyler will continue to get minutes, but his time may be limited if he has to defend bigger, stronger post players.

Who knows what LK will do, though? Certainly not a novice like me.

 

[SoonerinNC]

I think Casey will get minutes with the walkons.

Kruger has gone 9-10 deep at UNLV. His style requires depth. Remember last year when we lost so many games because we had no bench.

I think it is a lock that the starting 5 from last season will play quite a bit, also the four newcomers. The only question in my mind is Neal and he has shown quite a bit of improvement since last year.

Kruger still has to find out what combinations work best on the floor so he knows how to rotate them. Don't think he is there yet. When he made the first change last night UTA went on the run that put them ahead by double digits. I don't remember who was in when UTA made the late charge except for the freshman guards who not only has a problem handling the press but seemed to have trouble getting the team into an offense even when they broke the press.

And in 2010 Kansas had 9 players who averaged more than 13 minutes a game and another who averaged 8. It will really depend on how many we have that can play. I suspect that we ran into a little second half fatigue last night because of the pressure defense we were playing and our attempts to run.



We really need the freshman point guards (or at least one of them) to be ready by conference time because the good teams will back off Sam and he hasn't shown any improvement on his shot from last year. At least not so far.