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He wants to play inside-out! He wants to play inside-out! He wants to play inside-out!

Still looking to add "a player that can just do it all." Hmm. I wonder who that could be.

Nice schedule with Georgetown, UNC, Michigan State, and UCLA on top of the Maui Invitational.

And if people needed to hear it (and apparently many have in the last couple of years) --

"We know what we want to do. We know we want to win the national championship."

The look on his face when he talks about the guys on campus and how they're working........the man is excited about next season.

I really see Texas mirroring the 2005-06 team, or attempting to in 2012-13.

Kill me for suggesting it again, but more 2-3 and 1-3-1 zone, more inside out and dominating the glass type of team IMO.

Barnes showed what a good coach he is this year. Our team was abysmally short handed and young. It was the best job since his first year when we sucked at the beginning of the year and became quite formidable by the end of it. It is going to be fun to see what he does with a full component of capable players this year. Still young but big, strong and fast. If he can get them playing the D he likes look out, especially if he can find that player that can do it all. I wonder who that could be? Go get him Ricky from Hickory!

You will be proven quite wrong there next year. Unless there is some unforeseen academic complication, a lot more talent is coming in than is leaving, and the 5 remaining players from the 2011 recruiting class will be significantly improved across the board. Next year's team will be far better than what we saw in 2011-12.

I think Rick is going to have a really strong year next year with the versatility of this team.
He also towards the latter stages of this past season got a really good feel for the ebbs and flows of his team which I think will carry over.

If Texas isn't a +6.0 type rebound advantage team next season I would be surprised.

I want to say +7.5'ish, but that may be unrealistic because it's a young team with inexperienced bigs that will quickly have to learn the need for putting a body on the opponent instead of being able to just use God given talent to snatch rebounds as they did in HS.

BTW, I am hearing 2-3 zone and 1-3-1 talk for next year now. Time will tell.

A mix of man and zone would certainly fit this team/roster makeup.

Now if Texas were to get Devonta Pollard - a 1-3-1 zone would almost be a certainty in stretches IMO.

Hope you're right.

Maybe we'll be good enough to win a 1st round game.

Maybe we can even beat a real powerhouse like Nevada.

If Texas is playing in the first round then that is not good as they will be playing in Dayton.

Winner, winner !!!