October 21, 20205 yr 11 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said: And Kentucky isn't????? uh, i don't believe i said that. you might want to save your five-question-mark level of incredulity for something other than a factual, not-at-all controversial statement.
October 21, 20205 yr You implied that Tennessee finishing near the top of their conference may be part of the reason that they haven't been matched up against us. I merely pointed out that the same supposed protocol would've prevented Kentucky from being matched up against us as well. Edited October 21, 20205 yr by Catdaddyhorn
October 21, 20205 yr 12 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said: You implied that Tennessee finishing near the top of their conference may be part of the reason that they haven't been matched up against us. I merely pointed out that the same supposed protocol would've prevented Kentucky from being matched up against us as well. i did not imply anything, i out and out described the process they use to select the matchups for this event. that's why the bottom 4 SEC teams are playing in an altogether different tournament against some AAC teams for something like that. they match the teams up based and previous conference standings.
October 21, 20205 yr Kentucky literally won the SEC last year and LSU won it the year prior to that. Yet we're playing the SEC champions 2 years in a row. Edited October 21, 20205 yr by Catdaddyhorn
October 21, 20205 yr there's been speculation as to why this year's bracket has not followed the traditional formula (i've read that they're going off of the 17-18 standings for this year for some reason), but traditionally they make the pairings by conference standings. but please don't let that get in the way of you being all upset over nothing again.
October 21, 20205 yr Hawks/Vols get the primetime slot? Have advocated that this should be a H&H setup, Tech should visit Rupp just like UK should've gone to Austin after the Horns trip to LexVegas.
October 21, 20205 yr 2 minutes ago, shadow_operative said: there's been speculation as to why this year's bracket has not followed the traditional formula (i've read that they're going off of the 17-18 standings for this year for some reason), but traditionally they make the pairings by conference standings. but please don't let that get in the way of you being all upset over nothing again. We played LSU last year. What was the reason for that? I'm not upset I just don't think your theory with respect to Tennessee holds weight given it hasn't for the past 2 seasons. It's much more likely that either Shaka or Rick specifically made it known that they don't want to play each other.
October 26, 20205 yr BU, KU, WVU, and TTU as four of our first six games. Gonna be an interesting start to conference play.
October 27, 20205 yr 13 hours ago, shadow_operative said: BU, KU, WVU, and TTU as four of our first six games. Gonna be an interesting start to conference play. In this conference, unless there's a rule change and you could start the season with 4 games against TCU, any combination of opening opponents is going to be interesting.
October 27, 20205 yr 15 hours ago, shadow_operative said: BU, KU, WVU, and TTU as four of our first six games. Gonna be an interesting start to conference play. 0-2 at least to start.
October 27, 20205 yr 5 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said: 0-2 at least to start. A reason why I have a small amount of hope about the game in Lawrence: it's during break so the students aren't around and Kansas emailed their season ticket holders that capacity is likely capped around 1,500 this year. (There's a tweet from a Kansas beat writer talking about this I retweeted last night, but I don't have it in front of me.) So they're going to The Phog, but it won't exactly be The Phog. Texas will be the underdog, and given the Longhorns' record in Lawrence it's entirely reasonable to believe a win when you'll see it and not a moment before. This just might not be quite the normal circumstances. Edited October 27, 20205 yr by Bitterwhiteguy
October 27, 20205 yr On 4/24/2020 at 6:56 PM, Goo Punch said: I'll say it right now: Roy Williams would win 25-30 games and go to the EE or Final Four with this roster. It's built for speed, and we may honestly have the most athletic lineup in America. Hamm, Sims, Kai Jones, Donovan Williams, and GB III is as athletic a fivesome as any team in country has, and that's not even considering that Andrew Jones was once a pretty damn athlete before cancer and chemo ravaged his body, so let's not count him all the way out of this list either. Shaka is an absolute moron if he doesn't run up and down like every game is a track meet with this team, and the days of Texas being painfully slow and low scoring *should* be a thing of the past, if only for one year. This is by far the best team Shaka Smart has ever coached. Anything less than a summarily satisfying season should result in his immediate termination. Good luck Shaka- you seriously shouldn't need it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk We’ve been running up and down ever since Barnes. Our problem is when teams slow us down and make us run a half court set. We have four players ball watching with an occasional half ass screen. I’m not taking the bait with this team.
