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Brad Stevens at dinner with friends... "Guys guys... you will never believe who called me today. Texas! Seeing if I want to coach for them!"

Brad Stevens??? Lololol. I mean... wow. Also, HARD pass on Steve Nash. It is looking more and more like he was a big part of the problem in Brooklyn. He has no leadership ability as a head coach IMO. Had the Nets at 2-5 this year. After firing him, they have gone 15-7, including winning the last 8 of 9.

Sounds to me like they were wrestling around. She is a physical ex-athlete. I bet they were both grabbing at each other. Maybe she had a forearm around his head or something and he bit her.

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Nets are now tied with e other teams with the best record over the last 10 games at 8-2, including winning last night with none of their top 5 players. Maybe coaching was the problem after all.

Don’t look now, but the Nets have won 4 in a row and 10 of their last 15. By my count, only Boston has a better record in their last 15 than the Nets in the entire NBA. They just got back TJ Warren and Joe Harris is playing better. At full strength this team is going to be a problem for anybody.

Not sure I agree. Tyrese Hunter is about as close to a superstar as we have had at Texas since Durant and Augustin. He is the first guy in 10+ years we have had to average 16+ per game. And he is doing it from the guard position shooting an amazing 54% from the field. If his minutes and usage increased he could average 25 ppg. Here are all the guys we have had at Texas average more 16+ ppg in the last 22 years: Tyrese Hunter - 16.0 ppg, 54.5 FG% Kevin Durant - 25.8 ppg, 47.3 FG% - Wooden Award Winner J'Covan Brown - 20.1 ppg, 41.7 FG% - 1st Team All Big 12 DJ Augustin - 19.2 ppg, 47.1 FG% - 1st Team All American Jordan Hamilton - 18.6 ppg, 44.0 FG% - 2nd Team All American Damion James - 18.0 ppg, 50.0 FG% - 1st Team All Big 12 AJ Abrams - 16.6 ppg, 39.9 FG% - 2nd Team All Big 12 PJ Tucker - 16.1 ppg, 51.5 FG% - Big 12 PoY, 2nd Team AA Dude is on a 1st Team All-American trajectory IMO. Every time I watch him I'm blown away by how good he is.

Texas is becoming 90s UNLV 2.0! kidding. kind of.

Agreed. I really like his game and think he is going to be an awesome player as the game slows down for him. He is super athletic and continues to remind me of Avery Bradley with his movement, defense and shot form. I'm assuming he will stay around next year. If so, I can see him being an All-Conference type player with a year of maturation and a big bump in minutes.

If I fuck around, I expect that at some point I will also find out.

Or some of us just like to see lazy entitled people fuck around and find out.

Meh. Poole is still young. I’m not willing to make any judgement just yet.

Nailed it!!!

When I’m wrong, I say I’m wrong. Lol. Exhibit A on why my betting account is currently empty.

I expect we will have a little hangover in this game. If I ever bet against UT I might in this one. NAU isn’t terrible. Michigan State and Arizona State both beat them but not by 26+. And not coming off the biggest win in 15 years.

This broadcast… this is not good.

Who are these guys going to hire?

If the students like it, I like it.

Last year we were one of the least athletic teams I have ever seen at Texas. Some skilled players no doubt, but no real elite athletes in the whole crew.

To me, the biggest difference is that we are scoring EARLY in the shot clock. Even when we were up 20, the team was still trying to run in transition and score early. It is so refreshing to not just go into clock burning mode but keep the offensive pressure up. That attitude is out of the KU and UNC playbook. If they can score 100 on you, they are going to do it. How many leads have we lost in years past because we went conservative?

ACU also could have also tripled his salary. They have plenty of money. But they probably were never going to do that. Regardless, the guy is a solid coach. I would expect him to do very well at UTEP and move on within a few years. He needs to be at a bigger program.

I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of... disagree with you on that. Mouton was returning fresh off making an ALL-REGION team in the 2003 NCAA Tourney. Role players don't make all-region teams. Damn near every one of them ended up being high draft picks, many with big NBA Careers. If you get a player of this caliber coming back for another year, you already have a huge building block. Out of the 25 All-Region Players that year you had: Carmelo Anthony - #3 Draft Pick Dwyane Wade - #5 Draft Pick Kirk Hinrich - #7 Draft Pick TJ Ford - #8 Draft Pick Nick Collison - #12 Draft Pick Emeka Okafor - #2 Draft Pick Luke Walton - #32 Draft Pick Hakim Warrick - #19 Draft Pick Steve Novak - #32 Draft Pick Paul Davis - #34 Draft Pick Keith Langford - 2x All Big 12 Marquis Daniels - 2x All SEC, 10 Year NBA Vet Jason Gardner - 3x All- Pac 12 Marquis Estill - All SEC Quite a collection of role players at the college level. Mouton was one of my favorite players ever at UT. He was the co-MVP in 2003 along with TJ Ford. F the haters. I'll ride or die with my guy all day every day. Dude could score the rock and he was a winner. Now... back to talking about 2023

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If you turn 2 McDonalds All Americans into role players does that make you a great coach?

Mouton was a bad-ass. The year before he was 2nd Team All-Big 12 and made the NCAA Tourney all-region team. Ivey was the returning Big-12 Defensive PoY (by some publications) James Thomas was a returning 2nd Team All Big12 / 1st Team All Defense player Boddicker was a heavily contributing former McDonald’s All-American senior. Buckman was another McDonald’s All-American coming off a 1st team Big12 Freshman season. I don’t think making a Sweet 16 with a squad like that is overachieving. Any team that has two McDonalds All-Americans on it that returns 75% of their points and minutes should do pretty well. Now Barnes should get credit for recruiting and retaining those players. And for their development. But not the “shocking” Sweet 16.