KU/Tennessee Game Thread



  • @jayballer67 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 outline it.

    Jalen 20 ppg

    Kevin 12?

    Gradey 12?

    Juan 9

    Kj -6?

    Total:57

    This D doesn’t have a doke so we can’t hang our hat on it

    AND ? what the hell is your point exactly. - you telling me we have scoring machines on the bench - -if we do PLEASE let us know so we can relay to Bill

    The point is we don’t and playing starters 35 minutes a night isn’t going to develop a bench either so when Wilson and/or Dick have an off night like tonight, KU is going to struggle to win games and will have to play low possession games in the 50’s which helps keep other teams in games and if they play well, lead to blow outs like tonight.



  • As much as this sucks it’s good for us



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 you forget your own posts? Put the bottle down man

    You said 9 ppg from Juan would cut it

    I outlined how that only gets us 57 points in reality which ain’t winning many games this year against real competition

    So your theory that 9 ppg Juan is enough I “outlined it” for you that the math doesn’t work. Dude has to score more

    Man I’m done with you -you talking just trash - -nothing worth while you just trollin - - go boot scootin boggie down in the intestate to waterville I’m done



  • @kuballin10 if only there was some record that suggests Bill’s approach works



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 somebody coaches and gets it

    See tonight against a real team and what happens those three guys are 7,11,7 - graphic just for you bud I texted my buddy at espn for ya

    Haha Jank is in Self is waiving the white flag



  • @jayballer67 the reply when proven wrong - appreciate ya brother



  • Such a weird hill to die on. KU sucks on a KU fan board the year after they won a national championship.



  • @FarmerJayhawk 2 Natty’s

    Plenty of choke jobs and bad lineups

    That’s always been his problem holding D higher than O like it’s the 1990’s basketball

    Nfl has adapted, nba as well. Easier to teach a scorer ti defend than a defender how to score



  • @dylans said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    Such a weird hill to die on. KU sucks on a KU fan board the year after they won a national championship.

    HEM behavior.



  • @kuballin10 yep gosh what a failure



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 outline it.

    Jalen 20 ppg

    Kevin 12?

    Gradey 12?

    Juan 9

    Kj -6?

    Total:57

    This D doesn’t have a doke so we can’t hang our hat on it

    AND ? what the hell is your point exactly. - you telling me we have scoring machines on the bench - -if we do PLEASE let us know so we can relay to Bill

    The point is we don’t and playing starters 35 minutes a night isn’t going to develop a bench either so when Wilson and/or Dick have an off night like tonight, KU is going to struggle to win games and will have to play low possession games in the 50’s which helps keep other teams in games and if they play well, lead to blow outs like tonight.

    At least you make some logic. – I can’t deal with trolls.- - -Bobby hurt , Cuffe hurt - - Martin Hurt - - Cllemencce still hurting - -but we will be ok - - -everyone has bad nights



  • @jayballer67 he helped you interpret mine since you somehow couldn’t put 2 and 2 together

    I didn’t include the bench because we don’t have one

    Cuffe haha get out if you read this board you know he isn’t getting minutes

    Martin the same

    Bobby doesn’t even look to score

    Tonight is more reflective of who we are this year. I mean if you didn’t see all those close calls against average teams and came away thinking we are a legitimate title contender - the red and blue glasses are glued on too tight



  • Well. I’m going to go eat pie and grade some papers.

    It’s going to be okay everyone



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @FarmerJayhawk 2 Natty’s

    Plenty of choke jobs and bad lineups

    That’s always been his problem holding D higher than O like it’s the 1990’s basketball

    Nfl has adapted, nba as well. Easier to teach a scorer ti defend than a defender how to score

    Tell me ol wise one. - -how nattys has Calipari had WITH NBA lineups ? - - go ahead I’ll wait ? ? ? - how many # 1 recruiting classes has Calipari had ? - - go ahead I’ll wait. - - How many choke jobs does he have? - Thing is with him his teams don’t play D - -and to much one on one O - -hmm dam maybe that’s why they wanna run him out of Lexington on a rail- -like Farmer said - -ANOTHER FAILURE HUH roflmao



  • @KirkIsMyHinrich Unless ⬆️ commits suicide. Geeze. It’s a game. Peace and love all. If you don’t enjoy the game, try parcheesi or something less stressful. I feel like a help line needs to listed here after tonight though.



  • @KirkIsMyHinrich said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    Well. I’m going to go eat pie and grade some papers.

