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HookEm

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  1. Shedrick should also help unlock Abmas. He hasn't done much from 3 in his career, but he is 79% FT and 67% 2P%. I will be surprised if he doesn't have a decent midrange game. He only shot seven 3s in his three years at Virginia, and I recall that being part of the reason he left.
  2. Here were the stats from last night if anyone is interested: Onyema is fine for providing some interior toughness off the bench, but he shouldn't be getting more than 10-12 minutes once Shedrick and Disu are back. Replacing his 52% FT with Disu and Shedrick (both ~80%) will be big. They are also much better defenders and MUCH bigger threats both inside and outside. Abmas may take some time to get going, but he is one of the best volume distance shooters in the history of college basketball. There will be days when he goes 2 of 8. And then there will be days when he goes 7 of 12. He has hit 5+ 3s in 20 games over the last two years. He is also going to murder teams at the line. It isn't uncommon for him to go 10/10. In one game last year he went 15/17 at the line. I also don't hate Brock starting. I want to see him getting 20+ mpg. I'm a consistent Brock stan and feel like he is a criminally underrated winner, even by our own fanbase. I also think Hunter has the potential to be a 1st team All-Big 12 type player - and he played like it last night. I really think he was banged up a lot more than was communicated last year. Mitchell looked like an animal as the game progressed. HIs athleticism can't be denied. He has the chance to be the type of long, athletic small forward that we haven't had at UT since Jordan Hamilton (who we forget was a 2nd team All-American, but that is a different topic). I can't wait to watch his development.
  3. It's probably better that I don't watch. WTF
  4. Sure wish I had a stream to this game right about now. Stupid youtubeTV.
  5. Lighten up. It's an all-time great GIF.
  6. Now I will start to pay the price for switching to YouTube TV, which has no LHN. PM me if anyone has a reliable way to stream it.
  7. I personally think this year's team is just as talented as last year's. It is the 2nd or 3rd most experienced team in Texas' history. Our key players (Disu and Abmas) have All-American potential. The team is very well constructed with efficient scorers, defenders, 3 point shooters, etc. It will also be the best free throw shooting team in school history. So, I would say our ceiling is a 1 seed / Final Four. Our floor is maybe a 6-7 seed. I will be disappointed if they don't make the Sweet 16.
  8. I went with my daughter to visit Arkansas earlier this week. Weather was absolutely perfect. Beautiful campus in a beautiful town. If your kid gets into Arkansas, they also get into the major of their choice. And if they decide to change majors, it is apparently easy to do. How novel and refreshing. She is looking at Supply Chain Management possibly double majored with Finance. They apparently have one of the best Supply Chain programs in the country. Makes sense given the close interaction with Walmart. I have a son at UT and honestly think her experience at Arkansas might be better all the way around.
  9. The coldest I have ever been was stuck on a ski lift at Ski Santa Fe with 60 mph winds at -10 degrees F. The second coldest was 2000 OU wearing shorts and a tee shirt. Absolutely miserable.
  10. Gametime kickoff temp is now forecast to be 70 degrees.
  11. I'm not SURE I would rather have Dame than Jrue Holiday. Jrue is a 1st team all-defensive player and great teammate. He also only commands 25% usage vs. Lillard's 34%. Dude is underrated AF. But this tells Giannis you are serious about winning, regardless of how it turns out on the court.
  12. Why not both? FSU may actually be in the SEC by then.
  13. That's fair. Regardless, I'm not saying they will ever get the viewership of the SEC and BIG 10. But I think they are in a great spot relative to the ACC and (defunct) PAC 10. A lot of the viewership will depend on whether the champion is still in the mix or not. If by some chance Colorado runs the table next year all the way to the conference title game and they end up playing a 1 loss Big 12 school (ideally a Texas school), the game will pull huge numbers. Maybe even more than the SEC and Big 10 title games given the Deion hype.
  14. I think the Big 12 will be fine long term. Yes, the SEC and Big 10 will be the premier conferences and will be overrepresented in the playoffs. But the Big 12 will survive because the fanbases care enough to make them survive. And because they don't have any remaining blue bloods, they will have stability while the ACC is on constant poach alert. Last year's Big 12 Title Game drew almost as many viewers as the Big 10 and SEC title games - and didn't feature UT or OU. Once the PAC 12 is gone, they will get a share a solid share of the corner school eyeballs as well. It is hard to predict who will be the dominant Big 12 team over the next 20 years. Colorado looks like a good choice, but who knows how long Prime stays there. Utah has had success in the Pac 10. It could be them. Tech seems committed to the NIL game and seems better positioned than the smaller private schools over the long term. And Kansas is on an up-swing and has the added stability of their basketball program. Honestly, if their football has a decade of success, they would be prime to get poached by the Big 10. It will be interesting to watch. In the meantime, I hope we mud hole every one of them on our F you tour.
  15. Big 12 needs a new media manager if that tweet is the best they can do. Both confusing and stupid.
  16. Ced could turn a 2 yard run into a 5 yard run with regularity. Dude gets criminally underrated as time passes. He was an absolute hoss. Plus he has at least a claim as the best high school player in Texas state history. If he wasn’t such an ass, he would have been a lot more celebrated.
  17. I have Jamaal Charles as #2 on my list of best UT RBs that I have personally watched play. The list goes: Ricky Williams Jamaal Charles Cedric Benson Bijan Robinson Ramonce Taylor D'Onta Foreman
  18. That was me. Thinking about it a little more, if it was my job, I would take the current top 20 hip-hop songs each week... find the 10 with the most suitable or recognizable beats... and then that would be my ambient music when the band wasn't playing. Take the instrumental version and put it on loop. Something CURRENT. And turn up the bass and turn down that shrill ass treble. Damn. Just looking at the spotify current rap top chart, there are a ton of good options. You could play the instrumental version of WAP and I guarantee the student section and players would get fired up. Or Going Bad. Or First Class. Whatever. I don't love any of these songs, but that isn't the point. The players do. And the students do. It has to be better than playing tired AF "Jump" by Van Halen.
  19. After going to the Bama game, our experience seems so amateur in many ways. The Jumbotron is just too loud, the sound quality is TRASH. Also Bama figured out how to do the LED lights. Not stupid strobe crap. Take down the white lights and just bathe the stadium in orange. Done. Bama also would just play ambient hip hop beats that would keep the crowd bumping. NOT 40 year old metal that hurts the ears and kills all the energy. Play something recruits will actually like. Damn it, it isn’t hard. The atmosphere seems designed for 65 yr old grandparents. Bob Cole is horrid. I mean HORRID. He has to go. I found myself wondering what it would be like with someone like Rod Babers doing the stadium commentating. Overall most of what we were doing looked like something Texas Tech would do, but with us just spending more money on it. Seems like we are trying too hard. Amateur hour.
  20. Oh look it's the thread with the stupidest title in the history of Surly back at the top of the basketball board.
  21. One altercation outside the stadium involved a group of college girls running up to us. The lead girl yelling “HORNS DOWN CUNT!!!!!!” said with as much anger as you can imagine. I thought it was hysterical. My friend walked with his horns raised high for at least an hour and a half after the game.
  22. After the game as we were walking around, I put my arm up to my face like an elephant trunk and started telling Tide fans “Trunks down”. They responded by losing their minds. “Horns down fucker!!! HORNS DOWN!!!!!!” I might have been drunk.
  23. Any word from the tailgate? Our group is taking over a Waffle House preparing to head down in a bit.
  24. Disu is critical for this team to have a chance at a deep tourney run. And we need him all year to get a high seed.
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