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Poor FT shooting haunts this team throughout the game, but is most noticeable at the end of games.

Why, when evaluating our teams in all sports, do people insist on discounting the results produced by our best players. If you take away some of the best players ever from any team, they would have trouble. It is players like that who close out games.

Esentially, you are saying that Coach Barnes, given a bunch of mediocre to average players, would produce mediocre to average results. Given better players, he produces better results. Given a national player of the year (Ford) coupled with five other guys that had been playing together for three years, he went to a Final Four. Coaching isn't magic. It's getting your players to play to their ability.

Would it be fair to say that, without Durant and Westbrook, OKC wouldn't be the hottest team in the NBA? Does that mean that their coach isn't really very good?

The best thing about the current Texas roster is that every player shows some talent. They lack experience and a floor leader. Only time and a coach who continues to push them to be better will cure that situation.

Thank you texatom. You are spot on. I didn't even expect them to be in the game at the end, much less let it get away. Felix is a freshman and is playing a ton of minutes. This whole team is very raw and inexperienced but I am encouraged with how much talent there seems to be developing.

A JUCO team shouldn't be in the game with the #4 team in the country. Let's not forget that.

And I can tell you from experience that my teams are a lot better at closing games when I have really good players, and not so good when I don't. That's true for every coach in every sport. I can also tell you that coach Barnes works on end of game situations in EVERY practice, so it isn't like he's ignoring the problem.

The team after T.J. didn't have these issues, of course it was also the only time he had a team made up of upperclassmen he had recruited.

and yes, this is the worst FT shooting team he has ever had, but that's on the players. Lewis's huge miss of the front end of the 1 and 1, not only kept Texas from regaining the lead but also lead to Holmes picking up his 4th "foul."

It also hurts not having the best player on the team, who is also the primary ball handler.

Your opinion sucks if you really think that.

It's hard to play well in the clutch when your coach can't draw up a play to save his life.

Impressive.

Complete BS. Barnes can draw up plays, like the out of bounds play that lead to an easy layup for McClellan. Most in bound plays lead to a wide open shot for the guy he wants to take them. Like the 3 pointer that Holmes got against WVU or the 3 pointer he got yesterday against KU, both after TOs.

Sometimes the players don't execute it correctly, like the play yesterday late in the game where a bad pass from Feliz negated what would have been an easy layup for McClellan.

Or the players...

Its like blaming Ash's interceptions on Harsin.

The loss of Kabongo killed this team. Think about his past teams, and he's always had a guy to end games.

1998 - Muoneke, Clack or Mihm
1999 - Muoneke, Mihm or Owens
2000 - Evans, Kelly, Owens (until he got hurt)
2001 - Ford
2002 - Ford
2003 - Mouton, Ivey, Tucker
2004 - Gibson, Tucker(declared ineligible), Buckman, Aldridge(got hurt)
2005 - Entire starting 5
2006 - Durant
2007 - Augustin
2008 - Abrams, James
2009 - James, Brown, Bradley
2010 - Brown, Hamilton, Thompson, Joseph
2011 - Brown
2012 - Should have been Kabongo