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Hi, all. Glad to have a place to chat about the Jayhawks.

Joined many moons ago but haven’t been active in awhile (and spaced on my user name!) thanks to Beddie for that breakdown. Spot on.

I’ll add a few tidbits…

Pretty happy to have hoops back! Everybody looked good last night.

Och looks fit. Hope he has a great year and expands his game a bit off the dribble.

The new guys: Will be very exciting to watch the new guards. Should be a fun crew.

Remy is full of swagger. Will be interesting to see how that goes over with teammates in good times and bad.

Yesu looked off. Hoping it was nerves as suggested above. He got up though!

Adams. I think I’m gonna like him.

I actually thought Clemence was more solidly built than I expected. Concerns about his quickness levels off the bat though. I thought it would be the opposite.

Pettiford!!! Solid play from a young guy.

Slight concern that all our littles seem kinda little??? Remy, Petti, Yesu, Harris. A few have solid builds of course, but hoping height not an issue vs bigger opponents.

The sad part is that nothing the NCAA nor IARP does makes any sense. So, who knows how Kansas will be punished, and when.

@Gorilla72 said in THANK YOU, JAYHAWKS:

@Jethro - thought I’d saw, too, that KU has had 34 years consecutive years of NCAA tourney bids. Never below an 8 seed, meaning they’ve always played a lower seed during this time. Unbelievable! #JayhawkCrazy!

And it should be more than 34 years! Ridiculous NCAA penalty in the Larry Brown kept us out a year, right?

@drgnslayr I’ve been trying to tell ya for months now that Remy’s gonna help Nobody believed me That or I guessed on the correct side of 50-50!

Pretty happy with that opening performance! Och was on fire. And how bout them freshmen? Most of the world thought Clemence wouldn’t play. Well, he played, and contributed valuable stats and minutes. Attaboy!

KJ Adams is bouncy.

gonna be a crazy season. Just brings back bad memories of Dok not holding the Tourney trophy over his head.

Well, we won! I had a long winded post ready last night, but my internet crapped out before pushing send. So, this one will probably have fewer cuss words! I was surprised at how pesky Iowa State’s defense was. That made for an u-g-l-y first half. Extremely surprised to see KJ starting!!! He was a little bit lost at times, but I think with more PT he’ll be less lost and hopefully less stiff.

Semi shocked that Self is still trying to sort out who plays at this point in the season.

This is a weird season for Self. For some reason it really stands out how he’s trying to “herd” his players into whatever mold he sees fit. I’m not really getting it this year.

I think both teams were hurt and helped by poor officiating last night. KU for sure caught a lucky break on that non goal tending call. Game changer.

That Brockenwhatever dude has an amazing pull up midrange game. Did he miss in that range? His shooting form is perfect. Straight up, straight lines, release high.

Great second half for KU.

@BShark said in Next Year's Team Thread:

@FarmerJayhawk I’ve got good news about Mosley. Wonder if we have room for Mosley and McCullar or we are dead set on a small guard? Think we whiff on Hunter to the Ville.

Of all the names mentioned so far, Mosley seems like the best fit for our needs (imo). I can’t say i love the look of his jumper from 3, but if it goes in, OK!

@justanotherfan said in 2022 Transfer Portal Thread:

@BShark said in 2022 Transfer Portal Thread:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in 2022 Transfer Portal Thread:

@BShark said in 2022 Transfer Portal Thread:

Not expecting any KU players to enter the portal. As of right now, no one is in. Crazy.

This is kind of shocking. At one point, what, there was thought of at least three with a foot in the portal door???

Up to 4.

Winning cures all I guess. Though 2 were a case of people thought Bill would boot them. Very interesting.

This probably means the attrition will be through the draft.

JCL, Cam Martin, Mitch, and Remy were all listed as super seniors, so they are all gone. Big Dave and Och are also gone.

