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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Stephen has proven to be fairly inept at judging the market. He tries to wait out every high profile contract negotiation only to end up paying even more than the player originally asked for. Demarcus Lawrence, Zeke, Zach Martin, and Dak all took him to the woodshed. Cooper was the only deal where he managed to get it right and that was solely due to Dak's negotiations taking place at the exact same time. I agree with you on Charlotte though. We'd be better off if she were handling player negotiations. Her choice of schools lets you know she's the real brains in the family.
  2. With the rotation of games to London, Mexico, and probably one more international location in the near future I think the odd # of home games was already incorporated into their plans. Beyond that, owners make so much money before one ticket is bought that more games for TV inventory is always going to be the prudent move from their perspective.
  3. I'd love to see player tracking data on player and ball movement over the last 10 games or so. I bet it blows away the previous 30 games.
  4. I viewed Tyson as a less explosive comp of Jordan Hamilton. He's a big bodied wing who can shoot. People were overly critical of his body and athleticism, but he wasn't that bad from the little I saw of him. He's just not as explosive as what we've become accustomed to over the past few years. In our offense our guys really don't get much opportunity to work in space so it's difficult to for younger forwards to make the quick, efficient decisions that you need to thrive in this offense.
  5. I wouldn't call them dregs. Okla St had a lot of injuries they battled through to star the season. I believe those twin forwards missed a good deal of the season. They're a much better team than their record.
  6. While the secrecy of how ESPN arrives at the metric makes it sketchy it's clearly a better evaluation tool than the old school QB rating. Obviously sample size is important when comparing a QB with 1 or 2 starts like Mike White to someone like Dak, but Dak's #9 in the league QBR rating this year matches what our eyes have told us. This year didn't match up with some of his better performances. A big part of it is that Dak didn't run for many 1st downs this year. Jake Kemp on the Ticket mentioned a stat the other day that blew my mind. Despite the running yardage totals being similar Dak ran for over 25 or more 1st downs in multiple seasons outside of his injury plagued year. This year he only ran for 7 first downs heading into last night's game. That clearly impacts the offense's consistency in moving the chains. I'm a guy who always felt people overrated Dak's mobility and running ability. But judging by these numbers clearly I was wrong. It was a big part of his game.
  7. Actually unless we restructured here in the past year Amari's contract is very conducive to a trade or release. All his guaranteed money should've been done by the 3rd year of his deal.
  8. That's right. I forgot he's the guy who claimed Amari was a poor route runner.
  9. ¿Que? High maintenance!?!?!? Whatchu talkin bout Willis? Amari is the lowest maintenance #1 WR I've ever seen.
  10. Since we traded for Amari I've yet to see Dak play well without Amari on the field. I dont know if it's juju or some type of schematic advantage, but whatever it is Dak needs Amari on the field to be at his best.
  11. That would be a mistake I don't know what it is but Amari's mere presence on the field opens everything up for everyone else.
  12. Dak got the record in 16 games since he did miss one game this year.
  13. Gallup is really our only consistent deep threat down the sidelines.
  14. Losing Jabril Cox has been bigger than we realize. He lost a whole year of seasoning and he'll probably start for us next year.
  15. Beard needs this dude in his motion offense. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CYdLNtND68v/?utm_medium=copy_link
  16. Only 1 rookie left from last year's draft.
  17. Great fucking win for Tech. Conference play is going to be a meat grinder.
  18. Penders offense was just jack a lot of threes with a top of the key 3-man weave interspersed in there every now and then. 25 years ago that made for an exotic approach to basketball but in today's era we'd complain more about him than we did about Shaka if we weren't hitting from outside.
  19. Jones is the most capable scorer, but his defensive deficiencies limit Beard's trust in him.
  20. I dont know. I think we have enough to be well within the top 20 or top 15 by the end of the season. Bears is too good a coach to have us remain stagnant for the entire season. As long as we don't have any serious chemistry issues arise due to the number of capable players on the roster I see us being much more decisive on the offensive end later in the season. .
  21. We were missing our best interior offensive player. Mitchell would've helped with consistent scoring in a game where we struggled in that particular area.
  22. From a 30,000 ft view I actually prefer Shaka's open floor, wide spacing approach to offense over Beard's old school approach with Knight's Indiana motion, but in order to do what Shaka attempted to do your players have to actually be exceptional with their shot selection, headiness, and fundamentals. And of course Shaka didn't incorporate enough movement or any other details to be consistent with what he wanted to do so it looked like shit more often than not in the end. Also that pretty approach to the game is analogous to what you often see with spread teams in football. There's a tendency to be less mentally tough and gritty when the games devolve into slugfest as often happens in college basketball.
  23. He also missed Allen on the dive to the basket in that same action.
  24. He's really a poor fit for what Beard wants to do, but in fairness there wasn't much in the way of options. What we really need for Beard's offense is a PG who can penetrate and also consistently hit 17ft jumpers off of 1 dribble pull-ups and curl cuts. In all honestly kids today don't really work on the midrange stuff that makes the old Indiana offense efficient. Beard's first choice was a high school recruit named TyTy Washington who ended up at Kentucky. Regardless, I agree Carr was overrated as the #1 transfer.
  25. Tech fans actually used to complain about Beard in 50/50 games I didn't watch them close enough to know one way over the other, but the resiliency his teams consistently displayed gives me more confidence than I had with Shaka who always seemed to have our guys on the brink of disaster.
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