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  1. I thought last night's episode was a little more ham fisted than the rest of the season, but it's still really good. Or maybe I'm just being overly critical because I thought the Cent'anni Sophia episode was so great?

    Just seemed like they moved shit along a little too easily. Like, it's really that easy to get to the Maroni's in the middle of a gang war? Four different times in the same episode?

  2. 3 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    The NBA needs expansion because Lonnie Walker couldn't make the roster of the defending NBA Champions? I don't get it.

    Boston, I believe, is in some weird roster crunch with the salary cap that I don't fully understand and signing him may impact moves later this season.

    But yeah.... there are a ton of guys on two way contracts who Lonnie is better than.  That said, Lonnie is one of the more frustrating players I've ever seen. One night he looks like Kobe Bryant. The next 10 he looks like he's never played organized basketball. I've always pulled him though. He seems like a good dude and had a pretty rough upbringing. I can't imagine that he couldn't get rotation minutes for the Nuggets, who are desperate for warm bodies who can hit a three. 

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  3. 5 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

    As far as i know , yeah he seems to have come out the other end aok. Owns a gym and takes people on hikes all over the country, kind of became a Zen master or some such.  Coincidentally to the OP, believe he is in San Antonio.  With a felony on his record, im sure his financial capabilities and other limitations that come with that will be somewhat limited, but at least he is a contributing member of society.  He would be appx 50 by now and not sure how long he did time for.

    He was definitely from San Antonio. My family and his go back a good ways, too. 

    I find it completely unsurprising that I know all of these motherfuckers. 

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  4. Charlotte could be a sneaky play-in / playoff team. I could see it with a healthy Lamelo (yeah... I know) and a rapidly ascending Miller, along with Bridges and by some miracle a healthy Mark Williams, combined with how many hardcore eastern conference tankers there are.

  5. 1 hour ago, dcar00 said:

    NIL is probably the worst thing that could have happened to the dirt burglars.   Similar to when Neb left Big 12.   

    it is always about the Jimmie's and Joe's but coaching will matter more now because you have to figure out how to integrate brand new players every year.

    I don't know how many of their problems are strictly NIL related. Their defense is fine and they have talented players there. And they are well coached for the most part on that side of the ball. 

    They just took a blowtorch to entire offensive side of the ball. I don't know if it was a poor allocation of NIL resources or just a complete fuck up self-evaluating their talent. They did more to screw over their QB position this offseason than Lincoln Riley ever did. They had a whole year to look at Jackson Arnold and decided to hitch their wagon to him instead of doing whatever they needed to keep Gabriel or add some depth in the portal. The offensive line room was horribly, grossly mismanaged. Their best RB from last year is now tearing it up at Wisconsin. He was a fucking walk-on. Did Wisconsin money whip him or did OU just never offer him a scholarship? I honestly don't know. I give them a bit of a pass on WR because of the injuries, but it's not like Pettaway and Thompson weren't good enough to get scholarships from Texas.

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  6. 35 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Oh I like this idea. Let's get some games on the West Coast again. I'd love a home and home with Washington and Oregon.

     

    Is this really happening before they do something about the playoff bids / auto-seeding? Why let the ACC and Big 12 skate by with bullshit non-conference schedules and have the Big10 and SEC rack up another loss that could potentially knock a team out of playoff contention.

  7. I figured this topic would show up on Surly soon enough and yes... this is hitting super close to home on multiple levels.

    I went to high school with Suzanne's sister who is legitimately batshit crazy now. My son is friends with Chelsea (the daughter) and one of his really good friend's step sister is her closest friend. Shit, I dropped a group of kids off at their house for a grad party just a few months ago. I didn't realize Britt Kleber was Brad's sister, though. We know her fairly well, too, both through kids and some other social bullshit. 

    All of this is some really fucked puro San Antonio/Alamo Heights incestual shit. I sweatergawd, this town is closer to being Mayberry than a real city.

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  8. I just can't put too much stock in what Georgia did against MSU. They got complacent with a lead and let a bad team make a game closer than it should have been. They still put up 600 yards of offense on them. They also got caught off guard by a young running QB who Lebby let open it up in the passing game, and none of that was on film. And let's face it, that was a bit of a trap/sandwich game before coming to Austin and after playing a rival in Auburn. 

