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  1. 2 hours ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

    I disagree that Ramey is mainly a spot up shooter. Maybe it's the fact that he's not really athletic and has a probing game, but his style of play reminds me a lot of J'Covan. He had a lot of good moments this year most memorably the play to setup AJ1's buzzer beater against at WVU.

    Yeah, I overstated my point there.  He can definitely create his own shot, but I find myself scratching my head at some of the choices.  I almost never doubt his shooting 3s though.  Anyway, sounds like there is a good chance that he is coming back, which would be tremendous news.  He is due a redemption tour.

    If we picked up Devante Jones or Sahvir Wheeler, that would be an embarrassment of riches. I really expect Febres to be a much better contributor this year as well. He has started 61 games for us and was pretty important for us as a junior. He is capable of hitting 40%+ from 3 and 90%+ FTs, and at 6'5 could even get minutes at small ball PF.

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    Ramey is a poor man's J'Covan.

    I don't view them as the same player at all. J'Covan was an offensive savant. He could score in countless ways.  Very creative in getting to the rack and drawing fouls. He also tended to be over-emotional and lose control.  I also never thought he was much of a defender.  Not terrible, but his defensive effort was always tied to how well things were going on the other end.

    Ramey on the other hand is mainly a spot-up shooter. He will attempt bonehead mid-ranger shots and isn't great at getting to the rim at all.  On the other side though, he is clearly a much better defender than J'Covan.  He really commits on the defensive end and seems to draw a lot of his energy in locking down his man. He also has a much better attitude IMO.  He isn't very demonstrative when things go well or poorly - very even keeled. 

    In short, I would MUCH rather play pick-up with this guy:

    Stingy second-half defense helps Texas men's basketball past reeling Kansas  State - Horns Illustrated

    Than this guy:

    Photo of J'covan Brown, 2018-2019 season

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    He’s not an NBA-caliber point guard and is too small to defend other positions.

    Ramey had no problem defending shooting guards when Coleman was matched up with the point guard. Most UT fans don't like him, but there is a reason he was All-Conference.  Every year he has gotten better and I would expect that to accelerate this year with this staff.  

     

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  4. Personally I don't think this group needs a center.  Give me all the 6-7 to 6-9 guys who can rebound, score in multiple ways, shoot 3s and defend multiple positions.  Beard has shown he can coach a team like that at a very elite level.

    This lineup has plenty of size IMO for the college game.  Plus everybody can score and rebound.  

    • PG - Courtney Ramey - 6'3
    • SG - Andrew Jones - 6'4
    • SF - Timmy Allen - 6'6  
    • PF - Christian Bishop - 6'7
    • PF - Dylan Disu - 6'9 - C 

    Askew has good size as well for a college PG.  Brock Cunningham can also play G/F, defend multiple positions and rebound (and doesn't need the ball a lot).

    For me, the wish list in priority is as follows:

    1. Ramey (I'm actually counting him as in the fold since he hasn't gone anywhere)
    2. Jericho Sims
    3. DeVante Jones
    4. Bryson Williams
    5. Sahvir Wheeler
    6. Jacob Young
  5. Different strokes for different folks. If I had 3 days to spend by myself, I would backpack up into the Sangre de Christo mountains east of Santa Fe and trout fish for a few days. Probably drink some bourbon while I was at it. Maybe read a book from my hammock. Basically get away from people.

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  6. 34 minutes ago, Irieguy said:

    I appreciate the effort but freshman additions are going to invalidate the whole effort. Google Chet Holmgren. Absolute stud for Gonzaga. And they get Hunter Sallis.  Nearly the same thing for Duke. 

    Of course.  Freshmen get a rating corresponding to how they are expected to do this year.  (I gave Jaylon Tyson an 83 for reference).  I would probably give Chet Holmgren something like a 95.  Almost certain to be an all-conference player.

  7. For comparison purposes, here is how I would have rated Baylor going into the 2021 season:

    Baylor - 2021 - Top 8: 695 Points.  But that top-5 tho...

