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  1. Who will be Texas' best player next year? Who will be Texas' best player in the last three minutes of the game? Of the returning players, who will have made the greatest improvement? How many (and who) of the new players will have significant playing time? How will B12 coaches attack and defend this Texas team?
  2. You anti-sandbaggin' mfer. May the undertow take you for a ride.
  3. Have been listening to the Bennett podcast American Fiasco and what is the difference between the players on the American team that played in the Copa in 1996 versus the players on the American team that played in the Copa in 2016? The 96 team made it to the semis in Uruguay and the 16 team made it to the quarters in the US. The 96 team would go on to finish last in the WC and the 16 team would fail to qualify for the WC. Was the 96 players' quality better? Were they less entitled? Were they better coached? They surely didn't come from a soccer culture. And the few that did were no more than the Germericans on the 16 team. The 96 players had confidence borne from adversity while the 16 players had confidence borne from coddling and ego stroking. My kid played futsal for a number of years and he was just an average player who played hard all the time. But there were futsal kids who were treated like royalty by the staff and dominated the local scene. Then there was a tournament where the house team played a Brazilian team and all the stud players on the house team acted like shrinking violets and the strivers looked just fine. Very disappointing, but those kids got to see how far away they were from real futsal players. The house team played some more Brazilian teams in the next few years and they began to compete and win a few games. The advantage of the young players going to Europe or elsewhere is the challenge of going against better players. Talented youth players need to play up. If it's too easy then go to a level where it's harder. Not every one is cut out for it being harder. Heard a story of two players going to Europe together and while one was considered a higher quality player, he went home after six months while the other one stayed. This one learned the language and started to get more success on the field. The one who went home is best player on a semi-pro summer league team, but no where near where he should be.
  4. dogbreath

    Happy 4th

  5. Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Balmorhea
  6. Killing of a Sacred Deer. Whoah. I'll go ahead and take care of shit right away.
  7. That is one shit list. "exemplifying the zeitgeist of its time like few other films" is the descriptor for Reality Bites at 12. Yet Dazed & Confused is 26.
  8. Raggedy Man - Gregory-Portland
  9. Places in the Heart - Waxhahachie The Sugarland Express
  10. A. C'est la vie. B. The first clause in your second point has no relevance. Whether I am a clown or not, doesn't change the arguments put forth. Your second clause in your second point is highly debatable. Is Shaka killing the program? I think not considering that he has a full roster with quality experience. Killing a program is when players rebel against their coach and don't play hard for him. In the three years of Shaka, I've seen the players play hard. C. your third point is a mischaracterization of what I said. D. Bitch fests are fine if they are entertaining. E. That was a penalty and Sweden got screwed.
  11. Febres and Coleman make all big12 academic team. And let me add that this is good news and promising for next year's team before Derka shits all over this by explaining how disappointing the incoming freshman will be and that Osetkowski's progress in the offseason is actually a bad thing and all Shaka's fault. It's promising for the future because players in the program can get better and we have good character guys who do well in school and with Coleman in particular will be counted upon to be a leader on and off the court. Poking the dyspeptic bear is not always a smart move but what the hell, I'm indistinctly indistinguishable. Just kidding Derka, although I did wish you have your own forum, so I could zip past the boring bitch fests that you seem to get involved in.
  12. Fuck the genre. Got to. It's America, man.
  13. If I were to limit it to five from youngest to older then it would be... Animated: My Neighbor Totoro, Jungle Book, Balto, Lion King and Spirited Away. Non-animated: Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz, Blazing Saddles, The Gods Must Be Crazy and Prisoner of Azkaban TV series: Arthur, The Muppet Show, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Monty Python and Freaks and Geeks. Documentaries: March of the Penguins, Planet Earth, Spellbound, Hoop Dreams and Blackfish.
