Lặng lẽ trong tiếng kinh cầu đôi mi tuôn rơi lệ sầu. Đừong đời ngày sau con bước không còn có cha khi trời nắng mưa. Còn nhớ năm tháng êm đềm bên con Cha thương vỗ về dìu dắt dạy con vui sống mến Chúa yêu người con chớ đừng quên.
ĐK: Cha ơi Cha ơi dù Cha đã khuất thì con vẫn thấy Cha còn ở đây với con từng ngày. Cha ơi Cha ơi lòng con ghi nhớ và con xin hứa sống sao thành người để lòng Cha vui... .
1. Từ ngày con tiến lên bàn Thánh, con tiến lên bàn Thánh Chúa, dâng lên
của lễ Tình Yêu, dâng lên của lễ toàn thiêu. Con linh mục, con nào có
công trạng gì mà dâng lên Chúa. Con nào biết lấy gì để dâng Thánh Lễ mọi
ngày.
ĐK. Chúa đã gọi và đỡ nâng con, xin cảm tạ Hồng Ân.
2. Từ ngày con tiến dâng lời kinh, con cất cao lời tụng ca: Vinh
danh Thiên Chúa là Cha. Câu kinh vọng khắp gần xa. Con linh mục sớm
chiều sống trong kinh nguyện, trọn niềm yêu mến. Chung lời với Giáo Hội,
ngày đêm con tán dương Ngài.
3. Từ ngày con đáp lại lời Chúa, con sống vui đời ngôn sứ. Hăng say
gởi đến ngàn dân yêu thương của Chúa từ nhân. Con linh mục đem lời Chúa
cho muôn người và cho thế giới sứ điệp Thánh Ân của Người để soi tìm đến
quê Trời.
1. Một đời con theo Chúa chẳng ngại chi dẫu có phải *** mưa nắng đổ.
Trọn tình yêu làm hành trang. Cuộc đời con hiến thân vì muôn vàn tội
nhân. Dù bão tố thét gào quanh con, xin cứ yên lòng bước theo Ngài. Dù
thời gian phai màu hương sắc, xin được trung thành giữ vững niềm tìn.
Đk. Bao nhiêu ơn lành Ngài đổ xuống đời con. Lấy chi báo đền tình
Ngài như biển lớn. Mai đây trên *** đường dài, khi lắng lo giữa trần ai,
thì trọn đời con luôn đi theo bước của Ngài.
1.Bao la tình Chúa yêu con mênh mông như biển thái bình dạt dào như ngàn con sóng vỗ về năm tháng đời con tình Ngài như mưa đỉnh núi suốt đời tuôn đổ dạt dào một tình yêu vô biên, một tình yêu vô biên.
ĐK: Hồng ân Chúa như mưa, như mưa rơi xuống đời con miên man, miên man nâng đỡ tình con trong tay, trong tay vòng tay thương mến đời có Chúa êm trôi êm trôi Chúa dắt dìu con luôn luôn không thôi có Chúa cùng đi con không đơn côi ôi tình tuyệt vời./.
2.Xa xôi ngày tháng êm trôi yêu thương như nước xuôi dòng mặn nồng như làn hơi ấm đổ đầy mưa nắng đời con còn gì như ân tình Chúa dắt dìu con bước trong đời từng nhịp chân yêu thương, từng nhịp chân yêu thương
3.Êm như làn gió đưa mây đôi tay con hướng lên trời nguyện cầu cho đời con mãi giữ trọn lời hứa trung kiên một đời con xin tận hiến Chúa là hơi ấm mẹ hiền trọn đời con nương thân, trọn đời con nương thân
Bài hát hay của các bạn trẻ về Cá chết và những vấn nạn của đất nước! Các bạn đã không còn thờ ơ với XH, Điều tuyệt vời mà các bạn trẻ nước nhà làm được.
Thanh niên Hà tĩnh tiếp nối truyền thống ví dặm một cách xuất sắc.
HIT SONG "Thật bất ngờ" chủ đề Hà Tĩnh. Cực kỳ nhanh nhạy và sáng tạo.
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When a travelling monk is stranded in a wasteland, The Monkey King must
escort him across the land to retrieve sacred scriptures and protect him
from an evil demon.
I wish we could derive the rest of the phænomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles.
