The tournament was rigged for Kentucky. They got to play all home games but one. They had to play one away game at Louisville and lost handily.
The Hawks got to play one home game and it wasn't on campus. I'm glad Davis-Steel won at Kentucky. It was great to see the crowd file out as losers.
I see KU is in the mix for former Michigan St. big man Jaxon Kohler. Averaged 12.5 ppg and 8.9 rpg last season so what are the chances of him actually ending up in Lawrence?
@kjayhawks2.0 said in KU @ Arizona St 8pm CT:
we had 21 offensive rebounds and 4 second chance points. Wow!
Yep. This defined the game and it's stunning.
If you look at this team's record with these remarkably anomalistic, highly improbable and statistically aberrational numbers, you might be tempted to throw a couple of these losses out.
They are pretty good if you take away the weirdness. Or is it weirdness? What is the norm?
It's just hard to know whether this team can still gel and harden and normalize into its full potential at this point.
Is this team the one we have been waiting for? We can hit the boards with TKR, Dawes and TS. We can fast break. We can turn it over and shoot 55% from the FT line. We can defend one on one and we have the big guards to do it with. We might get able to defend the three ball better. It seems we have several scorers including Mister Blyden Jr., Trey White and Tryan Stokes. Looks like we may be playing eight deep for some time. Blyden Jr, and Trey White have nice looking strokes and Stokes stroke looks pretty good too. We can be more than just pretty good but what superlative to use is to be seen. After about 6 or 7 games how good do we have to be to keep me from feeling disappointed even in a win? Our bigs have come across as they could be nasty as the game gets more physical. I hope Dawes keeps being aggressive on offense even though he missed six straight point blank shots at the end of the Louisville into the first part of the Fordham game. Having a team that shoots 55% from the field which may be attainable is a throw back to several years ago. TTU and ISU may not be great and neither have Zona, BYU and Houston looked scary yet. I feel like a media type who makes risky takes and hopes some of them stick.
@Kcmatt7 said in Yormark Out:
Honestly he did some good and some bad. College sports is just such a shit show right now I don’t even know how to evaluate him.
Without him, the Big 12 wouldn't exist as a P4 conference. He jumped the Pac 12 in getting a new media rights deal which is why the Big 12 still exists today as the 3rd conference. He has the league in position add from the ACC in the near future as their next deal is approaching.
He is/was a risk taker and obviously some of his ideas have flopped like the LED court and the Monster Energy deal. He was never passive when it came to acting on his ideas and that's something that was an overall positive for the league and I hope whoever follows him has a similar mindset and approach.
I've only watched the first half of Duke so far... I wish Self would train our guys to not leave their man open on the perimeter and stop sinking in trying to defend the drive so much. We've been leaving guys wide open and most of these guys can probably hit wide open treys blindfolded. Otherwise... I give a mixed report card on our D so far, with some players GOOD and other players BAD. We will never shut other teams down much if our bad guys keep leaking at this level because everyone will exploit them. Also rate our rebounding as UNDERPERFORMING. We have the people that should never lose the team rebounding battle.
@wissox83 1952 NCAA championship, 1952 Olympic gold medal, and 3× NBA champion ('54, '63, '64). First player to ever win an NCAA title, NBA title, and Olympic gold medal.
