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  Cliff Alexander suspension
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  This is old news. It happens in high school. The refs are flexing against a big recruit. They are big time refs that want their day. Way to go refs, that’ll show those big recruits whose boss at the end of the day. I love Alex’s attitude and his hard nosed bball play. We are too soft right now and he will be a welcomed sight next season. Rock Chalk Big Fella
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  Post-game Roundup: KU vs Colorado
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  @HighEliteMajor. Traditionally, the way to beat the zone is to kill it with outside shooting, something I though we would be good at. However, another way is to speed up the game and fast break to the other end before the defense has had chance to setup the zone, and if the lanes close, then kick it outside for the three or back inside via backdoor. Offensive rebounding is critical. Coach Self has the horses to play a fast game but our young grasshoppers have much to learn.
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  Dec 7: Game Day Coverage (CU 75 - KU 72)
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  I guess Askia Booker read Jesse’s scouting report…
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  Dec 6 Headlines: Mason to start at PG
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  @HighEliteMajor - Self nailed it awhile back: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2013/11/04/college-basketball-officiating-hand-checking-rule-change/3422293/ “And Self is worried about how best to defend a ball screen because the only way to go over the screen is to “jam the dribbler, which now would be a foul.”” Instead of the rule interpretation change, the NCAA should have put more energy into officiating games consistency. No more differences between conferences, and individual officials would go back to school to learn how to call a game consistent, from start to finish, from style to style. This reactionary knee-jerk was a compensation for their inability to just tighten down a bit in some areas and call it consistent. That is all they should have done. Instead, they opened up a new can of worms and more conflicts and more opportunities to call games with inconsistency. There is no clear answer for the dilemma under the basket… they’ll have to add amendments to the rules to make it fair. And they need to address offensive players and putting their head and shoulders down to create contact and get rewarded with foul shots. It’s nuts.
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  Mason to start Saturday.
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  @wrwlumpy - Remember 2011-12? Wesley would come in the game, breath, and get a foul. jaybate and I used to joke about that. It was like the refs saw KU with 2 team fouls and our opponent with 7, and took it out on Wesley. Of course, Wesley did foul many times. But I do believe that the better players get more slack, and the subs then get the brunt when it’s time to even out the fouls. Refs are human … they might see TRob with 3 fouls at the 16 minute mark in the second half and let some contact slide; then when Wesley comes in, he looks at an offensive player the wrong way and gets a whistle. Works for me. Everyone’s happy. We’ll see Embiid start pretty soon I think. @iowajayhawk2005: certainly a plausible scenario regarding the move being motivation. It will of course have that secondary impact at the least. I posted the other day about last season. About this time, Self was plainly upset with Tharpe and said if something didn’t change, there would be changes. Self wasn’t happy with much in Tharpe’s game at that point. He was razor close to seeing Rio Adams get the backup PG minutes. Then the light switch went on. I have sensed that Tharpe has never been a favorite of Self, meaning “Self’s kind of player.” Before the season, Self had said some nice things about Tharpe. I just think/sense that this change is more about performance than motivation. And more about Self thinking this team is just better with Mason starting.
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  Hoorah for ol Roy!
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  I kinda hope we meet them in the final four. Great team, great coach but we seem to have their number in the big dance.
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  Dec 5 -- KU Sports: Can Buffs Get Blue Out?
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  We’ve always called it AFH Rocky Mountain cuz AFH West was in Manhattan…but I think that’s now referred to as the Hawktagon… Anyway I’ll be at the game wearing blue! May try to follow Jesse’s blog on my phone…
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  Dec 4 - KU Sports story features HEM's question about rotation
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  @jhawk7782 - I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I sure as heck ain’t ready to flee. I just hate to lose !
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  Andrew Wiggins: the next human experience?!
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  My son and I were at the last border war game, down 19, even took off my new ku socks at half time- THAT was entertainment!
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  Follow-up: Self Answers The Rotation Question
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  If I had to pick one of them I’d probably go with Greene.
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  Quotes, quotes and more quotes... Give us your best!
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  William Allen White, circa 1912: “Neither Jayhawker winds, nor Jayhawker drought Stops the Jayhawker’s heart, nor the Jayhawker’s mouth; For the Jayhawker’s faith is always first rate, He has Jayhawker’s pride in his Jayhawker state!” Amelia Earhart: "Adventure is worthwhile in itself. " Dwight D. Eisenhower: "When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. " Paul Pierce: “I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren’t good so I quit.”
