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  1. good lord, triple post on THAT post of all posts. shouts out tapatalk.
  2. Over in the "Greatest White Players" thread I ended up talking about AJ Abrams, and wondering aloud why he isn't a bigger star/spoken about more often. Here's my post for full context, with the Rick Barnes related portion in bold: He is the greatest shooter in Big XII history, and one of the greatest three point shooters in modern college basketball. And his work rate off the ball is the best I have ever seen. He was a truly special player who for some reason does not get the love that he deserves. I suppose playing with the likes of PJ Tucker, LaMarcus Aldridge, Boobie Gibson, Kevin Durant, and DJ Augustin can have that affect. FUCK i miss when we were THAT fucking good with stacked rosters full of well coached players. Every player I just named played basketball for Texas in the same calendar year of 2006. In one year we had that much talent (plus AJ Abrams and Damion James) on campus and playing at the FEC. Between the 05/06 and 07/08 seasons Texas went 86-24 (average season 29-8), finished 1st, 3rd, and 1st in the Big XII, and went to the Elite 8 twice. Here's the numbers from 2006: I've posted the same stats from basketball-reference many times during the Shaka era, and we rank in the low 200's and even the low 300's in literally 3x as many categories as we do ranking in even the top 100 of anything, which itself is no high benchmark. Ranking this highly at this many things, as we did so often under Barnes, should be remembered more. But it's not. Why? Well... Ahh, the 2007 season, a season about which I've probably already typed 100,000 words both here and at TOS. This is the one season from this time period that for some reason most UT fans choose to remember, and all of them remember it incorrectly. We finished 25th in KenPom; we had one single win over a team ranked in the top 50 (the 2OT win vs Acie Law at home). We lost at home to K State (way worse loss than USC). We were very exciting offensively, featuring DJ, AJ, and KD, but the truth is that we spent most of the year unranked, and in fact the 07 Horns were just never that great of a team to begin with. Maybe the 7th or 8th best team under Barnes, no higher. Still, what an amazingly enjoyable season to witness. Never seen anything like the show KD put on for us from November into March. But then March did come, and we lost to USC, and Bill Simmons made a huge deal out of it, and all anyone remembers is that the 35-0 juggernaut Longhorns lost to some scrub team with a shitty coach and no NBA talent. What a shame that so many of our hoops fans have taken what was such an amazing and enjoyable season, and decided that the final game of that season (and the accompanying anger) is what will linger in their minds forever from this time period, not even realizing that this ridiculously enjoyable season was actually the low point of a pretty amazing three year stretch of Texas basketball. Now back to the pretty pictures and 30-win teams that play into the third weekend of the tourney with alarming frequency: The numbers from 2008: So, the same team as the year before, only swap out KD for Gary Johnson, and the team wins 31 games, goes 13-3 in the league (tied for first with KU), destroys #13 (final KenPom ranking) Tennessee on a neutral floor, beats #4 UCLA (Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, Darren Collison) at Pauley Pavilion, beats #1 KU at the FEC, finishes ranked 9th in KenPom, and plays into the third weekend of the tourney for the third time in six years. Yeah, Rick Barnes sucks. What's crazy is that all of this stuff came right after the TJ Ford era, which itself came right after Barnes took the job and won the league in his first year. More than a decade of Texas hoops being exciting to watch, replete with All Americans, future pros, and national award winners, and yet that one loss to USC is all that 4/5 Texas hoops fans point to/think of when they talk about Rick Barnes. What a shame. And now he's gone and immediately turned Tennessee from a basketball bottom dweller in a football conference, to a nationally relevant program in no time. 103, 57, 13, 10- those are Tennessee's final KenPom rankings in Barnes' first four years there. And after losing the entire roster from the fourth team and having a down year this year, the Vols have the no.5 recruiting class in America with two five stars and a high four star incoming. Yeah- Barnes sucks. In reality, Rick Barnes is like the Andy Reid of college hoops- great regular season coach, great eye for talent and how to utilize it, always makes the postseason, but always comes up short. And just like Andy Reid (prior to this past SB) Barnes is one title away from being a *lock* for the Hall of Fame. He's been that good for that long, and he's done it everywhere he's been. Andy Reid got his title this year, and he's going to the HOF. So will Barnes if he wins one in Knoxville. But even if he doesn't win that national title, he is right there on the outside looking in on the HOF, which squarely puts him in the upper echelon of college basketball coaches, even if he's not in the very top group. He's going to hit 800 wins in the next 3-4 years, and he even has an outside shot at 900, coaching exclusively at football schools since 1994. There's a whole lot of our fans who need to stop hating and put some respect on that man's name, and start appreciating everything he did here while they're at it. If Shaka hasn't shown you just how good we had it under Barnes then nothing will. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. welp, can't make the post until tapatalk gets it shit together.
