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HookEm

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  1. Does anybody have a list of potential additions? At this point, I would really like a couple of young, high upside players. Kind of bummed we lost Vinson as I thought he had potential.
  2. The food ranged from great to horrific. Good: Horrific:
  3. I was also in China last week. Flew in to Shanghai, took a bullet train to Nanjing, flew to Yantai, and then back to Shanghai. It was an interesting experience. One of the guys I work with over there asked if I like Trump. I was like.... <crickets>. He goes "We love Trump over here. Everybody does. He's a businessman." I ask "what about the tariffs?" Him: "They will sort themselves out. No problem. Trump is just doing his job. Most Chinese like Trump and love Americans." I was literally shocked. I have to say that in the time I was there, I never got a single sideways glance. No hostility at all. In fact, quite the opposite. Another funny exchange... Every meal would conclude with sliced watermelon and maybe some oranges or tomatoes. I was giving them a hard time and telling them that this is why they are all skinny. In the US, we eat cakes, cookies and ice cream. They eat watermelon. Anyway, one of the Chinese guys leans over to me and quietly asks, "Is it true that in America, if you offer a black man watermelon that he will get mad? Why???". As we spent the day together, I asked him how he learned English so well. He tells me that even though it is banned, he learned a lot from watching South Park. Haha! The earlier watermelon comment then completely checked out.
  4. Getting PJ Haggerty would take this team from a Sweet 16 ceiling to Final Four. That is worth $4M.
  5. My son is a geophysics major at UT's Jackson School and just got an internship up in Alaska for the summer. He will be leading tours out on the Matanuska Glacier glacier and helping with some research. Should be an interesting experience. He will have food taken care of, but is going to have to bring his own tent to live in. I'll probably buy him a Kodiac canvas tent to help make it more bearable, and he can probably get later use out of it if he has to do field work. I'm taking the rest of the family up there in mid July for a week to see him and explore. Thinking we will spend 2 nights around , maybe a night at Denali and a 1-2 nights at Seward with a night coming and going from Anchorage. Let me know if anyone has any update recommendations.
  6. I’m not sure about that. Timmy Allen was 1st team All Pac 10, Marcus Carr was 3rd team All Big 10, Disu was the leading rebounder in the SEC, Bishop had started 62 games for Creighton, Tre Mitchell was 2nd Team A10. And we returned Jones and Ramey who were 2nd and 3rd Team Big 12 respectively. That is a lot of all conference talent. This team doesn’t have nearly the accolades.
  7. He could have always gone to Ole Miss if Beard was the key to his NBA future.
  8. 41” vertical makes up for the height a bit.
  9. Shaq vs AI would be entertaining to watch.
  10. I think it depends on matchups. If KD was matched up with Olajuwon, he probably gets beat. Hakeem would be able to defend KD, but KD would get abused by Hakeem. If KD matched up with say Curry, he probably wins due to his length. But if Curry was matched with Olajuwon, Curry might win because he would kill Hakeem with the 3s. So really I guess the question is… who would win the most matchups. Because there is a bad matchup for everybody.
  11. I think someone like young Hakeem Olajuwon or David Robinson would be tough. Both were great defenders and had the quickness to somewhat stay with guys like Bird or Jordan. But they would murder the smaller players down low. Wilt Chamberlain would also be a handful. Dude was so athletic. There are players I would take in a team game over Wilt, but 1:1 he would be a problem.
  12. I always felt that the description "classless clowns" fit their fanbase pretty well. They can be obnoxious, but not over the top generally. And they usually have some humor about them. They are decent people in the panhandle and take the L when we give it to them. Deep down they don't expect to win, so when we beat them they usually mope back to their cotton farm without much issue. But I will say that few fanbases that we play regularly win worse than Tech. They are horrible winners, from the old ladies in the stands down to the teenager college kids. The worst. It is like years of pent up frustration get let out when they win. Now, when they beat aggy we get to enjoy watching it poured out on them. (E.g. Marching the goal posts up into their stands led by Gap kid). That said, aggies are aggies. There is no comparison. Tech never got more obnoxious than aggies, because such a thing is not possible. Their stupid weirdo chants and fake army BS is just the worst. I also think the rich kid schools (Baylor, TCU, SMU) are worse, but not as bad as aggy obviously. They don't expect to beat us in sports, but they have such a general sense of spoiled rich kid superiority that I just don't like many of their alumni. And if they happen to win, then their trash talk is so smarmy and arrogant.
