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Goo Punch

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  1. welp, you're not gonna see this coming (for real), but as a Jack Wilshere fanboi I must agree. I like a midfielder with an edge. One who'll fight a guy, down a few pints, smoke a few fags (pause), and show up to training in the morning.
  2. Duncan Robinson is 7-8 FG (7-8 3PA) at half time. Is that good?
  3. Eric Dier in the stands, apparently fighting a fan:
  4. Spurs and Norwich going to penalties. Quarterfinal draw wrapping up now as well. edit: lol, Tim Krul owns Spurs and it's Norwich who moves on. Newcastle vs Man City Chelsea vs Leicester Arsenal vs Sheffield United Norwich vs Man United
  5. so easy for me to say, but if i'm the AD, and John Beilein just got miraculously dropped into my lap, i don't give a shit what Shaka does short of a run to the Final Four- he's gone. I've got more than enough info that says that Shaka is out of his element in a top flight league, and a serendipitous two-week run at the end of his fifth season here changes nothing.
  6. while the point about our defensive philosophy impacting our rebounding. umbers is true, it's also true that Shaka has been forced to go away from those four guard lineups that he loves so much, like we're just like, "fuck it, we don't need any rebounds." now you add two guys who really know the art of rebounding into the mix for 25-30 minutes a game and suddenly we are getting offensive boards and put backs. philosophy or not, the lineup changes have tangibly impacted our rebounding.
  7. we've always been a poor shooting team that shoots a ton of threes, and we've always been a team that is awful at rebounding. An injury crisis forces Shaka's unused bench players into big roles, and what happens? Hamm and Cunningham come in and our rebounding improves markedly, and it coincides with a five game stretch where we shoot 44% from deep as a team (which just can't happen if Febres is playing 30 minutes and going 2-8 from deep 3/4 nights. our defense also improves markedly without Febres/with Hamm and Brock). Shaka gets forced into completely changing his personnel decisions, and the team is now irrefutably better for it. ain't that some shit? this is the basketball version of what happened with our football team, when plain old bad luck and repeated injuries ended up forcing a coach to get out his own way, resulting in a better team. Specifically, Jordan Shipley missing two seasons due to injury, and ending up staying at Texas for six years. If that doesn't happen, then Colt McCoy doesn't have Jordan Shipley for his junior and senior year, which would have drastically changed things. On top of that, If Blaine Irby doesn't Mike Wacker his knee in El Paso at the Hand Job Bowl, then Greg Davis doesn't stumble into using Jordan Shipley as a flex TE, a crucial element in Texas upsetting OU, and going on to become the best team in the nation. WAY TO GO SHAKA AND GREG! YOU GUYS DID IT! YOU GUYS ARE GREAT COACHES!!!
  8. i love all of the CBB writers/analysts who don't even watch our games coming out of the woodwork talking about "what a great job Shaka Smart has done to turn this team around". that's pulitzer level stuff folks. if Matt doesn't hit that miracle shot last night then we lose, we're on the wrong side of the bubble, and the writers/analysts continue to ignore us/know essentially nothing about us. but the shot did go in, and it was all over ESPN, and now all of the hot takes about "Shaka Smart righting the ship" are out in full force. I'd love to see these guys have to type more than 120 characters, and expound on their claims that Shaka has done a great job. Fucking lazy-ass, twitter-era journalism.
  9. Dancing after breaking OU hearts on Senior Night in Norman sure feels a lot better than dancing after a 1 point home win vs McNeese State. 🤘🏼 🤘🏼 🤘🏼
  10. yeah that was very well played. LOL'd hard.
  11. ...and Greg Brown will be playing somewhere else. once thought to be a Texas lock because of his relationship with Shaka, GBIII is now almost certain to be playing at Auburn, Memphis, Kentucky, or some other school not named Texas next year. the last two years took a lot of shine off of UT, and GBIII's dad (former Longhorn DB Greg Brown, who is running the show here), says that winning big in Greg's one year of college will be his top priority. Also, we aren't going to pay him as much as Auburn or Memphis will, so we're shit out of luck. 🤷🏼‍♂️
  12. the energy he brings has been missing from this program since Shaka's first year when he had a team led by Isaiah Taylor, replete with senior talent (Barnes guys who are conditioned to play hard, your Lammert, Holland, and Felix types), and hungry freshman guards. What Hamm and Brock brought to the table last night is invaluable for this team. absolutely love guys who give max effort like this.
  13. gonna catch this one on my DVR tomorrow. the couple times i clicked over during the ou game commercials all i saw was kentucky whooping them, and then check by check the score kept getting closer. i caught a couple of Fulkerson's late game plays. watching him, Brock, and Hamm tonight was great.
  14. fucking terrible job by Shaka down the stretch. drawing up a play for Ramey who has been terrible is just fucking ridiculous, and then having the next possession feature zero passes and a wild, turnaround air ball...fucking horrible.
  15. get the ball in AJ's hands. he's our best play maker and as has been mentioned, he's clutch at the line.
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