@stoptheflop said in Vaccine:

Yes, Kansas is close to the worst in making the vaccine available. All our family members who live in other states, Texas, Florida, New York and California have been vaccinated, even though they are 10 and 20 years younger than my wife and I. Very frustrating. My brother in law in Texas is in his 50’s and was able to get it because he smokes. Sister in law in Florida in her early 50’s was eligible because she has a Cpap. 64 and healthy, so I’m waiting. Kansas just didn’t seem to get very many doses in January and February. But, its really starting to open up here too.

I know it seems like a long time still, but 2 months from now, vaccines are going to be as readily available as the flu shot. Entirely dependent of course as to which vaccine you want. If you want the Moderna or Pfizer one it could be a little bit but if you don’t mind the johnson and Johnson, there is a huge stockpile in maryland with mass manufacturing ongoing. I’m building a facility for emergent biosolutions thats scheduled to be completed in late july. Working 2 shifts, 7 days a week as part of Trumps operation warp speed initiative. Emergent is looking to have a couple billion, yes billion, doses of the j&j vaccine by years end and they are releasing the vaccine as completed.

We’re close. We’re real close to the medical side being all resolved. We coped for 12 months, but this will soon end. just stay steady friends.

I go caught in a Jayhawk internet rabbit hole this morning and saw where Andrew White III scored 37 in his debut. I started getting curious how some past Jayhawks were doing so I looked it up. Just merely posting here if any of you were a bit curious too. These are all the stats of this morning:

Welp…all in all…it was a good day. Till. Saturday afternoon friends. Rock chalk!

Motto remains the same…once a Jayhawk…always a Jayhawk

I was real excited for TRob until I looked up the stats for Beijing BeiKong and saw former Baylor PG Pierre Jackson is averaging 39.8 points in 25 games. 23 and 15 is still respectable though.

@Texas-Hawk-10 You also forgot about the following:

3/15 - beating some 16 seeded jokers by 40 @ Wichita

3/17- 15 point win by beating some underachieving 8 seed but has the talent to be 3 seed and the tourney clan tries to screw KU in the hopes of setting up a Kentucky vs. Duke Final Four @ Wichita

3/23- 14 point win over power 5 conference regular season champion but lost in their conference tournament. Foe is too scary to put to the likes of Duke and UK. @ Wichita

3/25 - 8 point win over number 4 seed in the tournament. Figuring the best way to eliminate the competition. This will either be Arizona or Michigan St. @ Wichita

3/31 - 10 point win over Kentucky. Tournament roundup is assuming that if KU would get thru, Calipari would be best to get a second chance at the team that beat them. This is similar to the UK/UCLA methodology last year. @ San Antonio

4/2 - 9 point win over Duke. Grayson Allen and this loaded team shoots poorly from the floor against the KU defense and KU merely presses on for another Rock Chalk 2xx8 championship @ San Antonio

I think ol Bartenderchic mama was slightly misinformed. Billy preston first game…6 minutes, 3 fouls, 2 points, 1/3 shooting, 1 stael, 1 rebound. I don’t have stats from 2000 years ago, but I’m pretty sure jesus Christ had a better debut.

The 1997 team was by far the best team KU had in “recent” memory. Just ran into a hot Bibby and Simon which is pretty common in the NCAA tourney. 97 was loaded; unfortunately, Billy Thomas is still chucking up 3’s that are bangin off the back of the rim. Pollard and Haase had something incredibly low like 2 shots combined and 0 points between them if memory serves me right. I’m too bitter about the game to look up the real stats. My KU - PTSD gets triggered quite quickly if I look at that.

For all you kids that don’t stay up and enjoy the summer league as much as I do…Here’s a snippet of how our beloved Jayhawks did (as always…Once a Jayhawk…always a Jayhawk):

7/1/19:

Dedric didn’t play

Frank didn’t play

TRob: 15min 8pts 2/3field 0/1 3’s, 4/6 FT 3 reb +3 +/-

Malik hustled offensively…constantly beat defensively: 16min 16pts, 7/11field, 2/5 3’s, 0/1FT, 1 board -16 +/- (his +/- wasn’t all on him however. Cleveland is terrible.)

Frankamp didn’t play

I’m aware that this is a stretch for Jayhawk inclusion…but… Milton Doyle played 12 min 2pts 0/2 field, 0/0 3’s, 2/2 FT -2 +/-

Bill Self on De Sousa getting the news: “I know it’s a big relief to Silvio, who has been very patient throughout this process."

My despise for Young increases more daily. But something I saw I thought was very enjoyable:

“MITCH SLAPPED”. verb

-when an opponent is going in for an easy bucket and Mitch F’ing Lightfoot flies out of nowhere & swats that shot into oblivion

In a sentence: -KU literally MITCH Slapped Trae Young and the Sooners last night.

So I guess this cools the bill self has lost his touch, we can’t recruit without snacks, or we can’t get any good players because of the investigation talk…at least for a week???

