Posts made by approxinfinity

So Dame Sarr coming to KU is contingent upon Coward not going pro right? When do we anticipate knowing whether Coward will go to Duke or NBA?

@wissox geez man. What rock do your nipples live under?

Oops, silly me, how did this one get through?

It will be good to be on the “mostly complete” side of roster construction after this one

@Jhawk69

@mayjay 3 if embiid didnt get hurt? No way man. That roster was “woof!”

@wissox nobody has a large college sample size given how different the game is post NIL. Bill had zero NBA experience, something that might have been valuable these last 3 years

Du… du haase… du hasst to see it.

Man. Tough one.

@rockchalkjayhawk Titus Welliver thought he had a friend…

https://x.com/FansOfKU/status/1920944298867974545

Congrats to Mr Clutch

Ochai getting the MOP was laziness. Shoulda been Dave, no doubt.

Wish it was Mayo coming back. Unfinished business.

Still waiting re: eligibility rules?

@DanR love it. Big fan of Vaughn and makes a ton of sense imo.

@kjayhawks joy, right?

@dylans we just spent 2 seasons giving 30 mpg to a “defense optional” center. Hopefully we at least get consistent effort from this kid?

@P-H-C list in this space: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10069104-the-most-successful-coaches-in-mens-ncaa-tournament-history

@Texas-Hawk-10 Vaughn was 71-68 with the Nets and got them to the playoffs twice. He also showed noticable improvement with young rosters. I dont see him as damaged goods at all.

Vaughn got a raw deal in Orlando too. Every reason to believe he would be a good coach and a player development guy.

@Texas-Hawk-10 appreciate the enumerated take. Makes a lot of sense

@drgnslayr were you suggesting this year? Seems like that ship has sailed. I assume you meant generally speaking, order of operations.

Again, i am not talking about this season.

Things change quickly, and posturing is a thing, we know.

We hang our hats on organizations we believe in, like the Spurs, wishing some things to be uncorrupted, but things fall apart.

Things also come together.

But nothing is static.

So proclamations of absolutes certainties and intolerance for counterpoint seem to be irrational takes.

Hope we can live in the middle.

Its a beautiful place.

If I am projecting and this is in fact a molehill, thats cool.

@SlimShaddy54 yeah. Tyler also lives in Texas fwiw I’ll stop. Just saying theres a tiny chance if he is like “to hell with cbb landscape, but I’m not done”

Pop is 76, Bill’s a spry 62!

@SlimShaddy54 yep. I get it. Just wondered if the equation might have changed since last he weighed in on that avenue.

@BShark not sure I follow though, thought everyone is being nice here. Do you think there is zero chance Bill ever dabbles in the league? I ask that because:

1. College basketball is now pro basketball with handcuffs
2. Pop just retired
3. Bufford is Self’s best friend

If Bill were to do anything besides retire, seems like Spurs would be high on the list.

Haha, man! In this age of non committal internet posturing you’re pretty confident @Crimsonorblue22

Im not saying this season. Im sure he is in it to win it this season.

What are the chances Bill Self ends up a Spur?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44998745/royals-set-club-record-seven-home-runs-vs-orioles

@Jhawk69 i heard hes also good at cooking frozen pizzas.

I could listen to Langford talk basketball all day. Dude’s impressive. Glad he went to Europe, its a part of who he is, seeing the world.

@benshawks08 i just really dont understand how divorced from the truth we are. I guess the truth costs money. And its easier to serve up a pile of trash.

@Kcmatt7 think i was incorrect about those guys. Jesus. All i did was ask google the ones i thought i recalled being lefties. Apparently Google really wanted to tell me “yes”. So much misinformation. Just looked at the youtube vids thx.

Did you know that Lodrick Stewart is left handed and Rodrick Stewart is right handed? Their names worked out well for them I guess.

@Kcmatt7 Hunter, Josh Jackson, JCL, Wayne Selden, Keith Langford.

Are we going to get Ahamad Bynum? https://amp.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article305156881.html

@Kcmatt7 oh i missed what he was saying. I thought Jose Hernandez was some sort of eccentric left-handed kid. Have we had a lefty on most of Selfs teams?

@drgnslayr 

@Jhawk69 Frank Mason was a baller and my favorite Jayhawk ever, but he did not get to the final 4 in 4 seasons.

He did everything he possibly could with his body and he was an athletic freak, but basketball is a game that favors the tall. Being a prolific 3 point shooter is the great equalizer of course, but Frank was a 30% 3 pt shooter at KU and only hit 40% his senior year.

Steph Curry was a 41% 3 pt shooter on over 9 attempts at Davidson over 3 seasons.

Peterson could be better than Frank. Freshman Kevin Durant was better than Frank. Just cant teach tall.

@MR11 Frank was I think the all time scoring leader at Petersburg HS, ahead of Moses Malone. I dont think Council is that capable offensively, is he?

@benshawks08 MDNAWWAM … make “diversity” not a “woke” word any more…

Acronym rolls right off the tongue! Haha

Also, the above is not intended to be political, just a rebuttal to the idea that sports cannot (should not?) be separated from politics. There is value in keeping things in their lanes.

I think @dylans has a fair point that we need separation / compartmentalization of concepts.

It is a noble goal to find common ground, compassion and consensus with and for people with different beliefs than yourself. If all concepts bleed together that goal can become increasingly hard.

We need to fight back against the winner-take-all globalizing singularity of all entities (including ideas) and be able to appreciate things like moderation, diversity, balance, satisfaction.

Lets not lose our taste for these beautiful concepts!

Yeah, guys, lets move it over to political if we want to continue, please

@Gorilla72 good with this.

can we not go scorched earth? I know it’s stressful times, but can we avoid getting personal? ie its better to be disgusted by an idea than a person, its better to discredit an idea than shame a person who thinks it. Defensiveness is antithetical to change, so anyone who is committed to winning over hearts and minds should try to not force people of differing opinions to defend themselves, and thusly make it hard for people to separate themselves from the opinions they hold.

@nuleafjhawk love it!

@dylans ha, run that back!

Now i want thongs that you soak that conform to your feet. Sounds like an experience to have.

Thats throngs, not thongs. Gonna go ahead and head you off at the pass there…