Bright Points From The Texas Game...
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@drgnslayr Respectfully disagree. One huge bright point - it’s over.
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Reality is that KU is an early exit if they can’t start making some 3s.
UT defended well, and I didn’t feel like we got a ton of great looks. But WVU didn’t defend us well and we still clanked a bunch.
We’ve got to find that mojo to make a run. Grit only gets you so far. When a team makes shots (like Texas yesterday) we can’t hang. Going to need a gift from the basketball gods to repeat I think.
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@Kcmatt7 I feel exactly the same way but I did last year as well. You have to make shots to advance in the tournament period.
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@kjayhawks last years team had more room for error I think. Bench was significantly better…
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You are right that we need to make 3s… But in the broader picture, we just need to bring scrap and fight to a game. We barely broke a sweat in this game. 50/50 balls? Few or none. Defense was a shadow.
We have to play both sides of the ball but it starts with defense. Yesterday showed that. We started a push in the second half with a few Gradey 3s and they just punched us back with ease. Even the announcers mentioned we needed to get stops after those 3s.
Good defense creates offense… it also lifts the team up. I think hitting some 3s helps lift up our guys, too, but it doesn’t create defensive stops by themselves.
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I’d really like to see KJ start applying himself again. He was soooo “getting it” early on in this season. Now he gets fed the ball around the FT line and pretends to drive then kicks out. He needs to take EVERY SINGLE BIG MAN IN THE COUNTRY to the hole! He’s strong and quick and can score on anyone! That not only provides offense… it helps bring in the defense to open up the perimeter more. And he should be fouling out most bigs! No one in the nation can prepare to play KJ because they don’t have a KJ in practice!
We will make more 3s when we pull in defenses. It all starts with KJ.
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Bad habits left over from the Tech game. JW + Juando = 52% of the total team shots. 9 for 30. No passing. All one on one. Joe took more shots than Gradey. The early clinching allowed us to cakewalk. We were walking zombies- no energy, no fire in the belly. Here’s the good news: these guys have bought themselves 4 days of pure hell from Bill. This terrible loss could be a springboard that reenergizes the team. Hopefully, we’re now through the personal accolades part of the season, and we can get back to playing together as a team. Maybe even pass the ball, and move without the ball, etc.
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@Jethro read they were in the locker room for a long time before they came out for post game press conference. I’m hoping this game got their attention like TCU did last year.
Realistically the tournament is all match ups and a little good fortune. We’ve been missing so many 3s I’m hoping there is a law of averages adjustment coming. I still think we are a one seed and even a b- game gets us by an 8/9 team. Then it’s all about whether we catch a break with some upsets I. The bracket or bring the a game for the rest of the tournament. The A game is certainly good enough. Should be fun to watch and find out.
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@Jethro we are a bad team when Jwil is shooting it 15 plus times to get 20 points
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Might as well have rested all 5 starters instead of playing them 28-39 minutes in a game no Jayhawk was even trying to win. Pathetic game. I feel sorry for any Jayhawk fan who wasted money on a ticket and made the effort to attend that farce.
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@Jethro said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
Bad habits left over from the Tech game. JW + Juando = 52% of the total team shots. 9 for 30. No passing. All one on one. Joe took more shots than Gradey. The early clinching allowed us to cakewalk. We were walking zombies- no energy, no fire in the belly. Here’s the good news: these guys have bought themselves 4 days of pure hell from Bill. This terrible loss could be a springboard that reenergizes the team. Hopefully, we’re now through the personal accolades part of the season, and we can get back to playing together as a team. Maybe even pass the ball, and move without the ball, etc.
To me, I think it is time for Bill to take a step back and get this team playing “fun” basketball again. Free and easy ball. I don’t what they need is to get drilled by Bill for 4 days.
He needs these guys to get some confidence and swagger back on the offensive side of the ball.
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@kjayhawks said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
@Jethro we are a bad team when Jwil is shooting it 15 plus times to get 20 points
I wouldn’t go that far. We’ve won a slew of games shooting not so good. We’re not elite, though.
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@Kcmatt7 said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
@Jethro said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
Bad habits left over from the Tech game. JW + Juando = 52% of the total team shots. 9 for 30. No passing. All one on one. Joe took more shots than Gradey. The early clinching allowed us to cakewalk. We were walking zombies- no energy, no fire in the belly. Here’s the good news: these guys have bought themselves 4 days of pure hell from Bill. This terrible loss could be a springboard that reenergizes the team. Hopefully, we’re now through the personal accolades part of the season, and we can get back to playing together as a team. Maybe even pass the ball, and move without the ball, etc.
To me, I think it is time for Bill to take a step back and get this team playing “fun” basketball again. Free and easy ball. I don’t what they need is to get drilled by Bill for 4 days.
He needs these guys to get some confidence and swagger back on the offensive side of the ball.
I think my words might’ve conjured visions of browbeating and boot camps- which was not my intent…lol. I don’t mean he’ll literally make them run laps or anything, but he will get their attention, get their focus, and get them back to playing winning basketball. I predict we will see a much better defensive team as well as a much better approach on offense in the conference tourney.
