All in on Brown
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If UK played in the Big 12, ACC or Big 10 he does not go unbeaten in conference play. He almost lost a couple of games in the weak SEC.
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@HighEliteMajor "If Brown comes to Kansas, then what is the fallout? Greene transfers or redshirts? Svi leaves?
How in the world does a player of the caliber of Svi or Greene risk being the 6th perimeter guy (odd man out)?".
We signed Bragg a while back. We just about crapped our britches worrying about Diallo but no ones going OMG what about Mickelson, Lucas, or Traylor? I believe we call it depth.
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I guess there were no decent “brownie” loving prospects available…
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I’m loving this get on a few levels. KU gets back into the face of the neg nancy media analysts, and we just stole two highly coveted UK recruits…If that doesn’t make you celebrate, you’re dead.
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@Statmachine This is a good problem. I see Greene taking a med redshirt, Svi getting some good pt, and Brown will likely jump. It’s a win win win. Svi and Greene had their chance to leave. They stayed. They bought into Self’s system. If you want a NC, you do what the coach says, especially if he already has a NC and 11 rings. If either Greene or Svi leave, this will tell us quite a bit about them. I don’t see them leaving. This team has grown together and are sacrificing for the team.
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@dylans I think you got it. Let’s give one to Brown, and keep that extra for something special or just take it into next season.
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@Statmachine Bring it on home cause UDAMAN @Statmachine !!
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Other than Wiggins, and Sherron, Self’s best McDs have been ones with 2+ yrs in-system.
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@ralster was Embiid?
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I like the lineup with …
Mason, Graham and Selden at the two most critical spots 1 and 2.
They can support and give Brown some great experience. I’m sure Greene and Svi will do their part to teach him.
Ellis and Traylor can school Bragg at the 4.
Lucas and Mick can school Diallo at the 5.
I like our mix of experience and classmen. It’s a great fit.
Of course, it only works if we land Brown. If not, Svi is working hard.
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My goodness there is a TON of Jaylen Brown to KU chatter in the twitterverse! I’m starting to believe guys I really am!
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I don’t have it locked in on when he will commit like I did on Cheick but I will do my best!
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If he only would be a Catholic HS player like Bragg and Diallo, it would be a done deal…
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@Statmachine Once again, the “experts” are already steering Brown to Michigan. I can’t believe the bias. I guess KU is incapable of landing 3 top McDs AA at this point. It’s almost as if we have our limit and exceeded what people think is possible for KU.
Yet, if this were any other program…Puke, UNC, UK, Zona, or any other top program, it would be broadcasted all over the sports media. You don’t see much about Diallo to KU like Ingram to Puke. Hell, even on KU sports page, they had Ingram to Puke as the first headline and Diallo was the second.
Now I want Brown to spite the media. I want them to scratch their heads and ask how in the world Bill Self got the best of the recruiting world.
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HELL, YES, WE NEED JAYLEN BROWN.
AND JAYLEN BROWN NEEDS TO PLAY WITH THE ROTATION WE’VE GOT EMERGING!!!
JAYLEN, LISTEN UP.
IF YOU WERE A BIG LUG WITHOUT A LOT OF SKILL, AND WITH A TON OF CONSONANTS IN YOUR NAME…
OR IF YOU WERE A TEENY LITTLE POINT GUARD THAT LIKES TO SHOOT 38 FOOTERS…
THEN HELL YEAH I WOULD SAY GO TO ANN ARBOR AND SHOVEL THE F!@#$%^&ING SNOW!
AND COUNT TUMORS ON FISH IN THE HURON RIVER!!!
BUT IF YOU’RE COOL, SOPHISTICATED, PRETTY SHOOTING FORWARD THAT THE GIRLS CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF, AND YOU WANT TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE BRANDON RUSH, XAVIER HENRY, ANDREW WIGGINS AND KELLY OUBRE, THEN JOIN THE “RIGHT WAY” PARTY SHAPING UP IN THE CRADLE OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL AND 3MAN-U AND SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE!!!
I wouldn’t be surprised if you sign to go along Carlton Bragg and Cheick Diallo that Labissiere will de-commit to UK and come up to Larry Land to win a ring. Labissiere has to have figured out that after the last two seasons, Coach Cal is last year’s lapels.
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I don’t know spit about Mack.
Question: can he put it on the deck?
