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  Shaka Smart in BigXII
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  @drgnslayr Totally agree about Rick Barnes, classy opponent. Curious how he’ll do at Tenn.
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  • JRyman  

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  @JRyman Looks like every team in the conference except for OU took a big drop.
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  Svi picked as high as #12 in next year's Draft.
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  @ralster Oops. I had a whole paragraph for Graham that somehow I forgot to include, but basically I said what you did and although he disappeared on a few games, he played remarkably well for freshman, and as I mentioned before,when you looks the outside shooters that saw significant playing time, he is the only one that can actually create his own shot…something that was sorely needed from the other players.
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  ADIDAS-WISCONSIN BEATS NIKE-UK: GREATEST SINGLE VICTORY OF THE BIG SHOE-AGENT ERA, MAYBE IN LAST 40 YEARS!
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  @Crimsonorblue22 Interesting. George Soros makes the Koch brothers look like pikers and yet I see no outrage from the liberal literati.
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  Gotta Love Bo!
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  @JayHawkFanToo In this case I think you’ve done a pretty good job of speaking for most of us.
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  Cliff Alexander ?
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  @drgnslayr I agree. I personally advocated and thought that Perry would get playing time at the 3 last season but the available personnel…or lack thereof…made it impossible. If he goes to the NBA he will be playing the 3, so it would be nice to give him some time at that position as a reward for his loyalty to the program.
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  Can Identifying Referee Bias During the Last Ten Minutes of Games Even Be Whining?
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  @jaybate-1.0 Whine away my friend, whine away. How bad was the refereeing that we, KU fans, are talking about a game or games in which KU was not even involved? Pretty bad.
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  CLIFF GONE
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  Cliff … Don’t let the “Door Nob hit you on your way out!” School? … Education? … Who needs an Education to put a little ball into a round circle !! Duh … I can say now that I’ve been to College !!! Duh !!
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  A picture is worth a thousand words
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  I prefer this picture that was taken 7 years ago TODAY.
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  BILL SELF NEXT COACH OF USA BASKETBALL, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!
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  @JayHawkFanToo Completely agree on Hoiberg. I doubt he ever pursues the NBA. However, if he were asked to coach the national team, he may consider it (I don’t know enough about the current state of his health), and his style of coaching is a better fit than Self’s style. @Lulufulu The University Games team was selected based on colleges that expressed interest in competing. KU was selected over the other applicants. Because this isn’t a team selected from around the country, I think it is a different sort of thing. Perhaps USA Basketball will use this to evaluate Coach Self for a future role, but I think the guys I listed yesterday have the inside track, particularly Donovan. I agree that he and Pop are close, but Jerry Colangelo is currently on the Board of Directors, along with Chauncey Billups and others. They will select a new board after next year’s Olympics, but the current board make up doesn’t give Self the inside track.
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  REFEREES APPARENTLY SELECT DUKE NATIONAL CHAMPION
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  @Lulufulu If that argument is true, then it was unfair when UCLA was just as stacked during their run in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Saying it’s unfair that some schools get better recruits than others just doesn’t hold merit to me. KU gets better recruits than K-State does. Is that unfair to K-State? K-State gets better recruits than UMKC. Is that unfair to UMKC? All of those schools are D1 schools within 150 miles of each other, but their recruiting bases are very different. That’s the nature of college athletics. When you have recruiting, you have a chance to have some teams that have tons of talent and others that can’t ever hope to land that sort of talent. There are 350 D1 teams and about 12-15 truly elite players in each class. Even if every single elite player went to a different school every year, there would be schools that would not land an elite player for over 2 decades. If Bo Ryan is mad that he can’t get elite recruits to Madison, that’s on him as a recruiter.
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  Self with Mike Thorne's Parents Today.
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  @JhawkAlum You are right, he did not even come close to being 15-10 player in the weak Conference USA, there is no way he does that in the Big 12.
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  Silence Of The Lambs...
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  Is John Calipari Really Just NOT a Very Good Coach?
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  @justanotherfan …even more impressive that he did all that while staying one step ahead of the law…:)
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  Nice Guys Finish Second...
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  @drgnslayr They are pretty good at burning couches…
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  Come Out of Your Pods!
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  @jaybate-1.0 It’s a race to the money. All the fast-twitch muscle isn’t being coached to learn the skills of basketball, it is being coached to chase the fast money. It’s a race to the money. ““AAU basketball,” Bryant said. “Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It’s stupid. It doesn’t teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don’t know how to post. They don’t know the fundamentals of the game. It’s stupid.”” Kobe: Europe’s players more skillful Americans are junkies to athleticism, not skillfully played basketball. You won’t see a kid playing the game mimicking smart finishes at the rim with the other hand, you see them trying to windmill dunk while his dad looks on marveling because his kid has some hops. Look at a player like Kelly Oubre. He has excellent athleticism and a body built by the basketball Gods… but the kid can only go left. He didn’t finish with his right hand ONCE as a Jayhawk! That alone is reason for that kid to return for year 2. Do you think his long reach is going to save him in the league? He is about to learn a big lesson at the next level… it’s called “hedge defense”… something never even mentioned in college ball. He is going to be hedged right out of 90% of his drives at the next level. The kid better learn to go right or his game is toast. I can barely stomach college basketball today. I watch because of my competitive nature. But every time my brain engages in a game, I become sickened by the empty tool box these kids bring to the game. Kansas should hire Bobby Knight as an assistant. His only job will be to teach these kids what a shot fake is. And while he is at it, he can teach them the other 10 or so fakes that can be used in a game. Bobby’s motto will shift off the known “shake and bake” to “fake and bake.”
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  Rock Chalk Chat here Duke and Bucky Badger fans
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  @Crimsonorblue22 Kentucky not winning and their system not getting the validation it wanted makes KU’s early exit a little less painful. Hopefully the Summer games will be wildly successful and set the tone for next season.
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  In Case Anyone Keeps Count...
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  @JayhawkRock78 I did too but my name was not selected which would not have been a problem but one time one of our young engineers names got called while he was boarding a plane for Memphis. Back then, mid 90s, most people did not have cell phones with e-mail so we had to have the airline intercept him while deplaning and had to make arrangements for him to go straight to an approved lab. before his meeting; a royal PITA.
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  CONGRATS TO OUR OWN JESSE NEWELL FOR BEING THE AP'S BEST BEAT WRITER
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  Congrats Jesse, a well deserved honor.
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  ONE BAD GAME by Paul Pierce
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  How could they not interview charmers and Collins ? That was easily the greatest clutch shot ever seen in a NT game !!! And 97, oh man I had to go outside and collect myself for at least 30 minutes. That was agony on a sports level I’ve never come close too since. The VCU game was also high up there because we had no business losing that game. All of it is why I love this tournament and college basketball so much.