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  Compare and contrast: Perry Ellis and Georges Niang
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  I feel it in me Bones.
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  Prediction: Self about to Switch Ellis On
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  @jaybate-1.0 " “Have you ever watched a big cat in a zoo pace around his cage?” Yes jb, Thanks for asking. In the late 80’s while watching an elegant & ominously beautiful white Siberian tiger circle & patrol her garrison in the atrium entrance at the spanking new Mirage Hotel & Casino, I instinctively noticed something awry. Her male companion was calmly snoozing away in the palms & yuccas quite oblivious to the literally hundreds of observers in the 300 ft long, full glass catwalk snapping glossies with each other, the kids, & grandchildren & total strangers alike for the shot of a lifetime, For 10minutes he nervously circled, swirled & spun until her tail finally elevated perfectly vertical, swiftly backed into the proverbial rebound block out position, & promptly & with authority flushed her deposit over the edge of the impeccably flawless bedrock shoreline directly into crystal clear waters of the surrounding moat to complete bewilderment & utter shock of those who witnessed this fateful calamity. I swear jb, I’ve not ever, & mean ever, in my lifetime laughed so hard as I did then. Truly no fiction folks, I almost whizzed in my britches. Again old friend, thanks for asking & am glad I could share some light on your question !!
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  Kentucky can do this?
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  I don’t think paying to play stronger opponents is wrong. That’s essentially what happened here. They could have played teams that were basically the equivalent to a solid US high school team, or bring in opponents that could give them a good run. Honestly, I would suspect that any college team would do the same. They go on these trips to get their team game experience. You can’t get that against over matched opponents because for your top freshmen, that’s what they saw in uigh school.
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  Trends of 5 Games after Temple
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  We have played exceptionally well since that loss. The next three games will tell us a lot. Road games vs the Clones/UT with a home game against OU on the short hop - we win all three, we’re in tall cotton. I think we can win them all.
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  Where Have All the Long Men Gone?
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  @jaybate 1.0: I honestly believe a lot of it has to do with the difference in Cal’s and Self’s approaches to the game. Cal tells the recruits they will have to work hard, but I think his way is to extend the AAU game for them, while trying to get them to play some D. Self tells recruits they will have to work hard, but he doesn’t necessarily let them on the court until he has seen them begin to fit into his system. Self’s way seems much more restrictive to me, and I wonder if any number of highly rated recruits don’t just find it easier to join Cal’s ever-changing stable of talent. Barry Switzer once said that if you give money to a player, you don’t own the player. The player owns you. If anything like that goes on at UK, it is well away from Cal. The vacated FF appearances at UMass and Memphis touched the schools but did not touch Cal. In the case of Memphis, Cal said that he asked the NCAA whether the player would meet the NCAA eligibility requirements, which is a lot like something the Tudors would have done – provide an answer to the wrong question being asked. Cal never asked whether the student had actually taken his own SAT, did he? And nobody could tell if he knew the answer to that question, or if he had even asked that question in the recruiting process. Thus, Memphis never played against KU in the final, but Cal moves right on to Kentucky.
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  Where has ralster gone?
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  @VailHawk Nope, @ralster is at the core of The Legacy.
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  TGIF: Ames, Here Comes the Jayhawks!
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  @Kubie Let’s hope we get off to a good start in Ames, so the crowd doesn’t take us out of the game. Ours is still a young team, when it comes to entering asylums like Hilton. Kelly has never faced anything like this before. Neither has Cliff. Frank and Wayne and Perry and Jam Tray are the only guys that have really had to deal with this sort of thing before, so I expect them to ring up the most PT. It is different sitting on the bench and watching it, like Greene and Lucas did last season, but I expect them to be called on. Svi may be held out of this one. It could really get hairy, if ISU’s two trey ballers sink three or four early; that’s when Self will have some tough decisions about whether to go outside to match trey for trey, or slow it down and create shots for Perry inside.
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  Big 12 action on Saturday.
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  @joeloveshawks I think we may lose tomorrow if we lack aggressiveness and I see us losing @ WVU. I think we stomp a mud hole in the Kitties and lose @ Texas. and possibly OSU though I see that as being less likely than @ UT .
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  Time For Toughening...