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  Recovering from Nova
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  The chance of any team going unbeaten from and entire season is highly unlikely. Granted, players come to college playing at much higher level than they did 40 years ago; a result of better facilities, better coaching, better competition and advances in physical preparation. However, the majority of the top players will not play more than one or two years in college and their best play will happen, not in college but in the NBA. 40 years ago, there were at most a dozen schools that dominated the scene every year and had a realistic chance to contend, and many would not play more than a couple of other top teams on a given year. Today, there are 30-40 teams that on a given day can beat any other team and with luck, they can make deep runs in March. The Big 12 alone has 4 teams ranked in the top 20 and every one of these teams will play the other teams in 6 games (3 home, 3 away), so the chances to go unbeaten in conference play or the season, even for a top team like KU, are very small; even smaller for other teams. Of the 5 teams that started the season in the top 5, MSU. UK, Louisville, Duke and KU. all of them have already lost at least 1 game. Too much parity and zero chance of building a dominant team, with top players with more than a couple of years of experience.
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  MTV versus "March Madness"
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  @drgnslayr … If I programmed our TV’s for only Turner Classic Movies my wife would be happy.
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  Self's Last Chance to Showcase a Top Recruit?
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  By stating “elite” talent, can we assume we are talking about top20 guys? Good stuff @Ralster. Just to clarify, I don’t mean top 20 talent. I mean that one kid that comes along maybe once every 2-3 years or longer. That clear cut top guy in the class. Granted this year is unique, as there are several players (Parker, Randle, Gordon) that would usually be the best of the best most any other year. As I mentioned with guys like Cliff Alexander, I’m confident we’ll get plenty of top 20 kids regardless of how Wiggins does.
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  He called me, too!
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  I am not surprised, after all they have a lot in common. They are both pros at what they do, both are consider to be near the top of their respective fields and both are sleaze-balls. Compared to Clinton and the squid, Barry is just an incompetent amateur wannabe.
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  Rankings
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  I’m pretty sick of the polls this early in the season. MSU will lose soon enough. Zona will definitely drop a few too. I don’t see a clear favorite right now. It’s too early. Our ranking is about right at #6? We’ll move up to #4 soon and hopefully can stay there most of the season. We’ll be up and down between 8-4 over the next few weeks through January and hopefully the guys will find their identity and when they do, I pity the teams they play when they break out of this funky talent slump. I see Wigs busting out at some point for 30+. I wonder when he’ll hear, “Overrated…Overrated…”? I’m thinking it’s going to be in Stillwater as the Pokes support Smart’s comments.
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  Dec 2 - Keegan: Embiid's +/- stats are impressive
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  If I decide to put a wild expectation on a superstar player this year it will be an expectation for Embiid setting a new NCAA shot block record in March Madness. Sounds like a wild expectation now… but will it in March?! Could he really be that fast of a learner? I think he could be. The fact that he never played basketball before 3 years ago means Self is working with a blank slate. No bad old habits to overcome.
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  Self Ignoring An Asset: Three Point Shooting
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  Kip… I wish we could all sit in on practices. If I was a betting man I would bet the ranch that Self has spent most practices working on defense. There is a reason he does it this way; defense comes first in Selfball! He’s afraid if they get too good on offense now, they’ll never accept working hard enough on defense to become a solid defensive team. Becoming solid on defense is our best shot at winning another National Championship. I bet he won’t focus hard on offense until Christmas. We always see a different team after break, and that bump is because our offense finally gets locked down in execution and tweaked to adjust for different teams and their strategies. Just look at what we’ve seen so far. Our most fluid offense is our open-court run outs. We already have those down better than most teams will ever learn. There is a reason for that… because run outs are a reward for playing good defense and fighting for defensive rebounds! So a big part of our offense practiced to this point is the run out. I guarantee we’ve put in plenty of time on that. This is just my opinion… sounded right coming out! I’m not a gambler so it is easy for me to go out on a limb!
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  Post-game Round-up: KU vs UTEP
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  Ladies and gentlemen, parity in College basketball has entered the building. With the influence of the one and done, the days of senior laden dominating teams are gone; on any given day, any team can beat any other team.