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I Plead Da Fif

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  1. Yeah we’re fucked. A few shitty overpaid assets we want to get rid of and have no draft picks to sweeten the deal and MPJ making boatloads of money and he’s playing too well this year for them to dump his contract. The only way we were making a move is if Watson or Strawther was included along with dead weight and Watson just got hurt. Nnaji and to a lesser extent Saric deals are looking really fucking dumb, but Nnaji has played better the past few games.
  2. C’mon man Tre is the ultimate competitor he isn’t gonna pull some shit like that.
  3. Was really looking forward to this being a statement game for the rest of the season. Now we’ve got Pryor, Shedrick, and potentially Tre injured. Not great boys.
  4. And Tre looks like he just got injured
  5. <aggy>Better than expected! Better than expected!</aggy>
  6. Any idea when we can expect him back. Feel like we’re really missing his leadership, defense, rebounding and no nonsense energy.
  7. Dammit. We should have won this game. So fucking dumb.
  8. I grilled some hamburgers tonight so at least I also had some home cooking.
  9. And the call on Mark while ball handler was pushing off the whole time. Alright I’m done.
  10. I mean the main difference is Ole Miss just started playing more physical (re: fouling) and the refs aren’t calling it. This one we’re going to have to earn.
  11. How the fuck is that not a charge
  12. About as good of a half as we could ask for right now minus Kent coming in and fucking up repeatedly. We’re not even shooting as well as we’re capable of and Ole Miss’s best runs just do enough to keep the game close.
  13. If only Royal Ivey had some head coaching experience beyond a national team. Would seem like a pretty obvious fit that would get a lot of Texas alums who went to the NBA around the program.
  14. Thanks for learning me on the behind the scenes with Shaka. Makes total sense. At least we can say our basketball hire shortcomings are getting less bad with RT compared with Shaka *ducks*.
  15. Was personally painful for me as I had hosted some friends with my wife with dinner made and everything thinking we could have a fun time chatting and somewhat paying attention to a game in hand for the good guys and watching some of the others for upsets. Instead ended up being me in shock/not in a good mood to shoot the shit with people that couldn’t care less about the result of the Texas game. To this day I still don’t understand how Shaka failed here but was successful at VCU and now Marquette. It just doesn’t make me super confident that any new hire will really excel here. Beard looked like he was gonna be that guy, but then stranglegate occurred.
  16. It would seem with Ole Miss not being strong on the offensive glass bodes well for us.
  17. Completely agree with points 1 and 2, but your take is also seeding doesn’t matter until it does. So seeding matters, just not as much as how well your team is playing down the stretch. Our identity is a collection of scorers who don’t really play cohesively well and has started to play good d, but can’t rebound. Will be very interesting to see how we finish. As JS alluded to, down the stretch schedule is much easier than first 4 games in conference, but we need to beat Vandy or Miss St away and upset one of Bama or UK and win the games we’re supposed to win to gain momentum heading into the SEC tournament. 2 wins in the SEC tournament with a strong finish in conference should put us in that 5-7 range with some confidence of being a second weekend team. Will we be better with Chendall Weaver back on the floor? We need the rebounding help and he’s a beast on that front and our best defender, but whose minutes will he take? Kent’s? Larry has been looking good lately as a distributor and on ball defender. I don’t think we sacrifice Pope’s minutes much either with his scoring potential. Excited to see if RT can earn his money and get the most out of our iso ball team. Kaluma, Pope, Mark, and Johnson are as good of a set of scorers as we’ve had since our elite 8 underachieving run in RT’s roster inheriting year, and all are experienced, Johnson excepted.
  18. Was talking about our loss to Ohio State. They also have a bad loss recently to Minnesota in conference. Texas’s bad losses are Ohio State (first game of the year) and UF blowout. UM similarly was blown out by Purdue. You state a great case as to why Michigan should be rated higher than us. My point was that if we don’t lose to Ohio State who has proven to be a very average team, we’re not that different in resume and the 7 seed difference is not deserved. The 2 away wins they have in conference for teams that aren’t shit are definitely something we’re lacking in at this point. No dispute there.
  19. Just took a look at Lunardi’s updated bracketology, and man I get it’s early but WTF. Updated as of this morning: Texas playing UCF in the play-in as a 12 to then play 5 seed Arizona. He’s got Michigan at a 5 seed, which to me Texas with one result flipped (Ohio State) has pretty much the same resume as Michigan. Bullshit. Lesson learned: don’t peep bracketology until 3rd week of Feb. Let’s take care of business boys. We pull off an upset tomorrow night and we’re looking at 3 straight wins against quad 1 ranked opponents, and 2 relatively easy games afterward that could put us at 6-4 in conference looking at not just making the tournament, but with a strong finish, 6 seed. Here’s hoping Kaluma’s knee better ASAP.
  20. I stand corrected. Thanks for bringing facts to the discussion. Was going off of eye test and clearly my eyes lied. Or I was just giving him too much credit for 2023.
  21. Copped a pair of his shoes. Looking forward to sporting them for the Nuggets tickets I have for second half of season: Lakers, Timberwolves and Spurs.
  22. You’re entitled to your opinion sir. It’s not even fair to say he’s only accurate in one-read throws. If you rewatch games sober you’ll see 3 go through progressions and make big plays on his 3rd read for first downs. It was obvious to me because most every QB since Colt has struggled here, and it’s like we’re projecting the sins of the past onto Quinn. Quinn struggled with moving around the pocket to extend plays, deep ball accuracy, and injuries. He was elite in short and intermediate, first game or two back from oblique forgiven. When Arch played, it was clear as day that he was much less than in the short game. That matters. Short game is low risk. You take shots to stretch the D and make big plays and free up the run game but the modern college football game is about the short and intermediate. Deep balls by definition are higher risk higher reward plays.
  23. Absolutely don't agree here. Countless times during games commentators mentioned that Quinn is leading receivers in stride in the short game that turn a 1 or 2 yard gain into a 6-8 yard gain.
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