Texas Longhorns - Friday - 8 pm - ESPN2
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Keep in mind that if he stays he still has to attend classes and maintain good grades. In the G League is all basketball all the time.
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This is definitely true.
Some guys are surprised by that element of pro basketball. It is all basketball all the time because basketball is your job. You have to get up and go lift. You have to eat right. You have to work on different elements of your game with a mind towards improvement.
You can’t just go in the gym and shoot. You have to go in the game and work at game speed. You have to work on your jab step 17 footer. You have to work on your step back 17 footer. You have to work on your one dribble to the left 17 footer. You have to work on your one dribble to the right 17 footer. You have to work on your pick and pop 17 footer. Then you have to do all of that again at 15. Then again at 19.
Then you have to work in the post. You have to finish while people hit you with pool noddles and push you with boxing pads.
You have to condition.
You have to stretch.
You have to watch film to understand the nuances of offensive and defensive sets that are three or four times more complex than anything you have seen to this point in your basketball life.
It’s just like a job. You clock in at 2 and clock out after the game at 10. On off days you might clock in at 10, and clock out at 5.
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@wrwlumpy I am going. Headed to Scholz Garten before the game in case anyone else is going. ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK BEAT UT.
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@AsadZ I’m going. KU Alumni meets at Scholz Garten before – 4-7. LOTS of KU fans in and around Austin.
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@RockChalkinTexas have fun! Send pics.
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Send us all a photo of you looking happy and healthy!
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Coach wants the Magnificent 7 to hold the fort for 3 more games until reinforcements arrive. Silvio maybe for game 2 of the Conference. Lets find out who the best Big in the paint is. Get em Doke!!!
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Unless KU is playing in the Erwin Center, Texas shows itself as a Football school.
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LOOK AT THIS WEEKEND SCHEDULE! 5 TEAMS WILL BE IN FIRST PLACE. THOSE THAT WIN ON THE ROAD WILL BE SITTING PRETTY. I’ll be watching that Saturday game. Will undefeated TCU beat the Sooners at home?
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@wrwlumpy Man O Man, this weekend will really kick off the W/L column for Big 12 Hoops! This TCU vs Oklahoma contest could loom huge for the league’s final outcome. Trae Young and Co. are gonna face a real challenge, right off the first pitch. If Jayhawks can come away from Austin with a win, KU will be one game up on TCU or Oklahoma before midnight Saturday.
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@wrwlumpy Strike that midnight talk. Before suppertime Saturday!
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The winner of the OU-TCU game will have earned a big win and validation, no question about it
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REHawk said:
@wrwlumpy Man O Man, this weekend will really kick off the W/L column for Big 12 Hoops! This TCU vs Oklahoma contest could loom huge for the league’s final outcome. Trae Young and Co. are gonna face a real challenge, right off the first pitch. If Jayhawks can come away from Austin with a win, KU will be one game up on TCU or Oklahoma before midnight Saturday.
I know a lot of people here will take OU in this game, and that’s a pretty solid pick for sure. I myself I dunno , I have just got this feeling for some reason TCU shows it’self and pulls this game out and gets the win.
Maybe it is just me wishful thinking, but then again, this is a chance for TCU to really prove themselves this season , goon be a huge game, going to be interesting to see if the TCU fans will show and support their team that will mean a lot for them too. - -Their fans have to get out and support TCU and Jamie. Gonna be some really good games let’s do this. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@RockChalkinTexas I will try to make it, came into town yesterday evening
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It is not outside the realm of possibility for four of the best five teams in the league (Baylor, KU, OU, West Virginia) to all take road losses to start the conference slate.
As has been said, wins on the road count for double, so whoever can grab a road win this weekend will be sitting very pretty.
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Don’t forget Texas Tech., they Are probably the conference sleeper and will surprise.
I have KU, WVU an OU as the top 3 teams in the likely but not necessarily final order. Next I have Baylor, TCU and Tech fighting for a top hal finish and finally Texas, KSU, OSU and ISU at the bottom. We have a very small sample on the teams so far since games against weak teams don’t tell us much. We will have a better idea after this weekend.
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Tonight is game night, but let’s face it. We are really focused on SDeSousa. We need to give him a nickname. I was thinking Sous, as a play on Zeus? Okay, a little corny, but the more I watch this kid, the more I like him. He reminds me of Shady. He plays with poise and is explosive. He needs some Hudyizing, and I believe he can be every bit as good, if maybe not better than Shady. The team is going to be nasty next year. We AIN’T seen nuttin’ yet.
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)The NBA loves former KU players. Listen at the :32 mark, “Rock Chalk”! LOVES IT
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Self wants to beat Shaka like he beats Scott Drew.
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@wrwlumpy She still looks much better in Blue with some Crimson. That nasty orange does nothing for her hair. The blue shirt definitely brings out the obvious.
A little music for the picture?
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/18j5exzg9xv9ujpg.jpg
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Too bad that whoever did the Photoshop job did not place a Jayhawk in her cheek to replace the Texas logo.
