Brandon Ingram Decision
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@HighEliteMajor Thanks. My takeaway from all of it, and some of the well-articulated thoughts by others here with their impressions, is that Self has the guys that he does, and they each come with what attributes (or not) that they possess. Some will get better, some wont. But Self has who he has by the time it is October. He was once that midmajor coach that took a no-McD Tulsa squad to the E8 and 32-5. Its no different than what Few and Marshall and Shaka showed with an upperclassman squad.
We wistfully see what K did with freshmen, against Bo Ryan’s veteran squad, but we also see that Wisc game was up for grabs until the final 60sec or so. Wisc was up 8 with 3-4min. Plus, we saw how pretty NDame looked against WSU, and against KY, where again it came down to the last few possessions. To me, its hard to draw big conclusions from a W that was anybody’s game until the final 2min. That of course can be said for Self, if he best squad ever got beat by Davidson or Memphis in '08. Maybe he wouldn’t even be here, who knows. But I see his own successes with past schools, teams, and I look for the common denominator (for his system), and it keeps coming up as experience and toughness (to also match some level of 10-70ranked ability). To blow a 17pt lead to IowaSt in the BigXII Tourney Champ game, simply underlined the toughness/poise component was missing. Same thing for the WSU game. Mason and Graham cant do it alone.
When the announcers were saying pregame that WSU’s interior could be exploited, and we were simply unable to do it, it simply left me wondering what Cliff or more Hunter could have done. Selden no-show is a big part of the problem, as is letting a 6’4 post player (Wessel) beat you. My take is Self went back to trying to develop the post game, hoping for a lightbulb moment, as no team gets far in the dance without post play…and because Greene fell off due to injury. Problem is Cliff was done, and Ellis wasn’t the same either.
To me, Mason’s mindset needs to infect the whole team. The experience, finally, after 2 yrs of waiting should be there, along with top 50 talent throughout. But the mindset/attack/baller mentality & some confident swag has got to be there. Chalmers had an abundance of that, as did Collins and Tyshawn. KYo had it, while Lucas is spotty, as is Jamari. Withey developed it. It can be done for the developmental guys, but it takes time.
Its just a complex interplay to me, is all.
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@drgnslayr His father Melvin Booker played basketball at the University of Missouri and in the NBA and other professional leagues. He was the 1994 Big 8 POY. Forgive me for the c and p from Wiki.
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No please I have no desire for KU’s females acting in this way. Let UK have their way. Maybe in couple of years a UK recruiting porno tape will surface.
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I thought the biggest factor in the Wisconsin-Duke game was how the refs totally flipped their calls the second half. It was glaring…
Even though I think this way, I also believe the game was for Wisconsin to grab. In my books, they were far superior, especially in experience.
I thought they just played too cautious and didn’t attack. Okafor should have had zero impact (IMO) because he should have had his 3rd foul within just a few minutes in the first half. Frank had several opportunities to go to work on him but he would back off and throw the ball out (from the post or baseline). Those were missed opportunities, even more important than their missed FTs.
I will never understand why teams play different in the championship game over the style that brought them there. Wisconsin didn’t take advantage of their size and experience in the post. To be honest, I wasn’t even expecting this game to be close. Wisconsin should have pounded Duke, and by letting them hang around Duke built momentum.
It was tough to experience because Wisconsin doesn’t get many chances at a title, and Duke gets them all the time.
If I caught my daughter doing that I’d cut her tongue out myself.
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@DoubleDD we need to stay classy!
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@drgnslayr Duke had an easier game in semis.
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This game is going to hurt for a long time from my perspective. It’s going to fester. I hate that it’s going to be the refereeing to cause the festering, but it is. My view of UW was they played that game similar to how they’ve played all year. They did pass it too much, but they always passed it too much. They wouldn’t pound it inside when it seemed to be the best strategy
Duke gets calls. For that matter KU gets calls sometimes too. I still can’t get out of my mind the FT discrepancy in 1986 when we played puke in the final four. The count was 26-14 which resulted in a 30-12 FT disparity. KU outshot Duke, outrebounded Duke, out assisted Duke. They didn’t keep stats for TO’s apparently but I’d guess we out turnovered them too. Manning, Dreiling and Cedric Hunter all fouled out. Archie Marshall’s injury when we were leading led to their referee assisted comeback.
I sure hope KU gets back to the point that we can beat Duke and Kentucky in meaningful games. It could come soon, or we may have to wait a while, we’ll see.
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@wissoxfan83 I was at Reunion arena-they took out Marshall on a lay-up-RUINED his knee…NO CALL.
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@JayhawkRock78 I didn’t have the exact memory of that but it’s not surprising.
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I remember that.
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I saw a tweet today that said St. John’s was slipping because of some recent developments, but no details were given. Wondering if you had any intel on that.
Ingram seems to be giving the ACC the last word on his recruitment.
Is your social media intel program capturing any trends this afternoon?
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@wissoxfan83 I am 90 % sure about the no call. He was under the backboard a LONG time. After the collision and He was shooting a lay-up. In my mind nobody shot a free throw after they carried him off.
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Ingram is to Duke what Diallo is to KU, the primary recruiting target based on need. No question that Duke will go all out to get Ingram…it sure would be nice to steal one from rat face.
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@JayHawkFanToo I have a weird feeling that we get Ingram, only a feeling, not based on facts.
