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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Mind you Tyreek is older than Cooper. Stephen sabotaged his own asset by declaring that we were going to cut him. We should've at least gotten a 3rd or a couple 4th rounders outta Cleveland. They have a shitload of picks over the next couple of drafts.
  2. There was definitely more movement this year but it was all seemingly within 15ft of each other.
  3. Man I disagree and I bet synergy numbers back me up on this stat. The % of open shots had to have gone down from last year. Obviously the talent drop off from last year is a big part of it as well as the drop off in the amount of 3s we shot this year, but the scheme is hella tight and limits the amount of space players have. There are way too many players aligned inside of the 3pt line for my taste.
  4. One of the guys on the "Pretend We're Football" podcast alluded to there being something behind the scenes that prevented us from taking Williams. I haven't heard or seen anyone address this, but I'm curious about what the issue might have been.
  5. What part of not having rosters FILLED with guys like Jordan Hamilton don't you get? One name highlights the fact that we didn't have years with MULTIPLE GUARDS/WINGS of that PHYSICAL profile on the SAME team.
  6. You'd think this point would've been obvious, but arguing on the internet is fun.
  7. I'm not sure who wants a big beefy center. This is 2022 not 1982. What I want are athletes in that spot. Guys who won't get absolutely dominated by unathletic post men with old man games like like Drew Timme and Trevion Williams.
  8. Yeah something like Denzel Valentine or maybe George Niang are what Timmy Allen needs to aspire towards.
  9. And for further clarification Randy definitely had that forfeiture language in his rookie, however when he returned from his suspension he was no longer playing on a rookie contract and therefore had no guaranteed money. So technically that Schafer dude, who became his agent after his suspensions, never encountered that language for Gregory on previous dealings with the Cowboys.
  10. The key part is the loss of guaranteed money for fines. As determined by the CBA every team in the league can dismiss guaranteed money with a suspension. The Cowboys are alone in requiring contract language of dismissing guaranteed money for fines. Former agent and front office personnel man, Andrew Brandt discusses this distinction here:
  11. Try late 60s. The entire religious right origins began with organized pushback against the Feds threatening the tax exempt status of private schools that were discriminating on race.
  12. One thing is for sure, I'm going to pay a lot more attention to actual footage of what next year's transfers looked like at their previous schools. I had no clue how athletically limited Carr, Allen, and Mitchell were. Had I known I would've saved the 100 bucks I put on us winning this year's National Championship last May. I was excited as fuck about this upcoming season, unreasonably so. All things considered though, this is about happiest I've been after a tourney exit in my entire longhorn fandom. After seeing the season play out and the actual talent he had to work with I'm impressed with the job Beard did this year.
  13. Minor staff change says to me someone below the level of Terry, Howard, Maligi, and Ogden is moving on but who knows.
  14. At Tech Beard filled his rosters with guys like Culver, Shannon, McCullar, Zhaire Smith, Jahmius Ramsay, and a shitload of wings/guards who were 6'3" to 6'7" and athletic. I can't say that we've ever had that at Texas over the last 20+ years. Certainly not since the Penders days with Clack, Vasquez, and Freeman. This is biggest change about Beard's approach that I'm the most excited about.
  15. My bad I don't read good.
  16. Gleague guys wish they made 200k. The only Gleague guys who make that sort of money are guys with 2- way contracts with their NBA affiliates and Gleague Ignite guys who forgo their college eligibility to play 1 year in the Gleague prior to being drafted. Guys like Matt Coleman make around 40k.
  17. Next year Morris will be one of those guys but I'm sure it will come with growing pains.
  18. I guess I'm being hard on Carr. My belief is just that in order for Beard's defense to really be optimized we need bigger, more athletic guards filling out our roster. His post defense gets a lot more fierce when he has long armed and athletic wings defending post entry phases as opposed to multiple guys like Carr, Ramey, and even Askew. Also while Carr's offensive skillset bailed us out under the current context of our offense his style will clutter the lane if we have more guys capable of slashing into it. Plus, I'd have to see his synergy numbers to be certain, but Carr seems like one of those rarities in cbb in being a guy who is a better shooter off the dribble than he is off the catch which would be a problem if we have more guys capable of driving and kicking on the roster next year.