  14. I don't understand why your top two freshman for 2018 includes Sims and not Coleman with 10.2 pts, 4.1 assists and second on team in steals. The fact that Coleman will be back as a major contributor at the most important position in college basketball speaks very well for Texas. In fact I would argue that in Barnes/Smart era quality point guard or lack of determines success of team. Ford years (02, 03): S16, FF. POY that controlled the game. Ivey (04): S16. Senior leader of balanced team. Gibson (05): first round loss. Struggled at pg. Gibson/Paulino (06): EE. Should have been a FF team. Augustin (07, 08): 2rl, EE. Barnes made him into a closer in soph year. Balbay (09): 2rl. Teams learned to play off of him due to poor outside shooting. Balbay/Brown (10): frl. Just a craptastic season going from #1 to uninspired play at the end. Joseph (11): 2rl. Really good team that wore out in the end. Kabongo (12): frl. All shake but no sizzle. Felix (13): cbi. Overmatched. Taylor years (14, 15, 16): 2rl, frl, frl. Teams learned to play off him being a poor shooter, but he was effective even if teams underachieved. Roach/Jones (17): nada. Jones should have been designated as pg. Coleman (18): frl. Key player and leader on team. The cog for next year's success. As to your argument on the limited influence of freshman, I believe this year's team foundation is better than it has been since Smart's first year. Look at the effectiveness of Davis and Roach in their freshman year as role players. When Roach has not had to play pg he has been an effective player. Davis never could match his first year. The freshman will have that same opportunity to fit into roles. And I think this situation is better than Smart's first year because 1) he has been here for 3 years; 2) he has recruited these players) and 3) he has better overall guard talent than three years ago. What it comes down to is that I trust that Coleman will be better and be a leader next year. I don't know if the team will finish higher in conference or get past first round, but I believe they will play and look better.
  15. This is boring as fuck. Congrats to Hepa. Good sign for Texas.
  16. The one reason to be excited about Texas next year is quality guard depth. Coleman, Roach, Long, Ramey and Febres. Another reason is senior leadership. I would argue that none of Smart's teams at Texas have had any. His first year was a transition year and while he had seniors and quality guard depth, there was no way that everyone was on the same page. Frankly, I am glad to see Davis and Young go. Young wanted to be a feature player and he wasn't good enough and Davis after three years continually made poor decisions on team defense, couldn't handle the ball effectively and wavered in his ability to hit shots. As others have argued on post depth, it would have been good to still have Banks and I think Smart should have played him more in his soph year, but not sure it would have made a difference in his decision to leave. The freshman have a chance to integrate themselves into the team without having to be primary players and I think that will help them be more effective later in the season. As far as Big 12 - KU by a long shot. KSU and WV next tier and we will see after that. There have been plenty of JC players who have been studs (Mitch Richmond) or effective players (Pierre Jackson) and plenty who have not.
  17. Supposition: Smart wants to coach in the NBA. He models his coaching after Billy Donovan and uses the read and react offense, while spending most of his time emphasizing defense. Who was good at playing the read and react offense on Texas in the last 3 years? There was a lot of reacting, but not much reading. Senior PG Taylor qualifies. Senior PG Felix. Who can do it next year? Coleman, Long, Ramey. Coleman because he will be better than he was last year. Long because he is experienced. Ramey because he thinks he can and has bb IQ. Who has shown more reacting than reading? Osetkowski and Roach. Roach showed an ability to create for himself. Osetkowski needs to defer except on mismatches. Who knows? Liddell and Hepa. What are the strengths/weaknesses of the freshman? Who among them will be contributors next year? The 17-18 team were in a lot of ball games last year where they either pissed away the lead or got beat in the last five minutes. Will that improve with a better, stronger and more rested Coleman? When it's 2 minutes left and the team needs to score, who does the play go through? Is it Coleman or Ramey or is it Osetkowski or Roach (if he comes back)?
  18. If our argument for having him return is to be a pg in the making then fuck that, we are screwed. Coleman is the leader of next years team and I want him to seize the leader role from Osetkowski. I don't want Roach back if he thinks he has to show the NBA that he can be a pg. If Roach comes back, then he fills a role of d and shooter. He needs to lead by example. He doesn't need to create for anyone except himself. Ramey, Coleman and Long will be the creators on this team. If Roach succeeds in the pros, it will be because he bootstraps his way there. If he's matured, knows his limitations and works his ass off then that will take him further on his quest than some bs leadership skills.
  19. Do Slovenians and Serbians get along? I guess so from a brief review of google .
  20. Smart needs to model his coaching attitude on this guy.
  21. Good info, HE. If Osetkowski is part of 2016 class, then Long should be part of 2017 class. I think Derka is right that Shaka's history is five or six guys play a lot of minutes and it appears that he plays guys he trusts. I think his options for trusting ball handlers goes up with Coleman, Ramey and Long. Advantage from last year is that Coleman doesn't have to play as much and hopefully he will learn not to commit stupid fouls. If Roach comes back, he will get a lot of minutes. I think Liddell gets decent minutes due to being a sf. More minutes if he shows he can defend. Sims minutes depend on his foul trouble so I expect Hayes to get some decent minutes. And Hepa will get minutes as backup but also when Shaka goes small and Osetkowski moves to center. What I hope is that all freshman show that they deserve minutes and force Shaka to play a big rotation. I would be very surprised if Cunningham becomes a part of the rotation.
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