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Posts posted by HookEm
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Came across an interesting trend today. In each of Shaka’s last 5 years, we improved on the win percent from the previous year.
2017 - 33.3%
2018 - 55.9%
2019 - 56.8%
2020 - 61.3%
2021 - 73.1%
Maybe this just reflects the maturation of this group of upper classmen. Or overall better roster management as we finally get some upper class depth at the guard positions and a balanced spread between classes. -
I’m a little worried about a letdown after being up so much for the conference tourney.
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A lot of my family went to ACU. If we lose that game it will be my worst all-time sporting loss. Including all those OU beat downs in football, the Colt MNC, the Colorado 2001 Big-12 Champ game. All of them.
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I don't like how close they played Tech and Arkansas.
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Crap, I would have liked to be the 2 seed in this bracket.
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It would be nice if the Fire Shaka thread moved down the page a bit for at least the next week (and ideally the next 3).
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I haven’t seen it, but likely a contact tracing device.
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I can’t get over how dominant Sims was last night. His footwork in the post was just great. A lot of the passes down to him were high risk and he came up with all of them. He looked like a grown assed man playing with boys. And despite his FT woes, he hit a few big ones.
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The good free throw shooting by our perimeter players is a huge advantage over previous years. Coleman, Ramey, A Jones, Febres and Williams all shoot well over 80%. Kai Jones and Greg Brown are around 70%. That is huge.
Coaches get grief when players suck at free throws, so I’m going to give them a lot of credit for where we are with this squad. Ramey was a 58% FT shooter as a freshman. The others were mid 70s. They have been putting in WORK to get to this point. We would have lost last night in previous years for this reason.- 1
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We win! 4 more wins to go.
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Greg Brown should be out there instead of Brock if he weren’t playing like such a tool. Then we could go right at Cunningham. If we lose this game I’m going to blame it on him.
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Exactly on Jones last possession. That was costly. Oh well overall a great half.
I really hope Greg Brown gets in the game in the 2nd half and does something. We need his head on straight next weekend.- 1
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It is a shame that our collective baggage with Shaka has kept us from truly enjoying this team. It has a chance to be one of the best ever at Texas.
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Brock walking in very time he touches the ball, lol
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I like the way Shaka is handling Greg Brown honestly. Pulled him almost the whole second half against Tech and quick leash today. Let’s see how he responds.
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He plays with youthful energy and enthusiasm. He is critical to a successful run in the coming weeks. Don’t be a boomer.
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Are we allowed to make fun of Rick in this thread or is there another one for that?
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What would Houston’s record be playing our schedule? Don’t think it would be 19-7. Would they beat Indiana? And UNC? And WV? And OSU? And sweep Kansas? Not one chance IMO. Their resume is weak AF. I’m gonna fade them big time in the tourney.
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I would love Andrew Jones to get a Big 12 Champ ring. Don’t care if it is the tourney. Same for Coleman.
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That is the kind of optimism we are looking for here!
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We are currently a 2 pt favorite tonight. I like our chances. OSU has been hot but we’ve had an extra day of rest and match up well with them. Ramey and Greg Brown are due for a good game.
It is crazy that no team from the state of Texas has ever won the Big 12 Tourney. Hopefully we can change that in a few hours. -
We now seem to have two “Fire Shaka” threads. If you want to crap on this team and Shaka, post there. This thread is for people who are interested in optimistic discussion of the team, starting with us playing for a Big 12 Title tonight.
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Remind me... who else were we considering when we hired Shaka?
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Derka coming strong with the optimism!
Texas basketball 2020-21: Not even Shaka can fuck this up...right?
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I think we can all agree that if he improves on the success this year with an even better year next year, that will be a major accomplishment.
Once again, I’m much more optimistic about next year than Derka. We will very likely be starting 3 senior guards, plus 3 more juniors getting big minutes. That is a ton of returning experience for college hoops. We have had good success getting value out of young bigs, so maybe that will continue.
Who knows what we will pick up from the transfer portal or who decides to take advantage of the free 5th year.