Daily Bullets (June 30)

Year is halfway over. Weird.

Football News

Oklahoma State’s run defense has been really good. [ESPN]

Read up on Lemaefe Galea’i. [Tulsa World]

Hoops News

Little mid-summer hoops update. I keep forgetting 30 percent of the coaches in the Big 12 are newbies. [AP]

Underwood on GIA: “I think that Oklahoma State is one of the two schools in this conference that have tradition. Give Bill [Self] and Kansas all the props, 12 straight championships. Do you know why? Number one, they have good players. Two, they work hard. And three, there are 16,600 [fans] every night. They have an incredible home court.” [Go Pokes]

Underwood on Tyrek Coger: “He’s another piece to the puzzle, and he’s a piece that we haven’t had or don’t have. He brings some physicality, he’s got legit size in terms of not just height at 6-9 but he’s 250 pounds, and he’s a guy that has a great skill set.” [Tulsa World]

I’m so fascinated by the KD scenarios. Especially the Warriors one. Would pretty easily become the greatest shooting team in the history of basketball. [NewsOK]

Baseball News

Texas found itself a baseball coach! [Big 12]

Josh Holliday and Lon Kruger are kindred spirits. [Tulsa World]

Cool Donnie Walton video (via CRFF).

What a ride! Signing with OSU was the best decision of my life. I can’t thank my family, friends, teammates, and coaches enough. You guys did so much for me. I have learned so much over the last four years and had the time of my life. I feel very blessed and lucky to be a part of this program. I will always be a cowboy and will never forget the memories putting on the orange and black! #P4L

A video posted by donniewalton5 (@donniewalton5) on Jun 29, 2016 at 5:10pm PDT

More stuff I’m reading

Finished two books so far on vacation.

Elon Musk biography was marvelous. [Good Reads]

This on minimalism was good not great. [Good Reads]