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ok surely we can make this helo vs ztejas 1 v 1 happen.
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Would MJ have won 8 titles in a row
shadow_operative replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Basketball
âwhatever excuse to want to giveâ lol. itâs not an excuse itâs a very valid explanation. that was the one year during this stretch where MJ showed up mid-season, and itâs the one year the bulls didnât win it all. thatâs not happenstance or coincidence; those events are linked to one another. -
iâm quite certain heâs not. thereâs a reason he was an assistant after 27 years of d-1 coaching. he went 126-108 (62-58) at fresno state before making a lateral move to UTEP. he was 37-48 (19-33) at UTEP before making a downward move to an assistant coach under Beard, which is where he still would be/should be if beard werenât such an idiot. how is this even a conversation. if our football team went an hired a guy whoâd spent 2/3 of his nearly three decade career as an assistant with a career HC record ~.500 at mountain west and CUSA schools the fan base would lose their minds. when the team then didnât perform well/up to its potential the fan base would be pulling its collective hair out pressuring CDC to fire the chump and hire Westlakeâs HC who theyâre all certain is a better HC. our basketball fans? nah. âhey letâs give him some time! gee, i wonder where he ranks among the national HC landscape? maybe heâs going to put it together! he does have that one good recruit coming in!â
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heâs like the anti-shaq:
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how many good players is a great coach worth? realistically, if RT and chris beard were coaches in the same league, letâs say the big xii- how enormous of a roster advantage would RT have to own to have a better season than chris beard? w/l record, kenpom, NET rating, postseason results, performance in relation to expectations, etc? iâve talked about this a few times this year, but it continues to amaze me how huge the disconnect is among 99% of fans, specifically that they can all see how impactful one great player can be, yet they consistently fail to understand how much more important having a great coach is. chris beard is worth five max abmases. a great coach will make chicken salad out of chicken shit, while a mediocre-bad coach will mismanage and ruin the potential of an otherwise pretty good roster. weâve seen this on both sides for as long as anyone can remember. and yet at still the majority of fans place more weight on a single player than they ever do the HC. why donât people understand this: your head coach is so, so, SO much more important than any one, or two, or even three players in 99.9% of cases. yet when the team loses a disu, or an isaiah taylor, or a cam ridley itâs like, âshit, thatâs a really big deal!â but then when you replace a top ~5 coach with a guy who shouldnât even be a HC at this level people are like, ânow hold on, letâs not jump to any conclusions, letâs just wait and see what he can do.â why is that? i mean whenever this job has opened up in the past, not a single person has said, âletâs go hire (anyone even remotely close to RT as a coach).â itâs like, âletâs get jay wright, or billy donovan, or Coach Cal!â for some reason the pedigree of the HC matters when we need one, but then once we hire a guy who is proven to not be able to do this job, suddenly we throw his CV out the window and just assume/predict the best. well, i say âweâ when i really mean âa whole bunch of yâallâ. i understand the importance of a coach; i do not understand why so many other sports fans donât.
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why? we are worse this year than we were last year despite losing zero players as good as disu and abmas. all that would do is accentuate the underwhelming job that RT has done.
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i donât disagree with your premise, i just disagree that it applies to this coaching staff. if we still has chris beard and were losing/retaining the exact same squad thereâs no way i would be forecasting anything at this point in time. but as long as RT is running this program, it is what it is. a great HC makes up for deficiencies within the team, while a coach of RTâs character probably gets less out of the team than what theyâre capable of. overturning the roster and winning with a bunch of new faces is pretty much exclusively done by great HCâs. RT doesnât have that in his bag. at all.
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disu > gone abmas > gone hunter > yikes. 50/50 to return mitchell > severely limited, 50/50 to return horton > gone; also not good shedrick > 10-15 min role player, possibly gone onyema > non factor brock > probably gone, but you never quite know with this guy weaver > first guy on the list iâm excited to have back rodney terry > returning you cannot objectively look at this, add a couple freshman and 3-4 transfers and come to the conclusion that we wonât be worse off next year than we are this year.
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itâs weird how nobody accused me of being negative when beard was here. đ€·đŒââïž
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iâm gonna stop you right there. if you spoke to a single person who knows me they would absolutely die of laughter at the idea that iâm a negative person. the people who know me marvel at how iâm always so positive all things considered. there are lots of people here who know me. ask any one of them about my daily disposition. hell my former employer posts here. he used to spend every single day with me. ask him if he wouldnât describe me as *wildly* positive on a daily basis. see what he says. this has nothing to do with me. i am so far from a negative person its insane. in fact iâll point out for the thousandth time that every single game thread for years and years and years is full of negativity and personal jabs at our players, something that i decline to participate in 99% of the time. calling a spade a spade does not make me a negative person. you acting as if the only possible reason that someone could project next yearâs team to not be very good simply makes you a delusional person.
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always funny when people who donât have the stones to ever give their own takes or opinions to talk shit about those that do.