—Sir Isaac Newton, “The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”
LAW I: A body in motion will be kept in motion. A body at rest will be asked what its plans for the day are.
The
First Law deals primarily with inertia—which is often mistakenly
identified as “relaxing”—and the different ways one body can affect
another inert (and perfectly content) body. Conversely, it states that a
body in motion will be kept in motion with a list of errands, written
on the back of an envelope, before that body “becomes one with the couch
for the rest of the day,” which seems like an unnecessary
characterization. Also known as “The Saturday Principle.”
An
object at rest will not start moving unless acted upon by an unbalanced
force. But definitely don’t use the word “unbalanced.” That will not
work out well for the object. Also, any force that causes another body
to transition from a state of inertia to “trying to maybe accomplish
something today” technically can be measured by describing its magnitude
and its direction, but never describe the force’s magnitude.
When
an object in motion finally comes to rest (so many hours later than it
wanted) and it becomes clear that the object has forgotten one item (I)
that was written on the other side of the envelope (E), it will
get zero (0) credit for the things it did remember, and for which it
waited in traffic (T), thanks to a screw-up with Waze (W), we can say
that (E – I)(T + W) = 0.
LAW
II: The heavier the object, the greater the force needed to move it,
especially if it refuses to move, in a misguided effort to make some
kind of point.
The Second Law
states that the heavier an object is physically, mentally, and
emotionally, the more it is affected by inertia, and the more the object
can expect to have that thrown in its face if, God forbid, the object
refuses to get out of bed for three days after losing the only job the
object ever loved.
The oppositional
force provided by the inert object is affected not only by its literal
mass—which increases due to forces of gravity, time, too much takeout,
and low-grade depression—but also by its tendency to actively resist
change. This tendency is either due to the constant and unreasonable
nature of the forces acting on it, or a psychological aversion to being
told what to do because of some weird thing with its dad, depending on
who you ask.
The more opposition
that is provided, the stronger the force required to overcome it, which
often leads to mutual structural damage, also known as “saying things
you can’t take back” and “slamming the silverware drawer so hard you
break the soft-close feature.”
The inevitability of this law and its consequences may be expressed as the mathematical equation F = ML, where F = Fuck and ML = My Life.
LAW III: For every action there is an opposite and bewildering reaction.
The
Third Law states that one object will always appear to have a
completely disproportionate negative reaction to the action of the
other. This is called the Out of Nowhere Fallacy, and is based on the
illusion that reactions are responses only to the action at hand, rather
than to every similar action that has occurred in all previous
interactions between the two objects. This is often referred to as the
Cumulative Fatigue with Your Bullshit Index.
Take,
for example, an object in motion that tries to rest, just for a moment,
to keep from crying in front of the kids, like that one time, and
happens to audibly lock the bathroom door. While it seems mathematically
impossible that this would cause a two-and-a-half-hour blowout fight,
the reaction is appropriate when corrected for the fact that this brings
up trust issues from the time the secret checking account was
discovered, even though that was a million years ago, or 106 (y).
While
far less common, an action can also cause an unexpected positive
reaction. Consider an automobile travelling from a restaurant to a
house: while the acceleration is affected by mass and external friction,
it is also affected by forces inside the vehicle.
If
two bodies are at rest inside—alone by a scheduling anomaly; held
together by time, a mutual expansion of mass, and the indefinable
constant of love—one body may notice something about the other body,
like the way it pretends to know the words to the song on the radio, and
it may take the other by the hand and smile and suggest a change of
direction, because the sitter isn’t expecting them for an hour, and
tonight, for once, neither body is pushing or pulling at all.
Quy luật đào thải luôn hiện hữu trong mọi hình thái xã hội, nhưng trong thế kỷ 21, sự khốc liệt của nó là điều mà bạn khó có thể hình dung được. Hãy cùng tìm hiểu 8 loại người sẽ bị đào thải trong thế kỷ 21 để bạn biết cách khắc phục
1. Người không học hỏi thêm ngoài thời gian làm việc
Khác biệt trong công việc giữa người với người là cách sử dụng thời gian ngoài thời gian làm việc.Người luôn có thời gian rảnh rất khó thành công, người lúc nào cũng bận rộn mới rất có thể sẽ thành công.
Khoảng thời gian ngoài 8 tiếng làm việc quyết định hiện tại và tương lai của bạn.