We know that MJ Rice, Gradey Dick, Zuby Ejifor, and Ernest Udeh are all coming. Ejifor and Udeh replace Dave and Mitch. Rice replaces JCL’s roster spot. Dick replaces Remy’s roster spot.

So there are two roster spots open at a minimum, but I’m guessing KU fills three because Braun is probably gone, too.

If we assume that means Wilson is back, our rotation next year is:

Starters: Harris, Dick, Rice, Wilson, Transfer A

Reserves: Ejifor, Udeh, Clemence, Pettiford, Yesufu, Adams, Transfer B.

I don’t know where Kyle Cuffe fits into all of this. Honestly, he is the guy that I can’t really figure out. He’s a very bouncy athlete, but with him redshirting last year, its hard to gauge how the coaching staff feels about him. He can play. But how does he find minutes with Harris, Pettiford, Rice, Dick, Yesufu all playing guard/wing minutes. That’s five guys splitting up 120 minutes already, and we know Self loves both Harris and Pettiford, so 50 of those minutes are already gone.

KU could get by without any transfers, honestly, if Wilson returns. Even without Wilson, they probably don’t have to fill that other slot with a big time guy. But they probably do look for another guy either way.

Cam Martin was a red shirt, so at the moment he’s not gone.

Damn. That was freaking awesome.

@wissox As mentioned above … you missed Self already telling Remy (written in my best Cartman voice from South Park): Respect My Authoritah!

So looking at the bigger picture with less angry eyes today … There were really no major complaints about last night. texas played excellent defense. Rarely can i recall saying this about a KU team, but it was a zillion individual things that did us in last night. Just about each and everybody had their own “oh shit!” moment. a turnover, dumbly dribbling into a crowd with no way out (a trend for Wilson), a bad lob pass, dribbling it of your knee and out of bounds (JCL. who didn’t see that coming a mile away?), a great rebound (dave) followed by a WTF how did that happen tie up, Wilson chucking it into Harris’ back, and the list goes on and on. That’s it. sums it up. Not poorly played otherwise IMO. Ok, we could have done better to get Och open, but i digress.

woooo hooooo! Final Four bound! they played some D and shot some 3s!

@mayjay said in Miami Hurricanes Game Thread:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Miami Hurricanes Game Thread:

1st half MVP: KJ Adams – momentum changing defensive stop at the end of the first half. helluva effort by KJ

2nd half MVP: Big Dave – showed some nuts and anger. love it. keep it up!

And about that POS comment? Actually, maybe he read it right before that play!

Couldn’t be happier with Big Dave today @mayjay !

As the 14th pick, Och will potentially earn $2.9M and $3.1M his first two years.

As the 21st pick, Braun could earn $2.1M and $2.2M in his first two years.

Millionaires! That’s awesome for them.

@BShark said in 2022 Transfer Portal Thread:

Not expecting any KU players to enter the portal. As of right now, no one is in. Crazy.

This is kind of shocking. At one point, what, there was thought of at least three with a foot in the portal door???

Selden update:

Veteran shooting guard Wayne Selden, who began the 2021/22 season with the Knicks, has signed with Ironi Ness Ziona in Israel, the team announced in a press release. Selden has appeared in 127 total NBA games for Memphis, Chicago, New Orleans, and New York since 2016. He spent the 2020/21 campaign with Ironi Ness Ziona, so the move represents a reunion for the two sides

1: Christian: yup, thought he’s been good the last few games. aggressive. He did some things at the rim we haven’t really seen before. 2: Remy: This will be a season-long growing process. He obviously got feedback from the NBA guys, who said with his size he needs to learn to be a true point. So, he’s gotta learn how to be a point, which given my limited viewing of him seems to be against his nature to wanna shoot. 3: Dave: who the eff knows. 4: Driving the paint: not sure I agree with your assessment here. Even Och seems to have upped his game here.

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2022 Transfer Portal Thread:

Bates just turned 18 in January. Wild he’ll be a sophomore in college. Maybe heading down a level will help him out. Being away from media and all that jazz.