  19. Ramey got a bad wrap. People were too hard on him for his undisciplined offensive play while playing for a coach who didn't stress discipline. From my vantage point he always had the highest defensive IQ on the team and routinely got guys in position and rarely made defensive mistakes. I hate that he played during such an uneventful era of UT basketball, he'd be remembered much more fondly had he played in more highly leveraged games. And people don't give him enough credit for being a defensive stalwart despite being athletically limited. His melanin quotient obscures the fact that the dude is really a below average D1 athlete.
  20. Brock is only a redshirt junior and personally I'd rather have AJ1 return for his 7th season than Carr.
  21. Maybe I'm stubborn, but I don't know why yall want Carr taking the ball out of Arterio Morris hands next season. Carr was a gamer and I'll give him credit for showing up in big moments this year, but man I can do without seeing him back next year. Give me a bigger and more dynamic backcourt mate to team up with Morris.
  22. I wonder if the Texas kid who went to Kentucky with Jai Lucas last year wants to come home. I don't think he played much. Hopefully Oscar Tshiebwe returns to school to help push him out. He's the exact sort of big who fits Beard's mold, plus he's bouncy and athletic which fits mine. Can't remember his name.
  23. I'll bring that discussion over to this thread (don't know how we devolved into the roster composition discussion on the Point and Laugh thread) in today's high school basketball there are plenty of 6'7" to 6'9" guys who fit the mold of what he's looking for, particularly in Texas. Beard's urgency to win now makes him less patient and seemingly unwilling to project young bigs. Jericho Simms was only 6'7" and around 190 when Smart began recruiting him. He looked more like Dillon Mitchell back then than what he ultimately became, which hopefully means good things for us with Mitchell. Even a Jaxon Hayes fits the mold of a switchable big on the college level. You have to be willing to look for traits and even risk going after a lower level recruit and project out a little as long they fit your specified physical requirements. Jaxson Hayes and Kai Jones were both outside the top 100 (outside the top 200 in Hayes case) when they caught the previous staff's eye. Beard tends to go after college transfers for his bigs rather than risking a scholi on a young, bouncy big who is yet to physically mature. Regardless I really like that Beard goes after rangy, athletic guards and wings, so much like the tradeoff we get with his tightly controlled, boring ass offense I'll gladly take athletic wings over bouncy bigs who shoot 50% from the FT line while taking the overwhelming majority of our FT attempts. Plus Beard got us back into the DFW metroplex recruiting market which was something that we've missed over the last 10 to 15 years. Even Barnes struggled to recruit DFW in his last 5 to 8 years outside of a few one off gets like Myles Turner. To high light how important DFW is for basketball recruiting, Texas has 5 McDonald's All-American's this year and every single one of them is from the metroplex.
  24. I hear you, but in today's day and age of high school basketball there are plenty of 6'7" to 6'9" guys who fit the mold of what he's looking for. The problem with Beard is he doesn't seem to have a good eye for projecting young Bigs. Jericho Simms was only 6'7" and around 190 when Smart began recruiting him. He looked more like Dillon Mitchell back then than what he ultimately became, which hopefully means good things for us with Mitchell. Even a Jaxon Hayes fits the mold of a switchable big on the college level. Beard tends to go after college transfers for his bigs rather than risking a scholi on a young, bouncy big who is yet to physically mature. He seems impatient in that area. Regardless I really like that Beard goes after rangy, athletic guards and wings so much like the tradeoff we get with his tightly controlled, boring ass offense I'll gladly take athletic wings over bouncy bigs who shoot 50% from the FT line while taking the overwhelming majority of our FT attempts.
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