Daily Bullets (May 21): Smart Living Up to DPOY Expectations, Zac Robinson Equals Bill Self?

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Scores

Women’s Golf: Cowgirls T-21 after Round 1 @ NCAA Championships (Scottsdale, AZ)
Baseball: Pokes 11, Baylor 5
Softball: Cowgirls 12, Fordham 0 – First round of Stillwater Regional

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Three Thoughts

• Shameless plug: why I’m concerned Zac Robinson will be the next Bill Self.

• Looking over the depth chart for the fall, the defensive line looks stacked with Asi and Evers back for bonus seasons plus Collin Clay back from injury

• Marcus Smart is living up to his NBA defensive player of the year expectations in this series with the Heat – landed first-team All-Defense yesterday as well:

Smart defended (Miami Heat star Jimmy) Butler for 35 plays in Game 2, and the Heat star managed just nine points, according to Second Spectrum.

[The Ringer]

Two Quotes

• Three Pokes made the cut at Southern Hills:

Former #OKState golfers after Round 2 of the #PGAChamp:

T17 – Talor Gooch (-1)
T23 – Viktor Hovland (E)
T30 – Rickie Fowler (+1)
CUT – Alex Noren (+6)
CUT – Matthew Wolff (+13)

*Leader at 9-under

— Cody Nagel (@CodyNagel247) May 21, 2022

• Tough sledding lately for the Pokes… That walkoff in Waco Thursday night (poor pitching) from the struggling Bears was brutal. Really nice to get that W on Friday night.

It's stunning how far #OKState has fallen in the past nine days.

Five straight losses — four in Big 12 play.

Cowboys needed to win four of their last six games to win Big 12 title outright.

Instead, they've so far won zero. And the Big 12 title will go elsewhere.

— Jacob Unruh (@jacobunruh) May 20, 2022

One Question

• Would these throwback football jerseys be awesome or nah? Looks like the Patriots from the ’80s, I’m a fan.

I was showing pics of Scott Tyner, 1993 All-Big 8 punter, to @10Tyner. He's like "Wait I turned that into a td! Blocked FG…ball bounced to me…I threw it to Derek (Jones) wide open…@cowboyvoice started calling me "the Most Offensive Punter in the Nation" ?#okstate #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/fPatFMGARt

— Doug Shivers (@casdas29) May 20, 2022

Most Viewed of the Week

• No. 1 Cowgirls win the Big 12 title over rival Sooners

• No. 2 Looking at Ten-Year Win Percentages in the Big 12

• No. 3 Pokes Offer a 2025 Quarterback

• No. 4 Gage Gundy reports an offer from Northern Iowa

• No. 5 Five newcomers poised to contribute in 2022

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Non-OSU Bullets

• Terrific faith-based piece on “zombie sins”
• Is Chet Holmgren the next unicorn?

“You need focus to become exceptional at anything.

Massive amounts of time and energy are wasted optimizing things that should be left undone.

You have to be great at saying no.”

James Clear