We lost 5 games on game winning shots in the SEC

[rickjames]

Texas A&M, LSU, Ole Miss, Kentucky (2x). That may be a first for any team in SEC history. It’s so hard to believe that could actually happen.

Also…

 

[CoachTalk]

Truly cursed.

 

[MercedeSooner]

We truly suck at forcing tough shots in end game situations. Not sure it gets more complicated than that.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Texas A&M, LSU, Ole Miss, Kentucky (2x). That may be a first for any team in SEC history. It’s so hard to believe that could actually happen.

Also…

Definitely not a coincidence.

 

[SoonerMagic21]

Definitely not a coincidence.

I just would like to hear how if you were hired as OUs AD tomorrow, what you would do to fix OU. I am genuinely curious

 

[Moneyball]

It’s a trend. For whatever reason Porter can’t coach late game situations.

 

[WichitaSooner]

I just would like to hear how if you were hired as OUs AD tomorrow, what you would do to fix OU. I am genuinely curious

Well I wouldn’t be able to go back 365 days to fire Moser, but I’d start by having a list of coaches I’d be contacting the second this season ends, if not sooner. And if I were the AD, I’d like to think I could play a big role in creating a better NIL situation.

Oh, and I’d fire Brent.

I’m legitimately happy with how this team has played the past four games. They have been much better and more competitive, and have played good ball. But that represents four games out of the 132 that Moser has coached. And it took a winning streak to (likely) sneak us into the tourney (hopefully not in Dayton). Just like Texas and Terry and NC State and Keats, I wouldn’t let a short stretch of good basketball convince me to overlook the four years leading up to it. We have seen the last two nights how much we rely on Fears, who we were very fortunate to get. Unless you think you can strike lightning twice with a high school kid unexpectedly falling in your lap and being a stud, I don’t think you can feel very confident that we will be on firm ground next season. I would take a chance that we can find a coach who can not only raise our ceiling, but hopefully our floor.

 

[SoonerMagic21]

Who’s the coach?

 

[SunshinePumper]

Brutal

 

[IndySooner]

It’s a trend. For whatever reason Porter can’t coach late game situations.

Going back and watching the play, the defense was set to defend it. The players didn’t execute it. They had better players executing their play than we had defending it. And if we had better NIL support, the players that killed us both times would have been ours not theirs.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Thinking about this post and here is the most frustrating part: in each of the five games, we allowed their best/most dangerous player to beat us. A&M was without their best player, but the Phelps kid went off the entire second half. On the winning shot, we made no effort to get the ball out of his hands or double. Even before Sam tripped Taylor, Taylor was giving him way too much space, and Moser had him on an island with no help or trap. LSU — Carter went off down the stretch and got every huge bucket. Mississippi — not only do we not double, Moser allows Beard to play him like a fiddle by setting screens that we inexplicably switched, resulting in Sam (Sam freaking Godwin!) defending a guard on the perimeter with an eternity left on the clock. And of course, the two Oweh winners where Moser chose not to deny him the ball even though we had chances to set our defense both times (one following made FTs and one after a timeout). We just let him catch the ball and Moser hoped our less athletic/physical defenders would be able to stop a dude who is a freight train once he has his momentum going forward.

This loss may not send us to Dayton, so it might not be an absolute killer. But it just is the latest in a very long line of games where Moser has shown himself to be a terrible strategist. If we end up in a late and close situation next week, there is every reason to fear our coach putting us in a bad situation. Hopefully our guys can either play well enough that it doesn’t come down to a possession or two, or they can win in spite of him.