KU vs Duke Game Thread
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@approxinfinity It was interesting after the ejection that the zebras started making up and we got the preponderance of the whistles after that.
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By the way, Grayson Allen was never ejected from a game.
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During this early round match between Dickinson and #5 Duke with world #1 Dickinson up 2 love and serving, (announcer) Oh my: a foot fault, (Fran McEnroe) That was called a flagrant 2 foot fault, (announcer) I’ve never heard of that, (Fran) That’s okay I make shit up all the time.
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One more by the way. Looking at ESPN and the homepage for NCAAM has 5 videos from the game featured, 4 are of Duke, not all highlights, several turnovers/missed shots, but only 1 KU highlight, Griffens drive and 1.
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@wissox So, I am interested in your take on HD. I recall you didn’t like him after he stepped on the UW player when he was at UM, and you weren’tthrilled with him coming. Any sense of expecting dirty play from him to eventually happen? (Am I remembering this right?)
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Great game all around. The depth on this team is great to see. They have so many players that can actually play at this level, and contribute.
Tough day for the Juan and KJ haters. They were both just awesome.
Only “complaint” I have would be I was surprised Storr didn’t play down the stretch. He was playing great, and IMO he is the one guy that can create off the dribble for himself.
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Bill sent a reminder who the best coach in college basketball is last night.
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@BShark said in KU vs Duke Game Thread:
Bill sent a reminder who the best coach in college basketball is last night.
Hopefully everyone forgets and he reminds them in April
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I think Hunter was frustrated from missing the dunk plus four more in a row and the slappy pokey stuff all game. Then came the flagrant undercut which was so hard he hit Hunter and slid under him. The refs had let Duke grab pull on him every time. Hunter had just swung a get off me elbow on the initial put back attempt and the Duke center lost his cool and made a dangerous undercut move out of frustration. The following fouls that were called on Duke were uncalled fouls up to that point and Duke thought it would be business as usual. They pulled the same crap on Zona
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@PharmacyHawk said in KU vs Duke Game Thread:
@Texas-Hawk-10 you weren’t at the last mizzou v ku game in the phog? My condolences.
I graduated in 2010 and live in Houston. The games I typically make it to are the games at Baylor, TCU, Texas, and Texas A&M (when those two were still in the league). UH typically sells out before tickets before make it to public on sale including this year.
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Griffen made a miraculous late 2nd half surge. That shot at the end of the first half was criminal but he regrouped and made huge plays late when we needed them. Imagine if he starts putting both halves together like that.
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Did one of the announcers (Fran I think) state that Self has said “KJ is one of the best players we’ve ever had”? Ever.
Like it or not, KJ is going to get huge minutes all season as we all know. Personally I love the guy, and love watching him play d.
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I may be giddy and wrapped in the glow of victory but we have a decent chance to be 12-0 going into the new year. I think BPI gives us a 15% chance to win the conference with Houston the prohibitive favorite (before their AL loss). Current predictions are a conference Win/Loss of 14/6. It’s gonna be brutal. I would settle for 16/4 which is Houston’s projected record. I think this Duke/Dump has maybe put a championship gleam/glare into our players eyes. Maybe Bill is right about we are a work in progress but we have guards. Coit is ballsy.
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Flory brings a lot of energy to the floor. Yes, for sure he makes some Freshman mistakes, so much bounce he gets caught being out of position at times, he wants to block everything, having said that I think he is going to be a pretty good player when it’s all said and done.
I think he for sure is back for his Soph year, and unless he makes a HUGE jump he may even come back for his Jr year , how ever long it’s going to be fun to watch him develop
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Our guards and wings kicked their ass. Shout out to Flory too…he grew up last night.
Coach Self still has it
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Yeah KJ has his offensive deficiencies, but man does he make up for them with the rest of his game. Also nice to see Griffen step up a bit in the 2nd half after really struggling in the 1st.
