Hog Wild Game Thread
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Well, a strange boxscore today. You could glance and think KU would have won. Higher FG%, more 3s made. Both good signs.
But a closer looks tells the story IMO.
Arkansas took 8 more shots than KU.
Arkansas had a big advantage on offensive boards – 15-7.
And those stats likely lead to the difference in the game: 2nd chance points – 15-2.
Arkansas also outrebounded KU 36-29.
Damn! i’m still pissed!
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And i admit i need to go back to watch the final few possessions of the game, but WTF happened??? Why did Jalen choose to go for a 2 pt basket when we were down 3 with seconds to go??? Did they intentionally foul us up top before a shot could be taken?
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@mayjay I wanted to see when they started the clock.
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@rockchalkjayhawk yep that’s the most frustrating part for me as the famous coach Green quote “They were who we thought they were and we let them get away” I’ve been saying all day they lived on the offensive glass and we did good in the first half. The intensity just wasn’t the same after the first 5 minutes of the second half. Guys standing and watching. Maybe the most maddening part is their one free throw miss was huge bonus for them. I’ve watched that play 5 times Juan and KJ both just stood there not reacting to the miss. Both guys had a better angle but didn’t move towards the ball! You have to attack the ball and go get it.
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@kjayhawks I literally said to my Dad we better rebound this he’s missing the second one….and KJ and Joe couldn’t get it done as Walsh’s 8 foot arms somehow made a play
That was the biggest play in my opinion. We rebound it and have ball down 1 with what 39 seconds….or less we were sitting pretty
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@rockchalkjayhawk Bill does same thing takes 2’s as long as you can and it’s stupid. Your banking on quick free 2, them maybe missing a free throw but if not your back down 3 same position with less time to get a shot
Like nfl and passing caught up via analytics eventually these idiot coaches and announcers will say shoot the 3 with 15 seconds left. You put yourself in a position where you flat out just need to hit a big shot otherwise 9/10 you will lose doing the quick 2, foul and hope they miss crap
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Anything can happen vs any team within a point or 2 with a minute or less to go. Those games happen. Sometimes when they shouldn’t. This was a shouldn’t. It never should have been that close to have to worry about it. That’s just the truth and we all know it. Players know it, coaches know it. It sucks. But it’s not gonna change
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Tick tick tick… Thats the sound of the clock, ticking down till the fall of 2023 when a new season starts… sigh Such a long wait.
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@kuballin10 said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
@rockchalkjayhawk Bill does same thing takes 2’s as long as you can and it’s stupid. Your banking on quick free 2, them maybe missing a free throw but if not your back down 3 same position with less time to get a shot
Like nfl and passing caught up via analytics eventually these idiot coaches and announcers will say shoot the 3 with 15 seconds left. You put yourself in a position where you flat out just need to hit a big shot otherwise 9/10 you will lose doing the quick 2, foul and hope they miss crap
The reason to go for the quick 2 is because it creates more possessions which increases the chances of an opponent screwing up. Shooting a desperation 3 early that’s likely to miss and create a long rebound and runout for the opponent.
Extending games as long as possible does maximize the winning percentage. Every coach is going to have their personal preference on when you need to change the thought process and take the desperation 3. I don’t know the analytics on it, but it’s probably somewhere around the 10 second mark, but there’s going to be other variables involved such as timeouts left, foul issues, and stuff like that. The analytics are also why Self doesn’t foul up 3 with under 5 seconds left because not fouling has a slightly higher winning % than fouling does.
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@kuballin10 I thought Joe knocked it out of kj’s (?) hands when he should’ve been blocking out the thrower.
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I see folks say that Norm is a great assistant coach. What no one says is what they specifically find to be good about his coaching. What does Norm actually bring to the table? He doesn’t seem to be a big recruiter. He is certainly not head coach material - very little in game adjustments, no use of timeouts during an 11-0 run, etc. the evidence of him being a poor head coach is overwhelming by both record and eye test; what does he bring as an assistant?
