Wednesday, January 23, 2008

1-3 in Big 12 play with a road game in 3 days.

[0:00 in 4th OT] Texas A&M 99, Baylor 99. This is stupid.

[0:00 in 3rd OT] Texas A&M 90, Baylor 90. 4 overtimes? Seriously, I have to work in the morning. Seriously, MAKE YOUR FREE THROWS. Sloan missed 1 of 2 that would have put us up 3.

[0:00 in 2nd OT] Texas A&M 80, Baylor 80. Missed a great opportunity to take the W at the end of this one. Dave South thinks there was contact but no call. Joe fouled out in that OT.

[0:00 in 1st OT] Texas A&M 76, Baylor 76. We got just enough to force more time. It is a school night!

[0:00 in 2nd] Texas A&M 64, Baylor 64. Overtime. This team showed a lot of toughness to come back from down 9. Wow.

[6:00 in 2nd] Texas A&M 51, Baylor 56. We have not scored in about four minutes. This is not looking good.

[17:01 in 2nd]: Texas A&M 37, Baylor 38. Baylor just took the lead, once again we star a half completely flat.

[Halftime] Texas A&M 35, Baylor 29.

First the bad: 3 of our starters are O-fer (Davis 0-2, Kirk 0-1, Jones 0-4). Baylor had as 12-0 run to tie the game at 20. We still cannot make free throws (9-17).

Now the good: We closed out the half very strong. With 1:43 left and the game tied at 29 we shut them down, forced some turnovers, and ended on a 6-0 run. Despite the 12-0 run, our defense is doing well enough to keep them shooting only 25% from the floor.
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Anonymous said...

As a reply to your last post about the local thoughts on basketball...I was at the game tonight and of course the students were there (40,000 students, 3,000 person student section, not too hard). But there were empty seats all over the place and the Former students were leaving during all the overtimes until by the end, you would have thought we won by 50. The students are obviously constantly upset whenever we lose, but, Turgeon really hasn't proved alot. Now, the team is lacking. But we're playing a lot worse than last year (at times) with a lot of the same guys. The offense tonight was pathetic. We would just dribble around the perimeter and waste the shot clock. IMO (which has absolutely no basis) there is no on the court leader. We don't have a point guard basically. We don't have a leading scorer. There's no really good, clutch shooter. JC should be it, but he's not shooting as well as last year. Jordan really hasn't shown a lot now against BIG 12 teams. I think that it's a new coachs first year. it's probably going to take some time. People trust Turgeon, they're just a little frustrated. It doesn't help that he also seems frustrated and helpless. I'm sure the outrages will be much worse next year when sherman starts his "era". That's going to be hell. Basketball? It'll work itself out. We're not going to win the big 12. We're not going to win the nat'l title. Next year we'll lose Kirk and I think that's it? If Jordan stays and can improve, then Turgeon should be able to keep things alive. Gillespie isn't doing wonders at Kentucky so it's not like we've had a GOD here for the past couple of seasons. We'll just see what happens. This is a good baylor team. I thought they were good last year and was hoping they would make the tournament this year. Now, I don't want to lose to them of course. Neither do the fans.

January 24, 2008 at 3:01:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...

wow...where to start...I'll give it to Turgeon on this one when he went on the record to start the year and say this team is young and overrated...I'll give him that...also you have to think the 3 guys who were starters last year...Kirk...Carter and Jones 2 of which are seniors who lead this team...Davis and Elonu who play tons this year rarely saw the court last year...Sloan who avg 17 minutes last year...how much of that was qaulity backing up Acie...who would have thought we would miss Marlon Pompey this much...a new coach...a new system...this is now looks like a year of transition more than taking over from last year...with Jordan really struggeling in most phases of his game other than dunking will he be back next year with this team struggeling...or will be bolt and just ride the bench in the NBA...how will this season relect on the 2 Fla kids who have verbally commited next year...this is a young teram that might need a year or two to get on the same page...I don't think Turgeon is as good or as bad as he was made out to be coming in...right guy for the job??? wrong guy for the job??? a 15-4...1-3 Big 12 is too early to call...I think...we are also finding out how tough the Big 12 really is...they do have to get some qaulity wins before the tourny because they have zero right now...at least UK knocked off an unbeaten Vandy and #5 Tennessee team...Billy has seemed to turn UK around in conference...just the opposite of A&M.....

January 24, 2008 at 11:08:00 AM EST

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