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@icthawkfan316 Excellent post. What’s the point of watching 30+ Kansas Basketball games and not being able to enjoy the many wins we experience each year. Just think if we make it to the final game next year. That would be 2008, 2012, and 2016. That seems pretty successful to me. Of course we want to win it all every year, but the format of the tourney is not designed for that.

@Crimsonorblue22 You are an awesome fan to watch the post game show. I could barely stand to watch the game. But I did.

@globaljaybird Lou Thesz was my mom’s favorite.

I had 4 guys in double digits. No so bad! RCJH

@Lulufulu Amen to that!!!

@icthawkfan316 I read that…hard to believe.

@brooksmd thanks!!

@KUSTEVE …this is what I do…

@icthawkfan316 said:> You mention the references to our streak during television broadcasts. Outside of KU fans, who do you think that impresses? This is a fair question. I suspect the conference championships are more salt in the wound of our conference-mates than a point of admiration nationally. The things that are probably most impressive to those outside of the B12 bubble are (in this order): Number of recent players now in the NBA and their corresponding draft ranking Overall winning percentage of Bill Self at KU KU’s historic winning percentage and rank (#2) in all-time wins. KUs 3/5 national championships the shoe company (nod to Jaybate)

@FarSideHawk Don’t get me wrong, but top ten is about hoyle. His in game adjustments, or limitations as such, I can’t make him any higher than a five or six. Past 2 years in the dance he’s not faired well at all in that department. Even with Wiggs we crashed & burned vs a very mediocre Stanford under pressure. I put a lot of that & the Michigan loss right on him. Especially Michigan with the huge late lead & a team of war tested veterans. Bill just didn’t show the game savvy I expected from him with that squad. As always, JMO.

@JayHawkFanToo “Watching tape of this games should be required viewing for any team with high aspirations.” If I was Bill Self I would show the finals to his players. SA (as a team) showed the best passing of any team in NBA history. Sure… there were players like Bird and Magic who could pass well and average a boatload of assists… but SA did it as a team, and their post players really knew how to move the ball and create scoring opportunities. I was amazed how many times SA would get the ball in right under the basket and then toss it out for a trey shot. I often snipped at that, but they continually proved me wrong by trading 2 for 3. And now, today, all the talk about the Heat needing to make personnel changes because they need more talent. Ha… they had plenty of talent, but they just couldn’t put it together like SA did. SA was on a mission, and players like Duncan have been with Pop for more than a decade. They are able to effectively tweak their games to take advantage of opportunities. Miami doesn’t have that kind of chemistry or capability. But give them credit for being pretty good as they are… just not as good as SA. Let’s see Spoelstra stay at Miami for 17+ years, and the same with players like Chalmers. They would end up being pretty darn good! It was fun to see Beasley. He’s such an offensive beast… Beastley.

@truehawk93 “Connor is a kind of a shorter version of Curry. I just wish he was around the true 6’2 or 6’3 range. He’d be nasty to handle. But his biggest weakness is his defense and feet. He’s just going to struggle with his size, feet, and lack of length. His shot and his IQ are his natural talents. He had to work hard to get his shot to be at this level. I want nothing but success for Connor.” I agree with your post… except that Conner is another Curry. Conner right now is only a catch-and-shoot shooter. He doesn’t create his own shot, his own scoring space like Curry did (and does). You are right on about him struggling with his size, feet and length. He can work hard and improve two of those categories… and that is enough to become a dominant college player. I totally expect to see a different guy next fall. I expect him to add 10 lbs of muscle between now and then. He’ll still be a small, thin guy… but when you add some strength onto a frame of a smart competitor (like Conner), he’ll make the most of his strength improvements. Conner showed noticeable improvement in his foot speed already in his freshman year. He couldn’t keep up with the game at the beginning… by the end, he was keeping up. Now… if he can learn to move ahead of the game, so he can create his own scoring space and also become a lock down defender, he’ll become one heck of a college player! The odds all work against Conner. So he’ll have to fight for everything he gets. That really isn’t a bad scenario for a tough, competitive player to be in. I’m not worried about Conner. He’s also a smart player. He’ll find a way to be productive and a way for him to inject his game into Jayhawk basketball and become a contributor.

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@HighEliteMajor We all knew you were kidding, so was I. Brady toiled in the D-League for a couple of years and at times he did very well and at other times not so well. Obviously he did not do the good things consistently to warrant a call to the NBA; Europe seems more suited to his game.

@truhawk93 He said the team could be better than this year’s “if things fall right.” If “things” fall right? I hate HCBS code talk. He just means don’t lose in the stinkin’ first weekend of the tournament. That’s the improvement I want to see.

@justanotherfan Well done and thanks for the analysis.

@icthawkfan316 thanks. Maybe I should rephrase what I said. I like HCBS. I am wondering how much input he got from his coaching team in a game situation. It looks to me his game strategies looked predictable and surprise tactics such as junk defense in the past was no way to be found, I.e. Something that are not predictable. For me, it suggests a mono decision maker when the game plans started to look predictable.

@globaljaybird Good points.

@HighEliteMajor-I swear HEM you’re a friggin stat machine !!