Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats)
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@approxinfinity said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
Screw it. Write em off and be pleasantly suprised, when Bill and Kev get back.
Yep. They are done. Might lose to the 16 seed. Make sure they all hear that.
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I hit Y and enter on the predictive text. About as coherent and as much effort as the play tonight.
You should try this out on the website of your own site for free if it works well with the new app or not if it works out
Iām a fan but Iām sure youāll like 
Iām sure it I think 
it will help with my health but itās also worth a visit and you will have the same access and knowledge of how I use the website
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Ready for the refocus next week. Selection Sunday will add clarity. Beak āem Hawks!
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@dylans wow, spammy! Lol. Sounds like an ad bot.
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Hopefully nothing better than the last #1 seed. Need a chip or idk. Something to play for
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@cragarhawk nah if our #10 team can beat Bama by 30 that said it all
Past 2 ncaa champs from big 12 and had 2020 happened maybe 3. Tech wasnāt far a year or so before thatā¦ā¦
Big 10 overrated Sec is decent Big east no clue Big 12 legit
Good thing no 3 games in 3 days crap for the real tourney. Hopefully coach gets back and resets them but getting blown out by UT without their best player after getting dominated by them 7 days ago is a bad look.
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There is plenty of rest in the NCAA tournament. Really just need the guys playing free of mind. Gradey especially seems lost in his head. Hope they can buckle down on defense and loosen up on offense and go have fun!
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Well as Coach in Letterkenney says āthat was fā¦king embarassing.ā
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@dylans heās hurt they said. Anyone got the goods?
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@kuballin10 that was the exception not the ruleā¦ probably 1 in 20. I wouldnāt put much stock in that game or result
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I didnāt get to watch tonight. Was this basically KU running out of gas tonight without McCullar playing or was there something else concerning about tonight that we didnāt already know about this team?
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@Texas-Hawk-10 my eye balls wished I hadnāt watched lol
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https://twitter.com/CBSSportsHQ/status/1634726631074942976
Hope they see this. Chip time.
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This was KU waving the white flag in the first half.
In my 50+ years of following Jayhawk basketball, I canāt recall a worse defensive effort.
I canāt ever recall players surrendering like they did today. They should all be ashamed. Losses will happen.
This isnāt about losing. This is about quitting.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
I didnāt get to watch tonight. Was this basically KU running out of gas tonight without McCullar playing or was there something else concerning about tonight that we didnāt already know about this team?
Tired and didnāt play much defense which goes hand and hand plus no McCullar. I wasnāt overly surprised.
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@BShark and no coach, plus you know!
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@BShark said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
https://twitter.com/CBSSportsHQ/status/1634726631074942976
Hope they see this. Chip time.
Iām not sure he is wrong. Has any recent national champion lost 5 games by 14 pts or more??? We are a fragile team, living on the edge. Almost completely dependent on the 5 starters. If locked in defensively and generating fast break opportunities, with at least 4 starters scoring, we beat anybody. But if one or two, esp. Juan, are having a bad game, we arenāt particularly good. Thin margin between getting knocked out early and winning 3-4 games (donāt see a 6 game winning streak against good competitionā¦).
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Juan was awful turned it over, loose with the ball and their athletes out manād him
Jw was a stud
Gradey was mainly non existent and battling injury
Concerning part Gurley and Hanni said there were 6 uncontested layups first half and there were at least 4 second half so of the 20 point blowout - 20 of them were we defended well for 15-20 seconds than gave up back cuts or guys getting blown right by off the bounce
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Besides the lack of Self and Kevin what this game and a few others this year have shown me is Self needs to overhaul the roster a bit this offseason. I believe he will fwiw. Pissed Bill will be back.
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@DCHawker I doubt anyone ever has. Thatās a rough number. It makes ya not wanna really believe in the other metrics and numbers. I think the net skews things the RPI didnāt.
