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MeanGreenTexan

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  1. I had a run in with those 2 guys in Arlington a week or so before the murder. They took a car from our dealership and went around joy riding all day and finally brought the car back after 6 or 8 hours. The confrontation afterwards was bizarre. The non mentally challenged one was definately the ring leader and was hyper agressive, angry, and irrational. The guys that worked for me were pretty big, aggressive, former football players and every man there was a little shaken from these guys - we all knew the ring leader was destined for bad, bad things.

    Did the ring leader look like this?

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  2. Ughhhhhh....

    Just when he starts really figuring out how to function in the offense and developing his inside game.

    Exactly. Holmen really started going inside (instead of streaking around inside but always winding up around the arc somewhere), and getting boards and good looks recently. He was really improving. This sucks.

    I'll always remember 2010-2011 as "The Year of the Injuries".

  3. Wrong on this poiint. If anything, the start in OOC play should have built confidence to allow this team to blow through the conference schedule with 5 losses or less. This team quit playing defense. Period.

    No one really knows what is going on, unless they are a player and a coach, but when one of your senior leaders is benched because of lack of defensive effort in practice, you can start to see where the problems are. I think that was a last ditch effort by JJ to get this team's attention. Didn't work.

    Maybe they thought they could blow through conference without an all out effort, maybe they read their preseason press and got lazy. Maybe they just aren't that good (although they are better than a home loss to ULM, that had give up written all over it). Since we are neither coaches or players, we will never know.

    I'm not questioning their confidence. At all. As a matter of fact, I agree with you. When I say "taxing", I mean physically. Not mentally.

    I'm not questioning their motivations or their drive. I'm not questioning their coaching.

    I'm questioning their conditioning to play the minutes they have all year long and sustain the level of play we saw against Tech and LSU and the rest of the early OOC games that got us as a fan base going crazy.

    I don't know if I've seen any give-up from these guys. They're not standing around on D. They're not walking back up the floor after an opponent bucket. They're not hanging their heads during TOs.

  4. My opinion, and I may be way wrong here...

    Our team is TIRED. SPENT. GASSED. POOPED.

    Going into the season, we knew Tramiel was gone and so was Mangrum, but that was OK, because we got Dom back as well as 3 other seniors who are some of the best players ever to suit up in Mean Green. The injured guy was Spencer, and he'll be back before conference starts, right? At least we still have some good depth with Shorter, and hey, Holmen is supposed to step up now!

    They started off on fire this season. The intensity the team showed in OOC was awesome (minus the only true "slip-up" game of the season this year at SHSU). Some of us saw McGhee fail and Alzee injured and began to worry. This left us a little short on the bench. We go out and take it to Texas Tech in one of my favorite all-time moments in the Super Pit, then we put a whipping on LSU in Baton Rouge, the likes of which they had not felt in quite some time (even against their SEC competition).

    This awesome start to the season had to be extremely taxing.

    I'm not sure what was going on in the guys' minds when conference season started... maybe they were in cruise control? Maybe they were still locked-in, but something changed physically? All that time without McGhee and Alzee began taking its toll, and by the way, where's Spencer? He could certainly be used to spell big George a little... We start seeing closer games, and poorer defensive effort from the team. Starting at MT and Troy, we see the guys not playing well on the road. Then, we get to Denver and get thrashed. The guys are apparently tired, but we chalk it up to travel issues and the altitude (which were certainly contributing factors).

    To me, where the guys really lost it was the pounding we took at home against FAU. Josh, Tristan, George and Dom usually step up in this type of game. We had a huge home win streak going. We trailed basically the whole game and our leader, Josh White scores 1 point! Then, we start hearing that Spencer will not return. What we see is what we get. Draw the line in the sand Col. Travis, you have no reinforcements coming.

    It continues until this weekend where the guys come out flat defensively against the worst team in the Belt and give up over 80 to them! This same team in January beat ULM by almost 20, and would have beaten them by 30 in November.

    It's so painful to watch the deterioration of this team during conference when we were at one point ranked in the top 10 in the mid-major poll. I really think the season has worn these guys out. It has nothing to do with coaching. It has nothing to do with effort (although Johhny disagreed at some point with Tristan's effort). I think the guys are just flat-out tired.

    I'm a pessimist, because I like to be prepared for the worst and pleasantly surprised at the better, but I'm expecting this team to maybe win 1 or 2 more games this season and possibly win 1 in the conf. tourney.

    Like I said, it's not a question of effort. I believe our guys WANT to win and are TRYING to win. I don't think there needs to be a "fire" lit under them, I don't think Johnny needs to run them ragged or anything either (as a matter of fact, that would be counter-productive).

    I just think they're tired, and that's too bad.

    Hats off to them. Josh, Tristan, George, Dom, and Shannon have been very fun to watch over their careers here.

    Again, maybe I'm totally wrong... I've been wrong before.

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  5. Lakeview vs Kimball headline 7 Warmup games this Saturday @ Ellis Davis Fieldhouse.

    Lakeview Centennial

    Toderick Gotcher (Texas Tech)

    Chris Jones (UNT)

    Kimball

    Jalen Jones (SMU)

    Jordan Williams (UNT)

    Jarion Henry (tbd)

    Austin Franklin (New Mexico)

    The State's #1 2A, 3A, 4A & 5A teams will all be participating. I may be off but I think the unofficial matchups are:

    Dallas Kimball vs Lakeview Centennial 8:00 PM

    Dallas Lincoln vs Lubbock Estacado 6:30 PM

    DeSoto vs 5:00 PM

    Dallas Woodrow Wilson vs Melissa 11:00 AM

    Richardson Berkner vs Kennedale 3:30 PM

    Dallas South Oak Cliff vs Argyle 12:30 PM

    Dallas Madison vs Burkburnett 2:00 PM

    http://tabchoops.org/finalB.html

    I don't like DeSoto's chances... 5:00PM is unstopable!

  6. I hate to pile on here, but the play that made me sick was when lil' Taylor went into the paint, grabbed an offensive rebound and put it back up and in while the Mean Green Bigs stood around and watched him do it.

    Taylor is a heckuva player, don't get me wrong, but he should never, ever get an offensive rebound in the paint when 2-3 Mean Green players are in there with him.

  7. Riley is a piss poor example sir. He only came because Daddy came. Period.

    His last class had 10 Juco's?

    The 2007 Class contributed only 3 players still on the roster.

    We've also failed to address at least one pressing need every yr.

    Not this yr. We addressed every need on our team, with only 3 Juco's and one of the largest classes in the last 5 yrs.

    Agreed, to ultimately know how this class turns out, we'll have to wait until 2013-2014, when they've all had a chance to become srs and we can truly judge the entire body of work.

    I appreciate your caution, truly do, but I'll remain optimistic and excited about the young men that have committed to us so far.

    How 'bout D-tackle?

  8. Let it go. Please. The SMU bit has grown tiresome and embarrassing.

    I really think this should be its own pinned thread. Heck, maybe even the only thread in its own forum.

    Its OK to not like a school, but to attack an obvious SMU homer like a neglected dog is really just plain sorry. Sure his opinion is ill-formed, but are alot of opinions from gmg.com'ers (myself included) here so different? :unsure:

    Its one thing if this happens once or twice when a SMU Troll comes on and baits some of us, but every single time?? :no:

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