    It’s going to be okay everyone

    yes it is. Sun still gonna come up in the East tomorrow and sit in the West - Were gonna be fine



  • @jayballer67 Cal is awful

    Give me Jay Wright - his teams played aggressive on BOTH sides of the ball. He never quick hooked kids especially early and let them play through mistakes. He did more with less at a school that isn’t a top recruiter like the blue bloods

    Jay Roy/Bill

    That’d be the order



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 he helped you interpret mine since you somehow couldn’t put 2 and 2 together

    I didn’t include the bench because we don’t have one

    Cuffe haha get out if you read this board you know he isn’t getting minutes

    Martin the same

    Bobby doesn’t even look to score

    Tonight is more reflective of who we are this year. I mean if you didn’t see all those close calls against average teams and came away thinking we are a legitimate title contender - the red and blue glasses are glued on too tight

    your a trip lmao - - have a great night roflmao



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 you forget your own posts? Put the bottle down man

    You said 9 ppg from Juan would cut it

    I outlined how that only gets us 57 points in reality which ain’t winning many games this year against real competition

    So your theory that 9 ppg Juan is enough I “outlined it” for you that the math doesn’t work. Dude has to score more

    Harris scoring 9 ppg is where he should be as the 4th scorer on a this team amd don’t use the worst game of his career tonight as justification when Wilson was 13 below his average tonight and Dick 10 below his.

    If Harris was the only player with a bad game tonight leading to this loss, then you’d have a point, but other than Yesufu, everyone else for KU played like shit tonight. Our starters were 10-37 from the field and 3-13 from 3.

    We all know that something needs to happen with the bench to develop some more depth and scoring, but trying blame tonight on Harris is just plain ignoring everyone else that played like shit tonight too.



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 erase it nah - Zuby will rebound he’s the best of the 4

    Well not sure if you know or not but that 6’7 guy your talking about KJ is KU’s leading rebounder tonight - so ya lets take him out and put Zuby in. - -I know maybe Zuby gonna score more then KJ - -doubt it - sure Kj only has 4 points - but again leading rebounder this game and thats what we ARE talking about he has 7 rebounds and 4 points. -Right now it takes Zuby or Ernest 5 games to score 4 points. -& KJ much much better defensively then Ernst or Zuby is close to being. - -So really not sure what the hell your thinking is thinking we would be better with them in

    All but 1 of KJ’s rebounds are offensive tonight. He has only 1 rebound on defense. And this is a big problem for KU because KJ is the worst defensive rebounding big Self has ever had. KU absolutely has to get one of the other post players going because KJ’s defensive rebounding is an issue that has to fixed at some point.

    It wa the ENTIRE teams was an issue tonight - as bad as things were , they would of been a ot worse with 2nd and third chances if it was for KJ’s rebounding



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 it isn’t all Harris fault but if he’s the winner Bill says - winners take over when the other guys can’t score.

    Good teams will slow Wilson and Gradey down as they can out athlete them. Kevin is the third scorer but if you know the game or watch he’s a defensive specialist and rebounder not some 15ppg guy.

    Teams can matchup better with Wilson and Gradey and Juan must score more



  • @jayballer67 you listed Cuffe and Martin as if because we aren’t fully healthy those two bench warmers would have made a difference

    Talk about a trip….come down from that high man. Surprised you didn’t list Jank too



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 you listed Cuffe and Martin as if because we aren’t fully healthy those two bench warmers would have made a difference

    Talk about a trip….come down from that high man. Surprised you didn’t list Jank too

    have a great night



  • @jayballer67 I’d bow out to after those last few posts “rolfmao”



  • @jayballer67 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 erase it nah - Zuby will rebound he’s the best of the 4

    Well not sure if you know or not but that 6’7 guy your talking about KJ is KU’s leading rebounder tonight - so ya lets take him out and put Zuby in. - -I know maybe Zuby gonna score more then KJ - -doubt it - sure Kj only has 4 points - but again leading rebounder this game and thats what we ARE talking about he has 7 rebounds and 4 points. -Right now it takes Zuby or Ernest 5 games to score 4 points. -& KJ much much better defensively then Ernst or Zuby is close to being. - -So really not sure what the hell your thinking is thinking we would be better with them in

    All but 1 of KJ’s rebounds are offensive tonight. He has only 1 rebound on defense. And this is a big problem for KU because KJ is the worst defensive rebounding big Self has ever had. KU absolutely has to get one of the other post players going because KJ’s defensive rebounding is an issue that has to fixed at some point.

