NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS
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The offense isnt pretty but this team is excellent, elite defensively and has two guys nobody can stop when they play to their high level
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@BeddieKU23 itās weird most KU fans seem down on the team but itās our best shot at a title in awhile.
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@BShark said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@BeddieKU23 itās weird most KU came seem down on the team but itās our best shot at a title in awhile.
The current landscape helps. Even if there was a 1-2 dominant teams out there Iād still be optimistic. I just really like this group. Very excited to see how it unfolds
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@BeddieKU23 I think itās time to start talking about Baylor as a dominant team. The last time they lost was a long time ago. They beat us by double digits at home.
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@benshawks08 donāt be a party pooper!
thinking positive here! Self seems to have a handle on dokes mood swings! Dot seems healthier. BD is great off the bench. Marcus had his only off game, for sure
. Och, Braun and moss will contribute defensively and hit some 3ās. Tristan got some boards yesterday. Last game we started off poorly w/2 bigs, caught up w/4-1, then dot went down. Rest is history. Baylor is squeaking by teams we are beating. Gotta check vital! Keep them off the boards, play great D! We got this
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@benshawks08 Baylor is proving themselves to be one of the best teams for sure. But man Iāve watched them not only play us but a couple other teams and man they have gotten pretty lucky at times. Hitting garbage shots at the most opportune time. I still donāt trust Scott Drew, he has had a lions share of talented teams down there. But has never won the conference title and only finished tied for second once. He has 3 sweet 16s and a single elite 8 in the NCAA tournament. His teams have just not got it done late in the season.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@benshawks08 donāt be a party pooper!
thinking positive here! Self seems to have a handle on dokes mood swings! Dot seems healthier. BD is great off the bench. Marcus had his only off game, for sure. Och, Braun and moss will contribute defensively and hit some 3ās. Tristan got some boards yesterday. Last game we started off poorly w/2 bigs, caught up w/4-1, then dot went down. Rest is history. Baylor is squeaking by teams we are beating. Gotta check vital! Keep them off the boards, play great D! We got thisļøPost of the month.
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@benshawks08 that was a setup loss my friend. Donāt be surprised if Drew forfeits the game in Wacko.
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@nuleafjhawk lol!
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@BShark said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@BeddieKU23 itās weird most KU fans seem down on the team but itās our best shot at a title in awhile.
partly because ALL of College Basketball is just down this year. - Sure we have a pretty good team just saying on top of us being good everyone is down.
Coach K actually made a pretty good point the other day before the game. - He said that Basketball is down partly because of all the kids declaring for the draft. - -I think they showed a stat like 68 underclass men declared for the draft - - is hat right ? - whatever the number just a ridicilious number - and out of that number how many get drafted ? or find a spot ? - takes away from the overall talent in College. - -Iāve sure noticed the difference this year , and itās been stated GOD knows how many times that there is just no Dominant team this year. - -Hell someone has to win it , might as well be us right ? - - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Coach K is right, but if college basketball canāt make itself more appealing than the G League and various international leagues this is only going to get worse. Look at Dotson for instance, good college player but he is going to go pro early despite not really having a shot at the NBA right now.
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@kjayhawks said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@benshawks08 Baylor is proving themselves to be one of the best teams for sure. But man Iāve watched them not only play us but a couple other teams and man they have gotten pretty lucky at times. Hitting garbage shots at the most opportune time. I still donāt trust Scott Drew, he has had a lions share of talented teams down there. But has never won the conference title and only finished tied for second once. He has 3 sweet 16s and a single elite 8 in the NCAA tournament. His teams have just not got it done late in the season.
I really wouldnāt say they got lucky when they played us, they pretty well controlled that game form opening tip - -they have really really good guards.
Oklahoma St played them well both times - -canāt figure that out Okie St. - -Theyāre game plan last night was to flat out make vital and Gilisipie beat them and not the guards - -worked pretty well at times last night - -actually quite a bit of the time
Just falls in line with a couple of things that I just donāt get with this team , Okie State plays both games really well against Baylor - they was pretty much in Control with us. The West Virginia beats us up on the Boards, well they do that to a lot of people BUT Oklahoma pretty well hung with them hell may of eve out rebounded them - - fricken OKLAHOMA I just donāt get that, how the hell can they do that lol? - -hell Mannick got 9 rebounds himself against them -that should not happen wit West Virginia , Doo LittleI think had 12 rebounds , weird game of Basketball
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@BShark said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
Coach K is right, but if college basketball canāt make itself more appealing than the G League and various international leagues this is only going to get worse. Look at Dotson for instance, good college player but he is going to go pro early despite not really having a shot at the NBA right now.