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Bottom line? You can maybe play like that for about 5 min in the first round. After that you go home. I hate the gassed/tired narrative with a passion. I was 20ā¦ I wasnāt tired
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@approxinfinity letās start with team 1. And ya may say āwhoever that isā. But team 1 planning is these Jayhawks. And who knows how to handle them. Hopefully Bill
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@BShark I a 100% an agree with him, I felt the same way last aswell. I got a bad feeling with the favorable road we got last season we are in for a very tough one this season.
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We may be all needing to temper expectations and say that winning the league outright was actually impressive for this crew. I think they are so fun to watch when they are energized. Always thought that, all season. But absolutely horrid when they are not. Idk how ya teach them that. The losses obviously havenāt. Gotta hope CS has the secret. But idk. Heās just a man
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This game left a bad taste in my mouth.
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@kuballin10 Juan made the all tourney team with jwill. You mustāve missed the first 2 games since you just showed up tonight?
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JWil should be MVP. Dammit
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Iām sure Iām not the only one who had the thought about halfway through the second half āI hope Bill Self isnāt watching this because if he didnāt have a heart attack before, he might have one now.ā
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@Crimsonorblue22 he dominated the first two games was aggressive and looked to score. That is the Juan we need to win a title and same for kj who catches at the free throw line and needs to look to score not pass.
Tonight Juan was bad. He wonāt be great all 6 games but he canāt he this bad either. Elite long athlete teams we will struggle against.
Need some good matchups like last year
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@kuballin10 yep I know that! Just wanted to let you know how good he was since you never mention that! He canāt dish to guys that canāt catch or get open either.
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That maybe the worst played game by a PG in decades here the truth be told. He got a few garbage time layups where Texas tried not to foul. 4 assists, 4 turnovers, 1 rebound and 0 steals. Hopefully that gets it outta his system. He has played great the last month.
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@cragarhawk said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
Bottom line? You can maybe play like that for about 5 min in the first round. After that you go home. I hate the gassed/tired narrative with a passion. I was 20ā¦ I wasnāt tired
I hate that narrative too. Both teams had to play 3 games in 3 days.
Nevertheless, shots were short all day. Jumps were not as high. Guys got beat. Balls were fumbled and went through hands. They had a hard time just getting open for passes.
If not physically, then mentally, they were not sharp today. Not sure whyā maybe it was the unusual lineups. Maybe coaching. Maybe it was Texas.
The latter is the hardest to stomach. But 3 weeks from today, if they are talking about their next game on Monday, then todayās result will be a bit easier to understand.
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@bskeet Right that was my thinking Texas played the late game last night and also was down a starter so itās hard for me give into those excuses. Having BS gone definitely hurt, Norm has done great for sure but thereās a reason he got fired from 2 head coaching jobs. I think some of it is Texas is just a match up nightmare for us. Kinda like how Kentucky spanked Tennessee twice. I think with will struggle with tall athletic teams like Tennessee and Texas.
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@bskeet yeah that isnāt even a narrative itās ignorance.
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Texas has a bench we donāt
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Texas is long and athletic - we arenāt besides udeh whos long but lost and kj whoās a quick leaper but not long. JW and Gradey arenāt great side to side quickness
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they beat us without their best player. Imagine us beating them without jw or juan (say we had Kevin).
UT, Houston, Bama legit final 4 teams
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@kuballin10 said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
@bskeet yeah that isnāt even a narrative itās ignorance.
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Texas has a bench we donāt
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Texas is long and athletic - we arenāt besides udeh whos long but lost and kj whoās a quick leaper but not long. JW and Gradey arenāt great side to side quickness
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they beat us without their best player. Imagine us beating them without jw or juan (say we had Kevin).
UT, Houston, Bama legit final 4 teams
Texas IS NOT making the final four ā you can take that to the bank, mark it down not happening. - They are going to run acrosss an athletic team that will eat them alive
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@jayballer67 before Beard went thru his stupidity I thought that was a championship caliber team. They stil are but coaching inexperience will do them in.
