What to Expect at the Champions Classic?
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@RockChalkinTexas said in What to Expect at the Champions Classic?:
Night bucketeters! See you Monday on my birthday!!
Dang! KU isn’t throwing a game for my bday on Friday. Bummed.
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@mayjay said in What to Expect at the Champions Classic?:
Just think how good Juan would be if he was actually good instead of being so bad. Where’s the idiot now?
ummmm we won – - I think he ran REAL QUICK - he is constant sunshine
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Kev playing with 4 fouls for last 6 minutes and not fouling out was big.
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@BeddieKU23 THIS IS ALL IM ASKING FOR
GO BE FRANK AND ATTACK FOR LAYUPS OR DIMES
HIT OPEN THREES TEAMS DONT GUARD U
He determines how far we go
Turnover wise he was bad Juan BUT BOY DID HE PUT THE CAPE ON OFFENSIVELY AND COULDNT MISS!
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@FarmerJayhawk U sure?
Self won’t play him next game cause that’s how he rolls.
Get random crunch time minutes and we don’t see him until early December against some bad school
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We hit 6 three’s - where they come from ? - - Dejuan FIVE OF THEM - - Hunter the other - who would of thought - -Mccullar had none - – Timberlake didn’t have any - - Jackson zero – and we won - -Juan FIVE ! ! !
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@approxinfinity This aged well.
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Kj shooting needs work but man does he score the ball effortlessly around the hoop. He’s a dependable 3rd scorer and it’s pretty amazing how athletic he is.
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@kuballin10 yep, he guards. That’s an auto play with Self. And we play Chaminade lol. It’s gonna be walk on time the last 8
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Nick is highly unimpressive so far. But I’m hoping he finds his stride here… alla Remy Martin style
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Gonna go dream jayhawk dreams…
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Needs to see the ball go in.
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Self’s ideal lineup is 5 Jimmy Butlers so McDowell has a good sporting chance
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Really wish elmarko attacked the rim more
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Anybody notice Self is much calmer?
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@wissox said in What to Expect at the Champions Classic?:
Bad day for da BIG. Illinois loses, Wisconsin loses, Iowa loses, MSU loses, and its biggest star leads KU to a stirring victory.
Ouch… well played!
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@FarmerJayhawk It wasn’t an auto play for 38 minutes though lol
Dude thinks Timberlake is better but than we claim self plays who can guard…which is it cause this doesn’t add uo
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Well, heck. I’m overseas and 6 hours ahead. Lost a LOT of sleep tonight, but well worth it. Couldn’t watch so I’ll have to find it when we return!
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@cragarhawk That ain’t happening brotha
Juan Furphy Kev Kj Hunter
Jamari Elmarko Braun
That should be the 8 with some Timberlake
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Going to Rupp Rafters after Kentucky loses is like eating at McDonalds. It feels good going down but there’s incredible guilt and shame.
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@kuballin10 well. I hear ya. But it’s a full season pass. And we get the ride. And honestly don’t know what’s happening and what isn’t til we see it or don’t. I’m willing to be surprised
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@kuballin10 yeah it’s also November 14. Bill is giving Nick every chance to break out of his funk. Someone on this board once told me that the best scorers are the best players and Nicks career average is pretty high so idk maybe he’s giving that a go for awhile here
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Kevin is the first triple dble at KU?
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@rcjhdraft It’s what he does best but he isn’t confident in it right now and not playing freely
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@FarmerJayhawk haha well played!
Nick can’t score at this level from what I’ve seen but if he was Reed Sheppard like or Cam Spencer I’d shut up
Spencer is the biggest whiff
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Kevin’s first maybe
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Check espn
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@kuballin10 no and tbh I was more bearish on Nick than almost anyone. And bullish on Jamari. He’s going to do a lot of really good things here
The timing on Spencer was always going to be really tough. Went in late so we didn’t have a concrete role to offer. In retrospect we should’ve never taken Morris and gone after other options.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Withey in the tourney - points, boards & blocks
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@FarmerJayhawk I was too so after watching this it’s clear he won’t be what I’d expected
Man that’s on Self and if we could have had Cam play the 2….geez hand us the title
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@Crimsonorblue22 5th player with a triple double at KU. - Don’t forget Cole Aldrich in the tourney! I don’t think blocks were an official stat when Wilt played.
