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  jBIA MEMO: Undercover Recon Completed...
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  @sfboggsz HOOYAH !!
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  Be Honest
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  @DoubleDD Be Honest. Always. I like this team, just like I do every Kansas Jayhawk Team. I appreciate the fact that the pressure is off this year’s team and they could possibly fly under the radar. I wish we had a little more height. One 7 footer would have been nice. I think this team can have a successful year. I like that this year’s team has players that are not afraid to step up and take the big shot. Since we are being totally honest, that has not always been the case. It has never been “win or else” with me. I don’t like late game meltdowns, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. I have to take the bad with the good. We were not the best team in 1988, but we were Champions. We were the best team in 1997, but we didn’t win it all. I like to state my business and move on. Losses that end the season hurt, but it is not a permanent hurt. I respect that fact that other teams want to win as bad as we do. It’s not our birthright to go to the Final Four every season. I appreciate every win, and try to move on quickly after a loss. The Program does not die with a loss. Kansas is one of the few schools where losses are celebrated with court rushing from our opponents, and we don’t even have to be ranked in the top 10 for that to happen. Kansas is where basketball stops and ends with me. Proud to be a Jayhawk!
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  TRob, getting a chance
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  @joeloveshawks Glad you relayed the phactoid about Phil. Phil knows Dennis. But I will tell you this: Daly brought Rod along slowly and quietly early on in Detroit, so Thomas is not really that far behind Rodman’s curve. And if both guys went up for a rebound, and got to the ball at the same time, compare arms and shoulders and tell me Thomas would not rip the ball and Rod’s arms out of the sockets in a tug of war 36-40 inches above the wood. Next, neither guy would get a single board against Wilt in a one on one,50 attempt rebounding contest. And they might only get one out of 50 against Big Russ. Rod was the best 6-7 rebounder I ever saw. Bill Bridges was the best 6-5 rebounder I ever saw. And Bridges did it with two bad knees before they knew how to do surgeries. Bridges was a beast.
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  Is Self too worried about Mason's minutes?
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  @HighEliteMajor You make very valid points but it is also a catch 22 situation. Mason is still learning the system and we still see him make bonehead plays and the best way to learn the system is to play more. So, you want him to play as much as possible so he can become more familiar with the system while at the same time you want him to play less to conserve energy. I am not convinced that Svi is the answer. The game is still playing very fast for him and has not slowed down and thus we have seen reduced playing time. At the PG, the game would be even faster and I am not sure he is, at this point, at a level where he could handle it; he is not a natural PG and his natural position, at least in college, is SG or even SF; in the NBA he will likely be a combo like Hinrich or like Chalmers become a PG. No doubt that he has the natural skills and basketball IQ to adapt to the position but again, do you take a hit at that position while he learns to play it? I am sure he would do fine at the slower Euro pace, but at the faster American pace, he would be, at least initially, at a disadvantage. Just my 2 cents…
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  On Genius in Basketball and Bill Self
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  Thx all.
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  Jamari Traylor ---->combo guard
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  Locking this thread [I think] for everyone’s benefit so we can move our blown minds on from thinking about Jamari playing point. Please see http://www.kubuckets.com/topic/1636/kubuckets-rules. Thanks guys.
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  jBIA (for OBO): Mickelson rumored working out at point guard...
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  @drgnslayr Not college but NBA. This link has the average player height for NBA players fro a number of years.
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  Dateline Khe Sanh: Self Says Again that Jamari Is a Combo Guard Option
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  @jaybate-1.0 Perfect length! Great post!
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  Now Hear this: Self Ahead of Everyone As Usual
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  @HighEliteMajor Thanks HEM for that teaching moment. Im a sponge and I rely on you more experienced fellows for teaching. Thanks.
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  Has it ever been tested that NBA D-League = Going Pro?
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  @jaybate-1.0 I broke out in a cold sweat. My wife took one look at me and told the children to walk slowly around me … avoiding any sudden movements.
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  Want A National Title: Three Point Shooting
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  @BeddieKU23 What HEM is saying is comparable of the FB parallel of passing to run or running to pass. Very little difference in execution, just more so on focus. By successfully opening up one method of attack, the secondary option is readily more available…or at least that’s the way it appears to me. Either or, it keeps an opponent from preparing for the exact same offensive scheme all of the while. Also a big beef I have with strategies is that giving different defensive looks out of a TO is strategically & fundamentally advantageous as all hell for either changing or sustaining momentum. Like the box & one or triangle & two or plain old 2-3 or 1-3-1 zones. Yet I can’t recall the last time I saw the Hawks do this, Maybe in 2011-12 vs Purdue or NC Sate or Ohio State in March. That team played in the NC game for cryin out loud !! What’s wrong with that picture ?!! IMO, part of that run was squarely on the success of coaching. Key on one or two opponents offensively & get a stop or turnover. Confuse them-they’re not ALL valedictorians Don’t get predictable with it, just throw it out there so an opponent is befuddled or has to spend practice time preparing for it taking away minutes from other prep work. Maybe that is an aspect of our team that is different with our coaching carousel the way it’s become. Since then, rarely if ever, do we see Bill do this & is absolutely to a teams advantage, even if for only one here or there possession. One or two possessions can make all the difference in the world…of basketball that is. JMO
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  Nation has a different view 2.0
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  @JayhawkRock78 I agree about the Jekyl and Hyde halves. I don’t have a problem with our ranking as I look at the teams above us. We are winning, but haven’t necessarily looked impressive in doing so due to the bad (actually…really bad) halves.
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  Frankamp for Ojeleye?
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  @konkeyDong Ojeleye was listed at 6’-6" 215 in his senior year and the official Duke roster listed him at 6’7", 230 and many of the article have him at 6’-8"; in short, and despite his athleticism, he is best suited as a SF, since he is a good long range shooter and he would be an undersized PF…and we have a few of those. Here are a few articles with perspectives from other schools. Link… another link… …and one more link… KU did not offer a scholarship so I would think the interest is not that great. On the other hand it is ironic that MU would be interested since he clearly indicated that he wants to go to a school that makes it to the NCAA…
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  The Beauty of Basketball
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  And just to the east of KU they think it’s one acting as five.
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  Does This Mean Someone Else Is Watching Over KU than the Just The Phogg?
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  I knew that. I took a non-flash photo of the Nighthawk at the Art institute of Chicago. Not the Night Owl.
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  Even If KU Is a Minority of One, the Truth Is Still the Truth
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  Some Non Sequiturs More or Less about Basketball
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  52 million split two ways-not bad.
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  Free Throw Practice - A Waste of Time
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  @wrwlumpy Thanks for that reminder lumpy… My eyes are still burning (and my heart is still hurting) from that pathetic display of “skill”. Oh well, it seems as though this team is on the right track. RCJH.
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  In Which Self Tries to Break His Team of Its Inferiority Complex Inside
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  @wrwlumpy Yes, but the positive embedded message in what I am talking about here is that in the metaphor, the Tin Man does find a heart, and the Cowardly Lion does find courage, and Scarecrow does find a brain and Dorothy does find her way home, and they all do overcome the Wicked Witch of the West, and her flying monkeys with the help of the little people (our perimeter players), the man behind the wizard (Self), and the Good Witch (some mythological combination of Cin and Andrea Hudy). This can be done. Each of our bigs has to realize finally that what they all need to act with brains, courage and heart against the L&S bigs is already inside them to begin with. They just have to believe and pull together. They have to click their heels together and jump up and finish no matter how fearsome and hopeless the task seems. It is the same lesson played out every season. In different ways. Rock Chalk!