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go look at the makeup of our ~10 best teams of last 25 years (so dating back to RBâs first year). then compare those teams and their makeup to the best possible scenario for next year, coaching staff included. when you look at our best teams youâve got teams full of 2, 3, 4 year players whoâve developed real chemistry together; youâve got all conference and all american players; youâve got one of the best HCâs in college basketball, with assistants who will go on to be HCâs themselves; youâve got teams with concrete identities who consistently play a specific brand of basketball that is confident, competent, and played at full speed at all times, a style that the HC intentionally and successfully recruits to. every single good team weâve had looks like that ^^^^. how anyone can look at those teams and their composition, look at the composition of our crappier teams, then look forward to next yearâs team, and come to the conclusion that it will be one if the good teams and not one of the frustratingly inconsistent-downright shitty teams is wild. we have so many examples of what both good and bad teams look like, and youâre not only going to choose to be willfully blind and positive beyond reason, youâre going to say that itâs the people with the opposing view who are really out here on a limb for emotional reasons. thatâs just wild to me.
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i have never/will never understand this reaction. every time someone projects a player or team to be awesome nobody ever has a problem with it. yet every single time that someone says that a player or team wonât be good/as good as everyone else wants them to be, we get this, âwow youâre so miserable and pessimistic!â response. you wanna ask if weâre going to do stuff all over again? i might ask if this is going to be a repeat of 2016-17 when my take that we were in for a rough year was met with fiery opposition in the board, with vehement insistence that there was no way to possibly project what the season/team would look like. before that season started, when people said that shakaâs second team could be even better than his first team that finished 3rd in the big xii (dead serious i remember you being one of these people) nobody cared. nobody called it outrageous, even though it really was an outrageously optimistic statement. but when i said that we wouldnât be that good, suddenly people had a big issue and i got this type of reaction. itâs been this way every single time iâve taken this position on any player or team from this university to this day, and to this day i donât understand it, at all. you people take an objectively rational take and, because itâs âpessimisticâ (more reasonable people might call it ârealisticâ) you act as if itâs just totally unfounded and baseless, that only a miserable, cynical person could possibly come to this conclusion. itâs ridiculous. weâre losing the bulk of our production from what is already a mediocre team, the players who are returning are either young, unproven, mediocre-bad, or all of the above, and our head coach has irrefutably proven himself to be out of his depth at his position. do not act like this take is some overly negative, cynical view of things. itâs based firmly in reality. for christs sake, shaka smart is a much better HC than rodney terry, and youâre seriously gonna sit here and act like thereâs no reason to be down on our prospects going forward? stop it.
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so itâs your contention that those guys will be important pieces of a good Texas team next year? also, uh, might want to pick another subject when trying to take a jab at what i am/am not knowledgeable about. like if i were going to take a jab at you for example i would say something about you being overly negative, volatile, and reactive. i definitely wouldnât question your ability to suck as a poster and contribute nothing to any discussion on this site.
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dalton knecht is my favorite player in the country. man i hope he lands in the right spot in the nba.
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canât recall another half of basketball that slow and inefficient. second half has been a veritable track meet in comparison.
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weâre pretty good offensively thanks to our top two guys being efficient/high volume scorers. we are pretty bad defensively, and inept at defending the three. we do however tend to try pretty hard, the effort is generally there. there are plenty of teams out there who could beat us on our best day, but because our top two guys are borderline all american talents, we could conceivably make the S16. we could also play some ugly ass 8/9 game where the winner turns the ball over 16 times and scores 60 points. going forward, weâre pretty much spinning our wheels as long as RT is our HC. sucks, but it is what it is.
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thereâs a possibility that we could lose to a&m, arkansas, ole miss, and tennessee next year. my god. what a terrible realization to have.
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everyone here hates shedrick, so letâs not start acting like keeping him would be a big deal. chris johnson has got to be gone, heâs been a complete afterthought for this team, i canât imagine him staying, especially considering that he showed up here last minute anyway. and while itâs possible that pryor is a real contributor next year, itâs really really unlikely that heâs a real contributor on a good team. these guys are either unlikely to be here or are unlikely to be impact players here next year, especially on a good team. and RT is no Beard, not as a HC, and not in the portal. weâve been worried about the bubble all year, and the odds of next yearâs team even being as good as this yearâs team are slim to none. itâs gonna be a rough season next year.
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talking about next yearâs team in another thread, so we may as well bring that discussion over here where it belongs: gone: disu, abmas, brock, shedrick, horton defintely returning: weaver, onyema may or may not be here: hunter, mitchell likely additions: tre johnson, nic codie so at best weâre building around this roster: tyrese hunter tre johnson chendall weaver dillon mitchell zeârik onyema bench: nic codie and and worst you can delete hunter and mitchell from that lineup. so weâve got that lineup, + whoever RT is able to sign, and RT is still the head coach. yeah. next yearâs team is going to be bad.
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Texas (-8.5) vs K State- 8pm on ESPN2
shadow_operative replied to shadow_operative's topic in Basketball
âŠwhich is a pretty good indication that itâs going to be bad. gone: disu, abmas, brock, shedrick, horton defintely returning: weaver, onyema may or may not be here: hunter, mitchell likely additions: tre johnson, nic codie so at best weâre building around this roster: tyrese hunter tre johnson chendall weaver dillon mitchell zeârik onyema bench: nic codie and and worst you can delete hunter and mitchell from that lineup. so weâve got that lineup, + whoever RT is able to sign, and RT is still the head coach. yeah. next yearâs team is going to be bad. -
Texas (-8.5) vs K State- 8pm on ESPN2
shadow_operative replied to shadow_operative's topic in Basketball
next yearâs team is going to be bad. weâre getting out of the big xii just in time, which is such a fucking depressing thing to say. i love this league, but next years team would project to be a bottom dweller in the big xii.
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