Bear Down Wildcats

JMarkJohns

Having Covid for 2 weeks and staying away and clearing quarantine of 10 days just yesterday was a really shitty way to say goodbye. Wore gloves petting her. Didn’t face nuzzle her at all. Really tried to keep distance since I didn’t want anything contagious to take her. She deserved more hugs and lo...

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Despite the best attempts to send our dear Rowdy out on good terms, on our schedule, life stepped in. Today, July 1st, Rowdy turned 15. This last week has been hard. I had to have the talk with the family and niece and nephew especially. We wanted to send her off with a T-Bone Birthday steak on Sund...

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Got Covid after helping with a memorial scholarship fundraiser for my friend who died of cancer last Dec (discussed a few pages back). We were all careful. I wore masks around everyone except those who tested negative prior, and all of the small group were vaxxed. Except one misled folks as to timin...

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As for Defense, for me, I look at the dynamic upside. For me, I always believe each easier to raise defensive floor than teach defensive ceiling. Mathurin has flashed some quality upside defensively, albeit inconsistently. And, some of his college upside may have come from having Koloko and Ballo ba...

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Facilitation to me is always: 1. Create for self 2. Create for others Unless a PG, then reversed. Lots of posts of mine talking up secondary facilitator upside with improved dribble-drive, Iso skills to breakdown a D. PnR at the NBA level in a switching scheme will be more of a challenge. Less space...

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My big disagreement with JMJ is that Mathurin actually showed really nice dribble drive passing and was surprisingly poor at dribble drive finishing. He had 118 possessions where he drove off the pick. Mathurin shot about 30% on those drives off the pick - 35% on dribble jumpers, 17% on runners, an...

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Ivey has athletic facilitation skills which is arguably the top NBA skill. You bet you can get him a shot or aid in some schematic/fundamental passing improvements. With dribble-drive skills and athleticism you have 2 huge aspects of modern game. Benn simply doesn’t have the facilitation right now. ...

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Rebounding and Defense aren’t weaknesses. They aren’t strengths, but it’s not an either/or. He’s a solid rebounder for position and should get better with added space of NBA and increased strength. And his defense was a bit here and there, but he was a net positive and flashed some nice defensive sk...

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Mathurin is Jason Richardson with D as a an upside floor. If he develops dribble-drive facilitation for himself/others, which he’s flashed, he could have a Bradley Beal like offensive ascension, but with more length and likely better D. Not sure I’ve ever scene visions of Ray Allen, other than he ha...

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Series Wow. What do they know that no one else knows? I predicted Celtics in 6 elsewhere and said Celtics punch Warriors in the mouth game 1. I said this because Celtics have best D in NBA. They have taken care of business against 3 prime superstars to get here. They are the best recorded team sinc...

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I don't even know where to start.... The wife of a good friend has been dealing with some mystery illness for years now. Doctor's have not been able to successfully diagnose the issue... other than it had something to do with her liver. She has been in and out of the hospital for the last couple of...

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Blackout curtains for 4 bedrooms (6 windows) was like $500 for us. Shop around online. You’re getting robbed. Yeah, my dining and living room windows are northwest facing and get direct Sun at the hottest part of the day. I got my blackout curtains online with rustic modern double rods and sheer cu...

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Yeah, my dining and living room windows are northwest facing and get direct Sun at the hottest part of the day. I got my blackout curtains online with rustic modern double rods and sheer curtains for around $300 for the two windows. Definitely work for light and heat reducing. $200 for large window,...

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So, it’s apparently a meme. It was a copy and paste story. She sent me the FB link she got it from.

Damn. It sounds so much like her. Good natured, trusting, always doing innocent shit that escalates.

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A friend just texted me that her neighbor has complained that her dog barks all day. She didn’t want to get an electric shock collar. So she got a citronella collar that sprays a blast of citronella mist into the breathing space of the dog. Curious how it worked, my friend took it outside and barked...

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Alieberman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:45 am How do they keep getting such great seats?