    • 98 - Jared Butler - 1st Team Big-12 / Wooden Finalist
    • 95 - MaCio Teague - 2nd Team Big-12
    • 93 - Davion Mitchell - 3rd Team Big-12 / All Defense
    • 93 - Mark Vital - 3rd Team Big-12 / All Defense
    • 88 - Adam Flagler - Big South Fresh of Year
    • 80 - LJ Cryer - #83 National Recruit, 4-Star
    • 75 - Matthew Mayer - Decent role player
    • 73 - Jordan Turner - #143 National Recruit, 3-Star
    • 70 - Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua - UNLV role Player
    • 70 - Flo Thamba - Minor role player
    • 70 - Zach Loveday - Minor role player
  8. With 2,000 players in the transfer portal, nobody really knows how any teams this year are going to come together.  To help compare this team to other teams past and present, I thought I would build a model based on the individual player ratings likely contribution.  We can then sum up the top-8 players and compare to other teams. 

    If there is enough interest in the topic, we can move it to another thread and add some additional teams for comparison.  As a starting point, for my grading scale I’ll use the following:

    • 100 – Player of the Year candidate
    • 97 – All-American
    • 95 – All-Conference 1st Team
    • 93 – All-Conference 2nd Team
    • 90 – All-Conference 3rd Team
    • 88 – All-Conf Hon Mention / Def Team
    • 85 – Starter on top-25 team
    • 80 – Starter on bad team / Major bench contributor on top-25 team
    • 75 – Solid role-player
    • <70 – Non-factor

    For this year, I used their points from last year and then added 2-5 points to reflect another year of maturity, coaching, etc.  I didn’t account for having less usage on a new team or anything like that.  In bold are players that I think/hope will sign, but your guess is as good as mine.  Notes are their 2021 accomplishments.

    Texas 2022 – Top-8: 727 pts

    • 95 – Timmy Allen: PF – 1st Team PAC-12
    • 95 – Andrew Jones: SG/SF – 2nd Team Big-12
    • 93 – DeVante Jones: PG – Sun Belt PoY (Coastal Carolina)
    • 93 – Courtney Ramey: SG – 3rd Team Big-12
    • 90 – Jericho Sims: PF/C – Hon Mention Big-12
    • 88 – Dylan Disu: PF/C – SEC Rebounding leader
    • 87 – Devin Askew: PG – Starter for bad UK
    • 86 – Christian Bishop: SF – Starter for #19 Creighton
    • 83 – Jaylon Tyson:  SF –  #34 National Recruit, 4-star
    • 78 – Brock Cunningham: SF/PF - Major role player
    • 75 – Jase Febres: SG/SF - Role player

    Other Potential Players

    • 95 – Sahvir Wheeler:  PG – 2nd Team SEC
    • 93 – Matt Coleman:  PG – 3rd Team Big-12
    • 93 – Greg Brown: SF/PF – Hon Mention Big-12
    • 88 - De’Vion Harmon: PG/SG – OU starter
    • 88 - Bryson Williams (UTEP): PF – 1st Team C-USA
    • 87 – Jacob Young: PG – Rutgers starter
    • 82 – Nick Ongenda: C – DePaul role player
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  9. Regarding wins & titles, would Zeke have won a title with any of CP3s teams? I don't think so. His best shot shot was probably with 2018 Houston. Zeke would have been worse than CP3 on that team. They desperately needed CP3s defense.  OK I'm done defending him. I have honestly never been a fan, lol.

    Blake vs. Webber is an interesting argument.  Blake has the dunk contest. Webber has the Fab 5.

    Peak Season - I think this favors Webber pretty strongly. 

    • Blake 2014 - 24.1 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 3.9 apg, 1.2 spg, 0.6 bpg, 0.533 eFG%, 4.7 VORP, 12.2 WS, 23.9 PER - 3rd MVP voting, 2nd Team All-NBA
    • Webber 2001 - 27.1 ppg, 11.1 rpg, 4.2 apg, 1.3 spg, 1.7 bpg, 0.481 eFG%, 5.3 VORP, 11.0 WS, 24.7 PER - 4th MVP voting, 1st Team All-NBA

    Career - Pretty even. Both under-achieved to a degree. Webber especially should have been an all-time great.

    • Blake - 11 yrs - 3 Teams - 0 1st Team, 3 2nd Team, 2 3rd Team, 6-time All-Star, ROY, 51.3 HoF%, #97 Career VORP, #43 Carer PER
    • Webber - 15 yrs - 5 Teams - 1 1st Team, 3 2nd Team, 1 3rd Team, 5-time All-Star, ROY, 14.6 HoF%, #48 Career VORP, #58 Career PER 
  10. Now that I think about the durability argument for CP3 vs. Isiah, I'm don't think it actually favors Isiah.

