Gameday Ladies and Gents
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@JayHawkFanToo Yeah, I wasn’t hip enough for disco and not angry enough for punk. (Though I did see a GREAT Ramones show at the old One Block West club near KU Med Center.)
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His d wasn’t great but he was a freshman guard who desperately needed the weight room and bill demands more than the avg coach on d.
It’s just unfortunate he didn’t stick it out his shooting could be elite and by his senior year I will be shocked if he’s not one of their 3 best players.
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Holy Cross plays the Princeton?
Ooooooookay.
This will be the game where guys get to become trusted on defense by Coach Self, or dig themselves holes that will haunt them the rest of the season.
Self loves to use Princeton teams to make guys prove their defensive manhoods.
Self figured out years back now that the way to beat a Princeton team is to:
a) dog it defensively everywhere without switching;
b.) bump their routes; and
c.) have our post man beat their post man to every ball screen.
This means our guys shooting legs suffer and long ball percentages sag.
In turn, this means you shoot treys early both halves with starters, and you let your subs trigger a quick trey, but mostly everyone is burning the energy budget chasing every where, and you play conservation of energy on the offensive end by banging it inside.
Which of our bigs play the most is determined by which can hedge defend on their posts either floating out side for shots, or breaking out to ball screen. Jamari and Landen are probably our best proven hedge and chase defenders of our Composite 5 post men. But Hunter’s mobility he showed in S. Korea makes him a prime candidate get big minutes mad storking them.
The Princeton traditionally makes Self sit his long, skinny young centers and wait till next game, but Diallo sure could benefit from the experience, if his ego can stand looking bad.
Otherwise, Self will rotate on the perimeter as much as Svi and Vick allow him to; i.e., as much as they prove themselves able to fight over picks.
If Svi and Vick prove themselves not up to the challenge of fighting through all the picks, and Frank, Devonte, and Wayne have to play a lot of minutes, then we will see the Old Woman in Self bitch and moan, but then allow switching.
On offense, outside of some early quick trigger trey balling when the legs are fresh, I would expect mostly high low bang it inside.
Rock Chalk!
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@jaybate-1.0
old woman
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Just saw Greene’s suspension is ending early. He will be in uniform but self was non committed on if he will play or not. Regardless it’s nice to have the whole team eligible for the first time. I hope he gets some time on the floor to set up for saturday
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@RockChalkinTexas Was he a good kisser?
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@BeddieKU23 whoa! Should be interesting game
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@BeddieKU23 he’s the highest ranking player Marsha has ever had. He’s probably close to being top 3 right now.
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@wrwlumpy I never
and tell!
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@RockChalkinTexas ha ha! I’m guessing yes!!!
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@Crimsonorblue22 were there doubters in Lawrence?
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@Bwag I wasn’t impressed! DUI really turns me off too.
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I was very high on Conner. I was sad to see him go, yet I understand why he did. Even with his herculean effort in the tournament Coach was going to kick him to the bench.
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Per twitter
Hunter will start
Mari and Landon may not play because of injuries… and this board goes nuts
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I’d like to see:
- Hunter start and get a minimum 15 minutes.
- Diallo get a minimum 20 and stuff the stat sheet again in a good learning game.
- Selden put another monster game together and get his mojo back.
Could go on, but why be greedy?
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@FansOfKU: On this day in 1989, KU beat Kentucky 150-95 in Allen Fieldhouse.