I honestly never gave Norm much thought before his interim spat, but try as I might I can’t come up with what he brings to the table. Past assistants we could see what they did - Manning was good with bigs. Dooley was good at defensive principles. Snacks procured things. Townson is the bag man. Case seems to be a good recruiter and guards coach.
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@dylans said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
I see folks say that Norm is a great assistant coach. What no one says is what they specifically find to be good about his coaching. What does Norm actually bring to the table? He doesn’t seem to be a big recruiter. He is certainly not head coach material - very little in game adjustments, no use of timeouts during an 11-0 run, etc. the evidence of him being a poor head coach is overwhelming by both record and eye test; what does he bring as an assistant?
I honestly never gave Norm much thought before his interim spat, but try as I might I can’t come up with what he brings to the table. Past assistants we could see what they did - Manning was good with bigs. Dooley was good at defensive principles. Snacks procured things. Townson is the bag man. Case seems to be a good recruiter and guards coach.
Kurtis in addition to recruiting is also our shot doctor iirc
Norm recruits well. Pulled Zuby (a Nike kid with offers from TX and Ark) and got our foot in the door with Elmarko for Bill to close. I think Bill’s personal involvement and not banging the drum at Arrowhead to make sure we got Elmarko says a lot. Never know until they get here but I think he is starter good from the jump. The other two current 23 commits not so much. Those are just recent examples. Historically Norm was key with Embiid, Dotson, Oubre etc
Case is on his way to being an elite recruiter, potentially. Very hard worker. Was big in locking up Chris Johnson early, took McDowell away from Wake Forest at the 11th hour while slow rolling a bit previously. Doing massive work in the 24 class.
I don’t have major complaints with our coaching staff. Very short list of guys I’d take and make room for. Bryan Hodgson might be the entire list and I think he is on his way to a HC job.
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I somewhat agree. I think wilson around that screen had the potential to shoot a 3 instead of drive. I think everyone gets the reasoning for the quick 2 etc. also I think we’ve all seen people force a bad 3 point look. Generally speaking I agree though under 15 second you should go 3 if you can get that look. I don’t know how many times they say get the quick 2 but it’s not always that easy. The guy misses an awkward drive or it takes too long to get that quick 2. Or they get fouled and miss the free throws from the drive……Ku in general did run the play correctly. Here’s the thing though after you make the shot/free throws, you can’t just let the star player whose made a ton of free throws just catch the ball so easily. Bc you essentially are giving them back the two points. After wilson Made his free throw. Without having to be freed up on a screen their best player just caught the ball so quickly. Poor execution by ku!!!..… in my feeling with this team they should have gone 3 to tie but oh well…… also not subbing in a second big on that crucial missed rebound on the free throw near the end was frustrating
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@dylans @BShark i agree, though have followed much less of who is involved with whom, that Norm is a good piece of the puzzle and our staff is complete and solid. I didnt feel that way after Danny left before Dooley returned,. Our staff is giving Bill everything he needs right now. It was just very bad luck Bill had to be out.
And, I have enjoyed the fact we didnt have to find some fault in our head coach this year, as much as I didnt want to lose.
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@approxinfinity said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
@dylans @BShark i agree, though have followed much less of who is involved with whom, that Norm is a good piece of the puzzle and our staff is complete and solid. I didnt feel that way after Danny left before Dooley returned. Our staff is giving Bill everything he needs right now. It was just very bad luck Bill had to be out.
And, I have enjoyed the fact we didnt have to find some fault in our head coach this year, as much as I didnt want to lose.
Bill out + Dajuan being hurt for the 2nd half were the keys to the loss.
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@BShark said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
Bill out + Dajuan being hurt for the 2nd half were the keys to the loss.
