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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. UCLA was a play-in team, but their best big man was injured for the season which sent them down an end of season slump. So while they might not have been as good as they were in the tourney they weren't as bad as they were when they ended the season as a play-in team.
  2. Well, when people have spent the better part of the last 10 years worshiping the concept of amateurism and sticking their collective fingers in their ears while rejecting reasonable disagreements they're not gonna be prepared to see the issue clearly when the paradigm finally shifts. Rather than fully accepting the incoming change our legislature enacted a law that only partially embraced that incoming changes, thereby putting Texas schools at a comparative disadvantage to schools in states that fully dealt with the changing reality.
  3. Non tier 1 personnel doing paid endorsements seems to be a new thing. I remember only 2 or 3 years ago it would be rare to hear people like Donovan doing ads, much less Ticker people like Julie and Ty or even engineers like Killer have done lately.
  4. I can't help but root for this guy.
  5. Art
  6. I could see Askew transferring within the next 2 seasons.
  7. Fucking A!!! I can't describe how elated I am about this recruit. This guy is fucking Ja Morant in the making and the fact that he's still not rated as a top 10 player in his class is beyond stupid. This dude is the fucking truth. Not only did we get my favorite player in the 2022 class, but Beard has made his presence felt in the Metroplex, which is no small task. To put our woeful recruiting in the Dallas area into perspective in the last 19 years of college basketball recruiting we've gotten only Lamarcus Aldridge, Andrew Jones, and Myles Turner out of Dallas when it comes to elite, top tier recruits. We've fucking sucked there. In one fell swoop (because Beard is going to get Keyonte George and hopefully at least one of Anthony Black or Cason Wallace or Rylan Griffin) Chris Beard said fuck that Dallas recruits don't go to Austin noise. And with Kentucky faltering and Coach K retiring we're going to absolutely dominate Dallas for the foreseeable future.
  8. He's only visited Texas so far
  9. @ztejas I totally get and agree with the Booker/Kobe comparison. Booker isn't anything like Klay. For one, Booker only shoots like 34% from 3, and two he does way more off the dribble than Klay could ever dream of doing. Klay and Booker aren't in anyway comparable players outside of their skin tone. Obviously Booker isn't near as good as Kobe, but in today's game and style of play he's a midrange assassin akin to what Kobe was.
  10. What I've never understood about Cuban's cap hoarder-worship at the God of uber free agents approach is that his 2 best teams were built with 1 mega star surrounded by a number of players who were 6s & 7s with Jason Terry flashing an occasional 8 in a couple big games. This year's Atlanta squad is proof positive that approaching the draft with some level of seriousness and not attempting to hit a homerun free agent every offseason can yield great results. Yet every year it's the same shit with him, bypass quality free agents in hopes of striking it rich with the pipe dream of a Giannis or Kawhi.
  11. What do you mean?!! He told us he has not just one, but two medical degrees at the school board meeting a few weeks ago.
  12. The finals being in July as opposed to June probably isn't really helping those ratings.
  13. What part of me saying many Nigerians have English surnames negates the fact that most them have ethnic names? Igbo's are primarily Christians and the overwhelming majority of them have Igbo names, however there are a few, like Vincent's Dad, who have english surnames as well. I highlighted the fact that Gabe's middle name is Nnamdi in my original post.
  14. Vincent's dad is Nigerian and more than that many Nigerians have English surnames which is a function of being a former British colony akin to Indians having surnames like Thomas, Jacobs, or Matthews.
  15. The thing about bigs like Mobley playing at the college level is its difficult to get a good assessment of how good they really are. There simply isn't a lot of space on the interior for college bigs. And on top of that they are typically limited by lackluster guards who either don't realize their bigmen need the ball or can't get it to them consistently. The fact that Mobley is a extremely fluid athlete with seemingly high skill level makes him intriguing and easily the top pick in the draft if we weren't in the guard/wing era of NBA basketball.
  16. To add to what you quoted from the same article: "Ratings are only a fraction of the NBA's audience Armchair TV ratings experts often cast aside the nuances of an inherently flawed metric that is increasingly under fire (i.e., the exclusion of regional network simulcasts, and Nielsen only began including out-of-home viewership — an expected double-digit numbers increase — in October, when sports bars were mired in a pandemic), they also ignore the fact that TV ratings account for a fraction of the NBA's media consumption. The NBA reaches a billion people in more than 215 countries across the world, and roughly three quarters of its viewers are outside the U.S., boosted by the popularity of Antetokounmpo, Embiid, Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, four of the top six vote-getters in the MVP race. Global viewers on League Pass for the playoffs are up 18% from last year and 24% from 2019, per the NBA. None of them are included in Nielsen ratings. Neither is the majority of the NBA's 56 million Instagram followers, an audience that generated 6.55 billion views and counts about twice the following of the NFL, NHL and MLB combined. The league is approaching 9 billion lifetime views on YouTube — again, almost as many as the three other major American sports leagues combined. Nearly 70% of the NBA's social media followers are outside the U.S." It's interesting that the NBA's ratings are such a hot topic among a certain group of people. It's almost as though they have a vested interest in NBA ratings going in a certain direction.
  17. Giannis hasn't always been a garbage free throw shooter. He needs to return to whatever he was dying a few years ago.
  18. The NBA had a different set of protocols if a teams had over 75 or 85% of their players vaccinated. When Dennis Schroeder went on an extended quarantine it meant that at least 2 of the Lakers weren't vaxed at the time. People theorized that it was Schroeder and Lebron who weren't vaccinated at time because comments made by Schroeder about this length of his quarantine. I say all this to say that a certain point of the season most teams were over that 85% threshold.
  19. And that's no different than TNT. Shit, Turner Sports owns NBAtv in conjunction with the NBA. They operate under the same parameters as ESPN, but somehow they manage to put out a much better product when broadcasting that same entity.
  20. His original True Hoops podcast crew with Ethan Strauss, Tom Haberstroh, Zack Harper, Wosny Lambre, and the occasional Tim Mcmahon pop in on there were all awesome together. There were a few others on as well. They had a rotating cast of characters who all played off each other well. And they told great behind the scene stories when they weren't bossa novaing it to music. And of course like ESPN tends to do, they ruin good things that come about organically. All the talk about ESPN's pregame studio show sucking in comparison to Inside the NBA stems from the fact that they clearly micromanage any authentic behavior right out of their on-air talent. Someone mentioned it earlier, but Michelle Beadle was easily the best pre game host out of any of them, who alongside the right crew (here's a hint Jalen and Jason aint it), would've struck the right balance of funny and basketball analysis.
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