Northwestern State Game thread
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I just don’t understand how Haith has missed on so many big men. We’ve had like 5 flow in here since Igbanu and none of them can play
Yea we were great inside defense and 3 point defense last year so unlike Haith coached teams
This team does not look like an NCAA squad. On the plus side. KES is making shots. We have very few guys looking to create their own shot.
Didn't OU just beat these guys by nearly 20?
Didn't OU just beat these guys by nearly 20?
I mean, in the history of Frank Haith game 1's this might be one of the better ones.... which is incredibly sad.
Under Haith if we get out of game 1 with a W I’m satisfied. We’re so bad early on every year and this team probably won’t even be recognizable by mid-December
We didn’t beat them as bad as Ou did so we are not to the Sooners level yet.
Yet. I really liked our play overall. We had a couple droughts but I think we played well for Game 1. Now we can make some corrections for Air Force on Saturday afternoon
You and I apparently have differing views of what 'played well' means in basketball. A 3 point game with 15 seconds remaining over a subpar Southland Conference team isn't playing well. 4 points the other way and we would have been saying that we played like crap. We played OK. We subbed too much (again) and went ice cold for long stretches in the second half. A W is a W, but Tulsa fans should expect more.
Offense was really ragged at times. We would forget to move the ball. We looked like we have 8 transfers. But we are going to get much better.
WE most certainly have a different aspect of playing well. Your focusing on the 3 point lead we had at the closing. Now that, I would like to be a little bigger but Northwestern State shot very well.
Tulsa was 27-58 for 46.6 from the field, 10-23 for 43.5 from 3 and 18-22 for 81.8 from the stripe. I dont care how you look at it, we shot over 4o percent from both the field and 3. That was playing well. We also scored 82 points. You also need to remember these guys did play Oklahoma tough until halfway through the second half.
Tonight Northwestern state was 30-64 for 46.9 from the field, 10-27 for 37 percent from 3 and 5-10 from the stripe. They were 3 percent better from the field than yesterday. They only shot 17 percent from 3 yesterday and took 10 less 3 point shots than today. If they shot the percentages they did tonight yesterday then that Oklahoma game might have looked real different.
Northwestern State played really good as well. I am happy with our guys play today overall. There were a few ball handling and dumb turnovers but nothing like in years past. Griffin and Pritchard are going to be great additions to this squad and should get a ton of playing time. Horne is Horne and still my favorite player by far. Dalger looked pretty good. Might need a haircut but he drove in that lane.
This was Game 1 and for Game 1, we did really well. Hopefully we can fix some of the missed assignment issues on defense and limit unnecessary turnovers and take it to Air Force on Saturday.
Winning the first game was the main goal & we accomplished that! We do have plenty of room for improvement, especially with interior defense!
We must have Pritchard or Griffin on the court for all 40 minutes of any close game. We are definitely a better offense when they are both on the court!
What a blessing to have Jeriah Horne back for one final season. He was awesome tonight!
We must have Pritchard or Griffin on the court for all 40 minutes of any close game. We are definitely a better offense when they are both on the court!
What a blessing to have Jeriah Horne back for one final season. He was awesome tonight!
We could have won by 33 points and he would find negatives on Haith.