I am just amazed no one has mentioned our numerous stupid fouls. McCullar 80 ft from the basket gets his 4th, Udeh forgot how to set picks, KJ trying to body a guy away, Joe or Pettiford drives right into someone after passing for a layup… Our freshman big seemed panicky, our POY wasn’t getting open. Way too many missed FTs. And our PG hobbled. Had to play Ejiafor and Zach, neither of whom could get anything done. Our backup little guards just ran around kind of mindlessly. 5 pts, 0 assists, 1 rebound, 1 steal in 15 mins of PT.
During the entire game we seemed lost when Ark played like a longer version of Shaka’s “Havoc” team. We didn’t see that combo of size/length/agility and aggression in the Big 12. We actually got sped up and the fouls crippled our normal game. When DjH lost his go to guy KJ, he wasn’t able to find anyone who could make a basket. 1 assist for him in the 2nd half.
All the people saying Norm didn’t adjust in the 2nd half…how would you know when the players make so many crucial mistakes?
Sometimes, like chess, the winner in bb is the one who makes the next to the last mistake.
All that said…I loved this team for overachieving so entertainingly all year. All teams that lose have had issues bringing them down. I won’t remember yesterday, though. I will remember the comebacks, the beaming smiles, the pride in a NC last year, and that type of thing. Yeah, we lost yesterday…and the sun rose today and I got to see it for yet another day!
Rock chalk!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8wopFrUuA/?igshid=MGU3ZTQzNzY=
I’ve never seen this whack before by a coach.
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@kuballin10 said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
@bskeet dude is an @$&hat
I don’t want him anywhere near our program
Classless
Really? Come on. We don’t need such sanctimony here. I’m venting. Doesn’t mean I’m classless.
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@bskeet I spent 5 mins trying to figure out who the hell he was talking about, since people have said such things to him causing great distress, but then I gave up.
It’s what I mean by turning on each other, which is really more like watching a couple drunks get into a bar fight.
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@mayjay Agree. This community is a place where we can celebrate, pontificate and occasionally wax polemic.
No need to take things out on each other.
I’m just a frustrated fan. I don’t think I was alone yesterday. No one wants to be alone when they are disappointed. We should be able to come here and lean on each other a bit.
I backed off the criticism of the officiating when folks nudged. That was helpful.
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@bskeet said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
@kuballin10 said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
@bskeet dude is an @$&hat
I don’t want him anywhere near our program
Classless
Really? Come on. We don’t need such sanctimony here. I’m venting. Doesn’t mean I’m classless.
The comment was about Arkansas coach not @bskeet
Sorry @bskeet if it came across towards you. You are good in my book not that anyone cares
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“I care!” --Luke Skywalker
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@kuballin10 Thank you so much for clarifying that. Hey, I care!
We agree 100% about Musselman. The shirtless antics are not a great look for an institution of higher learning.
What will he do when he wins a really meaningful game?
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@bskeet said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
are not a great look for an institution of higher learning
Or even one like Arkansas.
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@bskeet said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
@kuballin10 Thank you so much for clarifying that. Hey, I care!
We agree 100% about Musselman. The shirtless antics are not a great look for an institution of higher learning.
What will he do when he wins a really meaningful game?
Haha no clue what he will do but guarantee you he won’t drop his drawers because nobody wants to see that
I love our coaches and their class. Bill would never do that even when he was younger and Leipold would never do what the idiot fball coach at mu did at the ball game
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Has Bill Self released a statement about the game or had an interview? Can’t find one…
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Probably with the team… but yeah, it’s been quiet.
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Still hurt for the team. They didn’t want to end it there.
I am glad Marcus Adams reclassified!
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@bskeet said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
@kuballin10 Thank you so much for clarifying that. Hey, I care!
We agree 100% about Musselman. The shirtless antics are not a great look for an institution of higher learning.
What will he do when he wins a really meaningful game?
Just be glad he’s named muscleman and not Richard.
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@RockChalkinTexas said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
Still hurt for the team. They didn’t want to end it there.
I am glad Marcus Adams reclassified!
Did he re-classify ? -I hadn’t heard one way or another yet
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Yes he made it official today
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