@truehawk93 KU doesn’t have to be the best team in the tournament, just the better team on floor 6 times.
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RE: Silvio And Malik
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RE: How you like me now
@loyolstud88 Blue blood killer is cute, come back when you beat one.
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RE: Has Bill Self Lost This Team?
@Kcmatt7 Self knows exactly how to coach young guards. They just don’t become finished products right away. Mason and Graham each took until their third years to become elite guards.
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Marcus Garrett
Marcus Garrett has signed a free agent deal with the Miami Heat. The last two Jayhawks who played with the Heat won NBA titles (Chalmers and Simien) so maybe Garrett continues that trend.
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RE: Puerto Rico!
@kuballin10 said in Puerto Rico!:
@mayjay lol no doubt I’m starting early.
Last year it was Joe should play more or actually year before that and then last year he showed he doesn’t have it.
This year we have the horses and both Morris and Elmarko are better nba prospects for a reason.
Gotta trust Bill
Being a better NBA prospect doesn’t equal being a better college player right now. Dejuan Harris is a better college player than Morris or Jackson right now because he is a much more polished product than either of those two.
There’s also a reason why Yesufu ended up in the wastelands of Pullman, Washington. He’s an undersized 2 with a low BBIQ that’s never met a shot he didn’t like that Self never should’ve offered.
Constructing a championship caliber team isn’t necessarily about the 5 best players, it’s a bit the 5 right players and Harris brings a lot of other tools than scoring to the table. Having a real post threat now means that Harris can focus on his defense and running the show and not worry about having to score like last season. I wouldn’t be shocked if Harris averaged 8-9 assists per game this season with the supporting cast he has.
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RE: 2018 Kansas Jayhawks Football Recruiting
KU and Beaty need to do everything in their power to keep Tony Hull because as long as he’s at KU, that pipeline KU now has into New Orleans is going to stay open until for KU until Hull is no longer here. Louisiana is just an entirely different culture from the rest of the country and these guys aren’t joking about the family atmosphere having a huge influence on their decisions. I know @wissox and anyone else including myself who have spent a significant portion of time in Louisiana will 100% back up this claim about the loyalty of Louisiana people being accurate and Hull has the loyalty of HS coaches and players all over the New Orleans area specifically.
Landing Tyriek Starks was the beginning. The connection with Hull was made during this recruitment because Starks played at Warren Easton under Hull. Reggie Mitchell then leaves for Arkansas and KU has a need for a new RB coach. Beaty takes a calculated risk by bringing in Hull in an attempt to get some players out of Louisiana. Almost immediately, Hull gets commitments from Mike Lee and Malik Clark (Clark is also from Warren Easton) and then gets Lee to enroll a year early at KU. In his 1st year, Hull also lands Travis Jordan and Takulve Williams both from the New Orleans area as well. In a little over a year on the job, Hull brings in 4 Louisiana players, one of whom gets a chance to play early. Getting players from Louisiana to visit KU is a big enough deal which hiring Hull allowed KU to at least talk to players in Louisiana. Seeing Mike Lee emerge on the scene however is a game changer for KU in Louisiana. Without the success Mike Lee had last year, KU does not land any of the Louisiana recruits that committed yesterday, at least not early like they did. They probably go home and tell their younger teammates about how nice KU is and that keeps the line of communication open with Louisiana prospects for Tony Hull. Lee’s success is a game changer because it shows these kids that they can come in and be successful very early on at KU instead of having to sit and wait behind other 4 and 5 star guys at LSU.
If Daylon Charlot comes in and has early success and if Tyriek Starks wins the QB job, the floodgates will be fully open for KU to talk to any recruit in Louisiana they want to and to have a legitimate chance to sign those players as well.
What KU did yesterday in getting commitments from Jason and Harris (3rd and 4th best players in Louisiana with offers from LSU, Alabama, and basically everybody in the SEC) is something that has definitely caught a lot of people off guard including everyone who follows KU football. We knew Hull would allow KU to talk to some players out of Louisiana, but to actually land commitments from players the caliber of Jason and Harris is something I don’t even think Tony Hull thought was possible at this stage in the game.
Don’t be surprised to see KU land possibly 3, maybe even more recruits out of Louisiana this year. Warren Easton has a couple of 3 star prospects who we know Hull has a relationship with and there’s a DE out of Baton Rouge that KU is the favorite to land.
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RE: What We Need Are More Posts with Chinese Idiograms
Man who run behind car get exhausted
Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok
Man who eat many prunes get good run for money
Wife who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cathouse
These are just for you @jaybate-1.0
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RE: How a 16 defeats a 1
TCU is significantly better than any 16 seed KU will face. Whatever league KU’s 16 seed comes out of, TCU is good enough to go undefeated in that league.
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RE: Stop telling me Lightfoot is...
Lightfoot is also playing way out of position as well. He’s being forced into being a low post player on both ends of the floor when he’s never had that role before. The guy is a stretch 4 and is being exploited in major mismatches because he’s never guarded the position before.
Clay Young has been better on the defensive end because he was a post at his JuCo even at his size. He understands the role and what’s required of the role much better than Lightfoot does.
I’m not going to rip in Lightfoot for this because none of it is his fault. He didn’t make Coleby transfer, he didn’t make Whitman transfer, he didn’t make Preston sit out because of a car. We all know Lightfoot isn’t ready for this role, but he’s the only option at this point.
