Basketball 🏀

[kevin nacoste]

@Gerry Hamilton, I know we are full swing football and baseball. Is there any new information about the basketball team the new players or coaches and whatnot?

[Gerry Hamilton]

Not much new. Texas staff has been on the road seeing top 2026 and 2027 prospects.

This weekend is the “live period” for evaluating AAU in person. Texas staff will be scattered at Nike EYBL, Adidas 3SSB, Under Armour and Puma tournaments

As far as last three scholarship possibilities for the 2025-26 season, Texas is going very slow. They will likely use two more for sure. 

[harveycmd]

No three point line. Real basketball. Jerry West coaching Kareem as the greatest player ever. 

 

[harveycmd]

Jerry West resigned as coach after this season and became the greatest GM in history. 

[harveycmd]

Greatest steal in NBA history: West traded Vlade Divac for the draft rights to Kobe. I remember watching the 1996 NBA draft and pundits saying West had lost it. "You can't trade an All-Star center for a 17 year old high school guard." 

Edited Tuesday at 06:13 PM by harveycmd

[harveycmd]

By the way, that was on TNT. Hubie Brown said that if Jerry made the trade, it had to be a good deal because Jerry didn't make bad deals. 

[Sundancekid]

On 5/12/2025 at 1:50 PM, Gerry Hamilton said:

Not much new. Texas staff has been on the road seeing top 2026 and 2027 prospects.

This weekend is the “live period” for evaluating AAU in person. Texas staff will be scattered at Nike EYBL, Adidas 3SSB, Under Armour and Puma tournaments

As far as last three scholarship possibilities for the 2025-26 season, Texas is going very slow. They will likely use two more for sure. 

Do you think Miller will bring in two more international players with this late of a date adding players? Lots of fiah left in the sea?

[BobInHouston]

On 6/3/2025 at 1:00 PM, harveycmd said:

Jerry West resigned as coach after this season and became the greatest GM in history. 

Red Auerbach might be in that competition.

[Sundancekid]

The Celtics had the greatest dynasty under Auerbach without a doubt… have. 

[Gerry Hamilton]

On 6/3/2025 at 2:17 PM, Sundancekid said:

Do you think Miller will bring in two more international players with this late of a date adding players? Lots of fiah left in the sea?

Texas is only using one more spot for a guard. Has to be a fit ... could be international of from the states TBD

[MarkInAustin]

I first saw Jerry West play when I was in HS and he was at WVa.  Then I watched him for years in the NBA.  To me he was the second best guard ever.  In college, WVa had an All American 6-10 center, but West jumped center.  His defense was the best.  His shooting was the best.  Only Steph has been as deadly from distance.  He even led the NBA in assists one year.  He still played a foot above the rim in his 30s.  

If I could have only six guys to play one game they would be Jordan, West, Bird, Duncan, Wilt, and LeBron, who would be able to sub for everyone else with virtually no drop off.  

[thatdude2]

32 minutes ago, MarkInAustin said:

I first saw Jerry West play when I was in HS and he was at WVa.  Then I watched him for years in the NBA.  To me he was the second best guard ever.  In college, WVa had an All American 6-10 center, but West jumped center.  His defense was the best.  His shooting was the best.  Only Steph has been as deadly from distance.  He even led the NBA in assists one year.  He still played a foot above the rim in his 30s.  

If I could have only six guys to play one game they would be Jordan, West, Bird, Duncan, Wilt, and LeBron, who would be able to sub for everyone else with virtually no drop off.  

I would take Hakeem and 5 guys off the street. 

[Thorn007]

magic yo

[harveycmd]

7 hours ago, MarkInAustin said:

I first saw Jerry West play when I was in HS and he was at WVa.  Then I watched him for years in the NBA.  To me he was the second best guard ever.  In college, WVa had an All American 6-10 center, but West jumped center.  His defense was the best.  His shooting was the best.  Only Steph has been as deadly from distance.  He even led the NBA in assists one year.  He still played a foot above the rim in his 30s.  

If I could have only six guys to play one game they would be Jordan, West, Bird, Duncan, Wilt, and LeBron, who would be able to sub for everyone else with virtually no drop off.  

I'd want a true point in that mix, but it makes sense. I will say that Jerry West was head and shoulders above Steph Curry. Better shooter, better ball handler, better passer, better defender, better competitor, better everything. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Curry was made the rule changes designed to help the Euro pansies who couldn't man up. They had to allow the weak goobers to avoid man defense and contact so the sticks could shoot. The result has been continuous decline in fan interest. About to reach another low during this year's Finals.

[harveycmd]

"Bird"

If Bird played under today's rules, he would easily be the best player in history. Just think, if you couldn't body Bird off the ball, and you couldn't touch him while he was shooting, he would've averaged 40, 20 and 15. 

 

[harveycmd]

Thinking of how stupid the three point line is. You don't get nine points in football for scoring beyond twenty or thirty yards. You don't get two runs for hitting a homer, etc. 

[harveycmd]

To be clear, Bird wasn't as good with man rules at Kareem, Magic, Mikey, Wilt, or Kobe. But with Euro pansy rules, he couldn't be beat. You let him shoot, move and pass without hindrance and there's no way you stop him. Man could think five steps ahead, but he couldn't defend James Worthy one on one. Give him zone rules, he defend anyone. Man this stuff now sucks. Getting ready to go out for the hogs.

Edited 6 hours ago by harveycmd

[harveycmd]

Jules. Pulp Fiction. 1994. Putzes don't matter.

[MarkInAustin]

4 hours ago, harveycmd said:

To be clear, Bird wasn't as good with man rules .... Give him zone rules, he defend anyone. 

Agreed, Bird was a great passing lane anticipator/disruptor, and on my six men for one game team he would look like a great defender because he could freelance with the man defenders around him.

Under current rules MJ would also be unstoppable, and West would benefit, as well [no hand checking].

Because four of my six were very good distributors no "true" PG would be necessary [the other two, MJ and Timmy, were certainly not black holes].  Instead, for one game they would each play 40 of 48 minutes and always have passing, shooting, rebounding, ball handling, and defense on the floor.

There are other combinations one could put together that would tickle the imagination, but the total skills [and will] would be hard to match. 

Edited 2 hours ago by MarkInAustin

[harveycmd]

Bird with the rules of today would be unstoppable. Let him shoot without being touched; let him move without being able to body him; he'd literally dominate. Current Euro pansies wouldn't be anything compared him. Against the Lakers in the 80s he couldn't match up. That's why NBA basketball sucks now.

Edited 2 hours ago by harveycmd

[harveycmd]

Bird from three point line could shoot 70 percent without being touched. Lakers literally held him nonstop. Of course, Celtics mauled Kareem and Worthy too. McHale literally close lined Rambis in the 1984 NBA Finals and all he got was a foul. Pansies today can't man up to that.

[Sundancekid]

  So who we got in the NBA finals? I’m taking the underdog Indiana Pacers. For some reason their depth and team chemistry seem really special. This and being a considerable underdog by all the pundits have me remembering  my 1990 Cincinatti Reds against thise Oakland A’s. Rooting for Miles Turner as well.

[harveycmd]

Only German song to ever be number one in the US. Learned German when I was 19 in 1990. 

 

[harveycmd]

Took my my mother to see Dances with Wolves 29 November 1990 in Longview, TX.