They are fucking zealots. I made a mistake in jokingly engaging the topic on Twitter and got swarmed. They do not like Glenn Taylor. Haha

JMarkJohns

I’m sure I’ll talk myself into travel. The smartest thing I could do is sell my physical home for a mountain piece of property and an RV, then just explore. That would actually be right up my alley, but who knows if that’s even gonna be doable in 20-25 years with gas prices and the move to green veh...

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I fear retirement because I have no hobbies and very few interests. Maybe I’ll learn to cook and get morbidly obese. It’s not that I don’t have hobbies, but I am “objects at rest stay at rest” incarnate. Im in the middle of working 165-180 hours last week, this week, next week. I have 7 events, 2 o...

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That is terrible. The dog I have now was one I got age 10. She had been passed around for many years. I think she had to fight for place or survival at a few places because she’s not good with any other dogs, and I think she was yelled at a lot because she cowers and flees anytime a voice is raised,...

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When I met with the guy to ask what happened and if it could be changed he told me the deadline was the previous day.

3 weeks later it was changed.

I don’t want to call the dude a liar, but, dude fucking lied.

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Within the last 2 years I have collected 5 different community awards, including one for leadership. I’ve created 2 courses for the college that are absolutely humming when you also add the Military Leadership in Public Speaking course. Beyond my success, I can think of half a dozen examples of my P...

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I don’t know why people in new positions of authority always gotta overstep and rock the boat. Recently this is exactly what happened when my community college voted in an interim Division Chair. For 7 years I have helped build a Public Speaking program in South County for ESL students. It wasn’t ea...

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My pool has a clog in the line. I had already planned on upgrading the older motor system, so I did but it isn’t dislodging the clog. So, now we are going to use a pressure jet bladder gizmo that you feed through the pipe. If that doesn’t work, there’s a reverse pressure procedure that typically di...

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Lakers made their bed and deserved to be dragged out of it.

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https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1508821862196916226 A bit silly to legislate this except that there clearly needs to be a change in how quickly these cases are addressed and I don't know how else it will be forced upon the NCAA (who is seemingly oblivious to how deeply they undermine the s...

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Their best option is what Chicat said. Not sure anyone is taking Westbrook, but maybe the Knicks could, so, I’ll explore that later. But I’d trade LeBron/Tucker to Warriors for Wiggins, Wiseman, Kuminga, Moody. Then look at shipping Davis somewhere for picks/players. Right now Lakers have almost 130...

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My pool has a clog in the line. I had already planned on upgrading the older motor system, so I did but it isn’t dislodging the clog. So, now we are going to use a pressure jet bladder gizmo that you feed through the pipe. If that doesn’t work, there’s a reverse pressure procedure that typically dis...

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What TCU should say: “We are aware and appreciate Mathurin’s efforts to reach out. While the circumstances are unclear, we have spoken with the young lady in question, and nothing more needs to be said on the matter. With the apology, the matter is closed.” It doesn’t downplay whether it did or didn...

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Very sorry for your loss. Sounds like a wonderful dog and part of the family.

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Last thing I’ll say on it. Of course he didn’t touch her. She’s balancing her entire upper body weight on one leg, and he’s 6-6, 200 pounds moving toward her with a quick momentum. If he even grazes her and she reacts, because of her balanced body weight the movement would be exaggerated and she’d b...

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Just saw a stupid Outkick article that suggests Mathurin may have touched a TCU cheerleaders chest on his way out of the arena after the game. I watched it and it looked like it was inadvertent to me. He had his arms out celebrating. Looks like nothing to me. It's so annoying that certain people ha...

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I didn’t even know tcu basketball had fans until they lost last night. Most on Twitter aren’t even TCU fans besides that one account. Most are PAC-12 and East Coast fans of other teams who hate Arizona already or think their shit down stink ACC/Big East bias amounts to more than fuckwittery with me.

JMarkJohns

Twitter has been a fun 15 hours.

I had retired from sports, I was out. I was clear. I didn’t watch anything from mid-September through mid-February.

