What do you make of this? Bush's thumb is clearly extended, but his pinkie is also out there a bit. I would have to say, given the orientation of the hand, there is no way he is making a little longhorn. That my friends is a gig'em.Jordan is a legit 7-footer with a pterodactyl wingspan, outstanding hands, and unbelievable athleticism—showing terrific quickness, incredible explosiveness getting off his feet, running the floor like a deer, and making highlight reel caliber plays at times that few players in the world are able to execute.That sounds good, but then you look at his down side:
Offensively, Jordan is still extremely raw, displaying unpolished footwork, having a tough time establishing position for himself in the post, and clearly struggling finishing through any type of contact, even against very average competition at times. He has a difficult time holding his spot on the block, lacking a great deal of core strength and balance, and therefore often preferring to fade away from his matchup softly rather than go up strong at the rim. He lacks fundamentals on this end of the floor, not really knowing how to set proper screens, blowing open dunks at times, and not possessing any real counter moves or a left hand to speak of at the moment. The abysmal 40% he shoots from the free throw line tells you all you need to know about his shooting range, while the five turnovers he commits for every one assist makes him the second worst player in our entire database in that category, and speaks volumes about where he is at in terms of his court awareness and overall feel for the game.Holy crap. Basically he is weak, gets pushed around, and cannot play the game of basketball.
We stomped Hartford 63-39 to advance to the sweet 16 for the second time in school history. Our defense was the key in this one (obviously, they only scored 39 points); Hartford had 25 turnovers on 8 assists and shot only 34% from the field. We had almost as many points off turnovers (30) as they did total points (39). Danielle Gant lead all scorers with 21 points.The bottom line was a 25-11 record. It wasn't as good as last year's 27-7, but it's light years better than the 7-21 mark — 0-16 in the Big 12 — that seniors Kirk, Jones and Beau Muhlbach endured when they arrived four years ago.Does anyone have a problem with this quote from the Austin American Statesman? Just in case you don't see it, here is our roster from 4 years ago:
UCLA makes-misses-fouls | TAMU makes-misses-fouls | ||
| 8:44 | TAMU missed layup | 0-0-0 | 0-1-0 |
| 8:40 | UCLA made layup | 1-0-0 | 0-1-0 |
| 8:03 | TAMU missed 3 | 1-0-0 | 0-2-0 |
| 7:47 | TAMU foul | 1-0-0 | 0-2-1 |
| 7:31 | TAMU foul | 1-0-0 | 0-2-2 |
| 6:54 | UCLA made layup | 2-0-0 | 0-2-2 |
| 6:25 | TAMU missed jumper | 2-0-0 | 0-3-2 |
| 6:21 | TAMU missed layup | 2-0-0 | 0-4-2 |
| 6:18 | TAMU missed layup | 2-0-0 | 0-5-2 |
| 6:17 | TAMU foul | 2-0-0 | 0-5-3 |
| 6:17 | UCLA made free throw | 3-0-0 | 0-5-3 |
| 6:17 | UCLA made free throw | 4-0-0 | 0-5-3 |
| 5:56 | TAMU missed layup | 4-0-0 | 0-6-3 |
| 5:51 | TAMU foul | 4-0-0 | 0-6-4 |
| 5:51 | UCLA missed free throw | 4-1-0 | 0-6-4 |
| 5:51 | UCLA made free throw | 5-1-0 | 0-6-4 |
| 5:25 | TAMU missed 3 | 5-1-0 | 0-7-4 |
| 4:14 | UCLA foul | 5-1-1 | 0-7-4 |
| 4:14 | TAMU made free throw | 5-1-1 | 1-7-4 |
| 4:14 | TAMU missed free throw | 5-1-1 | 1-8-4 |
| 3:23 | TAMU missed layup | 5-1-1 | 1-9-4 |
| 3:20 | UCLA foul | 5-1-2 | 1-9-4 |
| 3:20 | TAMU missed free throw | 5-1-2 | 1-10-4 |
| 3:20 | TAMU missed free throw | 5-1-2 | 1-11-4 |
| 3:03 | UCLA made jumper | 6-1-2 | 1-11-4 |
| 2:05 | TAMU missed 3 | 6-1-2 | 1-12-4 |
| 1:37 | UCLA made jumper | 7-1-2 | 1-12-4 |
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
15 SLOAN, Donald....... g 4-11 0-2 4-9 1 8 9 1 12 9 3 0 2 35
The Bears will play the last-place team in the opening round of the conference tourney, then would get a crack at Oklahoma in the quarters. They probably can survive a loss there, but we'll see.I read that to mean that Baylor can loose to OU and still expect to get in, so did they just blow their first chance in 23098732 seasons to dance? Does this hurt us? Are your eyes crossed yet?
Former Texas A&M defensive lineman, and two time All-American Ray Childress was inducted into the Texas Hall of Fame last night. Unfortunately Ray was unable to make the ceremony in Waco, as he was leaving for the airport the clobber line rang, again.
DeAndre Jordan, Texas A&M: Much like his team, the seven-footer looks great for stretches, then mediocre. The Aggies have been shellacked a few times this season, and Jordan was mostly AWOL for every one.
Saturday's game has a ton of stories. We are playing to get off the NCAA tourney bubble (some think the Baylor win makes it a lock, but Joe Lunardi hasn't updated his bracket in 4 days so we can't be sure [what the hell else does this guy have to do? 34 basketball games have been played since the last time he got off his ass]). KU is playing for a conference championship. Turge is facing a the school he played for and coached (under Larry Brown and Roy Williams). It is our senior night. Given all of that, what is Turge is just hoping "it’s a really big game every year." Kind of anti-climactic.
he was told Jones stood over Carter, who was crumbled to the floor, and said "stay down [bleep]."... Drew also said he felt Jones dipped his shoulder when setting the screen that Carter didn't see at midcourt.
The D-Morn News ran "No drama as A&M tops Baylor" as the headline for Wednesday's game. No drama, really? What started as a hard (clean) pick by Joe and a near brawl between our assistant head coach Scott Spinelli and Baylor player Mamadou Diene, turned REAL ugly when a few jackass Baylor fans began throwing basketballs and drinks onto the court. At the time I was not surprised. Loosing your school's biggest game in 20 years has to be tough. But it seems that throwing crap is a new tradition in Waco, and their is AD is not that happy about it, something about it being "a classless act." Baylor... do I have to ask? WWJD?
