Ruuuuuufus
11/5/2005, 10:38 PM
As expected, the Sooners had little trouble with NE St., and it appeared at times that they were playing kind of lazy. The defense looks very good and was pretty consistant. Chris Walker and David Godbold played well defensively in particular.
All the newcomers played except for Nate Carter who was out with a foot fungus I think. As said above, Walker looked good defensively and ran the point well most of the game. He made a few good drives but didn't finish... had a rough game shooting like most everyone else. Neal was finding spaces to get open shots but wasn't putting them in the basket; not much else sticks out. Both of the freshmen, Austin Johnson and Taylor Griffin looked pretty solid. Johnson ran the point a little during the second half and showed some good potential. Griffin looks more and more like a Bookout type player and is very very strong.
Taj looks like he has gotten stronger, but I guess it could just be the competition. He ran the floor well and had some nice dunks. Bookout was his usual solid self and grabbed alot of rebounds. Sorry to say, but Longar still looks lost most of the time. He wasn't boxing out very well and looked awkward when he got the ball down low. There's certainly a great deal of potential there, but I didn't see much improvement from where he left off last year. Everett looked good but didn't get alot of PT with all the other guards rotating in and out. Godbold played very well and should be a solid contributor.
Our free throw shooting was awful, as was our 3 pt shooting. I'm not sure if we made a single 3 pointer the whole game. It should be noted that they were using the extended 3 point line for the exhibition tonight.
The turnout was pretty good for an exhibition... more than any last year. I think someone said there were ~6-7000 there.
The one thing I was displeased with was the new student sections on either sides of the floor RW3 and RE3. I guess it was decided that they were going to take all the seats out of those sections and make them standing room only. That seems like a decent idea for some of the big games but for exhibitions against teams like NE St they really should leave the seats in there because hardly any of the students wanted to stand the whole time for an exhibition. The rest of the student sections were suprisingly more full than I thought they would be.
edit: oh yeah, Johnson went out of the game during the 2nd half with what looked like an ankle or foot injury. He wasn't putting any weight on it but hopefully will be ok.
All the newcomers played except for Nate Carter who was out with a foot fungus I think. As said above, Walker looked good defensively and ran the point well most of the game. He made a few good drives but didn't finish... had a rough game shooting like most everyone else. Neal was finding spaces to get open shots but wasn't putting them in the basket; not much else sticks out. Both of the freshmen, Austin Johnson and Taylor Griffin looked pretty solid. Johnson ran the point a little during the second half and showed some good potential. Griffin looks more and more like a Bookout type player and is very very strong.
Taj looks like he has gotten stronger, but I guess it could just be the competition. He ran the floor well and had some nice dunks. Bookout was his usual solid self and grabbed alot of rebounds. Sorry to say, but Longar still looks lost most of the time. He wasn't boxing out very well and looked awkward when he got the ball down low. There's certainly a great deal of potential there, but I didn't see much improvement from where he left off last year. Everett looked good but didn't get alot of PT with all the other guards rotating in and out. Godbold played very well and should be a solid contributor.
Our free throw shooting was awful, as was our 3 pt shooting. I'm not sure if we made a single 3 pointer the whole game. It should be noted that they were using the extended 3 point line for the exhibition tonight.
The turnout was pretty good for an exhibition... more than any last year. I think someone said there were ~6-7000 there.
The one thing I was displeased with was the new student sections on either sides of the floor RW3 and RE3. I guess it was decided that they were going to take all the seats out of those sections and make them standing room only. That seems like a decent idea for some of the big games but for exhibitions against teams like NE St they really should leave the seats in there because hardly any of the students wanted to stand the whole time for an exhibition. The rest of the student sections were suprisingly more full than I thought they would be.
edit: oh yeah, Johnson went out of the game during the 2nd half with what looked like an ankle or foot injury. He wasn't putting any weight on it but hopefully will be ok.