Damion James will be better on the perimeter

I’d like to also extend a big thanks to Kelvin Sampson. Mensch.

That’s Calvin Simpson. I mean Corvin Simmons. I mean Colwin Johnson. I mean Kevin Simonds.

Barnes’s quotes on the players yesterday were a lot more positive and specific than the stuff that Texassports.com posted a couple of weeks ago.

This is gonna be a fun season.

John Mackovic would have never stood for this.

We’re going to murder people on the boards.
 
Atchley on the perimeter guarded by a big while Damion posts up a skinny wing inside will be a matchup nightmare.

If Damion is a full time 3, then who sits from our three guards? How Barnes answers this question will have a lot to do with how our season goes.

If he answers it with a Dutch accent, what will that mean?

His comments yesterday seemed to indicate that Mason and Abrams will be the starters.

And he sounded a bit like John Edwards when he said it, for whatever that’s worth.

And of course, he looks like John Grisham.

I’d like to see Damion attack bigger forwards from the triple threat position. He doesn’t need to cross fools over to get to the rim, he’d be most effective as a shot fake, one dribble, explode to the goal forward.

Scip, Dogus or Mason will need to stroke it or teams are going to zone the shit out of us due to the matchup problems you typed about.

Or f’ it, let’s just press the shit out of teams with our depth and run them out of the zone.

I feel bad for Sonics fans, but it sure is nice having KD just a couple of hundred miles up the highway instead of two time zones away.

Though I hope he has a good glazier on his payroll to make up for all the bricks the Okies will be throwing through his windows.

His GF is my employee. She has already promised me tickets. Good ones.

Barnes sounded pretty high on Dexter and indicated that Texas is going to be tough on the inside. That means the front line starters are probably Dex, Connor, and Damion, right? The back court starters are Mason and Abrams.

I’m guessing that when Dex is in the game, he is probably posting up (i.e. he probably won’t be outside too much). Damion, Abrams, and Connor should be shooting fine from the outside so the main question about outside shooting is how well Mason and Balbay shoot.

Are Texas basketball practises closed?

I’m as excited about the start of Texas Basketball as I have been in a long time – men’s and women’s. The men will go as far as their point guard play allows. Really looking forward to seeing what kind of player Balbay is. Or will we be pleasantly surprised by AJ’s point play? Mason is functional there but not the drought killer DJ was.