I was 17 frosh year in college too. Thank god I didn’t get carded much at The Hawk!

Hey, that was a nice outcome! Rock Chalk! There were about 30 seconds in the second half where I had a slight concern, but that went away quickly. We seemed to have the better ponies tonight.

— It’s like Self hasn’t given Jalen permission to play yet. — Love the confidence Braun has right now. But wish he’d stop with the post dunk stare downs. T’s in his future. — KJ sighting! Dude has a trampoline following him around! sweet rebound and almost put back. — It was such a great win that I’ll refrain from dogging on Harris til tomorrow! —

Nice win. Gueldner displeased, saying it wasn’t impressive. First half was good. Second half seemed sloppier, but same number of turnovers I think. Sounds like Dave turned his ankle. Hopefully not serious. A few Things we’ve learned: — somewhat shockingly that Och and Braun (the shock) will lead the team in scoring. Honestly surprised at Remy’s role. — Wilson has lost something, and can’t find whatever it was. — KJ remains bouncy!

Holy crap, just looking at the box score and realizing that there was a total of THREE points scored between Remy, Yesu and Wilson. That is insane.

Christian is an absolute shocker so far. I would guess that very few if any of us saw this breakout coming. Seems like it’s a confidence adjustment that’s propelling him. I said a while back that’d I’d like him to chill on the stare downs after dunks and great plays, but I take it all back. That seems to be the key to his success. — Private thought that nobody else should probably read: We needed more cameras on Christian’s hot mom in the crowd!

As for Och, he needs to continue to get to the rim or IMO he’ll start to find less space to shoot.

Yup, Tis the season! Pretty much one more game for Self to give others some PT before conference play, right? That means Joseph Y has little time to find out how he fits in. The problem of course is that Self is trying to squeeze him into the PG role most times, and he’s not really a PG, yet. Same with Remy, really, but he gets the PT. Pettiford would be in the mix, so that’d be 7 1/2. As for JCL, as I whined about in the game thread, he simply doesn’t need to see the floor. Send him packing. Give that time to KJ and let him run wild like a gazelle on steroids!!!

Well well well. Obviously my harsh words for JCL in another earlier thread (send him packing!) brought him out of his slump, or whatever you wanna call it. So, I’d like to take this moment to say BENCH Big Dave. Send him packing!!! (I expect 30/15 next game)

@tis4tim said in IARP - KU seeks alternative resolution:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in IARP - KU seeks alternative resolution:

Negotiated resolutions were not supposed to be an option once a case enters the IARP.

Yes, but my feeling is KU, like the rest of us, are sick to death of the foot-dragging on the part of the NCAA/IARP.

Even murderers and other scofflaws have the right to a fair and speedy trial under the 6th amendment to the Constitution. I would submit this charade has been neither fair, nor speedy and we are being held in a perpetual state of incarceration.

Yup, agreed we are all sick and tired of this. Also agreed that we’ve suffered plenty already. But remember this is the NCAA, so no right to a speedy trial. No 6th amendment protection here. Sucks.

I’m also guessing that KU is seeking a “plea bargain” here. Reduced charges in some way so they can be done with it.

Just my guess.

What a second half! Didn’t see that coming after that intense defensive effort in the first half.

For those saying we don’t need Remy…that’s ridiculous. we need Remy. He’s quick, athletic, and skilled. just hasn’t found his niche yet. I doubt any rumor of him leaving is founded in reality. And obviously what this team needs is for Dave to play, and to play well. (but more KJ!)

Plenty of negatives in the first half (Braun was horrendous, Petty couldn’t dribble), but far outweighed by the amazing second half effort.

And why couldn’t Braun just wipe out Huggy Bear when he bumped into him?

I have a confession to make. I pretty much gave up on this game. I had to watch the replay late at night, was tired and cranky and started fast forwarding when we were down a ton of points. I ended up at the moment late in the game when they were wondering why Och wasn’t shooting 3 FTs. Somehow it worked out. No clue how they came back, but happy they did.

