Kansas Jayhawks at UCF Knights Game Chat Sat. 1/3 1:00 CT
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Brutal mistakes all throughout the game
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Unfortunately this game gives us a lot of negative takeaways and only 1 positive.
The positive: Melvin Council is the real deal. He is a stud who can hit big shots, play defense, and get to the rim at will.
The negatives:
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DP will not play a second half for us all year. It does not matter if he is "100%". It just isn't going to happen.
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Our defense, it turns out, was a paper tiger.
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We have no heart. This is the only explanation for us not getting any defensive rebounds. We have the size and athleticism to be great on the glass.
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We have no toughness. Everytime we tied or took the lead we gave up an easy basket at the other end. In the last minute with a chance to win we allowed 100% 3 pt percentage, 100% shooting from the field, and gave up 2.67 points per possession.
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Flory has not taken the step forward needed from him.
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Tiller is not ready to be a big 12 starter.
I suppose, on the bright side, all these issues (minus number 1) are fixable, but as of now it looks like we are a bottom half of the Big 12 team.
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That officiating crew needs to go back to school and figure out what continuation is, how to rule when a defender is straight up in the circle, and what a body check looks like.
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Seems overly negative to me. I think this team has a ton of heart. We also outrebounded them on the defensive end.
The one thing we need more than anything is to force more TOs. We just do an awful job of it and Iâm not quite sure why, whether itâs scheme or talent. Probably some of both.
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The other side of the coin is UCF is 12-1 and theyâll give a ton of teams trouble in that building. The road is tough in this conference and itâs disappointing to drop one that we couldâve won with better team defense. Kohl and Tiller played like highschool freshman much of the game. A good learning point for them.
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18-5 bench isn't great.
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"Darryn Who?" Melvin Council.
Darryn is an unbelievable talent. However . . . if he cannot play 40 minutes like everyone else, then IMO he is a distraction. As good as Peterson is, the 'Hawks have shown that they can be a good team with Melvin at PG. The Jayhawks can't max their potential if they have to BOTH learn to play with him and play without him. Can't see us doing much in the conference. Maybe, maybe Bill will figure something out in time for the tournament. -
Subtract Darryn and Melvin and you are left with 29 two guys do not make us good offensively,
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Yeah this is super not good
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Weâve been pretty consistently around 13-14 per game. It would be huge to have those extra possessions when we donât score it great in the half court
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Not sorry I don't have Peacock today.
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If Tre, Melvin and DP can figure out how to play together look out
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@kjayhawks2.0 I think that is up to Bill. As a HOF coach making millions, it's not too much to expect.
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For the first time this season part of the team didn't seem engaged kinda jogging slowly up and down not alert. Not like them at all, who knows but it was obvious or so it seemed. UCF was engaged and it was a home game. TCU another hot team riding six game winning streak coming to Allen on the 6th. Peterson was amazing.
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I think we saw the result of this team not playing a game for basically two weeks. They just looked off today. I think next season, we need to make sure we have a buy game the week between Christmas and New Year's against a localish team like UMKC, Mo. State, Omaha, SEMO, or someone like that.
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@Jayhawk_69 said in Kansas Jayhawks at UCF Knights Game Chat Sat. 1/3 1:00 CT:
Unfortunately this game gives us a lot of negative takeaways and only 1 positive.
The positive: Melvin Council is the real deal. He is a stud who can hit big shots, play defense, and get to the rim at will.
The negatives:
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DP will not play a second half for us all year. It does not matter if he is "100%". It just isn't going to happen.
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Our defense, it turns out, was a paper tiger.
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We have no heart. This is the only explanation for us not getting any defensive rebounds. We have the size and athleticism to be great on the glass.
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We have no toughness. Everytime we tied or took the lead we gave up an easy basket at the other end. In the last minute with a chance to win we allowed 100% 3 pt percentage, 100% shooting from the field, and gave up 2.67 points per possession.
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Flory has not taken the step forward needed from him.
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Tiller is not ready to be a big 12 starter.
I suppose, on the bright side, all these issues (minus number 1) are fixable, but as of now it looks like we are a bottom half of the Big 12 team.
Overreaction city, not based on our full season of work.
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We still don't know. I wish if he was on a minutes restriction that they'd be allocated out a bit so we have him at the end of the game.
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Our defense is really one of the better units in recent memory. Today 1st half was ugly but 2nd half was much better. Against a tall team we had 7 blocks
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We have no heart. Really. How is that measured? I'd say we've showed a lot of heart this season in the way we've played against really good teams, even shorthanded without DP.
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We have no toughness. One game we were down by 1 with 10 seconds left on the road against a well coached and 1 loss team. Come on man, again how are you measuring toughness? Since the championship, this is the toughest team we've had by far, we've all been saying it. Don't let a bad result (that we win if DP plays) cloud your judgment on this team. They're a fun team to watch and have given us thrills this season we haven't experienced since 22.
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Flory has improved in many ways since his freshman year. More minutes sure, but he's been indispensible to this team.
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I might agree on Tiller.
There was a lot of negativity on the board today. Disappointing loss for sure. End of the world? Not ready to go there.
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I will also add that Melvin Council is absolutely Tyshawn Taylor, good and bad. He no showed the first half, microwaved the second half, and committed a stupid foul that cost KU a chance at the end of the game. That And 1 was one of the most brain fart fouls in recent memory. You're down 1 and you trying to catch up on a breakaway lay up. Don't foul unless you can prevent the made basket in that moment and Council didn't do that. As great as Council was in the 2nd half, he also absolutely cost KU a chance to send the game to OT as well.
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Time will tell for all of my takeaways, but until shown otherwise I think it is likely that all 6 are correct. This is the first game of the season where there were actually stakes, and I think the way we responded was very telling.
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@wissox83 ha. Ive kind of shut it down mentally after that loss because I dont want to overreact to any of the narratives. I did afford myself some snark shots, probably unwarranted, at the character of TCUs PG after he yelled âaaaaaaaaand oneeeeeâ as loud as he possibly could on a play where he didnt even take a shot attempt? and of course their demonic HC, and the refs who doubled their per annum today. But this was all to avoid saying something I might regret about a coach, players and a fanbase whose souls may be redeemed by years end. It was an ugly loss. We seemed clueless for long stretches. Hopefully our guys can approach with positivity and move on.