  13. Full disclosure, I grew up in the panhandle. My parents and in-laws went to Tech. I went to summer school there. I have a nephew that is a student assistant on the football team. My daughter will likely go there. So I have a soft spot for them. Bless their retarded hearts. And if I'm honest, their basketball program has done more with less than Texas over the last 20 years. Their current coach looks like the real deal and they are starting to throw real money into the program. I don't see how anyone could support TCU, Houston, or Baylor over Tech. Especially TCU. I don't think I have ever met an alumni from that school that I like. KU is insufferable. F them too. F K-State as well while we are at it. F Colorado for leaving the Big 12 originally. ISU and Okie Lite are ok. And I don't even consider the other Western schools part of the Big 12 yet. Tech is harmless. The Tech grads I know are ok for the most part. We generally owned them. And I always have enjoyed them punking aggy.
  14. Fair, but Tech is also spending a shit ton on football. Good for them I guess. I would rather they run the Big 12 than anybody else.
  15. It’s annoying to get outspent by Texas Tech
  16. Everything I see has him at 6'7 - 6'8, unless he suddenly grew 2 inches. He seems more like a multi year project and someone who would get 15 mpg max for us next year. Get him if we can, but I would much rather get some guard depth.
  17. Not really. About 30 minutes away.
  18. Doing a little more research here are some good teams and their international players: Florida Alex Condon (Australia) - 10.6 PTS, 7.5 TRB, 2.2 AST - 3rd Team All-SEC Reuben Chinyelu (Senegal) - 6.0 PTS, 6.6 TRB, 0.7 AST Urban Klavzar (Spain) - 3.2 PTS, 0.6 TRB, 0.8 AST Kajus Kublickas (Lithuania) - 0.7 PTS, 1.2 TRB, 0.3 AST Arizona Henri Veesaar (Spain) - 9.4 PTS, 5.0 TRB, 1.3 AST Anthony Dell'Orso (Australia) - 7.2 PTS, 1.4 TRB, 1.4 AST Motiejus Krivas (Lithuania) - 7.9 PTS, 4.5 TRB, 1.1 AST Conrad Martinez (Spain) - 1.6 PTS, 0.3 TRB, 1.0 AST Duke Tyrese Proctor (Australia) - 12.4 PTS, 3.0 TRB, 2.2 AST - 3rd Team All-SEC Khaman Maluach (Senegal) - 8.6 PTS, 6.6 TRB, 0.5 AST - NCAA All Region Tennessee Igor Milicic (Croatia) - 9.4 PTS, 6.7 TRB, 1.9 AST Felix Okpara (Nigeria) - 7.1 PTS, 6.4 TRB, 0.3 AST Looking back over Miller's teams, I'm not seeing a ton of international players. Most years he had basically no international players. Then in 2017 he had Lauri Markkanen and Dusan Ristic, and then the next year he had Deandre Ayton. Outside of those guys it was slim pickings.
  19. Awesome. I'm staying a good ways away at the Marriott Hotel Pudong East. Not sure I will have much time to do any exploring. I'm going to a couple of big chemical complexes while I'm there... BASF-YPC and Wanhua. Should be interesting.
  20. Who are some recent euros like this who have been a key piece of an Elite 8 or better team? Just trying to calibrate.
  21. Any tips? Where is she staying?
  22. No, I'm just stupid. I thought that is how you spelled his name.
  23. In related news, I may have Covid. Joke's on them as I'm bringing it back to them.
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