Some things that excited me are that our new point guard had 13 assist and ZERO turnovers in addition to 31 points. Look Dominic Artis to be the newcomer of the year. UTEP also has shooters. Trey Touchet won the 3 point contest by going 28-30, he was a perfect 15-15 in the first round. Interior play is/and will be a big question mark but this is the first time UTEP has had great guard play in over 4 years.
(10-26-2015 04:16 PM)stanman505 Wrote: This years team will be very different from the past few years as UTEP has outstanding guard play. Here is a link to our local papers write up.
Some things that excited me are that our new point guard had 13 assist and ZERO turnovers in addition to 31 points. Look Dominic Artis to be the newcomer of the year. UTEP also has shooters. Trey Touchet won the 3 point contest by going 28-30, he was a perfect 15-15 in the first round. Interior play is/and will be a big question mark but this is the first time UTEP has had great guard play in over 4 years.
It does look like you have a pretty solid back court. BTW artis had 13 asst. and 2 T.O. (still great) and 20 pts. Moore finished with 31. I can't wait till roundball season. Today at ODU we break ground on our new practice facility, and unveil our new LED scoreboard and arena ribbons. I hope you guys have a great season!
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the kid is just too good to be stopped or the defense wasn't very good. If it's the 2nd UTEP will have problems keeping other guards from doing what they want.
The main reason why I never get too hyped off spring football practice reports or basketball preseason reports....
you are playing against yourself. So there could be reason a kid(s) looks like the best player in the conference. Don't have a clue if thats the case here and in no ways am I saying that. It's just my outlook on it
Here is what Dominic Artis looked like as a freshmen at Oregon. It wasn't that our defense was not that great. The kid was a top 50 player nationally and the #5 rated point guard.
I'm more impressed with his passing skills. Some times the big men would be caught off guard because they weren't expecting the pass. It made for some easy points. I'm really impressed also with Moore. That kid can ball. He can do it all. I think that those two surpassed Omega and Morris, they're that good. IMHO
I agree Ollie. The Artis, Moore, Vint trio is going to be our bread and butter this year. Vint is going to improve as the year goes on. He did last year, too. He's at his best when the opposing bigs start pushing him around. He gets riled up.
It will remind us of the Hardaway, Prince Stewart, Antonio Davis trio (if only!).
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(10-29-2015 10:47 AM)roundsound Wrote: I agree Ollie. The Artis, Moore, Vint trio is going to be our bread and butter this year. Vint is going to improve as the year goes on. He did last year, too. He's at his best when the opposing bigs start pushing him around. He gets riled up.
It will remind us of the Hardaway, Prince Stewart, Antonio Davis trio (if only!).
Those Hardaway to Antonio Davis ally-opps were the best.
(10-29-2015 10:47 AM)roundsound Wrote: I agree Ollie. The Artis, Moore, Vint trio is going to be our bread and butter this year. Vint is going to improve as the year goes on. He did last year, too. He's at his best when the opposing bigs start pushing him around. He gets riled up.
It will remind us of the Hardaway, Prince Stewart, Antonio Davis trio (if only!).
Oh jeez. If we have to rely on Hooper for anything more than a couple of points and a couple of boards a game, some enterprising fellow better open up a liquor store across the street from my apartment. Maybe he surprises, but, based on his body of work so far, I'm not going to count on it.
(10-29-2015 10:47 AM)roundsound Wrote: I agree Ollie. The Artis, Moore, Vint trio is going to be our bread and butter this year. Vint is going to improve as the year goes on. He did last year, too. He's at his best when the opposing bigs start pushing him around. He gets riled up.
It will remind us of the Hardaway, Prince Stewart, Antonio Davis trio (if only!).
Oh jeez. If we have to rely on Hooper for anything more than a couple of points and a couple of boards a game, some enterprising fellow better open up a liquor store across the street from my apartment. Maybe he surprises, but, based on his body of work so far, I'm not going to count on it.
(10-29-2015 10:47 AM)roundsound Wrote: I agree Ollie. The Artis, Moore, Vint trio is going to be our bread and butter this year. Vint is going to improve as the year goes on. He did last year, too. He's at his best when the opposing bigs start pushing him around. He gets riled up.
It will remind us of the Hardaway, Prince Stewart, Antonio Davis trio (if only!).
Oh jeez. If we have to rely on Hooper for anything more than a couple of points and a couple of boards a game, some enterprising fellow better open up a liquor store across the street from my apartment. Maybe he surprises, but, based on his body of work so far, I'm not going to count on it.
(10-29-2015 10:47 AM)roundsound Wrote: I agree Ollie. The Artis, Moore, Vint trio is going to be our bread and butter this year. Vint is going to improve as the year goes on. He did last year, too. He's at his best when the opposing bigs start pushing him around. He gets riled up.
It will remind us of the Hardaway, Prince Stewart, Antonio Davis trio (if only!).
Oh jeez. If we have to rely on Hooper for anything more than a couple of points and a couple of boards a game, some enterprising fellow better open up a liquor store across the street from my apartment. Maybe he surprises, but, based on his body of work so far, I'm not going to count on it.
Hooper was pretty darned good at the scrimmage. UTEP marketing seems pretty confident in him. But, like I said...if only.
Well, he was pretty darned good in the preseason last year, too, and that didn't exactly translate to much in the regular season. To his credit, he did step up a bit when Willms went down, but was a nonfactor outside of that.
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CUSA has enough programs with good enough histories that we will have a better conference than the A10 if we all can get back close to where we use to be
UTEP
Western
UNCC
ODU
Can be a good base to build on and with tech, muts, s miss showing they can put up some good numbers
In case you missed it, UTEP beat Cameron today 78-69. The big news is that there's an eligibility issue with Artis, who didn't play. Earvin Morris, Terry Winn, and Christian Romine were suspended and didn't play. And, Coach Floyd's sister died, so he wasn't on the bench.
(10-31-2015 05:47 PM)STexMiner Wrote: In case you missed it, UTEP beat Cameron today 78-69. The big news is that there's an eligibility issue with Artis, who didn't play. Earvin Morris, Terry Winn, and Christian Romine were suspended and didn't play. And, Coach Floyd's sister died, so he wasn't on the bench.
I'm an optimistic fan and I want to believe that Hoop is going to be great this season, but you might be right. He sure had a hard time getting it over the rim at the Cameron game. The good thing was that it pissed him off. He was pissed off at himself.
The guards were fast and spunky and some players were way better than they were are the scrimmage.
Ya, that's a lot of news for a simple exhibition game. Did you have a chance to go to the Cameron exhibition?
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