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Damion James decides…

Posted by Huckleberry on June 13th, 2009 under Basketball

to come back to school per Gerry Hamilton at Burnt Orange Beat.

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  1. Hell yes

  2. shausnters said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    He’s going.

  3. jimmyjazz said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 10:55 am

    Doesn’t look like he’s going to me.

  4. Nice. Good call Damion.

  5. maninblack said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 11:23 am

    looking forward to trips article

  6. Blueshorn said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 11:33 am

    The ‘09-’10 Horns are going to be sick. Final Four with a chance to win it all.

  7. So who gets the ships?

    11 – James, Lucas, Mason, Ward, Balbay, Wangmene, Dexter, Johnson, Hill, Chapman, Smith

    4 – J’C Brown, Williams, Bradley, Hamilton

  8. scagnetti said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 11:48 am

    Now I’m curious about next season’s trajectory.
    Would like to see Trips’ game-by-game projection and a Texas hoops timeline thang.

    When will they peak? When will they tank? Who plays when and against whom?

    Knowing what we know now, what’s everybody’s prediction?

    A hundred bucks and Rick Barnes’s Lake Travis milfy mistress to the winner.

  9. SL Xpress said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    jimmyjazz, I have a feeling that’s someone making fun of shaunsters on Orangebloods for making declarations that James was gone.

    I’d make fun of him, too, except that not only was I feeling the same way, but I’ve been ragging on Trips pretty badly for keeping any kind of hope alive.

  10. jimmyjazz said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    Ah, thanks SLX. I don’t pay any attention to OB and I’ve never heard of “shaunsters”.

  11. Unless Huck can produce some probability tables and charts, I will be unable to grasp the meaning of this post.

    How does all of this break down in the log5 method?

  12. CallKevin said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    This isn’t by any means a solid indicator, but Chapman, Hill, Johnson, Mason, Pittman, Smith, Wangmene, & Ward are listed as summer school registrants.

    So are Lucas & Williams.

    Dogus isn’t.

    I didn’t spot Bradley or Hamilton or Brown.

  13. I heard that Lucas is going to be paying his way for now so that takes care of one problem. I wonder if two other players will be put on half scholarships?

  14. RansomStoddard said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    I’m surprised

  15. How many future NBA players will be on next year’s team? At least four…
    -Pittman
    -James
    -Hamilton
    -Bradley
    Very high likelihood that three of those will get drafted in the NBA in 2010. I’m hoping Bradley stays two years, but he could also go in 2010.

    A few of these guys could develop enough to see some NBA playing time down the road.
    -Ward
    -Johnson
    -Wangmene
    -Dogus

    Bottom line, just an amazing amount of talent next year.

  16. Turn the page, Fred said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    My “2nd degree” source told me this about a 2 weeks ago.

  17. SkyMonkeyHorn said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Now will some one tell me about how Texas tickets are handled for the NCAA Dance. This is the third time I have had that question posted?
    Drawing, $$ contibuted, blind lotto, how many Jalapenos can you eat ??
    Someone has that bit of information, now puke it out !
    Road Trip to Indy anyone ???

  18. SL Xpress said:

    June 13th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    $ contributed. Tickets are usually hard to come by through UT itself.

  19. Get your tix for the North Carolina game at Jerry World on Dec 19th now!

  20. barnes couldn’t really mesh james, durant, and dj, so i’m skeptical right now until I see it. weren’t we knocked out 1st round with those 3? and then couldn’t get past a horribly coached lsu team to get to the final 4 with pj,booby, and LA.

    This team will be even harder to plug in the pieces because they run 10 deep, easily. Hopefully this will make Barnes shift his “offensive philosophy” just a bit.

    Either way, can’t fucking wait for this team to hit the court.

  21. Bob in Houston said:

    June 14th, 2009 at 7:41 am

    “barnes couldn’t really mesh james, durant, and dj, so i’m skeptical right now”

    Barnes can’t win with this.

    He only got the highest seed ever for a team that young.

    He gets no credit for what they accomplished because he was able to send Durant out after one year (which was a foregone conclusion) as NPOY (which wasn’t) and DJ after two (which also wasn’t) as the best PG in the nation (ditto).

  22. Barnes was going to have problems spreading the ball around with or without James. James is a garbage basket scorer, so we don’t need to run offense through him. We are better off not running offense through him because he doesn’t have the skillset. As the 3rd or 4th option on the court, he will absolutely destroy other teams who let him get a clean run to the basket away from the ball.

    I would think that Barnes will give the most minutes to the guys who prove they will move the ball around and make that extra pass. Guys who play one on one and shoot contested jumpers should ride pine. A team oriented offensive attack will blow teams out consistently, the ball staying in one place too long will allow teams to keep up with us.

  23. Egg nailed it. Damion’s return also legitimizes our ability to play up tempo. You can’t run if you can’t board.

  24. skymonkeyhorn said:

    June 14th, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Hopefully Barnes plays more uptempo with any 5 guys he throws out there, the talent is that good.
    Defense will be sooo good that it will make me cry a bit. Half court Barnes will have the guys that make the pass into the post past the free throw line and from the top of the key. Dog, Avery,Hamilton can make that pass into Dex.
    If Barnes gets past his fear to run and press the other team will have a ton of pressure on it to keep up with us. Now we see if Barnes can adapt to the talent that he has. This appears to be the best 10 players that Texas has ever had on the same team.
    Defense will determine who gets the minutes as the offense is 75% better then last year.
    Mr. Patron says to stock up and get to more games because its for real….

  25. Yep, as much as I hate the WWL, I will be upgrading the cable package to receive ESPNU because I do not want to miss any action from this team.

    Hook ‘em!

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