Longhorn for a Day....Beat UConn

[YemenBear]

I'll be rooting for the Texas Longhorn WBB team, at least for today, as they journey in a northeastern direction to take on the vaulted UConn Huskies. Come on girls, do us proud in the Big 12 and the great state of Texas.

[brolewis]

Let me be another Baylor Bear to voice the same. Go get em Texas! Show UConn what the Big XII is made of!

[Press]

Good luck Horns!!!

[TTU79]

Go get 'em Longhorns!

[Jimi]

GO Longhorns! :ksu:

[Gator]

GO HORNS! Hook em!!!! Find the magic that should exist among such a talented bunch and rock the UC house off its foundations!

On the other hand, magic found comes back to haunt us - when is Texas on our schedule? mmmmmmm

Oh heck - we can take care of our selves and I would rather beat a Texas team with magic than have them perform less than great against UConn.

[elfdenmom]

Go Horns!...Cage them Huskies!

[Guns Up!]

Hook 'em Horns! Beat the snot out of the huskies


(Gulp) I did type it :D

[CyRox98]

Hook'em Horns!!!!! This would be a great win for the conference AND even better that Geno would have his 5th loss pinned on him. :D

We'll be watching the fun...

[Row6Seat10]

:ut:

From cold and deary Nebraska

Go Big Orange

[BEAR SKIN]

:bu:
Agreed -- Sic Em Horns (today, not Saturday)

[#1OUWBBFAN]

I'm sorry. I've tried and tried and tried to convince myself to pull for Texas to win but I just can't do it. There's too much water under that bridge. I will however pull for UCONN to lose. Will that be just as good?

[walkaway]

Out here on the Plains,
where they lost last time
and Stacy Stephens plays
her homecourt ball starting
tomorrow night ... Go Horns!

Get 'em Texas! :ut:

Heck, it's two whole weeks before we'll see y'all again ... ;)

Guns Up, Tech -- Beat Nebraska Wednesday night! :ttu:

[Bball Girl]

Come on Texas. It's halftime and there's no motion in your motion offense. Get that smirk off Geno's face. Please!

[gobigred]

Go Horns!


:ut:



Gino sure has lost his figure, he needs to run with the girls!

[35TangoTango]

Very disappointing! Texas certainly didn't do anything for the conference RPI. The Horns have more and more the look of a team in disarray. :(

[ouconster]

That is not the Texas team I am used to seeing play! They will probably find themselves intime to play us!

[TTU79]

I'm also upset with the ESPN male announcer. How rude can one be? :( Sitting beside Ann Myers and having Lisa Leslie as co-announcer in the studio and sit there and say Diane Taurasi is the greatest women's player ever. Diane will need to have surgery tomorrow to get his lips removed from her butt. :) Attention Mr. Dave O'Brien--Diane Taurasi is not the greatest women's player ever--as Ann Myers told you once before--"maybe, the greatest of her generation." Don't forget the contributions of Diane's team mates plus women players who went before her and led to the better publicity regarding women's basketball. She is not a better player than Ann Myers, Cheryl Miller, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie or a host of other players. She is good, there is no doubt but, I would remind Mr. O'Brien her pro team did not win the WNBA title.

[Guns Up!]

I almost fell off the couch when he said something to the effect of "When you come to Hartford, you're coming to the center of college basketball" Huh??? :confused:

[BeBe]

Unfortunately, at this point in time, I have to agree with him on Hartford/Storrs being the center of college basketball, at least for women. I don't recall the exact number but they are over 100+ straight sellouts for UConn Huskies womens games. No other school is even close to those kind of numbers.

Of course, thats just the one school. If you broaden your view to the conference, we all know who the leader is there!!! GO BIG 12!!!!!

[elfdenmom]

Painful. I suffered for the Lady Longhorns.

[wwi_flying_ace_17]

I'm also upset with the ESPN male announcer. How rude can one be? :( Sitting beside Ann Myers and having Lisa Leslie as co-announcer in the studio and sit there and say Diane Taurasi is the greatest women's player ever. Diane will need to have surgery tomorrow to get his lips removed from her butt. :) Attention Mr. Dave O'Brien--Diane Taurasi is not the greatest women's player ever--as Ann Myers told you once before--"maybe, the greatest of her generation." Don't forget the contributions of Diane's team mates plus women players who went before her and led to the better publicity regarding women's basketball. She is not a better player than Ann Myers, Cheryl Miller, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie or a host of other players. She is good, there is no doubt but, I would remind Mr. O'Brien her pro team did not win the WNBA title.

I really wish some of those announcers did not have to do all of the buttkissing. I like watching Diana play and she doesn't seem like a bad person to me, but I have a hard time cheering for someone that is such a media darling. I very rarely cheer for Duke or UNC in men's basketball because of Dick Vitale. The announcers just get obnoxious.

[YCN]

Very disappointing! Texas certainly didn't do anything for the conference RPI. The Horns have more and more the look of a team in disarray. :(

Actually, by playing UConn the conference RPI will probably improve in spite of UT's loss. Texas is without a doubt really struggling right now, and if they don't get their act together pretty quick, they might not finish in the top three in their division.

[Jimi]

I thought the comments about Taurasi were a little over the top but not outrageous. I am not an Anne Myers fan but I actually like Dave O'Brien. He stays on task a lot better than many these days. The announcers did not annoy me much in this game. Texas did.

