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Just wanted to wish all my fellow JayHawkers- – - a very Merry Christmas, hope you can enjoy with family and friends-- just the big thing have fun but be safe & we will see you on the other side - - -ROCK CHALK

No matter how this turns out, you have to love how KU has responded- --Kj is pissed playing out of his mind, showing Sr leadership. – AJ Zeke going to have to step up for sure

Guys I think we witnessed a team with a lot of fortitude -guts and savy.- - They could of just wilted after Hunter got ejected but seems like they just said NOPE screew this were not letting this get taken - -HUGE win without our main man

Don’t care what anyone says - -KJ was a Man tonight. Eight points, big buckets in clutch time, after Hunter is ejected-- but Eight points , Three Blocks , Three Steals, and Three assists an incredible job on Flagg when he was defending him

Hard to believe but Clemence actually given a little spark

@kjayhawks lol – I love being a smart ass- - oh by the way let’s go kick fricken Sanders ass today – ROCK CHALK

Flory brings a lot of energy to the floor. Yes, for sure he makes some Freshman mistakes, so much bounce he gets caught being out of position at times, he wants to block everything, having said that I think he is going to be a pretty good player when it’s all said and done.

I think he for sure is back for his Soph year, and unless he makes a HUGE jump he may even come back for his Jr year , how ever long it’s going to be fun to watch him develop

@nuleafjhawk - Oh it’s me , been here for some time lol - -I don’t think there is one of the group that I haven’t had some umm let’s say a lil difference of o[inion at one time or anorther- but always remember ROCK CHAALK ALL DAY LONG BABY LOL

Something to think about. Over the last 19 contests against- – Duke - -N Carolina - -& Kentucky - -we are 16-3- -not to shabby

Here are some numbers I like to see , keep those legs fresh, pretty sweet to have some depth for a change. - - -

• • Hunter – ( 24 min ) - -Juan ( 26 min ) – -KJ -( 27 min )— Zeke - -( 27 min ) ---- Storr --( 23 min - -? )

Coit- -( 23 min )- - Flory - -( 15 min- ) -Rylan – ( 16 min )- -& Passmore - -( 8 min - -( - Love thoss times, Depth is nice

@approxinfinity GO PACK GO - – GO PACK GO - - dang now I feel like KU being investigated by the NCAA lol

I’m sorry as sad as I am to see him leave the Yankees , I can’t blame him. If ANY owner is willing to pay a player that much then hell ya why shouldn’t he

I’m sorry there is nobody worth that type of money- - - -nobody period. When you stop and think about it, that’s a hell of a lot more money then the President of United Stated gets paid - - -what’s wrong with that picture, you think about all the tough decisions on trying to run the country the stress of being the President all the obligations , decisions and such and then you have a guy that is making that much money playing in a game that he loves, no way does that begin to compare.

Yet as long as these owners are going to keep throwing that kind of money out to these guys then it’s just going to keep getting worse.

Bottom line who is it that suffers the most from things such as this? - -Us - - w the fans are the one’s who end up getting screws the most, the owners pay these idiotic salaries and then as one way of getting their money back – just continue to jack the prices up on tickets, parking , concessions , and whatever else and it’s the fan that gets screwed. what’s going to happen somewhere along the line is they are going to end up pricing themselves right out of the market sooner or later. the middle class and lower class people sure the hell can’t afford the price of a game the way its moving now.

Hurley’s act of trying to intimidate the officials gets old real quick, he was on them from the opening tip. – Hunter HUGE game for Memphis, they look pretty solid

Thank you for all you do buddy. Hoping you have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING-- you go eat to much , stuff yourself , feel miserable, but most of all live , laugh , and love Buddy. Enjoy that family, spend that quality time, and yet be safe.

Have a very Blessed day my friend.

NFC North is the strongest on the National side , you look we got Detroit 10-1 -Minnesota 9-2 - -and my GB Packers at 8-3- - -you best win every game or your gonna be toast.

I can’t remember does the playoffs have 2 or 3 wild cards?- -I’m not sure if both wild cards could even come from the same division- I think it’s two wild cards , you have your three division winners and then the two wild cards. Detroit is a handful

I’m so proud of these guys - -what a game. Actually pretty well dominated. They had NO Answer for us/Devin ALLLL DAY, mercy gonna miss this group.