    It wa the ENTIRE teams was an issue tonight - as bad as things were , they would of been a ot worse with 2nd and third chances if it was for KJ’s rebounding

    Again, KJ only had 1 defensive rebound tonight. Tennessee grabbed 15 offensive rebounds to our 17 defensive rebounds tonight. It was basically 50/50 on who got the ball after a Tennessee miss tonight and KJ did nothing to help that because he got 1 defensive rebound tonight.



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 that and UT clogged the paint playing off everyone except Gradey so Wilson and Mccullar’s driving lanes were non existent

    I said it will be a long night for Wilson and Gradey which means other guys have to score

    Our scout is easy

    Let Juan shoot as many times from deep as he wants

    KJ - only scores on lobs

    Kevin - let him shoot

    Wilson - double him every time he drives

    Gradey - whoever guards him does not help

    Juan’s guy helps when Wilson drives or Kevin’s.



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @Texas-Hawk-10 it isn’t all Harris fault but if he’s the winner Bill says - winners take over when the other guys can’t score.

    Good teams will slow Wilson and Gradey down as they can out athlete them. Kevin is the third scorer but if you know the game or watch he’s a defensive specialist and rebounder not some 15ppg guy.

    Teams can matchup better with Wilson and Gradey and Juan must score more

    Gradey will hopefully be harder to slow down as the year goes on and he gets more comfortable with the offense and learns how to move without the ball better. I generally agree about Wilson because I’ve always said he was a below average athlete and is a slightly better version of Perry Ellis.

    I also generally believe that unless the bench is developed, this team has a hallmarks of a Round of 32/Sweet 16 team.



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 erase it nah - Zuby will rebound he’s the best of the 4

    Well not sure if you know or not but that 6’7 guy your talking about KJ is KU’s leading rebounder tonight - so ya lets take him out and put Zuby in. - -I know maybe Zuby gonna score more then KJ - -doubt it - sure Kj only has 4 points - but again leading rebounder this game and thats what we ARE talking about he has 7 rebounds and 4 points. -Right now it takes Zuby or Ernest 5 games to score 4 points. -& KJ much much better defensively then Ernst or Zuby is close to being. - -So really not sure what the hell your thinking is thinking we would be better with them in

    All but 1 of KJ’s rebounds are offensive tonight. He has only 1 rebound on defense. And this is a big problem for KU because KJ is the worst defensive rebounding big Self has ever had. KU absolutely has to get one of the other post players going because KJ’s defensive rebounding is an issue that has to fixed at some point.

    It wa the ENTIRE teams was an issue tonight - as bad as things were , they would of been a ot worse with 2nd and third chances if it was for KJ’s rebounding

    Again, KJ only had 1 defensive rebound tonight. Tennessee grabbed 15 offensive rebounds to our 17 defensive rebounds tonight. It was basically 50/50 on who got the ball after a Tennessee miss tonight and KJ did nothing to help that because he got 1 defensive rebound tonight.

    Ok he got - -1, ummm what about the others? - - Wilson TWO defensive rebounds- - -Dick- -THREE defensive rebounds - -TWO other players that should be on the boards. - - When you get your ass pounded on the boards by 18 - -it’s a team beatin - -not one persons. On the offensive end if not for KJ’s rebounding for the chance of 2nd chances as GOD knows we needed every 2nd chance we could get - - if it was for KJ’s 6 offensive w would of really been screwed even worse as Wilson had TWO offensive rebounds & Dick had ONE - -So agree ya he needs to do more on defensive boards but the way I was always taught - there are five guys on the team - -you win sa a team - - you lose as a team there is NOT just one guy that ost you a game



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 I’d bow out to after those last few posts “rolfmao”

    ok bye – bye



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @Texas-Hawk-10 that and UT clogged the paint playing off everyone except Gradey so Wilson and Mccullar’s driving lanes were non existent

    I said it will be a long night for Wilson and Gradey which means other guys have to score

    Our scout is easy

    Let Juan shoot as many times from deep as he wants

    KJ - only scores on lobs

    Kevin - let him shoot

    Wilson - double him every time he drives

    Gradey - whoever guards him does not help

    Juan’s guy helps when Wilson drives or Kevin’s.

    I don’t disagree with that scout because I’ve said basically the same thing multiple times and you know that and why I’ve been big on getting Clemence going because his game is what helps everyone because he’s a big that stretches the floor and would open the lanes up for Wilson and McCullar to drive more.



