He is single handedly giving this game to OU with his sloppy turnovers and fouls. Terrible!

8 point swing in less than a minute all courtesy of Taylor. Fouls 3 pt shooter, turnover and OU hits a 3, another turnover OU with a 2 point FG. He was a liability in the tu collapse as well. Just sloppy careless bball

You didn't watch the tu game if you think wade was a liability in that game

Taylor has played careless down the stretch in both of the last two games. It's obvious.

He had a decent game tonight, he was just really bad for a stretch at the end. 12 points on 9 shots which is solid efficiency in a game he shot 1/7 from 3. Had three assist and would have had 8 if we could shoot threes at all. Got 3 steals. The 4 turnovers is too many and one was really bad but overall that's not a bad game.

According to Buzz he is an intelligent player. Bobinator do you agree.

None of the media has challenged Buzz when he says this every time he is interviewed.

I'm going to assume Wade is still somewhat hampered because he's being way too deferential on offense and feeding the ball to guys who aren't nearly as good at scoring too often instead of looking for his own shot. That plus the overly aggressive inbounds passes meant it wasn't a great game from him.

2nd Generation Ag said:

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According to Buzz he is an intelligent player. Bobinator do you agree.

None of the media has challenged Buzz when he says this every time he is interviewed.

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LOL. You want the media to say; "Well we don't think he's an intelligent player."

There's one time when he is driving the lane and he kicks it out to a 20% 3 point shooter at the corner and the guy misses, and I was thinking that last year he would have gone to the rim and either scored or gotten fouled. He is being too unselfish at times IMO. He's getting guarded harder and his passes need better results.

He had some great passes tonight though. If Carter wasn't a complete black hole offensively he'd have racked up assists and we cruise to a win.

Boo hoo. Another W

TombstoneTex said:

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OP with a top 5 worst take in TexAgs history

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It was a terrible take, but if you think it's in the top 5, you must be new around here. It's probably not in the top 100. It's crazy how many dumb people post on texags.

bobinator said:

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He had a decent game tonight, he was just really bad for a stretch at the end. 12 points on 9 shots which is solid efficiency in a game he shot 1/7 from 3. Had three assist and would have had 8 if we could shoot threes at all. Got 3 steals. The 4 turnovers is too many and one was really bad but overall that's not a bad game.

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He had to be pressing because of this. He did so much good that wasn't rewarded, I think 8 might even be underselling it.

I also love that on this thread Wade is being criticized for being too passive and too aggressive. TexAgs gonna TexAgs.

2nd Generation Ag said:

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According to Buzz he is an intelligent player. Bobinator do you agree.

None of the media has challenged Buzz when he says this every time he is interviewed.

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I don't think there's any question he's a very intelligent player, but there's layers to what "intelligent" means.

- When it comes to what I'd call a sort of "natural basketball IQ" he's in truly rare territory. His ability to see the floor, read how people are moving, manipulate defenders with small moves, etc is incredible. I've said before that someday they're going to have a way to measure this using VR and eye tracking or something, but some players just have a rare gift for spatial awareness not only of themselves, but how the people around them are moving and he's up there with Manziel and Law as far as players at A&M who've had that.

- He also has a great feel for game flow that most college players don't have. I don't think fans realize that most players on the court in the heat of the moment probably know less about the actual overall game situation than we do watching at home. Runs within the game, who's hot, etc. Wade knows all this. He's got a great feel for when big moments are coming up.

- But that feeling is almost too good because it leads to him making risky plays in those moments because he wants to make THE play. He'll try extremely difficult passes or take a three earlier than usual or something because he feels its a big moment and he wants to capitalize on it. Like a an offensive coordinator dialing up a deep pass after a turnover. The idea is good, but sometimes you need to just take the five yard out and get to second down.

- Also, without seeing on film, it's hard to always know what's his fault and what's other players' faults. Twice last night he threw long passes on the inbounds because he was expecting Garcia to head up the court. Both times Garcia would have been open if he would have and those passes would have been easily caught to break the press. Is that what Garcia is supposed to do? I have no idea. Maybe Wade just saw the open space on the court and thought he would do it, but without knowing the principles of that press break, it's hard to say for sure if that's Wade's fault.

Detective Jake Peralta said:

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I also love that on this thread Wade is being criticized for being too passive and too aggressive. TexAgs gonna TexAgs.

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He has to walk such an incredibly tight rope on this. People get mad about his "hero ball" but then they get mad when he passes it to wide open guys on the half court.

Those Carter threes were WIDE open. We all know Carter isn't Steve Kerr out there, but lately he's been pretty good. Over the last four games he's 4/9 from 3 and then last night he goes 0/5. Even with him being a bad shooter you expect him to make at least one or two of those. There were two others, one where Obaseki was wide open and missed and another where Wilcher didn't realize he was open so he didn't shoot it.

He's very much not healthy. Can't move laterally and doesn't have his first step. 70 pct healthy maybe.

I actually thought last night he looked as close to healthy as he's looked in forever. A step quicker, more willing to drive to contact. Maybe not all the way back but a lot closer.

I always find the next day, post emotional cool off, double down on the opinion much more fascinating than the in the moment emotional reaction.