The poor Horns are really out of sync. I don't want to be harsh but at one point I thought it was a slam at UConn that Texas was so close. Poor pass after poor pass, and I haven't seen that many people standing around since I went to a farm machinery auction. This is the first time I have seen Texas in a while and I was shocked. I hope this was just a really bad game for them.

[BeBe]

Unfortunately I have seen them a few times this season and the 'standing around' offense seems to be what they have run each time I have seen them. It makes me wonder how they got the big leads in the games where they had leads and then lost them! They just seem flat and out of sync to me. But with all the talent on that team, I'm amazed they haven't figured out the problem and fixed it by now.

[Jennifer]

Maybe it's time for Coach Conradt to scrap the motion offense? As the studio people said (Lisa Leslie and ? ) they don't seem to have the right personnel to run such an offense. Or, maybe they just need more practice?

I slept through most of the game, but what I saw wasn't overly impressive from either end, except for Charde Houston. Texas had no answer for her.

As someone else here said, Texas sure didn't look like the Texas teams we are used to seeing.

[YCN]

Maybe it's time for Coach Conradt to scrap the motion offense? As the studio people said (Lisa Leslie and ? ) they don't seem to have the right personnel to run such an offense. Or, maybe they just need more practice?

I slept through most of the game, but what I saw wasn't overly impressive from either end, except for Charde Houston. Texas had no answer for her.

As someone else here said, Texas sure didn't look like the Texas teams we are used to seeing.

Or maybe they are frightened that a team with the talent core of Texas might actually catch fire using an offense that is less than universally accepted in women's basketball circles. OU got to the title game and gave a totally superior UConn team their toughest game of the year running just such an offense.

Frankly, I would prefer that more teams in the 12 adopt the motion, because I believe the style of play of that offense encourages creative thinking and court independence for players. The half court systems with power overtones that most teams run, while effective, do not seem to be state of the art to me. Not a whole lot of teams that feature attacks that require the slow and deliberate set-up to the basket have won national titles in recent years, or for that matter, have even visited the final four.

I appreciate well-executed offensive strategies of any kind, but with the athletic skills of the womens' game growing exponentially by the decade, teams that use more creative approaches are bound by history of success to eventually reach the pinnacle in higher numbers than the somber plaid crowd.

[Jennifer]

Or maybe they are frightened that a team with the talent core of Texas might actually catch fire using an offense that is less than universally accepted in women's basketball circles. OU got to the title game and gave a totally superior UConn team their toughest game of the year running just such an offense.

Why would announcers be frightened of any team having great success?

I wasn't aware that the motion offence was 'less than universally accepted' in wbb circles.

[YCN]

Why would announcers be frightened of any team having great success?

I wasn't aware that the motion offence was 'less than universally accepted' in wbb circles.

I think that announcers in sports, in general, tend to be very conservative. The motion offense in basketball is still not widely adopted, probably much less than 10% of teams run a variant of it.

Having said that, people fear what they do not understand, and it certainly seemed to me that the announcers of the UT-UConn game were doing their level-headed best to disparage the athleticism of the Texas team, and the wisdom of Jody Conradt in adopting such a scheme for her team.

Given that I view Jody as one of maybe the 10 best college coaches of all time in court sports, I tend to get a bit irritable when people try to insinuate that they know more than you do, or than what one of your idols does. Call me a homer or naive or simply misguided, but just because Texas looks lost right now does not mean they will look lost in March.

I think the fire may have just been lit for that team, and unfortunately my Sooners haven't had the luxury of stealing a win while confusion reigned. Drat our luck.

[Gator]

I believe I remember Coale saying something like: the motion offense is a decision making offense - it takes freshman a long time to do it well - instinctively. There are so many if/then's that they tend to think too much rather than just doing it BUT when the decision making comes easily, it is a very powerful offense.

OK, this is what occurred to me as I watched Texas today:

They have 6 players and how many freshmen? The long-timers have been running a different offense with a different focus - ie, getting the ball inside to Stevens. The freshmen are probably like OU freshmen, trying to learn the difference between their HS demands and the demands of D1 ball plus learn a sophisticated offense. All in all, a very steep learning curve for everyone as the “old timers” have to unlearn instincts which served them well in addition to learning a new way to “think”. The frosh don’t have the benefit that an OU frosh has of learning from peers as well as coaches.

All of those factors together might account for what we are seeing - a struggling Texas team. It seems to me that Jody is doing the “right” thing in changing the game plan to fit the talents of the reconstructed team. But ..... it ain’t easy.

Does this make sense? I’ve been struggling trying to understand how a Texas team coached by someone whom I admire for her BB smarts and which struck fear into the hearts of everyone last year and lost only one player is having such trouble getting it together this year and this is the closest I’ve come to making sense of it.

[DblT81]

I think the fire may have just been lit for that team, and unfortunately my Sooners haven't had the luxury of stealing a win while confusion reigned. Drat our luck.

Phew, boy I'm glad Tech was just lucky to steal a win. Better to be lucky than good, or something like that. Hope the Lady Raiders are so lucky on Wednesday or that confusion is reigning in Lincoln suddenly.

[dem]

The way Tech is playing right now it doesn't look like they're stealing anything. They're just grabbing what's rightfully theirs. I'm hoping that all this success leads to some temporary overconfidence around the second week of February.

[Bball Girl]

The way Tech is playing right now it doesn't look like they're stealing anything. They're just grabbing what's rightfully theirs. I'm hoping that all this success leads to some temporary overconfidence around the second week of February.

Hey...we owe ISU a good whopping to make up for the visit to Hilton last year! Getting ISU and KSU at home this year is a VERY good thing for us "Techsters".