I hear ya buddy , and couldnāt agree more - - just sad
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Iām extremely interested to see how KU performs in Waco playing 4 out the whole time and hopefully everyone stays healthy unlike the first game.
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@BShark said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
Iām extremely interested to see how KU performs in Waco playing 4 out the whole time and hopefully everyone stays healthy unlike the first game.
FWIW KU stayed with Baylor the second half. Came within 4 (I believe) without Dotson. As soon as he came in thatās when we lost momentum. If I remember correctly
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@BShark said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
Iām extremely interested to see how KU performs in Waco playing 4 out the whole time and hopefully everyone stays healthy unlike the first game.
Weāre gonna beat that ass silly
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@jayballer73 go back and rewatch the game, got layups off of loose balls rolling right to them and a couple of off balanced 3s late in the clock. They did control most of it but those lucky shots played a big hand in it.
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This is a down year in college basketball. Watched the Duke/UNC game yesterday and it was like watching a high school game.
I still think our hype over how great our defense is is largely overhype. We still leave trey shots wide open, miss assignments, make unnecessary switches, sometimes go under ball screens, fail to play to scouting reports and hedge properly, fail to seal off the boards, and we still havenāt learned how to play a hyper Nova-style swarming defenseā¦ am I missing something?
But we do play good āfuzzy defense.ā We stay fairly close to the ball and Doke is in the paint. Doke seems to improve his defense almost every single game now! I can tell he has been studying Withey footage. Withey understood the path a basketball had to take to get to the basket, and that is all that counts because he would meet the ball somewhere in that path.
My optimism for March is largely focused on Dokeās improving defense. Heyā¦ it worked against us in 2012 to give Calipari his only crown with the unibrow!
Weāve already proven we can win without offense. How many teams heading to March Madness will know that?
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I think this defense gets in peopleās heads. They do play well together defensively which is what you want to see. Last years team didnt play for each other. Having 3 really solid guard defenders and a eraser at the rim in Doke has really made life difficult for teams. Hard to remember a Self team defending this way in at least 6-7 yrs
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Gotta rebound! They miss a lot
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@kjayhawks said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@jayballer73 go back and rewatch the game, got layups off of loose balls rolling right to them and a couple of off balanced 3s late in the clock. They did control most of it but those lucky shots played a big hand in it.
Well I understand , but itās ok - you can still give them credit - -itās going to be ok, they are # 1 for a reason, they have done something that the OTHER # 1 teams wasnāt able to do this season and that is they have continued to win AFTER being ranked #1 whether they win at home or on the road, - -thatās a mark of a good team. Just go out and win , doesnāt matter if it is an Ugly win , a lucky win or a Rout - - a win is a win whether you win by 1 OR 21 still counts the same.
You said loose balls right? - -so that means there was no team control , means itās all about who is willing to go after the ball more - - who wants it more. Could they lose ? - -Sure they can , they are human , they are going to turn you over, theyāre guards a VERY GOOD - - VEERY GOOD thatās what happens when good guards pressure, look at our guards - awesome on the defensive end. - Like 9 steals a game - -thatās beyond good. you might be surprised at how much luck does play in a lot of games , not just Baylor. - we have had our share of luck throughout the years.
Them getting lucky is just like luck playing a part in the NCAA Championship games at times. Luck plays a part to an extent in almost any game - -we gonna be fine. - -Will we win at Baylor? - who knows? - I sure the hell donāt , do I think we win ? I hope so but yet Iām not willing to bet the farm on it. ā ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@benshawks08 said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@BeddieKU23 I think itās time to start talking about Baylor as a dominant team. The last time they lost was a long time ago. They beat us by double digits at home.
If they hold serve against KU and win the Big-12 then Iāll agree. They have been very impressive this season so far and Jared Butler put on a clinic in Allen Fieldhouse. I have watched their last 10-12 games and a few things make me hesitant about calling them dominant if we are comparing them to past great teams in College BBall but they deserve their ranking and accolades. Going to be a heck of a showdown in Waco
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FYI.
Devon Dotson leads the Conference in scoring at 18 ppg. Heās also 2nd in steals per game & 6th in assists per game.
Udoka Azubuike leads the Conference in Rebounding at 9.7 pg. He also leads the Conference in FG% & is 2nd in Blocks Per Game at 2.6. Stud.