October 27, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Bitterwhiteguy said: A reason why I have a small amount of hope about the game in Lawrence: it's during break so the students aren't around and Kansas emailed their season ticket holders that capacity is likely capped around 1,500 this year. (There's a tweet from a Kansas beat writer talking about this I retweeted last night, but I don't have it in front of me.) So they're going to The Phog, but it won't exactly be The Phog. Texas will be the underdog, and given the Longhorns' record in Lawrence it's entirely reasonable to believe a win when you'll see it and not a moment before. This just might not be quite the normal circumstances. Man I hope you are right.
October 27, 20205 yr 6 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said: 0-2 at least to start. Well our 2nd conference game is actually OSU at home, so no reason to assume 0-2 although it's certainly possible. Bottom line is we have 100% of our team back from last year and added greg brown. Shaka should be competing for the conference championship. If he cant beat the Baylors and KU's of the conference this year, with this roster, it wont happen. My guess is 11-7 or 10-8, cause Shaka. Edited October 27, 20205 yr by Blotto
October 27, 20205 yr 57 minutes ago, Blotto said: Well our 2nd conference game is actually OSU at home, so no reason to assume 0-2 although it's certainly possible. Bottom line is we have 100% of our team back from last year and added greg brown. Shaka should be competing for the conference championship. If he cant beat the Baylors and KU's of the conference this year, with this roster, it wont happen. My guess is 11-7 or 10-8, cause Shaka. Oh we aren't beating Baylor. They are basically returning their entire team that was one of the favorites to win it all last year. We are returning out entire team and just adding one player from one of the favorites to be in the First Four last year. Womp womp.
October 27, 20205 yr It will be interesting to see how the home/away records trend this year since presumably home court advantage shouldnt be as large of a factor this year with social distancing.
October 28, 20205 yr 8 hours ago, A’Dam Psycho said: We’ve been running up and down ever since Barnes. Our problem is when teams slow us down and make us run a half court set. We have four players ball watching with an occasional half ass screen. I’m not taking the bait with this team. we've been one of the slowest teams in America since Barnes left. Barnes and Penders used to run up and down here, but under Shaka all we do is slow it down. you don't score 64 ppg by running up and down. edit: Average possession length national rankings for Texas under Shaka Smart: 2020- 271st nationally 2019- 284 2018- 252 2017- 137 2016- 235 Edited October 28, 20205 yr by shadow_operative
October 28, 20205 yr 16 hours ago, Blotto said: It will be interesting to see how the home/away records trend this year since presumably home court advantage shouldnt be as large of a factor this year with social distancing. If there's one team that's prepared to play in front of 2,000 fans no matter the location, it's Texas.
October 28, 20205 yr 53 minutes ago, Js1 said: Gonna be awkward when we finish 6th But first in core values.
October 28, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, Js1 said: Gonna be awkward when we finish 6th Decent shot at 6th if we shoot well
October 29, 20205 yr That actually sounds about right. Maybe a spot too high, but who the fuck knows in 2020? We can't get any worse. Or maybe. Who the fuck knows? Who the fuck cares? But we've got a salty schedule, the team has got a lot of great young men on it, so let's play ball.
October 31, 20205 yr On 10/28/2020 at 3:44 PM, Revolution512 said: Decent shot at 6th if we shoot well “Big if” doesn’t begin to describe the size of that “if.”
October 31, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Xian said: Guessing Herman suckage buys Shaka another year? our talent, depth, and athleticism buys him another year. then, when we go 10-21 in 2021, THEN Shaka Smart might finally be on the hot seat.
October 31, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, shadow_operative said: our talent, depth, and athleticism buys him another year. then, when we go 10-21 in 2021, THEN Shaka Smart might finally be on the hot seat. I struggle to see how this team doesn't perform well enough to buy Shaka another year, but then again Shaka has exceeded my pessimism routinely in the past.
November 2, 20205 yr https://www.instagram.com/p/CHEX7bDFzwv/?igshid=s4ngz23qry0f Edited November 2, 20205 yr by shadow_operative
November 2, 20205 yr On 10/31/2020 at 4:57 PM, Blotto said: I struggle to see how this team doesn't perform well enough to buy Shaka another year, but then again Shaka has exceeded my pessimism routinely in the past. Esp since "well enough" means "win 20 games and make the NCAA Tournament". He doesn't have to win the Big 12 or make a deep post-season run over even put together a 27-win season w post-season flameout. He just has to go 20-10 or thereabouts and make the tournament. We can finish 6th in the conference, even.