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  @drgnslayr I take the EJ thought it was better to punch and opponents 'nads instead of his own face?:):):)
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  little of topic BUT - - - -
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  @BeddieKU23 Vitale is bombastic and prone to hyperbole and his bias for Duke, and also UNC, is really as or more annoying than his voice; However, he is one of the few commentators that has actually coached HS, College and the NBA and he does have a fair amount of knowledge, even when the delivery can be like nails on chalkboard. He also does a lot of work for good causes including the Dicky V foundation. He lives in Sarasota where my dad used to live so I have seen him around town a few times when I visited dad. Bilas is pretty self-absorbed and a little too full of himself/smug and, as others have mentioned, his support for the new contact rules has turned off a lot of fans. Having said that, he is still the best of the bunch. I like Fraschilla, He is very knowledgeable and, unlike other analysts, very familiar with KU so his comment tend to be spot on unlike others that only read the Cliff Notes version of the programs before the game and repeatedly misstate facts about the team/program. Pants backwards used to be pretty decent but over the years has developed a bias against KU; maybe the “pants backwards” chant has had a cumulative effort.
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  A New Nickname??
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  @KUSTEVE These are the 3 better known rankings: KenPom still has OU at #12, 2 spots ahead of KU at #14. Massey has KU at #5 and OU at #27 Sagarin has KU #11 and OU at #18 The composite of all ranking has KU at #7 and OU at #17. Of the 40 computer rankings, as of last Sunday, only Ken Pomeroy and 5 others (BVL Least Squares, The Power Rank, T-Rank, Pigskin, Stat Fox) had OU ahead of KU. As of today, ONLY Ken Pomeroy and T-Rank have OU ahead of Oklahoma and all the others have KU ahead…that is 38 out of 40 who have KU ahead, which leaves Ken Pomeroy as a true outlier compared to all the other computer models. With all due respect to @Jesse-Newell, I just don’t see any objective way you can justify having OU ahead of KU; 38 out 40 computer models agree with me…and the NCAA RPI as well…
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  "Wooden Watch"
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  @wissoxfan83 In this age of OADs, what luxury to have a player like Kaminsky for 4 years.
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  ISU game Saturday just became even more dangerous
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  @wissoxfan83 Baylor led by as many as 17 point in the first half and by 8 at the break; Baylor also lead by 14 with 8 minutes left on the game and then ISU made it run and it eventually took the lead with 14 seconds left. Drew really had no choice but to burn timeouts to try to stop ISU’s momentum and get his team to stop trying to give the game away; it happens, remember West Virginia last year? KU was out of time outs 3 minutes into the second half when it fell fell 21 point behind and after that started chipping away and got within 4 but only 11 second were left and it ended up losing by 6. BTW, Wiggins had 41 points and 8 rebounds in that game.
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  Chat here!!
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  @RedRooster it’s crazy that a team can ranked with another ranked team in town can get that low of attendance numbers. Makes me appreciate being a Jayhawk fan even more. Hell we even pack the house for exhibition games.
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  Favorite play of the season (so far)?
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  @DanR I love this dunk or “throw-down” whatever you want to call it. And I love the monster dunk that Mari had the other day. Bruise Brothers 2.0 !
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  KU Played Bad, OSU Played Worse; Predicted--KU +10, Actual--KU +10
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  @benshawks08 Self said that he did not put Cliff back in the 2nd half because the team was playing well with Lucas in there. Lucas played good D and got some rebounds. But…he missed a layup and fumbled the ball under the basket also. Defense and rebounding mean a lot…that’s why Selden plays as much as he does even though he is not scoring.
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  Where Have All the Lurkers Gone?
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  @wrwlumpy A beautiful ugliness.
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  ok guys , lets try and keep it real
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  @Crimsonorblue22 I read in an article that he was yelling turn up to Frank and that’s what they got him for but knowing how, we’ll go with passionate he is, the use of that phrase wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility. From the way he talked about wanting to live up to great names of the past he probably knows how intense the rivalry has been with OSU lately and wanted to leave his mark on it. Little too far though since he got the T lol
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  Do we go after more recruits?
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  @JayHawkFanToo "I watched Jaleel White, aka Steve Urkel, in a celebrity basketball match and he was nothing like his TV persona, he was actually a pretty decent player. " Ha… all proving my point about the effectiveness of x-axis basketball. I squinted my eyes and it looked like the Duke/Miami game… except this was only a one-point victory! Anyone else see that? See what a couple of little fast guards did to Duke at home?! I’d like to take that game footage into the video room at KU and spend a couple of hours with Frank and Devonte. This is how it is done!