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  1. Mack hogged the ball in some November and December games his sophomore year and put up ok numbers. That was after an extremely mediocre freshman year. He didn't really accomplish anything as a UT basketball player while he was here. And I just now realized, the positive quote about him from Avery Johnson is because Avery is now his head coach. LOL, no bias there!
  2. Are you drunk or just stupid? Stop naming Mack to all-conference teams he's never been close to and probably will never make. Get back to me when he actually DOES make that team. I would take DO over Tevin Mack without the slightest hesitation. Maturity factor alone, regardless of talent. The fact that you think Mack's loss was actually a thing, in light of where we are today with recruiting and talent level, is laughable.
  3. Damn, that's awesome work from Hepa to make a national team. I guess it means he has a late birthday if he still qualifies for the U18 team but is in this class. Probably a July or August birthday. We're gonna get this guy, and he's only the 3rd highest rated in our class behind Ramey and Liddell!
  4. Nobody seems willing to give a definitive answer as to why he has to leave. There have been rumors of weed, fighting with teammates, and being a,poor teammate, but nothing concrete. I gave no fucks when Tevin Mack left. He never wowed me on any kind of consistent basis. He put up ok stats at times in the one and a half years he was here and some talent. But he was far from the type of player that should be considered a "bad loss" for a program at our level or the level we want to be. If Coleman and Sims start hitting the weed pipe hard over the summer and beating up the new recruits, I'll be sad. No clue what this "Avery Johnson" quote is about but we're doing much better than Mack these days in the recruiting trenches.
  5. Oh, you're not continuing with your anti-Shaka bias? Glad you've finally seen the light.
  6. This is going to be a really good class for us because it's going to stock the cupboard with guys who are likely to be quality players at the NCAA level and be here for at least 2 years. Guys like Jarrett Allen and Mo Bamba can make a recruiting class look really special but in reality they don't help the program much because they play only 1 year here and it's their freshman year. To say it's Shaka's "3rd best" class would be a compliment if it wasn't for the fact that Shaka's only been here a few years. I guess you mean it as some sort of dismissal, but considering how well he's done in recruiting since he's been here, it isn't much of an indictment at all. But I get that your dumb ass has to carry on with your anti-Shaka bias.
  7. I mean if Hepa is the player of this class then this is going to be an historically good recruiting class for UT. This really bodes well for the program actually, to have all these top-100 type guys coming in and competing for playing time. It's probably even a good thing that none of them are obvious one-and-dones like Bamba was because now we can have guys staying in the program, waiting for their upperclassmen years to become stars, etc..
  8. Seems pretty impossible to predict minutes for next year's roster. Way too many new faces and unknowns. Liddell and Ramey are extremely highly rated out of high school, and Hayes, Hepa, and Cunningham aren't far behind. Roach's return is completely up in the air and my gut is telling me not to count on his return. Long is another brand new face, and while he's an upperclassmen with NCAA experience it's hard to see him eclipsing the field here. Febres's place in the rotation is hard to figure as well after a decent but not spectacular freshman campaign. We didn't see much of Hamm so I don't know where he stands. Jones obviously fits in if he happens to be ready but obviously he has bigger concerns and I'd give him probably another whole year off. The good news we might be pretty damn deep and whoever ultimately gets minutes should be playing pretty well.
  9. Roach at 80% chance to return is highly optimistic. I'd put the chances of it a lot lower. Ramey is a 5-star or near-5-star freshman PG with decent guard height at 6'3". He will probably get a lot more minutes than Elijah Long, and honestly probably more minutes than Febres too. Liddel could also eat into Febres's minutes. A lot of new faces next year, we'll just have to see.
  10. I wouldn't give him that much credit. He still insisted on starting Balbay the entire 2011 season, despite the Wake Forest game in 2010 making it painfully obvious that Hamilton/Brown had way more life than Balbay/Hamilton. Balbay got almost as many minutes as his "backup" J'Covan that year, which first off begs the question why the fuck is Barnes running a team where the backup PG gets more minutes than the starting PG. I actually think the reason is because we would get down on the scoreboard in the first half and then he would have to leave Brown in to have some hope of a comeback. It was almost like a Jeff Fisher approach starting Kerry Collins every year and then relying on VY to bring the Titans back only when he was forced to.
  11. I'm glad that you brought J'Covan into this because he makes the argument all the more easy for me and damning for Barnes. Like I said I had season tickets during this time and I watched a player in J'Covan Brown come in and have a huge positive impact for our team on many occasions. Not so Balbay. I watched J'Covan literally WIN games for us, for example, the only game we ever won in Allen Fieldhouse we won because of J'Covan Brown. I watched J'Covan work effortlessly in tandem with Hamilton, the two playing off each other magnificently. We never won a game against any decent opponent because of Balbay. The fact that his playing time was also keeping Brown out of the game was absolutely infuriating and much to the amusement and delight of all Jayhawk fans every time we played them in those days.