Có học tập thì mới có quyền lựa chọn, không có tri thức thì không có thưởng thức. Vì vậy muốn có thưởng thức thì bạn phải bước vào phòng học.
Không phải xã hội phát triển quá nhanh, mà là tư duy của chúng ta quá chậm. Tại sao chúng ta tư duy chậm? Là do chúng ta không chịu học thêm.
Hai đau thương lớn của đời người là: Thành vợ chồng rồi thì không yêu nữa, tốt nghiệp xong thì không học nữa. Cự tuyệt học tập chính là cự tuyệt phát triển, phụ huynh không học tập sẽ bị con cái bỏ xa làm khoảng cách giữa hai thế hệ ngày càng lớn.
Người học tập giống như một cây cao lớn, tự nhiên sẽ có những bụi cây cao mọc xung quanh. Một người không học sẽ tách rời với xã hội, không theo kịp tiến độ của thời đại, như người sống ở thế kỷ 21 nhưng tư tưởng lại ở thế kỷ 20.
Vậy rốt cuộc là phải học cái gì? Từ công thức thành công tìm ra điểm yếu của mình rồi khắc phục nó:
Thành công = 40% quan niệm tư tưởng + 40% quan hệ xã hội + 20% năng lực chuyên môn.
Bạn cần có hai mảnh đất, một mảnh để ban ngày no bụng, một mảnh để buổi tối trồng trọt cho tương lai.
2. Người không chịu tiếp thu cái mới
Một ý tưởng mới, một phát minh mới nào đó đều có vai trò quan trọng trong sự phát triển của xã hội. Thế nhưng, nếu một cái mới vừa ra đời lại bị hoài nghi cự tuyệt thì không thể đưa đến xu thế phát triển.
3. Người chỉ dựa vào mình đơn đả độc đấu
Thế kỷ 21 là thời đại anh hùng thoái vị tập thể lên ngôi, nơi nào xây dựng được tập thể tốt thì nơi đó sẽ chiếm được thì trường.
Bạn nên biết 1+1=2 là toán học, còn 1+1=11 là kinh tế học. Bạn dễ dàng bẻ gãy 1 chiếc đũa nhưng 10 đôi đũa bó lại thì bạn không thể bẻ gãy.
4. Người có tâm lý yếu ớt dễ bị tổn thương
Phát sinh sự việc to nhỏ không quan trọng,cách nghĩ và cánh nhìn của bạn mới là quan trọng.
Bản thân sự việc không làm tổn thương bạn, mà chính cách nghĩ của bạn khiến bạn tổn thương. Trong cuộc sống luôn có những chuyện không như ý xảy đến với bạn, nếu tâm lý của bạn yếu đuối dễ bị tổn thương, bạn sẽ rất dễ bị xã hội đào thải.
5. Người chỉ có một nghề, không có năng khiếu nào khác
Các chuyên gia kinh tế dự đoán rằng năm 2015 có 50 ngành nghề bị đào thải.
Không có nguy cơ chính là nguy cơ lớn nhất, thỏa mãn với hiện tại là cái bẫy khổng lồ. Khi đắc ý nhất nên tìm đường lui cho mình, đừng đợi đến lúc không được như ý mới tìm đường lui.
6. Người thiển cận toàn so đo tính toán những chuyện trước mắt
So bì tị nạnh những việc nhỏ nhặt trước mắt sẽ đánh mất đi tương lai, so đo món tiền nhỏ sẽ đánh mất món tiền lớn, không có tầm nhìn xa trông rộng sẽ dẫn đến hẹp hòi.
Một loại đầu tư tốt nhất trên thế giới và không có rủi ro chính là đầu tư vào học tập, học tập có thể giúp người ta có tầm nhìn xa, học mới thấy được xu thế của tương lai.
Vây nên xu thế không thể dùng con mắt để nhìn mà phải dùng nhãn quan để phán đoán. Ai nắm bắt được xu thế sẽ nắm bắt được tương lai, không nên lấy suy luận làm kết luận, chỉ sử dụng những cái mình biết để phán đoán tương lai. Người mắt điếc tai ngơ trước cái mới nhất định sẽ bị xã hội đào thải.
