The Family Business: OU head coach Porter Moser, piecing together year No. 4
Thanksgiving week is not the beginning of the OU basketball season, but you tend to see the interest start to ramp up a bit.
Everybody knows it’s time for holiday tournaments, and OU is in another big one. The Sooners are headed back to the Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis.
OU starts against Providence 4 p.m. Wednesday. From there, the Sooners will play either Arizona or Davidson on Thanksgiving.
It’s time for another edition of The Family Business from SoonerScoop. Joe Castiglione Jr. and Issac Stoops welcome OU head coach Porter Moser.
OU is off to a 4-0 start in year No. 4 under Moser. This week will tell us a lot about what to expect with this group.
The Family Business: Porter Moser
*A key part to the early OU success? The guards working together. The Sooners have a strong mix of older guys like Kobe Elvis and Duke Miles. Then you combine that with freshmen Jeremiah Fears and Dayton Forsythe.
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No sense of entitlement. Everybody working toward the goal.
“Gritty,” Moser said about the guard lineup this season.
*Moser went into detail about how OU was able to get Jalon Moore to return. Loyalty can be tough to find in the NIL and transfer portal era. However, Moore and his family realized how much better he got at OU last season.
Went through that NBA Draft process but knew if he wasn’t being selected, time to come back to OU. And that’s exactly what he did.
*Same can be said with Sam Godwin. The toughness.
“He’s easy to cheer for and hard to yell at,” said Moser about Godwin.
*The Fears recruitment and the whirlwind that was the summer. Reclassifying and showing up in Norman. Recruiting Fears in July and then coaching him in August.
*Intentional to return to Battle 4 Atlantis, to play in a big-time multi-team event. Start with Providence, and it’s a nice, loaded field. Will not be a gimme among the three games OU plays (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday).
All that and a whole bunch more. It’s time for The Family Business with Porter Moser.