But I’m full on relapse right now.

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Would be incredibly ironic if next season and thereafter we're still dealing with Sean's sanctions while he's off coaching another team. Sure, he may get a wrist slap co-penalty, but seems dumb penalizing us at this point when all the perpetrators are long gone and have been hired elsewhere. And th...

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“Ray Smith is one of the most talented young players that has ever entered our program. The news of his injury is incredibly disappointing on several levels. However, the togetherness of our program is one of our strengths. Our great fans, former and current players, our medical and coaching staffs...

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I would say until the day Miller defeats Arizona in the NCAAs, he remains a Wildcat. That dude fought like hell to remain at Arizona.

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I already dropped my Twitter thread in the Xavier thread updating on Miller being prime candidate this morning, and, well, we are now all best friends. Never thought I’d find a non-Arizona program to like in college basketball especially not this late in life. Sometimes one school’s treated like tra...

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Happy for Miller, happy to see fanbase happy to have Miller. I wasn’t done rooting for him.

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Yeah, Cronin isn’t Alford. He’s a good coach, and seems a solid recruiter, and also seems a reasonable dude.

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It was weird getting to flex on my Sean Miller/FBI probe knowledge on their board. It wasn’t my intent, but a few of the ones who didn’t like me being there tried to get rid of me by bringing it up. Ended the conversation with a LMAO when one of them simply replied he was no longer engaging with me ...

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Logged in at BRO after the PAC-12 Title go read and be inspired. Eventually I was surprised by a Tommy Lloyd praise fest and contributed with a few answers to questions. Long story short, majority of BRO posters like me, and I accidentally caused a rift twixt them and the outspoken handful who hate ...

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First Year Head Coach Team comprised largely of underclassmen Had to re-recruit existing starters Had to recruit his bench on fly Had to enter a still toxic media/admin environment Had to coach to a new offensive system Had to coach to a new defensive system Had to coach through Covid Chaos Had to d...

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Boy did the Sixers overpay just to get rid of Simmons and to not get better at all. If Durant and Irving and Curry and Harris are healthy, with their newly acquired 1sts, they’ll make some legit noise for a few years if Simmons buys into his facilitating big man role. Lots of shooting and scoring s...

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Boy did the Sixers overpay just to get rid of Simmons and to not get better at all. If Durant and Irving and Curry and Harris are healthy, with their newly acquired 1sts, they’ll make some legit noise for a few years if Simmons buys into his facilitating big man role. Lots of shooting and scoring s...

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BearDownU is definitely the death rattle of PGU and it employs the competitive to the death and to a fault with Jason/Wildcat Authority. And I am pretty sure I remember the main folks having significant links to Ace, even to this day. I have them blocked on Twitter, but up until recently had kept an...

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His sister read my Facebook tribute to him in her eulogy and it hurt more than anything. He truly was one of the best people I knew. Genuinely kind. I remember talking with him at the beginning of the pandemic when he worried his event sponsorships and marketing commissions would dry up because he f...

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So, I’m at my friends funeral weekend, and the parents have conducted an autopsy and had some independent specialists check up on how their 40-yo son wound up dead from causes that seemed preventable. It had long been believed infection killed Beau from a perforated bowel from an untreated worsening...

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My 12-year-old just got suspended from school for the week because he asked a classmate who identifies as a lesbian questions about being a lesbian. The principal told my wife that if he didn’t suspend him and the story got out, it could mean his job. I just picked up my son and basically told the ...

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My 12-year-old just got suspended from school for the week because he asked a classmate who identifies as a lesbian questions about being a lesbian. The principal told my wife that if he didn’t suspend him and the story got out, it could mean his job. I just picked up my son and basically told the ...

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Now lost 2 friends to treatable conditions because they didn’t want to go to the Covid Hospitals to get tests and treatments, putting things off past the tipping point, both losing their lives to “complications” of their conditions, not the conditions themselves. Both were 40/under. Both since Augu...

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