mytigger

Bakers defense disappears in key moments and gives up big plays in big games at the worst times. Mostly right after we go up. The guy is a momentum killer. And ANY big games requires us to be up two scores to avoid his sorry arse prevent defense.

I wish he would prove this board wrongs, but he hasn’t and I don’t think he can. He needs to take another job.

Nobody was leaving at the end of the 3rd quarter. It didn’t start until midway in the 4th when lane went brain dead on 4th and 10 from his own 20 down 2 scores. Lane ended the game there and the fans were smart enough to see it.

Blake Baker is the equivalent of a chess player with an ELO of 1200 that looks great against beginners but is completely overmatched by advanced players.

He is good. He’s not great. If he looked like Mark Mangino instead of a fit young former player, he’s not getting a $4M/yr deal.

Kiffin was on tilt.

I've never bet on politics before and don't really bet too much on sports either. But I just went on Kalshi and I'm looking at the odds on some of these senate races. Alaska and Texas are essentially paying out 3:1 odds if the Republican choice wins those races. Rodgers in MI is a 5:1 dog to Al Sayed winning that race.

What are we thinking here? Is anyone else betting this?

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Buck strikes me as a guy who knows how to play the game of thrones.

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I think it's more he's just a good company man who understands the value of social capital. He clearly did a bunch of goodwill shite that he wasn't paid for to be a suckup, and he's being rewarded for it. He's the definition of a company man.

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same thing, y'all just disagree on intent

Central Plumbing

Per Chat…

The closest modern basketball terminology would be an “amoeba defense” or, more broadly, a hybrid/man-zone defense.

Brown's Freak Defense was unusual because it didn't have one fixed alignment. The defense changed based on where the ball went and other offensive cues. Brown described one sequence where:

- Ball-handler goes right ? man-to-man
- Passes to the left wing ? 2-3 zone
- Passes to the right side ? 2-1-2 zone

So the players were essentially switching defensive identities on the fly, rather than simply rotating within one traditional zone.

They need to add pedestrian / street lighting around the walking path. It's pretty damn dark over there at night and after games there are hundreds of kids walking that path very late at night. Dangerous in more ways than one.

Brother, I’ve watched this scenario for the last 50 years. It does not have a happy ending.