Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!
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Rebounding was a major concern coming into the year that wasn’t properly addressed in offseason talent acquisitions. We had Hunter and nobody else proven with no expected big bumps from transfers or returnees. However, a lot of boards that went Houston’s way last night were simply effort based and anticipation. That to me is mostly coaching. Some don’t have it but Sampson coaches rebounding which then trickles down into other areas. There might be a thing or two Self can learn from his peer.
Turnovers… I don’t have an answer for why 23-24 year old adults continue to make the same careless unforced mistakes. Dribbling, passes over the top of defenders, fumbling the ball out of bounds, stepping on the out of bounds line. These things continue to show up in every game. Many of them were avoidable.
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How do you play 34 minutes and put up a 2/3/2 box score?
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@TYOHawk juan wasnt the only guy who sucked. But yeah. 2 assists more and Flory could have been our starting PG.
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@TYOHawk in fairness to Juan, Zeke has 1 made 3 point FG in the last 3 games and 13 turnovers lol
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@kjayhawks said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@TYOHawk in fairness to Juan, Zeke has 1 made 3 point FG in 3 the last games and 13 turnovers lol
Think the social media trolls have gotten to Zeke at this point and he’s in his own head.
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@approxinfinity said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@TYOHawk juan wasnt the only guy who sucked. But yeah. 2 assists more and Flory could have been our starting PG.
I’m just tired of the passiveness…he hasn’t even attempted a 3 in 3 games….not make! He’s not even attempting 3’s at this point…it kills an offense to get that type of lack of production from a PG
We give him screens all game for him to just pass off.
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He did not appear to be confident last night at all. Passed up several 3’s he normally would have the green light on. His ball handling has become a major concern out there.
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@TYOHawk I guess Tyshawn got on X and told him to toughen up. Seems like a lot of former players are calling out the Charmin softies
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@TYOHawk yes times a hundred he has several wide open looks. Instead he likes to dribble in a big circle to underneath the basket, beating his man .2% of the time and leaving his feet to throw a crappy pass.
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@BeddieKU23 said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
“I don’t have an answer for why 23-24 year old adults continue to make the same careless unforced mistakes.”
My opinion is that why shouldn’t they? They get paid whether they’re mistake free or not. They only have to show up and go through the motions. Nobody on this team (I guess) bleeds Crimson and Blue. There is no one playing currently that will ever write a book titled “Floor Burns”.
Same reason that people at my place of employment come in 20 minutes late, take days off that they don’t have PTO for, do a lackluster job on the rare occasions they are here. There are no consequences. Doing top-notch work and doing almost no work pay the same.
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@kjayhawks that moved worked in the past for him, but maybe teams know to look for it now?
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We’ve been spoiled in that KU has seemingly always had a ‘lead guard’…someone who could both distribute and go get his own with confidence. I think that’s where I’m at with Harris…he’s just a guy…and for sure NOT a ‘lead guard’. He may have fit as a traditional point guard a few decades ago, but in today’s college basketball he just ain’t it.
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@TYOHawk Hell look how long it took Zeke to even put up a shot 0talk about not having it - -it your 2 man isn’t attempting till the end of the half-- – your screwed
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@kjayhawks said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@TYOHawk I guess Tyshawn got on X and told him to toughen up. Seems like a lot of former players are calling out the Charmin softies
Frank criticized the leadership on Twitter on Saturday. Devon had a vague tweet today as well. Safe to say the former guys aren’t happy
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@TYOHawk said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@kjayhawks said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@TYOHawk I guess Tyshawn got on X and told him to toughen up. Seems like a lot of former players are calling out the Charmin softies
Frank criticized the leadership on Twitter on Saturday. Devon had a vague tweet today as well. Safe to say the former guys aren’t happy
Probably sick that they couldn’t legally make money while dajuan is earning 6 figures to put up this slop
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Dajuans stats against big 12 opponents this year are pretty comparable to naadir tharpes.
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listened to the Could be wrong KU podcast today some interesting lil tidbits/quotes , they all seem to agree Diggy for sure is the spark kinda of interesting , but yet thing mentioned , they said Diggy can always get his shot , no matter where- - they said the question becomes how can a little 5’8 guy get off his shot all the time and others struggle so badly?
Now here is something to chew on, can be Good and then also bad , and that was- --We ? KU gave to Houston- --THIRTY SEVEN extra Chanes to score the ball , meaning they Houston had Thirty Seven my opportunities to Score then KU---- from 17 – Houston offensive rebounds-- & 20 - -KU turnovers.
