Medellin looks like an absolutely beautiful place (especially since it's supposedly reasonably safe to travel there now.)

A quick note, this isn't like a "U-21" tournament or anything, these are older players for the most part. Davis is, by quite a bit, the youngest player on the Puerto Rico roster. Their roster includes Angel Rodriguez who played at Miami a few years back and Michael Rosario who played at Florida.

The U.S. team is sort of a hodge podge of guys who were decent in college like Jonathan Holmes and Larry Drew.

Hop, TexAgs should spring the 10 bucks to watch the games this weekend and post some highlights.

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As you know, these guys are playing 5 on 5 basketball several times a week year round. If not this FIBA thing, they would be in open gym runs this week in C.S. or Dallas, Houston, etc.

At least in something like this, it is in a real-game atmosphere playing with guys who mostly are on pro teams somewhere including some who have NBA experience on their resume. If you are going to be running and jumping around, might as well be in games with refs vs. decent competition.

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As I said I am not against them playing as it could just as easily happen here.

The only way to be absolutely sure is for both players to sit until March. They can play when the NCAAs are here. For that matter, might was well rest RW, DJ and Admon as well.

Lighten up. I was half kidding as its always something with this program these days; coach develops an illness, player doesn't get cleared by NCAA for a couple of years, House goes down with injury, home schooling is frowned upon, off the court issues, Hogg injured, etc, etc. I just expect something to go wrong. So by putting it out there I am attempting to reverse the jinx.

Psh, 2024 will be a cakewalk, Kerrville, Texas is in the path of totality, I won't even have to get a hotel!

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Lighten up. I was half kidding as its always something with this program these days; coach develops an illness, player doesn't get cleared by NCAA for a couple of years, House goes down with injury, home schooling is frowned upon, off the court issues, Hogg injured, etc, etc. I just expect something to go wrong. So by putting it out there I am attempting to reverse the jinx.

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Marc, have you ever posted on the baseball board? I was chuckling to myself with this, because while aggie football and basketball are both passions for me, I am a much more casual Aggie baseball fan who just intermittently checks in and out. And this exchange with you reminded me of something.

A couple years ago, I got indoctrinated quite fast on how incredibly SUPERSTITIOUS baseball fans are, when I made the stupid mistake of commenting on how our pitcher was still pitching a no hitter like 6-7 innings into a game thread. Didn't know at the time that the first rule of a no hitter was never mention the no hitter. And seemingly many other jinx avoidance rules.

Of course by sheer bad luck (in my opinion just bad coincidence, nothing to do with my post on a TexAgs thread) the opponent got a hit off our guy the very next at bat. There were some subtle death threats thrown my way and I had to go into witness protection for awhile.

Anyways, not sure you've gone over there much, but whatever you do, be very careful ever getting into the 'jinx' game with baseball fans. Unlike football and basketball, karma is really serious business and believed to play a critical role in that sport!

Watch yourself and how you talk to Aggie bball royalty.

Royalty should know better than to bring that bad juju in here

Please delete thread and start over

Watch out for sea urchins and never mention a no-hitter!

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Lighten up. I was half kidding as its always something with this program these days; coach develops an illness, player doesn't get cleared by NCAA for a couple of years, House goes down with injury, home schooling is frowned upon, off the court issues, Hogg injured, etc, etc. I just expect something to go wrong. So by putting it out there I am attempting to reverse the jinx.

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And remember that time that House was granted a waiver and was eligible immediately for no real good reason and when we recruited some kid from NW Louisiana that nobody had heard of and he ended up being a lottery pick and then that guy defied all expectations by forgoing millions of dollars to come back for his sophomore year.

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MarcAg said:

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Lighten up. I was half kidding as its always something with this program these days; coach develops an illness, player doesn't get cleared by NCAA for a couple of years, House goes down with injury, home schooling is frowned upon, off the court issues, Hogg injured, etc, etc. I just expect something to go wrong. So by putting it out there I am attempting to reverse the jinx.

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And remember that time that House was granted a waiver and was eligible immediately for no real good reason and when we recruited some kid from NW Louisiana that nobody had heard of and he ended up being a lottery pick and then that guy defied all expectations by forgoing millions of dollars to come back for his sophomore year.

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'Bad luck' basketball programs typically get projected NBA Lottery Picks to come back for another season.

You forgot the time when the NCAA decided to suspend Jalen Jones for 4 games in the summer of 2014 but let Texas A&M defer the suspensions until the 2015-2016 season, giving Aggies the opportunity to schedule 14 games versus cupcakes for the first week of that season to rapidly eat up the suspension. That was one of my favorite 'wtf??? but hey I won't complain!' moments with an A&M related NCAA ruling.

Then, of course, in February of 2016...there was a certain home game vs Kentucky where in the final seconds an Aggie player made pretty dumb move into the paint and got blocked...but then the Kentucky kid who blocked him had a miracle brain fart moment and bounced the ball real hard off the floor instead of handing it to the referee...and got T'd up. A few weeks later...SEC Co-Champs Baby!

We have certainly had more than our fair share of misfortune to eat as Aggie sports fans, but every once in a while we catch a break!

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Royalty should know better than to bring that bad juju in here

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Fair enough: I hate that term tho.

http://www.fiba.basketball/americup/2017

The Fighting Tyler Davisesses (also known as Puerto Rico) play Mexico today in a few hours. That game is then followed by the Tonny T Times (also know as Colombia) vs. Brazil. Both games in Medellin. We'll see if Tyler and/or Tonny see some action this evening.

If I'm reading it right I think these games are actually going to be on WatchESPN

Update: Yeah, these games are available on WatchESPN. Great news, hope TD gets to play quite a bit I'd love to see how different his game looks now that he's even lighter.

Puerto Rico only has three players on the roster over 6-8 and they play games on back-to-back-to-back days so you'd think Davis would get on the court at least a little bit.

Mexico has a couple of names that might be familiar. Lorenzo Mata (UCLA) and Jorge Gutierrez (Cal)

Mexico leading Puerto Rico 36-31 at halftime.

Tyler Davis played for 6:38 in the first half. In that time, he pulled down 4 rebounds and scored 6 points going 3/3 from the field (all shots were dunks). Went 0/2 from the FT line.

Davis had the highest +/- and efficiency rating of any Puerto Rican player in the first half. Play him more!

Live Stats:
http://www.fiba.basketball/ls/#8115&13283-A-1

Davis looks so thin. How is he going to bang in the post?

Looks like he's doing a good job of it. He's got 11 and 8.

He's probably been Puerto Rico's best player, him or Diaz.

The officiating in this game is hilarious

Why the hell ain't he in?

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Why the hell ain't he in?

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Definitely blaming Billy Kennedy for Puerto Rico's mismanagement of the rotation in this game.

From the stat line it appears Davis was the best player tonight for PR

Problem is he plays the same position at Puerto Rico's other best player.

But Puerto Rico's coach just got run, not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing with this absurd officiating

This is hilarious

Logan said on the Radio that playing for Puerto Rico was not something Tyler Davis was considering, but the PR national team really worked hard on recruiting him.

I like it, gets him some experience against older players and he was probably never playing for the US National team anyway. I wonder if he even knows any spanish or if Rosario or someone is translating.