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Texas Longhorns Basketball: The Anatomy of a Bad Possession

The Texas Longhorns are not by any measure a strong offensive team. But even by their modest standards, Saturday's game was one of Texas' worst offensive performances of the season.

Rather than a broad and high level look at the game, today we will examine at a single half-court possessions run out of one of Texas' most common sets. In it we will highlight some of the things that are currently bogging down the Longhorn attack.

The setup is shown in the photo below, where Matt Coleman has the ball. Both of Texas' big men (Mohamed Bamba and Jericho Sims) are at the elbows, while Texas' two other perimeter players (Eric Davis Jr.