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HookEm

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  1. Agree 100%. It was possibly my all-time low as a sports fan... and on my birthday no less. Right up there with Chris Simms turning the ball over 100 times in the 2001 Big 12 Championship. And ACU beating us in the tourney. And Michael Crabtree's catch. But I think it trumps them all because we were so set up for long-term success. I have no doubt Beard would have won us a title eventually. I dare say FOR US, he was the top coach in the country given his age and fact he is an alumni. We could also use a shameless promoter like Beard (and he is the absolute best at that). There is literally no coach I would have rather had than him. And for Beard, there is nowhere else where he could win like he could at Texas WHILE living the life that he wants to live. He may eventually find his way to Kentucky or UNC - but his total life situation there will not be as good as it could have been here. I like Terry and still think we are set up for success. I think we could have a period of success comparable to Barnes best years where we make a string of Sweet 16/Elite 8 and maybe occasionally better. But his ceiling is lower than Beard. Then again, I suppose his floor is higher than Beard, who is one more F-up away from being out of basketball.
  2. Seems about right based on what I've seen. Potential to get up in the top 10 if Disu comes back and plays to his potential.
  3. Agree 100%. I just think with a guy like Abmas, you try to put him in a position to take BETTER shots, and help him find his rhythm. But I would ask him to shoot more, not less - and to work his ass off to get good shots. I will say it again, he needs to get to the line. That is the easiest way to lock in your shot during the game. I would tell him to attack the F out of the basket. He can finish - and if he doesn't he is going to get fouled a lot. Prior to today he was averaging less than a FT a game. That is horrid for a guy who can shoot 92%+. He needs to be averaging 5+ FT a game. I also haven't been THAT disappointed with his defense. It starts slow, but he seems to lock in as the game goes on. His defense at the end of the UCONN game was decent IMO. Not sure I can go that far, but I was thinking similarly today watching him run around grabbing key boards, blocking shots, stealing and disrupting all over the place. I would say Shedrick has been our best player. He has an 18.3 BPM. Next highest is Brock with 5.6. It would have completely and totally changed the UCONN game if he was out there. If we added Disu as well, I think we go from being out played down low to actually having the advantage.
  4. You could also make a case that he is our best player. He is leading the team in scoring (15.2 PPG) while shooting 41% 3PT%, 47 2P% and 88% FT%. He has a 2:1 AST-TO ratio. His usage is down ~30% vs. what he is used to at Oral Roberts and he is still just finding his place on the team. He will keep getting better as the year progresses - especially once Disu is back and teams HAVE to respect the P&R. We aren't used to seeing a gunner quite like Abmas. He needs to be a volume shooter - and he has been a winner doing so. It doesn't feel to me like he is forcing terrible shots - and his shooting percentages are all solid for a guy with his volume. When he is matched up against big guards, it may not be pretty but we will just have to adjust.
  5. Abmas can score. There is no doubt about that. I really like it so much better when he is attacking instead of just waiting to shoot 3s.
  6. Ha. And immediately Brock throws a bad pass turnover.
  7. Brock is the best passer on this team. Fight me.
  8. I think a good nuclear war movie updated to modern times would play well right now.
  9. Lol. I don't take it personally at all and I didn't respond emotionally. I'm a fan of the program and simply calling out BS. I very rationally laid out a lot of good things that Terry has done over the last 6 months. You on the other hand come in after a difficult loss and claim it as validation that Terry is going to fail.
  10. Then you simply aren't paying attention, or are so biased that you can't recognize anything positive that the man does. Just last week we signed the #4 recruit in the country (our 3rd highest ranked recruit ever) and currently have the #4 or #5 overall class. Terry was also a monster in the portal and completely reloaded the team. Most of the players we have lost have turned out to be knuckleheads (recruited by Beard no less), so that is addition by subtraction. Terry added Frank Haith to the staff. You may not like him as a head coach, but he is one of the top assistants in the country. Our players, Mitchell and Hunter in particular, have improved a lot over the offseason. We were just within 6 points in crunch time vs. the defending National Champs, in effectively an away game, with our pair of potential All-Big 12 big men hurt on the bench. Terry may not be the best coach in the country, but he has the program in a great position. Who specifically did you want us to hire instead?
  11. Looking at Abmas career stats a little more this morning. The biggest thing that jumps out to me is that he simply isn't getting to the line. For Oral Roberts, he was getting to the line ~8 times per 100 possessions. So far this year, only 1.4 times. Maybe he is still learning the offense and finding his place in it. Maybe this also gets to Derka's point on our inability to get him in a pick & roll without Disu. I can see that being a great way to get him into attacking mode. Tyrese Hunter is showing positive improvement in just about every facet of his game. Better efficiency at every level. His shooting stroke looks great. Also a quick note on Dillon Mitchell - his shot is looking so much better. He is shooting ~71% from the line over the last 4 games. Way better than his 40% FT last year. I was actually encouraged by our defense yesterday. Things started shaky, but improved as the game went on. Our guards were playing great defense in the second half. UCONN was just making shots - a lot of them very difficult shots. I think we will see a lot of improvement over the next few games.