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@bskeet anything can happen once you pop the lid off the āifā bucket. Shots were short for one team, guys didnāt jump as high, for one team. Rebounds didnāt happen for one teamā¦ Youāre absolutely right. This game doesnāt matter āifā. But I see patterns and I donāt see 6 games where this doesnāt happen again. And itās okay. Sometimes you just arenāt that good. So are 341 other teams.
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KU imo isnāt as talented as Texas or Baylor arguably KSU in terms of Jimmy and Joes. But we have the best coach hands down.
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@kjayhawks said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
@jayballer67 before Beard went thru his stupidity I thought that was a championship caliber team. They stil are but coaching inexperience will do them in.
they have inconsistencies - when they run up against team that matchs length/height they are in trouble- - somebody like Duke Lively and Fel - would eat them up right now - donāt beleive me all you have to do is watch Duke now compared to early in the yearāthat team is dangerous
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@kjayhawks said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
KU imo isnāt as talented as Texas or Baylor arguably KSU in terms of Jimmy and Joes. But we have the best coach hands down.
that is the biggest problem and not to proud to admit it - - Texas is just more athletic
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@jayballer67 Dook looks to be peaking at the right time with 8 going on 9 straight wins. Which sucks, Iām worried we already peaked we have lost 2 or 4 right now.
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@jayballer67 oh it doesnāt matter that they are more athletic. It matters only that they are more athletic and actually played like they cared about being there. Minus JWil
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@jayballer67 for sure Iām a realist, if Self has Baylorās or Texasās Roster heās winning the NC this season. Which in away is sad to say. Iām just ready for the investigation to be over with so we can start recruiting again. The way I look at since Iāve been watching KU since the mid 90s KU has had the best overall player and team in every match up all year outside of few final four games and Durant at Texas about 90% of the time. Since 2018 that had just not been the case. I personally think if we had anyone coaching in 2019 or 2021 we donāt even make the tournament.
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@cragarhawk did you play D1 bb?
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@Crimsonorblue22 sure did not. Doesnāt change anything I said. Itās just a defense mechanism. Weāve all seen the difference many times. No reason to bullshit ourselves about it
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Couldnāt watch the game live, just finished watching the recording. Best thing about this game was I could skip thru the commercialsā¦ and the last 20 minutes.
Easy to get all down about it, but I aināt gonna becauseā¦
- No Bill Self
- No Kev
- Gradey last out of locker room by 2 minutes at half, 0-5 3sā¦ something was wrong, probably not much chance of that happening again unless heās really hurt
- something wrong with DJ tooā¦ not great D and 4/4 TOs to assists, probably not much chance of that happening again either unless heās really hurt
- nothing really on the line for us - we won the toughest league in Div1 and almost assuredly still have the overall #1 seed
- JW is one of the best players in the league
Was it ugly? Oh hell yes. Do I feel any differently about our chances in the Dance compared to before the game? Not one bitā¦ IF everyone is healthy come game time.
If key pieces are not healthy, pretty hard for any team to win. Possibly the most important uncontrollable variable for tournament success.
We played the toughest schedule in Div1 and chalked up by far the most quad 1 wins. Am I down on this team after one meaningless loss? Hell no. Just crossing my fingers for healthy players for the next few weeks.
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@StLJhawk thatās the issue our starting 5 is the key so they canāt be in foul trouble or hurt otherwise it spells doom.
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@DCHawker said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
@BShark said in Texas game chat (danger I'm 0-1 in my last game chats):
https://twitter.com/CBSSportsHQ/status/1634726631074942976
Hope they see this. Chip time.
Iām not sure he is wrong. Has any recent national champion lost 5 games by 14 pts or more??? We are a fragile team, living on the edge. Almost completely dependent on the 5 starters. If locked in defensively and generating fast break opportunities, with at least 4 starters scoring, we beat anybody. But if one or two, esp. Juan, are having a bad game, we arenāt particularly good. Thin margin between getting knocked out early and winning 3-4 games (donāt see a 6 game winning streak against good competitionā¦).
This team won 7 straight against good competition not too long ago. Definitely dependent on the 5 starters. Never seen such a massive drop off from the moment any starter takes a seat.
