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Sometimes the path to the final four (or wherever) is made for you. You couldn’t ask for more than to have a 10 and an 11 seed in your path to the Elite 8. Now…that doesn’t mean we will win or that it will be easy. But whatever happens, I still prefer this path than the “chalk” path.
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@Hawk8086 me too! Not ready to go home!!!
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I’m pissed off… I wanted Syracuse. We were going to be the team that exposed how over-rated they were all year.
I’m more worried about playing Dayton.
You have to be careful when these teams come from nowhere and challenge everyone. They are hungry and playing well.
I hope JoJo is back by then… but first things first… I hope we advance that far!
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@drgnslayr I wanted them too!
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Go Badgers!
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Harvards not laying down, crazy games’!
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@drgnslayr what a game!
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This has been a crazy year! Been enjoying it so far. I’m surprised the refs haven’t screwed up more.
Wow… Harvard!
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Dumb Duck run amuck.
Badgers move on… one step closer to a game of beat down on Zona!
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Actually I wasn’t 100% sorry to see them (Syracuse) dropped. I still feel the 2003 sting with Carmello. And Dayton has been a fun Cinderella to watch. Yes it would have been fun to take Syracuse down but we aren’t sure we will have Embiid back if we beat Stanford tomorrow (fingers crossed). It seems Dayton doesn’t have much inside so if we get past Stanford we just take it to the paint all day long, watch the perimeter and don’t worry much about protecting the rim. Congrats to the Dayton Team for a great run and love the senior depth.
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@drgnslayr I can understand wanting Syracuse again. I also understand your point about the lower seeds. But, at some point these lower seeds run come to an end. That’s why I like the odds of playing the lower seeds.
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I still feel the sting, too… that’s why I wanted them. I had no doubt we would slaughter the Orange this year.
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We often have trouble with those low seeds… like VCU… UNI…
We could have problems with Dayton from the outside and penetration. If they get our bigs in foul trouble that takes away our inside advantage.
If we can get more stellar play from Bam Bam and Black Death… no problemo!
I wouldn’t mind seeing the Gators go down now so we can skip them, too!
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One year, we ONLY had to take care of VCU to get to the Championship, but we all know what happened. So I’m not looking at anything beyond Stanford. We need to take care of business, drive at them and get their bigs into foul trouble early.
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Right on… one atta time!
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Come on, Harvard!
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Based on all this vast knowledge!!! Who do you all pick for hawk to rock? Considering their scouting report and why. I’m going w/wiggins, think he and selden will d up their perimeter guys and I think wigs is the guy to cause them to get into foul trouble. You guys thinking Lucas will get some time?
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Dayton reminds me a bit of EKY, only a bit better. KU has to control the boards and reduce TOs. I hope Tharpe comes to play this game.
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@truehawk93 don’t forget Stanford first!!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Not too familiar with Stanford. Didn’t follow them much. All the Pac attention was on zona, ucla, and oregon. So, they are a good team or wouldn’t be here. I think this will be a relatively well scouted game. I expect a much better game against Stanford than EKY. The EKY game was a good game and a great gut check for KU. I hope Tharpe comes to play both games. Tharpe has to wake up and play. Thankfully CF stepped up for Tharpe.
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Wiggins said he needs to come on harder. He usually doesn’t make those statements so I’m betting he comes alpha dog!
Wiggins family will be there, including Nick… He’s going to come ready to play! The key is we need a PG who will protect the ball and feed it to him.
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dragon, Been reading your posts long enough to know your knowledge of the game is at a different (higher) level than mine so I trust what you say. I like the idea a low seed took them down (and Duke, etc.) since we’ve been down that road before, I like that other Blue Chip programs sometime suffer the same fate so it isn’t rubbed in our nose.
Anyway the older I get the more I own up to chinks in our armor. If all goes our way let them (Syracuse) say, we we could have beat KU, advanced, Yada, Yada. Yada. I just hope we can survive and advance,
in 2008 many KSU fans tried to tell me they could and should have beat KU, advanced and would have won it all. Woulda-coulda-shoulda
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We all hate the woulda/coulda/shoulda chatter… especially when it comes from us!
This is a crazy year. The team that comes ready and wants it more wins…
I’m counting on that tomorrow for the shockers. Hoping they spank Cal!