AWIII seemed deck-challenged.
If Mack is deck literate to go along with a trey gun, then he could help us.
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If I remember correctly Brown’s mother took a liking to Kansas even going as far to liken it to Michigan where some of their family resides. That is a serious risk because it’s completely makes sense for his parents to relocate to combine with more family to relish his lone season in college. Bragg, Ingram, & Brown all talked packaging after their Late Night visits. Now you can’t blame Ingram for sliding into Winslow spot at Duke and basking in his home state glory. Brown on the other hand already has the NBA body & all around game to make an imposing impact as our BIG wing. If I’m self I’m selling the kid on traveling to Canada, South Korea(WUG), Champions Classic, Maui( Maui Invitational), San Diego around Christmas way better than Michigan Tundra. Not to mention being apart and continuing the streak of BIG12 Titles in our pursuit of knocking off UCLA from the top of the record books at 13. He dropped UCLA from his list just recently. IMO Jaylen is using the Nike schools to keep the publicity train moving to maintain his BRAND and relevance. My hope is since he is an Adidas lean he is just showing Michigan some love since some in his family hold it dear to heart and it’s good publicity for them either way to be involved with such a high profile recruit. That leaves Kansas with a huge opportunity to use this momentum with Bragg and Diallo to close him. It’s the same package minus Ingram who really plays the same position as Brown. So this package actually works out better for all in end if the cards fall that way. Pie in the sky talk especially after being as fortunate to land two STUDS at the bigs position. For all those flaking on the OAD… More talent on the team equals fiercer competition. Which will result in a better product on the court!! Always has Always will
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I like this article. Finally, something realistic.
Come on Jaylen…help us win #12 and another NC.
As a bonus, scroll down and you have “Paul Pierce, a hockey fan”?
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@truehawk93 they didn’t even know that Thorne has signed?
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@Statmachine Im thinking its a very real possibility that Mickelson transfers. Doubtful he sees the court this season.
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What a legitimate OAD looks like:
It’s not often you see NBA moves in a high school kid.
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@Lulufulu it’s to bad too! He should go to Washburn or a d 2 school and dominate!
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The Big 12 is a tough place to play and with Smart in Texas it will only get worse (better). Depth may not seem affective because we only play 8 or 9 players but we could have used some strong depth at the end of this season and last because of injuries. I say swing for the fences and get all the strong depth we can get and develop.
With that said: Duke kicked a guy to the curb to land playing time for Ingram, I don’t see Bill Self’s character doing something like that, but he has a good record of red shirting and managing kids leaving.
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@Statmachine It is depth. However, Traylor/Lucas/Mickelson aren’t Svi and Greene, from a talent perspective. That is what I’m referring to. High talent guys sitting don’t sit well, so to speak. It’s why CF transferred. It’s why AW3 transferred.
I would suggest that our lower talent threesome are a different type of discussion. And if one transferred or left, if they could, we wouldn’t have any concerns with it.
Svi or Greene, I think, would be much different.
Good work on the updates during the recruiting. Really appreciated.
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AW3 will play at Nebraska this season. I expect he will be a very solid player for the Huskers. AW3 is a good basketball player. My comments above were not meant to say that he isn’t a good player. He is absolutely a major college player, no doubt.
But he is not a difference maker. There are probably 30 guys from AW3’s own class that can contribute roughly what he will contribute to the Huskers next season. There are probably 25-40 guys every season that come in with a profile similar to AW3 (tall wing with some shooting ability). Every year, some of those guys blossom (hello, Ron Baker) and some tank. There’s no telling which will be which. I expect AW3 will have two strong years at Nebraska and will probably average double figures at least one season.
But I also think AW3 never would have started at KU and would have been a fringe rotation player at best, even if Wiggins and Oubre hadn’t come. He’s a solid player, not a great player. He might be able to start at Nebraska, but he’s not really a starting caliber player at Kansas.
The thing that worries me with Mack is that he is merely an average athlete on the wing. He doesn’t have a lot of pop or explosion in his game or his frame. When he drives, he can’t separate. That’s at the high school level. I’m guessing that will mean that he will struggle to drive at the collegiate level as well.
