Norman – To mid -January, when Oklahoma endured a sequence of four consecutive defeats to start the game of the dry, Carrier And its coach staff designed an old -fashioned mission statement. Nothing complicated but directly and something that players could rally.
Play better, winning basketball.
Which does not mean doing every time. The sentence was intended by Moser to signify reducing reversals, execute offensive sets and finish close games, all Sooners have improved in recent weeks, especially during their two -game victories sequence with victories against Missouri and Texas.
“We played a very good basketball,” said Moser. “We play together, we play hard, we believe and that’s what you want. You want to play your best basketball in February and March. Besides the dry, name another group that has five game sections as you get in the dry.”
Or has a 3-2 file in its last five games and the two defeats fell in the final game. The Sooners scored 96 points against the no. 19 tigers classified and returned the ball five times on the road against the Longhorns.
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Or opens the dry tournament Wednesday against GeorgiaWho also plays his best basketball and won four in a row. The last match or with the Bulldogs, a loss of road from 72-62 on January 11, brought back an old injury to Moser.
The Sooners have finished with more than four times fewer attempts to launch frankly than Georgia. The Bulldogs made 27 of their 37 attempts to throw franc, while or made 7 out of 9.
“They bounce so well, they are so large and physical and they just play a high clip,” said Moser. “They are very confident. But since the first match, we have been a different team. We have had growth. (Jeremiah Fears) has developed from this moment (Brycen Goodin) has really taken a step of growth since then. So we are different. They play very well. We play very well.”
The fears were in a crisis the last time that the two teams met. He finished defeat with two points on a 1 for 11 shot, including 0 for 4 from 22 minutes and spent the majority of the second half on the bench.
Fears has matured since then and was appointed on Monday in the All-Freshman team at the SEC. He scored a 31 -point career summit in the victory against the Missouri and was the only dry player to make an average of 16 points, four rebounds, four assists and 1 1/2 interceptions per game.
“(The fears) arrive every day with a professional state of mind,” said the main striker Milore Moore. “He works his buttocks, arrives at night, puts gunshots, still here working. To see the game slow down for him and see him can mark at will and imply the others, I was proud of his growth.”
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Some people think that the Sooners are even without a victory on Wednesday evening. Or is one of the last four teams of the NCAA tournament in the last update of the abolition of Joe Lunardi on Tuesday.
However, to avoid a weekend pending with a breath, the Sooners must take care of business against the Bulldogs when they tip around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee on dry network. Or has a 5-0 file this season in neutral site matches and plays with confidence, on a sequence of victories.
“We have not shot the ball or finished the ball also in Texas,” said Moser, “but that shows you, you can win games when you don’t do so much shots, if you defend and bounce. This is what the guys did, how they played, possession by possession. … We were really defensively connected. That’s why we won.
“It will be a key to winning at this time of year, being connected by everyone.”
Or vs. Georgia
Tipoff: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the first round of the dry tournament in Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, tenn. (Dry network)
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