Overrated a tad. Doesn't coach elite defense.

Two worst teams of Bill Self era Hunter Dickinson was the main cog. A year or two before Dickinson got here they won the championship.

Yeah. Purely coincidence.

You drastically underestimate how bad this team is.

Coaches NBA style offense. We need to get into the 21st century already.

You could just as easily attribute that to KJ Adams being a starter instead of Dickinson coming here and performing at an All-American level.

In fact, that would really be the most logical conclusion to draw.

I imagine tonight's results will resemble last years results @ Houston.

Nobody.

I mean nobody wins National Championships without elite level defense.

2024 UConn.....4th
2023 UConn.....7th
2022 Kansas....17th
2021 Baylor.......22nd
2020 Kansas.....2nd
2019 Virginia.....5th
2018 Villanova...11th
2017 UNC..........11th
2016 Villanova...5th
2015 Duke..........11th
2014 UConn.......10th

Great coaches would never allow their teams to be 111th in defensive efficiency like Oats was last year.

His team two years ago was 3rd in the country in defensive efficiency. Time for you to stop.

It was but its like you are intentionally trying to not read what I wrote.

Great coaches never, ever, ever allow their teams to be as bad defensively as Alabama was last year. Maybe the best coaches that do are Dennis Gates and Fran McCaffrey and they are not good coaches.

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2014 and 2016 Duke were 86 in defensive efficiency. That followed 79th in 2012. Duke never should have ever hired the head coach they had in those years imo

2012 Villanova was ranked 132nd in defensive efficiency. That school probably should have fired that coach after that season.

Dickinson the only player to show up in this game so far (not unusual) and it appears we're trending for the road blowout rather than the close loss.

Too many players watching the shot, and then the ball falling clear to the floor on the defensive end. They (Houston) are getting 2-3-4 chances to make the basket.

The problem is that 4 of our starters (the non Dickinson ones) don't grab rebounds

Fran watches Storr get crushed and says Storr kicked his leg out

Freaking sloppy!

Hunter can’t buy a foul.

I hate this kind of bb. Flippin rugby.

Coit giveth, and then he taketh away.

if they would let us pause each possession, to play diggy on offense and dejuan on defense, we might have a stud player

Great first half for the 9th year guard on the team.

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That’s still more than Zeke does, play Diggy

Yeah, no-shows by Mayo, Harris, and to a lesser extent Griffen.

Flory undercut in the air on the dunk, refs don’t care

Unclear why Dickinson and Diggy are out right now, has led to an end of half Houston run

If we could figure a way to keep Cryer from shooting, we would have a serious chance of winning!

Play Diggy over Juan.

Christ.

Houston's practices are brutal. I wonder what kind of country club he is running

11 OREBs not enough for Sampson at half, knows they should get at least 20 against this KU team

Ok guys, go into the locker room and have the trainer mop up the blood from all the non called fouls. Bring it the 2nd half and guard Cryer please. :thumb:

UH is getting too many 2nd chance points on offensive rebounds!

I am not going to argue that KJ wouldnt be a good tight end but he plays big minutes at a blue blood program division 1 with a HOF at his back. I am sure he chose the right sport

That was a goddamn ugly half. Fouls and bricks everywhere. I hate watching this team and I especially hate watching them play against a huggyball squad

KJ's FT's has improved so damn much ,it's crazy!

Is Shak Moore still hurt?

Play Diggy, he's not gutless

Yes, unfortunately

Gosh damn, if we could seal off on defensive rebounds, we would be up 10 pts!

Turnovers & allowing UH to get 2nd, 3rd chance point attempts is mind boggling

This year's Remy.

LMAO

They've taken 48 shots vs. our 29

Get Zeke off the court and Dickinson back on the court

If Harris could dunk my god

So many stupid passes, really nothing to gain with most of them so why try?

Cryer with his 4th foul.

Hunter turns it over twice....cuz of KJ

Might as well just have Diggy jack up threes over trying to throw passes this team can't make

Houston is just running over guys as it is

Well, they actually called a foul to put Hunter on the line.

Well kind of, yeah

They are hard doubling him on the catch all game because we play guys they don’t have to guard at all (KJ/Harris), he’s made some phenomenal passes in spite of that though

Turnovers
Lack of Rebounds
Turnovers
Lack of 3pt Defense
Turnovers

Get the point!

Zeke is way too soft with the ball to be in this game, Harris not any better though

Dickinson coming out, not ideal

Love Diggy talking shit after creating the turnover

Back to the bench soon?

He should play for Mayo the rest of the game.

The most fight we've seen from this team in a long time.

Also, there's still a chance Houston could win this game by double digits.

He has played well tonight, we need more!

Looking more like one of our close losses due to lack of execution at this point

Or Harris, I’ll take either one off

Neither are giving anything

How is HD not on floor after the timeout

That's a foul on the 3?

Maybe we shouldn’t be playing a freshman who has looked terrible all year in crunch time game a top 3 team in the country

Bill deserved that result

Very stupid foul.

He hit him, they’re gonna call that on the road

That was a weak ass ****ing foul on Passmore.

Good thing Mayo is in the game, automatic turnover yay

Great pass by Dickinson again that Zeke turns into a turnover by not shooting, makes sense

Never seen a player who shrivels up against any adversity as much as that guy and for whatever reason Self has guaranteed him 30+ minutes a game all season

I didn't see any contact and it was confirmed by Fran who is always wrong.

Going to be another fun postgame after this collapse.

Fun year.

Reminds me of Lincoln Minor

Even though it was really a weak ass call, I agree, Passmore shouldn't be in during this game!

Looked like he mildly hit him on the arm after that shot, wouldn’t be a foul at home but just can’t do that on the road

Better question is why is a freshman out there in that spot who has shown no ability all season

Chances the team turn the ball over here after the timeout?

70%?

If they actually played this hard in the tourney, they could win some games in it

Chances of that happening though seem pretty low, we will go back to our baseline

Shit.

Tie up but got a timeout

That should have been a jump; another call goes Houston’s way

That's definitely a tie-up.

Literally have 2 guys guarding HD right now

They aren’t guarding Harris

Total flop rewarded as guys hang all over Dickinson, cool