This has just got to help our cause for sure in completion of the Stadium , Hell even our Defense bowed up when needed most the time - Another big thing ZERO TURNOVERS

Actually you look- -should be 5-0 losing to K/State. 2 points away from beating top 25 teams four weeks in a row – -We actually oh what a year this close to be 11-1 on the year if not for some really lousy luck

Watch out for Flagg to go off in the 2nd half. What he get in the first half 2 points ? - -KJ has done a good job on him

Our Ladies got a # 3 seed in the Louisville Bracket. We play Colgate in our opening match Dec 6th @ 6:30- -hoping we show well. we finished regular Season at 24-4.

Six teams from the Big twelve in the tourney. TCU - – BYU – - KU – Arizona St - - Baylor- -dang drawing a blank on the last one. Good Luck Ladies

@kjayhawks said in Offseason Roster Thread:

What a fucking travesty Neal was selected as Honorable Mention running back.

Are you fricken kidding me ? you talking about for the Big Twelve ?- -if it is for the Big Twelve and honorable mention , what a fricking joke. Not even 2nd team holy crap

@kjayhawks said in KU vs Duke Game Thread:

That was a gutsy win folks, a win to tell your kids about. Sets YES Sir, got some guys with Huge Sets

@approxinfinity Ah well dang buddy hope you get well soon

I agree Hunter should of ben called for a flagrant - -but a flagrant 2 ? come on now , let’s be real. First of all the kid from Duke like they said was a clear undercut , which could of caused injury to Hunter - -Hunter reacted , I had just said one of these times Hunter is going to get us in trouble and it’s going to cost us BUT to be ejected think extreme flagrant 2— think that’s a little much.

Who knows though in the over all grand scheme of things might of ben really beneficial for us, seeing how the team pulled together even more. Some big plays by KU players after that stretch KJ hit like three big buckets, and really strong defense, Zeke hitting a big bucket when it seemed the ball bounced on the rim and finally in forever , Rylan hitting two huge buckets and making those two free throws late –

These guys showed up , some real toughness in a bad spot by losing Hunter -they showed me some toughness for sure last night. For me KJ’s defense on Flagg last night was really good, and yet he did so many other things Juan stating KJ can guard 1-5 and yet 8 points ( ya I know )- -it was 8 points but at key time of game late 3 steals , 3 blocks , and 3 assists - - – looks fine to me and yet we gonna have ( Haters gonna hate )

I will say this checking the box score , KU had 10 offensive rebounds this game – dam when is the last time we have done that – good job. – KU out rebounded Duke against that taller line up another Good job-- now on to our next game -

Dam wish we could get Sauq healthy we need more back up for Juan. - -36 minutes last night

Read yesterday that Coach Self is wanting to run Hunter and Flory together a little more , saying he think Flory and Hunter can play together not big periods of time but like 5 minute runs. Interesting

@drgnslayr I don’t think they are even sure Creighton’s guy is even going to play , last game out with some kind of injury

Issacs probably won’t come close to 30 points in a game the entire the rest of the Season

@BigBad Well said. I’ve tried to say before, if it was acceptable by the NCAA regulation, after performances like this last week if he could get away with it Coach Self would make sure these guys had an understanding about the game of basketball

Thing is a Coach can only do so much, he can grill these kids , keep running the same things , basic things and such but at the end of the day it’s the players responsibility to handle business, He can’t go out on the floor , bring the ball up the floor , make the right passes , make the right decisions , get the rebounds , set the screens , defend the ball , play the pick and roll on defense , That falls on the players

Coach doesn’t have time to baby sit some of these guys - -guys that think they should start - -play 30/33/35 minutes a game without proving their case and showing they deserve those things.- -There is not a single person in this chat room that doesn’t know that if you don’t play defense or at least try to play defense then your not going to play. There are some players that think there is only one end the court - -the offensive end, but even then you would think there was some deadly formula on the back boards that will be fatal if they should by accident try and get after a offensive rebound.

You have certain players that just don’t want to try and defend, they just want to play the offensive end, and don’t do a very good job of that either , by making bad decisions with very bad shot selection , forced shots and errant dum passes.

