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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. This is a great point. People truly don't understand how much Texas high school basketball and the overall infrastructure for building and developing talent has changed over the course of the last 30 years. As a state we essentially went from Steve Jobs amd Wozniak in a garage to 2010 Apple. When it comes to high school basketball talent, the state of Texas is easily the best in the nation. Now add in NIL, the transfer portal, Moody, and the changing paradigm of removing pro options for high school talent and we couldn't be more suited to actually win a national championship. Within the last 10 years damn near every worthwhile university in the state sans us and A&M has found some level near their peak success in college basketball. The right coach would have us approximating what Connecticut has accomplished over the last 25 years.
  2. I felt Blue should've gotten the larger share of opportunities behind Brooks last year and never understood why he didn't. It seemed to me that Gerry Hamilton went out of his way to downplay Blue's qualities in favor of Baxter. I guess he was getting that view from his contacts on the staff because the imbalance in usage between the 2 last season never made sense to me.
  3. The CEO is of Michell and Ness is a Texas EX so UT was always going to be a part of this deal.
  4. Yeah let's trace out an analogous situation with football where Tom Herman goes on a bender and gets booked for beating his wife. Todd Orlando then leads us out of the desert to the College football playoffs. There's no doubt in my mind that we'd be sitting here looking towards year 4 of Todd Orlando's tenure at UT (provided he didnt completely shit the bed in the intervening years). And yes the elite 8 out of 350+ division 1 basketball teams is analogous to the CFP with 120+ teams.
  5. He's a shooting guard in the vein of Devin Booker. Really efficient in terms of scoring and the limited amount time it takes him to get a good shot. In other words, he scores without being a ball stopper.
  6. Yet this is their first time making the elite 8 with him, despite being a 1 seed and a 2 seed in two other tourneys. Tommy Floyd has the same issue. A lot of regular season success without the tourney success to show for it.
  7. Where was Dalton Knecht on this list last year? Heading into last year's portal I really wanted Grant Nelson, but his time at Bama proves that, although he's a decent player, he was no where near the difference maker that I thought he'd be. The basketball portal isn't necessarily the exact science it claims to be. Counterintuitively the college football portal rankings seem to be much more predictive than its college basketball equivalent. Typically predicting football player quality is more of a hit or miss excercise than basketball, but not in this area.
  8. Speaking of a player I wish we had on this past season's team, Jaylon Tyson might have fucked around and played himself into a first round pick out at Cal. Players like him are why it's at times ok to be patient with a players growth curve.
  9. Yeah I get the sense that Gerry isn't as tapped into the ongoings of Texas basketball as was in the past.
  10. Jordan Hawkins of last year's UConn team. Super compact game (ie doesn't need a lot of dribbles to get off a short), highly efficient scorer.
  11. Mitchell was consistently knocking down that 15 footer for the first half to 3 fourths of the year, and then he went 0fer for the last part of the year.
  12. Wait a second, Im starting to get it now. You're under the belief that the more frequently you rant about it here, the more likely it is that RT will be fired.
  13. No love for DJ Augustin or Isaiah Taylor? Or are you unfamiliar with who they are.
  14. All things being equal, I kinda like having good offense vs having a good defense. I'd much rather be a fan of a team that plays like Arizona or Gonzaga as opposed to UofH or Tennessee.
  15. This is quite the reversal. 15 months ago you inundated me with a wall of text claiming that Mitchell would unquestionably be a 1st round pick in LAST YEAR'S DRAFT.
  16. More than any other sport, a true home court advantage can add multiple games to the win column. Beard understood this and worked harder than any other Longhorn coach in my collective fandom to develop and facilitate it. Too bad he went dumb that one night. Barnes probably adds 3 or 4 more top 4 seeds to his Texas tenure with a true and consistently intimidating home court advantage.
  17. Abmas had 4 TOs and 2 early fouls. We were sort of running out of options as far as taking Hunter off the court.
  18. Who specifically regressed this season? Name the players you're referring to.
  19. Disu pulling a full 180 from his tourney performance last season was crucial. He ended the season as a 50%+ 3pt shooter yet only hit one 3 during the tourney.
  20. I dont. I actually like good offense.
  21. I disagree with Gerry on Hunter and feel he's being a little too emotional in his analysis. RT needs to keep Hunter and maintain some aspect of the culture he's built here and add some savvy amd composure to the backcourt to team up with Hunter and Tre.
  22. Shaka finally assembled a enough high IQ guards to make up for the lack of discipline he instills in his teams.
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