Texas vs TCU game thread

TCU is raining threes and playing excellent defense.

Just forced Langford into a tough fade-away and missed it.

Still down 16-14. Pesky TCU continues to make threes.

and today he's nailing his jumpshots. He is a stud in the making. Just nailed an off-balance 20 footer.

Just hit ANOTHER three. Our perimeter defense needs to step it up. Guard the three point line!

Both players are carrying their teams, and neither are being guarded very well.

when will we stop going for EVERY single shot fake? DJ just went for one and got his 2nd foul. This has been a problem for multiple years it seems.

James hits ANOTHER shot.

MASON HITS A HUGE THREE!

We're up 24-22

playing more like Lebron James.

is JD Lewis getting playing time.

not the best execution, but led to a sweet Connor hook shot.

Love the motion. Gary posts up, Connor cuts to basket and would've gotten the easy basket had he corralled the pass.

monster block by James.

Shouldn't he at least be able to hit free throws???

We're going all out with AJ gone.

Was this all it took?  Moving him to his natural position??

That just takes SILLY to a whole new level.

"Matt" Barnes and "Matt" Abrams wearing Matt Hill's real afro? Someone needs to youtube that piece of gold.

I don't usually have the ability to get on these threads, but I was pretty excited to see Mooney get some actual minutes in this game. He acquitted himself pretty well, too.

Mason's been decent at the point, and even J.D. Lewis hasn't been completely useless.

GJ is smaller than I thought he'd be, but he looks good in the post.

James is still an absolute man, but the Horns can't win consistently if Augustin isn't their best player. So let's get it together, D.J.

Exciting 2nd half coming up!

For one thing, he needs to understand how much he can kill his team by committing stupid fouls. That's a start.

Looks like he and Mason have infected each other with the cold jump-shooting. He's been struggling with his shot a bit since the Oral Roberts game.

He's also been a little reckless at times. He needs to keep the tempo fast, but be disciplined at the same time.

Horrible start to 2nd half. TCU is playing trap defense and they're once again raining threes.

DJ makes a big three.

to get the easy basket against their zone.

James steps up at the 3pt line.

Interesting that Connor has not taken a single 3 point shot. TCU must be really concentrated on shutting him down.

He's 3/3 though. He needs to get more involved in the offense. As a 60% 3pt shooter, can we please get him some shots?

There was a time when it would be brutal to have to watch us play man. Now, it's a good defensive strategy with Johnson playing. He appears to be athletic enough to guard multiple positions.

That was P.J. Tucker like.

has 48% of our scoring so far. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Probably bad.

a rather pedestrian performance by the team. The loss of AJ, and Barnes using basically everyone off our bench is not helping.

Our defense is much improved though. That and James are probably the only two positives coming out of this game. I just hope we hang on.

You thought the Wisconsin loss was bad? This would be crushing. We must hope they start missing their perimeter shots.

The guy just gave us an extra possession that led to a DJ three.

DJ is still the heart of this team, but James is like the engine.

Defense and hustle is preventing us from collapsing. Props to that senior.

We need that. We really need that from him.

maybe he can be what Craigory was last year, at least with the energy.

but I'll take 29 and 14. That's Beasley like.

how did harrison smith look?