Hypothetical For Next Season



  • Dotson or RJ, who do you prefer?

    Also, would Jalen coming in with RJ but not w/o change your decision?



  • @BShark

    Donā€™t do this to me.

    A 2 for 1 deal sounds awfully good. New toys, we donā€™t know their weaknesses yet.

    And yet Iā€™d still take Dotson back over them. Having a PG with experience is just so vital to success. Dotson truly did a phenomenal job as a freshman. I want to see how he follows it up.

    So as painful as it is I choose Dot



  • If you give me the choice between Dotson and RJ + Jalen Iā€™d take the latter. RJ is really, really good, and Jalen is a multiyear guy with a skillset we really need. I love Dotson and think he can be a first rounder in a year, but we really need bodies at this point.



  • Zion is withdrawing from the draft and transferring to Kansas.



  • wissox said:

    Zion is withdrawing from the draft and transferring to Kansas.

    I heard his Step-Dad say China was an option



  • wissox said:

    Zion is withdrawing from the draft and transferring to Kansas.

    Got me laughing on that one ā€¦



  • No matter what the answer is, I sure am glad that we are looking better than we all thought we would last month. There is still holes to fill but at least theyā€™re not craters.



  • Sorry @BShark to hijack your thread temporarily. I always prefer the known quantity especially if heā€™s as good as Dotson.

    @HighEliteMajor canā€™t get a PHOF on that one?



  • wissox said:

    Zion is withdrawing from the draft and transferring to Kansas.

    Is he a grad transfer?



  • dylans said:

    wissox said:

    Zion is withdrawing from the draft and transferring to Kansas.

    Is he a grad transfer?

    Now that would be a game changer! He took like 70 credits per semester I think, so yes heā€™s a grad transfer.



  • @wissox There was talk of him staying at Dook. I heard Dook doesnā€™t pay quite as much, but they offer better benefits to his mother, so it was a hard decision.



  • @wissox Well, I do think that deserved it. Best one in a while.

    The Zion thing made me think of how much these guys are actually in school. You know, how Vick is working hard from Memphis, tending to important personal business.

    Read this article ā€¦ Dedric isnā€™t in class. http://www2.kusports.com/news/2019/may/13/3-point-shot-has-been-emphasis-dedric-lawson-ahead/ How could he return, or someone similarly situated?

    By the way, I vote Dotson. Jalen coming too might sway me. Pondering ā€¦



  • Vick is graduating



  • So he never set foot on KUā€™s campus after leaving, didnā€™t attend class, and heā€™s graduating? Iā€™m sure that would work for our kids.



  • wissox said:

    Sorry @BShark to hijack your thread temporarily. I always prefer the known quantity especially if heā€™s as good as Dotson.

    @HighEliteMajor canā€™t get a PHOF on that one?

    It was funny, no worries.



  • HighEliteMajor said:

    So he never set foot on KUā€™s campus after leaving, didnā€™t attend class, and heā€™s graduating? Iā€™m sure that would work for our kids.

    Because of travel, a lot of student-athletes take online classes in-season. In Dedricā€™s case, he likely doesnā€™t need to take a full courseload since players are in class all summer as well. Ditto Vick. He needed less than a full semester to graduate, so for all we know he met requirements in December and that was that.

    One of my close friends does academics at a P5 athletic department, and itā€™s pretty nifty how they make it work for all these kids. I know at KU some courses are frontloaded so theyā€™re done around spring break as well. I ended up with 2 BSā€™s and a masterā€™s in 5 years by utilizing dual enrollment in high school, summer classes, and intersession classes at KU.

    The negatives are that coaches will really, really pressure them to enter certain majors but not others just for scheduling. In some cases itā€™s nearly impossible for them to major in a STEM field because of the time constraints.



  • @wissox this is why we thought doke was gone, straight from coaches lips, Bill Self, in part, on how Udoka Azubuike will look next year when healthy: ā€œI doubt weā€™re gonna get a chance to witness that.ā€



  • Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @wissox this is why we thought doke was gone, straight from coaches lips, Bill Self, in part, on how Udoka Azubuike will look next year when healthy: ā€œI doubt weā€™re gonna get a chance to witness that.ā€

    Maybe Self meant that Doke would be back but unhealthy. šŸ™‚



  • @approxinfinity you are a dork!šŸ„“



  • Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @approxinfinity you are a dork!šŸ„“

    We are all dorks here.



  • Iā€™m pretty cool.