So think about that for a minute – - those numbers are not acceptable-- -that’s bad thing- -the good thing from that ?- -we gave that many more chances up and STILL only lost by Six , we had a chance to the very end to win that. – -Good thing. play that poorly and still have that chance in the final minutes
They Talked about how Dickinson was getting the hell beat out of him every trip down the floor and nothing being called. They was talking about KJ and how he really going up and of course you not hearing near the Calls for Rylann taking more of KJ/s minutes now – KJ just brins his lunch pail every night, does the firty work.- - -KJ did a great job on Roberts last night— KJ didn’t play against Houston last time. - - KJ last three game-- -15 points - - -21 pints - -% 13 rebounds- -and last night - -15 points- --& 9/10 from the free throw line.
They also brought out a very good possible point/thought. They said this ought to tell you something ,- -here we are on March 3rd and we have a Freshman RaKease on the floor playing more minutes then your portal guy Rylan Grifin-- sure is a pretty telling sign that the Staff does not felel that Rylan will be coming back next year.
Also mentioned that we have another Streak on the line Saturday-- -KU has won – 40 years in a row on Senior Night - -think about that another streak broken ?- -they & me too think that streak stays alive- - all Think KU gonna wi Saturday.
They said they came out of this game against Houston not feeling as pissed, they felt because it just looked like Ku for the first time in awhile actually competed, saying our first shot defense was really good- -it was 2nd chance points that killed us.
Tehm they came out with a new Nick name for this time with tourney time coming up , they called it ; DIGGY and the Miracles- -instead of Danny, Diggy wears Number-- 8–half of -88 ,- -Diggy is 5’8- -half of 88— gotta love it
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@TYOHawk said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@kjayhawks said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@TYOHawk I guess Tyshawn got on X and told him to toughen up. Seems like a lot of former players are calling out the Charmin softies
Frank criticized the leadership on Twitter on Saturday. Devon had a vague tweet today as well. Safe to say the former guys aren’t happy
Well they out a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this program while not getting the 6 figure salaries most of these guys are
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@approxinfinity said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
Dajuans stats against big 12 opponents this year are pretty comparable to naadir tharpes.
At this point I ld say it’s a wash to whom I’d rather have and also whom is the worst PG of Self era
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Juan looks bad when you play him beside guys who aren’t scoring. He’s an assist guy. I could be wrong but isn’t he averaging double-digit scoring this year? His whole stat package would lift considerably if he was on a better team. He’s just the wrong PG on this team. We’d be better with a Frank Mason type PG. But with a better team, Juan suddenly looks right… like in 2022.
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@approxinfinity said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
@Texas-Hawk-10 mission accomplished on Hunter, I thought. (Apologies if you already circled back on your point about the importance of his engagement, otherwise would be curious if you were happy with his output in large part)
I don’t know if happy is the word I would use because he did have 7 turnovers, but his energy and effort was there all night and helped keep KU in the game until the end.
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I can’t believe we beat Duke early on. I know they play in a bad conference but I wouldn’t want to play them now. They were talking about how positive it is having a GM and I’m down with that. I’ve been critical about Self but it’s more about the environment surrounding him. If you want KU bringing home hardware, we’ve got to keep up with other programs. We’ve got facilities… McCarthy Hall, etc…. But now it’s about building a winning environment around the head coach. Scheyer is building a winning structure around him and we are falling behind.
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@drgnslayr and if a slackjawed doofus like Scheyer can find success, you know the environment around him matters.
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@drgnslayr said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:
Juan looks bad when you play him beside guys who aren’t scoring. He’s an assist guy. I could be wrong but isn’t he averaging double-digit scoring this year? His whole stat package would lift considerably if he was on a better team. He’s just the wrong PG on this team. We’d be better with a Frank Mason type PG. But with a better team, Juan suddenly looks right… like in 2022.
He’s averaging 9.1 points and 5.6 assists currently championship year he averaged 8.9 and 6.2 so pretty dang close to a wash. Thats one of my biggest Juan (KJ as well besides Dook and the last 2 games) complaints he flat out has not gotten better in any aspect of the game. He’s on pace for career lows in both FT shooting percentage and 3 shooting percentage. We heard the last two years it was because he was playing too much but he is averaging 3 minutes less per game and that’s with Shak being unavailable for about half of our games. Both him and KJ would be great back ups playing 12-17 minutes per game but it could be argued that they have developed less than any 4 plus year player in both the Self and Williams eras.
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@kjayhawks thanks for the stats. He just doesn’t look composed this year!
