Everything posted by Camelback80
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Iowa St. @ Texas 1:00 PM on Longhorn Network
Live from the Frank J Erwin funeral home and mortuary. We may be the only team in the country with a home court DISadvantage.
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Iowa St. @ Texas 1:00 PM on Longhorn Network
Febres with the hands on hips defense. JFC Febres play some fucking D.
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Iowa St. @ Texas 1:00 PM on Longhorn Network
God these announcers are terrible. Still better than Frascilla though.
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Iowa St. @ Texas 1:00 PM on Longhorn Network
Hamm looks like shit. Get him outta there.
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Iowa St. @ Texas 1:00 PM on Longhorn Network
The cyclones have under-achieved this year but remain a dangerous squad as they come into Austin today in desperate need of a Big 12 win at 2-5 in conference play. Texas looks to continue its success after a nail-biter victory at TCU on Wednesday night.
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Texas @ TCU 7:00 PM tonight on ESPN plus
What a moronic statement. Andrew Jones is shooting 39% from 3 on 38 made on the season. FAR from "consistently awful." Fucking idiot. Now is someone going to start an ISU game thread or do I have to do it again?
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Texas @ TCU 7:00 PM tonight on ESPN plus
Are you sitting behind the bench or something?
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Texas @ TCU 7:00 PM tonight on ESPN plus
This could mean they have the possession arrow.
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Texas @ TCU 7:00 PM tonight on ESPN plus
Yet another tough game in the Big 12 tonight. And they'll be gunning for us since we stole their NIT title!
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I told you so
Dinner time isn't until April, bitch.
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Fire Shaka Smart
I enjoyed watching us beat Purdue with AJ icing it on the line. I enjoyed watching us beat the fuck out of the pokes in Stillwater. I enjoyed the 1st half vs KU. It's been a season of ups and downs. We just hit a fresh low for this season tonight, but that's college basketball for you. Strap in, the ride lasts through March.
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Fire Shaka Smart
Blowouts happen. Even in the NBA. Wouldn't be a basketball season without 'em. Doesn't mean you fire your coach, especially when it's on the road to #6 in the country.
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Fire Shaka Smart
Lol, changing coaches is NO guarantee of better success for this program. That's a FACT. You can argue it improves the chances if you want but it ain't no guarantee and far from it. Penders was crap, dude. He lucked in to Travis Mays, Blanks, Wright and company and had 1 good year. Barnes got to play in an era of the Big12 when it was full of weak teams. We swept Baylor like 10 years in a row in the 2000's, not because of Barnes's brilliance, because Baylor was absolute crap. People like you wanna rake Shaka over the coals after every Big12 loss but you neglect to comprehend the fact that the Big12 Shaka has played in has been an insanely difficult conference and nothing like the one Rick played in, or the pathetic SWC that Penders played in. West Virginia is the #6 team in the country according to Pomeroy. This shit ain't easy, folks.
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Fire Shaka Smart
I would love for TJ to get a chance. The fact of the matter is though firing Shaka and hiring someone new is no guarantee of greater things for this program. Changing coaches isn't going to suddenly make Baylor suck again, make Texas Tech a cupcake on the schedule, or make the blue-hairs holding all the courtside tickets stand up and be loud, or make our fan base savvy about bball. There are bigger obstacles at work here. You can't really fault Shaka's recruiting, and there is still half a season to go before talk of firing.
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Texas at WVU - 6 PM TONIGHT on ESPNU
I guess the good news is he won't be defecting to the NBA any time soon...
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Texas at WVU - 6 PM TONIGHT on ESPNU
I didn't get to catch the game tonight, but it looks like a fucking travesty. Will Baker going 0-4 from 3 range is just comical at this point. The only thing I can say is at the end of the day it's just 1 game and the season goes on.
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Texas at WVU - 6 PM TONIGHT on ESPNU
I'm sure they're playing the usual brand of Thuggins-ball. Punch you in the nuts and steal your wallet basketball.
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Texas at WVU - 6 PM TONIGHT on ESPNU
Fuck WVU
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Texas hosts #2 Kansas, 1pm on ESPN. KU -6
Lol. That's not how it works, man. Don't know what else to tell you. You don't "earn the right" to shoot outside. You take what the defense gives you. If they give you an open 3 point look and you can't hit it, then you ride pine, which is mostly what Baker has done.
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Texas hosts #2 Kansas, 1pm on ESPN. KU -6
That's a totally reasonable take, Viny. Some of you seem to think that Baker is making this decision to shoot on his own and needs to be trained not to do it, but that's not exactly the case. He is playing a role in the offense and that role is a stretch big. Against a man-to-man defense, he comes out to the perimeter to draw his man with him, a man who is probably the defense's best rim protector and rebounder, so it's really good to draw him away from the basket. Then the stretch big Baker gets the ball at the 3 pt line with option to shoot or pass inside depending on what the defense is giving him. Since he has presumably drawn his man away from the bucket, there should be more opportunities to score inside with a pass to a cutting guard. If his man sags off him or stays under the bucket, then Baker is supposed to punish the defense with an open 3-pt bucket. Now, the problem is that Baker has failed to execute this role in a big way. Like he's been mostly a liability than anything else. But he's a freshman so before COMPLETELY REWORKING what Baker's role on the team will be, he is being given some minutes each game to grow into the role of the stretch big and get better at executing it. Part of the role is taking the 3 if the defense gives it to you. Now I can totally understand if your argument is the role isn't right for him, but, changing that role is also problematic.
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Fire Shaka Smart
It's not "thanks to the end of the Rick Barnes era"--the fan base has always been apathetic towards basketball. Show me a Texas Longhorn sports fan and I'll show you a guy who is a whiz about the game of college football and knows jack-dick about the sport of college basketball. Look no further than surlyhorns. There are more posts on here about the NBA than about our team, on a LONGHORNS forum.
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Texas hosts #2 Kansas, 1pm on ESPN. KU -6
It isn't "against the coach's wishes." The point is Shaka has agreed to utilize him in a way he wants to be utilized as part of his signing here.
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Texas hosts #2 Kansas, 1pm on ESPN. KU -6
It isn't Shaka's choice. That's how Will Baker wants to be utilized because that's what NBA players do. Will Baker was a highly sought after recruit and you don't land a player like that without promising that he will be trained up in an NBA style offense where everyone shoots 3's. One can only assume that he shoots a higher percentage in practice, but whatever the case he looks a lot like a bewildered freshman out there and he is in no way ready for Big12 play.
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Texas hosts #2 Kansas, 1pm on ESPN. KU -6
Right, it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the Kansas team is made up of 7 or 8 of the best basketball athletes/players in the country.
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Texas hosts #2 Kansas, 1pm on ESPN. KU -6
Moss is the guy I would like to see shut down for them. I don't want any open looks for Moss. Shut his ass down. Put Azabookie in foul trouble. And make some shots. Simple.