Harvard vs Kansas chat.....
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If you were HCBS would any of you go with Lucas over Mickelson ? I will never understand why HCBS does not play Mickelson more. He’s bigger has better hands and has better overall post skills than Lucas.
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@DinarHawk suggestions?
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Ugly, but a win. RCJH!
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I won’t say it’s been real fun, but nice to spend time with you all during these games. My wife won’t talk to me about basketball so you’re all I’ve got!
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@Bwag Mason?
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@Crimsonorblue22 Fan with a jersey on…
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@wissoxfan83 happy to talk ball with you man!
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Phone is going to the charger now!
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@Crimsonorblue22 press at the first sign of trouble. Switch to small lineup. Sub often. UNI would have been gassed after 10 or 15 minutes.
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Ugly game!
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@DinarHawk needed Tarik against Stanford
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@Bwag so nothing important?
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@Crimsonorblue22 could leave him in to guard their center, then have mason, wiggins, seldon and perry.
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@DinarHawk we did, right? Selden
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Wish I could see them in practice.
I like a lot of the things Mick does except his out of control play that often leaves his man alone on the block for a simple put back
Hopefully it’s a moot point by Christmas when Diallo and Brag are getting most of the minutes.
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@Crimsonorblue22 yes but Self always does it too late. Come out pressing start of second half and set the tone.
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@DinarHawk ok.
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@SoftballDad2011 Jessie n showed a couple of plays w/mick and then Perry, mick turned the wrong way, both times. Just one thing I heard.
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@Crimsonorblue22 should have made it a track meet today but never pressed Iun the second half. It will cost him again.
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I wish we used the transition game more too in this type of game.
But if we are hitting our FT and acting like we care on the boards this would have been a 25 point win w/out transition.
I think Self doesn’t like letting them off the hook that easy when he knows his system should be working but that it isn’t only because of execution.
Kind of like Mr Miagi…you do it until you get it right…wax on, wax off.
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@SoftballDad2011 I agree to a point, but this has been a problem for years. Playing fast fixes it.
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@DinarHawk I think using Lucas for rebounding slows our pressing and transition games down
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Good news is that we finally have the personnel, experience and depth this year to get thru it.
I don’t think he minds making them work their way through these things…past couple of years it was a mistake because they lacked the leadership and resolve to fight through it…so they shut down in tough situations
This year’s team will learn from it and grow.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Once Cheick gets more relaxed he will provide the rebounding and quick outlets.
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@brooksmd agree, we saw the “raw” today.
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@SoftballDad2011 I think he wanted Perry to play thru it, drove me nuts though, but I get it.
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Like not just rare off the grill raw…but sushi raw!
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@SoftballDad2011 right, and we had the depth and talent in 2010, 2011, and 2014.
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@DinarHawk agree on 10 & 11.
I thought 14 had lots of players but was severely lacking in leadership (Black was a great leader, Nadir was an anti leader)… Our best players seemed to defer responsibility when we needed them most. And we were severely lacking experience (Selden, Mason, Greene Wiggins Embiid (hurt) Frankamp …) were all too young to get it. And aside from Frankamp lacked the handles and decision making to play fast. Frankamp had the handles and decision making to play fast but was a plodder who preferred a slow pace of play.
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@SoftballDad2011 anti leader.
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@SoftballDad2011 Frankamp couldn’t play fast. He was never a push the tempo guy, he was only good at the methodical pace.
I wish Self would push tempo more because superior talent typically shines the more possessions they get, but Self’s preferred style has always been the slower pace because that’s how you have to play to win with kesser talent like he had at Oral Roberts, Tulsa, and early at Illinois. Self has never really adapted his system to having the superior talent and really taking advantage of it.
We see flashes of what KU could be in situations like Maui when KU doesn’t have time to properly scout and gameplan and they have to rely more on execution of basic principles on defense. There is something to the KISS method (Keep it simple stupid) and its principles and it has proven to be very effective over the years.
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Great points.
