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The Texas Longhorns humbled the Mountaineers on this evening as anything that could go wrong, did go wrong for WVU. WV's shooting was absolutely atrocious at best as many easy shots around the rim would not fall. After getting 55 points off the bench last week, WV gets only 19 tonight. 6 WV players combine to shoot 0-13 from the field while Jawan Staten, (Wannie) the teams leading scorer, gets his 1st bucket of the game with 1:08 remaining in the 2nd half for 2 of the 3 points he would score on the night.
Texas was too strong on the glass as they out rebound the Mountaineers 44-32. WV forced 19 Texas turnovers but committed 17 of their own to only get 5 more shots in the game than the Longhorns. That was not enough as WV shoots 13-54 from the field for 24%. So in reality, WV loses by turning the ball over and very poor shooting.
Devon Williams let the officiating get to him and imploded with 5 TO's, 1 Tech, and a lazy defensive effort. Wannie got frustrated and didn't give the kind of effort I would expect from a team leader. Yet in his defense, it is hard to get your points from the top of the key when a team is laying back in a zone defense. Gary Browne led the Mountaineers in scoring tonight with 14 points and Carter makes 3 3ptrs. for 9 points.
So what went wrong here? Several things actually. 1) WV was not prepared for the zone defense. We did not attack the Zone intelligently 2) Why are we playing into the Texas game plan? We let them turn this into a half court game when we should have been pushing every possession early and attacking the rim before Texas could set up the zone 3) Officiating--we let a few bad calls get between our ears---- especially Holton and Williams. You can't let the bad calls dictate your emotions because when you do---you attempt to do things you are not good at.
I think, going forward over the next 8 regular season games, teams are going to do 3 things to WV. They are gonna slow WV down and Zone them, they are going to break the press by flashing a man in the middle, and they are going to pound it inside. We need to be ready for that and learn how to adapt to it. I was very disappointed in our Basketball IQ tonight as that makes me question whether we are capable of improving? As Confucius once say, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous". The WV backwoods definition of that is "If you don't learn from the ass whooping you just took, there will be many more to come". Have a better day Mountaineer fans wherever your Country Road has taken you!
Texas was too strong on the glass as they out rebound the Mountaineers 44-32. WV forced 19 Texas turnovers but committed 17 of their own to only get 5 more shots in the game than the Longhorns. That was not enough as WV shoots 13-54 from the field for 24%. So in reality, WV loses by turning the ball over and very poor shooting.
Devon Williams let the officiating get to him and imploded with 5 TO's, 1 Tech, and a lazy defensive effort. Wannie got frustrated and didn't give the kind of effort I would expect from a team leader. Yet in his defense, it is hard to get your points from the top of the key when a team is laying back in a zone defense. Gary Browne led the Mountaineers in scoring tonight with 14 points and Carter makes 3 3ptrs. for 9 points.
So what went wrong here? Several things actually. 1) WV was not prepared for the zone defense. We did not attack the Zone intelligently 2) Why are we playing into the Texas game plan? We let them turn this into a half court game when we should have been pushing every possession early and attacking the rim before Texas could set up the zone 3) Officiating--we let a few bad calls get between our ears---- especially Holton and Williams. You can't let the bad calls dictate your emotions because when you do---you attempt to do things you are not good at.
I think, going forward over the next 8 regular season games, teams are going to do 3 things to WV. They are gonna slow WV down and Zone them, they are going to break the press by flashing a man in the middle, and they are going to pound it inside. We need to be ready for that and learn how to adapt to it. I was very disappointed in our Basketball IQ tonight as that makes me question whether we are capable of improving? As Confucius once say, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous". The WV backwoods definition of that is "If you don't learn from the ass whooping you just took, there will be many more to come". Have a better day Mountaineer fans wherever your Country Road has taken you!