    I'm curious to see what happens with the injuries on their offensive line this week. Getting Ratledge and their center back should be a big deal for them. Right now they are 13th in the conference in rushing yards/game, which should never happen with their talent on the line and at RB. If we can make them one dimensional, they don't have game breakers at WR and for once I have faith in the secondary to not get torched. 

    Regardless, we are going to get their A game and that team is still very talented. Their backs are up against the wall a bit. They lose this week and it's more likely than not that every game on the rest of their schedule is an elimination game.

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  9. I started this got dam thread and I’m not quite sure how we got from “can you please bring enough bottled water so people don’t stroke out in the stands” and “maybe having more than three assholes checking your e-ticket at each gate would be a good idea” to let’s move the game to Arlington and/ or stop being a pussy and suck it up. But here we are.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Herpa Derpa said:

    Texas needs to do more stomping, but this game regularly has one team crush. Average margin of victory since 2000 is 16.88 points.

     

    And what was the score of that outlier? Beatdowns happen in this game. And this will be one of the best Texas teams coming out that tunnel.

    Each TX/OU game is completely its own animal.

    Below are the 8 games this century that had double digit point spreads. Twice Texas has won outright (in bold) as a dog and covered four more times. That's 6/8 for those of you keeping score at home. This game is generally played closer than what is expected. I can't see any reason that we don't beat the living piss out of them, but I have seen too much shit go down in that stadium. And fuck this being the first time in almost 20 years that we are a double digit favorite against those assholes.

    2019 -- Oklahoma 34, Texas 27 (point spread: Oklahoma -10.5)
    2016 -- Oklahoma 45, Texas 40 (point spread: Oklahoma -13.5)
    2015 -- Texas 24, Oklahoma 17 (point spread: Oklahoma -16.5)
    2014 -- Oklahoma 31, Texas 26 (point spread: Oklahoma -16.5)
    2013 -- Texas 36, Oklahoma 20 (point spread: Oklahoma -13.5)
    2011 -- Oklahoma 55, Texas 17 (point spread: Oklahoma -11)
    2007 -- Oklahoma 28, Texas 21 (point spread: Oklahoma -12)
    2005 -- Texas 45, Oklahoma 12 (point spread: Texas -14)

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  11. 21 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I don't care how it looks. As long as it goes in. Folks on PTR were saying his form does look a little bit different. He appears to have great work ethic. 

    He made a nice little jump 3P% wise from rookie to soph season. He just needs to hit 40ish from the corners and 30 and change from the arc. 

    He can shot put it out of his asshole for all I care if it goes in the basket, but he went from 25% to 31%. Not exactly Steph Curry territory. That ain't even Malaki Branham territory. And he's wide ass open because nobody is even bothering to go out there and stick a hand in his face.

  12. 1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    It's for sure easier for him when he has a defined position and is allowed to occasionally break-out and take advantage for 25 or 30 points. Wemby draws so much attention. Playing with CP should help him as well. 

    Keldon is who he is at this point. I think so is DV. If Jeremy can just keep making incremental improvements - especially from 3 - and be a bit more consistent game to game he'll be a good player. He's the prototype for hitting 5 3s in a random playoff game that the Spurs eek out when the higher usage "stars" have a bad shooting night. 

    Have I mentioned that I want Branham off the roster?

    Agreed. The last few years guys like he and Keldon have been forced to take on too much. Back in the day, they would have slotted into a nice little complementary role around the Big 3. Instead they've had to be the lead dog and I don't think it's benefitted them at all.

    Sochan's role needs to be hustle guy, defensive glue guy, instigator, dunker spot, and get garbage points on putbacks. And he needs to bring energy every night. The dream (for me at least) is pink haired Draymond minus the bullshit, but I don't think he has the IQ for it.

    I didn't see the few 3's that he's launched so far in preseason so I have no idea if his form has gotten any better. But I have little faith in his becoming even a serviceable three point shooter. That sidespin shit is so, so broken.

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