From: clancy@cs.utexas.edu (Daniel J. Clancy)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Re: Texas Horns !  News, please, Austin folks !
Date: 9 Jan 1993 14:34:52 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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In article <2B4CD264.3691@news.service.uci.edu> jayakris@translab.its.uci.edu (R. Jayakrishnan) writes:
>
>  I saw the UT_Rice game on Tuesday (UT-87, Rice-92) and cried.  BJ Tyler is
>  out for the year ?..  Come on guys, somebody please tell us such news when
>  it happens.  I know, this season is going down the drain, but we would
>  like to know how and why.
>

Well, it does look like it is going to be a LONG season.  With BJ out 
there is very little leadership on the team.  You combine this with the
lack of coaching and you will run into problems.  A perfect example
of the problems could be seen at the end of the Rice game.  Texas had
made a great comeback and was now within 5.  Two of the biggest plays
in this comeback were Mike Richardson's two three pointers.  From there,
unfortunately Terrence felt like he was going to be the man to win it.
On two or three occassions he brought the ball up court and told everyone 
to clear out so that he could take his man one-on-one.  Each time he either
drove the lane and there were one or two people waiting for him or he took
an NBA range three pointer.  While he got fouled once or twice when
driving the lane, he still threw up a lot of bricks.  More importantly, he
took everyone else out of the line-up so that they wer just standing there.
This almost eliminated our chances of getting the rebound on
his shot.

What bothered me the most about this is that it happended repeatedly.
This leads me to believe that the coaching staff didn't say one
word about this (and I don't attribute this to Penders not being 
there.)  Mike Richarson did not touch the ball after his two big threes
until near the very end where he threw up a bad shot.  I expect he
felt like if he passed the ball that Terrence would
force a shot.

They don't have any semblance of a half court offense and they don't even
think about getting the ball to Burditt.  If I were Burditt I would transfer 
for my last year to a place that could help me develop a few post moves.
While he doesn't have many post moves, his shot does not look that
bad this year.  The problem is that he gets the ball 12 feet from the
basket and then take s a bad shot.  This is the only place on
the court where they will throw him the ball.  If we got the ball inside to him
he could at least pass it back out or get a foul.

in fact, I seem to remember the only time that they got it to him in the post 
(a pass from Tommy Penders) that he made a pass to Houston who scored on
a layup.

Since I am on the topic of Tommy Penders, I think that he could help
the team alot.  I don't think that he is all that good, but he
hustles and is willing to pass the ball.  I think that it
might be a good idea to start him at point.  Let him try and
distribute the ball.  He is not a classic Texas point guard because
he is not much of a driver, but I think that he might be able to get
everyone involved in the offense.  He played extrmemly well in the
Rice game and I would have much rather seen him in the game than
Terrence at the end.

I think the coaches at Texas foget that basketball is a team sport
as opposed to a contest to see who has the best athletes.


Well, that's all for now.

Dan Clancy