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I agree. I have Tech as the either the third or fourth best team in the conference, behind KU and WVU, even with OU and ahead of Baylor. They are at home, so I figure they beat Baylor, but if the home teams all hold, most of the top half of the conference will be 0-1.
Any way you slice it, it’s likely that at least a couple of the top half starts out 0-1 (either Baylor or Tech has to lose, and I can’t imagine OU, WVU and KU all win on the road). That’s the fun of the round robin. You can’t dodge anybody.
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Texas has the # 2 defense according to Kenpom. Wonder how much of that is Bamba. Have to get him into foul trouble early and change the tempo
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In the conference, Texas is second in scoring defense allowing only 60.4 ppg but it is also last in scoring offense with only 72.4 ppg. If you look at the overall conference stats, Texas is at or near the bottom in all the good stats and at or near the top the top in all the poor stats. The only good stat where they lead is blocked shots with 6.3 bpg; KU is 5th with 4.8bpg. Bamba leads the conference in blocked shots with 4.3 bpg.
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Yeah this is a typical slog team from shaka. We have to bring one of our best offensive games to prevail in this one. I can see bamba being a big factor
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Looks like Andrew Jones is playing tonight. Not 100% but he played really well vs ku last season
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BeddieKU23 said:
Looks like Andrew Jones is playing tonight. Not 100% but he played really well vs ku last season
A shame KU got involved in his recruitment too late.
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Gotta win this game in Austin Folks. Gotta win the first two contests. Then we might have a bit of league breathing room. Unless we get a power forward onto the floor to do some damage in that third game at TCU I would not wager a nickel on the outcome.
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Bamba is a potentially elite defensive player. He’s incredibly raw offensively, but from a defensive perspective, he could quite possibly be the best defensive player in the country - he’d be the overall #1 pick in the NBA draft next June if he were anywhere near that good offensively.
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Yup his ridiculous wingspan is just unheard of. I think he makes life really hard for the guards. We haven’t shown to be a team smart enough to put our body into bigs and make them foul us
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Agreed. He obviously plays well against us because of that
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@BeddieKU23 I read a UT thread and they don’t think he will be 100% with his wrist?
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BeddieKU23 said:
Agreed. He obviously plays well against us because of that
And he is just a good player in general.
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@wrwlumpy Thank you. Texas shirt, Soviet Union shirt, “I root for the devil” shirt … heck, even an MU shirt. It all works for me. I’m easy.
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BeddieKU23 said:
Yup his ridiculous wingspan is just unheard of. I think he makes life really hard for the guards. We haven’t shown to be a team smart enough to put our body into bigs and make them foul us
Coaching?
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I think it’s more of not having the guys with the mindset. Vick should be that guy, malik should be that guy, Marcus and Sam as well. Some of its the offense we run that’s more east west then north south. We spend a ton of time passing the ball on the perimeter for some reason
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@BeddieKU23 they’ve been doing a better job of attacking the last couple games, especially Svi. They just need some coaching on how to not get swatted all the time, imo.
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@HighEliteMajor true story. Any of those shirts would look great on the floor.
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I think it would be smart to give Silvio a couple of minutes in the Texas game. Just to give him a taste of the speed of a real Big 12 game. It will help expose to Silvio just how much improvement he needs to make.
Stick him in sometime in the first half… far ahead of crunch time.
We need Silvio to get up to speed as quickly as possible. Putting him in for 2 minutes in the first half won’t blow a game for us. But it will help push him along faster. Teach him a couple of sets and a few plays, and then Devonte just keep to the script. It’s 2 friggin’ minutes!
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BeddieKU23 said:
Yeah this is a typical slog team from shaka. We have to bring one of our best offensive games to prevail in this one. I can see bamba being a big factor
KU will be bombing away from the outside anyway. If the 3s are falling it could be a blowout, if not a close game with Bamba being a factor.
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Silvio cannot play, he has not been cleared by the NCAA.
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Oh yeah… I forgot.
I read the story that Bill called the NCAA and got a computer response that they were closed until January 2nd.
I had predicted that we were working with the NCAA already to make his clearance quickly, but that didn’t happen.
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The days it will be closed are on their website.
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In a lot of ways, the season starts today.
Let’s go Jayhawks!
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@RockChalkinTexas i think I saw u! Do u have a red shirt, long grey sweater on?
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Shaka Smart in the locker room at halftime:
"Guess what?
I have a fever, and the only prescription is Mo’ Bamba.
I’M GOING TO NEED AT LEAST… 30 PERCENT MO’ BAMBA!!"
Guy’s ridiculous.
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KirkIsMyHinrich said:
Shaka Smart in the locker room at halftime:
"Guess what?
I have a fever, and the only prescription is Mo’ Bamba.
I’M GOING TO NEED AT LEAST… 30 PERCENT MO’ BAMBA!!"
Guy’s ridiculous.
He’s really good. That stretch where he fouled Vick (uncalled) and hit a three really peeved me. Everything else I pretty much expected. The kid is a LOAD.
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Meanwhile TTU just drilled the crap out of Nancy Drew and Faiylor. I know that must please @KirkIsMyHinrich