    Isiah retired at 32 yrs old after a torn Achilles and yet CP3 is still cranking out an all-NBA worthy season at 35 and has only missed 1 game this year while logging decent minutes.  It is possible that CP3 will still be playing at an elite level for 3-4 more years.

    Let's look at games played by age range:

    • 20-23: CP3 300 vs. Isiah 316
    • 24-28:  CP3 317 vs. Isiah 400
    • 29-32:  CP3 275  vs. Isiah 263 
    • 32+:  CP3 185 vs. Isiah 0
  11. The best Isiah Thomas ever finished was 5th in the MVP voting (once), plus a couple of 8th place finishes.  Never sniffed an all-defensive squad.

    Chris Paul finished 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th (twice), 7th (twice) in MVP voting.  He is also a 7-time 1st team All-Defense player.  He has never come close to playing on a team like the Bad Boys.  Prime CP3 on that team would fit like hand in glove.

    Chris Paul + Joe Dumars would be a nasty af defensive combo. Plus Adrian Dantley, Mark Aguire, Dennis Rodman!, Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn, John Sally.  "Winning" is a lot easier metric when you are on a team like that.

    CP3 is better at just about every facet of the game than Isiah.  Vastly better defender, better shooter, more careful with the ball, comparable distributor. 

    Prime CP3

    • 22.2 ppg
    • 11.0 apg
    • 5.5 rpg
    • 2.8 spg
    • 3.0 TOs
    • 52.8 eFG%

    Isiah Thomas Championship years:

    • 18.3 ppg
    • 8.9 apg
    • 3.6 rpg
    • 1.7 spg
    • 3.9 TOs
    • 46.5 eFG%
  12. Chris Paul would have fit in nicely with those Bad Boy Pistons teams. Swap him with IT and I’m not sure they get worse. But I don’t think IT would have elevated some of the teams Chris Paul has played on to the degree that CP3 has.

    That said I don’t like either of them at all.

  13. I think it was my conversation Derka was referring to regarding Shaka’s player development. For clarity, I don’t think he is “great”. But I also don’t think he is horrific. I would rate him maybe a 6/10. Whatever though. Opinions vary. Glad Shaka is gone.

    His departure was about a best case scenario. Gives us a Big 12 Tourney Title and then GTFO. If he beats ACU, he is probably still here.

    It is going to enrage me when he goes back to Havok with Marquette. And you all know it is gonna happen.

  14. I've always thought that Baylor had the potential to be an absolute powerhouse in sports.  45-50% of Black Americans identify as Baptist - and it is probably higher than that in Baylor's recruiting grounds.  Think about what a monumental advantage that could be.  They should be able to use religion as a recruiting tool in a way that even Notre Dame couldn't touch.  Odds are that just about every key recruit will have a parent or grandparent that is Baptist (not to mention the player's beliefs). 

    But nope.  Instead they have a reputation for rape, drug dealing and murder... with maybe a little cheating thrown in for good measure.  All the while casting an air of religious superiority. F em.

  15. Here's another player to add to the mix.  Numbers below are his best 3-year run...

    Player C
    Mins Per Game: 37.0
    Points: 19.0
    Assists: 10.6
    Rebounds: 3.3
    2P%: .483
    3P%: .358
    eFG: .522
    FT%: .817

    2x All-NBA 2nd Team 

    That player.... Deron Williams

  16. Good info. Thanks.

    Honestly, if he took ACU to another NCAA tourney coming out of the WAC... and especially if he won another first round game... he would be coveted by some pretty big programs.  Anybody watching could tell that ACU was a very well coached team. It honestly looked a lot like Beard's teams at Tech, just with smaller players.

    I think the main thing that ACU can't offer is a good gameday experience.  They are currently updating their arena and actually REMOVING capacity.  I think the arena will seat ~2,500 fans when complete.  UTEP seats close to 12,000. I think that tells you all you need to know about fan and community support and expectations from the administration.

  17. 16 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    The difference is WSU is the biggest small school in the state. Abilene is one of a million small schools in the state that you have to compete with. 

    That's fair, but there is also a LOT more talent in Texas than there is in Kansas.  Within a 3-3.5 hour drive of Abilene you have DFW (7.5M), Austin (2.2M), San Antonio (2.5M), Lubbock (315K), Midland Odessa (250K), Waco (135K) plus all the small towns in between.  Probably close to 15M people.

    The same distance from WSU you have Kansas City (2.1M), OKC (1.4M), Tulsa (1M).  Maybe 7-8M people.  

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