7. Người có khả năng thương lượng kém
Cổ nhân nói chuyện nhỏ không nhẫn, hay nổi cáu, không thể mưu sự chuyện lớn. Chỉ số thông minh cao có thể tìm được một công việc tốt, người biết thương lượng trong hoàn cảnh khó khăn là người có thể đạt tới đỉnh cao. Trên thế giới, người gặp phải khó khăn liền trốn tránh trách nhiệm chiếm đến 80%, người gặp phải chuyện khó khăn có thể giải quyết một cách dễ dàng chiếm 15% là những người thành công, 5% còn lại dù có đốt đèn lồng đi tìm cũng khó thấy chính là những con người sẽ trở thành những nhân vật đỉnh cao.
Các nhà tâm lý học đã tổng hợp ra 4 trường hợp sau:
Người có năng lực nhưng nóng tính —> có tài nhưng không gặp thời;
Người có năng lực mà không nóng tính —> sự nghiệp phát triển thuận lợi;
Người không có năng lực mà lại nóng tính —> không làm nổi chuyện gì
Người không có năng lực cũng không nóng tính —> được người khác giúp đỡ.
8. Người quan niệm lạc hậu, tri thức cổ hủ
Thực phẩm hết hạn sử dụng không thể ăn, quan niệm quá hạn không thể sử dụng.
Trong thế kỷ 21 này,thành công không phải là bạn vượt qua bao nhiêu người mà là bạn giúp đỡ bao nhiêu người, kẻ địch lớn nhất không phải là người khác mà là chính mình, thành công là biết phát huy được ưu điểm, thất bại lại tổng hợp của khuyết điểm.
Không nên cậy mình là người “cao lớn”, làm ra vẻ người lớn cho rằng thế này là đúng thế kia là sai, hãy học cách đặt mình vào vị trí của người khác thì thế giới này mới thuộc về bạn.
Hiện nay đang trong tình cảnh cạnh tranh vô cùng kịch liệt, hãy tận dụng thời gian không ngừng học tập bồi dưỡng khả năng quan sát bạn sẽ nắm vững được tương lai.
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For our first episode of the second season of Sancho 2.0 , Benjamin
Sanchis & Tim Boal travel to West Africa to surf in some epic
conditions.
Edited and Directed :
Salomon Moore
Filmed :
Boula
Gines Diaz
Loic Mitchel
Salomon Moore
Nicole Boronat
Manu Miguelez
Sooundtrack : Flako - Brooklyn Bonita (Stand ´art )
After years of working in finance, Vanessa began to question life, and
came to the realization that it needed to change. From consumer accounts
for many large banking firms, Vanessa began her new journey as a
climber—first novice and now record holder. This film illustrates the
pivotal moments that led to Vanessa’s evolution and ability to grasp a
different kind of tomorrow.
Before Warner Bros. gets too carried away with the record-breaking box office take of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” over the weekend, the studio might want to take a breath. The grim, galumphing behemoth has earned an admittedly impressive $424 million since Thursday, $254 million of it in overseas markets. But many observers estimate that “Batman v Superman,” which had a combined production and marketing budget of about $400 million, will need to earn at least $1 billion in order to break even, after theaters take their cut. Over the weekend, “Batman v Superman” earned an okay-not-great B CinemaScore based on audience polls — the gentleman’s C of the movie world. (The much-reviled “Green Lantern” and the quickly forgotten “Catwoman” earned similar marks.)
Even if word of mouth on the movie isn’t quite as damning as its poor reviews, chances are that business will drop off precipitously this week, making it hard to go too far past that magic $1 billion number.
For those keeping score at home, “Batman v Superman” was announced with great fanfare by its director, Zack Snyder, at ComicCon a few years ago, bringing DC Comics fans to near-fainting levels of anticipation. But what Snyder didn’t predict — and apparently wasn’t nimble enough to respond to — was how much the superhero gestalt would change while he was fitting Ben Affleck into a brand-new Batsuit and encouraging Jesse Eisenberg take his manically giddy Lex Luthor even broader. “Batman v Superman” was nominally Warner Bros.’ chance to get into the comic-book franchise game, which Disney has parlayed so brilliantly with its Marvel-based “Avengers” series. Boasting some adroit, ingenious filmmakers (Joss Whedon, Anthony and Joe Russo) and some truly inspired casting (Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth), the “Avengers” movies have defined the gold standard of spinning individual properties into intra-universe gold.
