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  Duh.
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  @Blown I can replace the photo if you can suggest a better one.
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  ISU
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  @drgnslayr When I rehabbed the cuff tear, in 3 months they never once used heat-only ice. And until I figured out how to place the wrap correctly, that friggin ice hurt like someone beating me with a hammer. As you well know, there’s just no adequate way to fully describe the pain of that surgery & recovery. Wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy…well… again, maybe I could think of someone if I tried.
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  Jan 13: Game day headlines for KU vs Iowa State
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  If ISU wants to try to play us with a one legged point guard, I’m all for it.
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  FLOOR BURN AWARD: KU vs KSU - Jan 11
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  @drgnslayr this is my favorite award for the game, can’t wait to see who gets it tonight!
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  Jan 11: Post-game Roundup: KU vs K State
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  @justanotherfan or… Maybe they know Embiid like we do and could see the sorrow he had in his heart. I know, my glass is always half FULL!
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  ON SELDEN AND WIGGINS...
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  @jaybate 1.0 This is right on the money. I’d take it even a step further. Look at the body types. First, let’s get Lebron out of the way because nobody is built like that. Coming out of high school, he was listed at 6-8, 240. At that size (about the size that T-Rob was when he left KU), Lebron was as quick as most NBA guards, with the same ball handling ability, but as strong as some NBA power forwards, combined with the explosive leaping ability rivaled by few in the world (40+ inches). Nobody else in the world is built like that. Lebron is a Transformer. He can be a tank. He can be a sports car. He can be an ATV. He can be a jet. At times, he can be all of those things at different moments on the exact same play. Kobe, as you aptly pointed out, is not quite the same. Young Kobe could be a sports car or a jet, in much the same way that young Jordan could. The difference was that Kobe had a very good jump shot pretty early in his career. Wiggins is in the same sports car/ jet range as young Kobe. He has the agility and explosiveness, but lacks the power to just bull through defenders. He is different than many of the sports car/ jet players in that he is much taller and longer. People see his leaping ability and see Lebron, or a young Nique. What they forget is that those guys were both more power players. Wiggins is speed and agility. He’s a Ferrari hugging the turns. He’s a Lamborghini going 0 to 80. He’s a lear jet barreling down the runway for takeoff. Lebron is a different beast. He’s a tank boxing out a 6-10 power forward for a rebound, then a sports car exploding from the pack in the paint at high speed, converting to an ATV as he moves through the lane on the other end, then a jet as he explodes off the floor for the finish. On that same type of play, Wiggins is a jet soaring for the rebound, then a sports car using his speed and agility to weave through the defense. The problem for Wiggins right now is that he doesn’t yet have the power to convert back into a jet to finish, so he’s trying to finish as a sports car, careening around curves. He has to get back to being a jet and turning that forward momentum into upward momentum for the finish.
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  Did Anyone Else Notice Andrew White's Recently Reported Take on Transferring?
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  I think what matters most for AW3 is that he continues to develop his game. Whether or not he earns big minutes in the future is up to him and the talent we recruit. But as long as he is building strength and improving his game he’ll find a well-paid job after KU… perhaps in the Ukraine! (or more realistic, Europe). That’s what I care about the most for players like AW3. And I hope he snags a diploma while in Lawrence. Those tend to come in handy later, too!
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  Liberace Gets Candelabra Handed to Him On a Platter
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  @tundrahok +1
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  Jan 11: Game Day Headlines for KU vs K-State
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  Fran wasn’t bad yesterday. He’s shown an anti-KU bias ever since his son walked on at Okahoma, which has bugged the crap out of me, but yesterday nothing he said really bothered me. Probably didn’t hurt that we were destroying the kitties most of the game.
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  Interim Head Coach Roose Webless: Memorable Quotes
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  FLOOR BURN AWARD: KU @ OU - Jan 8
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  Let’s hope Selden keeps up this fine form until the end of the season. He had another good game against the kitties.
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  Love this one.
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  Cindy Self 1, Bill Self 0
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  @HighEliteMajor - “Wondering here if Cindy could kindly suggest to coach Self that selecting a three point sniper as regular part of the rotation would be a wise thing to do? We could all pony up and send her a fruit basket or something …” …and wondering if while she is at it she could diagram several specific plays they could run for us to nail the long ball. I don’t know why I feel this way… but I’m getting the feeling like Conner is ready to go to work out there and nail 3s now!
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  Jan 9: Post-game Roundup: KU vs OU
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  @Crimsonorblue22 I have respect for all players who sign with KU, including Merv Lindsy, Anderson, Wesley’s of the world and not just OADs. My point is that Wiggins has no leash which is not good for Wiggins and the whole team. He is on a different planet and needs to be brought back to earth. His play was atrocious in the 2nd half especially in the last 5 mins, critical time. He kept making stupid mistakes but he was not benched. Could you imagine any other player freshmen getting such a treatment? I have not see it. So why with Wiggins? Because of all the hype he came with, The Next Lebron?
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  I've got a crush on Tarik Black
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  @Kip_McSmithers “And his suspension to start the season shows he makes bad decisions and was in the wrong place, wrong time” has a bad connotation. Tharpe was suspended for playing a basketball game during the summer outside his geographical home area, something only the NCAA thinks is wrong.
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  OU Reset: Questions
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  @Blown ahhh… he’s going Zahveeay on us? Maybe so.
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  Jan 9: JaQuan Lyle visiting KU this weekend.
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  I am undecided on Lyle. I like Rashad Vaughn’s upside a little better than Lyle, mostly because I could see Vaughn being one of the best 5 players in that class when it’s all said and done. He has the talent to be an elite level scorer. Lyle is a good player, probably even a very good player. But I can’t see him being an elite level guy on either end. On the other hand, that probably means Lyle would be at KU longer than Vaughn would be. Of course, a lot of this will depend on what happens with Greene, White and especially Selden.
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  Conner Frankamp Hyperbole
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  @HighEliteMajor Not at all. I just don’t think he’s quite ready for that match-up just yet. His day will come and he’ll be the player everyone wants and expects.
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  Jan 10 Headlines: OU analysis and a look ahead to K-State
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  It appears that Lyle has postponed his visit to KU this weekend.
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  Can 'Snacks' Do More Than Recruit?
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  @CivilHawk Ah, I just saw this thread… I’d responsed to @iowajayhawk2005 on another thread… Looks like we came to an agreement on the namecalling on this thread. Glad to see. I’ll port over what I wrote here: @iowajayhawk2005 ehhh… damn it man, you keep making me have to act like an admin. I appreciate you, I appreciate your insights and your perspective. And others do too. It’s solid… but you’re the only person with a foul mouth on here. I get that that might be your thing, but can you censor yourself with asterisks or something? some modicum of self-restraint in deference to your fellow posters? Are you CivilHawk’s alter ego or something? I really don’t want to ban or censor anyone. And I don’t really want to qualify what “don’t be a jerk means”. But… it means “don’t be a jerk” by the perspective of the general consensus. That probably universally means not using words that have any direct or derivative meanings related to feces, or genitalia. It also means not insulting other people deliberately and repeatedly. Ultimately it is subjective, so I can only go by how insulted people appear to be in response to you. Looks like it was a rough day for that.