Posts made by drgnslayr

@nuleafjhawk

There is something to that. And it’s not all about NIL and the portal. I think some of it is the times and youth are not into traditions like they used to be.

@BShark I think most of us were in love with his upside. We haven’t always come out great living on a dream.

His upside was defense and rebounding.

On offense… realistically… he could go from being effective at 3-feet (dunks) to being effective around 7 to 8-feet.

I think we really liked the contrast he showed comparing him to Hunter. What would have to be addressed this coming year is all the offense we lose by losing Hunter!

Heard Zion’s brother is still available -

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/gtunln/bodybuilder_basketball_player/

@Texas-Hawk-10

Am I wrong… or might we be sitting better today with Flory had we had a GM?

I could be wrong… but I heard from someone at Duke that their GM manages players’ handlers. Not sure what that means. Is the GM attempting to be their handlers? Seems a conflict of interest and I don’t think that is possible because these people have been around players while they come up and many stick with them all through their basketball careers after college. Maybe the GM is the voice of the university dealing with the handlers.

This Flory situation is the perfect situation where we see the weakness of our athletic program’s relationships with handlers. It is possible we lose Flory over monster communication errors or lack of communication. I’m seeing Flory is receiving nasty remarks from fans and it just perpetuates his departure. As someone else said on here, I wonder if the KJ injury impacted Flory. It should. He risks a huge chunk of his future everytime he steps on the floor for KU. At least fans seem to now be educated enough to stop the nonsense of claiming an education is fair trade.

Imagine if we had a GM who stays in constant contact with all the players’ handlers. I’m pretty sure, just giving handlers acknowledgment would be a huge step in recruiting the handlers as Jayhawks! I am certain we would be in a better place today with a GM!

I would like to be a fly on the wall, of Bill Self’s brain right now.

Bill has been treated nothing short of a God since he arrived in Lawrence.

I know he’s getting some blow back for the first time.

We’ve had the typical blue-blood expectation failures in the past… basically… every year we don’t win a NC. But we’ve never had so many “fans” calling for his head within the Jayhawk nation.

I’ve never called for Bill to receive the ax. But I have questioned if it is smart for Bill to stick this out. Is his current situation building on his legacy? I would say “no” but that could change and send him skyrocketing over Jayhawk Mountain if he would win another title.

I believe… he is the only one on the planet that knows if he has another title in him.

So more guys exiting the program. Makes me feel more like Flory isn’t coming back. He’s the guy I wanted back… even though his offense is limited to 5 feet from the basket.

Is this true that DP isn’t worried? Glad he isn’t because I’m not feeling comfortable with all new guys after the past couple years.

I’m sorry for being so damn skeptical!

Now I’m seeing a coming year with all new guys in a system we all agree players need years to learn. We will have all the cameras in town surrounding DP so what can we expect on the court?

I’m hoping Bill is busy now; waking each morning with a health smoothie and stepping 5000 steps! He’s reading all the player reviews and building his third title team! He’s interviewing a new assistant coach, an expert in development, along with reading resumes for the new GM position! There will be a big announcement coming out of the AD’s office as soon as next week!

While we are busy panicking over all the player losses… think about this… no players will have seniority and favoritism next year!

Someone tell me… are the NIL caps starting now? Maybe we will need a little extra help from Adidas! (Sorry, bad joke!)

Up until this year, I always backed Bill, especially if something went down with a player. This year I changed and backed the players over Bill. That didn’t come easy to do. I still am a huge fan of Bill. Something has happened and I think we are all in the dark on what has happened within the program. At this point, it really sickens me to listen to fans criticizing our players.

Congrats to Houston! Sampson is absolutely one of the best coaches in D1. They are a team full of non-NBA talent that worked hard, plays as a team, and leaves their guts on the court!

I’m a fan of college ball. When KU stinks like they have the past few years, I still remain a Jayhawk but I don’t give up on supporting players and teams everywhere. Maybe this will piss off some of you…. I am going to mention other teams and my appreciation makes me compare directions to us. First is Houston. They’ve been on the edge of greatness for some time and that final lift was joining the B12. Sampson doesn’t need pro-bound players in his system.

Hold your noses now…. I’m a fan of Pope at Kentucky. It had to be a challenge coming in after Cal. His first year outperformed us in March. It took him all year to defeat the critics in their fan base.

This is going to make you sick…. Duke seems like they have D1 figured out. I hate that school. And I didn’t like Scheyer right from the start. But he has done something similar to what ratface did…. He developed a winning system. It’s hard to imagine that we beat them this year. Had we drawn them in March… get real… they would have beat us by 50. They are a team of youth and new players and you wouldn’t know it now. I thought this team would meltdown in March because of counting on youth and no way I believe it now. They have to be the fav to win it all. Makes me want to barf but it makes me compare how they got there. They did it by developing Scheyer then using his knowledge and youthful energy as their base. They brought in a GM to be better prepared in recruiting and NIL. They have built an excellent basketball atmosphere around their program. Their students do creative projects to build team support. They seem to have more past stars constantly involved. They easily have the most to offer top recruits. So they are the future of revolving door basketball. What makes them different is their understanding of what it takes to win. Cal never had a real plan. He lived off of boasting how many players he got into the league only. I still hate Duke, but I’m taking notes.

I’m watching all these other programs… UCONN, Auburn, Houston…. then I look at us and I don’t think we can recruit enough to play with the big boys today. It still seems like we aren’t going in the right direction. To me, it feels like we aren’t keeping up with top teams. Recruiting a top tier player isn’t going to cut it. The stakes have gone up around us. Our league is losing esteem to the SEC. Not sure we can win our own league again anytime soon. We no longer can blame being investigated by the NCAA for why we aren’t sizzling with talent.

