The official update thread for former Longhorns

[shadow_operative 15932]

i mean the last time he was here Rick Barnes was still our coach, so it's been a while. 

Edited October 23, 2021 by shadow_operative

[shadow_operative 15932]

[shadow_operative 15932]

[Braff Zacklin 13553]

Had no idea Wangmene was playing Stateside. That's awesome. Great for him.

[LTtxfan 49144]

On 10/24/2021 at 7:42 AM, shadow_operative said:

 

 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20392]

Lamarcus Aldridge is just about to go over 20,000 points for his career.  KD already has about 24,000.  There are only 49 players in history that have more than 20,000 points and I thought "is it possible that UT is the only school with two players over 20,000?"  Then I remembered that U of H had Elvin Hayes and Hakeem Olajuwon and quit thinking about it.

[shadow_operative 15932]

 

 

[LTtxfan 49144]

 

[D_Goose 489]

Siap somewhere

 

 

 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

18 hours ago, D_Goose said:

Siap somewhere

 

 

 

I love interviews like this.  PJ'S pure authenticity is palpable. You could almost feel what he was feeling at that moment he was cut.  

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

Here's the full podcast interview

 

 

 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

Of course JJ brought up Duke destroying us in New Jersey that night.  PJ said that game retired our black uniforms.  Todd Wright was furious and said, "get those fucking uniforms out of here!!!"

[shadow_operative 15932]

Mo Bamba looking like this'll be his breakout year. 

[shadow_operative 15932]

15 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

Mo Bamba looking like this'll be his breakout year. 

 

 

those 1.8 made threes per game are coming on .407 from deep. Vucevic leaving town has really opened the door for Mo to shine and he's taking advantage of the opportunity.

Edited October 30, 2021 by shadow_operative

[ztejas 43411]

On 10/25/2021 at 6:02 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Lamarcus Aldridge is just about to go over 20,000 points for his career.  KD already has about 24,000.  There are only 49 players in history that have more than 20,000 points and I thought "is it possible that UT is the only school with two players over 20,000?"  Then I remembered that U of H had Elvin Hayes and Hakeem Olajuwon and quit thinking about it.

Went ahead and did this because it didn't take long and I enjoy exercises like this. UH actually has 3. The list of schools with 2 is predictably not that deep. Here they are:

3 players:

UCLA - Kareem, Reggie, Westbrook

UH - Hayes, Dream, Drexler

UNC - MJ, Vince, Antawn Jamison

2 players:

Kansas - Wilt, Paul Pierce

LSU - Shaq, Pettit

Wake Forest - Duncan, CP

Georgetown - Ewing, AI

Texas - KD, LMA

 

Also - the out of high school contingent leads all the colleges with 4 guys: LeBron, Kobe, Moses and KG. Also Dwight may hit 20k - he's about 800 away. 

Edited October 31, 2021 by ztejas

[realgreggym 835]

45 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Went ahead and did this because it didn't take long and I enjoy exercises like this. UH actually has 3. The list of schools with 2 is predictably not that deep. Here they are:

3 players:

UCLA - Kareem, Reggie, Westbrook

UH - Hayes, Dream, Drexler

UNC - MJ, Vince, Antawn Jamison

2 players:

Kansas - Wilt, Paul Pierce

LSU - Shaq, Pettit

Wake Forest - Duncan, CP

Georgetown - Ewing, AI

Texas - KD, LMA

 

Also - the out of high school contingent leads all the colleges with 4 guys: LeBron, Kobe, Moses and KG. Also Dwight may hit 20k - he's about 800 away. 

Texas may have been one of the first schools to have 2 starters on the same team play in the same Olympics.

[shadow_operative 15932]

Jarrett Allen is dominating the 1Q in Charlotte. 13 points on 6/7 from the field.

edit: make that 15 on 7/8 FG on the two handed putback dunk.

Allen 1Q: 15 points, 4 reb (3 OREB), 1 blk, 7/ FG

Edited November 1, 2021 by shadow_operative

[NoRagrets 1125]

Our motto for all men’s sports should be “Texas Athletics: No One Does Less with More.”

[Tylerocks 2553]

On 10/29/2021 at 7:38 PM, shadow_operative said:

Mo Bamba looking like this'll be his breakout year. 

Nice to see him actually getting chance to play meaningful minutes.

On the other hand it seems/looks like Jaxson Hayes, after a decent rookie campaign, is losing minutes and numbers are going backwards from last year.

 

[ztejas 43411]

Myles Turner is working on another blocks title early this season. This would be his 3rd - putting him with Ratliff, Hakeem, Mutombo, AD and George Johnson as players with 3 and just behind Kareem, Eaton and Camby who all have 4. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

Amin telling stories about Robert Sarver but I'm posting this here particularly because the person he begins talking about a little after the 19:00 mark is none other than our own Lance Blanks.  

