@approxinfinity said in My crisis of faith in Bill:
@kuballin10 love it. AJ should continue to get opportunities. Heroes are made in March as you know
Oh man, I completely disagree. I think AJ is largely why we lost to Houston. I’d love for him to just get DNPs when KJ returns…
Core 7 for me is Juan/Zeke/Shak/Rylan/KJ/Flory/Hunt
@approxinfinity said in Early Hearings TM:
Pretty sure Elmarko / DP / Zeke / Flory / KJ / Bidunga / Samis and a solid portal group would be entertaining. Hope Kease and Rylen come back.
I don’t believe KJ will be back and I’m not sure if Samis will make it to campus.
@approxinfinity said in Feeling the Fieldhouse magic?:
Only thing i would amend is zekes minutes. Shak should have taken some of his minutes.
Think he tweaked his foot on the missed dunk
@BeddieKU23 Changes with the weather, not worth following until after the season.
@BeddieKU23 I’d bet money on Storr and Zach being gone.
@kjayhawks said in 2024 NFL Season:
@dylans said in 2024 NFL Season:
I really like Josh Allen. His only real flaw is being born at the wrong time. Mahomes is robbing his legacy. I’m ok with it, just sayin’
There are so many great QBs right now IMO. Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Jackson, Goff and Daniels is looking pretty dang good.
GOFF??? I think he’s much more of a purgatory QB than a great.
@dylans said in 2024 NFL Season:
I really like Josh Allen. His only real flaw is being born at the wrong time. Mahomes is robbing his legacy. I’m ok with it, just sayin’
4 of his last 5 playoff losses being to KC is insane. You can tell it’s effected him too. Looked dejected on the sideline.
@rockchalkjayhawk said in 2024 NFL Season:
@BShark said in 2024 NFL Season:
Tough loss. 0-1 what’s next?
If you can see the future, please speak up sooner so I can secure my future with a few wagers
Making fun of Tang
@FarmerJayhawk said in Early Hearings TM:
@kuballin10 it’s a 5x5 waiver, it wouldn’t affect Juan or Hunt or Diggy. Just KJ and Zeke. A really good source familiar with the thinking.
Zeke would like to return, but I have heard the staff is planning/recruiting like the rule will not be passed for next year.
Up 6 with 18 seconds left and at the line shooting free throws. Absolutely insane to lose that.
Moderately annoyed that we continued to have Zeke inbound the ball in crunch time when he was clearly struggling with it. I’d have considered Hunter there. Plus Zeke is a guy you want catching the ball if anything to shoot fts.
@approxinfinity said in Feeling the Fieldhouse magic?:
For as much credit as everyone gives Hunter for being a good passer, Flory SEES
Flory has a better feel for the game than I would have expected.
@approxinfinity I’ll just mention some stuff here. Torvik is decent and free (what I used here). Kenpom and Evan Miyakawa are good ones that you have to pay for. They all kind of have their own specific metric for overall player rating that generally tells the same story.
Even though I have a sub for Miyakawa I still don’t see a way to do conference only so for the sake of comparsion I’ll post how Torvik and Miyakawa rate our players for the entire season.
Torvik
Hunter, Zeke, KJ, Juan, Flory, Rylan, Storr, Shak, Diggy
Miyakawa
Hunt, Juan, KJ, Rylan, Flory, Shak, Zeke, Storr, Diggy
Miyakwa not liking Zeke is interesting because whatever else you look at says he is good.
One of my favorite things about Miyakwa is line-up comparisons…
Conference only, including last night. Notably Diggy’s minutes are going way down lately in favor of Shak which is a good decision. Flory should also play as much as possible, and even though Self will not I would play him as much as possible even when KJ is back.
We will get worse at head coach when Bill retires. That’s just a fact.
@TYOHawk said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Dajuan has value cause he’s a better passer and catch and shoot guy than Shak. But I would like to see Shak as the primary backup when Juan is sitting instead of Diggy.
Shak still messes up the sets a bit is why I assume Bill had been going with Diggy but I think you just need to live with that because it’s a night and day difference in terms of their overall play.
@TYOHawk said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@BShark said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@TYOHawk said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Like the havoc Shak and Flory were causing defensively man…
Shak is like a defensive back reading the passing lanes.
His POA defense as well…it had me speechless. Teaching tape at the next practice…my goodness
Yeah, our defense has been better when we have Shak there instead of Dajuan. TCU definitely has some shot makers. They hit some tough ones last night. Just have to tip your hat on the one where the guy hit a fadeaway on Shak. Thought over all after the ABYSMAL start that we defended solidly.
@TYOHawk said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Like the havoc Shak and Flory were causing defensively man…
Shak is like a defensive back reading the passing lanes.