Burying our heads in the sand won’t improve things. I will always be a Jayhawk and will continue to throw in my lousy 2 cents on how to make it better.

HOW TO IMPROVE -

1. Build more basketball atmosphere - be more creative building student enthusiasm. Yes… we have great student enthusiasm but we can do better developing closer and better connective enthusiasm with our team. We need more than late night, and late night needs an overhaul. You want to recruit more players excited from our basketball environment, then build it up more. I love having the rules but how many recruits did it win over? Involve more of our legend players into the atmosphere.

2. Resolve coaching situation - I’m not calling for Bill to resign, but we need to acknowledge that something isn’t working properly. This became obvious this year. We were probably the most-experienced team in D1 but we played like a high school team. It was more than having a bad match of players. These guys didn’t improve at all this entire season and may have even gone backwards. An easy cop out is to blame the character of the players. Then explain why the transfers mostly had huge drop offs in their stats. This stupid idea that they just got spoiled on NIL shows an ignorance in knowing the psyche of players. None of these guys got to this level without wanting to win and having good personal pride. I’m convinced if we don’t have a change from this year’s approach, we are headed for the same thing next year, regardless of the talent we bring in. To win, our guys need to overachieve.

My guess is Bill has lost his edge after his heart problem. And up to now, we haven’t adjusted to make things better. I think we need a GM. We will be hiring one eventually and by waiting we are just delaying the benefits. I think we need a shake up in assistant coaches, too. Had we been smart like Duke, we would have been developing Self’s replacement for years. Seems to me Scheyer was an assistant for many years… maybe 8 years? I seriously doubt Self goes more than 1 or 2 years. If next year goes like this year, he will be gone. Not because he gets fired but he’ll leave on his own to save his legacy.

Did players develop this year? I can make arguments for Zeke and Flory only. I think both mostly improved by getting PT. Flory did seem to learn the most.

I feel like we suffered a black eye by recruiting Hunter over Zuby and Udeh. Not only did we lose those guys, it may have had an impression on Flory now. Every man for himself! I think Flory lost some enthusiasm after he played well when KJ went down, then came back and regained most or all of his minutes. Flory stumbled after that.

I’ve always felt like Bill was a player’s coach. He constantly goes to bat for his players. But this year he seemed to only be close with Juan and KJ. I didn’t sense a closeness on this team with Self like he used to have with his players. I remember how close he was with Sherron…. Frank…. and many/most of his guys. Granted, he had those guys for 4-5 years.

I think Bill is going in the wrong direction. His coaching model should be like Sampson… recruit athletic players coming to be developed. Then develop them. Sprinkle in a transfer or two. But we’ve never been a coaching staff capable enough to develop faster. What would have happened with KJ had he gone to Houston? I feel comfortable in saying he would have had a shot at the NBA. All those Houston guys can play and none have KJs athleticism. I firmly believe Bill needs better help around him. It won’t happen because of his loyalty.

Look at the Final Four and how these teams got there. Auburn… Pearl is a motivator! It helps him recruit and develop, and he’s the best cheerleader in games. Houston… Sampson knows how to develop players and teams. Duke… has the total basketball environment! Florida…. I don’t know enough about but feel sure they must have their strong suit.

I want to be optimistic but give me a reason for it! Maybe it’s enough to land better talent… but I doubt it. Bill is a HOFr for a reason and I’m holding on to that plus he has made changes before. I’m just afraid that the changes he needs to make now involve going against his loyalty.

My only smile this year was watching KSU not invited to the NIT then saying they wouldn’t go

Darn… too dark to pick up dog poo

I was in the mood and wore my Miles Davis shirt

@Kcmatt7 we need players capable of benching 100 lbs

Think Bill’s beer belly is back

Neither team excited to win

@BeddieKU23 first time I’ve ever been relieved to see us finished. Been watching for about 60 years!

Over… good

Come on, brother… hit one more dagger trey!

AJ!

Pull away now for Gods sake

Why did Bill change the lineup

Fudge… Dickinson back

Leave Dickinson on the bench

Yes

We should win this game

Drake killin mizzou

Wish we did…

Sticking Rush up front…. 1-2-2 then

@Kcmatt7 it’s what worked on Cal in ‘08!

Flory! Please come back next year!

3 or 4 minutes of real ball… that’s all it will take!

This Cal team sucks… for God’s sake… fellas… just play a few minutes of real basketball!

Come on, game… end!

This is our year… we start playing like to go on a run then we fail with TOs or rebounding

Suddenly we decided to relax from rebounding

This game is as entertaining as taking care of your kids with stomach flu

We look like a friggin’ division 2 team this half

We go down 15 I’m going out and cleaning up dog poo

AJ… yes

Flory needs minutes

I hate this offense

Harris!

@approxinfinity I still enjoyed the clip

@approxinfinity ha… it showed me an Untouchables clip!

Rabbit’s foot… where’d it go! ️

@kjayhawks I knew I liked you before… now you made my all star team!

I don’t drink but maybe a shot of tequila will help this game move along

Guessing… the team that comes out more enthused to start the second half will win. Except… my ability to predict sucks!

One of these teams is going to play a little D in the second half and win this game!

I see it this way… if we can go on a defensive spurt in the second half we could win… otherwise… this is it!

Even Hunter often pivots away from the basket and shoots a hook on a small defender. Oops… better keep my mouth shut since he’s most of our offense!