GAME THREAD: Houston vs. Auburn | 8:30PM | Toyota Center/ESPNU

Or Cryer in the first half.

Listen. Cryer has to be better in the second half. He wasn’t. We lost.

J’Wan has to be better on both sides. He wasn’t we lost.

The sun will come up tomorrow. And we will be back busting our asses in the lab.

Zero worries here.

2 Likes

@pesik on the road, im talking about.

Zeke Mayo for KU

Dug McDermott for K State

Roach, & Company for Baylor

Idk about that Jeremy roach and rob wright are pretty quick and shifty

1 Like

Also. No one talking about TA on a minutes restriction while y’all are in here ranting?

That hurts us.

We barely saw him in the second half.

1 Like

Well, that sucked. But you have to hand it to Auburn, they just out played us. We had no answer for Broome or Pettiford. I really don’t like it when we have to go to Wilson at PG. I was disappointed with the offensive output from Cryer and Sharp, or actually the lack thereof. But then again, Auburn played superb defense.

I was happy with the play of Roberts and Tugler. When he was in, Arceneaux did well. When Francis gets to full speed things will get better and we will have more depth. It may have been better to have held Francis out again.

I wish we could actually get a big man, not just a tall skinny guy, but a guy like Broome. With McFarland out, our only real big man is Lath and he is not ready to play big minutes, and tonight I didn’t see him at all.

I won’t second guess Sampson on who he plays, But I would really like to see Mercy Miller play. He probably isn’t tuned into the defense enough yet, but I would like to see him on offense to get a taste of how good of a shooter he is.

We have a few more tough teams before we get into conference play and they should sharpen us up by the time we hit conference play. It really doesn’t matter where we are ranked in November and December, though I think we will still be in the top 10.

One big thing from this game is it gives CKS a lot of film to teach with. Another thing is it may get the attention of our kids on just how hard they have to work to get where we want to be. The team on the floor tonight will not be the team we will have come March. The dance is a long way off.

The same Jeremy Roach that led a Duke team to barely cracking 50 against a Jamal Sheadless team in the Sweet 16?

1 Like

my take on jwan is that jwan was jwan

the issue wasnt jwan, it was just that broome was better…jwan will look amazing vs the mostly lower quality bigs we will play against

jwan had a stretch of looking like an all-american this game… because broome was on the bench …broome is just better on offense an defense… jwan will be better in both than 80% of the 4s he will match up with all year

1 Like

Auburn is a very good team

At least we didn’t lose to an average team.

Last yr, those 1-2 possession games we won cause we had Shead a great closer

Whos the closer for this yr?

Cryer? Sharp needs to carry the load.

He was MIA, in my opinion, for most of the night

We still have Vegas, B12 play, B12 tourney, then the dance. Sucks we couldn’t get it done but the ride is just starting.

Auburn has better talent.

Yes, we could beat them. But they seem better.

1 Like

I disagree.

I’m just going off what I saw today him and rob wright looked very good

1 Like

rob wright hasnt made a 3 in any game so far…jeremy roach is not a major scoring threat…

the list is love, and and maybe zeke mayo

in the non con… maybe wade taylor … mark sears… but sears isnt that fast

1 Like

Yup. I know. That’s what everyone does in here. Just go off of one game. And now we won’t be able to play with or guard anyone we will face.

1 Like

@pesik whos taken a big step in their game, from last yr?

I think Cryer, Arceneaux, Tugler. I like what ive seen

J’wan is Jwan.

Tugler gotta finish better in the paint

Uzan is efficient. But gotta be more aggressive at times.

Id rather we get exposed early

Once conference play starts, the gauntlet, hard to make big adjustments then

1 Like

How many elite bigs do we play this year?

Honestly I think our closer can be Uzan - it was unfortunate that he fouled out. That jumper to cut it to 2 was someone with ice in his veins. I’m excited for his growth this year.

And on Jwan - it’s the same story as before. He’s great but when he gets matched on someone bigger and equally as skilled, it’s a tough match up for him. He will look bad in some of those games. This was one of them.

Auburn look really good! Can only tip the hat at this early matchup.

2 Likes

@Emed06 Alabama, Kansas have great bigs

And then Kansas St, Iowa St, Arizona have good bigs

We could play Creighton or Texas A&M in Vegas also

We allowed 45 points in the 2nd half. End of story.

6 Likes