Basketball Season
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We have played them even since i started watching
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shooting percentage grossly favors Arkansas at this point
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Geez wrong thread I guess
They are athletic and long We aren’t
They can beat their man off the dribble We can’t
Pretty easy to see which team is completely controlling the game and getting better shots
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Sorry wasnt sure which thread we were using @kuballin10
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This one works for me - don’t care who starts it just long as people are making their observations!
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@approxinfinity said in Basketball Season:
Sorry wasnt sure which thread we were using @kuballin10
Is there another thread?
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If we were up 12 there’d be no talk about “vanilla” @FarmerJayhawk
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@kuballin10 we always run vanilla stuff in games that don’t count lmao
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Pretty disappointed with our three transfer guards at this point though
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We arent happy with Coit?
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Looks gun shy tonight
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Flory will kill Brazille
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@approxinfinity 4, 5, and 6. Passmore, Mayo and Griffen. Coit looks like he paid attention in practice at least
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Wow that doesnt happen to Juan often. Got him.
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Not Juando’s best night either, but no one looks like they are trying too hard
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Arkansas fans need to save some of their uneducated outrage for the SEC season
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@DanR He was bad last year
Decent the year before
Then bad the other years……eventually people will see without rose colored glasses
He’s bill’s guy so watch him lead
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Bland has been best man so far.
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Little disappointed KU couldn’t muster up a tad more effort. Looks like they’re just taking a flop at this point.
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Plenty of time though.
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Kease has good size.
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Like Kease and Flory
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Frosh Passmore doing OK too
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Love that! Kease and Bidunga want it
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Passmore has a little Paul Pierce vibe, IMO. Banger.
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We calling him Kease? Easier to type!
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Zach finally called for a travel after 5 travels
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what are we, about 4 of 16 from three?
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Self has the rare ability to take an all big 10 guy completely neuter him
If you want to recruit in the portal might want to not think you have 4 years to break them down and build them back up
Arkansas offense is simple to run meanwhile ours somehow is complicated yet it’s the weave from 25 feet from the bucket and a pick n roll on the wing
If we think adding a backup pg playing 10 mins
A 6th man wing who can’t defend and isn’t athletic
A big man who can score but can’t defend
And think we are the number 1 team…your insane
Without remy we’d be looking at 6 straight second round losses
The basketball philosophy is outdated by a mile
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@DanR yeah our defense is shit but at least we are putting the effort in. Feel like d will get better. The story has been crappy shooting. Please oh please dont be a bunch of transfers that cant shoot.
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@approxinfinity said in Basketball Season:
@DanR yeah our defense is shit but at least we are putting the effort in. Feel like d will get better. The story has been crappy shooting. Please oh please dont be a bunch of transfers that cant shoot.
Haven’t run any offensive sets. Just mostly random dribble penetration. Transfers have no clue, but the two freshmen look really good and seem to have good instincts to be in the right places even in the offensive chaos
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Jeez. Back to back crappy turnovers. Protect the rock!
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Arkansas just stripping dribble handoffs from kj to juan and kj to coit
Haven’t seen the hogs run 1 dribble handoff all night
May that trash is done for a reason in legit basketball circles
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Fun to see the new guys! Hope we can keep the main dudes healthy.
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Add hunter’s 25 points and it’s a W!
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Big picture, mostly mission accomplished. Nobody got hurt first and foremost. Young guys got some run. Like I said earlier, this is like an NFL preseason game. Except our 2s and 3s mostly played their 1s.
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Well that certainly wasn’t inspiring!
Please god make Arkansas by far the most athletic team in the country. If not our guys looked like cardboard cutouts.
Back to KU football season…
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Oh, and I have a gut feeling that I already hate Storr and his attitude.
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I know our offense is designed for different players (like a big guy at the 5) but this was an opportunity for guys to show they can move the ball, maybe go get a bucket when needed… and certainly hit some jumpers… We didn’t do much of that.
Also, the issues with D had little to do with missing pieces in the lineup, to this untrained eye. We got torched from the outside by a true freshmen…
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Rakease Passmore truthers rise up
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give him the Kease, Please.
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Well, that was underwhelming. Uglier than the NFL preseason.
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@BShark said in Basketball Season:
Rakease Passmore truthers rise up
Needs to play. Lots to like, effort and showed some aggressiveness which cannot be said for many that were out there last night.
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@dylans said in Basketball Season:
Well, that was underwhelming. Uglier than the NFL preseason.
Felt like a preseason game honestly.
