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  jaybate 1.0's Contemporary Basketball Dictionary
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  @jaybate-1.0 “Single elimination tournament” - one bowel movement and you are out!
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  Mitch Lightfoot, is this a good thing or bad thing
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  I’ll be happy if he’s just a Patrick Richey kind of player.
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  BREAKING NEWS: NCAA To Bring Further Contact Restrictions
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  Mitch Lightfoot is officially a Jayhawk
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  @justanotherfan By the time he signed with Appalachian State Graham was already 6’-1" and at the PG position the difference is not that big as it would be for a big. In any case, my point was that as an unknown, under the radar Graham commanded little interest but once he was noticed he asked to be released form LOI and was sought by much bigger programs than Appalachian State and Murray State. Likewise, Lightfoot has been flying under the scouts radars and once he was “discovered” and he played well in the summer camps he asked to be released form his LOI and was courted by big programs. When the next round of HS rankings comes out around the beginning of the season, I believe that Light foot will be unanimous top 100, not only form his improved play but he will also get a “KU bump;” hopefully like Graham he will improve in his senior year and with additional exposure, he might end up top 50. Just my opinion…and hope?
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  Kentucky At Full Strength: Labissiere Cleared!
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  @JayHawkFanToo Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I still smell a rat though.
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  Fools Gold Redux
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  @Crimsonorblue22 Thank you! It’s confirmed!
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  Should KU Lead a Boycott of the NCAA Basketball Tournament to Protest Asymmetric Seeding and Officiating?
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  @Lulufulu Room, board, tuition and all the shoes one can sell, and cash under the table are pay. But I think it would be right to pay basketball players a salary above board for what they do. I got paid as a grad student teaching. I see them doing a job for the university. Would paying them help bring any other change about? I just don’t know.
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  Blackouts - not just KU BBall
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  jayHawkfan very true they played very poor through the contest. felt they were in a little bit of awe, intimidated. just shows how far we have to go to reach Texas or any others of that level yet. still a great season but we hit like 1.59 for the match, normal is like 3.59 I believe. 9 service errors 4 or 5 hitting errors just bad sets, and set ups. I think where the match REALLY got away was in the 2nd set. we jumped out to a 5-0 lead and then 16-12 and from that point was outscored 13-3 the rest of 2nd set. I agree with you and hopefully for this re-match maybe we could move it to Allen, get more fans we played before 4,000 last night that’s a lot so ya behind you 100% with this idea, the announcers from Texas were saying the re-match would be loud , hot and full but its only 1,500 hopefully we get them on the re-match just have work to do. ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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  Aaron Miles
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  Aaron Miles-- One of my favorites who has a great legacy in Jayhawk history… Perhaps another chapter still to be written…
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  ESPN Predictions On Top Recruits
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  JERRY MEYER RECEIVED INCORRECT INFO FROM BOLDEN AAU PROGRAM SO BY @JEFFBORZELLO HE IS ON HIS VISTING OU
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  Frank Mason hmmmmm?
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  Brilliant photo recon Case Officer @Crimsonorblue22. That’s one old way to tape a floating knee cap.
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  Perspective On Recruiting....
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  @DoubleDD You make some good points. I would say that one issue he has had is trying to win championships with freshmen. Usually, not always, experience wins championships. Yes…Duke had several freshmen. But I would never try to compare Cal to K. Points taken, though.
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  FAN DUEL AND DRAFT KING ADVERTISING BANNED BY NCAA FOR BASKETBALL.