I’ll give Flory & Passmore a little bit of a pass with this right now- -they are Freshmen still learning , but when you have fifth , sixth yr players- -experienced portal players that’s play college ball when your having them play like they are and some it shows as long as they are getting that NIL - it’s like eh, I’m not playing defense , I’m not worried about effort, they don’t give a dam about who they are representing as long as they have their NIL they are good to go. IF there are players that are wishing they were back at Alabama , or Wisconsin or where the frick ever I’d be the first one showing them the door. You want out?- -then get the hell out and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. We want kids here at KU that WANT TO BE HERE because of our rich Basketball history, not just NIL

@kuballin10 And there you have it. spoken like the true genius you truly are. I told them , I told them you would be chompin at the bit. – Well played sir – -Well played indeed roflmao

I’m so confused right now. I have heard valid points from both ways. I was listening to a KU podcast yesterday, and they brought up some very good points.

One of the first points brought out and have to agree – - - KJ Adams, I think everybody loves KJ , how hard he plays and guards but we just can’t have KJ on the floor for 30 plus minutes, not with Hunter. He can’t or just doesn’t rebound , he has no shot , more of a liability.

They posed this question – -good question and that was-- Is Coach Self a good fit with the portal ? - -Now they said for sure he can hit it ard , recruit it well BUT is the players he get fit the KU System ?- -They made the point that It’s on Coach Self with these guys because he knew what kind of a player when they recruited them.

They talked about How Coach Self hs gotten these kids so shell shocked, they have lost all confidence , instead of Coach allowing them to play through their mistakes, they are so worried about being yanked. - -Self say you don’t know what I want from you - - -then you can just sit over here on the bench till you get it figured out.

He knew what type of player he was getting with AJ , saying AJ is attacking, Talking about AJ shooting 4 free throws a game last yeat , vut only like 1.5 this year - - – ATTACK drive the ball.

They talk about how we heard how things were going to be different more like 4 out one in- -and what do we have right now ?- - – -was going to be a different approach - -yet this year KU KU’s offense, they are only averaging 27 % at shooting three’s- - that ranks 287th in the Nation attempting a three.- -While at two point shot attempts we are 5th in the nation attempting a two point shot.

Crazy thing to is - -I didn’t know is KU is the Most experienced team in the Nation- the average experience age for KU is 3- --1/2 years - -The National average right now is a 1 - -1/2,

They also brought up that KU had tried Seven different combinations of lineups ---- you know how many of those Seven is that started KJ - -Juan -& Hunter - - ALL SEVEN— they said that in the end Coach Self is a guy that is going to have on the floor who he trusts most , and that is KJ - -Hunter -& Juan- - They said you are not going to gain Coach Self’s trust on the offensive end - I just don’t quite know what to think.- -They also said too that just because KU is playing at home today just don’t automatically think KU’s problem is going to go away and they are coming out guns a blaze and the problems are over – this team has work to do

Xavier giving U Conn everything you want on U Conn home floor- -78-78 Overtime starting - -22 lead changes great game

@rockchalkjayhawk Not to worry I;m quite sure we will be able to find somebody that we can crao[ p on surely

Even though I agree with you for the most part drgnslayr I do think we need to look a little deeper before we just lay blame on KJ for his paly. , let’s dig into some stats between KJ & Zeke on the year and see.

OK :- - Minutes played per game , KJ 29.2 - Zeke- - 28.5 .- – now here is going to surprise you from your statement made.- -Rebounding Average - -Zeke- -4.2 - -KJ - -4.0 ( so no not even close to doubled ) – Asst per - -Zeke 3.3 , – KJ 2.3 Steals per game - Zeke- - 0.6 – - KJ- -0.6- - - blocks per - -Zeke0.2 . - -Kj- - 1.1- – Turnovers per , - -Zeke 2.0 - - -KJ 0.9- -FT - - Zeke 78.6- – -KJ - 78.3

Now in the more borader picture on the Season- -Shots taken- -Zeke attempted 71/125- ( here is a glaring difference- -Zeke has attempted 46 more shots then KJ) - - - Free Throws - - Zeke- -11/14 - -KJ - -18/23- – -Now here where it shows in the rebounding comparison - - Zeke 3 offensive rebounds , - -KJ 21 offensive rebounds - -defensive rebounds - -Zeke 43 - - KJ - -232.

So actually Zeke and KJ are actually pretty much the same , just not that rebounding difference that you had mentioned by double.-- Zeke hitting the defensive boards quite a bit better , - -KJ more balanced defensive and offensive- - but as you see overall only two tenths difference in rebounding average.

