Long Bench, Slow Tempo and No-AMP: Sweet 16 or Elite Eight?
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It is the worrying and fan focus, that make us all KU’s 16th man, or whatever!!
I worry.
Everyone does.
We are not like many fan bases.
We know our daddy.
We know reality.
The truth is not dead here in the basketball monestery on the shore of the sea of grass.
If beauty walks a razor’s edge, truth walks a laser beam at a 1 micron setting here in basketball Shangri La, under the rain and reign of MSM lies TRYING to turn our culture to ZERO HOUR for a restart.
Here. Now. Lawrence. Always.
Under the center jump circle, far under Naismith court, the basketball grail rests, guarded, but always in peril.
Rock Chalk!!!
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Don’t despair! See the stats I posted on the other thread (“Oh welp”). Remarkably similar between the two teams despite the contrast in team makeup.
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Now you are getting pitiful, brother @mayjay, like a hooked fish that cannot get free.
Face it, coaches think more than one game at a time.
Acceptance of truth will rejuvenate you.
Oh and you left out the part about the apparent petroshoeco-agency complex’s team of ringers. Memphisto was playing ringers. That was documented, wasn’t it?
KU beat a bunch of ringers!
Or has the MSM in NY even rewritten that?
Zero hour reset or bust!
Yeeeeee hawwwwww, brother @mayjay, its good to be a mythical bird!!! Win or lose in the March Carney!!!
Step right up, step right up, we have a WINNAH! Howling!
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@jaybate-1.0 Thank you the other day for pointing out how you are always joking because it makes your themes so much more fun!
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That’s the same strategy I am guessing they used this week. Roberts works on Purdue with Self.
Snacks and Townsend split up Oregon and Michigan, working with Case to get whatever video stuff they need - this is where having a good basketball mind as video coordinator is helpful to speed this process up. Quite a few really good coaches at both the college and NBA level got their start as video coordinator because you do so much analysis of game plans that you can’t help but improve your X and O ability.
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Still struggling, eh?
A win will help.
I think the chance of a flat earth is greater than coaches only thinking about one game at a time.
I mean why would coaches lie about planning for multiple opponents?
Do you recall that the US military drew up war plans for every possible opponent, including Great Britain, during the 1930s?
They weren’t just worrying about Germany.
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@mayjay said:
It just looked like it.
Did it really?
Or is that an attempt at a zero hour reset, too!!!
Yeeeeee hawwwwww
I love me some @mayjay.
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@jaybate-1.0 If we limit possessions and save energy, I bet we lose handily. You want to rest guys, run and gun, get a big lead, I usually agree with your stuff and get a good chuckle but man I cant buy your strategy. Play in to their strengths by slowing down and resting for a game that you may never play. I never know how serious you are.
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@kjayhawks Now you are in my trap…
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It’s not what I want. It’s never about me except with conspiracy theory smearing. It’s about what the coaches want.
They each face a choice.
The best thing would be a low possession game with max effort expended the last 10 minutes; that leaves them strongest for game two.
If either starts to get blown out, then it’s balls to the walls to live to fight another day.
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@jaybate-1.0 Reading the other site…it appears that Self is not going to use an “amp” on this game. Our boys think they have ample motivation without said Amp.
Personally? I’m nervous as hell. KU is good. Real good. But we find ourselves in a completely different situation.
We have a team full of runners and small ball gunners. I wouldn’t say small in the post but definitely a size disadvantage in the post against Purdue who can shoot it just as good as we can. Its crazy.
If KU can keep it a single possession game til the final couple minutes, I like our chances.
Those guys live a breath on crunch time adrenaline rushes.
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@jaybate-1.0 hate to tell you I told you so but yes I told you!! Lol
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@jaybate-1.0 I guess they didn’t need an amp for this game against Purdue. OMFG!
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@Lulufulu He held them back.
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@Lulufulu OMFG x 10
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Nope, LOL! You sound like Matt Painter. Painter had no clue what Self was doing to him. Neither did you. Neither did I till I looked at the box score afterwards.
Self was resting players right and left, off the floor and on. We were just hot as hell and he let’em keep shooting and stripping because Purdue’s three ballers could have gotten hot.
But I understand your euphoria.
Self fooled me too till i looked at the box score.
23 minutes from Coleby and Bragg.
24 minutes from Vick.
That was our long bench tonight for sure.
No one over 35 minutes. Sweeeeeeeet time management and saving the legs for Oregon.
Self also was letting everyone take turns driving so Frank basically had a LIGHT night of driving.
Self had his cake and ate it too tonight!!!
53% trifectation and lane jumping lets you rest some players.
The rest had to play, but even they did not have to go 38-39 as usual.
Self is a genius!!!
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@jaybate-1.0 your high buddy, I said get up big and rest them, run and gun. You said okay slow and rest them bye not running. Bragg and Coleby got so many minutes because LL was in foul trouble.
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You know you got fooled. Self rested them running. The box score doesn’t lie. You do, if you don’t acknowledge the numbers.
It’s hard to believe cuz it looked fast, but at the end of the game it was all strips and shooting percentage and low PT and long bench.
This is why Self is so hard to beat. He masks what he’s doing all the time.
You’ll come down from the trip tomorrow and see the box score.
P…S.: I never said what Self would do. I said what Self and Painter should do. They should have done what Michigan and Oregon did do. Kept it in the 60s, but Painter got carried away the first half when he jumped out to a early lead, as I said both coaches would try to do and blew his lead. Then like a fool he did not anticipate Self’s adjustment to a backside double the second half. Then KU caught fire shooting and Self just let everyone take turns driving with the other guys resting in transition so to speak. It was an amazing display of coaching and playing. Did you see Frank and Devonte weren’t even a little tired at the end of the game? This was hot shooting, lane jumping (which is less taxing than really guarding hard for a shot clock) and stripping. Notice how little of the shot clock Purdue used? KU completely suckered them!
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@jaybate-1.0 The low PT had nothing do with us up 30 and sitting starters the last 2 plus minutes? See how works is, that if you’re in the game for that minute you get that minute lol.
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Nice try.
Last night I was compassionate because you were euphoric.
Today it’s cold water time.
Self could have pulled his starters 5-8 minutes before he did, if he had a normal bench.
He rested them absolutely as much as he could and any good backups he had played big minutes. You lose. Next.
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@jaybate1.0 If you think we didnt run and get up big to rest our players, I can not you help friend, thank god you dont coach lol.
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Funny I was too nice to say that to you.
But I thought it for flipping sure.
Howling!!!
Have a great day!
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@jaybate-1.0 hey I think you’re full of it but I still love ya buddy!! Lol
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Kiddo, u r reading my mind and lacking the class not to say it!!!
And I love u 2. Lol
Have a great day!!!