  12. Abmas looks out of shape to me. I was expecting someone at his size to be lightening quick and running around all over the place. He can’t really create his own shot, so why not run through a bunch of screens to get wide open shots? I think he will eventually get going. Maybe Disu will help. Our ceiling is much lower if he is just a low efficiency chunker though.
  13. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a very different Texas team tomorrow. If both teams had just shot our averages from 3 and FT, we beat them by 20 points. The fact that we pulled it out even with such putrid shooting says something about the versatility of this team. I’m still optimistic.
  14. According to Massey, here are the odds each remaining undefeated goes undefeated from here out: Michigan - 50.2% Georgia - 45.1% Ohio State - 43.7% Florida State - 41.6% Washington - 31.2% The odds that there will be four undefeated conference champions is thus 2.9% or 1 in 34. Here are the odds for the one-loss teams to win out including their respective conference champ games: Texas - 59.6% Oregon - 45.6% Alabama - 41.7% Louisville - 24.5%
  15. I was never worried about RT's ability to recruit. When he was at Fresno, he signed the #59, 66, and #71 classes in a 4 year stretch. While not super impressive in an absolute sense, their long-term average is ~#126. At Texas he has superb facilities, a dump truck of NIL money, NBA players to assist, and a top-notch staff filled with elite recruiters. I have no doubt we are going to be up there with the best schools in the country.
  16. Weaver just needs to relax a little. Right now his athleticism is a liability, not an asset. Once the game slows down for him and he plays more under control, he could be very good. Kind of like Kerwin Roach.
  17. I'm not too worried about our free throw shooting. We have the pieces to be fantastic from the line. I'm going to assume the players are just not in great shape yet and that is translating into poor FT shooting (i.e. tired players leaving them short and being out of rhythm).
  18. Shedrick 1/1 from 3. In his entire 76 games for Virginia across 3 years he only shot 7 3s. He can clearly shoot as evidenced by his ~80% FT rate. I wouldn’t mind seeing him take a 3 per game.
  19. I will never... NEVER... understand why Shaka abandoned everything that made him successful as soon as he got to Texas. Everything was set up for him to be so successful here. He could run Havoc with Texas-level recruits - something every fan wanted to see. Nope. Occasionally we would get behind and start pressing and everything would open up. It was beautiful. Just a small taste of what could be. Then like a fart in the wind it was gone. We would grind things back down again and lose. FFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffffff.
  20. No. Next question. Zero chance outside of injury.
  21. Chris Simms was the #1 player in the country coming out of high school. He was very similar to Arch Manning in a lot of ways given his family pedigree and skills. If Mack had done with Simms what we are doing with Arch, everything would have been so much better. Imagine the following: 1998 - Major Applewhite starts while Ricky wins Heisman 1999 - Major Applewhite starts and earns Big 12 Offensive PoY. Chris Simms redshirts 2000 - Major Applewhite starts. Simms gets mop up duty instead of splitting 1/3 the stats. Same 9-3 record but both QBs keep confidence. 2001 - Major Applewhite starts. We still barely lose to OU, but this time we beat Colorado and play Miami for the title. Simms gets a lot of run since we had nine blowouts. Major Applewhite graduates with two Big-12 titles and a National Title appearance. 2002 - Chris Simms starts as a RS-JR - Maybe a more confident Simms improves on our 11-2 record, we beat Tech and play for another title? 2003 - Chris Simms starts as a RS-SR - There is no Vince Young vs. Chance Mock debate. Instead Vince backs up Simms and gets plenty of mop-up time. At this point Simms was a great QB. No way we lose to Arkansas. Instead of 10-3, we go 11-2 or 12-1 and likely win another BCS bowl. 2004 - Vince Young starts Those teams were absolutely loaded and the QB mismanagement cost us at least one trip to the MNC game, maybe two.
  22. It wasn't just Vince-Colt. It went: Major Applewhite: 1st Team All-Big 12 and a boat load of UT passing records Chris Simms: 26-6 as a starter and a boat load of UT passing records Vince Young: Davey O'Brien Award Colt McCoy: Davey O'Brien Award Not to mention Chance Mock with a 16-2 TD/INT ratio and a 148.7 QB Rating in 2003 splitting time with VY. What a great string of QBs.
  23. Future SEC with 8 of the top 21 (but no top 5 teams). Future Big 12 with 6 of the top 27 (but 3 of the top 7).
  24. I guess he will just have to come back and win the Heisman and get a statue at DKR. He is a unique runner at Texas. Not especially fast. Not especially powerful. No amazing cuts. But he has patience and vision that are really elite. He follows blockers perfectly and picks up 5 yards when it looks like the play is busted. I don’t think an ACL tear is going to hugely impact him over the long term. And our line is going to be even better next year. Hopefully if he does decide to come back we reward him with a monster year.
  25. I think our whole season hinges on how good Disu is when he comes back. If he is as good as he was last March, we are going to be so hard to beat.
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