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  On 4/8/2021 at 10:03 PM, mr. sunshine said:

You do realize that in the “blame the messenger” analogy the poor messenger is delivering somebody else’s message and not his own?

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Yep, Mr. Roethlisberger, you've decoded the meaning of a well known saying. Excellent job.

In this particular instance the messenger relayed everything the basketball world knew about Shaka, and for that you're mad at him.

But really, you're actually mad at Shaka because he didn't fulfill his promise of being a basketball savant that won lots of games and took Texas on deep tourney runs. Your anger towards Bitterwhiteguy is misdirected. He just relayed that Shaka speaks like a basketball coaching genius with an extremely successful HAVOC system. It's not his fault Shaka turned out to be a fraud that didn't run the system he was known for.

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  On 4/9/2021 at 12:32 AM, Hornlover said:

Yep, Mr. Roethlisberger, you've decoded the meaning of a well known saying. Excellent job.

In this particular instance the messenger relayed everything the basketball world knew about Shaka, and for that you're mad at him.

But really, you're actually mad at Shaka because he didn't fulfill his promise of being a basketball savant that won lots of games and took Texas on deep tourney runs. Your anger towards Bitterwhiteguy is misdirected. He just relayed that Shaka speaks like a basketball coaching genius with an extremely successful HAVOC system. It's not his fault Shaka turned out to be a fraud that didn't run the system he was known for.

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You seem angry 

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  On 4/9/2021 at 12:32 AM, Hornlover said:

Yep, Mr. Roethlisberger, you've decoded the meaning of a well known saying. Excellent job.

In this particular instance the messenger relayed everything the basketball world knew about Shaka, and for that you're mad at him.

But really, you're actually mad at Shaka because he didn't fulfill his promise of being a basketball savant that won lots of games and took Texas on deep tourney runs. Your anger towards Bitterwhiteguy is misdirected. He just relayed that Shaka speaks like a basketball coaching genius with an extremely successful HAVOC system. It's not his fault Shaka turned out to be a fraud that didn't run the system he was known for.

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BWG kept spouting that message for years, well after 99% of UT hoops fans saw Shaka for who he is: even during (after?) year 4 BWG was writing that that no other coach would be doing a better job than what Shaka had been doing at Texas, and posited that us plebs were simply not knowledgeable enough to realize it. so, yeah. 

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  On 4/9/2021 at 3:49 PM, Machinator said:

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Thank you Thank you Washington is pretty damn good. 

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  On 4/9/2021 at 12:32 AM, Hornlover said:

Yep, Mr. Roethlisberger, you've decoded the meaning of a well known saying. Excellent job.

In this particular instance the messenger relayed everything the basketball world knew about Shaka, and for that you're mad at him.

But really, you're actually mad at Shaka because he didn't fulfill his promise of being a basketball savant that won lots of games and took Texas on deep tourney runs. Your anger towards Bitterwhiteguy is misdirected. He just relayed that Shaka speaks like a basketball coaching genius with an extremely successful HAVOC system. It's not his fault Shaka turned out to be a fraud that didn't run the system he was known for.

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Uh, we were just having a laugh about a blogger who anointed Shaka as the second coming of Larry Brown and John Wooden till you blustered in with your deadpan humorless defense of said "spot on" analysis.

And bro, nobody is "mad" or "angry."  Have you been on the basketball boards at all the last four years?  These last two weeks have been like one long Christmas miracle.

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I think we can sum Shaka up with "you are what your record says you are".  he got 2 extra years of pay, IMO, due to Covid and stupid as shit extension.

I didn't care what he said in interviews or public events. he never embarrassed Texas in public or recruiting(which is table stakes and not hard to do if you aren't an idiot) but we took the beatings and embarrassment on the court.

 we were lucky Marquette had an opening.   good luck Marquette.

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  On 4/12/2021 at 11:57 AM, Rockethorn1978 said:

What are the realistic chances of us landing ty Washington? 

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No clue but sounds like Kansas might have a chance to land Pinson from Missouri. I would think that means they're out on Ty Ty Washington. Pinson apparently announced that he was down to LSU and Kansas last night. 

That would really help because I think Kansas was the favorite to land Washington. 

But there are a lot of schools involved with Washington. Also, I think Howard (the assistant Texas just hired) was the lead recruiter on Washington at Kansas. 

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  On 4/12/2021 at 10:41 PM, texasstrong12 said:

#2 JUCO

 

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According to 247, he signed an LOI. They didn't lose their coach, did they?

I'm confused about someone just saying "You know that binding contract? Yeh, well, even though nothing has changed, I'm just going to act like I never signed it.

How is that possible? What am I missing?

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  On 4/12/2021 at 11:10 PM, Napoleon said:


According to 247, he signed an LOI. They didn't lose their coach, did they?

I'm confused about someone just saying "You know that binding contract? Yeh, well, even though nothing has changed, I'm just going to act like I never signed it.

How is that possible? What am I missing?

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Those mean nothing this year. 

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  On 4/12/2021 at 11:10 PM, Napoleon said:


According to 247, he signed an LOI. They didn't lose their coach, did they?

I'm confused about someone just saying "You know that binding contract? Yeh, well, even though nothing has changed, I'm just going to act like I never signed it.

How is that possible? What am I missing?