A quick look at the box score tells me Och and Wilson were the offensive studs. Dave too.

Starting to worry about Braun’s lack of scoring ability in league play. I’d have to go back and look at his game numbers, but seems like he’s come back to earth? I did see he made some nice plays though.

Always good to win on the road. Hard not to be critical, but always nice to beat the purple pussycats.

Jesus, these games lately! This one wasn’t as ugly, but sure was tough. TT plays great D. We played some good D at times too. Och sure coulda saved us some stress by making ONE more FT!

What? Couldn’t hear y’all. Did you say KJ!!!??? More KJ! Dude helped win us that game.

Wow. i think bitch slapped is about the best way to describe today’s game. Unpleasant for sure. exposed us athletically to say the least. No big insights to share, because really the game said it all. I know Wheeler and TyTy didn’t score a ton today, but who would you rather have on the floor, one of them or Harris? He’s just a liability in more ways than he helps. It sucks to have to say for sure, because he’s our guy. I know I hate on Harris a lot, but there should be so many other options on this team other than him. Physically developed guys. Sadly we have really no other PG options on the team. He’s it. Well, OK, Pettiford, but he’s hurt, and lost some development time.

Undeserved rant on Harris i suppose. He wasn’t the only issue today.

Dave’s a spaz still.

@BShark said in When Remy makes it back...:

Movement coming on this.

And just to continue @tis4tim 's theme…

Bowel?

Remy comes thru. finally. love it. i knew he’d play an important role in a win at some point. glad to see his confidence growing. Now if he could just figure out where to be on D…

Son of a biscuit lover. that game got my blood boiling. So unlike us. Och needs to find his game pretty quick, i’d say. Grateful we won. Easily could have gone the other way.

@BeddieKU23 said in NOT Remy?!:

Just saw Video of Mitch, he’s looking real good compared to last week

Good to hear. He looked really hobbled last week. Hope the time off has helped him recover.

@BShark said in Friars vs Hawks S16 Game Thread:

@mayjay said in Friars vs Hawks S16 Game Thread:

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Friars vs Hawks S16 Game Thread:

@BigBad usually you pull for your conference

Not sure, but were KU fans cheering Baylor in Ft Worth?

I was pulling for every Big 12 team except Baylor this tournament.

You spell “Texas” funny.

1st half MVP: KJ Adams – momentum changing defensive stop at the end of the first half. helluva effort by KJ

2nd half MVP: Big Dave – showed some nuts and anger. love it. keep it up!

@BShark said in Jay Wrong Game Thread:

Jay Wright must be defeated. We good.

Total agreement here! Keep em off both lines today, Hawks! no 3s, no fts.

And please, somebody knock that Gillespie dude on his arse early and often! Job for KJ…

One more!!!

Scouting report on Mosley

STRENGTHS Big guard that scores in bunches with efficiency Shot creator and shot maker; Professional scorer
Shifty handle with offensive creativity Makes defenders dance on his island Great combination of hesi’s, lift fakes, jab series and reverse pivots High level isolation scorer Does most of his damage off the dribble Strong frame can score in low or mid post Excellent soft touch finish package Finishes floaters with both hands Good rebounder Efficient shooter from deep Defenders can’t stop him from getting to his spots Terrific free throw shooter AREAS TO IMPROVE | CONCERNS Can be too isolation focused NBA role? Can he be a complimentary player? Passing Ball stopper? A lot of no pass possessions Funny looking release on shot but it goes in AST/TO ratio

Don’t forget about us non-locals! we need online help… i ordered a few shirts from what seems to be a reputable site – Fanatics. TBD when i get em!

Wow. Having been twice to the Maui tournament to watch KU, I can tell you that tickets will be extremely tough (expensive) to come by in the secondary market with that lineup. Jeez.

For those of you who haven’t been…it’s awesome!

