re: OU Men’s Basketball (20-14/6-12) Lost to UConn as 9 seed. Season done

Right now, I'll be happy if we can just eek out that 15th place preseason prediction. I'm starting to have considerably more dynamic thoughts about where this program should go after this season.

I have so many thoughts in this team/coach

The defense actually played great after about 5-10 minutes of game clock time. Clamped down and made GA work.

Refs are giving us the “business”. Being new its a welcome. And overall SEC refs are bad. In the Bama/aTm game there were “88” FTs last night!! And 59 fouls called. But the spread was decently close unlike our 3 SEC games where we are getting the short straw.

Refs part 2. The way they are calling games hurts our game. Fears isn’t getting the same calls driving ball so he ends up frustrated early. Getting to the like helps him get in a groove. So it hurts him both ways. Not able to get some free shots to find his range and frustrated and makes turnovers. Same for other players

Moser went into conf play unprepared. To allow Bama so many rebounds and then to not respect the ball regarding turnovers vs aTm. We were not winning Bama but it was pathetic how we didn’t try to rebound. Then vs aTm we just were lazy with the ball.

Rebounds and turnovers are fundamental parts of BB. It appears he addressed those and we were better vs GA in both categories. We actually won most stat categories vs GA and it was solely the FTs that cost us that game. GA made 20 more points on FTs and if it was even we win.

But as important we have no system and go stale in crunch time. That makes it easier for teams to defend us. We don’t move the ball around. It seems more players want to play hero ball instead of being part of a system. And he won’t change his lineups no matter what, to teach players.

I also wonder if NIL has an impact. Its obvious Fears got a bigger deal than others. And I wonder if Moser thinks he has to play him more to appease the NIL payers. He is rattled and needs to not start a game to teach him. He should still be in HS and reclassed to play this year. Moser likely has pressure to play him?

Overall we should be 2-1 in conf. Turnovers cost aTm game and refs cost GA game. With a better game and strategy we could have overcome refs vs GA and same with aTm - better coaching benches those not respecting ball and making turnovers.

Moser should have sacrificed some pre conf games to teach players. Sit them when not listening or playing sloppy. Basically prepping for conf. But because he knows he’s not secure in job he went win focused and not season focused. Some coaches will use pre conf as a learning tool and lose some winnable games to win the bigger battle of season. But they are locked in to jobs and Moser is in playoffs or gone mode. That likely means he won’t experiment or bench players as much. And now it shows.

Lost, nothing new

OU trailed Texas 71-68 with 2:15 left.

Next three OU possessions: Turnover (Miles), Turnover (Fears), Turnover (Fears).

This is just flat out horrible basketball. Not coached well at all. Player right before half lays off SC player who hits a logo 3. Its like he decided to cover another player at last second but there was no time left to pass. Bad coaching. And sloppy again, too many turnovers.

Needed to sit players way before this far into season. But PM wanted to win all pre season games instead of teaching and winning the season. Then he can claim “we’re this close” after missing out on playoffs again.

We won another game, 2 in a row.

Thankful for the win but... it was turnovers and ugly.

Now the fun begins. We struggled to beat a bad Arky team.



Josh Callaway
@JoshMCallaway
Oklahoma received a couple of votes this week in the AP Top 25 after knocking off Arkansas

Sooners unofficially slotted at No. 39

This week:

Tuesday at No. 13 Texas A&M
Saturday vs No. 24 Vanderbilt

Play Vandy today, I expect a rebound win.

We must have rebounded better and hit most of our free throws.

Glad they got the win hope they make the March tourney this year.

Guess who we play Tue night. And on the road. Can we keep it within 20?