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@KUHoops: #kubball leads the series with Holy Cross 2-1. Aaron Miles and the '02-03 team won most recently in an 81-57 victory on Nov. 19, 2002
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@Crimsonorblue22 Terry Brown had 31 pts off the bench hitting 7 treys-WOW… Self just said Hunter gets the start tonite & Bragg & Diallo will be first bigs off the bench. Also heard on news that Greene has been re-instated…don’t know if that’s true or not
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@globaljaybird he has
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Self has always had this feminine side to him–the concern with appearance and fastidiousness, the long slender fingers, this finicky attention to detail, this feminine taunting of men for not living up to being good providers of what he “needs.” Lots of guys have it, just like lots of women have this masculine streak in the midst of their femininity. Watch good old Camille Paglia. She’s made a career out of managed release of it, while staying a woman. Its what makes here so appealing in addition to her awesome intellect. Since the 90s, it surfaces in mid life and after men as a cranky old lady the same way it surfaces in mid life and post midlife women as crochety old gentleman. You’ve seen these middle aged broads lose it and start lipping their cigs and cursing like sergeants, then just kind of muttering, right? That’s just them letting loose that inhibited drama of their dad getting old. Daddy got to do this, so I can do it too. Men say pretty much the same thing. That terror of a mommie, she got to do these harangues on dad, or all of us, and screw it I can too now in todays world. There is a certain age after which the subordinated streak of gender gets released when a person is really disgusted and no longer feels like he, or she, has to act manly, or womanly, so as to live up to the cultures norms. Its wild to watch. Haven’t you heard Self the last couple of seasons, after talking about “who we are” and about how we have to be tougher, and we have to stop playing soft, and walking around talking like we’ve got to be better Marines, finally, once in a while just drops all the pretense and says in this borderline reedy voice with an expression that looks like a little old blue hair that just sucked on some alum, “We played like a bunch of babies.” This isn’t a hee man coach speaking. This is his feminine side bursting forth in bitchiness. A lot of the woman comedians are getting laughs releasing the male countervailing equivalent juxtaposed against the girlish stuff. The woman in the movie Train Wreck is absolutely brilliant at this schtick. I saw her on Ellen Degeneres and it is tough to break up a real professional and great comedian like Ellen, but this woman, bouncing back and forth between these sides of her personality, had Ellen in tears.
This whole dynamical gender thing is coming more and more into play as the genders free themselves more and more of their traditional roles and so individual persons are able more and more to unleash those repressed portions of themselves with less and less subtlety.
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@jaybate-1.0 WTH?
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Hunter’s been looking good. But those kind of fouls will keep u on bench
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Nice take Frank!
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@globaljaybird
“They are playeeeeng like a bunch of baaaaaaabeeeeeesss.”
Don’t say you haven’t heard it.
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Is Greene getting ready to check in?
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Greene looking stellar in his early return!
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Surprised BG got his suspension reduced. He looks good so far and hungry! Ne needs to stay aggressive especially on the defensive end.
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It’s great that we’re hitting shots, but we’re soooo wide open!
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Showtime !
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@ZIG we are getting easy buckets for days. Passing looks nice and crisp tonight too including getting that extra pass.
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This is not fools gold. This is good shooters hitting wide open shots. This is what this team can do when unleashed.
No, they won’t shoot 70%+, but guys are wide open. These are practice shots.
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Agreed, but when the D tightens up, then we’ll know how Great of shooters they are.
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Guys look loose too…then again, maybe it’s just the zone D.
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@ZIG We know Wayne can hit them while he’s guarded so can Frank. I love Wayne’s little step back jumper. Absolute dagger.
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@HawkInMizery That’s a total confident shot. You can tell he finally realizes he’s one of the best players on the court every night
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@jaybate-1.0They’re also in AFH !!
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@ZIG I’m glad he does. If he plays with that confidence every night it will entice others to match his intensity. That attitude can carry us far come march.
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@HawkInMizery Preach my man. Exactly!.. Think Tyshawn/ TRob in '12. That attitude will rub off on the younger players.
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Ok, that was the best take of BG’s career. To keep it in perspective, it’s only holy cross. But it’s encouraging, no doubt
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Wow, thats what Diallo does. He came from nowhere for that rebound and slam on the press. He needs a lot of work elsewhere on his game but plays like that are just pure talent.
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@JRyman wasn’t that in ref to crowd participation at the game, people that more or less sat on their hands while sitting in the expensive seats closer to the court?
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@Bwag Yes it was to the big donors sitting there and not getting into the game. But I think it may of had a double meaning as those are the ones who come out to the booster luncheons too and feel as if they have a say in what coach should be doing.
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@nwhawkfan I wasn’t too popular in High School because I couldn’t dance. At all. I had C.R.D
Caucasian Rhythmic Disorder…
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@Crimsonorblue22 As far as I remember, the only doubters in Lawrence were the coaches. I believe all the fans wanted him to see more pt.
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@nuleafjhawk I didn’t! He killed us on D, too slow too!
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@Crimsonorblue22 I want to say that you’re either confused or buying into an old wive’s tale of some sort. He was/is a good player and if his defense isn’t up to par with his offense (like about a million other players) so what? I think he got shafted.
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@nuleafjhawk well ok.