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@drgnslayr said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
You are right that we need to make 3s… But in the broader picture, we just need to bring scrap and fight to a game. We barely broke a sweat in this game. 50/50 balls? Few or none. Defense was a shadow.
We have to play both sides of the ball but it starts with defense. Yesterday showed that. We started a push in the second half with a few Gradey 3s and they just punched us back with ease. Even the announcers mentioned we needed to get stops after those 3s.
Good defense creates offense… it also lifts the team up. I think hitting some 3s helps lift up our guys, too, but it doesn’t create defensive stops by themselves.
I respectfully disagree that they key is making 3s - and I think the evidence to the contrary is pretty compelling. Look at some of our more impressive wins and point totals: 87 points against Baylor and just 6-21. 88 points in the first TX game and just 2-10. 8 made 3s scoring 87 points against OSU. 7 made 3s scoring 84 points against IU. We did make 11 racking up 95 points against KSU, but that was on 27 attempts.
The common denominator(s) in our wins is balanced scoring and generating break points from steals and and rebounding the ball well on the defensive end and pushing it up the court before defenses get set. We don’t need to take and make a lot of 3 pt shots. Now, if we do make 40% of attempts, I like our chances against anyone. But, I like it more when we play with intensity, get into passing lanes and generate steals, and everyone looking to score heading the rim, including and especially Juan and Gradey…
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@DCHawker said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
I like it more when we play with intensity
Precisely!
We hustle… we win… anything else is a high chance of a loss, by being a close game against a completely inferior team to smoke by any team that is legit.
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Texas brought big fight to the game.
Three kinds of teams exist:
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Most teams - most teams roll over and submit to a team that brings big fight.
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Good teams - good teams bring a big fight back when facing a team with big fight.
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Great teams - great teams step up and bring even bigger fight than the team they are facing with big fight.
We played like most teams in that Texas game. We rolled over.
I hate to hear comments where players and coaches don’t take on accountability for how they played. Yes, Texas brought fight. That isn’t enough of a reason for them to win. We had to play the role of rolling over for it to work. We rolled over and lost. End of story.
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@drgnslayr said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
Texas brought big fight to the game.
Three kinds of teams exist:
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Most teams - most teams roll over and submit to a team that brings big fight.
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Good teams - good teams bring a big fight back when facing a team with big fight.
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Great teams - great teams step up and bring even bigger fight than the team they are facing with big fight.
We played like most teams in that Texas game. We rolled over.
I hate to hear comments where players and coaches don’t take on accountability for how they played. Yes, Texas brought fight. That isn’t enough of a reason for them to win. We had to play the role of rolling over for it to work. We rolled over and lost. End of story.
KU had nothing on the line yesterday and it showed. This is hardly the first time a Bill Self KU team has no showed in this situation of playing a game that doesn’t impact the Big 12 race or NCAA Tournament seeding. Self knows this and coached accordingly to his goals for the team. It’s frustrating as a fan, but hardly the first time this has happened.
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I am tempted to go back to Jaybate Amp theory here.
Self did zero amp for this game.
He will now use this loss to get their attention for Big 12 tournament and NCAAs.
I see high amp next week, especially for semis and final game if KU reaches that far.
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@AsadZ said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
I am tempted to go back to Jaybate Amp theory here.
Self did zero amp for this game.
He will now use this loss to get their attention for Big 12 tournament and NCAAs.
I see high amp next week, especially for semis and final game if KU reaches that far.
Self has never cared about the Big 12 tournament and his body language and subbing patterns during the tournament show that. As long as KU wins the first game, their seeding will be unaffected and you likely won’t see an amped KU in the semi finals or finals unless it’s KSU.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
@AsadZ said in Bright Points From The Texas Game...:
I am tempted to go back to Jaybate Amp theory here.
Self did zero amp for this game.
He will now use this loss to get their attention for Big 12 tournament and NCAAs.
I see high amp next week, especially for semis and final game if KU reaches that far.
Self has never cared about the Big 12 tournament and his body language and subbing patterns during the tournament show that. As long as KU wins the first game, their seeding will be unaffected and you likely won’t see an amped KU in the semi finals or finals unless it’s KSU.
Agree 10000 %
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Defending a National Championship starts this week.
Defend like your sports life depends on it, because it does.
Let’s start with diving for balls and winning 50-50 balls.
Play to our standard. Show that we can completely destroy a lesser adversary.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 I concur although I recall he did a lot of amping last year in Big 12 tournament. He really wanted to win that trophy. Perhaps it was strategic as he desperately wanted to beat Baylor and go with a positive mindset into NCAA.
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Seems to be amped for big 12 tourney to me
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When I noticed CS sitting throughout most of the game I figured it was going to be an L. I didn’t see him turn red once, at times he looked like jumping up and then would just relax. Got the feeling he wasn’t coaching to lose but sure wasn’t screaming to win.
Agree with the Jaybate no amp comment