Warner was so successful with the Chris Nolan-era “Batman” movies that setting up the Caped Crusader for similar cross-pollination was a vertically integrated no-brainer. But even before “Batman v Superman” had started, they’d boxed themselves into a corner even he couldn’t fly out of. Nolan and his star, Christian Bale, were widely credited with lending soul and gravitas to the brooding, broken Bruce Wayne, who presided over a billion-dollar company by day and turned grim-faced vigilante by night. By the time of the final installment of the Nolan trilogy, though, the self-seriousness was starting to wear thin. “The Dark Knight Rises” earned a more-than-respectable $1 billion at the box office, but less of that came from American viewers than with its predecessor. Two years later, the big comic-book-based hit wasn’t a downbeat meditation on grief and the burdens of unchecked power, but “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a gleefully irreverent riff on superhero tropes.
Gal Gadot stars as Wonder Woman in ”Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice.” (AP)
This year’s version of the “Guardians” zag is “Deadpool,” a similarly cheeky, if far more cynical, exercise in self-referential japery. When “Batman v Superman” lurched into theaters with its unsmiling stars, paranoid vibe, weak-tea color scheme and by-the-numbers action scenes, audiences could be forgiven for experiencing cultural whiplash: Weren’t we just laughing at Ryan Reynolds profanely taking the mickey out of all of this stuff?
In counting on Snyder to usher in a new era of shared-universe glory, Warner Bros. might have made a fatal error: At a time when everything is “execution dependent” — a term that was once reserved for quirky one-off comedies and sophisticated dramas with no built-in audiences — the person behind the camera needs to have unerring instincts for fan service plus an impeccable sense of story, aesthetics, tone and performance. J.J. Abrams skillfully threaded that very needle with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” nicely teeing up that threadbare franchise for the brilliant director Rian Johnson to send it into genuinely novel and reinvigorating territory. In the right hands, Affleck and Henry Cavill could still make convincing caped confreres, and Eisenberg might even be able to dial his performance back to a recognizably human level of malevolence.
The question raised by the success of such movies as “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Deadpool” is whether they prove what many of us have been saying for years, which is the typical, monotonously glum genre that Hollywood has worked over like the bones of so much carrion is, finally, exhausted beyond resuscitation — at least in America. Although foreign markets are still eager to accept comic book spectacles into their spanking new theaters, here at home, an unmistakable malaise has set in when it comes to tight-lipped men in tights, marshalling their Y-chromosomal angst to once more do what a man’s gotta do.
Which explains a bona fide phenomenon that “Batman v Superman” might be credited with creating: According to a Fandango poll, most of the viewers who were excited to see the film this past weekend were most hyped about one character — the same one who received the only spontaneous outburst of applause at a preview screening a few days before. It should come as no surprise that the person best equipped to save superheroes for Hollywood is none other than Wonder Woman.
Malachi Richardson shooting in the second half, when he took control of the game. He scored three straight baskets, the first on a drive that gave Syracuse its first lead of the second half, 59-58.CreditCharles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press
CHICAGO — Shortly before Coach Jim Boeheim cut down the net to celebrate a most improbable victory, he grabbed a microphone and noted to the assembled fans that he had just witnessed the best comeback in Syracuse’s long, rich basketball history.
Boeheim could have been talking about his own comeback from a nine-game suspension earlier in the season, during which the Orange stumbled to a 4-5 mark, and went 0-4 to open their Atlantic Coast Conference schedule.
He also could have been discussing Syracuse’s late-season swoon, when it lost five of its last six games before accepting a controversial No. 10 seed and a spot in the N.C.A.A. tournament, even with 13 losses.
But in a season in which Syracuse seemed to be left behind and labeled for elimination more than once, it crafted its best comeback of all, the one Boeheim was really talking about.
Trailing by 15 points with 9 minutes 32 seconds left in the game, Syracuse went on a blistering run to beat No. 1 Virginia, 68-62, in the Midwest Regional final at United Center and reach the Final Four for the fifth time under Boeheim. The Orange will play North Carolina in a national semifinal Saturday night in Houston.
“It’s the best comeback I’ve seen at Syracuse,” Boeheim said after the game. “I haven’t been there forever, but 56 years. It’s the best comeback we’ve ever had.”
