Thoughts on Last Night's game?
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Good points, the team is definitely not even close to its peak. We’ll learn a lot coming up how far they are as a group
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Self said they did not run a single offensive set in either exhibition, which I will believe based on what I saw.
We are gonna need Lucas to check Bryant on Friday.
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@BeddieKU23 I agree with yor thoughts. I think im more excited about how Svi and Udoka played over being upset about DG or Bragg. Its pretty early, we dont want to be playing our best ball this early IMO. We could be 0-2 real easy if we dont play well. But it wont matter the 03 team went to Maui and got killed and still almost got a NC. One game at a time just get 1% better everyday.
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Which is smart, he doesn’t want to give them any film away for them to prepare against.
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The early season games can mean something. They are important for seeding, especially if you have 2 neural court victories against at the time the #1 & #11 teams in the country. With the Big-12 expected to be down, non-conference wins could be the difference in a seed line come March.
We certainly don’t want to start 0-2. It wouldn’t be the end of the world but it wouldn’t be a positive start either. We are still a young team and its showing so far. The biggest thing I’m worried about is fundamentals; rebounding, passing, turnovers, FT shooting. I would like to see us control those 4 aspects playing Indiana & Duke in the next week
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@BeddieKU23 we want to play in kc!
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@BeddieKU23 Ya I want to win for sure but all is not lost if we dont. I’d be shocked if we didnt atleast win one of them. The seeding maybe effected bye these games but it seems everytime we get a good win early it gets discredited because of the timing. I think it should help in the long run but teams usually get better as the year goes on, look no further than Nova getting spanked bye OU early and spanking them back in the FF. I say lets just beat both any worry about the rest later. One other ? I have is does a guy like Lightfoot red shirt? We know Self likes his 8 man rotation most of the time and I think he is the 9th man. I’ve been impressed with him no doubt but would it be better with Coleby to just let him sit? or does a guy have to sit for the exhibtion games to red shirt?
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Coach Self indicated that Lucas needs to step up because he will be need to play at least 25 minutes per game. He also indicated that Devonte has been cramping up a lot lately and the trainers are working with him to figure out why. One time he was fouled and went to the line to take the shots, he stayed bend over for a while; I thought he maybe got a low blow but in hindsight it could have been cramps.
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@JayHawkFanToo That definitely looked like a low blow to me. The thing I’m a little worried about is Frank’s hand. He was holding it most of the game and there wasn’t much mention of it. We need both those guys healthy all year to have a respectable record and definitely healthy at the end to make a run.
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Not sure on the exact rule for red-shirting but I believe if Lightfoot plays 1 minutes of game action his red-shirt is over. I think we need him to play this year because its important for him for his soph year when he’ll be counted on more. He looks like he can play some and we can all see Coleby is not even close to 100% out there so having that extra body available is important.
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Unless the rule has changed this year, freshmen can play in exhibition games and then redshirt. Once they go on the court in a regular game, no.
Non-freshmen can only redshirt if they have played in no game, even exhibitions.
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@BeddieKU23 Ya, Coleby really doesn’t look all that good but as you say he prob isn’t a 100% yet.
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A player could still get a medical red-shirt even if he has played several games already.
To be eligible for a medical hardship waiver, a student-athlete has to meet the following criteria:
- The student-athlete must suffer the injury during one of their four seasons of college competition or during the senior year of high school.
- The injury must be incapacitating. That means it must be a season-ending injury.
- The injury must occur prior to the start of the second half of the season.
- The student-athlete must not have competed in more than 30% of the season or three contests, whichever is greater.
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I just don’t see why Lightfoot would red-shirt. At this point I place him ahead of Bragg and Coleby and he looks like he will be a good contributor to the team.
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No way he red shirts! 10 players, minus a not ready for prime time-coleby.
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@JayHawkFanToo Yes, agreed, but that wasn’t the question. I trust it was clear we were talking about normal redshirts. Lightfoot is not injured.
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There will be no (non-medical) redshirts among the 10 eligible scholarship players. Having just 10 is already risky.
We really should have 5 scholarship bigs and 6 scholarship guards/wings. We are short 1 guard/wing and the 5 we do have are going to have to play additional minutes with “small ball”.
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I was just pointing out that blanket statements sometimes do not cover all situations, that is all.
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@JayHawkFanToo Was not a blanket statement, that is all.
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I would love to comment on last night’s game, even though its a day old. However, can anyone tell why I can get every other ESPN3 replay EXCEPT for KU. I keep getting “Internal User Authorization Error.” Geesh…If I didn’t know any better, I’d think ESPN was blocking the replay on purpose.
I’m pissed.
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@JayHawkFanToo He’s not ahead of Bragg.
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@truehawk93 i watched it this morning no problem on espn3. Actually the video was so sharp I was rather impressed.
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@truehawk93 I just tried it from my watch ESPN app and it worked. Do you get it from your cable co?
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I am not sure where they stand on Coach Self’s rotation, but in my opinion…and it is just that…and based on what I saw in the first two games, I believe Lightfoot has played and has better numbers than Bragg.
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@JayHawkFanToo Bragg will have more chances to prove himself, and he will.
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No question about it. His upside is huge.
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High: Vick with zero TOs in 25 mpg. It means they can feasibly play 4-1 for half a game.
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@BeddieKU23 I was at the game last night. I thoguht Vick looked really really good. Udoka looked like a man too! Lob after lob being fed his way.
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I hope so, he’s an important player on this team
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@JayHawkFanToo Lightfoot looks like a more talented version of Jamari Traylor. High energy, high motor, not huge, but very pesky, persistent, and aggressive. He’ll be a good 4 year player.
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@Crimsonorblue22 yes, log in via cable one
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@Kubie I was asking @truehawk93