AJ Storr 6 rebounds 3 steals was lovely to see. Idk if I posted about that yet.
@FarmerJayhawk said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@BShark said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@Kcmatt7 said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@BeddieKU23 said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Perimeter defense and Flory changed this game in the 2nd half. This defense has great potential when they really put it together
We could be up by more. TCU guards have made some thought shots!
Allette is nasty man
Also an early transfer possibility last year but WHEW DRAMA
He’d have Bill back at KU med
@Kcmatt7 said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@BeddieKU23 said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Perimeter defense and Flory changed this game in the 2nd half. This defense has great potential when they really put it together
We could be up by more. TCU guards have made some thought shots!
Allette is nasty man
@BeddieKU23 said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Juan better be sick or something
I am wondering if something was up. Going to ask later.
We started slipping those blitz screens
@approxinfinity said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
AJ looking good… with Flory out there with him. Sorry, if my harping about how Flory makes everyone elses defensive shortcomings more palettable is tired.
I’m looking forward to him starting at the 5 next year brother
@wissox said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Sarcasm font:: I TOLD YOU ABOUT AJ!
LOL. God bless.
@BShark said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
Can we survive these AJ Storr minutes?
Went from +2 to -1. Not terrible, now get him out.
lol what can even be said
@wissox said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
TC left some points at the line tonight.
Right guys taking them (for us) mostly
Can we survive these AJ Storr minutes?
How is that TCU ball???
The defensive effectiveness of Udeh blitzing screens is a bit concerning with Houston being our next game. I trust Bill to figure something out though.
@DanR said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@BShark you’re the inside guy. What’s going on?
It’s odd!
@DanR said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
I’d be happy to have Zach available
Wonder what is going on there
Some uh uh uh defensive issues #analysis
@wissox said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:
@BShark It’s brilliant insights like that make you so appreciated on this board!
#anaylsis
Second made three of the year for an opposing player is very typical too
@Texas-Hawk-10 KU chose not to really pursue Knecht, correct.
@Jhawk69 said in Mythbusters: Bill Self, minutes, and March:
@BShark If true (which I am skeptical of) it was a mistake too but hindsight is 20/20. Nobody expected Knecht to be so good and Timberlake to be so bad.
Yes, recruiting misses happen all the time. It’s not supposed to be an indictment. UNC and UConn were recruiting Timberlake as well. Also there is the fact that they had Timberlake basically wrapped up while Knecht’s recruitment was in the earlier stages. My information here is hindsight from the same NBA guy but Knecht said he wanted to go to Kansas. He didn’t get much NIL from Tennessee, apparently.
@Jhawk69 said in Mythbusters: Bill Self, minutes, and March:
@BShark Thanks for the scoop. If it is true that Bill stopped recruiting Nelson and opted to bring back Zach Clemmence instead, that is indeed a mistake.
But it still doesn’t prove a long-standing pattern of Bill being stubborn about whom he plays.
I do not know the reasoning/details from KU’s end tbh
We could have had Knecht over Timberlake as well which I think I have mentioned before.
@Jhawk69 we stopped recruiting both. Ingram’s visit was delayed and eventually cancelled iirc
As far as Grant Nelson I have a friend in an NBA front office (I know this sounds lame lol) and he said that Grant said in their pre draft interview that he would have came to Kansas if we would have taken him.
@Jhawk69 said in Mythbusters: Bill Self, minutes, and March:
@kuballin10 DaJuan started those early games because of Jalen’s DUI suspension. Then Jalen replaced Remy because Remy was playing through an injury/missing time. When Remy got back to full health Bill didn’t want to tinker with our starting lineup anymore, but still gave Remy lots of pt.
With DaJuan on the roster we landed Remy (the top transfer portal pg of his season) and Elmarko Jackson (5* pg recruit). He didn’t hurt recruiting.
With KJ on the roster we landed Udeh, Ejiofor, AJ, Rylan, and Hunter. He didn’t hurt recruiting either.
Hurt recruiting might be the wrong terminology but he certainly impacted recruiting as Self wasn’t recruiting over him.
See: Harrison Ingram and Grant Nelson, among a few others.
@Texas-Hawk-10 I’m just saying he’s a volume shooter and we already have two players that demand a high volume of shots. Basically there are only so many shots to go around so who would we want Storr taking them from. He is one of the least efficient options on the team.
Of course the biggest problem with Storr is his defense and he was a big part of a bad kstate offense scoring a lot of points.
I’m not sure how you can watch the team with Dajuan off the court and think he is the problem.
I feel like the biggest issue for this team is a lot of the pieces don’t fit well together. Too many non-shooters but also Storr doesn’t make much sense on a roster with Zeke and Hunter.
