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  CLONES CLONE BAD BALL
  • jaybate 1.0  

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  @HighEliteMajor I appreciate you taking the time to revisit this and clarify. I interpreted free your mind/open your mind/closed mind all the same. I can understand what you mean by expanding your mind, which is what I try my hardest to do daily, and is a reason I come here. A majority of the posters here know more about the x/o part of the game than I do, and I like to read it. Although, most of this has become commentary and less technical but I still enjoy it. For example, when there is indication that Self could scheme better to get more open 3’s, I enjoy the elaboration on what that scheme could look like from a technical standpoint.
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  Danny Manning
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  @Crimsonorblue22 Loves it
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  This is great news!
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  @Crimsonorblue22 I am not sure I saw it. Lasts week as was pretty tied up and did not post hardly at all.
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  CONGRATS TO JEROD HASSE AND UAB
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  @jaybate-1.0 Fascinating is the basketball tree of life. By the time Self hangs it up for KU, Manning, Haase and Vaughn could all be serious contenders for the job. Or at UNC with Roy’s replacement.
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  5 Reasons Why Kansas Is Great!
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  @drgnslayr HOWLING
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  Selection Sunday
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  The NCAA tournament is a single elimination tournament. That means every single game is the Super Bowl for every single team. You win, you keep playing. You lose, you go home. There is no reason that Wichita State should be more motivated to win an NCAA tournament game than KU is. This is Kansas. We want to go to Final Fours and win titles. There is no reason to not be up for an NCAA tournament game, regardless of what name is on the other jersey. Remember, a lot of these WSU players have been to the Final Four and are dying to get back. Most of them were on the unbeaten squad from last year. Their motivation isn’t to beat Kansas - their motivation is getting to Indianapolis. Maybe for the fans, it means something different, but WSU’s players and coaches want to get to the Final Four, whether its beating Kansas or beating Virginia or whoever. For KU, it’s the same thing. We want to get a shot at the Final Four - doesn’t matter if that takes us through Wichita State or through Ohio State. We want to get to Indianapolis. I had a feeling when KU lost the Big XII title game that we would end up bracketed with UK as the lowest #2 seed and Iowa State would move up on the 3 line. That seems pretty fair, honestly. Notre Dame moved up to the top 3 seed by winning the ACC, followed by the Big XII logjam of ISU, Baylor and Oklahoma. I can’t say that we were treated unfairly there because I can’t make an argument that we were more than the 8th best team in the field. We certainly haven’t looked like better than the 8th best team. All I know is that we better focus on taking care of business against NM State, or we won’t have to worry about the Shockers, let alone the Cats.
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  CBS story
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  @Crimsonorblue22 POST SCRIPT: After Dodd slammed the KU fan base about “not believing”, and posts we could make a nice run in the tourney, he picks the Shlockers to beat us round 2. So much for his steaming pile of sanctimony…
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  Bad Ball Beats Bad Ball in Meaningless Game for KU
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  @HighEliteMajor This is from KuSports’ Article "Jayhawks await NCAA Tournament: by Bedore: Of the NCAA Tournament, Self said: “I like our team. I like our chances. Who knows about the draw yet, but this (loss) isn’t the end of our season today. I told our guys if you play, you might as well win. There is no question that we didn’t compete to win and they (Cyclones) outplayed us. But hey, by 6 o’clock (Sunday, Selection Show starts at 5 p.m., on CBS) nobody is going to be thinking about this game and Iowa State won’t be thinking about this game either by 6 (Sunday). It’s the quickest turn on an emotional game we have all year long.” My reason is from what HCBS said: “But hey…all year long.” One clarification, I think if the Team will themselves to win yesterday, he will be happy. But, I really don’t think he was willing them to win. As I said above, we always bounce back from a loss. So, winning the next one is not a question. Thanks to Selection Committee (I think they wanted this game, if Mizzery is in, they will also want to schedule it) to hand WSU to us. I expect both teams would like to show who is the State of Kansas TEAM. It would be hard fight and I like our chances. With a win over WSU, I am the Team will be amped up for the next game. RCJH!
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  Tournament Predictions
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  Uk, Villanova, Wisconsin, Iowa St. I think Nova UK make finals on matchups. Btw I don’t have KU past 2nd round regardless of who they play. I would love to be proven wrong. Just going to be hard to win games when you best player is 80% maybe and no cliff. Team is banged up and tired, it’s worn out and the draw did us no favors, we got the worst of it.