Marcus Garrett is 5th in Assists per game but #1 in the league for being a complete bad-ass defender and team player. His assist to turnover ratio is tops in the Conference.
These hawks are good individually and as a team
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Well, one game we donāt have to worry about at all is ISU at home. Halliburton out for the year with a wrist fracture.
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Bad ass is most important!
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@FarmerJayhawk said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
Well, one game we donāt have to worry about at all is ISU at home. Halliburton out for the year with a wrist fracture.
Awful for him but yeah they may not win another gameā¦
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@FarmerJayhawk said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
Well, one game we donāt have to worry about at all is ISU at home. Halliburton out for the year with a wrist fracture.
Draft Status protect mode
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@BeddieKU23 has it been broke the whole yr?
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@BeddieKU23 So, how did this happen? Surely Self, after all these years, didnāt wake up before the season and say " Oh, what the heck, letās play some defense this year".
Did the team just evolve? Did they say " Nobody can put the ball in the hoop so we may as well just play good defense"?
Either way, I personally love to see the good āDā. Love to see the opponents scoring in the 40ās and 50ās.
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@nuleafjhawk said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@BeddieKU23 So, how did this happen? Surely Self, after all these years, didnāt wake up before the season and say " Oh, what the heck, letās play some defense this year".
Did the team just evolve? Did they say " Nobody can put the ball in the hoop so we may as well just play good defense"?
Either way, I personally love to see the good āDā. Love to see the opponents scoring in the 40ās and 50ās.
Athletes to defend that are willing to do it. The team really bought in this year.
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@nuleafjhawk said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@BeddieKU23 So, how did this happen? Surely Self, after all these years, didnāt wake up before the season and say " Oh, what the heck, letās play some defense this year".
Did the team just evolve? Did they say " Nobody can put the ball in the hoop so we may as well just play good defense"?
Either way, I personally love to see the good āDā. Love to see the opponents scoring in the 40ās and 50ās.
We have a bunch of really good individual and team defenders: Dot is pesky, Marcus is Gary Payton 2.0, Ochai is solid, and Doke is the eraser behind everything. Itās really amazing how big a difference a good rim protector makes in Selfās system.
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I think this team has learned their identity is defense. It is how they are winning games, and players want to win.
Once they accept it as their identity they believe more in what Self has been teaching them all alongā¦ defense!
You can see how their energy picks up higher on defense than on offense. They are taking some pride in getting stops.
I remain hard on them because they still have so much they can improve on. If they can improve in the second half of the season like they did in the first half, we should go far in March.
Marcus has made a big impact on this team by leading by example. His energy is contagious. So glad he will be back next year, too!
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@FarmerJayhawk said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
Well, one game we donāt have to worry about at all is ISU at home. Halliburton out for the year with a wrist fracture.
as if they didnāt suck already
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@BeddieKU23 has it been broke the whole yr?
According to NBC, he fell on it against KSU snd couldnāt return to the game. MRI yesterday, and they announced today itās broken.
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@mayjay I saw that, I think itās been hurt all year.
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@BShark said in NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE KANSAS JAYHAWKS:
@BeddieKU23 itās weird most KU fans seem down on the team but itās our best shot at a title in awhile.
I am not one of those people - absolutely love this yearās team.
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The West Virginia game is sold out. They better bring their big boy pants.
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Sometimes I wonder how good we are and then I watch other games and yeeeeaaaaah.
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Mercy now we all know there is no way Marcus gonna do that on a regular bases , But like was said if we can get some shooting Oachi with 2- ā -Moss with 2 - ā Braun with 1 - -then even if we could get Marcus to maybe hit 1-2 .
If we play like we did today , guys Iām telling you we are freaky good - -I just have not seen a defense like this. At times these guys will just flat choke you out
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Teague has a sprained wrist, couldnāt tell which one. Heās suppose to play tues. rebounding is key. Guarding the 3
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Braun a better boarder but game to big?
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Heās a fighter
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https://twitter.com/jessenewell/status/1229516686094688257
Casually great this year.
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Doke getting love from Sam at the Athletic
https://twitter.com/Sam_Vecenie/status/1230147946781392896?s=19
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@BShark The odds will be much more accurate when the bracket is put together.
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No one can predict what will happen, the trouble is we have had so many teams that shouldāve won a title.
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KU back to #1 in Adj DE on Ken Pom. Offense is up to #9.
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Lawdamercy
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I find it interesting that someone gave Baylor 2 first places votes. I suppose thatās somewhat fair with us splitting but wouldnāt expect it right after we beat them.
