Just how amazing has his season been?
13, 20 point games.
Who would have ever thought he would average 20 points a game? Incredible
On the verge of becoming the 1st Big-12 player to avg 20 + 5 assists a game.
Possible front-runner for POY.
14th place on the All-Time Scoring Record with 1,622 points. He still has at least 10 games left in his career, 17 if all goes as planned.
What else am I missing?
No matter what happens he’ll go down as one of my favorite hawks ever!
“You know, you look at this team and everybody, including myself, has said what’s wrong with this team all year long. We don’t do this, we don’t do that or we’re too small or we don’t have enough depth or we don’t play hard enough or we’re not hungry enough. And all they’ve done is they’re the No. 3 overall seed, and they’ve won two games in the tournament and are going to the Sweet 16. We’ve got to win two more games to get where we want to go. But I’m so proud of our kids and nobody can say that they haven’t had a great season. Now we have to go make great (turn into) special.” -Bill Self
Has Self said anything better all season long?
I’m pumped for Friday. We’re going to win
At work and have this beaming smile.
The win ranks up with the best of them.
Hope everyone else is enjoying the feeling of that W.
San Antonio here we come!
heard this was going up in the Rafters at Kansas St’s next home game. Next year they can add to it.
Time to give this guy some props for his defense and intangibles on the court so far this year.
His defense on Saturday against Paschall was outstanding. He was locked in. Talked after about the film he watched on how to guard him and its refreshing to see how much detail he put into that matchup. Overall I thought he did as good a job as we could have hoped on him.
We all know his 3 point shots are prayers, he constantly clanks the first free throw at the line and he’s struggled finishing on drives but man does this kid compete on both sides. He’s a valuable ball handler as we saw when Nova went to a full court press. It’s nice to know if Dotson is struggling or in foul trouble that we have a ball handler that can get into the offense. He has great hands and awareness when looking for steals. More importantly we have a guy that can matchup with someone’s best scorer 1-4 positions. Great to have.
He scores 1 point but his impact on the game seemed to outweigh what the box score says. Now if the staff could only get that shot fixed…
This guy deserves his own thread.
What an unbelievable performance last night. Dare to say that tops Kevin Durant’s performance here years back but after playing 54 of 55 minutes and putting on a clinic all through the OT’s I do say this was the best performance by a non KU player ever in this building.
And he does it with class… If you saw his post game interview with Scott Van Pelt he was all class even though you could sense he was upset leaving here without a victory.
And our fans, the one’s that were left gave him a standing ovation. Name another fan-base that will do that for a kid on the other team. Not ISU, Not KSU…KU is all class even its fans, although sometimes we all have our moments.
I’ve been a fan of his for a while but I gained a whole new appreciation for him. He had moments last night that reminded me of how Steph Curry is playing in the NBA. He’s that good, I do think he’s got a chance to become an NBA all-star the way he carries himself and the hard work he has put in to be where he’s at.
I’m jealous he’s not in a KU uniform, I’m jealous Self didn’t see what kind of player Hield could become, but who could have?
Thanks Buddy for putting on a show but respectfully missing that last 3 in triple OT. I will never forget that game.
Signed
Low 4 STAR Combo Guard Issac “Mackey” McBride
Low 4 STAR SG/SF Christian Braun
Offers have Visited
5 STAR PF Matthew Hurt
5 STAR PF Precious Achiuwa
4 STAR SG/SF Cassius Stanley
Offers, haven’t visited Campus
4 STAR Combo Forward Tristan Enaruna
4 STAR Combo Guard Harlond Beverly
3rd in points per game in Conference- 22nd national
2nd in shooting % in conference- 5th national
tied for 1st in 3pt %, really improved that # lately- 17th nationally
worst FT shooting team in the conference- believe there are only 11 teams worse in all of D-1. Yikes
3rd in the conference in rebounding- 61st nationally
2nd in assists per game conference- 16th nationally
Surprisingly 3rd in Blocks in conference- 34th nationally playing mostly 4 guard lineup…
KenPom has us 8th nationally in Adjusted Offense, 6th in Adjust Defense.
So far so good.
Boy is hungry.