@Jethro said in Reasons to believe in next year’s team:

@BShark said in Reasons to believe in next year’s team:

@Jethro said in Reasons to believe in next year’s team:

@BShark said in Reasons to believe in next year’s team:

https://twitter.com/KUHoops/status/1534243326236532737

Look at how happy he is @Crimsonorblue22

Some issues behind the scenes at Tech!

Shannon and McCullar both transfer out. Awkward…

Two of their best players… You don’t see that at KU, Kentuckah, Puke, UNC etc

Makes me think the atmosphere down there isn’t very pleasant. Those guys were the heart and soul of their team.

It’s Lubbock. How pleasant can it be?

Wow. shocker. Saw an early mock draft for next year, and surprise, surprise! Gradey Dick mentioned as the last pick in Round 1. Here we are debating his chances to start, when he’s a projected NBA pick! Wadda we know…

1. G Gradey Dick Ht./Wt.: 6-7, 195 pounds | Kansas: Freshman

Dick is way more bouncy and athletic than what meets the eye. On top of that, he can shoot out of the gym. He averaged 17.9 points per game on one of the best high school basketball teams in the country, Sunrise Christian Academy. He knows he’ll have to work for that starting slot, but can slide in and help fill the void of Ochai Agbaji (No. 14 this year) and Christian Braun (No. 21) next season.

The Cavaliers have officially signed 2022 draft picks Ochai Agbaji and Isaiah Mobley, the team announced today in a press release.

The 14th overall pick in last week’s draft, Agbaji received the rookie scale contract that is standard for first-round picks. Assuming he signed for the full 120% of the rookie scale, which is the norm, he’ll earn approximately $3.9MM in year one and $18.7MM across four years.

The 22-year-old Agbaji won an NCAA championship with Kansas as a senior in 2021/22 and enjoyed his best college season, averaging 18.8 PPG and 5.1 RPG with a shooting line of .475/.407/.743 in 39 games (35.1 MPG).

More KJ! I’d love it if he was the first sub off the bench. He can guard just about every spot on the floor. When he’s had the opportunity to score, he has. I don’t care if he can shoot a jumper, not expecting that from him at all right now. Hustle, guard, rebound, fly through the air, make things happen with your athleticism. He’s an exciting player without being an offensive powerhouse at the moment. Just about every game he’s played he’s made something happen. I look for it every time he’s on the floor. More KJ!

Selden update Wayne Selden Signing With Turkish Team January 18th 2022 at 2:08pm CST by Alex Kirschenbaum Shooting guard Wayne Selden is signing with Turkish club Afyon Belediye of the Basketball Super League, per Turkish paper Afyon Haber.

After going undrafted out of Kansas in 2016, Selden logged time with the Pelicans, Grizzlies, and Bulls, plus several G League clubs. The 27-year-old wing then suited up for Israeli Basketball Premier League club Ironi Nes Ziona during the 2020/21 season.

Selden inked a non-guaranteed camp deal with the Knicks ahead of training camp and stuck on the roster through the start of the regular season. However, he was waived earlier this month as part of the Knicks’ Denzel Valentine/Rajon Rondo trade. Selden appeared in just three games for New York this season.

The 6’4″ guard holds NBA career averages of 7.2 PPG, 2.0 RPG, and 1.5 APG with a shooting line of .415/.344/.718 across 127 contests, including 27 starts.

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2022/01/wayne-selden-signing-with-turkish-team.html

Interesting game. Not easy playing against all those little guards. I had no ESPN+ issues. I stream thru the app on my TV, which is hard wired. New favorite player: KJ New favorite announcer: Wayne! Excellent job. Very knowledgeable I thought. So it looks like Remy needs time to learn how to play within Self’s system. Understandable. Just hope he and Self don’t have it out. We need a big.

Needs for next year: shooting

Not sure any of KU’s rumored portal departures fit that role. So I’d guess Self takes on two guardish shooters at least.

One to start, one off the bench.

Danny just hired as an assistant at Louisville.