  4. super long post incoming, and i'm putting a **SERIOUS** tag on it, because i'm not going to put this much time, thought, and effort into a post just so that herpa, immortal, deej, and the rest of children can scare off any adults who may actually be interested in discussing the thread/post topic by shitting all over everything before anyone else can even reply.
  5. AJ Abrams: Freshman: 46-118, .390 Sophomore: 120-284, .423 Junior: 118-309, .382 Senior: 105-265, .396 Career 3P%- .399 3PA/3PM as a Jr and Sr: 223-574 3P% as a Jr and Sr: .389 He is the greatest shooter in Big XII history, and one of the greatest three point shooters in modern college basketball. And his work rate off the ball is the best I have ever seen. He was a truly special player who for some reason does not get the love that he deserves. I suppose playing the likes of PJ Tucker, LaMarcus Aldridge, Boobie Gibson, Kevin Durant, and DJ Augustin can have that affect. FUCK i miss when we were THAT fucking good with stacked rosters full of well coached players.
  6. Brandy perryman and Aj abrams? Yes on Perryman. He is Player A. I'm gonna spoil who Player B is now:
  7. Gonna throw out some stats of two former college hoopers who each played for four years. At the end I'm going to ask you to name those players. Here we go. 3 Point shooting player comparison: Player A: Freshman: 44-99, .444 Sophomore: 65-194, .335 Junior: 59-166, .355 Senior: 42-126, .333 Career 3P%- .359 3PA/3PM as a Jr and Sr: 101-292 3P% as a Jr and Sr: .345 Player B: Freshman: 12-47, .255 Sophomore: 61-178, .343 Junior: 51-130, .392 Senior: 46-130, .354 Career 3P%- .351 3PA/3PM as a Jr and Sr: 97-260 3P% as a Jr and Sr: .373 So, based on just looking at these numbers, it appears that Player A peaked as a freshman, where thereafter he was mostly a volume shooter who cumulatively shot less than 35% from deep over his final three seasons in college. Player B on the other hand was terrible as a freshman, but then backed it up with a pretty nice final three years in college, shooting nearly 40% as a junior, while cumulatively shooting over 37% during his final two years. That's the conclusion we can draw based on looking at these numbers anyway. Now then- name those players.
  8. just up the thread some people that said that VG really isn't running this show, and with the aforementioned blunders involving the water and the piss, i'd be shocked if VG made that episode. edit: went and looked it up, and this was actually the only episode of this season (to this point) that *was* directed by VG. I guess it showed up in the cinematography and the general tone, pace, and feel, but having Mike be so unprepared and uninformed pretty tough to get over.
  9. ok, this dude really just drank his pee. that is so dumb.
  10. i haven't finished the episode yet- had to stop to come here because this is bothering me so much. first, the episode has been great. best in a long time. this show hasn't had a scene that gripping in i don't know how long. the cinematography and the score have been awesome as well. with all of that said-you don't ration water! hello! Mike Ehrmantraut of all people would know this. Taking it sip by sip with long breaks in between will get you dead a helluva lot faster than filling up on what you've got and trying to conserve energy until you can get more. great episode, but christ that's bugging me. i've never even been hiking out in a desert area and even i know that. also, you don't drink pee. it's hot as shit and will only make your core temperature rise. for Mike to even suggest that, and for Jimmy to be carrying it around like he might eventually decide to drink it is the type of thing that the BB universe used to never get wrong. but then again i recently found out (via this thread) that VG is no longer running the show, so i guess it makes sense.