Syracuse (23-13), which last made the Final Four in 2013, became the fourth double-digit seed to reach the Final Four and the first since 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth in 2011.
But it would not have happened if Malachi Richardson had not shaken off a miserable first half to lead Syracuse with 23 points, 21 of them in the second half on 6-for-11 shooting, including three 3-pointers.
Richardson, the 6-foot-6 freshman from Trenton, N.J., had missed all five of his shots in the first half and appeared passive. In one sequence, he angered Boeheim by passing up a makable shot and then soon after by absent-mindedly stepping on the end line.
Boeheim chewed out Richardson when he removed him from the game, using terms Richardson said were not suitable for publication. Then, when Syracuse came into the locker room at halftime, Boeheim lit into him again.
Syracuse, trailing by 16 after Virginia’s Anthony Gill dunked to open the second half, employed a press to force some important turnovers and change the pace of the game. It also shut down London Perrantes, who had scored 15 first-half points with five 3-pointers. But he scored only 3 points in the second half on 1 for 4 shooting.
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Syracuse’s Tyler Lydon (20) and DaJuan Coleman challenged Virginia’s Mike Tobey in the second half of the regional final.CreditNam Y. Huh/Associated Press
But the most important change for Syracuse was to get the offense going by taking the ball aggressively to the basket and then making some critical 3-pointers.
With Syracuse trailing, 56-43, with 8:32 to play, Richardson scored 14 of the Orange’s 21 points over the next five minutes. He hit a pair of free throws, then a couple of layups, scored on a putback of his own miss, added a steal and nailed three 3-pointers in a handful of possessions that gave Syracuse a 64-58 lead with 3:27 to play.
Tyler Lydon, a freshman who drained a 3-pointer in the first half after his shoe came off, also hit a clutch 3-pointer during that sequence, to draw Syracuse to within one possession, 58-55, with 6:50 to play.
By that time, Syracuse had yanked momentum into its favor, and it would never relinquish it as Virginia collapsed.
The Orange took the lead for good on a layup by Richardson that made it 59-58 with 5:50 to go, and then put the clamps on Virginia’s rattled offense.
With 1:49 to play, Gill moved forcefully inside to finally score for Virginia, ending a scoring drought that had lasted 5:43.
Syracuse led, 64-60, and time began to fritter away. With 26.9 seconds to play, Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon hit a pair of free throws, and Syracuse’s lead was down to a basket, 64-62.
Syracuse came back up the floor and got the ball to Michael Gbinije, who was fouled with 25.2 seconds left. He hit one of two free throws. The score was 65-62, and Virginia still had a chance. But Devon Hall missed an open 3-pointer with 14 seconds left, and Lydon grabbed the last of his six rebounds. He was fouled and hit both of his free throws, essentially icing the game.
All that was left was to cut down the nets on another victory that nobody thought Syracuse could achieve.
And it was not even the first time that day that Syracuse had reached a Final Four.
The women’s team made it earlier Sunday by defeating Tennessee in the regional final in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Before the men’s tournament began, some critics said the Syracuse team had no business making it into the tournament at all, and then fortune was on its side when Michigan State, a top team on its side of the bracket, was upset.
But after it beat Virginia, a top-tier team trying to return to the Final Four for the first time since 1984, there was nothing left for critics to say.
“I thought we deserved to be in the tournament,” Boeheim said. “But certainly I wasn’t planning on getting to the Final Four. We tell the players, if you can win one game, you get another chance. They’ve done that.”
OU's Buddy Hield scored 37 points to help the Sooners to an 80-68 win against Oregon to clinch a spot in the Final Four.
Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield has said all year the goal was to make it to Houston and play in the Final Four. Because of his efforts, the Sooners will get the chance.
Hield scored a tournament-high 37 points to help second-seeded OU to an 80-68 victory over No. 1-seeded Oregon on Saturday evening at the Honda Center.
The win clinches the Sooners first berth in the Final Four since 2002.
Coming off a mere 17-point performance in the win against Texas A&M, Hield was on a mission early and often. He came out and made the statement that Saturday was not going to be his final game.
Hield shot 13 of 20 from the floor (65 percent) and tied his career high with eight 3-pointers. As a team, OU shot 12 of 24 (50 percent) from downtown.
Hield punctuated the first half with a deep 3-pointer to give the Sooners a 48-30 lead heading into intermission. Oregon would make its attempts at a comeback multiple times in the second half but never pulled within single digits.
