Tiger Ugly

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Jalen Hurts? Most people really like him.

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Hmnmm, I don't get that impression.

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I hate Alabama, but every time I see him interview….this kid ALWAYS has a smile on his face. Everything that I’ve read about him is that he is a genuinely great person.

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The polar opposite of Hurts who comes off as about a big a prick as possible every interview I see him in with always a sour expression on his face every time.

If my tickets went up 35% it would be a pittance, I'm an upper decker who moves down after the second media timeout to 10th row mid court every game, always plenty of empties.

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I think it's relevant to the discussion that the class in many ways currently mirrors the 2022 signing class which featured a slew of new transfers (ranked 11th in the country) a solid HS class (ranked 17th) to add to a small number of returning players.

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I think this is fair. The Advocate basketball writer is not really a reporter, he's not going to ask tough questions of anyone or do many interesting feature pieces or things you typically see from beat writers, but he does know basketball and really has done a good breakdown of the transfers we've gotten and left me a more meh than hell yeah with the group.

As anyone who participates in our very small but passionate group of LSU men's basketball fans knows - the biggest issue for me in CMM's 3 years has been the lack of team toughness, it affects everything else we do IMHO. Outside the addition of the guy from State - I don't think much else was done to improve or affect that. The point guard from Vegas is good offensively but slight and according to reports a liability defensively.

Most of the other signee's bios similarly read good at X - but .......

Hopefully, Reed and Miller can take significant steps, but neither of them are really mix it up guys once you get to SEC level competition at least, I still think physicality and toughness are going to be a concern.

The Lakers have 3 guys who can't guard anyone that play alot. With a young athletic team like the T-Wolves bad matchup

Yes, the Rockies are always a pretty safe bet for a winning game thread.

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I can’t speak for longest HR on campus at LSU, but in high school I saw Albert (Joey) Belle hit one that went so far it should have been measured in yards not feet. It was at Ruston High. That thing hit the VoTech building way down the hill.

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Joey hit one in Omaha deep into the night against Miami - it just disappeared into the darkness. No telling how far that one went.

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He’s a racist POS.

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Racist is a strong word and is widely overused and misused by all races IMHO. I don't think RC is a racist, but a race-baiter....absolutely.

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He went 27/12/8. Didn’t have a great 4Q but fatigue at 40 probably a thing. Most of those other dudes couldn’t even run up and down the court at 40. GOAT.

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He's the greatest player 40 or over, I'll give him that.

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Now imagine you went to school and worked hard and that was your goal to have that career track only for ESPN to hire a guy like Kendrick Perkins who cant even talk and when he does say something its almost incomprehensible

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I've said it before there are two guys in the smallest media market in the NBA, David Wesley and Antonio Daniels are each 10 times better than Kendrick and that may be under selling it. ESPN could hire either one of those guys and actually get good and insightful takes on the NBA. But they have a guy who struggles with the English language so he already comes across as unintelligent, then follows it up with horrible takes.