Watching his highlights, he has very few dunks. In the highlight I posted above, the very first clip is him dunking, but look at the dunk and remember that he is 6-7. His head barely gets to net level. He’s got long arms and that’s great, but he didn’t really elevate on that dunk. At the 0:24 mark, he hits a nice pull up jumper, but look at the lack of separation from the defense there. The next few highlights have him pushing the ball, but notice that he doesn’t have the speed to accelerate past most players. He’s merely keeping pace. In literally every dribble move you see, he doesn’t blow by guys. He just gets them off balance and pulls up. That air space will vanish in the Big XII and he will become just a spot up shooter.
Compare that to the Brown video that @drgnslayr posted. Brown literally explodes off the floor. The difference is stark. Also notice the number of different types of plays you see in the Brown highlight versus the Mack highlight. Just in the first minute you see a few alley oops, a couple of nice passes, some great drives finished with dunks, a nifty reverse layup, a couple of jumpers. Mack had mostly spot up jumpers and a few basic dribble moves, plus one blocked shot in his mix. At the 1:36 mark compare the head height on his dunk to the dunk that Mack executes. Brown is at least six inches higher than Mack got on his dunk. That difference in athleticism will be enormous on the defensive end.
The last couple of years we have been shaky defensively, but our OADs have been some of our better defenders. Wiggins was the best defender his year. Embiid was our best interior defender. Oubre was our best wing defender last year. Despite the OAD’s not living up to everything we hoped, they have brought it defensively and been solid teammates with the exception of Alexander and Selby’s eligibility issues.
I think Brown is the way to go. Mack would just be more of what we already have.
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@justanotherfan Did you happen to watch AW3 in the first part of 2013-14? Did you review his stats during the time frame where he got regular minutes? I think he stacked up very well.
He was not a starter here for the same reason Traylor started … Self’s choice.
All that provides an insight into what Self is thinking. Traylor is a player that is way down on the talent food chain, and I would say flat out that he is bad most of the time. Yet Self started him.
If Wiggins wouldn’t have come to Kansas, AW3 would have been the starter.
The question is whether he could have become a Travis Releford player. I think he would have scored more, and been a lesser defensive player than Releford. But certainly a guy you could win a national title with at the 3.
It’s all speculation, to be sure. But I think it is really unwise for anyone to assume that the parade of Wiggins, Oubre, and potentially Brown would have been better for Kansas than three seasons of AW3.
We revere Travis Releford as a Kansas basketball player. We are interested in Wiggins mainly because of his NBA exploits. There is a big difference.
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I love Releford for everything he did at KU, but I would have loved to have had McLemore in that title game instead of Travis. Not because Travis couldn’t contribute, because obviously he could (and did), but because McLemore could have pushed KU over the top. The ring potential is what changes my viewpoint. Brown makes next years team a potential ring team. There isn’t another wing out there that can do that.
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@justanotherfan maybe instead of Teahan?
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@Crimsonorblue22 That works too.
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Yes…but…
How good were White and Frankamp that could not beat the players that ended up in the rotation? Coach Self is no dummy and he will play whoever gives him the best chance of winning; White and Frankamp just were not it. You can cite early stats or any stats, but the reality is that neither was good enough to earn substantial playing time much less start.
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“I think Brown is the way to go.”
Brown makes us easily be the team to beat for the NC.
Look at the video carefully. I know videos often don’t tell the story. But if you compare him a bit to Wiggins, you will see that this kid can actually deliver a lot more offense than Wigs could while he was at KU. Brown can score from either side and has a crossover good enough to throw at most NBA defenders NOW!
Wigs brought a one-sided spin move with him to KU… only. Brown brings a spin move from both sides, a crossover to both sides, a step back jumper, a fadeaway jumper, and several other things. His toolbox is already full. His adjustment to college ball will be very very quick. Once defenders figured out Wigs one-sided spin, they had him pegged and he then had to try to learn on the fly. Brown will keep defenders guessing from day 1 in college. Plus… he has some serious handles… much better than Wigs had.
If we land Brown… hard to imagine us not making the FF, unless we get some untimely injuries late in the year.
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What can Brown do for you?
How about delivering a national champoinship?
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I feel like the greatest benefit offered by OADs is to give a team that extra bump to cross over the finish line for a NC in that one year. I see Brown giving us that bump. It can be the difference from an Elite 8 finish to a National Title.
That is a great reason to sign an OAD player. Not just to fill a roster with revolving door talent.
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@Statmachine ALL IN … LOCK STOCK AND BARREL.