For all the talk of OU’s offense, it was the defense that stepped up in a major way as well. The Sooners limited the Ducks to 39 percent shooting from the field, and Oregon only connected on 4 of 21 from 3-point territory.
OU also outrebounded Oregon 38-32, including holding a commanding 23-10 edge in the first half.
Junior guard Jordan Woodard had 13 points before fouling out, while Isaiah Cousins added 11 points, seven assists and five rebounds for OU.
Hield had no idea one of his role models, Kobe Bryant, was in attendance Thursday. He knew Saturday and gave a performance for the ages.
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The Blue Devils’ season ended with a 14 point loss to top seeded Oregon early Friday morning in California. While the game against the Ducks wraps up this 2015-2016 season, there’s plenty of reason for optimism in the immediate future. Here’s a quick look ahead to next year for Coach K’s squad.
WHO IS LEAVING
Senior center Marshall Plumlee’s final game represented the end of the Plumlee era at Duke. The youngest of the three brothers may have been the least naturally talented, but his final year saw his numbers make a big jump (8.2 PPG and 8.6 RPG) and saw Marshall become one of the most reliable players on the roster. That steady presence in the paint will be missed.
Brandon Ingram will head to the NBA after 36 career games at Duke. The latest one and done talent recruited by head coach Mike Krzyzewski may have been the best, individually. Ingram averaged 17 points and seven rebounds while playing all five positions at time for the Blue Devils. He was an extremely unique talent who will likely be either the No. 1 or No. 2 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft.
WHO COULD LEAVE
Sophomore Grayson Allen went from the last man in the rotation last February to the spark that earned Duke a fifth national title in April of 2015. Soon after the confetti was cleaned up, Duke lost Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow, and Tyus Jones to the NBA Draft, leaving Allen as the only member of the sophomore class. He did himself proud in his first season as a full-time starter, averaging 21.6 points per game and taking home First Team All-ACC honors. Those numbers suggest the explosive scoring guard could, and perhaps should, test the NBA Draft waters, go to the combine, and then make his ultimate decision after receiving feedback from the various parties involved in this new process. If Allen is back, Duke becomes even more imposing to start next season. It’s also worth noting that Allen could, like many players before him including Jay Williams, Gerald Henderson, Carlos Boozer, and Mike Dunleavy, be close to graduating after his third year.
Currently Duke sits at 13 scholarship players committed for next season - not including Justin Robinson, who will be a preferred walk-on. That’s the maximum allowed under NCAA rules, but Duke is still actively recruiting in the class of 2016 (see below). Given those facts you have to wonder if some of the players who did not factor into this year’s group (with all the depth limitations) may not be potential transfer candidates.
WHO IS COMING IN
Two of the top three prospects in the country for starters. The nation’s top overall prospect, Harry Giles and fellow Team USA alum and gold medalist, Jayson Tatum headline the 2016 Duke recruiting class which also features five star guard Frank Jackson and four star power forward Javin DeLaurier. Giles missed his senior season at Oak Hill Academy due to a torn ACL, but is expected to be ready to go for the start of the season. When healthy, Giles was touted as a player who would be the top overall pick in this year’s draft ahead of both Ingram and LSU’s Ben Simmons. At 6-foot-10 and 235 pounds, he’ll be a lock to start in the front court. Meanwhile, Tatum may be the most dynamic scorer to enter college basketball next year. Both players are considered top five picks in next year’s draft. In the backcourt it’s likely that Jackson will factor in as both a point guard and off the ball. The five star prospect out of Utah will remind Duke fans of Jay Williams’ style of play as well as in build. Four star power forward Javin DeLaurier is known for his high motor, defensive ability (he can guard three positions in the front court), and rebounding prowess. The most recent commitment was Australian U19 National Team member, Jack White White is a 6-foot-7 skilled wing with international tournament experience.
Aside from the recruits, Duke will welcome back Amile Jefferson assuming he receives a medical hardship waiver after his true senior season was limited to just nine games because of injury. In the first nine games of the season Jefferson was the Blue Devils’ most consistent player averaging 11.4 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. In addition to his numbers, Jefferson was the vocal leader of the team and helped steady and direct the defense. When he was lost, Duke’s defense suffered dramatically as the team struggled to re-define itself. After a year in which Krzyzewski continually pointed out his team’s relative youth, it’ll be a huge boost to have a 23 year old roaming the paint.
