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  Duke/Vitale wedding coming
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  @jaybate-1.0 I’ll go blind if I see Dickie V’s ahhh tats.
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  Lagerrie, or the Protection Racket that Learned to Glass Vac
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  @sfbahawk Good to see you back posting. I see OADs like Andrew and Josh as special cases regarding the failure to have a trey being acutely detrimental to their ability to perform in D1. Notice that Andrew Wiggins tore up the NBA as soon as he got there, even though he appeared to struggle in D1. I hypothesized that it was not that he could not score in D1, but that his handlers did not want him to risk injury by trying to hang big numbers game in and game out. Once in the NBA, the handlers had gotten paid, and Andrew was starting to draw his checks, and so it was okay for him to go ahead and be a threat every game. And the NBA reputedly tends to have its refs protect its stars and future stars, so that’s another reason a guy like Andrew could go hard every game in the NBA. The problem for Andrew, and I believe Josh, is that they face in D1 a real injury risk, if they try to go hard every game’ i.e., the defenders are going to clock him and keep clocking him. And they can do it without significant, egregious penalty, if they can hang back and clock him on the way to iron, rather than have to punch him in the face 23 from the basket. If Andrew and Josh were BenMac grade trifectates, then they could make the D1 players play them honestly and burn them on the way to iron. But without a solid trey, D1 defenders are going to punch him in the face, and put him on the floor, and upend him, as he tries to get past them laying off, and there will be a considerable probability of injury that could hurt his draft rank and shorten his earning career. As a result, the prudent thing to do is stand outside and be decoy most games. Get inside on some back doors. Have branding game against some cupcakes. And generally don’t be threat to go off…just get through the season. I believe Josh will have a few branding games. And I believe he will be a solid rotation player. And I believe next year he will fare well in the NBA. But this year in D1? He just doesn’t appear to have the trey ball to keep them honest.
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  UAB tomorrow in KC
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  @BeddieKU23 Yes doka must play more than the 7 minutes he did against Siena
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  Espn replay
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  Thankfully the blackout games will be done in short order.
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  Basketball Cornucopia; Just In Time For The Holidays
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  @KUSTEVE Solid post! Yes… Doke has to receive a lot of minutes this year. He really needs to see a lot of minutes in about every game. That is the only way to season him. He needs to be put in the most challenging situations, including games and situations where he may not always be our best option. Give him plenty of those minutes, and he soon will become our best option for ALL situations! It is pretty hard to keep a guy like him on the bench, especially when we are proven to have rebounding issues with this team. I agree… that Landen misses having Perry to draw attention away from him. But I see what everyone else is seeing… that Landen is SLOW in the post on his moves (so is Doke). Our guys are bringing the ball down and gathering for an eternity. Hopefully, that is being addressed and worked on. Much of that is about confidence. Some of it is about building more scoring moves and practicing them enough to where there is no long gather in practice. You mentioned that Landen is having to deal with having 3 players swarm him. Great! I would be more concerned if he didn’t even draw in a double-team and still couldn’t score. If there are 3 guys on Landen, we have 2 of our players wide open. Or, at least, they should be wide open. So far, in this young season, I see something else as causing the problems for Landen more than missing Perry… WHERE HAS OUR TREY BALL GONE? I think this is the biggest reason for the swarm on Landen. Teams are baiting us into taking treys because so far, we haven’t proven we can hit them. I think a big part of this is just getting our guys to polish their offense. I’m not too worried yet. It’s a young season and even though most of our guys were here last year, every year is a new challenge. They are still developing an effective pace. They still need to polish their spacing. They aren’t yet seeing where there opportunities really are. And after all of that which they still must learn, they then have to take their education and apply it. This is often the toughest thing to accomplish… the execution. Especially with young players caught up in the moment, but even a challenge for the veteran guys, too.
