For most of modern basketball history there’s been a general idea that big men have a harder time shooting free throws because they have such huge hands. My question is, how true is this? Michael Jordan said himself that one of his huge competitive advantages was that he had huge hands. Now we’re seeing so many stretch 4s and stretch 5s at the college and pro levels that shoot outside shots at a high level, surely they have huge hands. On the opposite side of that, if you look at the basketball in Amari’s hands, it’s the size of a tennis ball to most normal people and it’s pretty obvious that complicates his shooting motion. What’s the reality? How does hand size actually affect a player’s shot percentage, particularly at the free throw line?

May just be my router…but this is much worse than usual.

Doubt we get much until after our game.

What’s the scene looking like around the stadium/downtown? Mostly blue and Purdue fans?

Nothing is shocking anymore, but this would surprise me. Mark Turgeon left A&M for Maryland, but I think A&M is a better job than Maryland now. Buzz is a Texas native and well liked. There is zero chance Maryland could outbid A&M for him, if A&M's wants to keep him. Seems like a good fit for the Aggies.

I really don’t want our run to end. And especially don’t want it to end to them low down. Dirty. Snitches.

I just want to know?

Evidently, fans are starting to send Amari some Weetabix – a compressed cereal bar from the UK (the imperialist one, not the bourbon one). The food came up in the post-game interview and Pope was giving him a hard time about it.

I'm waiting for it to become a meme.
Login to view embedded media

Where have we seen this movie before?:
13 point lead with 4:24 to play:

Arky Gave up a 3
Turned it over, 2pts tt
Arky missed 2 3s on a next possession
2 more for tt
Arky missed another 3
Made 3 by tt
Time out Arky, 10-0 run by tt
Knox makes a 3
Made 3 by tt
Brazill missed a 3
Tt missed a 3
Arky missed front end of 1 and 1
Tt makes game tying 3 with 9.7 seconds to play.
Wagner misses game winner, OVERTIME

ALLTIME CHOKE JOB BY ARKY AND CAL!

Ten minutes til tip. Would be a huge win without Jax. Let’s do this, boys.

Everyone will be after this dude hard

Login to view embedded media

Will be interesting to see if this starts a trend with other players in the league taking this role at their alma mater.


Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has accepted a role with his alma mater Davidson College as an assistant general manager for the basketball programs, university officials told ESPN.

Curry becomes the first active player in U.S. major professional sports to take an administrative job with an NCAA team.

In his new role, Curry, who played three seasons at Davidson (2006-09), will provide guidance to the men's and women's teams based on his college and professional experience.

He'll work with general manager Austin Buntz, a former Under Armour global sports marketing team member. Curry first signed with Under Armour in 2013 and launched his own Curry Brand as a standalone venture with the company in 2020. He also signed a lifetime contract shoe deal in recent years.

As many NC...as many FF. Didn't run out on Kentucky... didn't come back to our most hated rival. Truth is truth people. I'm glad Cal beat his a$$

A friend of mine just told me he heard this. Luigi something. Anyone else hear about this?

Cal gonna Cal.

If you know ,., YOU KNOW

For people heading to the game, what restaurants/bars are you going to before the game. Go cas

To watch Ansley Almonor and Trent Noah hit back to back threes to put us up 13 with 8 minutes to go in the 2nd half tonight.

LETS FN GO. Cats are getting it done tonight

I’ve had some weird email conflict all year as in when I would login, I couldn’t post and instead got an error message that said something like, “email is already in use.” I didn’t want to deal with setting up a new email, registering that new email with Rivals, blah, blah, blah, but I finally got around to it. I have fully admitted in past posts that sometimes I’m serious with my posts and sometimes I post craziness (mostly due to constraints of physical health issues and being actually stir crazy). This is a post you can take as serious, but only as far as you want to believe me.

-My brother holds a high up position in nonprofit where he works directly with many of UK’s higher ups and has become somewhat of an acquaintance and friend of Pope. I’m not going to say who my brother is or who he works for because I didn’t ask his permission to post this. Anyway, he says the Hurley offer never happened. Mitch’s hiring priority hiring list was 1) Drew 2) Pope. Maybe there were other feelers out, but no other official offers or conversations. I don’t know what proof there has ever been exhibited to the contrary that Mitch did indeed make that absurdly large offer to Hurley, and maybe there was something as far as proof that I haven’t seen, but I kind of get tired of seeing the lore of a huge Hurley offer and being turned down by him as matter of fact on this board.

-As far as Big Z goes. Z did some volunteer work with my brother’s organization as part of getting eligibility. My brother described Z as essentially lazy or at least as not being proactive. Brother did say that he didn’t think charitable work really was much of a thing in Croatia and maybe that’s why Z navigated the situation the way that he did. My personal opinion after we have seen Z’s body of work the last two years is yea, he’s probably kinda lazy; highly talented, but not that motivated. I bring this up because of how often I see things like, “Cal doesn’t know how to use him.” And because some would still want him to come back here. I think Z’s as much his own worst enemy as anything and would have never worked on a Pope team.

Outside of those two things, I’m not going to claim to have insider information on much of anything else. I don’t know a thing about who’s being recruited seriously, what kind of money is being spent, who’s likely to come, anything like that. My brother and I don’t talk that much, don’t even live in the same state. I also think that really, really strong recruiting news is rare and that for the most part you have to have very close ties to a lot of people in the basketball world to truly know anything. Coaches aren’t going to just give away information, even to work friends, and what’s released or isn’t released is highly controlled. If I ever hear any other random tidbits I’ll pass them on.

Johnson and Jackson ran 4.50 and 4.51 forty yard dash. That's pretty impressive and will be difficult to replace.

While bench press isn't everything, Ox (13!), Rybka (20) and Deone (22) did not impress. Maybe Walker is still dealing with his back injury. But Ox and Rybka - piss poor. Might explain our DL performance last year somewhat. A DL who only benches 225 13 times shouldn't see the field much, imo. By comparison, Eli and Marques Cox both did 25 and JJ did 26.

Mincey did 20 bench reps and ran a 5.89 40. Good lord, I thought we had better athletes than that.