Yes, he's still the choice. No, we don't think that will change. A little perspective: Hield's first truly bad game of the season -- Wednesday's 16-point, 6-of-16, 3-of-10-from-3 performance in OU's loss at Texas Tech -- knocked him back to a 48.8 percent mark from long range this season.
On 213 attempts.
In other words: Relax. A rough week or two doesn't outweigh Hield's remarkable months of work.
Now, with that out of the way ...
First, let's catch up. Valentine had been very, very good since his return from a late-December injury that cost him four games -- good enough to warrant a regular spot on this page, good enough to star in countless counterfactual laments about said injury -- but just before, and just after, the surgical procedure on his knee, he had not been spectacular.