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Posts posted by HookEm
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20 hours ago, Shady Ray said:
I could write a book on how fucked up the situation with the post-war children was.
Maybe you should. You have a lot of insight and your posts on this topic have been fascinating.
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Link would be nice pls
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Granted Ja's a bit bigger and might be a better athlete.
AI is one of the best athletes we have ever seen in any sport. Tremendous speed, shiftiness, acceleration, body control, etc.
He was also a great football player. AI actually thinks he would have had a better football than basketball career if he had stayed with it. I don't doubt it. He would have been Michael Vick before Michael Vick.
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It is possible the record number of new Covid cases and Austin being Stage 5 is keeping some people from attending. And when the DO attend, maybe they aren't quite as likely to yell at the top of their lungs. Plus the generally crappy weather makes people want to hunker down.
I have zero doubt that Beard is going to get our home atmosphere improved by about 100X within the upcoming years.
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Not when they don’t get minutes.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I find that tomatoes ruin chili. Even more than beans if that is possible.
I made a batch the other day but made 4x the chili paste. Put the excess paste in a pan in the freezer and then cut it into 4 cubes and vacu sealed them. Each cube is enough chili paste for ~3 pounds of meat. I used 3-1 guajillo to ancho ratio.
I still had about an hour to cook it down at this point:
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LeBron’s team is underperforming because LeBron the GM hand selected an inferior coach and old ass teammates.
Steph may have recruited KD. Fair. But he doesn’t hold his team hostage with threats to leave. Or trade off all the young talent to get veterans because he doesn’t want to waste his window. Or whine constantly and insist on always inserting himself into the conversation. Or hamstring his organization by demanding to get PAID.
If you swapped Curry and LeBron, the Lakers would be immediately better and the Warriors would be worse. And that is day 1. After a year of meddling, all the young talent would be traded, the Warriors culture would be destroyed and LeBron would be looking to leave again.
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On 1/3/2022 at 8:03 PM, Message Board User said:
At least Draymond stuck around to shake hands after Game 7.
Is that supposed to make me not like Klay? Confused. If anything that clip reinforces why he is awesome.
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With about 12 min to go we were up 4 and the real-time line was UT -8.5. That was free money. We weren’t going to win by less than 10.
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Somebody gonna need to post a viewing link up in here.
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Another great defensive performance today. With this team, if we get up 20 points, we aren’t losing the game. Period. They don’t take forced shots in the half court. They don’t force a 1 on 2 fast break. They make free throws.
With about 10 min to go we were up by like 22. I was thinking, WV may not get the ball more than 10-12 more possessions. This is over. We could dribble out the shot clock every possession and they aren’t beating us.
It is amazing how many times we will get a steal at near half court and STILL take a full 30 seconds to shoot. The other team simply doesn’t get many possessions and our defense is so good that the other team has to resort bad shots.
Honestly that was one of the best wins in the last 5+ years.
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To me, the main issue with Carr is that he doesn’t seem to be playing with any joy. He generally seems frustrated or angry. I want my PG out there smiling a little, encouraging teammates, having some fun. TJ Ford and DJ Augustin at Texas. Magic, Isaiah, Steph and countless others are the prototype.
Askew shows some shades of what I’m talking about. I really like his game.
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I liked what Beard did with the nonconf games. We could have pushed the pace and won every game by 40. But instead he ground down the pace and forced our team to work on the half-court offense. Yes, it looked bad, but the practice will eventually pay off.
It looked like for the end of the 1st half and first 10 min of the 2nd half, Beard gave them a green light to push the pace and take shots. Maybe this is him starting the engines a little before conference play.
Our defense is looking great on many levels. If you can’t appreciate a smothering, frustrating defense, then you need to expand your horizons. I thought his defense was beautiful at Tech and it is getting prettier by the day here. Imagine being the other team and scoring 35 points in a game. That is ugly. The fact we are causing it is beautiful.
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Brock would be well served to hang in there and get his free UT education. He can still improve his game quite a bit. And don’t discount how important players like him are in practice. He is exactly the kind of player Beard likes to have on the team in some capacity.
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If you want to make money, always take the opponent's under. Our defense is great and the overall pace is sloooooooow. Think Alabama St O/U was 51.
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Beard has the team playing very hard. Like I said earlier this week, it is likely that the extra exertion and short rope is making it tough for players to get into a groove. We have some good shooters on this team. It isn’t like Carr just suddenly forgot how to score. Either it is a personal problem like conditioning or he isn’t used to the scheme yet.
I was actually really impressed with Askew today. I thought his defense was outstanding.
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Our team is great defensively. We are holding teams 20 points under their average. No different tonight. Stanford is averaging 70. Tonight? Maybe 50. Stanford is also an ugly it up type of team. This is a really good win IMO.
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That “old” should be vaccinated or maybe avoid an indoor gathering with 15,000 people.
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As the year wears on, I expect we will start seeing bigger lineups for large stretches: Ramey, A Jones, Allen, Disu and Mitchell.
If Carr gets it together, then maybe he would replace Jones. Regardless, Allen + Disu + Mitchell should see the court together. A lot.
Right now we have 10 players getting 10+ minutes per game. I expect that Disu will eat up a lot of Bishop's minutes sooner or later.
In a close game, I would expect minute splits like the following, with the top-6 players run in a variety of big or small lineups.
- 25 - Carr -- PG
- 27 - Ramey -- SG / PG
- 25 - Jones -- SG / SF
- 28 - Allen -- SF / PF
- 26 - Disu -- PF / C
- 22 - Mitchell -- C
- 13 - Askew -- PG
- 11 - Bishop -- PF
- 10 - Cunningham -- PF
- 13 - Febres + Tyson + Licon
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Poor conditioning isn't an excuse. It is a criticism.
Watching Carr play, I'm not impressed at all with his speed or bounce. He isn't pushing the ball. He isn't attacking. It could be that he just isn't a great athlete. But it seems reasonable to me that he could also be out of shape - especially if his shooting is sucking.
Like you, I'm sure he would likely say he hasn't been good enough. The reason is why? - and what can he do to get out of it.
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Watching the game last night, it looked like Beard was forcing the team to slow down and get into the half-court set. Every possession. We passed up a lot of transition buckets to slow things down. This is one of only a couple of times this year where we scored less than our opponent yields on averages. We could have named our score in that game. Pine Bluff was terrible. Literally one of the worst college teams I have ever seen.
On the year we are holding teams 19+ points below their scoring average. Gonzaga is the only team that exceeded their scoring average (by 3). Every other game we have held our opponent below their average by double digits, and usually by 20+ points. With Disu back, our solid defense is going to be truly nasty.
My guess is that this level of defense is new to some of the players (like Carr). As such, it may be taking a toll on his shooting due to conditioning. I bet we will see gradual improvement from everyone on the offensive end as their conditioning and chemistry improve.
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My Tech parents warned me of this. They told me “it isn’t going to be pretty basketball, but it will be winning basketball”. I was like “winning basketball IS pretty basketball”.
I was wrong. They were right. This has been ugly AF. I’ll still take it tho.
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This board is about as interested in the game as our players are.
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I don’t think this team will win the Big 12 Tournament. And I doubt they match last year’s conference record. BUT… I don’t think there is any way they would lose to a team like ACU. We won’t be able to truly judge this team until the season is over. The great defense going to come in handy if and when we make the tournament.
Now regarding the game today (and really the last couple), Andrew Jones is playing terrible basketball. He can’t hit anything and is turning the ball over at critical times. I would like all his minutes to go to Askew until he gets back on track.