Oooooo-oooooohhh!
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@Crimsonorblue22 I know it sounds crazy, but honestly I think it happens a lot. Teams get a big lead, then just “coast”. I think when they’re in a battle the whole way it keeps their attention focused.
Obviously I’d rather have a big lead, but this team doesn’t seem to have the killer instinct to get and hold a big one. Lead, that is!
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@drgnslayr Self said they’ve prepared for the West Virginia press 8 out of the last 11 practices, along with a ton of film preparation… Don’t take a “what we did on Sunday” answer as representative of KU’s preparation for WV tonight.
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@nuleafjhawk it would be awesome to watch a game up by 3o and see some deserving subs play!! Plus- easier on my health!
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HA!
KU +10
Wayne snaps Huggie’s man bra on a run out!
Frank and Wayne come up big in their native time zones.
Perry decides after running into a guy the last game that contact is fun and gets 18 and 9.
Cliff starts out strong, but the pace and violence are too much and Lumbering Landen discovers he has a higher gear!!!
Full scale, high mobility combat for 30 minutes, then half court grind for ten with a microburst of treys that the Jar Head Jayhawks defend to a W!!!
Now I am running for cover!!!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Man! But I preemptively said I wasnt serious and didnt wanna jinx anything. Doesnt that count?
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@Lulufulu erase! Can’t question!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Fine fine fine. LOL
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I don’t have a good feeling about this game.
They will be geeked in the beginning. The fans will go crazy when they force 10 turnovers within the first 15 minutes. If we can keep it within 10 at halftime, I predict we will pull out the victory in a late comeback and win 69-65.
My fear is with Mason showing signs of wear and tear. Ten games ago, I would say when nothing else is falling, Mason will take over, drive the lane, and create options for this team. BUT he doesn’t have the same explosiveness and last game he showed sign of freshman year Frank. He got in the middle of the zone and forced up a couple shots instead of dishing to the open man on the perimeter. If we can’t pull together a mini-run at the end of the first half, then we might be in for a long night. Doomsday prediction 73-58 WVU.
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@JhawkAlum :facepunch:
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I like how jesse has changed his mind and now likes the good guys tonight. So do I. The mountaineers just seem a bit worn down of late and we seem to be hitting our stride.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Your health? What about old geezers like me and @globaljaybird? Our tickers don’t have many 1-2 pt wins left.
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Everybody talking about tired legs. Don’t you think WVU has tired legs also? They’re the ones who play the press game in and game out, and they played Sat like we did. I’m thinking it won’t be a blowout, but we’ll take it handily.
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@brooksmd I think they play 100 guys!!
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@Crimsonorblue22 100 and 3
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We win, but I think we’ll have times where we look terrible against the press.
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Even though we all kinda penciled this one is as an automatic loss early in the season, WVU has been on the downside what with all the fouls they have been making. Williams rehurt his hand in Saturday’s game. I see a really close one with us pulling it out on the FT line.
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@KUSTEVE that was a pretty easy guess!!! Ha ha
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Actually, I feel more optimistic about this game than I thought a few weeks ago.
I agree that Frank is wearing down a bit. He probably is carrying one or two nagging injuries that none of us know about.
However… all the effort extended by WVU for an entire season has created problems for themselves. Talk about tired guys… And the only way their strategy works is with totally fresh legs. Just a little bit of slowing turns something that can crush a team to something collapsing and creating easy run outs for the opposition.
I’m feeling really mixed now, compared to earlier in the year where I had this as an auto loss.
Still not going to predict, however.
Which Jayhawk team shows up?
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@drgnslayr Exactly. Which team will show up? We very seldom have put 2 halves together. One bad half on the road can result in a hole that you can’t dig out of.
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@Hawk8086 that team has won 21 games!
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@jaybate-1.0 Gotcha! WVU by 1. This time I called it, almost to the letter. We shot only 11 threes. Would any poster on this site predict a KU win if told that this squad would fire only 11 threes? Granted, WVU covered us well beyond the arc. That said, we did not look to find Greene or to play to our strength. These last two games, Greene might as well pull a freshman Russ Rob maneuver: just tell Coach, “Sorry, I decline the opportunity to waste my time on the court.” Essentially, his insertions have amounted to wasted minutes. If the offense is not designed or inclined to get the ball in the hands of perhaps the best shooter in this season’s NCAA Div. 1 Basketball, then Brannen might as well just opt for a pass on the opportunity to take the court. Maybe a transfer to Davidson would be in his best interest. Would Gonzaga or BYU design an offense around his hot hand?
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PHOF!
You got me.
Love your take, coach.
I have written more on other threads already, so I will let you have at me over on the other threads too.
Damnedest thing I ever saw.
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@jaybate-1.0 HA! My wife just finished blistering my ears about my Brannen Greene suggestions. She has trudged off to bed in a real snit. Maybe I should sleep on the matter, rehash and rephrase my advice to BG??? On the couch…
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@REHawk maybe they could teach him to dribble and block out too, so he can stay in long enough to get shots off
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@Crimsonorblue22 Aw, shucks, we’ve got a starter who has probably logged 10x as many minutes as BG; and he can’t dribble much better, at least inside the stripe. And he, on most outings, can’t flush a bunny even if his mom’s life depended upon it!
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@REHawk ouch! Ok thought we were talking about BG?
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I don’t call him Coach for nothing.
Remember when Roy Williams said he had more want to in his little finger than all the people of the state of Kansas put together.
Never underestimate the fire in the coach.
All a coach, a good coach is, is a fire under control most of the time.
