Lots of speculating going on, with people thinking they can read minds. Let's all get mad and assume bad faith by a player who may well be in the midst of being far more frustrated than all of our fan-doctors.

@ROCKCHALK2025 As a judge for 19 years, I found the legal principal of requiring evidence to draw conclusions applies pretty well to analyzing everything in life. In other words, speculation alone isn't probative. But speculation can generate theories about things, but theories without evidence are pretty hollow, so best usually to wait for actual facts.

@wissox83 said in Kansas Jayhawks vs Towson Tigers Game Chat Tue. 12/16 8:00 CT:

Ran 5 miles saturday on the treadmill.

Just saw this. 5 miles on a treadmill...and you find some KU games boring?

@approxinfinity Are you optimistic about having reasons to be optimistic? When I need a dose of optimism to avoid retreating to a 20-year hideout in an underground shelter, I look at my wife (of 26½ years today!) and realize that she is always a ray of sunshine and hope.

Happy Valentines Day, everybody!

@BeddieKU23 said in Kansas Jayhawks vs Davidson Wildcats Game Chat Mon. 12/22 7:00 CT:

3pt defense has been our strength....

It seems to me that we haven't seen this comment all that often in past years!

Pretty sad. I mean, e hasn't even tried the old Squeaky routine about how KSU "tries harder" despite losing.

I think what we are seeing with DP is that his legs are strong enough to play half a game, but his injuries all season make him vulnerable. No one can possibly say the guy who leads Div 1 in first half scoring isn't giving it his all. But doing that comes at a cost of injuries. Taking himself out might be what Self wants him to do to avoid worse injuries and total unavailability down the line, a la Embiid.

@Tallturd1 said in Darryn Peterson:

just media types doing what they think makes themselves sound knowledgeable

Just like people on this Board all season thinking they can infer facts from the lack of information. I read the CBS guy's article. He has never before seen a discussion between an AD and an agent in a game so therefore it must be...X. Could be any other letter in the alphaber, but no, X is a big conspiracy so it must be true.

Occurs to me that this looks like our 3rd straight off-season where Rice's availability at season opening may be in question. Domestic assault, allegedly, and no resolution announced yet. These things affect out depth chart, FA decisions, and draft strategy. Time to bail, I think.

@ROCKCHALK2025 I remember somewhere in my past...maybe back when having several physical therapists in a friend group...learning that muscles in opposition to injured muscles can get stressed. Similar to how favoring one leg with a sprained ankle or knee can make the other leg work extra. Or cause abnormal movement--for example, Dizzy Dean came back too soon from a leg injury, changed how he landed with his foward foot, and messed up his other leg.

If DP tries to keep his hamstrings loose with extra stretching, that seems like the quads could be getting tighter. I know the worst neck cramps I ever had were alleviated only after heat and massage on the opposite side--that side was really tight but not painful. The side that was hurting was resisting the tightness.

Might mean it's not so weird.

@wissox83 We actually were undefeated after 2 games (I had thought it was midseason).

So, this confirms what we all knew: Missouri is the first step down on the stairway to Hell.

@Jayhawk_69
Bomb the hell out of 'em, I always say--both sides. As Mad Magazine's 1960's parody "The Rifle, Man" had our hero Chuck Connors saying to his son (who asked why if he wanted peace in the West he blew away an old man sitting on a fence): "Son, there ain't nuthin' more peaceful than a dead man."

Peace through destruction. With the added excitement of fireworks on steroids!

BTW, did you mean to post in this thread?

@nuleafjhawk said in Jokes:

@crimsonblu22 I feel like that "there" may have been intentional?

In SC we say "that there 'there'" in that there circumstance.

I think the injury experiences with both Embiid and Selby have made Self more gunshy about stars' injuries. He screwed up the game when the played DP extra mins and the quads tightened, and last night screwed up the timing by relying on DP to keep KU in the game. Lots of anger here about someone who played his best game in a while, and who brought us back to a tie. Other guys made a valiant effort until silly mistakes in the last minute.

@Jayhawk_69
My IQ has a rep for being very polite. Hope we don't get too many mean IQs.

@bskeet said in K State Give Me a Break … Game Chat 7 PM CT:

Saw a picture of Self getting off the bus.. I assumed that meant he traveled to Manhattan and would coach..

Either that or he just likes going there to see the famous sights.

Oops, shoulda put that in the "Jokes" thread. (Or do they have to actually be funny??)

@stoptheflop said:

"I wonder if ISt fans will stay classy...."

Definitely assumes a fact not in evidence.

I sat around yesterday wishing it was next Saturday when I thought we would start having Saturday NFL again. Didn't check, of course, so joke's on me. Congrats, Bears fans!

Good in Hawaii....

@wissox83 Naismith? That young whippersnapper had some innovative ideas. That weird game he invented screwed up the economics of peach farming, though. Poor guys had to start buying cardboard and paying their pickers to make boxes because baskets were through the roof. Then glue demand was rumored to be so high there were fewer horses out to pasture.

Funniest thing was after Jim returned a bunch of baskets to the guy he snagged them from. No bottoms left? What the hell did he want baskets for?