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  @wrwlumpy “Even stealing signals in baseball or throwing a spitball is deemed ok if you get away with it.” I don’t get how they let this happen but NFL teams (Patriots) get nailed for spying and reading lips of their opponents. The Pats (who I’m not a big fan of) were singled out for videotaping the Jets in an unauthorized location (to steal plays) while other teams do it all the time. In MLB, sometimes it seems that TV production teams intentionally work against certain teams by focusing in closer on the catchers to steal signs or the pitcher’s glove to see if they can steal their grip. The Royals have been trying to mask signs better and in doing so, have complicated their pitching. I know I am biased towards the Royals… but I see sports media treating them about like KU basketball used to get treated (we are finally improving slightly with national and east coast sports media). The sports announcers have addressed the stolen signs with the Royals and point all the blame on base runners at second base stealing signs and signaling batters. Sure that can happen. But it is very easy to pickup on. Why don’t they also explain how the easiest way to steal signs (and get away with it) is to have someone watch the game on TV and keep communication with a “fan” sitting close to the field, who then signals it to the batter. They like to put these “fans” right over their dugout so it looks like the batters are looking for their own signs from their manager. Heck… a lot of times the announcers will call out what the pitch is going to be as soon as they see the sign. Sometimes it is obvious that the batter knows what is coming. What a farce.
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  IT'S THAT TIME ONCE AGAIN BOYS AND GIRLS, TO RANK THE COACHES.
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  @wissoxfan83 “The curse lives on, and as we saw last night, they’re not the only Illinois sports team living under a curse! (way to go Mets!)” Yep… I wouldn’t want to have the name “Murphy” and live in the Chicago area… Thing was… you could see this coming a mile away.
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  "Who Wants To Be Next?"
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  @Texas-Hawk-10 At least the lack of leadership thing can afflict any program…as we saw the Harrison Twins at KY were very lackluster and sporadic in the leadership dept. Their best game was against WSU (both went for 20, and outclassed VanVleet and Baker in every way). Going late 2nd round, almost makes me think they should have come back for a senior year? Haha, they cannot say Calipari held them down or shackled their play, everybody knows they flopped on their own.
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  Team Photo: Morphology Analysis
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  @jaybate-1.0 I agree with your signature line about Snacks vs Aaron Miles! We could change our team-coaching “Morphology” in a hurry by throwing Snacks out of the cupboard. His high-point with the Jayhawks was when he did that dance on that genuinely FUN lockerroom video with the 2012 Jayhawks (that Justin Wesley engineered) which was all over social media and YouTube. Aaron Miles could be the guy. He played in a NC game for KU. But he isn’t hanging around Roy or UNC, no…he is here at KU, learning from the master coach that he wants to learn from. My coolest recollection of the Miles/Langford era were the Nike/Jordan (white & blue) basketball shoes the KU team wore. I still wear Jordan’s to play bball in, along with my usual KU bball attire. Very occasionally will wear TRob’s KU-model Adidas, and the current DRose 2015. They are the only Adidas worth playing ball in (for my feet and playstyle). The only other Adidas was the early “Pro Model” that B.Rush and Cole Aldrich wore in 2008. Now wearing those shoes + the 2008 NC shorts is a SPECIAL feeling…!
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  Self from Big 12 media days
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  Thx for the link.
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  Bill Self to coach Spurs...
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  @drgnslayr “KC is Big 12 country.” Right on, slayr! My home state university really messed its pants with Big 12 abandonment. A sour apples sellout for pride and the almighty dollar. Mizzou appears to have progressively killed its hoops program, and now is finding trouble in competing with the likes of Kentucky on the gridiron. Eastern Missouri might yet offer strong support, but I don’t hear much Tiger hoopla on the western borders. All those splendid years of Kansas City/Big 8/Big 12 basketball and indoor track and field championships flushed down the drain by an indifferent willy-nilly Tiger sports administration and fan base.
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  Lauri Markkanen committed to Arizona
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  @franfraschilla: With two of the best point guards in the country, Texas’ Isaiah Taylor and Iowa State’s Monte Morris. https://t.co/ZBk4SxQkc5
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  Will Traylor meet the Jeff Hawkins, Christian Moody, Justin Wesley, and Tarik Black fate?
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  @Crimsonorblue22 I try to get them to slip occasionally BUT mostly they give textbook answers to questions like that. I do get some things like the excitement about their new in house court, match ups between some of the guys but nothing mind blowing lol. I am don’t messaging them until next week now because I don’t want to keep them from being awesome!