Biggest game of the year thread
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I think we shot the ball with much more confidence today. Not a single player looked terrified to shoot it.
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Unfortunately I think two things:
- Allen fieldhouse is very good
- ok state is very bad
We ended up playing with energy but the start was still slow. A good team could have buried us right from the tip that game. They missed some open looks early that could have made that a very different game.
It’s a good start but I’m not calling this team “BACK” yet.
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@benshawks08 for sure no reason to jump to the conclusion that this team has found their calling finally. The next two games will tell us a lot about what had happened
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Today was encouraging. Whether it was a one off or something more remains TBD. We didn’t look like this against Colorado 11 days ago though and Colorado is a much worse team than OSU.
I mentioned it in during the game, but this team will go as far as Hunter carries them. When he’s active and engaged like today, everyone else feeds off that energy. When he plays half-assed, pretty much everyone else plays half-assed as well.
Can Hunter have a Remy-like run to end his KU career and change his KU legacy? It was about this time 3 years ago that we were wondering if Remy was even going to play for KU again, but that’s rarely brought up because of his run to end the season. That doesn’t necessarily mean Hunter has to win a title, but making a run in the B12 Tournament, making it past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament would do a lot to change Hunter’s long term legacy here.
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Definitely relieved we didn’t lose out all the last games. Squeak out another conference win or two, make the Dance, win one or two there, and chalk it up to a down year then look forward to some fresh blood next year.
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I was amazed to see Hunter do more than wave at a dude on defense, went after the guy, blocked it and then ripped the rebound. Hunters usually a vertical or nothing post defender.
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@approxinfinity Hunter played his best game as a Jayhawk IMO on both ends 16 points and 11 rebounds in just 21 minutes
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Fun with the box score! And it is truly fun this time. yay. fast paced action. exactly how we need to play.
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First half points.
52 – 46 – 75
FG% – 3pt% – FT%
I’ll take that most games!
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Bench points!!! wow.
48 – 28
KU – OSU rebounds
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Flory’s +/- That’s interesting. Hmmm.
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Not a single player over the 30 minute mark.
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Lots of turnovers though. Maybe from a faster pace?
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Is Shak hurt or what?
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Yes
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@kjayhawks said in Biggest game of the year thread:
Is Shak hurt or what?
Mentioned a few games back, he’s dealing with a foot injury. That’s why he had been playing reduced minutes recently, nothing to do with being in Self’s doghouse.
We saw what a fully healthy Shak could do on defense and how much that energized the team.
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You know , just browsing around , running a crossed other teams records , Seasons Kind of ironic /funny , well funny but yet not funny if you know what I many of these other teams experiencing rough seasons.
U , Conn - - Gonzaga - - Kentucky - - N Carolina- - -Baylor etc etc . Like I was watching/reading of Baylor pod cast and Locked on Baylor awhile ago and you think it is like we are standing on the edge of the cliff , ready to jump because of the play of the team- -the players coming in from NIL ?
Some examples of what’s being said by other teams like Baylor & Kentucky for example really ironic how close to verbatim it is things/phrases being si Like : ( is this our worst loss ever ? - -where does this loss rank ? - - Werre a terrible, we going to play one game in the tourney- -this team is done , these players have checked in , I think there is much more going on then we know , do these players even care – -I mean we just lost to the16th rated team in our conference- ----
I’m telling you guys it’s amazing how close these things are lol.- - -These fan bases about ready to commit harry carry. - -Is Drew gone - -do you thin Drew will leave ? -Well at least we know Drew doesn’t give up on the team year, after year like Self lol–
Were not alone guys seveal teams saying same things about their teams
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Someone threw out an opinion that the Utah 4700 ft and BYU 4551 ft games were significantly impacted by the altitude. Boulder is at 543o feet above sea level. Buffaloes versus Baylor +6, UCF + 11, Houston -6, ASU +5, BYU -14 (similar elevations). The NBA Denver Nuggets are tracked as having a significant home second half scoring advantage.
Just wondering if the quick turn around plus the elevation factor will show up in our energy level tomorrow.
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Not KU related but All Mighty U Conn , with the All mighty Coach is finding out they too, are susceptible to down years, Hurley is Human just like our Coach.- - - Down 18 at the half to St Johns
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Our next game is tomorrow night at 10 PM CENTRAL TIME, you know when many of us are heading to bed. Screw the Big 12 and their careless about the fans. Screw our AD who let this happen. I’m beyond pissed asking us to sacrifice sleep if we want to watch a game. They voted to allow this. I assume our AD permitted this. ZERO consideration for the fans, for the students, professors, the community in Lawrence and across the nation. We’re not the only ones dealing with this of course, but it doesn’t make me feel any better. If they did it to us on the weekend that might be semi acceptable, they did actually when we played BYU with a 9PM start time but that was a Saturday night.
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SEC conference is the only one that doesn’t have this concern and in basketball the Big East doesn’t either. Lesser conferences remain sensible.
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@wissox Ya kinda stinks. I’m watching the KSU/ASU game today and they were talking saying that because of the conference schedule and amount of teams , they wanted to make the amount of games are equal with quality officials - make sure all teams get the same Balance.
The crew that they have today one has – three final fours - -Another has-- - eight & the other has – fie- -still stinks
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Maybe its good eyeballs aren’t on our team but you can bet no one in eastern time is watching even a minute of it.
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That’s still 9:00 mountain time? What the hell? I’d get it if it was full west coast pacific time because a game starting at 8 isn’t unheard of but 9 seems late add in the central time of 10:00 and it just seems silly.
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@benshawks08 said in Biggest game of the year thread:
That’s still 9:00 mountain time? What the hell? I’d get it if it was full west coast pacific time because a game starting at 8 isn’t unheard of but 9 seems late add in the central time of 10:00 and it just seems silly.
The old Pac 12 After Dark time slot.
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11pm for us on the east coast. No chance I can watch this one
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@benshawks08 Yeah I don’t even get making Colorado fans start games at 9. never used to happen when they were in the Big 8.
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It’s weird to me to start a game this late for most of the country especially when they claim 65% of all sports viewership comes east of the Mississippi. Gonna be about 500k people watching watching it at that time slot.
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Yea, that 8 p.m. west coast time slot (9 p.m. Colorado time / 10 p.m. Kansas time) is pretty regular out here. Somebody gets stuck with it most every week.
Gives us on the coast something to watch after dinner for sure though. Sucks for everybody else. Sucks for local Kansas fans for sure.
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8pm start is already too late for many, 10pm is ridiculous. Luckily I’m on vacation in Jamaica. - I won’t “miss” the game, but I won’t be watching it either.
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This will be the first KU game I haven’t watched in over 30 years. Even a 9pm EST start has been troublesome for me over the years during the week due to my work schedule, but I’ve sacrificed a lot of sleep over the years to watch the games. If this was a tournament game, I’d figure it out but it’s a Monday regular season game and I have an extremely high-level issue going on at work so I simply cannot do it tonight. This was my exact concern when the league announced taking the Mtn & Pacific time teams into the league and I expressed my dissatisfaction for what was to come and sure enough here we are.
Hopefully they will play well tonight and continue to right the ship of turning this thing around
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@BeddieKU23 we will hold down the fort and try to give you a balanced account, good luck with the work stuff.
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@BeddieKU23 wow, 30 years, that is some streak. Yet another long standing record broken this season.
