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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Ted Emerich really knows how to let the game come to him.
  2. https://texassports.com/news/2018/1/3/mens-basketball-nba-star-kevin-durant-donates-3-million-to-the-university-of-texas.aspx Kevin Durant 01.04.2018 | Men's Basketball NBA star Kevin Durant donates $3 million to The University of Texas 2017 NBA Finals MVP makes the largest donation ever by a former Texas Basketball student-athlete. AUSTIN, Texas – Former University of Texas star and 2007 consensus National Player of the Year Kevin Durant is donating $3 million to UT to support Texas Basketball and the Center for Sports Leadership and Innovation. Durant's donation is the largest outright gift by a former Texas Basketball student-athlete in school history and among the largest gifts ever by any professional athlete to his alma mater. In honor of the contribution, of which $2.5 million will go to Texas Basketball, the main entrance to Denton A. Cooley Pavilion will be named The Kevin Durant Texas Basketball Center. In addition, the men's basketball facilities will be named The Kevin Durant Basketball Facility for Men. "My time as a Longhorn helped build the foundation for who I am today as a player and a person, and the UT team will always be my family," said Durant. "It's important to me to continue to give back to The University and ensure that future student-athletes have all the opportunities they need to succeed. It's an honor to have such a close and unique relationship with Texas Basketball, and I'm grateful to be able to contribute." Durant's gift has already funded substantial facility improvements in Cooley Pavilion, highlighted by the renovation of the men's and women's basketball locker rooms, resurfacing of both the men's and women's basketball practice courts, installation of graphics in the men's practice areas, audio improvements and the creation of formal office space in Cooley Pavilion.
  3. Man, I love this style of basketball. Constant movement, both ball and man, is a thing of beauty.
  4. That may be the case but actively rooting for him not to be drafted and continually shitting on the kids seems par for the course with some Longhorn "fans" when it comes to former football and basketball players.
  5. Any Texas hoops fan who roots against Mitchell getting drafted as high as possible is dumb. There's no better advertisement for our program than players getting drafted as highly as possible and performing well in the league.
  6. I don't understand the repeated comparisons to Carr. Like everyone has been saying, Carr was more efficient at Minnesota and had a higher ast/tov ratio. And most importantly, like @longhornmatt stated, Carr played alongside rubbish in Minnesota while Love played alongside comparable, if not, better talent than what he'll play with here. Love is a no go as far as I'm concerned. Efficiency and smart shot selection was easily the best offensive attribute about last year's team. We're already losing our experience in this area, why bring in a guy who is an absolute 0 in the area we'll be most deficient in relative to last year?
  7. I wholeheartedly agree. Not a fan of his at all.
  8. Yep I'll never understand it. Cuban operates the Mavs as if we reside in LA or NYC. Dirk basically masked how atrocious the Mavs' roster was for much of his entire career, and Luka has done the same since he got to Dallas. If we ever took the draft seriously as opposed to drafting south Asian novelty acts we would've played for multiple championships during Dirk's tenure. Acquiring actual, worthwhile assets through the draft is the best way to acquire the elite talent Cuban craves, but he's too shortsighted to ever maintain that approach.
  9. Not only that, but everyone seems to forget that Brunson had unique rookie contract for a 2nd rounder. There wasnt a restricted status provision within his contract because the Mavs anticipated going after free agents during the summer of '21 or '22 and didn't want the cap hold that comes with having that provision. Everything for the almighty cap space, which has been Cuban's MO since he bought the Mavs. Abandon all attempts to seriously acquire talent through the draft and shoot for the moon, while hoping to land elite free agents who never come (which has yet to work during his entire Mavs tenure).
  10. It all deserves ridicule in my eyes. And Ja What about Family Christmas photos? 😀
  11. No one's questioning that. I'm more or less referring to the dichotomy within the cultural zeitgeist that exist where the nba feels compelled to punish this behavior for the benefit of their product while other entities celebrate this machismo by by way of firearm for the benefit of their product. And dont get it twisted. It's the exact same behavior. Using a gun as a representation of one's toughness.
  12. There's no doubt that Ja is a dummy but it's wild as fuck that in the same country where politicos routinely cosplay as Rambo for their holiday pics Ja's instances of performing the same act of feigning toughness by way of a firearm is going to cost him a cool $60 million.
  13. He did pretty much the same thing during last year's playoff run with the Mavericks. Cuban and the Mavs front office did a bang up job in letting him go.
  14. Parson's agent, David Mulugheta, lives in Austin and I believe is a part owner of the Kollective along with Kenny Vacarro, and former UT RB Jeremy Hills.
  15. Nobody is suggesting that we load the team up with nothing but 1 and dones, but this idea that we totally do away with going after uber elite talent because 2 guys who weren't uber elite talents decided to transfer after one year is foolish.
  16. I believe it was KD or Shaq when referring to Porzingis when they first saw him, before his injuries.
  17. Apparently Grant Nelson just put his name in the transfer portal Must not be getting the draft feedback he was hoping to hear because I was certain he was off to the league.
  18. Dallas area AAU is a tough nut to crack. Until Beard got commitments from Morris and Holland we were damn near 0 for 20 years in cracking prospects from top flight Dallas AAU swuads. Andrew Jones was somewhat of an anomaly with his family really being from Midland and they only moved to Dallas to broaden his sister's prospects when Andrew was young. And Myles Turner played for an off brand AAU team so we were fortunate we didnt have to deal with the normal DFW cesspool in his recruitment.
  19. So you think Paolo Banchero wouldn't move the needle? How about Cade Cunningham? Some of you are taking this delusion a bit too far. There's a level of talent that is definitely a must take in any and all circumstances, it's just a matter of how refined that talent is and the personality of said player. Morris and Mitchell aren't one and done talents. Yeah Mitchell may get drafted, but it's not based on his skill level. Someone like Tre Johnson is a guy you take on Monday through Sunday. Ron Holland may be on that level too. And given last year's play, Anthony Black was that level of player as well and no level of post decommitment justification makes this any less of a fact.
  20. Hmmm maybe you're right, but I'm starting to feel like DQ's influence on our draft choices is starting to rival the control Marinelli seemed to have back in the day. Those wtf? corners we drafted a few years ago can't get on the field and a few other defensive picks didn't make it out of training camp.
  21. He ended up like the person he hated the most when the show started, a drunk, like his Dad.
  22. As soon as Haith was hired I wondered what Donewald thought about that. I assumed he wanted the Associate HC position.
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