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  KU Buckets 2024 ESPN Bracket Challenge!
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  @Jayblaze impressive
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  My crisis of faith in Bill
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  @approxinfinity Greene was also anticipated to be the better player as well over White. White was the 69th ranked player in 2012 in what was a down recruiting cycle for KU. KU’s 2013 class was an all timer with Self landing four 5 star recruits including Greene and KU’s best player out of that 2013 class wasn’t even one of the 5 stars, it was their lowest ranked player, Frank Mason. That 2013 class featured Wiggins, Selden, Embiid, and Greene as 5 star players, and Frankamp and Mason as 4 star players with Mason barely outside the top 50 in that class. It also never helped White’s case for minutes here that he wasn’t a good 3 point shooter at KU. That made it easier to budget him out the door.
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  KState game thread
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  @tundrahok said in KState game thread: @Jhawk69 Historically, KJ has not been a good rebounder. But he’s been trending up over the season, rather significantly. In the 3 games before he got hurt, KJ averaged 7.7 rebounds. It’s disappointing it’s taken this long (4th year), but if he can keep up this pace, and average 7-8 boards per game here on, I think that would reduce a lot of the criticism he’s been receiving. I’m not smart enough to figure out how to upload an image here:  But the increase in his rebounding rate looks nice. I bet KJ has been reading KUbuckets and realized a hole in his game! Lol
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  The end of NCAA?
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  Sadly it all makes sense. Or could it be full circle, and the NCAA pulled a brilliant back door scheme, found a way to get a gazillion more dollars in play, and will now thrive!?
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  Other games 2024-2025
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  Dam TCU in good spot to beat Baylor @ Baylor up three with twenty seven seconds to go. Udeh huge Game – - Sixteen points - - & fifteen rebounds- - three blocks. Welp Baylor just tied, doesn’t take away from Udeh’s game TCU WINS @ Baylor
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  KJ Adams
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  @approxinfinity If your contention is Storr is a good basketball player and Self needs to go I believe the gulf in how we view the game is too wide to overcome. But here is where I’m coming from. Storr is no good at being a teammate, I’ll stand by that. The ball movement already isn’t great, but he’s a black hole on offense and his defense is atrocious. If he could figure out how to switch and help on D he would get some run. However his advanced stats show that he is the same player for KU he was at Wisconsin - the difference is his usage is actually down from 32%!!! at Wisconsin to 22% at KU but it hasn’t made him any more efficient. He just isn’t that great of an all around player - just an inefficient volume scorer and below average defender. https://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/aj-storr-player-stats?category=advanced&seasonType=reg
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  Looking back at Hilton
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  @DCHawker Agreed. They play very soft, it seems all players do everything in their power to avoid contact. I’d love to see slashers putting pressure on the other team by fouling them up. I’d like to see Flory drawing as many fouls as he gives. Improved rebounding and fouling up the other team are mostly effort plays, they can do it if they set their mind to it.
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  Kind of harsh but true
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  @DCHawker Hunter + kj happened. No rim protection and bad defensive rebounding
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  Christmas Gift to KJ
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  Suddenly Self mentions how KJ is rebounding better and still has the most room for improvement.
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  Favorite All Time Players
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  My favorite is Cole Aldrich.
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  WKRP in Cincinnatti
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  @AsadZ Hmm if Iowa St hadn’t blown a big lead against them in their matchup we’d be calling them the best team so far. A combo of those two teams have visually looked tops and probably a gap after that. Auburn’s defense isn’t as good as several but they certainly can score with the best of them. Gilbert of Iowa St is a sneaky top player that gets no recognition. I think he’s a baller. Just a solid team overall
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  The 9 Man Rotation
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  @FarmerJayhawk Hunter’s steal rate is way up this year to go with decent block rate and great rebounding numbers. He’s turned into a solid defensive center, just still can’t slide for shit so he can be exploited in P&R in the wrong matchup. Ideally, we just need to avoid teams with stretch fives that can punish drop coverage.
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  The KU Sports paywall
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  I still go there because they do put stories on all KU sports, football, soccer, volleyball etc. I concur that quality of articles has dropped but I get to receive information. For this reason, I have started a monthly trial and will see how it goes.
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  Arizona St
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  It’s always interesting to see when players are not motivated by Self’s coaching style. I guess it’s not for everyone, there’s a standard to uphold and I don’t think AJ has bought into it. Easy to say from the outside but he doesn’t show that he fits here, which is crazy because his athletic profile and body type is meant to thrive here. With his recent struggles I’m imagining they will try and figure it out in this important 5 game stretch we start today. Team has been healthy so far but we have upcoming games against two of the most physical teams in the nation. Any injury is going to put the focus back on AJ having to be a factor. He needs to figure it out
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  Vital five game stretch
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  We won our let down game with 2nd half defense and energy. Cincy has lost three straight all in conference and their season is teetering and could fall off the cliff with another loss or grab a life line with a win over a surging ranked Jayhawk squad. We should want it more than they do and need it more and to show our players they are legit in the here and now. This is a road game with a probably loud crowd and playing a stingy defense minded team and we don’t want a slow start from our shooters to play into Cincy’s plan. We have won 4 out of 5 and should make it 5 out of 6 going into the unfriendly confines of Hilton Coliseum on Wednesday. We need this one first and put the fear in Georges Niang, Jeff’s Grayer and Hornacek and the Mayor Fred what’s his face (Hoiberg). I really don’t know which one I dislike the most. Not to forget Marcus Fizer I don’t like him either.
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  Central Flaw rid unh-uh
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  Was listening today to a Cincinnati & didn’t realize we are 4th in Defensive eff. We are 24th in offensive eff according to Ken Pom they said,KU 12 in defensive rebounding - -104th offensive rebounding --got to improve that
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  West Virginia- a game finally
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  @approxinfinity said in West Virginia- a game finally: Foury Flory I really hope we can get him NIL money and to stay. I think he’d be a lottery pick next season no question. A second round project like Furphy is.
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  And so it begins -- Players won't play without promised NIL $
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  @approxinfinity said in And so it begins -- Players won't play without promised NIL $: Feel bad for the ageless one here. Imagine if KUs boosters were flaky and Self was stuck squeezing them and encouraging the kids that the money was coming. What a drag. Yup. What a crappy position to put any coach in. And remember, NIL money isn’t “pay for play”. Players aren’t supposed to complain about hustling butt but not getting paid. And it’s not supposed to be money for just being recruited. Outside of the court, it’s services rendered. We give you money and you provide a service for us at market rate. But whatever. It’s just crazy. Player revolts are a bad thing.
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  Brown before Christmas
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  @drgnslayr You have ESPN+? Our next game is on that ‘channel’.
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  Fun KJ Story
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  @FarmerJayhawk raised right, great parents!