Porter Moser explains issues with Oklahoma's second half offense

The Bedlam game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State got away from the Sooners on Wednesday night. Despite going into halftime with the lead, the Sooners ended up losing by 16 points. As head coach Porter Moser explained, this was in part due to offensive issues in the second half.

Moser explained that the offense needs to be better, while also making sure to point the finger at Oklahoma’s defense.

“I mean, it’s so early, fresh after the game to know specifically…yeah, we weren’t very good offensively,” Porter Moser said. “We left our feet a handful of times. We had some layups. Missed a couple shots. I thought we were doing some things, what did you say we started off with, the first?”

Moser asked how the offense started in the first fourteen minutes of the second half. In that time, the Sooners were nine for fourteen before coming off the rails a bit. Because of this, Moser emphasized that his bigger concern was the lack of stops on the defensive end.

“We just couldn’t get stops. We were nine for fourteen. You’d think nine for fourteen on the road you’d be in good shape, but we couldn’t get stops. We couldn’t string stops together. Then I think what happened was, I said earlier, I really feel that our offense dictated our defense. Started missing and then we weren’t guarding and we were in a bad run,” Porter Moser continued.

“But, I did. I know we were bouncing back, answering a handful of times, even that first run that they had to start the half, we bounced. We’re sitting there going alright, we’re only down five, and we just couldn’t string stops up. That’s really what it’s going, we could not string stops up against them.”

Porter Moser was critical of the defense

It wasn’t just poor offense that hurt Oklahoma in the second half of Bedlam, it was poor defense too, which hurt the Sooners’ chances.

“I felt like we couldn’t string stops together. That’s the thing of coming back. When you come back, like we call them a gap. You got to get three stops in a row. I don’t think we had one gap in the second half,” Porter Moser said.

“You know, if we did get a stop or two, we didn’t have good offense. We actually had some good offensive possessions at times, but not enough to come back and not enough to string gaps. You’ve got to start stringing consecutive stops. If we did get a stop, we didn’t string two or three in a row and the lead just kept on expanding.”