November 2, 20205 yr On 10/31/2020 at 10:35 AM, Xian said: Guessing Herman suckage buys Shaka another year? I don't think it hurts that the football program is in crisis mode right now, but I think Shaka had this year pretty much no matter what anyway. I think the following year might be a different story.
November 2, 20205 yr y'all we are going to be the worst team in the league and finish dead last while scoring about 60 ppg next season when we lose essentially this year's entire roster. just as this year should easily be Shaka's best year at Texas, next season should be his worst, which is obviously saying something. and what's fucked up about that is that when we do fire this loser we will be facing a full rebuild, something we were *not* facing when we hired this assclown. the 21-22 roster will be embarrassingly thin and devoid of talent, and whoever takes over next is going to have to un-fuck this situation from square one. point being, Shaka will survive this season, but he won't survive the next one. barring some idiot AD hiring him away after this campaign, we should have exactly two more years of this joke of a coach before finally and mercifully being able to move on.
November 2, 20205 yr edit for the above post- it's unfair to shit all over the 2022 roster of players. i should say that the 2022 roster being coached by Shaka Smart will be the worst team in the league and struggling to score more than 60 ppg. Edited November 2, 20205 yr by shadow_operative
November 2, 20205 yr projected 2022 roster at this point: Starting Five: Courtney Ramey, Sr Donovan Williams, Jr Kai Jones, Jr Brock Cunningham, Jr Will Baker, Jr Bench players: Kamaka Hepa, Jr Tamar Bates, Fr Emarion Ellis, Fr David Joplin, Fr Keeyan Itejere, Fr a good coach could probably get that squad on the verge of playing in the tournament; with Shaka running the show we'll be lucky to go 6-12 in league play. although i will say that it would really be something to see a team attempt 28 3PA/gm with nobody shooting over 30%. Edited November 2, 20205 yr by shadow_operative
November 2, 20205 yr stop capping on shaka this team look vastly improved from teams past i was told by someone at the team scrimmages that texas looks legit Edited November 2, 20205 yr by hornfromdallas
November 2, 20205 yr 8 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said: Esp since "well enough" means "win 20 games and make the NCAA Tournament". He doesn't have to win the Big 12 or make a deep post-season run over even put together a 27-win season w post-season flameout. He just has to go 20-10 or thereabouts and make the tournament. We can finish 6th in the conference, even. Downgrade that to whatever the 25-game equivalent is (16-9? 17-8?) because everybody's non-con is basically cut in half this year.
November 2, 20205 yr 20 minutes ago, Bitterwhiteguy said: ^^Make that 26 games, they just announced Texas State. you're right, I meant it more like a .667 year Edited November 2, 20205 yr by SwanderedTalent
November 3, 20205 yr https://www.instagram.com/reel/CHG9h40JAl9/?igshid=1mhkfdip3z8mf if anyone can get this site to work correctly then go ahead and embed that
November 4, 20205 yr GB III looking ready for D-1 ball: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHJ5FhbFag6/?igshid=1anllsgk8tn3o
November 4, 20205 yr we finished #61 in Kenpom last year, added Greg Brown, and now start the year #9. shows how much talent was wasted last year.
November 5, 20205 yr 20 hours ago, shadow_operative said: we finished #61 in Kenpom last year, added Greg Brown, and now start the year #9. shows how much talent was wasted last year. Or maybe Kenpom is fucking meaningless.......which is more likely.
November 5, 20205 yr uh, nah. Kenpom is the most widely referenced and trusted analytics site for college hoops, meanwhile Shaka Smart sucks sucks for quarters as a basketball coach, so, yeah. i'm gonna stick with the wasted talent angle.
November 5, 20205 yr We're going to be rated pretty freaking high in the preseason by any rating system that uses experience and high school rankings as their initial ingredients to rank teams at the start of the year. As the season progresses our actual performance on the court will become more of a factor.
November 6, 20205 yr that Karen Hudy hire looking better and better. all of our players are jacked. that's something we've been missing since Shaka arrived, but i'll give him this- he made probably the best hire he could in that department.
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