My only real takeaways: Zach and Jamari are not P4 players, you can’t play KJ next to Flory so with Hunt back it needs to be like a line change in hockey where we have a guard at the 4 when Flory is giving Hunt a breather.
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I’m going to dissent with most here and praise Dajuan l. He was our best player. He had 26 points on 11-17 shooting. He couldnt guard Boogie, but who can? Our wings were a dumpster fire. Our defense across the board, including Dajuan, was not good, but saw an encouraging amount of effort. More concerned with the pieces around Dajuan than Dajuan himself. We can all agree he isnt going to carry us. But that isnt who he is. 11-17 for an offensive role player is pretty awesome. I want Kease at the 2. Let the other transfers fight over the rest of the minutes at 2,3,4 (behind KJ so we can play Bidunga)
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You ain’t dissenting with me. His rim finishes were improved a lot. He was smooth and Boogie pissed him off and that is when he started playing downhill. Our shooting was abysmal and our man to man got torched by the Hog’s bigger guards. I guess our offense will be get it inside, inside, inside. I think we can be a big time alley-ooping machine if Flory realizes he needs to be ready every time. Zach didn’t play very well but he was the only one who seemed offended by the over the top physical stuff and pushed back. Flory needs to drop into the rim protector position because we will see a lot of guards in the lane.
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The one thing I will add for caution with Harris is we’ve seen him look more athletic and able to finish at the rim in the beginning of seasons. As wear and tear over the course of the year happens with him because he’s playing too many minutes and because he’s just not built to handle heavy minutes physically he becomes less effective.
I didn’t see anything from either transfer guard last night that makes me think they can run the offense without Self having no choice but to play Harris. Hopefully when Moore is healthy he can be that guy but given that he missed the most important stretch of practice for the season its likely going to take a while.
It was definitely a preseason game and we were missing very important pieces in our top 8. Having said that there was a lot of concerning things I saw again. Athleticism being number 1, lack of quickness number 2. There is no #2 guy it appears after Hunt, at least from this one data point.
The first viewing of Passmore and Flory was positive. Lots to build on with both, Kease might be a steal in this class long term. Flory was lost at times but man he is a building block and his development this year is crucial.
Neither Zach or Jamari should see minutes beyond a blowout. Good practice bodies but their skill level is not at this level.
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Not taking much from the game other than Passmore and dajuan looked good and KJ looked like KJ, aka non spacing forward who’s a bad fit with the star pieces on the roster
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Well things noticed & thought about. # 1 - -w had heard and already knew that our defense sucks and we are going to have to out score people. # 2 all I got to say to Coach Self is - - - - -GOOD LUCK with Storr, he is really going o wear on Self , the kid doesn’t give two flips about trying to defend, seems like he wants to be a black hole on offense , something going to have to give before w get into the Season. I got tired of hearing we had three of our players out – -Guess what Arkansas had multiple players out too , quit making excuses. Hunter would of been the perfect fit - -would of fit right in with the rest of our horrible defense. -Sorr is going to be a Challenge.
Flory & Passmore look like when it’s all said and done are going to be very good players for us- -and then if we are going to have to depend on Juan leading us in our three point shooting-- -we are in for a long Season.
Heard on a KU podcast the other day, if you had the option which would you rather have- – Juan with more of a big breakout year - -be a bigger scoring PG , more aggressive - -OR better defensively and turning the ball over less. -I think you want him turning the ball over less, He is gonna have more Scorers around him this year and should be able to distribute the ball better and better defense. If we think it’s gonna be the same as last yr , I think your wrong.- -This was an exhibition and give Mayo & Diggy time to adjust , they are going to be fine-- Then we have Griffen who was out – I think k Mayo will settle down & adjust- - the only problem is going to be Storr and dealing with his outlook & Attitude. Like they mentioned on the Podcaast - - Storr is going to have to acept that the offens is going to revolve around Hunter plain and simple
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Ok, some Day After perspective, after many deep breaths!!
On the surface we looked like shit all around. Hard to argue otherwise to the naked eye.
But digging a bit deeper statistically, we lost this game at the free throw line. KU was 4-10. The Hogs were 23-28.
We lost the game by 16 points. They outscored us by 19 from the line.
Also, in total, KU made ONE more field goal, and ONE more 3pt shot than Arkansas. That alone should mean a win.
I guess playing piss poor, matador defense contributed mightily to the FT disparity and final score.
So we didn’t pass the eyeball test, but the game could have been less of a blowout had we played anything resembling defense?
