Aren't we playing Texas in a couple hours?

[Commando]

Felix led the Hobbit League in scoring last year.

Seriously... the beard doesn't make you look like anymore of a grown-up.

[Flystripper]

We could use Kafusi in this game

[Omaha 680]

Ridley looks like he also may play on the football team

He looks too fat for football.

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[San Juan Sun]

Felix led the Hobbit League in scoring last year.

[Topper]

For as critical as I am of Austin, the kid plays hard and can take a charge well.

I agree Austin uses what he has. He plays poor post defense but otherwise he works hard.

[TripletDaddy]

Announcers using the word "atone" a lot. Wish they would leave the religion out of it and just play ball.

[San Juan Sun]

Love Carlino yelling "Let's get the rebound!"

[San Juan Sun]

For as critical as I am of Austin, the kid plays hard and can take a charge well.

[Omaha 680]

Refs are letting Texas reach a LOT.

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[TripletDaddy]

Ridley looks like he also may play on the football team

[San Juan Sun]

First things Haws needs to do is start seeking out contact. These refs have quick whistles and an aggressive team/player will get to the line. Put the Texas bigs in a bit of foul trouble and watch their rebounding effectiveness suffer.

[falafel]

They are not playing poorly.

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I'm following the game via this thread, and it sure sounds like we're playing poorly based on the comments.

[Topper]

We are not rebounding well out of the zone and Texas is being allowed to come over our backs for offensive rebounds. They need to be more aggressive on the box out but it is a much more difficult thing to do out of a zone.

I don't like us using the zone because we often fail to block out when we zone. However, outside of Mika, we have no big who can play defense.

In all seriousness, Texas is big and athletic. It's giving us problems. The are doing a nice job converting offensive rebounds into easy buckets. I thought we were going to see more man defense this year, but maybe after the Nate Austin Post Defense Debacle, Rose has just lost interest in man.

The zone works as Texas is a bad shooting team but the only way they are in this is due to their Offensive Rebounding. We have to box out and have more people crash the boards. Texas basically saw tape of the Iowa State game and is doing the exact same thing that the cyclones are doing and are really crashing the boards. BYU is trying to box out from under the basket. It doesn't work that way.

[Flystripper]

What do you care, you're not watching!

In all seriousness, Texas is big and athletic. It's giving us problems. The are doing a nice job converting offensive rebounds into easy buckets. I thought we were going to see more man defense this year, but maybe after the Nate Austin Post Defense Debacle, Rose has just lost interest in man.

We are not rebounding well out of the zone and Texas is being allowed to come over our backs for offensive rebounds. They need to be more aggressive on the box out but it is a much more difficult thing to do out of a zone.