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Just now, NWAustinDude said:

Shaka just shaka'd. He as regular to me as the morning locomotive that are yesterday's black bean burritos.

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Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years at Marquette*:

2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points

2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7

2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11

2025 7 seed - loses 7/10

And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

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1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years:

2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points

2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7

2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11

2025 7 seed - loses 7/10

And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

it only seems better because he's been able to avoid Abilene Christian

Shaka managing to field some decent regular season teams at Marquette has been the saving grace for him being milquetoast rather than borderline disastrous.

11 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years at Marquette*:

2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points

2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7

2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11

2025 7 seed - loses 7/10

And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

Well, it's because Texas is a cesspool. 

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36 minutes ago, Derka said:

marquette is hilariously hapless. they have no idea what to do. just brings a smile to my face.

Got dam. I enjoyed every minute of that. I never doubted for a minute that Shaka would blow that game. Watching Shaka at Marquette is such a weird mix of PTSD and schadenfreude. It brings back up the six years of absolute bullshit we had to endure, yet I now get to revel in watching him do the exact same shit that didn't work here. He genuinely has not adapted or changed at all. He's just doing the exact same thing wearing a different color shirt. 

The hapless ball movement around the perimeter that accomplishes absolutely nothing. Guys looking completely undisciplined just jacking up bad 3s. A big man sitting at the three point line jacking up way too many threes instead of rebounding. Guards and wings avoiding driving the paint like it's a plague. I even saw a few times where guards beat their man cleanly and had an open lane but instead kicked it out to a guy standing on the 3 point line who wasn't even that open. It all felt so painfully familiar and yet it was vindicating to watch now that Shaka is someone else's problem. 

 

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28 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

it only seems better because he's been able to avoid Abilene Christian

Too soon

8 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

Watching Shaka at Marquette is such a weird mix of PTSD and schadenfreude. It brings back up the six years of absolute bullshit we had to endure, yet I now get to revel in watching him do the exact same shit that didn't work here. He genuinely has not adapted or changed at all. He's just doing the exact same thing wearing a different color shirt. 

 

 

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agree with every word of your post, especially this part. hell my 71 year old mom stayed up late just to root against shaka lmao. she’s a Texas alum and a hardcore hoops fan, and she can’t stand him any more than i can lol. the guy has done an amazing job of using cool sound bites and empty platitudes to distract people from the fact that he’s not a good coach.

that said, based on tonight’s twitter action we may be having a great awakening. people are starting to poke around, and suddenly his shambolic record is in the spotlight. good. fuck him. loser ass fraud who didn’t do shit here and then ran his mouth on the way. watching his team go home early in march due to his blatant ineptitude just makes me so happy. so happy.

39 minutes ago, Derka said:

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Beard being at the top doesn't make me feel warm and squishy

Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years at Marquette*:
2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points
2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7
2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11
2025 7 seed - loses 7/10
And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

6 years? There's no way in my mind that he was at Texas for 6 years. Who the fuck would allow that?
56 minutes ago, Derka said:

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Such an awesome post. Made my Friday night. 

How did they decide what "expected wins" were? And do you have a chart with Tommy on it?

lloyd doesn’t have enough games to qualify i don’t think. 

I bet you're right, not enough games.

But a big enough name.

Bet he'd be pretty high on that list.

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On 3/30/2024 at 1:21 PM, closetojumping said:

My favorite part of him sucking and losing to double digit seeds every year is that the Marquette fans refuse to assign any blame to him. The guy may be there 20 years just doing the same shit. 

^^^

On 11/20/2024 at 7:15 AM, Derka said:

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big early season win for shaka and the boys. looks like this year is gonna be different.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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9 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Beard being at the top doesn't make me feel warm and squishy

There is no column for choked girlfriends.

Can’t believe Texas was dumb enough to keep Shaka for 6 seasons.  What a fraud.

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

There is no column for choked girlfriends.

Allegedly 

You taking Randy’s word as gospel?

10 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

How did they decide what "expected wins" were? And do you have a chart with Tommy on it?

Expected wins is what you would get with complete chalk. A 7-seed is expected to go 1-1. A 2-seed is expected to go 3-1, etc.

The analysis is incomplete, though. The last column can be heavily influenced by pure longevity. They should then divide that number by the number of years.

Pointing and laughing at Shaka is my favorite March pastime 

39 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Allegedly 

You taking Randy’s word as gospel?

What's your theory, inspector?

24 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Expected wins is what you would get with complete chalk. A 7-seed is expected to go 1-1. A 2-seed is expected to go 3-1, etc.

What's a 1-seed expected to do?  It gets tricky with 4 1-seeds making the Final Four.

9 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

What's your theory, inspector?

We have no idea what really happened and the charges were dropped 🤷‍♂️

2 sides to every story  

 

21 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

We have no idea what really happened and the charges were dropped 🤷‍♂️

2 sides to every story  

Are you saying Chris Beard shouldn't have been fired?

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

What's a 1-seed expected to do?  It gets tricky with 4 1-seeds making the Final Four.

Not sure what they did but I would give a 1 seed 4.75 expected wins if they're not using the full S curve. If everything went chalk then 2 of the 4 seeds win 4 games, 1 wins 5, and 1 wins 6.