[shadow_operative 15932]

Lance. links is a piece of shit? what's the story there?

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

46 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

Lance. links is a piece of shit? what's the story there?

Ive heard Amin talk about his experiences with Lance (without ever mentioning his name) on multiple podcast and the general gist is Lance was a lazy, middle management type whose only goal upon getting the GM gig was maintaining the GM gig. . He starts talking about it on the RInger NBA show with Raja Bell at 17:40 of this podcast. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

Forgot the podcast 

https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/amin-elhassan-on-his-phoenix-suns-days-shaq-locker/id1109271715?i=1000507751314

 

Quote from the podcast purportedly said verbatim by Lance Blanks:

"I'm the general manager. That means I manage things generally" 

Amin is a great storyteller and he basically describes Lance as the gm version of Michael Scott from the Office. 

Edited November 12, 2021 by Catdaddyhorn

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

Lance also attempted to have a free agent PG workout for the team without getting him to sign waivers which is a baseline NBA protocol checkpoint in those types of circumstances. 

[ztejas 43411]

1 hour ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Ive heard Amin talk about his experiences with Lance (without ever mentioning his name) on multiple podcast and the general gist is Lance was a lazy, middle management type whose only goal upon getting the GM gig was maintaining the GM gig. . He starts talking about it on the RInger NBA show with Raja Bell at 17:40 of this podcast. 

Amin is just salty that he didn't have enough lenf and strenf to cut it in an NBA FO.

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

Unless you're a top-2 level executive you don't make shit in an NBA front office. At least that was the case for the basketball side of the front office up until the mid 00s. I believe Amin made it up to VP of basketball Ops or somewhere below that tier. He tells a story about being elated to get a raise that brought him up to 50K.  

Edited November 12, 2021 by Catdaddyhorn

[shadow_operative 15932]

Jarrett Allen:

 

 

Edited November 13, 2021 by shadow_operative

[Horny Bull 2759]

Greg Brown:

 

[kingkoopa6 8347]

That was sick 

[shadow_operative 15932]

update thread for future Horns. TJ Ford Jr looking like his daddy:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CWo9t0rFAvT/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

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[Blotto 23490]

Allen's Nov splits are pretty stout

His PER is now top 20 

[shadow_operative 15932]

[shadow_operative 15932]

as first reported by MessageBoardUser in the NBA thread:

 

 

[ztejas 43411]

5 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

We cannot let Ford's kid go to fucking aggy. 

[shadow_operative 15932]

big time. anywhere but arkansas, ou, or a&m. i'm pretty sure i could even eventually stomach baylor. but never for those other three. 

[shadow_operative2.0 15950]

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Edited December 11, 2021 by shadow_operative2.0
Fuck, have now fucked up two threads. Stone sober.

[shadow_operative 15932]

Matt Coleman with the poster:

https://www.instagram.com/beyond.am/reel/CYhyr6aI26K/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

 

[Braff Zacklin 13553]

Not the best bump for Jaxson:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33141181/new-orleans-pelicans-jaxson-hayes-charged-domestic-violence-battery-police-officer-connection-july-arrest

I'm sure many (most?) of the charges will be dropped or pled down, but seems like our Sideshow Jax definitely has some issues to work through.

[ztejas 43411]

Here's a better bump for Jaxson: 19/7/3 (blocks) on 9/10 shooting tonight against Cleveland starting at center in place of JoVal. He's been playing pretty well since the New Year. 

[Texastaco20 32]

If anyone wants to be in a longhorn networking community with former horns, we’d love to have you! It was started by Royal Ivey and Cory Joseph! 
 

https://discord.gg/K23by6Gy

Here is a list of former athletes and Coaches that are in our community so far: James Thomas, Matt Hill, Damion James, Mo Isom, Rob Lazare, Andrew Dick, Joe Schwartz, Oggie, Prince Ibeh, Myck Kabongo, Ioannis Papapetrou, Clint Chapman, Lex Wangmene, Kendal Yancy, Demarcus Holland, QB/WR Jerrod Heard, Jaylen Bond, Cam Ridley, Javan Felix, Kris Clack, Ivan Wagner, Ira Clark, and more!

[ztejas 43411]

Yuge. JA becomes the 4th Horn to make the all-star game. 

Slater Martin

Kevin Durant

LaMarcus Aldridge

Jarrett Allen 

[LTtxfan 49144]

 

[shadow_operative 15932]

 

 

 

 

 

highlight reel: 

 

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CagX67mM4ak/?utm_medium=copy_link

[Braff Zacklin 13553]

I miss Kai. We were lucky to have him for two years.

[LTtxfan 49144]

 

[LTtxfan 49144]

 

[OB3 3608]

 

[shadow_operative 15932]

here's why: