So, Elston Turner, Jr., we meet again for, the first time...
Everybody remembers Junior. He's that dude that hung 40 on us in our own dojo. Should have never happened. But, it did. He joined in on a scenario that ,seemingly, we have seen hundreds of times. One guy ever so often just has Kentucky's number. They have unworldly games against us and often times, make Rupp Arena their own personal shoot-around. Maybe it's the A/C flow in the building or that soft-served ice cream, or not wanting a lucky section in the nether-reaches of Rupp to get those Q'doba coupons,who knows? It does happen though.
Before that fateful night Elston went Super-Saiyan Six-level on us, I would not have even given him a second thought. Probably, not even a first. When I think of Texas A&M, I think: that logo looks good on a football helmet, The Junction Boys and Tom Berenger, Death Metal bands(for reasons that are still unclear to me),a bunch of frogs with sticks shoved up their asses (gig' em') Johnny Football (cause he's so dang dreamy) and due to the satellite schools of Texas A&M, I think of Corpus Christi and the Clash of the Champions X, the very one where Sting was kicked out of the Horsemen and blew his ACL climbing the cage to extract revenge on said Horsemen later in the show.(the last one is totally because I am a dork, but whatever)
And, as of 1/12/13, Elston Turner Jr. entered into the thought process when I think of A&M.
Oh, and Billy Clyde driving around drunk and parlaying a good run in College Station into the biggest debacle in the history of college basketball coaching hires.
However, was that really Elston Turner Jr.? The answer is, of course not.
Turner has came back down from that cloud, rather unspectacularly. In the 5 game since he practically dominated us like he was in a very comfortable recliner at Rupp, the Aggies have went 1-4. The Aggies have looked like the team they are, and Elston Turner no longer looks like Superman.
He looks like Elston Turner Jr.
His state line in those 5 outings is rather unremarkable: 52 points over the duration of those games on 18/31 shooting from the field and 6/28 from beyond the arc.
Very pedestrian, Elston Turner type numbers. Don't get me wrong, good numbers, but not from somebody who could sustain a level of play like the one he showed in Rupp... hanging those 40...
Like I said though, some guys just have our number like it was written on the bathroom wall at Applebee's. And, it's not like he is just some animal when he is on the road and just taking over people's gyms. He scored 13, 11, and 5 in road loses to Bama, LSU, and a Double OT win at Mississippi State.
In College Station, he hasn't been so much a protector of his house, either. He did score 19 in a home loss to Georgia, but he was absolutely treated like Manti Te'o's girlfriend in the home loss to Florida( arguably the best team in the country, by the way) when he put up a whopping 4 points. That's a little ways away from that 40 he hung on us on the most atypical night in the history of the universe.
If Kentucky's performance in Oxford was really the buy-in we have been waiting for, and if Kyle Wiltjer keeps brushing out that chest hair, then the Cats should gain a measure of revenge rather easily against the Aggies. Or, Turner could once more take that B-Ball Viagra that so many seem to be on when ever that laundry that says Kentucky is the opposition. Hopefully, too, the WBA will put on another clinic on 'ball movement' like they did in Oxford Tuesday night.
Maybe, we shouldn't call it revenge. It's not revenge the Cats are after now, it's the reckoning.
One more tidbit, Billy Clyde Gillispie will be a special guest of Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy at the game. Perry Stevenson has already briefed us on our assignment via Twitter.
Everybody remembers Junior. He's that dude that hung 40 on us in our own dojo. Should have never happened. But, it did. He joined in on a scenario that ,seemingly, we have seen hundreds of times. One guy ever so often just has Kentucky's number. They have unworldly games against us and often times, make Rupp Arena their own personal shoot-around. Maybe it's the A/C flow in the building or that soft-served ice cream, or not wanting a lucky section in the nether-reaches of Rupp to get those Q'doba coupons,who knows? It does happen though.
Before that fateful night Elston went Super-Saiyan Six-level on us, I would not have even given him a second thought. Probably, not even a first. When I think of Texas A&M, I think: that logo looks good on a football helmet, The Junction Boys and Tom Berenger, Death Metal bands(for reasons that are still unclear to me),a bunch of frogs with sticks shoved up their asses (gig' em') Johnny Football (cause he's so dang dreamy) and due to the satellite schools of Texas A&M, I think of Corpus Christi and the Clash of the Champions X, the very one where Sting was kicked out of the Horsemen and blew his ACL climbing the cage to extract revenge on said Horsemen later in the show.(the last one is totally because I am a dork, but whatever)And, as of 1/12/13, Elston Turner Jr. entered into the thought process when I think of A&M.
Oh, and Billy Clyde driving around drunk and parlaying a good run in College Station into the biggest debacle in the history of college basketball coaching hires.
However, was that really Elston Turner Jr.? The answer is, of course not.
Turner has came back down from that cloud, rather unspectacularly. In the 5 game since he practically dominated us like he was in a very comfortable recliner at Rupp, the Aggies have went 1-4. The Aggies have looked like the team they are, and Elston Turner no longer looks like Superman.
He looks like Elston Turner Jr.
His state line in those 5 outings is rather unremarkable: 52 points over the duration of those games on 18/31 shooting from the field and 6/28 from beyond the arc.
Very pedestrian, Elston Turner type numbers. Don't get me wrong, good numbers, but not from somebody who could sustain a level of play like the one he showed in Rupp... hanging those 40...
Like I said though, some guys just have our number like it was written on the bathroom wall at Applebee's. And, it's not like he is just some animal when he is on the road and just taking over people's gyms. He scored 13, 11, and 5 in road loses to Bama, LSU, and a Double OT win at Mississippi State.
In College Station, he hasn't been so much a protector of his house, either. He did score 19 in a home loss to Georgia, but he was absolutely treated like Manti Te'o's girlfriend in the home loss to Florida( arguably the best team in the country, by the way) when he put up a whopping 4 points. That's a little ways away from that 40 he hung on us on the most atypical night in the history of the universe.
If Kentucky's performance in Oxford was really the buy-in we have been waiting for, and if Kyle Wiltjer keeps brushing out that chest hair, then the Cats should gain a measure of revenge rather easily against the Aggies. Or, Turner could once more take that B-Ball Viagra that so many seem to be on when ever that laundry that says Kentucky is the opposition. Hopefully, too, the WBA will put on another clinic on 'ball movement' like they did in Oxford Tuesday night.
Maybe, we shouldn't call it revenge. It's not revenge the Cats are after now, it's the reckoning.
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