Worst Loss under Kruger

[Laxtothemax12]

I made a similar comment in the game thread. OU, as a unit, is a very good defensive team. But if you spread the floor and run iso, then you can expose our weakness....and that is we aren't very good "one on one" defenders. We had our best defender (Cousins) on their most skilled player (Niang) and it was like childs play. None of our other guys could keep their man in front of them....or so it seemed. When a skilled offensive team decides to do that to us, I'm not sure there is much that we can do...save fouling them.

I thought maybe some zone could've helped? Right when it got cut to 5 points I thought they needed to zone up and slow the game down. Just didn't happen

 

[MercedeSooner]

I thought maybe some zone could've helped? Right when it got cut to 5 points I thought they needed to zone up and slow the game down. Just didn't happen

Just tells me our guys are really putrid at playing any zone scheme. Even someone who barely watches any basketball could tell we needed to change up something, this really was akin to the Baylor OU football game on defense.

We don't have the typical length to play a good zone but at a certain point you have to change it up just because right ? Right ?

 

[SoonerDan74012]

The problem I have is why is a Lon coached team getting a bonehead T like that on the road?

This is what concerns me the most and it's unacceptable quite frankly.

 

[sperry]

This was the worst loss under Kruger. It's much worse than a game where a team comes out lackadaisical and loses to an inferior team. Its worse than the other (many) Kruger coached choke jobs, because there was a ton on the line in this one.


This is one of the most frustrating OU sporting events I've had the misfortune of watching.

 

[BCSooners]

Maybe it was a weak call. But you don't give the refs, in front of that crowd, a reason to call ANYTHING that might spark them. High five your own guys and walk back to the huddle. Instead, Cousin's is a selfish idiot and has to jaw with their bench. Niang and-1and a three on their next possession and there ya go.

Pretty disappointing that one of our most experienced guys is the one that mouthed off. Crippling loss.

Cousins is a selfish idiot because he showed emotion during a good run by OU up 20 on the road against a top 15 team? It was a weak call and Cousins played well all game and hit some big shots late trying to get us back in the game.

Kruger is a very good coach and has this team trending upward. It is tough getting superstars to come to OU the right way and he is doing better than most D1 coaches would. Is he the guy to get us over the last hump? Remains to be seen but he did the job he was brought in here to do. He has also set us up beautifully for the rest of his tenure and the one after him.

 

[DenverSooner]

Of course it is possible but I am not betting or predicting it. A lot of it depends on matchups. I think both teams will have close games against anyone they play.

I think they both win their first game by 15-20