I think this is the best KU halfcourt offense I've ever seen under Self. It was slash and cut... and burn! TK, TKR, and Stokes make a deadly passing trio. I've never seen the ball stick LESS in our halfcourt! We ran UK ragged. This is the way to slay huge teams like Duke. And even if they have depth... we have depth, too. This allowed us to establish the pace and flow of the game for almost 40 minutes. I know we miss the speed of Melvin... but we've upgraded our ball movement. When he returns, he's going to have to learn to pass at this level. He has a low TO rating, but the ball doesn't quite move at this pace and he needs to speed it up so we can keep it like this. Several players did not have good scoring nights, and unless you examine the scorecard, you wouldn't notice it. This is the first game I've watched over again in years. I'll probably watch it again. And we should only get better! We've had teams before that had equal to or better individual talent. But we've never had a team with the right kind of parts to put something together like this. Hence... we finally have a halfcourt offense that can win! Now.. let's not trade in our open court scoring... especially off TOs! I haven't been this excited to watch Jayhawk basketball since 2022!

@kjayhawks2.0 said in Other games 2026-2027: I’m just flipping thru channels laying in bed…. How in the world doesn’t anyone go to west coast schools? You have number 21 USC at Cal going on right now and it literally looks like there is about 300 people in attendance. Ik a lot of it is NIL money to the highest bidder but my gosh the local 1A high school in the middle of nowhere Kansas gets more people on the average game night. Been to a few Cal games out here in the Bay Area. Attendance is not great. In fact i saw the Jayhawks play at Cal back in what, 2010? victory. Just guessing here without fact to back it up, but my guess is that there are a couple of handfuls of schools that get solid attendance. KU has spoiled us.

He forces a lot of bad passes into the paint. I think he'll improve.

I’ve had my hopes crushed the last few seasons. I’m nauseously hopeful this year. Did I hear council just broke his foot?

Rerunning the MTSU game and and one thing is we have sufficient depth to keep the pressure on the whole game whether it's bigs or guards or tweeners. Another is if we ever get polished look the eff out. We can play you any way you want it. Reeves shows rim protecting and down low scoring. On defense we come to you in waves. And we do all these things at a high level and no fear. The recruiting was great and the hired guns have changed a downer us into a possible 25-5 team from the 20-10 which is good enough for 4/5 seed but not good enough for a blue blood program. This NIL era may be one year of excellence and three of large Rogaine ordering.

Damn. That hits. RIP jay

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@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.

We are all saying nearly the same thing. Hoping this is not indicative of a repeat rinse repeat but hope and gloom are tied.

Sad

@rockchalkjayhawk Thanks again. I'll figure it out. I watched some content last night!

@Jayhawk_69 LOL, Don't think they're the same Rothschilds!

@sabramo19 love it!

@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.