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  1. Mitch has to work on his halftime adjustments, anticipating the other coach's halftime adjustments, and accounting for what the other team is going to do going into the third quarter. The team is always terrible in every aspect of the game for most of the third quarter. Too many times the Spurs are completely lacking an identity or even a discernible plan of action on offense, which is when you see Dev or others chucking bad shots and making unnecessarily risky passes. Turnovers and Effective Turnovers (shots so bad you might as well just hand the ball to the other team) are what swing the momentum so quickly against the Spurs, which means that on defense you're spending too much time defending fastbreaks (even harder to do without Castle) and even when there isn't a fast break the Spurs are overhelping so much that the opponent is basically guaranteed to find wide open perimeter shots. This is why, even in a league where a 15-point lead is the new 10-point lead, when it comes to the Spurs it truly feels like no lead is ever safe. They could be up 25 points at halftime, and it's still possible for the game to go down to the wire. There are several wins where the game was much closer than the final score would indicate, because the Spurs didn't really put them away until about two minutes left, after multiple lead changes, the Spurs go on like a 9-0 or 11-0 run or something like that. Some of these things will be easier to deal with when Wemby, Harper, and Castle are back, but it will be very evident against elite opponents even if the Spurs are at full strength. This is something Mitch needs to improve, and after seeing many games this season I don't think it can be fixed by experimenting with rotations alone.
  2. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRUo0WUjXfr/
  3. The ball wasn't bobbled by the receiver when he was traveling those five yards, so it was a catch. UIL uses NCAA rules, and the NCAA rule says a ball is caught when the player who is eligible to receive a pass has firm control over the ball and has a foot inbounds. It doesn't matter if the other team's player also has a hand on the ball or is trying to take the ball out. After the ball is caught, the player becomes a ballcarrier (a runner in possession of a live ball) who can lose player possession of the ball. A ballcarrier who has lost player possession of the ball by any act other than passing it, kicking it, or successfully handing it off, has fumbled the ball, meaning any player on the field is eligible to recover it, including the guy who fumbled it.
  4. I can see people going in and out of a women's restroom on the ESPN broadcast. We can actually see into that bathroom.
  5. This looks like a middle school gym. Hilarious
  6. The receiver just carried it in his right arm for five yards without catching it? Here's the whole game, first play of the game, explain to me how the ball travels from the 36-/35-yard line to the 25-yard line without having been caught and fumbled?
  7. Just curious, of this 1-19 who was the valley team that got the single victory over a non-valley team?
  8. There's another angle in the USA Today article. The guy caught it at the 35 yard line, clutching it by the time he reaches the 31 yard line, which is where the strip-out happens (if it hadn't been caught yet that would be blatant DPI). The ball bounces onto the 25 yard line (no whistle, by the way) and the very well coached receiver picks it up and runs into the end zone in contrast with the very poorly coached players all around him that didn't play to the whistle and instead chose to raise their hands up in celebration (especially #13).
  9. There's a very clear strip-out in that video
  10. You are correct. We can't blame Steve Ballmer for this, but if it's any consolation he may have committed some (light) fraud with Uncle Dennis and Kawhi Leonard.
  11. He had firm control and took at least one step before the ball got ripped out. That's a catch and fumble and a lucky lucky lucky Matt Nordgren bounce
  12. Even Epstein figured it out. A builder of a literal pedophile island was like "Trump is the worst person I have ever met"
  13. Basically any office environment is older guys with the money who have all the fun, younger people with the energy who do all the work, and they avoid hiring anyone who isn't a yes-man, and fire the folks who don't "fit the culture" (gargle the balls).
  14. I saw a few people bring up Saban as a joke. Just in case you aren't joking, I would like to remind everyone that Saban's successes mostly came from the pre-NIL days, and that he probably recognized his abilities were diminishing with age, to a point where he was not realistically able to meet the high standard he has set for himself. He would certainly be past his prime, by his own admission, and while that still could mean he would have winning records at almost any program in the country, it doesn't necessarily mean he would do better than 9-3 in the SEC as HC of Texas. How dumb would we look if we spent all that money getting him and then had to spend a lot of money buying him out? Might not end up as much of a trainwreck as Bellichick, but it still wouldn't be our standard nor anywhere near worth the money spent on Saban. For my money, the best option is Marcus Freeman. He has a track record of recent success at a blueblood program, he's young and energetic, has media savvy, and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of off-field distractions. I would stay far the fuck away from G5 fools gold, especially Traylor.
  15. If we beat them, we can save money on the AI by just replacing the shirt on the SHSU comic with an aggy shirt.
  16. ALL OF THIS. If Lane Kiffin is starting to look good, that means it's 2AM and we're too drunk to make a good decision.
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