Kenyucky Wildcats. 8:30 in Chicago
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When 19 jumped on Stokes and got the foul and then the tech he earned 2 fouls. Pope left him in and then he fouled almost immediately after that. I was surprised he left him in with 2 fouls after another guy was already on the bench with 2.
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Yeah things are sad in Lexington. How many times did they just shove someone down? "Let's use our size and play overtly physical." Once again our overall effort, ability to score through contact and obvious talent is increasing the blood flow to the cockles of my heart. Which may in turn cause a lack of blood flow to the brain.
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Trey Kaufman-Renn Highlights vs. Kentucky (12 Pts, 6 Rebs, 6 Asts)
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Tyran Stokes Highlights vs. Kentucky (23 Pts, 10 Rebs, 4 Asts)
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Tre White Highlights vs. Kentucky (30 Pts, 6 Rebs)
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I am giddy to see that Bill stuck with a small ball lineup, even after Melvin went down. Small ball is the future and I believe the 2-center lineups we have been using lately are partially responsible for our lack of success.
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Thank you for posting this stuff.
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Zoom Diallo is an incredible talent but in addition to that is he an indication of the Pope losing the locker room?
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Well how's about that beat down! yay. Didn't get a chance to weigh in yesterday.
Pretty much everybody looked good. Funny, i was cussing at Trey for obviously searching for whatever shot he could get and not letting it come to him, then realized he had 30!!!! no clue. zzz.
Stokes lived up to the billing. Hope he can shoot like that every night! He was aggressive, in a good way. Didn't even seem fazed when that Kentucky douche stood over him. I would have come to his rescue as well. That tech foul or whatever was uncalled for. Protecting your player. Guys who do that (stand over you) deserve a beat down.
Blyden. Hmmm. Good and bad game? seemed involved and determined, but couldn't score worth a crap. I at first thought he would be a liability against a typical big Kentucky lineup, but noticed their counterpart was his size, and a transfer like him from a smaller school. Felt some relief then.
So the big vs small ball lineups ... i think Self has to play it by ear. Last night we got away with a smaller lineup because we had a sizeable lead. But that Kentucky 7-footer was scoring at will.
May not be able to allow that some nights. A counter 7-footer required.
Overall quite pleased with our performance, especially after the two exhibition losses to big name schools.
We were very confident last night.
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I think this is the best KU halfcourt offense I've ever seen under Self. It was slash and cut... and burn! TK, TKR, and Stokes make a deadly passing trio. I've never seen the ball stick LESS in our halfcourt! We ran UK ragged. This is the way to slay huge teams like Duke. And even if they have depth... we have depth, too. This allowed us to establish the pace and flow of the game for almost 40 minutes. I know we miss the speed of Melvin... but we've upgraded our ball movement. When he returns, he's going to have to learn to pass at this level. He has a low TO rating, but the ball doesn't quite move at this pace and he needs to speed it up so we can keep it like this. Several players did not have good scoring nights, and unless you examine the scorecard, you wouldn't notice it. This is the first game I've watched over again in years. I'll probably watch it again. And we should only get better! We've had teams before that had equal to or better individual talent. But we've never had a team with the right kind of parts to put something together like this. Hence... we finally have a halfcourt offense that can win! Now.. let's not trade in our open court scoring... especially off TOs! I haven't been this excited to watch Jayhawk basketball since 2022!
