A funny thing happened on the way to burying the 2010 Texas Longhorns. Defense. For all the handwringing and consternation bandied about on this and other sites about the Longhorn's anemic offense, defense carried the day...err...night.
The ability to defend a four guard, spread the floor offense was the difference in winning and losing. Not personnel packages, five out looks, or iso's and two man games. The difference was straight
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Avery Bradley fucking flies up the floor with the basketball. Nice dunk off an oop from Durant.
We've discussed at length what to expect from the 2009-2010 Longhorn Basketball team. We've projected
personnel combinations and schemes. We've hit on
minute distributions. And we've made some great friends along the way...
Many of the threads felt like the following.
Awe. The memories.
What we haven't done is discuss the ever increasing possibility that J'Covan Brown, the talented guard from bitch kicking Port Arthur, will join this talent laden squad at
Texassports.com has an excellent extended
interview with DJ, covering why he came to Texas, his relationship with the coaches, getting drafted by the Bobcats,
his superiority to every Kansas Jayhawk from Wilt Chamberlain and Danny Manning to Kirk Hinrich and Sherron Collins, as well as some thoughts on the city of Austin. There's also some great game footage and behind the scenes action with coaches Todd and Russ
The smoke has cleared from the recruiting circus. David Stern's WWF lieutenants have scourged the college basketball landscape leaving only the truest student athletes to carry the torch. What we have left, it seems, is a 5 horse race in the quest for one shining moment. Sure, we can discuss why you think that Matt Painter's Boilers will make a deeper run than the Gerald Henderson-less Dukies. Will Ater Majok be
The schedule was released last week but Trips has been on a transcontinental bender from Hawaii to Winconsin since ipowers rolled into town. Can you blame him?
So I'll share a little known fact with you that even Trips doesn't know. A few years ago, Deloss started outsourcing the basketball scheduling duties to Bas Rutten. Too bad he can't do our football schedule as well.
So, by popular demand I'm here to distribute minutes hopefully with a bit more rhyme and reason than Congress distributes TARP dollars. Instead of using closed bid formulas, political glad-handing, and Ponzi-like fraud, I'll go with some common sense projection, self-importance, and whimsy to be my guide. Allow me to be Czar of Texas basketball for a season, and this is how my squad's minutes shake out.
First, some assumptions. Dexter Pittman is
Good read
from Texassports.com
Here's the transcript and my thoughts on each subject/answer.
On how this incoming class of perimeter players (Avery Bradley, Jordan Hamilton, Jai Lucas and Shawn Williams) ranks among past classes: Well, (Kevin) Durant and (D.J.) Augustin were pretty good now, but we will wait and see. Jai has been here and we have been impressed with him. I think he really understands taking care of the basketball, and he understands the role
Joe Lunardi has us as a 5 seed. Perhaps Joe should have his intern give Andy Katz's intern a call.
Katz daddy has Texas as preseason number 4. He also has better hair and a winning smile.
Lunardi is a pedantic asshat for seeding Texas lower than an Oklahoma club that is losing Austin Johnson, The Big Pharma Brothers, and now possibly Willie Warren. We know him here at the
At least according to ESPN's Top 100. Congratulations on a well deserved accomplishment. I guess when Oak Hill Academy's coach says you're the best guard he's ever faced, it carries a little weight.
If you're scoring at home, that gives Texas the 1, 8, and 53rd best player in the land. I remember when I was pumped to get Corey Lockridge.
Hook 'Em.