  • @KirkIsMyHinrich me too! But everyone knows that!



  • @BShark speak for yourself!šŸ¤“



  • Normally I would take 2 guys over 1, but sophomore Dotson just sounds too good to me in this case. I think Iā€™d go with Devon. And you never know with recruits. Hampton seems like a pretty sure thing in terms of being a good college basketball player, but I really thought that about Grimes last season too and here we are. So Iā€™d go with the known commodity here.



  • BShark said:

    Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @approxinfinity you are a dork!šŸ„“

    We are all dorks here.

    Iā€™m nerdy af. Just own it.



  • @FarmerJayhawk so can you tell us where the farmer part came from? Verrrry interesting!



  • Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @FarmerJayhawk so can you tell us where the farmer part came from? Verrrry interesting!

    Sure! I grew up on a farm in north central Kansas. My great great great grandpa was a homesteader around what is now Lebanon, Kansas. My ancestors were in this novel: https://www.amazon.com/Flown-murders-September-County-Kansas/dp/B007FD76ZM

    From about age 4 I worked on the farm every summer. For whatever reason (I credit my mother reading to us a lot), I showed some academic talent so my mom and teachers suggested college. Iā€™m less sure they had 11ish years of college in mind! I went to KU to avoid being written out of the family will. The KD in AFH game was the day of my grandpaā€™s funeral and I swear to this day his ghost brought us back to win! And then UNC for my PhD. My theory is Iā€™m part of the Williams/Smith transfer program but I havenā€™t been able to confirm that. And the previous sentence is sarcasm šŸ˜‚



  • @FarmerJayhawk good story, your parent still on the farm?



  • Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @FarmerJayhawk good story, your parent still on the farm?

    Yep, parents and even grandparents still farm. I keep telling my grandparents (both are 80+) to retire but noooooo



  • @FarmerJayhawk my parents were both brought up on farms. We spent so much time w/both sets of Gparents. Took our friends. Even after I married we fished every chance we got down there, my boys loved going too. Kids that donā€™t experience that really miss out. Both places were sold.



  • Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @FarmerJayhawk my parents were both brought up on farms. We spent so much time w/both sets of Gparents. Took our friends. Even after I married we fished every chance we got down there, my boys loved going too. Kids that donā€™t experience that really miss out. Both places were sold.

    Very cool! Oh for sure. Whenever I get to see my cousins back home (they didnā€™t grow up there) Iā€™m more thankful I did grow up there. I almost never complain about work now because at least I have air conditioning!



  • wissox said:

    Zion is withdrawing from the draft and transferring to Kansas.

    Decided he didnā€™t want to become the ā€œRaging Cajunā€



  • @BShark

    Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @approxinfinity you are a dork!šŸ„“
    

    We are all dorks here.


    Iā€™m too sublime to be a dork. Iā€™m a dingleberry!



  • Sounds like our only hope of getting DD back is he is Oā€™fer from 3 at the combine. But he is impressing on all other levels. So I will take the other 2 guys cuz DD may be a goner.

    Grimes is strugglingā€¦what a shocker!!



  • FarmerJayhawk said:

    Crimsonorblue22 said:

    @FarmerJayhawk so can you tell us where the farmer part came from? Verrrry interesting!

    Sure! I grew up on a farm in north central Kansas. My great great great grandpa was a homesteader around what is now Lebanon, Kansas. My ancestors were in this novel: https://www.amazon.com/Flown-murders-September-County-Kansas/dp/B007FD76ZM

    From about age 4 I worked on the farm every summer. For whatever reason (I credit my mother reading to us a lot), I showed some academic talent so my mom and teachers suggested college. Iā€™m less sure they had 11ish years of college in mind! I went to KU to avoid being written out of the family will. The KD in AFH game was the day of my grandpaā€™s funeral and I swear to this day his ghost brought us back to win! And then UNC for my PhD. My theory is Iā€™m part of the Williams/Smith transfer program but I havenā€™t been able to confirm that. And the previous sentence is sarcasm šŸ˜‚

    Thanks for sharing that.



  • Yeah, I donā€™t think Dotson is coming back. Heā€™s all but guaranteed to be a first rounder. It now, though, looks like Grimes might be coming back. What do you all think about him potentially coming back to play for us next season?



  • @Marco not thrilled. Recently, with 1.5 feet out the door, Vick returning may have salted the earth on that experience. If (I truly mean ā€œifā€ as Iā€™m not sure, just have suspicions) he didnā€™t want to be here for year one, I donā€™t think he will want to be here for year two.