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I think it’s safe to say that teams have a game plan against KU to draw charges. This is an interesting trend against them. Let’s see if Stanford resorts to drawing charges. They can’t play defense so they have to stand in the way. Wigs, Selden, and Traylor need to be prepared and watch them set up. They have to make the defense react and not let them set up in the driving lane or simply pull up in front of the extended arms of the defensive player. This is true of Wigs. Teams will try to draw charges on him. There’s always a lob option around the rim. I say the “charge” rule has made charging even worse. I think most have been called pretty close at this point. But, charges are still too quickly called in most cases.
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@truehawk93 pretty hard to get charges this year, if that goes the wrong way, they’re hurting more than we are w/ fouls. Although there were some called against us in the first game. Selden needs to pull up.
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Even more than that… teams scout us and realize ball/head/shoulder fakes get’em to the FT line!
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@drgnslayr I thought our bigs handled EKY’s fakes fairly well. But they still jumped out of the dome in most cases.
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@drgnslayr plus we try to block every shot!
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Black has got to stay out of foul trouble!
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Down to just the UCONN / VILL game.
If I was God of earth, I’d schedule NIT games in the middle of the night for us hardcore bball nuts!
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Everytime Wigs drives, I hold my breath and hope for the best. Then a whistle blows and my heart stops for a milisecond. Then it’s usually against the defender. It just bothers me because he’s aggressive and gets to the line, but I guess the B12 Smart ordeal is still in my mind.
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He needs to lower his dribble and get a better grip on the ball!
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“Watch this…” -Mario Chalmers I believe the Nova v. KU game clip is the clip when Chalmers dribbled over to Wright and then lobbed to Arthur.
This game is one of my fav KU games, next to '88 and '08…and a few others. I hope they have a game or two like this game.
Jay Wright’s commercial cracks me up.
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According to the Rivals scouting report on Stanford, http://kansas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1623411, they have good players, but are very inconsistent. Their bigs tend to have foul troubles. So we need to drive at them and get them into foul trouble. So Wiggins in beast mode will be a great advantage for us. If we make up all the 3s we missed in the first game, we will beat them by 100.
OK, I will take a 30 point beat down.
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@drgnslayr I thought someone made a great observation about WIgs’ dribble. It’s really high and a bit out of control. That spin move he does in traffic scares the crap out of me too. His dribble takes so long between his hand and the floor. Unfortunately, I’ve seen him lose the ball too.
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@Wishawk I think we can get them, but KU has to be careful of charges too. They will stop defending and start standing in the way. They have to be wise when they drive: know when to pull up, pass or change directions.
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@truehawk93 Yes, the charging call is tricky and inconsistent too. Hope the officials forget about the new twist in interpreting the rules. That was too confusing.
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And the ball slips out of his hands…
We stand up great on paper… for whatever that is worth. We looked great on paper against VCU and UNI, too.
It’s March… we just need players playing hard and not over-thinking. Tharpe better get his act together because when he is screwing up itt makes all our guys think instead of play. It’s called anxiety… minds stumbling and the game unravels.
Imagine how hard it is to stay focused. Seems every human on the planet is watching you play a game. The guys that win are guys that have their heads in tunnelvision… ffocusing only on the game, playing in a rhythm, mind on basketball autopilot. So imagine that and then imagine your PG melting down in front of you. What comes natural is to leave your tunnelvision and address the struggle. Before you know it, the entire team is out of whack!
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@drgnslayr stop that talk, now!
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@truehawk93 but more times than not, he gets to the ft line.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Yep…I just have to trust his talent.
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@truehawk93 Saw you were trying to modify the imbedded Youtube video. I think you may try using the link they provide in the “Share”,
, instead of the one in the address, https://…
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@Wishawk Yep…I get them mixed up, but they are viewable. Those imbedded vids bring this huge pic with the arrow to click. I prefer to use that share link to keep things simple. Thanks
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Great memories! Go uconn!
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Hey guys! I’m still watching, too, Just wanted you to know you’re not alone!
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@Wishawk Badgers had a 2nd half offensive explosion!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Good times and one of the most dominate teams. They suffered a lot too before getting to the '08 NC.
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@VailHawk I have Wisconsin in 3/4 brackets.
I have Nova in all 4 brackets. I still can’t believe KU lost to Nova in Atlantis.
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@truehawk93 yeah I picked all the teams that beat us to go far!
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I’d like to see North Carolina stick it to Michigan State. They can do it… didn’t they already do it to them a few months ago?
We play well against Roy!
So everyone root for Roy… he’s a free advance for us!