  11. surly celebrity deathmatch, Covid-19 edition: Fondren vs ztejas, boxing match in Pflugerville at my mom's crib, $10 entry fee to spectate, must keep six feet between you and the next man. except for ztejas and fondren; they gone be boxing each other.
  12. fuck that noise. you aren't responsible for other people's reactions to what you post. the truth is that KM's personality and actions do matter. For example, if I had a baseball HOF vote I would never ever vote for Barry Bonds because he was an EPIC asshole during his career. Karl Malone's off-court happenings *are* relevant. Nobody wants to coronate a serial deadbeat dad and a rapist. Don't apologize or backtrack on bringing these things up during this discussion. it matters.
  13. you're right. to say that he will easily exceeed Hakeem is too much. still, if i may rephrase my original statement, he projects to be the best European born player ever. the kid is truly an all-time talent for his age. he's amazing.
  14. that, and the fact that Luka is a transcendent player who projects to *easily* be the best foreign born player in NBA history by the time he retires.
  15. dude, Karl Malone would be *hated* in today's NBA. hated. i mean shit, he was already hated in his own day! he's *easily* the best player of all time who nobody likes. in today's game? he'd have trouble playing 70 games a year due to all of the suspensions. he'd be the most hated man in basketball.
  16. If Magic never caught HIV then the argument between him and MJ would be razor thin imo. Probably the two most talented players ever.
  17. The 2008 US Army American game was held at the Alamodome. I got tickets for myself and a buddy who lived in SA because A)it was close to home, and B)Alex Okafor was playing in the game and representing Pflugerville. We got some pretty good seats- 45 yard line, maybe 4th or 5th row. We showed up early, and were already in our seats when some truly giant human beings came and sat down in front of us. Me to my buddy: Me: "Uh, is that Karl Malone?" Buddy: "No, it's another 6'10", 250 lb black dude in a Carhartt hat." Me: "Ok, dick." Sure enough, Karl Malone was right in front of us with his wife and some of his kids who he actually claimed. Still, there was a tall/athletic white guy and his family sitting next to The Mailman, and my buddy and I recognized him as well. It took us a second, but we eventually figured out who it was- Easy Ed McCaffery. His son (some kid named Christian) and Malone's kid were on the same Pop Warner team and were playing in some sort of PW all star game at half time. It's actually one of my cooler memories- watching Christian McCaffery play in 4th grade and then drafting his ass on my way to a fantasy title. HOWEVER-that is not the point here. Here is the crux of the matter: Maybe 10 minutes before half time of the AA Game some guy from NBC came and grabbed KM and asked him to come down to the sidelines for an interview. KM obliged. When the interview started they aired it on the big screen in SA, and during *the entire interview* Malone was booed so loudly by the crowd in SA that you couldn't even hear him. It was hilarious. And with his wife and kids sitting literally inches/feet away from me/my buddy, it was crystal clear that the entire family was 100% used to this. They were unfazed. This was old hat to them. That in and of itself made the entire trip worth it. We, as Americans, can have some serious fundamental disagreements, but one thing that everyone in this country outside of Utah can agree on is this: FUCK KARL MALONE! Seriously, one of the funniest encounters of my lifetime. Shouts out to eberyone in the Alamodome that day for booing the living Christ out of Karl Malone for his entire interview. Truly hilarious and something i'll never forget. edit: I have photos of this somewhere. i'll try and find them and post them.
  18. what kind of moron would put Kobe ahead of Bird? ever? like, for any reason? sounds like a real water head to me.
  19. ok, i've actually gotten some sleep for the first time in two weeks, and i've got fresh eyes. let's see how i'm feeling today: 1.MJ 2.Magic 3.LeBron 4.Larry 5.Kareem 6. Hakeem 7.Duncan 8.Russell 9.Wilt 10.Oscar
  20. yep, that's another ridiculous athlete. take out Williams or Hamm for Sims and you still have probably the most athletic lineup in America.
  21. am i tally the first one to mention George Mikan and Slater Martin?
  22. It's so cool that the Cubs actually won the WS and are no longer in this conversation. Shouts out to Parks and Rec for the prophecy!
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