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Many teams have a tougher non-conference schedule. Most top 15 teams have a tougher non-conference schedule. I'd like for the Longhorns to play Illinois, Michigan, Duke, Saint John's, Houston, Arizona, Kansas. What goober boy Connecticut Norlander doesn't understand is that Mississippi State is twice as good as Rutgers, Seton Hall, Utah, Butler, Cal, Boston College and Washington. That's why Miller told him he doesn't need to schedule more hardcore non-conference games.

I wore home 8. She wore road 24. It was in Longview, which takes about 45 minutes to get to. Listened to nothing but the man's fav Righteous Brothers on the way home. One of the Righteous Brothers songs we listened to was You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'. It was a bunch of early 20s women reacting to the song, which they'd never heard. I grew up listening to the Righteous Brothers on the radio when I was a kid in the 80s. My daughter is 21 and she grew up listening to the Righteous Brothers because I played it for her. She couldn't understand why they didn't know that You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' is the most played song in the history of the world. Of course, she grew up reading The Odyssey and doesn't understand why people don't know that Odysseus is the greatest epic hero in the history of the world.

Norlander wouldn't have asked if they were good if they were buds or something like that. Norlander talked about going to Japan with Hurley. That's his love bud, not Miller. Sean told him he was wrong three times. By the way, Gerry, went to see The Odyssey with my daughter. Wore our jerseys. Listened to YMCA, Don't Stop Believin', Back in Black and Country Grammar on the way.

I'm glad Miller came back at him at the end and told him he was wrong on the scheduling. Miller said he'd done a deep dive on the analytics and would be happy to talk to him next March and see what he had to say.

I've watched Norlander for a few years, and I've never seen him ask another coach questions like that. He just interviewed Hurley a few days ago. Didn't ask him to disclose his payroll. Didn't ask him to explain why he likes to cuss out refs and threaten them by yelling, "I'm the best basketball coach in the world! You better watch what you're doing!" For some reason, Norlander thought he needed to play "gotcha" with Miller.

The Norlander interview was pretty disrespectful. Never seen Norlander treat another coach like that. What's your payroll? Why can't you schedule tougher? Can I make you look bad? Miller should give him the cold shoulder.

We need Rod to talk with Kyle Shanahan and Chris Simms.

Mistake

Biggest narcissist in the history of the NBA. That's saying something.

Jerry West's 1996 draft-day acquisition of Kobe Bryant—drafted 13th by Charlotte and traded to the Lakers for Vlade Divac—is widely considered the greatest draft move in NBA history. It secured a 20-year Hall of Fame career, five championships, and cleared cap space to sign Shaquille O'Neal.

Yes, during the 2001 playoffs, then-Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson stated that Kobe Bryant had the best all-around court game he had ever seen from any of his players—even better than Michael Jordan.

@Gerry Hamilton Because you mentioned Kobe Jerseys to me after my previous post, I'll never watch another OTF video in my life.

Gerry, why do you love Freeman and Notre Dame so much? Is it because had lunch with goober in Florida? I mean, talked with Cormac McCarthy in San Marcos in 2009.

That's true. This be like Kobe talking to LeBron in actual battle.

Next time Notre Dame wins a Title I'll give @Gerry Hamilton everything I own.

We're still talking about soccer, right? It's not tiddlywinks or badminton?

Another connection worth mentioning here is the status of Odysseus as the second greatest hero in Greek mythology after Achilles. Socrates argued in several Platonic dialogues that Odysseus was superior to Achilles and should be recognized as such by the Greeks. He based this argument on the contention that Odysseus was more "intelligent, skilled and worked harder" than Achilles. Sounds like the Jordan/Kobe stuff.

I should add that Odysseus means "enemy" in Greek, which was also a role that Kobe embraced.

I have more stuff for you @Jordan91. When my daughters were growing up during the 2000s, I'd wake them up at 6:00 AM to read classics in the mornings during the summer (Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Homer, Virgil, Herodotus, etc.), and then we'd watch the Lakers in the Finals at night. We were reading The Odyssey during June 2009. The day we read book 22, in which Odysseus kills the antagonist Antinous (which means "anti-mind" in Greek) by shooting him in the throat with an arrow, and follows it up by telling his 20 year old son Telemachus (which means power crossing over or moving to) not to celebrate because the fight isn't yet over yet, Kobe made his famous statement after taking a 2-0 lead over the Magic in the Finals ("What's there to be happy about? Job's not finished. Job finished? I don't think so."). I let them stay up late that night to watch the postgame stuff. My youngest daughter immediately made the connection between Odysseus and Kobe. Yesterday, she called me and said we need to go see the film The Odyssey next week when it's released and wear our Kobe jerseys. That's the power of admiring greatness when you grow up.

Not only nice seeing the Lakers destroy the Mavs summer league team, but Arthur Kaluma making Morez look like a chump.

That's true. He was winning it while the young man (17) was performing the greatest draft workout in sports history and telling everyone he'd never back down from "black Jesus."

Mavs strike another blow for Che Guevarra and Bolsheviks.

Plug my boy here. We're a long way from the Inglewood YMCA in June 1996.

No doubt. I'm not as high on Giddy as many. My guess is the Bulls would eventually like to work Swain over Giddy as the primary offensive initiator.