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  LaGerald Vick: The New Mr. Elmers
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  @justanotherfan said: @jaybate-1.0 He could get going, but I don’t see him getting the minutes. He’s the fifth perimeter guy. I can’t see Self going with 4 perimeter guys more than about half the time. That means Vick will be getting 10 minutes a lot of nights. He will have a chance to do some damage in a few games, but not consistently enough (barring injury). But Vick’s star is rising. He could have a big game in the tournament that puts him in the spotlight nationally, but he will probably only average 5-7 points per game on the year. Vick’s minutes by game: 28, 31, 32. Now of course Josh has had foul issues which has contributed to this but still, I think Self would rather have Vick or Svi out there over a 2nd big most of the time.
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  Trevon Duval
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  @dylans said: Worse case scenario : Coleman goes to 'Cuse. Quade goes to Kentucky. Opening up the Duke pressure on Duval. One comment I found more than a little concerning was from M. Jacobs mom (our Jr. signing). She said (paraphrasing) Now that Kansas has offered you, you should see if you can get an offer from Kentucky or Duke. Kansas (UNC too)isn’t on the same level as Duke and Kentucky in many people perceptions right now. Obviously not mine and I’d like to know how many stinking championships it takes to change that view? 2 more National championships??? Coleman doesn’t have a Cuse offer. They are not recruiting him. Yeah she was saying that before he committed. He is all in with KU. He is a twitter cheerleader on the level of Embiid and Mitch.
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  207-9; 12 Straight Big 12 Titles
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  @YellowBeak Yes, but Kansas far makes up for the lack of traditional natural wonders with a lack of humans. Less of the state is spoiled by overpopulation than most. Some would describe my town as peaceful, quiet, calm, no traffic, nice people, and few to no crowds. I would describe it to outsiders as boring, nothing to do or see, and no one to do it with. But that’s because I want city folk to remain in the city…far far away from here!
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  KU Siena Game Thread
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  Thanks for the heads up. Will check it out next game. Jesse is a great dude. The Star got a damned coup with him and Bedore.
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  SIENA SAINTS - FRIDAY 7PM TWC
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  Iss the game being streamed?
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  Friday's Home Opener- A Possible Letdown?
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  @kjayhawks HA!
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  Bulletproof Bill
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  TROB with better range.
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  Frank Mason.
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  @wrwlumpy I’m not going to put our rebounding problems to bed after out-rebounding a shorthanded Duke squad. Duke is never a “great” rebounding team, and especially when they are missing three talented big guys. But on Frank, I did worry he and Doke were going to get into a fight going after those boards. I just hope Doke doesn’t accidentally squash him down in the paint on the defensive glass!
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  Scores for tonights game?
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  Prediction: Doke has one dunk that threatens the support of the rim
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  Let's see/ please dont laugh to hard
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  @Kcmatt7 Well I dunno maybe not as a bizarre thought as what I thought at first. - - Been reading a little more and hearing from some that follow that all the talk is which makes sense that NO WAY will Greene and Young both end up at Kentucky. - -Soo which would leave us at between OU & KU just have to wait and see - Quade again I think is announcing tomorrow - -we shall see - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BAY
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  The biggest problem with this team is simple -NO JAMARI TRAYLOR !!!!
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  @mayjay last year some thought he was very appauling
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  Embiid v Wiggins
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  Dang! Towns straight up clowned Embiid all night…clearly he needs a lot more work.
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  Frank Mason - NPOY
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  @bskeet I thought I heard one say during the Indiana game, “I wonder if the Towson coach is watching?” but I might be getting old and delusional. Or it could have been written in an article somewhere. But I suspect they are unhappy they lost FM and DG, but glad for the name mentions. The current coaches weren’t the recruiting ones anyway, right?
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  Missouri!??!!??
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  @BShark Very fitting ending for them. Improved team, still happy they lost
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  Where to watch in JoCo when TWC has the monopoly
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  @mayjay I get a much, much better plan from Consolidated than TWC and for a lot less money. TWC has laid cable in my are but not quite yet available. You have to access ESPN3 via Internet browser and the laptop does much better job than the TV; connecting the cell phone directly would require a micro USB to HDMI adapter. I have several spare laptops so I just leave one permanently connected to the Big Screen.