Why not get Brown if we have a chance? Some other team will take him. Also, did you hear what the squid and little blue nation said of Brown? They need him because they have no 3 or shooting forward. WOW…if I were Poythress or Matthews, I’d be pretty offended.
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Look at the projected starters for UK…talk about going from feast to famine…
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@drgnslayr After reading Brown’s comments on Zagsblog about Michigan I think we can forget about him. He likes how the Mich HC takes lower ranked players and turns them into lottery picks. Not that he should be concerned about that. So who else is available?
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@brooksmd wonder why he’s taking so long?
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That story is based on one from the Detroit News that is based on a story on Scout.com that seems to be several days old and before the latest developments in the recruiting world. Don’t forget that Wiggins had strong family ties with FSU and ended up at kU.
Interesting that Desmond Eastmond, the guy that is been quoted extensively and apparent;y is his coach since he was 12 is now in big trouble with the NCAA for klinks with agents….Link here… I don’t believe it affects the players but the teams cannot compete in NCAA sanctioned events and will need to reform with different names and coaches.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Basking in all the attention since he’s the last of the big name recruits.
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@JayHawkFanToo But to say you don’t have a 3 is an insult to who you already have. This is Calipari recruiting at it’s finest. He doesn’t recruit based on need. He brings in whoever he can get, but if he can get the better of the players, he’ll get them and bench his faithful.
I think Lee and Willis are getting screwed by Calipari, twice now. He went on national television and sang their praises for waiting their time. Then his platoon system went into effect. He started winning and screwed Lee and Willis yet again. The dumb and dumber thing is, they’re still with him. So, if they are dumb enough to stay with him after he lied, they deserve what they don’t get at uk. If I were Lee and Willis, I’d transfer asap.
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@truehawk93 kids and parents are starting to figure this out, some are slower and some were already good enough to go nba.
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@Crimsonorblue22 I hope so.
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@brooksmd Bill Self has taken as many if not more than Behline and developed them to the NBA. Self is the master. I don’t think there’s a better coach. The twins, TRob, and Embiid to name a few. TRob wasn’t invited to the McDs AA game. Embiid wasn’t even ranked in the top 100 until he committed to KU. Then he went all the way to a top pick by draft time.
Self has a proven track record of developing under developed players or unranked players to the NBA.
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Pretty talented lineup and they have a good bench too. It’s not a platoon. UK is spoiled rotten. They may not clear Skal.
Tyler Ulis- Point Guard
Isaiah Briscoe- Shooting Guard/Point Guard
Alex Poythress- Small Forward
Marcus Lee- Power Forward
Skal Labissiere- Center
Oh how the chickens have come home to roost in Lexington. The stables are bare and Calipari is leftover with the horse sh*t in the stables.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Thorne was, is, and has been signed with IU for over a month now.
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I think the stables are on fire in Lexington. I found it interesting that Rhorrsen (sp) left…just up and left with little to no comment. He may know something. It’s almost like a ship sinking and he was the first to jump.
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@truehawk93 yep, I knew that.
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@truehawk93 Yeah, I was surprised he didn’t mention the lottery picks out of KU, which leads me more to think he commits to Mich as I’m sure HCBS pointed that out to him. Again, in his case it has little to do with him come draft time next year.
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@truehawk93 What’s this about?
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At risk of coming across like a negative nancy, I’m going to wade in on the Brannen Greene Issue. Brannen and Bill Self are not a comfortable fit. Outside of his 3 ball, what does Brannen bring to Bill Self Basketball? And will Bill ever adjust his offense to rely on the long range shooting game? Brannen brought his strength to the wrong program. For me, this Jaylen Brown Question is a no-brainer. If Self and Co. can fetch him, then BRING HIM ON! Granted, I have been convoluted about this OAD Business. But, hey, OADs are the reality of 2015-16 NCAA basketball. Traditional hoops powers have been dominated by the Anthony Davis/Jahlil Okafor “rent a player” wonder-kind. This J. Brown kid is a born-ready force. I’ve great respect for the likes of Lucas, Mickelson, Traylor. But if we are to count on those three and a questionable Brannen Greene to push us to the Final Four, then we’re bound for another frustrating Jayhawk season. Svi is still a MAYBE, and Selden’s consistency still more than somewhat in doubt. BRING BROWN ABOARD!
