BillySee58

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Thanks! Figured, but was hoping for a bigger weekend coming out of the dead period

Any news here on OVs?

Absolutely! DJ has earned every minute he has ever played here, and then some!

ESPN box score gave him one less, I think. They had him at 39 but he had 42. Also, more conference wins than all of last year, now. 3-0 on the road to start conference for the first time since 1991

No. ESPN (Rice) did an awful job. Putting him in the box score was incorrect. One of numerous errors on the scoring by them today. But they showed us winning, so they got the important thing right

Completely agree. That three late against Indiana State, the two against UTSA in the second half, and had one late against ODU. All catch and shoot threes. Love to see that

And he was being sloppy with the ball. He has picked it up, and Smart is taking over now. That's what we needed

Gonna really need Temara and Woolridge to pick it up

Tough news. Wonder why Duffy is out too

Everytime I see this school it gives me Brock Berglund flashbacks

Jordan Murray

He didn't sign anything

A few thoughts: 1. If Smart is off, we probably aren't going to win. At least against teams in the top half of the conference. He didn't play awful but he missed a lot of good looks. We need our best player to make teams pay on those and he didn't. This is a also a disadvantage of having your best player be a pure shooter type. Even the best shooters are off sometimes. Gotta find other ways to score. 2. AJ Lawson continues to struggle. Plain and simple, he isn't a good shooter. He has never been a shooter, but he's good at getting into the lane and getting decent shots off around the basket, which he is not converting enough of. Contested, but good looks and he has missed way too many of them. He is a guard shooting 54% on his free throw attempts and 20.5% on his 3-point attempts. Our point guard is shooting 59% too. Lawson may never be a good shooter, but surely he can get up to around a 33% 3-point shooter and close to 70% on his free throws. I wonder if we had a healthy Gibson, how much less Lawson would be playing, particularly in crunch time and on games where he is off. He gives a lot defensively, but he has been a liability on offense. 3. This team has made a lot of losing plays down the stretch, and it finally caught up with them the last two games. Against USD we blew it down the stretch to let them get to OT, then let them steal and inbounds pass and have a chance to tie the game at the end of OT, which they missed. UTEP, they also stole the inbounds at the end but missed a game-winning shot they got from the stolen inbounds. UTSA, we blew a 6-point lead in the last two minutes, plus Holston missed the front end of the one and one after Temara's block. Fortunately they too missed a game-winning attempt. Finally with Charlotte, they made us pay for blowing a 4-point lead in the last minute and Holston missing a free-throw to put us up by one, by sneaking by us for the game-winning put back with no one paying attention. Yesterday we had a bad possession going before the questionable Woolridge travel call, after missing a lot of free throws in the second half including the front end of one and ones. Still a young team learning how to close teams out, instead of them letting the other team close themselves out.

Not sure, but it looked to me like he took his dribble and picked up his pivot foot at the same time. Extremely ticky tac and inconsequential. But we didn't lose because of that one play

Midyear jucos can sign through January 15th. Otherwise he has to wait until February

Enjoyed it, guys. Thanks!

Yes, he is redshirting this year. NCAA ruled he was eligible, but the verdict came too late. 3 guys redshirting this year (Gibson, Tikhonenko, and J Simmons) should all add a lot to this roster next year.

We still get these type of comments. There is this feeling that because people are familiar with our depth chart, it must be better than that of other teams who they have little to no clue about.

Well deserved!

It's a shame this has downvotes. Most of the guys who are relevant to this conversation earn their school millions of dollars a year and help make their coaches a lot of money as well. And they continue to help make their school even more money by being drafted high and having successful NFL careers, which they are trying to assure. To think these guys should be responsible for paying any money back to their schools for sitting out a bowl game in which 1. They helped the school get to and will make basically the same amount of money off of whether the player sits out or not 2. Gives their backup/backups a chance to standout as he/they begin their journey towards becoming a starter/standout and further their chances of making the NFL as well 3. Helps the coaches sort out the future of that position for the games that they are judged on for evaluating their jobs (regular season and conference games). Below is a chart of the estimated fair-market value for college players. And this is an averaged number based on 85 scholarship players, of which not every team has every given season and not all of which play, whether due to redshirting or coaches decision. For the projected first round pick it's likely close to double for their respective schools' average. Imagine Texas earning about $2 mill off a player over 3 seasons, while paying about $75K in cost of attendance for the player plus another $10-15K or so in stipend money, asking for the player to return $12.5K for the last semester WHILE that player is earning the school more notoriety by becoming a first round pick. Here is the business insider article where they calculated the fair-market value https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/college-football-player-value-2017-11

Yup. Completely agree with @GrandGreen on Lawson. His shooting percentage is down from 44.6% to 39.5% and he's shooting just 23.7% from three and is taking 2.5 per game. This offense gets him open threes. If he can hit about 33% from three that would be huge for him and the team.

Looks like he hit em where it hurts

Woah! Noticed he wasn't playing too. What a crazy career