  12. I like that you're trying weigh both sides and be fair but the notion that his defensive game was a bigger positive than his offensive game was a negative is ludicrous. I watched just about every game he played for UT. At no point during that stretch did I come away with "Wow, Balbay's defense was really a big factor for us tonight." While I often came away thinking "wow, Balbay's inability to do anything offensively really hurt us tonight."
  13. Unfortunately I had season tickets on row 15 of section 35 for Balbay's entire career. I sat one section over at the same row as Barnes's wife and kids. I said Balbay was a competent defender, that's not "ranking" on his defense. Someone said it was "elite." I wouldn't describe it as "elite", but the bigger point is that we didn't win games because of Balbay's defense. And we did lose games because of his offense. Defense is something that most players can do competently if they set their mind to it and progress as a player. There's nothing that special about being a competent defender as a guard. Balbay wasn't out there protecting the rim or blocking shots. He didn't possess suffocating length. However good an "on ball defender" of other guards he was, it doesn't really matter because it doesn't make a huge difference in a game. On the other hand, having a PG on the floor who is almost no threat to score whatsoever and without a doubt no threat to score from the outside is a huge weight to wear around your neck as a team and it showed. When defenses learned to sag way off him on the perimeter it paralyzed our entire offense despite our roster being stacked that year with good scorers. If you wanna defend Balbay against my criticisms, explain to me how his defense won games for us. Go.
  14. Papi got fewer minutes than DO on a team that lost in the 1st round of the CBI. DO played more minutes than Papi on a team that went to the NCAA. And yet the idiot "HTownHorn" wants to tell me Papi put up "way" better stats than DO. Go look at the stats. I have 16 years of per-possession stats on every NCAA player at my fingertips with my subscription to kenpom. Papi's stats are not better than DO's. You say nothing but negative shit about Shaka and his players, htownhorn, and you are a fucking joke. You should transition over to a Cougars fan instead, they've really got something going with Coach Sampson now.
  15. First of all, he was not an elite defender. He was competent at defense. We had to hear about his defense constantly because it was the only way to explain Barnes's weird love for him. We didn't win games because of his defense, it was whatever. And he could've been Dikembe Mutombo on defense and it still wouldn't've made up for the complete abomination he was on offense. Defenses literally played 5 on 4 against us when he was out on the court.
  16. Lol, are you fucking kidding me? The Papi year was 2013, the year we finished 94th in Pomeroy, our worst season performance in the last 20 years. He had less points per game than Dylan as well as less rebounds per game. His stats were not better than DO's and we at least made the NCAA tournament with DO a big part of that this year.
  17. Papi played one season here, put up mediocre stats, and left. He did exactly jack shit for the University of Texas basketball program, which makes him a bust recruit. What he did after leaving here I don't know or care about.
  18. Lol. Papapetrou? Dude was a classic Rick Barnes bust. Almost as bad a signing as Balbay. Amazing that Rick had to go all the way to Eastern Europe to find busts.
  19. He went 5 of 7 from downtown against WVU. A game we had to win and were without Bamba. How many bigs have we had in the past that can do that?
  20. Is it really a "massive" pick up, or is it just another one-and-done who will put a decent but freshman-like season and then look to go pro? I guess I just have to wait to see him play. If he's like Coleman, then OK. If he can shoot, then OK. Is he a point or a shooting guard?
  21. Again, he was a big part of the team this year and we would've been worse without him. I take it you are "UTGrad" posting under a new name? You never have shit to say about our team that isn't negative so why would it be any different in regards to Oset?
  22. Compared to the guy in your picture, yes. On the NCAA level he will be a nice asset in his senior year.
  23. Please. DO is a big who can handle, pass, shoot, and finish around the rim, a huge improvement over the parade of crap bigs Barnes brought through here over the years, don't even get me started on the laundry list.
  24. Cremo in a heartbeat. Ramey would be a freshman, and there's no guarantee whatsoever he sticks around for multiple years, not sure why you think that. Cremo would be a senior who shoots lights out, quite possibly the perfect compliment to Coleman's game.
  25. I agree that the one-and-done situation isn't doing much for college basketball and should be eliminated. I agree that not letting players return to college if they enter the draft but go undrafted is stupid and should be eliminated. I don't agree, however, that the game at the highest levels can ever be "cleaned up" so long as the valuable players remain exploited, unpaid laborers. There's just too much money being generated by college basketball and too hard to separate the value of the service from the kid/family providing it. Lifetime bans would be crazy. I think that's too far to go. The other option is of course owning up to the fact that the money won't be removed from the equation and have the teams actually pay their top recruits and have the payroll publicly disclosed. This will never happen because none of these NCAA people want to see a world where it's common knowledge that Duke's starting five are making an average of 200k per player this year. But that is the reality and if you don't own up to it, you'll never escape the "under the table, last guy to get caught wins" state of affairs we have had forever.
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