BH Born. And Maybe Collison.
ESPN knows less about KU than I do. JK Lol
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Checked the box score, couldn’t believe we end up shooting the ball as well as we did right at 48 % for the game. — 22 assists - shot better from the three believe it or not, but they shot a lot more three’s also. shot well from the line. - just proud of the fight of these guys
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What I love tho. CS having fun coaching this team. Even when we didn’t look good. He was smiling and enjoying himself. Soaking up the atmosphere. Letting the team find their identity to an extent. They need to be tested in pressure situations. Nobody knows this better than he
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@kuballin10 impossible to say if that ever would’ve been a possibility but Morris was definitely a huge whiff. Ah well our 8 (will be 9) are what we have
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Looks like we have three studs and a fourth very athletic dude (not to mention a HOF coach). If anyone on the bench emerges, we are a solid contender. If not, we will be vulnerable to top 25 teams.
The balance alone makes this team better than last year’s.
Maui will be interesting.
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@tundrahok I think they meant assists instead of boards? They did say traditional triple dble.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Sorry, I thought you were asking if Kevin’s was the first triple-double by a KU player. Blocks didn’t become official stats until 1985, so Aldrich had the first certified triple-double by a KU player in 2009 (with apologies to Wilt and Born, at least). Withey’s was in 2012. Have we had any since then? I don’t remember any. Maybe Kevin is the first with assists? Pretty cool, regardless.
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@tundrahok yes to both! First with assists and only the third all time.
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Pretty cool list of players! Thx, guys. That’s a pretty dang big deal!
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After Reeves decided to engage Dajuan with a little cocky crap we outscored them by 17
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Well, got home late from an out of town trip, so had to DVR the game. Zzz.
I sure as hell thought this was gonna be a sky is again falling note. Surprise, surprise!
Happy for the win, but sure as hell did some cussing along the way.
The Kentucky players sure looked like top tier athletes. Not all, but most. We had a very hard time covering the 3 pt line. Another poster said something earlier that I was also wondering about…why were we doubling and trying to recover to the typically wide open Kentucky shooters? Odd coaching when Kentucky had no big of concern. That seemed the main problem to me for awhile.
I guess the big question is how much more leash does Timberlake get?
And wholly F*ck! What a crazy choice to put McDowell in for the first time that late! Wow.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in What to Expect at the Champions Classic?:
Anybody notice Self is much calmer?
And Coach looks so much better physically. Hey, what was up with the BS comment Calipari made to Coach during the half court interview at the start of the game about 2 championship games? It seemed to me Cal was trying to take a shot at Coach and Coach seemed surprised or unprepared for Cal’s comment.
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I could look at Hunter’s line in the box score all day. What a game. But, I’m drawn to the line of KU’s Ironman, Mr. “I’ll shoot when the team needs it.” Juan played 38 min, went 5/6 from 3 and scored 23 frickin pts when KU need it.
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This was quite the thread.
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Does KU not have the conditioning or the will to defend hard in the first halves of games? Kentucky took wide open 3s all first half, hitting 10. But, only made 2 3s in the second half. Why oh why is my team always down by several possessions at the half of big games? Like Coach Self, this shit is hard on my cardiovascular system.
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Wasn’t there some people on here bad mouthing Hunter before the year?
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@Woodrow yeah i totally was. He didn’t present himself well at Michigan at all. Good thing he made a very wise decision coming to KU where we transform thugs into princes.
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@Woodrow I badmouthed his character but also said at the same time he is a great player and I’m glad he’s with us.
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@wissox I badmouthed everyone on the team when we gave up an 11-3 lead and got behind by, what?, 14 or so later on? Badmouthed them, their families, neighbors, pets, girlfriends, pretty much everyone they know.