Cut his trip back home short and is back in Lawrence working on his game. Taking after Frank and putting in the work to have a dominate Sr year.
Nice, that’s why I see Trimble guarding Peterson on Friday but they are open to try the Evans experience if they want. DP is going to have a size advantage against just about every PG we play but this matchup specifically is advantageous for him if that were to happen.
Evans had 15 in their opener. He’s one I’m watching to see what improvement he made from Soph to Jr year based on how KU was on him in the portal for a bit. He wasn’t a great fit here and I’m glad we got Council.
Agreed. I think its a winnable game as I think UNC has a weird mix of guys but their length in the post is going to be a challenge. Caleb Wilson has been terrific so far, was the #5 recruit in the last class. There’s a ton of impact freshman this year and he’s absolutely in that top tier along with Peterson and is a matchup issue for us. Hopefully the difference is that we have Peterson and nobody else does. It’s going to be a team effort to win but I have this feeling DP will be out to prove a point early in the season. Kid has a poise and maturity to him that I haven’t seen in a KU jersey in my lifetime.
Jamari looks more comfortable out there and see effort from him on both ends so far. I saw a play where he got switched onto their big on Monday and he completely boxed the guy out from getting to a spot to get the board.
On offense you see him moving the ball and generally just staying out of trouble. Takes an open shot when in the flow of the offense.
I have no idea if he’s going to play actual minutes as we get further along unless injuries happen but if he does I’m not sure what we are getting.
I will say this about Jamari and Elmarko, neither has ran from adversity and its year 3. They both generally seem to love where they are and I keep thinking at some point that’s going to pay off. They are here and working their tail off.
Prefer it to happen another year tho
Going to be a really interesting test for the Hawks on the road this early. We had a road game already which should help in that aspect, but we’ll see how they handle adversity this early. It can’t hurt that they already played somewhere other than Allen & it’s going to be a big test for some of our newcomers.
As far as the matchup goes it’s going to be a bit of a challenge for our front court. UNC started a ton of size in their first game against the #347 team via Kenpom (Green Bay is #334) for reference. They started 3 big’s in Caleb Wilson (star freshman), Jarin Stevenson (Bama transfer) & Henri Veesaar (Arizona transfer) who are all 6’10 and taller. That’s a lot of size for KU to deal with since White and Rosario are 6’6/6’7. Will they adjust to more traditional lineup based on our matchup or stick with it. Will be interesting to see what they throw at us. The matchup of White on Wilson is perhaps the biggest one. I think Tiller is going to play a bunch of minutes in this game at both the 4 and 5. We’ll likely see if Mbiya can provide us anything based on the matchup.
Their backcourt isn’t elite by any means but does include some guys we are very familiar with. Kyan Evans was someone we targeted in the portal and is their lead guard now. Seth Trimble is back another year & he had a big game against KU in Allen last year (19 pts). Jonathan Powell (transfer from West Virginia) had a good game against us in Allen last year as a freshman (11 pts). They have another international freshman who was playing pro ball in Luka Bogavac. I’d say on paper this is a mid-tier backcourt, not nearly as good as UNC has had in the past and hopefully that’s where our advantage lies. I’d imagine Trimble will be guarding Peterson based on similar athletic profiles because I can’t imagine Evans has much of a chance of guarding him.
I see KU is favored. I can see that. If we can limit Wilson that’s probably a good recipe to winning this. Rebounding as a team seems like a big deal.
Physically ready to compete now. He has looked much more comfortable out there so far at least.
I’m just wondering what value he’s going to give as the season wears on. Offensively we’ve seen nothing different from his freshman year. He’s not playing to his strengths and athletic ability yet. I want to see more, he’s got to be a dependable player for this team.
One thing I was focused on was Dawson since he’s been basically MIA through the 2 exh and 1 game so far. He doesn’t look playable right now which isn’t good. Perhaps he isn’t healthy and is trying to play through whatever leg injury he has. Body Language and aggression are not there when he has been in the game. Not someone that looked to be fighting that hard to get back in the rotation. Mari was playing twice as hard as him and Kohl has certainly shown he’s valuable to this team. Hopefully he can figure it out as the season goes.
Flory going for that Udunka record