This team is good. I’m not as excited about martin as everyone else is, but I’d rather have martin and yesefu over wheeler or tyty. The biggest recruiting get of this off-season is ochai and Jalen. I fully expect ochai to come back…Wilson not so much. I think he’s dreaming about the dolla dolla bills y’all and he could get those in some bulllshit overseas league. I don’t think wilson can compete professionally anywhere in the world right now, but is still a solid P5 basketball player.

3rd time is hopefully the charm for the lobos picking up KU’s sloppy seconds. I really hope gethro plays well. I don’t know why, but I just like that kid.

Just saw on the ol news wire that formerly signed jayhawk Issac mcbride has left Vanderbilt to suit up for oral Roberts. I completely forgot about that kid.

@DCHawker said in Ochai:

On CBS latest top 50 draft board, there are 8 players from the B12, representing 6 different teams. 60% of the conference represented, but not KU. When has that ever happened? When viewed through the NBA talent (or lack thereof) lens, pretty remarkable that HCBS was able to coax 20 wins out of this year’s team. Of course, he owns the absence of talent, as well…

I’m not sure who the 12 are…but off the cuff, I would say there are only about 8 players I would take above ochai and maybe 3 players I would take above Garrett.

I look at like this…if Austin reeves is on any list as a better player than ochai and/or garrett…the list is trash. But the draft isn’t about best players…its about how a dude can fill a specific role for an NBA team. Ochai and Garrett are great college players, but an NBA liability as they can’t score frequently and consistently enough. If Garrett went to a Rodman mentality where all he did was play defense and get every rebound…he could be a real special commodity; unfortunately, his vertical jump nor the ability to get vertical with merely using his calves doesn’t allow him to do that. He has to jump like a frog to get any height whatsover.

Defense is also disregarded in the NBA so much. You can’t block a 3 and that’s 60 to even 70% of all shots. People kick out their legs to draw a foul…so you have to be 2 feet away from them. The new reality of pump faking and jumping into someone…even though the defender is 100% vertical, draws fouls…so you can’t jump to block a shot. You can’t guard someone close cause the offensive guy will see an out stretched arm, and hook it on the way up to draw a foul. The NBA, and the college game is getting close to a system where it’s a 3 point contest or game of horse. But that my friends…is for another discussion topic.

I was thinking…the NBA is a superstar league. You get your big 3, fill in the remaining 12 or 14 (whatever the NBA player limit is) with role players. You’re a 3 point guy, you’re my I need to foul this dude a couple of times, you’re my speed guy to drive down the middle of the line and throw the lob or kick for a corner 3, and you’re my setting screens guy, and you’re my rebounding guy, etc. Etc. I get that these kids are 18, 19 or 20 years old…but if these kids transfer because they’re not happy with playing times or roles…why would an NBA franchise invest millions on someone who gave up because of a little adversity. This adversity is gonna happen in the league unless you’re a physical monster like ayton or athletic specimen like Mitchell or Tatum. Get him on board, work 20 minutes with them, and then play games. You don’t “got it”…the role is taken way down to a singular task.

Why would someone even consider drafting a grimes…or thompson…or McClung? From a personal standpoint in just business, when you’re looking to hire someone with very little experience…say a 28 year old…and you look at their resume and see they transferred schools twice and worked at 3 different places in a 6 year span…would you hire them? I wouldn’t, nor have I ever supported such a decision because you know they’ll do the same thing to you they did to the other people. You’ll invest time and money to train and hone their skills only to see them jump ship at the first obstacle or “missed” opportunity.

This thompson thing really has me bothered. On the opposite spectrum, I applaud the likes of Martin, yesefu, and curry. Started in a small pond and now they are seeing what they can really do against really tough competition. Whether they went to KU, or Duke, kentucky, whatever…they are actually trying to prove themselves. Thompson and grimes did the complete opposite.

And that ladies and gentlemen, is what really grinds my gears.

With all the transfers, NIL, covid, and no fans this year, I almost gave up on college basketball…but now just like every year, I watch one shining moment, get pissed cause another season is over and now I’m all in again. I can’t wait till October to see the boys in blue suit up for “midnight” madness. I’ll convince myself that no matter the rankings, KU is the best team in the conference and probably the nation…at worst 3rd in the nation. I’ll endure the early losses with hopeful bliss that we just need to get past the Christmas break and HCBS will have this team turned around. We’ll go undefeated from mid Jan to March. Lose in the 2nd round of the big 12 tournament. Then I’ll fill out a bracket with KU on the winning line with a final score of 72 to 65 and hope for a 2021 Houston draw where we don’t play anybody till the final four.

Jesus…I miss college basketball already and it’s only been about 37 minutes.

Baylor is wayyyy too athletic for the zags

Houston getting hammered and the big 12 represented in the championship game really pleases me.

@jayballer67 Houston defense is good when they’re not playing against superior athletes from the big 12, acc, or sec.

Grimes looks like ku grimes tight now. Tentative, slow, poor d