Only negative from the game was that Hunter, even outside of the ejection, was playing a sloppy. I know he was getting hacked, but can’t let that seep into your decision making. I remember one specific possession where he got swiped at at the top of the 3 pt line and you could tell he was rattled from it because he immediately tried to drive and back down his man which isn’t his game at all. When that didn’t work he settled for a 15 ft fade away contested jumper with probably 15 sec left on the shot clock. Freshman level play there.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Ah, I graduated in 2013 so I got lucky on that front!
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@TYOHawk In his first stint off the bench during the second half we rebounded and took off he followed and looked ungainly and it occurred to me his ankle was stiff. When Hunter exited Flory didn’t show any effects and played his ass off like, it’s up to me. No fear. Love it.
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From a New York Times article about the game last night, focusing on KJ
“I think KJ showed a lot of people tonight that you can be an elite player at this level and not be a prolific scorer,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “Because he did it all.”
An Elite player who does not score all that much, and doesn’t really rebound… but does a lot of great, tough things that coaches adore. Going to be an interesting senior night March 8th. Self absolutely LOVES his KJ.
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I was watching highlights on ESPN Sports center and I am not kidding folks.
It started by play where Hunt gets ejected and then during the entire clip, they did not show a single KU bucket, kept on showing points scored by Duke.
There were so many highlight plays made by KU but ESPN only showed Duke’s buckets.
Totally egregious.
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Even if they lose they have an agenda to prop them up.
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@BeddieKU23 Totally
It is insane
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@AsadZ egregious means “asshole-y”, right?
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@mayjay LOL, you and Crimson have a memory for everything people write! I think my reaction at the time might have been a little bit ‘oh no, this guy’s a loose cannon’. The ugly incident with him and Tyler Wahl had a lot of Badger fans seeing red. There already was some tension between the teams because of the Gard/Howard shoving match. When Hunter came to Madison a few weeks after the stomping incident he showed up with some sort of weird assassin mask on. I’d have to guess Bill Self wouldn’t put up with crap like that.
But I also remember writing here that we (ku) were getting a very good player who wasn’t in the current iteration of the NBA a big threat to leave for the league so I was glad we were getting him. Despite last nights results, we absolutely need him to win and I hope he never gets himself ejected even if it was a bit unjustified like last night.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 how was the atmosphere there?
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@Bosthawk said in KU vs Duke Game Thread:
Did one of the announcers (Fran I think) state that Self has said “KJ is one of the best players we’ve ever had”? Ever.
Like it or not, KJ is going to get huge minutes all season as we all know. Personally I love the guy, and love watching him play d.
I’ve heard Self on a podcast about 3 weeks ago compare KJ to Ochai in terms of impact.
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@wissox I do remember that!
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@wissox thats a great comparison. Dajuan as well. Smart kids that do what the team needs.
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@kjayhawks said in KU vs Duke Game Thread:
@Texas-Hawk-10 how was the atmosphere there?
It very much felt like an NCAA Tournament game atmosphere. It was such a fun game. My section was mostly KU fans, but all the Duke fans I interacted with before and after the game were cool so it’ll probably be harder for to hate the fanbase now. No problem still hating the players and coach, but it was all positive interactions with the fans.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 My experience is neutral floor fans that have to travel are not going to be the rowdy freshmen that are drunk, rude, crude and obnoxious. The exception being the Kentucky fans I met in 2012 in the SuperDome.
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@wissox said in KU vs Duke Game Thread:
@Texas-Hawk-10 My experience is neutral floor fans that have to travel are not going to be the rowdy freshmen that are drunk, rude, crude and obnoxious. The exception being the Kentucky fans I met in 2012 in the SuperDome.
I dealt with that group in San Antonio in 2022 with Villanova fans. Those fans generally lived down to the expectations of Philly fans of being total assholes. Vegas is also a major travel destination for rich kids, which Duke has plenty of, looking for a debaucherous time since recreational weed is legal in Nevada, unlike North Carolina amd have plenty of money to blow. Even with that, the students I interacted with fine and not like Missouri, Kentucky, KSU, ISU, or Villanova’s fans.