What i really don’t think some understand is , I just don’t think KJ is that kind of player where he is going to be some scoring machine. I don’t think Coach has him on the floor for- -I think he has him out on the floor because of everything else he does. - - -He can guard 1 through 4 and do a good job at it- - - He really shouldn’t have to be counted on to score much more then what he si – he averages I think right at 9 points a game.-- That’s why Coach went into the portal and got these other guys – they are suppose to help hunter in the scoring aspect of the game- -that’s what Rylan - - AJ - - & Zeke were brought in for, -KJ - guards and guards well. KJ is not afraid to go to the floor for loose balls - more just hustle- - -does the dirty work then anything - I think KJ catch’s a lot of unwarranted flack – KJ is who he is - -just not a big time scorer that’s all my friend

@rockchalkjayhawk ya it was pretty nasty. thing is I don’t even remember what I was doing at that time. Watching the replay he was late but I still don’t think Dean is that type of player where it was meant to finish someone’s future

@NotHim not sure if your new to the board or not but guess you haven’t realized how our lil buddy works lol. See when KU wins even during game chat don’t you see him- or - hear a peep out of him he is a ghost-- NOTHING, BUT when things don’t go well- - it’s Katie bar the door, he is on it like White on Rice , he becomes THE jimmy in the Dean he thrives on it and has a huge thing for Juan sit back and watch buddy lmao

If you new awesome welcome aboard, if your not – still cool always glad to see others on here – Rock Chalk

@nuleafjhawk Exactly, here is a question you mentioned about a fireman’s pay - -a policeman pay – here is the 1,000 dollar question - how the hell do you put a number for the amount of money THESE GUYS make. how can you put a price on some ones life? - no way pro players should be making more then some one who puts their life on the line every minute of every day.

@kuballin10 Cool, that makes me happy. - -No seriously my compute crashed, had to do all my sites over again, it’s ok, this computer is much better I won’t even say anything in caps-- – just for you lol

Love the way Devin replied to some things . - -Devin said before the Colorado game- -We let our pads do the talking for us.

Devin respectable , class act, and really showed his loyalty when he chose to come play for us , as to when he could of had many other options , but he stayed home and has really been a huge piece to helping turn this program around. Thank You Devin a TRUE Jayhawk for life

@Zabudda LOL- - or maybe a grinch

Glad to see Jo , Jo and Kelly teaming up and doing well.-- - Last Night Jo , Jo 34 points - -9 assists- - -& 5 rebounds. - --Kelly 22 points- - 4-6 from three point I think 8 rebounds ?

Looks like Kelly & Jo Jo both need to take some of their money and get a haircut lol. - -Jo , Jo wearing aface shield- -what the hell happened now, Big man always getting hurt

@kuballin10 said in Early season feedback on kuballin’s off season analysis:

@SlimShaddy54 agh that sucks to hear sorry man

I miss your all caps

ya it does, like i got spare change just laying around to go throw on another computer. Luckily was able to get a black Fridy deal.- yippee for me lol

Were playing really well, but Baylor playing well too-- they have won 5 straight- -Average defense though not nearly the type of defenses we have been up against lately

@mayjay Thank you couldn’t remember

Coach just said Flory is fine , no limitations on him. Had wisdom teethe pulled but he is fine

@AsadZ Better question is will Borland be back ? -That was a sad display , so many missed tackles , Baylor over 600 yards of offense- -just overall sad display today after the way they had played

Computer crashed had to re sign up every where anyways new computer yippee

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU vs Duke PreGame:

Now that more of the crowd is here, it’s probably about a 65/35 pro Kansas crowd.

well that helps some anyways possibly

@AsadZ ya quality back built solid

@mayjay you got it bingo

I’ll take that start

Think that’s a smart move, he called the plays during out last Bowl game, him and Coach K , he knew Coach K’s scheme think you will see more option type plays next year.

Watched a couple of KU podcasts - and just as they said having Jalon already say he was coming back and that would be a boost in recruiting saying to recruits/portal He JD-6 is going to b the one running the offense , a you know there are going to be many , many receives in the portal- - they see JD back and they say hey he already knows their offense established I wanna go play with him.

Same way for Coach Z-- it’s a boost for recruiting, knows the system already he it’s a lot better being able to recruit with the targets knowing who the coordinator is going to be - – Smart move, moved quickly

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Ladies Volleyball NCAA Tourney:

@Texas-Hawk-10 espn+?

yes they are on ESPN plus tonight.