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@SoftballDad2011 I have an opinion on Diallo and Ingram BUT I really don’t like sticking my neck out there because I would hate it if people on here started telling me that my info stinks. I will not give you my opinion but I will tell you what I have found in my recent searches.
I might have looked at Diallo’s FB to find out he is friends with more UK players and UK NBA’ers than he is with KU guys. It has been said that he has talked to Embiid and he is friends with him on FB along with Svi (our only 2 foreign guys in recent memory). He did have over 3000 friends so its kind of hard to recognize every one of his friends on FB that could possibly be trying to steer him in the UK direction but give me some time I’m kind of new to this. The recent uptick in the UK 247 CB is only due to all the media buzz that’s going down atm. Just google “Cheick Diallo” and the first 20 results or more are all UK articles written in the last 24 hrs. There probably is some actual truth to it since coach Cal just visited him. I know Diallo has said he wants minutes and is not fond of the platoon thing at UK. There are already 3 other quality bigs at UK so you do the math. Everything on twitter up until Diallos meeting with Cal was KU, KU, KU now its a bag of mixed nuts but there are still more KU nuts in the bag. I would watch Matt Scotts 247 CB and if it changes then start warring.
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Trey Scott @TreyScott247 · 41s42 seconds ago
Cheick Diallo’s twitter activity suggests something might be about to go down http://247sports.com/Player/Cheick-Diallo-27331 …
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_cd13 @cheick_diallo13 · 4m4 minutes ago
It’s been a long 3 years. Just wanted to thanks all the coaches who recruited me and stopped by my school appreciated
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_cd13 @cheick_diallo13 · 7m7 minutes ago
@cheick_diallo13 all the fans who followed my journey.All my teammates, my coaches teachers who’s make me a better thanks and Love y’all
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Please keep us informed; you effort is greatly appreciated.
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Kentucky reaches out to three-star center. With the missed opportunity to add Stephen Zimmerman or Mike Thorne, and a roster in need of another big body, John Calipari has now reached out to yet another former Charlotte 49er. http://kentuckysportsradio.com/main/kentucky-reaches-out-to-three-star-center/ Does this make a statement about Diallos decision?
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Diallo had an in home visit with Calipari tonight didn’t he?
Edit … sorry, that was yesterday.
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3-star? WOW! He really is desperate; I thought that 3-start were not allowed to wear UK unis.
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Jerry Meyer @jerrymeyer247
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.@Jhawk0505 I’m not hearing positive things about St. John’s chances to land Cheick Diallo.
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@JayHawkFanToo No, they can. But with a scarlet A.
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@Statmachine as always, thanks for all the good info and hard work.
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I thought Pitt had been out of it for a while and ISU’s chances also went down when the coach recruiting him went to St. John’s. I would say it is between KU and St. John’s with a late (hopefully too late) push by UK…
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@JayHawkFanToo I am guessing it was a Pitt or ISU fan that photo shopped that for Diallo.
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Here I am rooting we get an OAD. I long for the days where we can throw it into the post of an easy basket.
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@HighEliteMajor At this point something is better than nothing BUT I hear what you are saying.
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@Statmachine Man how I loved TRob. My favorite player of the Self era. Diallo’s got a lot of TRob in him.
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@Statmachine Your picture above about gave me a heart attack. All I saw was the St. John’s above Diallo.
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@HighEliteMajor Mine too BUT I think we all grieved for him and his sister to a large degree. I think we all connected on an emotional level that wanted to protect him either as a brother or parent looking out for their young. He was also such a presents on the court! BEAST
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@Statmachine I just can’t imagine a better power forward in Self’s system. He and Withey were quite a combo down low. By the way, great work on this recruiting stuff.
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Ok, I’m playing this twitter game. Perry Ellis just followed Diallo tonight.
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@HighEliteMajor Thank you and I enjoy your work on buckets too. I hope you all can stomach my horrible spelling and punctuation but I just don’t want to take the time to do it right. I also have 15 different feeds going sifting through info to see how accurate I can get with recruiting by the time late night gets here.
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Iverson called and said…Spelling? Are we talking about spelling? As long as the info is good who cares about spelling.
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Cheick Diallo recently frended Christian Garrett on FB. That’s an interesting find?
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Diallo announcement could be coming soon…
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Christian Garret, the ultimate team player…
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@Statmachine it’s more typing than spelling. We all do it.
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I’m loving the recent vibes i’m reading on here. I will do some celebrating if/when he commits to KU thats for sure. The guy is going to be a difference maker next year, i have no doubt about it.
I’ve been sharing info with my wife about everything. She isn’t great with remembering names but has coined him “Diablo.” I’m kinda digging the nickname actually, haha.
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@RockkChalkk Rock cheick will be on lots of posters? Was meant to be!
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“Cheick Diallo recently frended Christian Garrett on FB. That’s an interesting find?”
Finds like that give me more hope than reading all the sports babble from all those recruiting sites.
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I became Cheick’s friend tonight. I think it bodes well.
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@jaybate-1.0 keep it short, don’t scare him off! Jk
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@drgnslayr another interesting fact is that 4 guys from the 2015-2016 team are following Bragg. 2 guys from the 2015-2016 team are following Diallo. 8 guys from the 2015-2016 team following Ingram. I think the chances of us landing Ingram are better than anyone might think.
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@Statmachine what 2015-16 kids? U mean our kids?
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@Crimsonorblue22 next years Kansas men’s basketball team. Sorry I should have mentioned that