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  Championship game, Rock Chalk day! ❤️🏀💙
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  @JayHawkFanToo Thanks for following up - appreciate the information.
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  Reality check
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  @Crimsonorblue22 yeah, I think he is. Maybe he’s a different kind of cat, but unless he plays himself out of the lottery, why come back?
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  KU SHOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE SEED IN THE MIDWEST REGION
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  @HighEliteMajor are you still suggesting this team is a competent three point shooting team and that is the identity we should be aligned with?
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  KU v. ISU live chat here!
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  @Kip_McSmithers ok!! Just wishful thinking, not the drooling over him, but think he could vastly improve. Not consistent, and poor w/rt hand.
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  Kansas and Wisconsin = Two Best Non OAD/TAD Stacks in the Country
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  @Lulufulu Agreed on Self influences. SHOECO - AGENCY COMPLEX is only a hypothesis waiting for more news data points to surface. For now, there seems no need to go beyond what Rick Pitino left at their and the NCAA’s doors. Will be interesting to see if more surfaces.
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  SELF KNOWS MORE HOOPS IN HIS LITTLE FINGER THAN TONY BENNETT KNOWS IN HIS WHOLE PENCIL NECK
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  @jaybate-1.0 I havent looked at Kenpom for a long time. In fact, I have purposely ignored it this year. But I just looked at our stats. Apparently KU is back in the top 10 on Defense Eff. ( #9) Not surprising, our offense eff is #31. ISU is basically the exact opposite of us. Super good on Offense and not tops in Defense eff. Maybe that plays in our favor?
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  As im sitting here watching kentucky
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  @JayHawkFanToo Plus, they want revenge for last year against UK
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  MAYOR, meet MERRILL'S MARAUDERS
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  Will Barnes Be Brutally Bounced By Burnt-orange Bevo?
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  @nuleafjhawk I think Rick will be around next year. We are applying our expectations on Texas. Seriously… Texas fans do not have near the same expectations we have. I’ve had discussions with plenty of Longhorn fans. Sure, they want to improve. But they don’t quickly throw Barnes under the bus. He is very well-liked. And many of the fans point to his achievements more than his failings. First… if they let go of Rick, who would they replace him with? Granted, Rick underachieves in results, but he does recruit some top talent. There is no guarantee the next guy could recruit as well as Rick. And it is very unlikely he will be as well liked. Rick has a bunch of friends, not only the State of Texas, but all through the B12 and USA. Texas is a football school. And also a baseball school. Basketball… well… to be honest, what is helping build Texas basketball is Baylor. Yes… Baylor! Texas fans don’t like to lose to anyone in their State. They used to be focused on TAM, but since they are gone, the focus is on Baylor and Scott Drew continues to recruit a lot of talent and challenges Texas hard. More UT fans are speaking up with Texas loses to Baylor. These same fans expect to lose to Kansas.
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  NOVA = 3 seed
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  @BeddieKU23 A lot of KU’s inconsistencies are/were due to the top conference competition. There is no doubt that you cannot take a game off in the conference. Look at the latest rankings according to Ken Pomeroy No. 9. KU No. 10. OU No. 15. Baylor No. 16. ISU No. 19. Texas No. 26. WVU No. 36. OSU No. 57. TCU No. 81. KSU No. 155. Texas Tech The conference might not have a legitimate top 5 team but it has 6 teams in the top 26. and other than the two bottom feeders the other 8 teams are all ranked in the top 57 and 7 of them in the top 36. No other conference comes even close. Look at KSU the #9 team, it went 4-2 against the top 3 teams and swept OU, and 5-3 against the top 4 teams, or look at the #19 ranked Texas which is in the last four group in the latest bracketology…that is top to bottom balance.
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  BAD BALL STRIKES AGAIN!!
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  @DinarHawk I would say we want to be in the Duke or Virginia brackets. I’m not basing this off yesterdays results either because they both lost to good teams. Virginia doesn’t look the same with Anderson back and they want to muddy the game up just like KU has done recently. I think we can match up better with Virginia than say Nova. Duke, is all 3 point shooting or nothing so they could always lose in the first round like last year. So right now I’d say we want to be in those brackets