  • @jayballer67 I agree with this win and lose as a team just more fun to analyze the why’s

    Kj gets so many offensive long rebounds but is awful on the defensive it which I don’t understand



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @Texas-Hawk-10 it isn’t all Harris fault but if he’s the winner Bill says - winners take over when the other guys can’t score.

    I also generally believe that unless the bench is developed, this team has a hallmarks of a Round of 32/Sweet 16 team.

    Don’t say that too loud you’ll be blocked and labeled not a fan for being realistic

    I agree unless bigger bigs and mj get going we are an early out



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @jayballer67 I agree with this win and lose as a team just more fun to analyze the why’s

    Kj gets so many offensive long rebounds but is awful on the defensive it which I don’t understand

    KJ is 6-7 with short arms, that’s why he sucks at defensive rebounding. I’d be curious to know what his wingspan actually is because I’m guessing it’s probably about 77 inches which would mean KJ plays at about 6-5.



  • Not quite the exclamation mark of the UK loss last year but I’m sure it will work as a “toughening box” game.

    Dajuan… get some sleep. You look like you’ve been up all night.

    Was there a team curfew in the Bahamas? Appears not… lol



  • @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @kuballin10 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    @Texas-Hawk-10 it isn’t all Harris fault but if he’s the winner Bill says - winners take over when the other guys can’t score.

    I also generally believe that unless the bench is developed, this team has a hallmarks of a Round of 32/Sweet 16 team.

    Don’t say that too loud you’ll be blocked and labeled not a fan for being realistic

    I agree unless bigger bigs and mj get going we are an early out

    I’m used to it. I was one of the few that said KU would get run by USC a couple of years ago because they were a terrible match up for that team. This is going to be one of those years where we see KU play a lot of games in the 50’s and 60’s and have to play Badball to win.



  • @Texas-Hawk-10 I had us losing that game first time ever in my bracket I didn’t pick us to win it all.

    Bad ball = some March wins but ultimately not title contenders

    Big 12 appears stacked this year gonna be a long season and hopefully these guys improve



  • Bobby has a strained hammy



  • An average shooting night would’ve won this game easily. Glad to see joe get some positive minutes.

    Not even sure if there are lessons from this game beyond rebound better and hit shots



  • We’ll be fine. We’re not remotely close to healthy. Juan, Zach, MJ, and Bobby are still getting back to 100%. I haven’t seen a team that’s very consistent so far. Let’s figure out who we are in the next couple weeks. I won’t lose sleep over this one.



  • Jeez. Just finished watching that ugliness on DVR.

    The Volunteers simply were bigger, stronger, more aggressive and they outmuscled us.

    (And they nailed some 3s)

    Not much to add that hasn’t been argued to death above already.

    As goes Jalen, so go the Jayhawks…



  • We looked tired and then tired and demoralized. Add in the loss of Juan and Bobby and, and, and, and. The sea lion looked tired and whoever was the color announcer in our game was (I can’t find an all encompassing word) but impressed me by over reacting for 40 minutes straight. Ugh. Come on monday!



  • Some people need additional hobbies, goodness.



  • Bobby P out weeks with hamstring strain. Nothing new for him here



  • @BeddieKU23 said in KU/Tennessee Game Thread:

    Bobby P out weeks with hamstring strain. Nothing new for him here

    Will be forced to play Joe or MJ now. Whew boy.



  • 17-1 in our last 18 games. National champions. 81% winning percent. The recipe this year needs more time to bake. Around the end of Jan, the beginning of Feb, we’ll start to emerge as a real team. We’ll have defined roles. and rotations that work. We’ll start sharing the ball. A 5 man will emerge. They will figure it out. Remember, Bill doesn’t really have a floor- his floor is 20+ wins with a 4 seed in the tournament.



  • @Jethro Fire Bill clearly





  • @Jethro Bill wants a freshman big key word FRESHMAN big to emerge. He doesn’t want Kj at the 5 for all these minutes and him saying freshman means Zach isn’t looking at much opportunity if Bill has it his way.

    Wish Zuby had some more run yesterday he can at least rebound



  • @BShark yes, clearly program needs a shake up Bill ain’t cutting it……kidding for those who’d actually take it seriously. He’s a hall of famer doesn’t mean infallible.

    He’s giving the freshman some minutes they just look awful



  • @kuballin10

    Zach has had some chances so far and has shown little to make a case. He has to hit the boards hard as hell and bricking treys is not good. I can see he has been told to get their tall guys away from the basket but he has failed to scare anyone. I wonder if he has been nailing three’s in practice? Maybe that explains it although the one missed that Bobby cleaned up was necessary because of the clock running out.


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