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Post by cherokee04 on Apr 16, 2024 18:03:35 GMT -5
That was such a complete team. Grant was Grant. Lamonte was a killer and Kyle was the best center, for my money, in the Barnes era. Purdue 🤬! This is why I’ll only believe we get a final 4 when I actually see us in one. That team was the closest thing to a championship roster that I’ve ever seen at UT. And in the sweet 16, I thought we actually played an A game, offensively at least. And we still lost. It just never works out for us. If Alexander doesn't miss that game with an injured hip, the Vols win comfortably. I feel certain of that. But of course... that's not what happened.
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Post by drewdat on Apr 16, 2024 18:22:14 GMT -5
Carsen Edwards stepped out of bounds and kicked Lamonte and the refs let him tie it with FTs
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Post by hamiltonvol on Apr 16, 2024 18:51:29 GMT -5
Carsen Edwards stepped out of bounds and kicked Lamonte and the refs let him tie it with FTs I still have nightmares. Which, something something priorities but whatever.
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Post by awinatl on Apr 17, 2024 7:16:27 GMT -5
This is why I’ll only believe we get a final 4 when I actually see us in one. That team was the closest thing to a championship roster that I’ve ever seen at UT. And in the sweet 16, I thought we actually played an A game, offensively at least. And we still lost. It just never works out for us. If Alexander doesn't miss that game with an injured hip, the Vols win comfortably. I feel certain of that. But of course... that's not what happened. We could have Shaq and LeBron and I wouldn’t feel certain of a Tennessee team winning a sweet 16 game
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Post by knoxkid on Apr 17, 2024 8:24:46 GMT -5
This is why I’ll only believe we get a final 4 when I actually see us in one. That team was the closest thing to a championship roster that I’ve ever seen at UT. And in the sweet 16, I thought we actually played an A game, offensively at least. And we still lost. It just never works out for us. If Alexander doesn't miss that game with an injured hip, the Vols win comfortably. I feel certain of that. But of course... that's not what happened. I could be misremembering, but wasn't it the Sister Jean game he missed?
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Post by cherokee04 on Apr 17, 2024 8:48:13 GMT -5
If Alexander doesn't miss that game with an injured hip, the Vols win comfortably. I feel certain of that. But of course... that's not what happened. I could be misremembering, but wasn't it the Sister Jean game he missed? Yes, I thought that’s the game we were talking about. I’m going back and seeing it was the Purdue game now. In addition, Tennessee now has 10 grand slams on the season…
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Post by goldenjay on Apr 17, 2024 10:45:24 GMT -5
That’s definitely fair. I only meant they play a similar style of game, not that one is as good as the other. Aside: that video does a good job showing that AD really had a nice looking shot, in terms of form and ball rotation. No wonder he hit 42% from deep his senior year. Holy cow, that’s right! I had forgotten he hit at that rate. I’ll have to look up his volume, but I think it was at least a pretty fair amount of attempts. Which makes me continue to wonder why no NBA team has a place for him.
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Post by cherokee04 on Apr 17, 2024 11:10:55 GMT -5
Holy cow, that’s right! I had forgotten he hit at that rate. I’ll have to look up his volume, but I think it was at least a pretty fair amount of attempts. Which makes me continue to wonder why no NBA team has a place for him. He’s on the Magic roster for now. He may be one a one year contract. But he is currently in the NBA. He’ll probably make enough money to have a nice start to financial security, but he’ll also probably need to work most of his life doing something because I don’t expect he’ll ever bank enough from his NBA career to be able to do nothing else if he wanted.
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Post by pdlglm on Apr 17, 2024 11:57:05 GMT -5
according to the internet Admiral has made $4.1 million playing basketball over 5 years. So, pretty good money. The UT website says his major was in "African Studies", but I would imagine his NBA contacts could land him a job regardless of the utility of his college degree. Plus, he always seemed like a hard worker with a good head on his shoulders. He should be fine.
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Post by gvt11 on Apr 17, 2024 12:43:34 GMT -5
according to the internet Admiral has made $4.1 million playing basketball over 5 years. So, pretty good money. The UT website says his major was in "African Studies", but I would imagine his NBA contacts could land him a job regardless of the utility of his college degree. Plus, he always seemed like a hard worker with a good head on his shoulders. He should be fine. He could just about put that in CDs and generate enough income to have a couple hundred grand a year in spending money.
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Post by cherokee04 on Apr 17, 2024 13:14:02 GMT -5
according to the internet Admiral has made $4.1 million playing basketball over 5 years. So, pretty good money. The UT website says his major was in "African Studies", but I would imagine his NBA contacts could land him a job regardless of the utility of his college degree. Plus, he always seemed like a hard worker with a good head on his shoulders. He should be fine. He could just about put that in CDs and generate enough income to have a couple hundred grand a year in spending money. I had looked it up and only found a little over $2M, which gets taxed at a high rate and then he likely pays an agent a chunk as well. But if the $4.1M is correct, then even after taxes and agent fees, he’d be in pretty good shape if he manages his money wisely. He’d still likely need to find ways of bringing in income so he didn’t burn through too much, but he could easily do any number of things that would probably give him a solid salary.
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Post by brewii on Apr 17, 2024 13:15:02 GMT -5
according to the internet Admiral has made $4.1 million playing basketball over 5 years. So, pretty good money. The UT website says his major was in "African Studies", but I would imagine his NBA contacts could land him a job regardless of the utility of his college degree. Plus, he always seemed like a hard worker with a good head on his shoulders. He should be fine. He could just about put that in CDs and generate enough income to have a couple hundred grand a year in spending money. It is a nice nest egg to have at his age. Would love to have have had just half of that at that same age. Manage it wisely and he should be able to live an enjoyable life.
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Post by goldenjay on Apr 17, 2024 13:16:00 GMT -5
Thanks to cherokee and pdlglm for bringing me up to date on Admiral. I thought I had already done so, but I guess I didn't hit "post quick reply".
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Post by pdlglm on Apr 17, 2024 13:28:00 GMT -5
yeah, lets say an average of $800k+ a year, and without getting into the various state tax issues, he should still have cleared around a couple million - and if he has any sense should still have seven figures of that, or so. Heck of alot more than I had at 27 yrs old.
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Post by afvolunteer on Apr 18, 2024 13:05:28 GMT -5
according to the internet Admiral has made $4.1 million playing basketball over 5 years. So, pretty good money. The UT website says his major was in "African Studies", but I would imagine his NBA contacts could land him a job regardless of the utility of his college degree. Plus, he always seemed like a hard worker with a good head on his shoulders. He should be fine. He could just about put that in CDs and generate enough income to have a couple hundred grand a year in spending money. Was going to post the same thing, gvt! In 5 years he made more money than I made in my combined first 20 years after college (even if I double my lifetime earnings!) Of course, apparently Freddie Dilione also made more monthly income as a bench warmer than I'll ever make working a month in my life....so I guess it's apples and oranges.
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