Lets talk Aggie BBall (sigh)

Next game, definitely, but I think Xavier is a very good team and will give UCLA a run. That will be a great game, provided Xavier can get past West Virginia.

 

Yeah the Aggies threw it away, but to be fair to Sloan, I wouldn't say he got rejected so much as well . . .



pictures and a lot of words, etc.

 

My mistake, didn't notice that live. And CBS certainly wouldn't mention it, seeing as how it deals with their glamour boys from LA.

 

Here's another look at it.

 

Why should that last play surprise anybody? Davis and Jones were getting HAMMERED by UCLA in the paint during the last 10 minutes of the game and the refs swallowed their whistles.

I even read on the Kansas Jayhawk message board in 3 different threads that the officiating was HORRIBLE in the second half.

Does anybody really believe that UCLA would have 3 guys down low crowding Davis...Davis would take two shots at the basket. All of the defenders were jumping at pump fakes, and nobody made contact?

Please.

The Ags should have played much better down the stretch, but it seems that UCLA could get away with anything short of a flagrant foul down low during crunch time.

 

i'm glad those pictures were posted. the refs were as partisan to UCLA as the home crowd. terrible officiating. if it's a foul, call it. luckily, Ten Commandments was on, so i watched that to help me get over the "loss."

 

I felt that the team struggled to play within Turgeon's style of motion offense throughout the year. The second half against UCLA proved it to me.

In the first half A&M played like a team that knew when to cut, drive or throw the ball down low. In the second, we really tightened up in a bad way, it looked to me like we went back to the early season version of the offense, players simply passing back and forth on the perimeter until pressured into either attempting a skip pass when the player on the opposite side was covered or forcing an entry pass into the clogged paint.

Those bad passes were stolen and converted into points. Then we got the ball back, see the lead slowly dwindling, and think about just keeping the lead, but by being hesitant we had no chance to win.

From what I have seen, all Turgeon utilizes is motion and a few trick inbounds plays. Nothing made me more angry than the fact that the last play never gave us a chance. Either Turgeon chose a play that was useless against UCLA's defense or maybe Sloan just made a critical error. Either way that shouldn't happen and I really think that comes back to coaching.

Its easy to put it all on the refs, and I realize they performed poorly. I guess I just think we really dropped the ball as a team/coaching staff in that last 10 minutes.

However, I really think Turgeon can be successful at TAMU in the near and distant future. The team clearly improved down the stretch and hopefully that momentum will swing into next year.

Sorry for the length.

 

The Aggies were unable in the last 10 minutes to do the things that made them successful earlier in the game. This is because when we took the ball down low, we got clobbered with no call.

It is difficult to put a team away when you get called for every touch foul, and they get away with playing rugby in the post.

 

Was that on the final shot? If so that's BS.......

 

Yep...that was on the last shot. It would be nice to see still photos from down low in the last 9 minutes or so. It seemed like there was a lot of contact on Aggie shooters down low with no call.

 

Ugh .. I was in Vegas and would have won ALOT if the Ags had won. I heard from people all day today there saying we got screwed.

To be fair ... it took the refs screwing us AND us screwing ourselves for UCLA to win in LA. Its disappointing, but I guess thats the way it goes sometimes.

 

No doubt that we made some horrible mental errors down the stretch. But when the officiating is THAT horrible and the game is that close, the refs can, to a degree, control the outcome to a game.

 

I made fun of the Ags on the first page of this thread, but ya'll played a hell of a game. I didn't see the ending, my mom said the guy "got blocked" - I see now that wasn't the case at all. That's a disgrace. UNC will clean up for you guys though!

 

I have a small bit of contact with the family and am not impressed overall. His younger brother was on my son's 8th grade basketball team and had a horrible attitude. He dropped off the team because he felt he was way above their level. He probably was, but by not playing at all - how did that help him? He was just terrible to his teammates during the games. The family seems like they have all of their energy devoted to producing basketball stars. I can't say anything about DeAndre, but if his attitude is anything like his younger brother and parents.....

 

If that is the attitude, unless he is gifted like Lebron (and Jordan isn't), he won't take any coaching, and ultimately won't amount to s*** in the NBA.

 

If DeAndre continues to be uncoachable, his likely scenario is to sign a big rookie contract and then fade into obscurity.

5 years from now, he may well be the answer to a trivia question nobody asks anymore.

 

FWIW.. I coach against Nathan Walkup's dad. The Walkups have done a great job with all their boys. They are all very down to earth people.