This situation is why Self is trying to get DeSousa enrolled early and it’s why Sosinski was added to the team. KU needs to work on developing Sosinski over the next 3 weeks which KU only has 3 games during that stretch. Work him into the rotation this week, let him make his debut against Nebraska, give him some big minutes against Omaha as a trial run, and if that goes well, let him sub for Azubuike against Stanford and see how that goes before Texas on the 29th.
If the Preston situation gets resolved in a positive manner by that time, then swap Sosinski out for Preston. Either way, KU needs to find a way to get Lightfoot back to the stretch 4 spot because him as a low post player doesn’t work.
Latest posts made by Texas Hawk 10
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RE: SEC Wooing KU?
@drgnslayr said in SEC Wooing KU?:
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in SEC Wooing KU?:
Destroying the ACC and Big 12 leaving them and the Big 10 to rule major college athletics.
You could be right but what do they gain from that? Some form of masturbatory high-five from their own conference?
They’ve been a huge culprit in destroying college basketball by making it a conference race to the bottom. Basketball is only watchable when it’s competitive… and that takes having multiple competitive conferences.
They want more power which means more money, simple as that. KU needs to do whatever it takes to be part of that party whether it’s the SEC or Big 10.
I’m not saying I enjoy what’s happening with college athletics, but that’s the direction it’s headed.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 said in Transfer Rumblings:
@Texas-Hawk-10 I wanna be sarcastic about you caring about offense and noting how it will lead to a better team but don’t care for you to lose ur cool again.
Either way glad you recognized the other side of the ball mattering and made your claim you think we will be better next year. That we agree on
I’ve never said offense didn’t matter, but since you want to continously make shit up, you keep doing that. All I’ve been saying is that defense is the more important end of the court in determining who is a championship caliber team. If KU’s defense is as shitty as it appears to be on paper, then KU’s chances of making the Final Four next season are very slim. Alabama making the Final Four last year with their defense was a fluke, not a model. Teams with that profile tend to end up like Kentucky more often than not, not Alabama.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 said in Transfer Rumblings:
@approxinfinity I’m being civil….u don’t see me cussing people out and dropping f bombs. Grown men still acting like their are in high school all upset over some message board fodder.
The lies part I’m missing. Assuming we are worse next year defensively than how will the team magically be better?
I’ve never said KU would be worse offensively next season did I? Self is over correcting for how bad the offense was last season and has recruited a bunch of transfers who suck on defense almost or as much as Hunter trying to get some more offense. KU probably wins a couple of more games and loses a couple of less games than last season, but it’s going to be a different set of problems next season because of how bad defensively this team will be.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 said in Transfer Rumblings:
@Texas-Hawk-10 that’s exactly what you’ve said and you’ve claimed how awful they will be defensively and zeroed in that uconn won because of their D
I’ve said we’d go further this year and you said it doesn’t matter cause this team because of their defensive won’t make the final 4
That spells out you think this team defensively is worse than last year and we know what took place last year….
Show me exactly where I said the team would be worse overall? All you can claim is exactly what I’ve said, this team will be shit defensively and you’re trying to put words in my mouth by claiming I’m saying stuff I haven’t. This is one reasons why nobody here likes you. When you can’t disprove someone, you start making shit up, so kindly fuck off and do not put words in my mouth again.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 said in Transfer Rumblings:
@approxinfinity Depends on who you ask as @Texas-Hawk-10 says we gonna be worse but always positive Kuballin is 100% on board we will win the big 12 and make a final 4 run!
Please tell me where I said the team would be worse overall and not just the defense? Oh right, you can’t because I’ve never actually said what you’re claiming, like many things you say.
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RE: SEC Wooing KU?
@drgnslayr said in SEC Wooing KU?:
Isn’t the sec just maneuvering to bring in all d1 schools then be the next administration to college sports? What the frick does the sec gain by adding more teams?
Destroying the ACC and Big 12 leaving them and the Big 10 to rule major college athletics.
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
@dylans said in 2024 Portal Madness Thread:
@Texas-Hawk-10 Arky also won in 1993 when the president of the US was from there. …not fixed.
- wow Cal has a better resume in the last 15 years than Arkansas has for the last 30.
I’m not claiming that Arkansas is on the level that Kentucky is, just this isn’t Calipari taking over a historic bottom feeding program to rebuild the way Scott Drew had to at Baylor. Arkansas is generally considered a top 20 program all time and is accustomed to having a successful basketball program.
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
@dylans Arkansas is a top 20 program all time by most metrics so this isn’t some scrub program that Cal is building from the ground up. 6 Final Four’s, the 1994 national title, two Elite 8’s in the past 4 seasons. They also have multiple billionaire donors who are heavily invested in the athletics department so Cal won’t be lacking for resources. Arkansas is a place you can win big at and I’d love see that become a regional rivalry for KU because their campus is only 4 hours from Lawrence.
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RE: SEC Wooing KU?
Best thing about this if KU does end up in the SEC, getting to beat the shit out of Missouri again every year in basketball!!!
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
Since Kugel isn’t coming now, I’d wait until after the NBA Draft withdrawal date because there will be some good players pulling out of the draft that can start. Hunter and Remy were both late transfer additions so there will be high level talent available after Memorial Day weekend.