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

What's a 1-seed expected to do?  It gets tricky with 4 1-seeds making the Final Four.

 

4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Not sure what they did but I would give a 1 seed 4.75 expected wins if they're not using the full S curve. If everything went chalk then 2 of the 4 seeds win 4 games, 1 wins 5, and 1 wins 6.

What he said.

And the wins are 15, 15, and 10.  Winning a 2/10 2nd round game as the 2 is his post-ff highlight. 

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15 hours ago, Derka said:

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It is funny.  I really like Altman, and think he could do well here, but everyone says "too old" when I see him interviewed he seems much younger than his age.

8 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

It is funny.  I really like Altman, and think he could do well here, but everyone says "too old" when I see him interviewed he seems much younger than his age.

i mean it's literally his name

Dana Old Man

14 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

I bet you're right, not enough games.

But a big enough name.

Bet he'd be pretty high on that list.

I'm not sure you understand the point of that list. Lloyd would actually be low, as he has not yet beaten a better seeded team in the tournament. Limited sample size, obviously, but probably the worst element of his resume to date. 

'22- entered the tournament as a 1 seed. Beat 16 seed, beat 9 seed, lost to 5 seed

'23- entered the tournament as a 2 seed. Lost to 15 seed

'24- entered the tournament as a 4 seed. Beat 13 seed, lost to 5 seed

'25 - TBD but entered as a 4 seed. Beat a 13 seed. Has a 5 seed up next. 

Still want!

15 hours ago, Machinator said:

This is one of their active message boards, they are getting a bit restless but the fanbase doesn't seem to be ready to run him off yet.

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?board=2.0

Here's a quote from one thread.  WYKYK.

The two main offensive weapons, who were average three-point shooters at best, were asked to lead an offense that relies on three-point shooting. Add to that, when they missed shots, and they missed almost 70% of them, there was no one capable of getting offensive rebounds. The team also was missing a consistent inside scorer. Every game was them expending tons of energy on offense with not enough to show for it.

To sum it up, this was a very-poorly constructed team with enough talent to beat bad and average teams, but not enough pieces to win consistently against teams above average and up.

imagine being a highly active online poster and having this be your signature after every single post:

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i bet this guy’s onlyfans bill is off the charts.

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Found a retard.

https://x.com/itsallstraw/status/1902745975132758255

 

I mean the core of a Sweet 16 team returned and somehow Shaka managed to fuck it up and ended up with a one and done. Coach November through and through one of the biggest frauds to ever exist in the college basketball head coaching world.

On 3/19/2025 at 12:05 PM, CurlyDumps said:

I was listening to yesterday's CBS Eye on College Basketball podcast, and they talked about Shaka. It was a positive conversation, but they brought up a stat I guess I'd forgotten about - VCU's 3 pt shooting during their FF run. They made something like 54 threes in the tournament which was a record at the time. During the regular season, they had one game with 10+ made threes. In the tournament, they had FOUR. In the game against Kansas, they shot 48%. Kansas shot 9%.

Really puts into perspective what a massive fucking fluke that was.

We have the "luxury" of Texas and Marquette history of Shaka to help guide us to understand how subpar he is.  Even with that, it still does not really make sense that Shaka was hired in the first place.

He was hired 4 years after the Final 4 run, where they went 5-1 (with play-in).  After that, his teams we a combined 2-4 in the tournament.  The final 2 years, he lost in the first round to a lower seed.

I spent a couple of minutes looking at VCU's 2010-2011 run, and it was a glimpse into VCU's peak performance during the regular season.  Looking at info from Sports Reference, VCU was #2 in 3pt attempts and makes, #58 in percentage.  They averaged 9/23.8 in games they won and 6.5/21.4 in games they lost.  They lived and died by the 3 - and opponent turnovers.  That was abundantly clear in the tourney.  By my quick count, they had 12 regular season games with 10+ 3s made.  However, they had zero in the final 8 games, where they went 3-5.

In the conference tournament (2-1), VCU averaged 8-20.7 from 3.  In the NCAA tourney, they averaged 10.2/23.8 from 3 and 13 opponent turnovers.  They got really hot while others got cold.  In 4 of the 5 wins, their 3pt %-age was higher than the total FG percentage.

For the subsequent 3 years at VCU, their 3-point shooting was significantly worse.  Shaka leveraged that outlier into a higher national profile and ultimately a better job.

Even after that f4 run, 2011 KenPom has VCU as the #53 team.  Not that it matters...

21 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

I bet you're right, not enough games.

But a big enough name.

Bet he'd be pretty high on that list.

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So Tommy Lloyd's best season was the one where he had a roster that Sean Miller recruited? 

shaka shows up at Texas: “nah, i’m not gonna do any of the stuff that got me here.”

goes to marquette: “nah, i’m not gonna use the transfer portal.”

lol ok.

that comment about "stress testing" his internal dev/no portal strategy is pure bullshit.  It is him setting up the "well we tried it but it didn't work. portal is too strong, so gonna need to change our strategy and hit the portal hard" which like Covid will buy him another 2 years.  Then he can fire an assistant to buy another year or 2.

Marquette will keep him for another 4 years for sure but my guess is after next year they will start to get sick of him.

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