@FarmerJayhawk Yeah Dajuan Harris is actually our best player. Rylan and AJ are playing within themselves for the most part now, big system adjustment for both.
Zeke is right there with Juan and KJ in minutes played. That probably doesn’t get discussed enough. Deep in the Circle of Trust 
@kuballin10 He was excellent two years ago. Last year he had a lingering foot injury and the overall roster wasn’t very good. Last year was objectively his worst year.
“D2” is making him look silly.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Happy Thanksgiving!:
This sr class in both fb and bb has been a huge blessing to us/KU! Very thankful! Gonna hate to see them go.
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Let’s finish!
Bowl game would be so big. 3 in a row has never been done at KU EVER.
@approxinfinity said in KU / Duke Takeaways:
@BShark rough. Hope he is able to be full speed this year.
Really difficult now. They were talking about maybe getting him back by the new year. Makes it harder to mesh but he clearly has more of a P4 body and Coit. He has also already proven it at this level.
@rockchalkjayhawk said in KU / Duke Takeaways:
@BShark said in KU / Duke Takeaways:
Analysis
Coit was pretty bad in all fairness and didn’t look playable against Duke. That’s the worst part of the Shak injury.
However we shouldn’t see too many teams with the pure size of Duke, which caused issues for Coit. I’m not trying to be too down on him, and it’s nice that we’ve been able to get 17mpg out of him.
Is Shak still hurt or re-hurt?
Funny bit of synchronicity, I met two people in the elevator on the way to the game last night:
Diggy’s representative and the ref who called the flagrant 2 on Hunter!
Same injury but he re-aggravated it I believe.
@wissox https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2023-11-22/complete-history-chaminade-mens-basketball-maui-invitational
Chaminade had appeared in every Maui Invitational from 1984 to 2017, but that changed in 2018. That season, the tournament changed things up so that Chaminade will play in the “Mainland” bracket in even years but return to the Maui bracket on odd years.
Analysis
KU is good wow. But seriously I haven’t felt this good about the team since 22.
We really went from Timby and Parker Braun to Rylan (or Storr) and Flory off the bench. 
@approxinfinity said in KU / Duke Takeaways:
Every one of our guys gave us their A game at some point in the game. Self did a great job putting the pieces together, along with the refs ejecting Hunt
Coit was pretty bad in all fairness and didn’t look playable against Duke. That’s the worst part of the Shak injury.
However we shouldn’t see too many teams with the pure size of Duke, which caused issues for Coit. I’m not trying to be too down on him, and it’s nice that we’ve been able to get 17mpg out of him.
Bill sent a reminder who the best coach in college basketball is last night.
@FarmerJayhawk said in Other games 2024-2025:
GET SOME TAD
Need a ballin10 update on the state of the program (UConn)
@bskeet said in Other games 2024-2025:
Broome is NBA talent NOW. Size, speed… where did this kid come from?
Best player in the country. He’s a 5th year SR and was really good last year too.
@kjayhawks Fully expect KU to play their worst game of the season in Manhattan and lose in OT
@kuballin10 Him or Wes Miller are near the top of my list…
@Kcmatt7 gold mine. I’m not sorry for fanning the flames tbh
@FarmerJayhawk said in Other games 2024-2025:
Hey guys did you know Flagg is 17
First I’ve heard of it, broadcast teams never bring this up! Weird!
@AsadZ said in Early season feedback on kuballin’s off season analysis:
My take on Juan:
He is not most gifted aesthetically.
He doesn’t shoot trey great.
But, somehow, KU look so much better when he is at PG.
He just makes the whole thing run infinitely better. It’s fascinating.
@BeddieKU23 said in 2025 Recruiting:
Watching some recent video of Peterson, he’s going to challenge to be #1 in the class. Playing at a different level then his peers
I really like Dybantsa and they are a clear cut 1/2 imo (lol at Jamie Shaw’s rankings, I won’t even go there…) with Peterson making a real push for the top spot.
@rockchalkjayhawk said in Early season feedback on kuballin’s off season analysis:
@BShark said in Early season feedback on kuballin’s off season analysis:
I’m annoyed with Bill, not our performance. I’m just a dummy and I’ll get over it lol.
Do you think it’s possible his act is growing tiresome after all these years? Have we all overdosed? Time for a new regime, or is that blasphemous?
The winning is nice
Definitely a method to the madness but I watched this game and I saw guys overthinking instead of just playing basketball. The new to the program guys especially. Now, I don’t watch every game for other programs but it seems to be much less of an issue integrating new players from what I’ve watched of other teams.
Some people will blab about Bill’s “system” but I think that is largely bullcrap and he needs to get with the times a bit given how many new players we seem to have every year. If he needs a team full of guys he has had for 3+ years to do anything in March that is an issue.
@BeddieKU23 Against a lot of teams I am not sure if we can get away with it on defense. Flory is still totally lost on that end but I think works best as the main big.
I’m annoyed with Bill, not our performance. I’m just a dummy and I’ll get over it lol.
@kuballin10 uncw dared him to score
He looked at his best when we only had one big out there imo
@kuballin10 had some convos today and sounds like Bill is testing the new guys to see how “tough” they are with how they respond to being yanked. What is very interesting to me is that Zeke is immune to it seemingly.
I’m close to going full KUballin10. That’s the most upset with basically a 20 point win I can remember being. There is a lot of truly alarming stuff happening that sometimes makes me wonder how the hell Bill won so many games.
@BeddieKU23 said in UNCW Game Thread:
Assume they are working the logistics of this possibility.
Tiller wants to come, I think at this point it’s mostly about trying to make it work within the NCAA’s rules.
@stoptheflop said in UNCW Game Thread:
I love games like this because we can watch the returning players and the new guys start to establish familiarity on the court. Hunter’s outlet passes to Zeke and Diggy. Juan’s lobs to Flory. Etc. So much fun.
Should be pretty high scoring. Unlike Oakland this team plays fast.
Talk of Tiller joining the team at semester which is odd because I believe we are full on scholarships.
Juan is awesome. Game goes to hell when he is out but I am hoping Shak can change that.
Shot isn’t falling for Zeke lately but he still plays hard and impacts the game.
@Kcmatt7 said in Oakland Game Thread:
@BShark said in Oakland Game Thread:
Shak looked really smooth in his minutes. Bill said he had a 5 minute limit. Can’t wait to see him full time.
Easily the best thing we got from this game. Weird to have 3 competent guards. Team is as deep as any I can remember.
Yep, Shak would have started for us last year
@BeddieKU23 said in Oakland Game Thread:
Disagree he’s playing too many. Play your depth, injuries happen, if you can minimize the risk of injury with some of the guys right now for the long haul you do it. Injuries and guys getting worn down from too many minutes is a real thing that has happened to Hunt, Juan and KJ. We have 10 that belong, figure it out
He always plays this many early, especially in games where we will win anyway. He knows it will be trimmed by conference play but compared to last year the minutes for the big three should hopefully be down.
@kjayhawks said in 2025 Recruiting:
Apparently the #1 rated QB in this class who is committed to LSU is receiving a 10.5 million dollar offer to go to Michigan. Absolutely insane, that’s more than a lot of NFL guys.
Worth noting it’s over 4 years. But yeah, it would make him higher paid than Bo Nix among others.
