Texas Tech 2/24 7:00 ESPN2

[steveedwards]

By no means am I defending CWM and the team, but it's a tough time of year for teams. Two of the names mentioned as CWM replacements, Schertz and Calhoun have lost 3 of their last 5 games to weaker teams. Houston has lost 3 in a row. Again, not defending last night's loss, but providing some perspective.

[leo from jersey]

By no means am I defending CWM and the team, but it's a tough time of year for teams. Two of the names mentioned as CWM replacements, Schertz and Calhoun have lost 3 of their last 5 games to weaker teams. Houston has lost 3 in a row. Again, not defending last night's loss, but providing some perspective.

it was not the fact that they lost, but the lack f defensive effort. Then the panic shooting without any organized offensive plan. I can somewhat accept losing, but never such wretched sloppy play.

[Cliftonite]

it was not the fact that they lost, but the lack f defensive effort. Then the panic shooting without any organized offensive plan. I can somewhat accept losing, but never such wretched sloppy play.

Lots of standing around watching shots, while TT's players scrambled and anticipated the miss to get the rebound. The Cats got 2 points from their entire bench. The Cats were out-rebounded by 15.

It was so intense watching old Huggins' teams, or even Cronin teams, where every shot/possession was challenged to the point of someone always getting into early foul trouble, but had the depth to overcome it.

These guys just watch and wait, like it's a pick-up game or the NBA. Possessions aren't valued, there's no complicated footwork or passing anymore, everyone's spread-out, jacking-up jumpers or bean poles in the middle like Thiam. It's not just the Cats, but the state of modern basketball, it's just not that entertaining to me anymore I guess.

[sedz]

The rebounding was even worse than the totals indicate because Texas Tech was so efficient shooting. They only missed 25 shots and rebounded 12 of them. That's a 48% OReb rate. Ouch.

Our offense was the same, but the shooting reverted to normal. We took 27 midrange shots, more than anywhere else on the floor. We made 9 of them. 18 points from 27 shots, or 0.67 points from midrange. Thiam was 4 for 13 from midrange. You can't make 88% every game like he did against Kansas. Over the long term he'll revert to his average under 50%. It's not a good shot to rely on. Still, we put up a solid 1.12 points per possession because we only turned the ball over 3 times. But we gave up 1.32.

Celestine was again our best player with 3.0 net points, scoring 13 from the field on 12 shots plus 2 for 2 at the line and game highs with 3 offensive rebounds and 2 steals with no turnovers. Baba was second best, scoring an efficient 11 from the field on 8 shots with 4 assists. Thiam was third best. He scored 15 from the field but needed 19 shots. He added 10 boards and a block.

Day Day was our worst player, scoring just 5 from the field on 7 shots. Tillery was second worst, 0 for 3 shooting in 12 minutes. Harris was third worst, 1 for 4 from the field with 2 fouls in 10 minutes.

[SKell82155]

What the heck happened to Day Day ?!

[bearcatlifer]

Wes isn't going anywhere until April 1. That's when his buyout drops to $4.9 million. The University is already dunning season ticket holders to renew for next year. Even if you intend to,as I do,don't do it until after April 1 to at least try to put some pressure on the AD to get rid of WM. I am the buyer for a group of 8 but nothing will happen until after that date.