    I donā€™t want a redemption story. I want no drama and a focused, united team.



  • @Marco I would take Grimes coming back.



  • @Hawk8086 Yeah, by the time heā€™s a junior he should be half way decent.



  • I think Grimes is the next Selden.



  • @Marco Was looking forward to seeing Year Two Dotson big time and was happy Grimes was gone. Heā€™d need to overhaul his approach to the game in a big way for me to enjoy watching him. Effort, D, rebounding, attitudeā€¦



  • @ajvan Effort. Attitude. Humility. Hard work. Maybe getting slapped in the head with reality will wake Q up to how much work he has to do to even possibly get to the NBA level. I just wonder how he couldā€™ve imagined having the year he had that the NBA was in his immediate future. Thatā€™s pretty detached from the real world.



  • @KUSTEVE I offered a similar thought on Mr. Vick when he was permitted to return. While Grimes does not appear to be a knucklehead in the Vick mold, I think Iā€™d prefer not, as suggested above by @approxinfinity. I really thought Vick would seize the day. But knuckleheadedness is a hard condition to overcome. And with many folks, itā€™s chronic and lasts 'till death (sometimes causing death).



  • @HighEliteMajor I canā€™t, for the life of me, wrap my head around what made him think he could just waltz into the NBA. Yesterday he was 1 for 9, and made some really terrible decisions at the end of the game. Would he be the new Vick? Hopefully, if we do take Q back, the NBA debacle will so crush him that he turns over a new leaf, and decides to unpack the bags, pick up the lunch pail, and gets to work. Who knowsā€¦Selden was able to come back, and get much better. If he comes back, will he be Seldenā€¦or Vick?



  • @KUSTEVE I think the reason it could be similar is because it sounds as though Grimes falls into the drama queen/self centered category. I want to temper that, though, because things are just rumors. But then when you do appear to think that you can ā€œwaltz into the NBAā€, as you noted, it has the stench of entitlement. Thatā€™s more what I fear. Not the kid that comes back humbled and focused, but the entitled kid that was done an injustice. That all said, I would welcome him back, as we all should, but with the ball in his court. We all know he needs KU to put him in the best position to be a pro. It is exactly what Selden did, and he made $1.4 million last season. I do wonder how much listening, learning, and absorbing was done this past season, and how much was ā€œjust get me through this yearā€? I donā€™t know.



  • @KUSTEVE Maybe Iā€™m wearing rose colored glasses, but I donā€™t remember Selden being so lackadaisical with D and rebounding or so detached from reality with regard to his own abilities. Was he a guy who struggled with effort and expected to coast through when he arrived?



  • Stuff like this makes me wince. From the KC Star:

    Grimes hasnā€™t ruled out a return to Kansas and hasnā€™t specified what it would take for him to keep his name in the draft.

    Should he return to Kansas, Grimes thinks heā€™ll be used differently as a player after proving over the course of the combine what a teamā€™s offense looks like with him as the primary ball-handler.

    ā€œI think Iā€™d have the ball in my hands more,ā€ Grimes said of a return to KU. ā€œI think Iā€™ve shown the past couple of games of what I can do when the ball is in my hands.ā€

    https://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article230541454.html



  • I do not know who would want to take Dotson in the first. He canā€™t shoot the NBA 3 yet and he will not finish at the NBA level like he did last season. Heā€™s not a prolific passer.

    Iā€™d be shocked.



  • Kcmatt7 said:

    I do not know who would want to take Dotson in the first. He canā€™t shoot the NBA 3 yet and he will not finish at the NBA level like he did last season. Heā€™s not a prolific passer.

    Iā€™d be shocked.

    This is my thinking as well. He isnā€™t strong enough to finish at the rim in the NBA, canā€™t make NBA threes, and canā€™t create his own shot. Heā€™s just not a NBA PG right now. He will be in time, but I donā€™t see it right now



  • Woodrow said:

    Kcmatt7 said:

    I do not know who would want to take Dotson in the first. He canā€™t shoot the NBA 3 yet and he will not finish at the NBA level like he did last season. Heā€™s not a prolific passer.

    Iā€™d be shocked.

    This is my thinking as well. He isnā€™t strong enough to finish at the rim in the NBA, canā€™t make NBA threes, and canā€™t create his own shot. Heā€™s just not a NBA PG right now. He will be in time, but I donā€™t see it right now

    Ditto all the way around. Just some more seasoning.