Bolden has become one of the nation's elite centers. He's strong, athletic, scores with his back to the basket and strikes an imposing figure on defense as well. He's both productive and has the room to expand his game even more, placing him ahead of he frontcourt field.
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The Blue Devils - both coaches and 2016 recruits - continue to recruit unsigned, five star Texas center Marques Bolden heavily. Scout.com’s top rated post player in the class of 2016, Bolden will decide in the next three weeks between Duke, Kentucky, and TCU. Bolden will play in next week’s McDonald’s All-American game along with Blue Devil commits Frank Jackson and Jayson Tatum. As noted above, Duke is currently at the maximum allowable scholarship count.
WHO IS COMING BACK
2016 starters Matt Jones and Luke Kennard are both expected to be back in Durham as is point guard Derryck Thornton who bounced in and out of the starting lineup throughout the season. Jones began the season as a steady producer, but was hampered by injuries over the final six weeks and was never the same. A year ago head coach Mike Krzyzewski described him as a key cog on a title team while highlighting his ability to contribute without needing the ball all that much. This season, however, his role expanded exponentially on offense, which produced mixed results. Kennard was the team’s third leading scorer at 11.6 points per game. Like most freshmen he showed flashes of being a very, very good player down the road (he scored 20 or more points seven times). At times it seemed as though Kennard was ready to be Duke’s third scoring option behind Ingram and Allen. However, there were a number of rough outings as well. Similarly, Thornton showed flashes all season long. He’s got a very good handle and his length and quickness could allow him to become an elite on the ball defender. There were also moments of poor decision making, but it’s worth noting that the former five star lead guard reclassified to come to school early and should be competing in the McDonalds game along with Jackson and Tatum. That reclassification process robbed Thornton of early enrollment and workouts at Duke leading into his first season in Durham. In the post Duke has Chase Jeter, who like most big men will take some time to develop (see all three of the Plumlee brothers for reference). Jeter will benefit tremendously from a full off-season in the Duke strength program, and had some nice moments in the last quarter of the season. At the end of the bench Duke currently projects to have seldom used bigs Antonio Vrankovic and Sean Obi. Vrankovic was originally projected to redshirt this season, and may very well do so next year. Obi, a transfer from Rice, battled reported knee problems and never factored into the rotation.
ROSTER BREAKDOWN
SR (2): Amile Jefferson (F), Matt Jones (G)
JR: (2): Grayson Allen (G), Sean Obi (C)
SO (4): Chase Jeter (C), Derryck Thornton (G), Luke Kennard (G), Antonio Vrankovic (C)
FR: (5) Harry Giles (F), Jayson Tatum (F), Frank Jackson (G), Javin DeLaurier (F), Jack White (G/F)
Total: 13
ROTATION PROJECTION
Assuming the roster stays as-is, it would appear as though four starting spots should be set. In the middle will be Jefferson flanked by Giles and Tatum. Grayson Allen will also be in the starting five. That fifth starter should probably be a point guard, and while Matt Jones handled the ball and served as stand-in at the position for extended periods of time this year, it’s hard to see that continuing with both Jackson and Thornton on the roster. However, if Allen is going to find long term success in the league, he’ll need to show the ability to play on the ball as well. Assuming, however, that Allen remains off the ball (or at least as a combo guard), the last man in the starting five will likely come down to Thornton versus Jackson. Thornton will have the experience advantage, but he’ll need to improve his decision making with the ball. It’s also a safe bet that you’ll see Duke go small at times with Giles and Tatum in the front court along with three guards. This approach would maximize spacing for everyone, which could relegate Jefferson to the same role he served on the 2015 title team. In that case the fourth and fifth starter would come down to Jones, Jackson, Thornton, and Kennard. Regardless of who wins out early in the year, it’ll be interesting to see how will the sophomores react to the new environment? As freshmen Kennard, Thornton, and Jeter were going to get minutes no matter what, regardless of any mistakes or lapses they may have committed and/or suffered. Certainly it was beneficial to play through those issues, but there was also no chance of being pulled for the most part. That won’t be the case next season when Duke will have morphed from barely having enough players for a rotation to having, maybe, too many.
