Important Week
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Last week was rightfully so, a get right week for this team. Couldn't have asked for much better performances against Iowa St & Baylor at home. Both of these games were good for the souls of all that follow this program closely.
A few noticeable changes occurred for the team. Some good changes made by Self that delivered.
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Shortened Rotation to 7. Elmarko and Mari the main subs. Dawson was next (sparingly). Rosario has lost his spot in the rotation. After last week, that ultimately looks like the right decision.
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KU's switching defense saw some tweaks. Guards switching on guards only. Bigs switching on bigs with hard hedges and recovery only. Probably the most important change. Defense fueled offense and we didn't see nearly the amount of mistakes made.
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Improved defensive rebounding & forcing turnovers. Just +1 on the boards but effort was noticeable from the team. Defensive activity improved in forcing turnovers (+10 last week) that led to more transition buckets.
Unfortunately, this team cannot rest on its accomplishments and now has what should be a manageable week on the road. If last week was to be trusted, we should hopefully expect a 2-0 week. That would really jump start this team getting back into the conference race. Colorado & K-ST are a combined 2-8 in conference play as of today. If this team has turned the corner, we just have to find a way to win both games this week.
I actually think this is an important week for the coaches to find some change(s) to improve the efforts on the road. Perhaps the changes made last week will continue to see net positive results but I'm talking more about having the team juiced to compete, the energy and aggressiveness without the home crowd. How do they help this team feel comfortable in the uncomfortable.
Big week ahead
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I think it goes without saying but I'll say it anyways as we all know K/State really sucks bad and Tang would be gone if it wasn't for his buyout.
Yet having said that we all know this is their NCAA TITLE game every year when they play us. I seriously feel if they can beat us most of their fans would be perfectly happy to beat us over being in the Tourney.
We all know or sure know Tang is going to do anything imaginable to get their nerdy little group of Pig farmers all jacked up, ge strip his shirt off , jump on the scorers table do some funky little dance , run through the stands , whatever he feels will get their idiots all jacked up.
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If he really wants the fans to rock all he has to do is- -- grab the mic & holler SOOIE SOOIE and watch all the women come running down out of the stands that will get them for sure OR if they doesn't work I know 100 % that would be for Coach Self have Daylan Edwards walk across their court wearing a KU shirt and walk into the KU huddle-ya that would work lmao -
Bigger jump in the rankings for us then I was expecting.-- -We are now ranked # 19 in the Nation, result of good week need to follow it up with two teams we should win-- no more slips.- --ROCK CHALK
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We are about to find out if we only play well while unranked