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I'm guessing Bama informed him or gave their blessings to check for other options. Charles Bediacko recently signed with them in the last week. 

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  On 4/12/2021 at 11:10 PM, Napoleon said:


According to 247, he signed an LOI. They didn't lose their coach, did they?

I'm confused about someone just saying "You know that binding contract? Yeh, well, even though nothing has changed, I'm just going to act like I never signed it.

How is that possible? What am I missing?

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"binding contract" - lmao

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  On 4/12/2021 at 11:10 PM, Napoleon said:


According to 247, he signed an LOI. They didn't lose their coach, did they?

I'm confused about someone just saying "You know that binding contract? Yeh, well, even though nothing has changed, I'm just going to act like I never signed it.

How is that possible? What am I missing?

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I'll have to consult Bru Mccoy and get back to you

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Posted
  On 4/13/2021 at 2:36 AM, Js1 said:

Febres confirms he’s running it back 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNltuxeljv3/?igshid=1ei28axqzbujd

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What part of his game will Coach Beard & Co. help him develop the most so that he is much better in this coming year than he was last year?

I'm guessing "Defense" would be the normal answer, but I was wonder also if:
-Catch & Shoot?
-Moving his feet on defense?
-Not falling for the pump fake?
-Making better passes?...

I'm just wonder what his deficiencies were that made people uncomfortable when he was on the floor. And whether the new coaching staff could help those deficiencies. 

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I think he is going to be better this year regardless of the coach. He seemed like he was gradually getting his legs back under him as the year progressed. I think the knee injury really affected him and it can take a while to fully recover your game and ven after your body is ok.

This is great news IMO.

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it's fine news, it isn't great news. Kai Jones returning would be great news. this TyTy kid committing might be great news. Jase Febres returning is a good thing, but it's far from a game changer. he's a good spot-up shooter who I'm happy to have back, but we still have such an uphill battle to field a competitive roster at this point that we shouldn't get too worked up over a career 6.9 ppg one-trick pony announcing his return. 

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  On 4/13/2021 at 8:51 AM, Napoleon said:

What part of his game will Coach Beard & Co. help him develop the most so that he is much better in this coming year than he was last year?
I'm guessing "Defense" would be the normal answer, but I was wonder also if:
-Catch & Shoot?
-Moving his feet on defense?
-Not falling for the pump fake?
-Making better passes?...
I'm just wonder what his deficiencies were that made people uncomfortable when he was on the floor. And whether the new coaching staff could help those deficiencies. 

Despite flashes of showing some offensive ability (he pump faked and drove the lane once for a dunk), he has exhibited many bad habits / deficiencies that were not corrected or improved in his stay here... the ones that bothered me most included his unwillingness to box out for rebounds and lazy reaching on defense... on offense he fell in love (and was not coached up otherwise) with just standing in the corner and allowed his defender to cheat off him and rest...

even when he was hot in rare games on offense, his weak defense ended up putting him on the bad side of the +\- column...

his overall physicality and effort reminded me of a skilled junior high kid getting a taste of being bullied around by a grown man and being intimidated by it... a change in mindset and some firm coaching could make him a useful player this year...


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  On 4/13/2021 at 12:33 PM, shadow_operative said:

it's fine news, it isn't great news. Kai Jones returning would be great news. this TyTy kid committing might be great news. Jase Febres returning is a good thing, but it's far from a game changer. he's a good spot-up shooter who I'm happy to have back, but we still have such an uphill battle to field a competitive roster at this point that we shouldn't get too worked up over a career 6.9 ppg one-trick pony announcing his return. 

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Given that we're in "we need enough players to field a full roster of non-walkons" mode, I think Febres coming back isn't something to get too sniffy about.

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like i said, i'm happy about it, but the news doesn't really move the needle for me. how many extra wins will we have next year because of this news? 'none' would be my guess. when we start getting some news that leads me to believe that we won't be a complete dumpster fire next season, then i might call that great news. returning a bench/bit player is not that. 

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Febres is nothing special but he's a decent role player off the bench. As Texifornia said, Texas is gonna need bodies at this point to fill out a roster. 

Right now the roster is Febres, Cunningham, Tyson and probably A. Jones. So 9 more scholarships to divide between potential returning players, JUCO, TyTy Washington and transfers. 

Texas really needs one or two more out of Brown, Ramey, Sims, and Coleman to return because finding as many quality players as Texas needs will not be an easy task. 

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  On 4/13/2021 at 6:30 PM, texasstrong12 said:

Febres is nothing special but he's a decent role player off the bench. As Texifornia said, Texas is gonna need bodies at this point to fill out a roster. 

Right now the roster is Febres, Cunningham, Tyson and probably A. Jones. So 9 more scholarships to divide between potential returning players, JUCO, TyTy Washington and transfers. 

Texas really needs one or two more out of Brown, Ramey, Sims, and Coleman to return because finding as many quality players as Texas needs will not be an easy task. 

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i think that Brown, Sims, and Coleman are all gone. maybe Sims gets talked into staying for one more year. that would also be exciting news were it to transpire.

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A lot of Kentucky fans are going to trash him for this season, but he's young for his year and their whole team was a shitshow. The only players who were remotely in a position to succeed by the end of the year were Dontaie Allen and Isaiah Jackson.

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