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I'm back.

@Jayhawk_69 said in Kansas Jayhawks at UCF Knights Game Chat Sat. 1/3 1:00 CT:

Unfortunately this game gives us a lot of negative takeaways and only 1 positive.

The positive: Melvin Council is the real deal. He is a stud who can hit big shots, play defense, and get to the rim at will.

The negatives:

1. DP will not play a second half for us all year. It does not matter if he is "100%". It just isn't going to happen.

2. Our defense, it turns out, was a paper tiger.

3. We have no heart. This is the only explanation for us not getting any defensive rebounds. We have the size and athleticism to be great on the glass.

4. We have no toughness. Everytime we tied or took the lead we gave up an easy basket at the other end. In the last minute with a chance to win we allowed 100% 3 pt percentage, 100% shooting from the field, and gave up 2.67 points per possession.

5. Flory has not taken the step forward needed from him.

6. Tiller is not ready to be a big 12 starter.

I suppose, on the bright side, all these issues (minus number 1) are fixable, but as of now it looks like we are a bottom half of the Big 12 team.

Overreaction city, not based on our full season of work.

1. We still don't know. I wish if he was on a minutes restriction that they'd be allocated out a bit so we have him at the end of the game.

2. Our defense is really one of the better units in recent memory. Today 1st half was ugly but 2nd half was much better. Against a tall team we had 7 blocks

3. We have no heart. Really. How is that measured? I'd say we've showed a lot of heart this season in the way we've played against really good teams, even shorthanded without DP.

4. We have no toughness. One game we were down by 1 with 10 seconds left on the road against a well coached and 1 loss team. Come on man, again how are you measuring toughness? Since the championship, this is the toughest team we've had by far, we've all been saying it. Don't let a bad result (that we win if DP plays) cloud your judgment on this team. They're a fun team to watch and have given us thrills this season we haven't experienced since 22.

5. Flory has improved in many ways since his freshman year. More minutes sure, but he's been indispensible to this team.

6. I might agree on Tiller.

There was a lot of negativity on the board today. Disappointing loss for sure. End of the world? Not ready to go there.

@FarmerJayhawk

Yeah, even when he had an off game yesterday he got 17 points seemingly almost effortlessly.

BTW, Austin Booker with 2 sacks for the Bears today.

Fran was intolerable yesterday. I watched on delay so I couldn't sync with KU radio. I mean one point he and whoever was with him was talking for minutes on end about other teams in the country and how good they were.

I think the key to more quad 1 wins is when DP's quads heal

Really excited to not see D(N)P play Saturday because even if he does, I'd have to pay nbc money to order their idiotic streaming bull crap peaclunk greed channel and if he doesn't play I still wouldn't see it. Sports are being ruined by greedy media companies manipulating leagues into agreeing to air some of their games on their platforms, pissing off millions of fans across so many sports. Seems like a really good business model.

Did I read this right? I think I did. This is the best news I've heard all year!

KU football is so back!! Believe it, it's true. Don't give up on Lance yet folks. Now if he can find a decent defense.

Wow, Furphy got 18 tonight but Indy is proving how valuable Haliburton is. They're 6-22 this year with him out after his bad injury last year.

@crimsonblu22 Thanks, that and the Bears win helped ease the sting of the Jayhawk season going down the tubes.

Great shot, even better flop. Ref all caught up in the moment.

@BeddieKU23 Why? The guy clearly pushed him before shooting.

That was an offensive foul.

@approxinfinity Was getting to say the same, he and Jamari don't give us a ton offensively but they are not mistake prone and contribute in many other ways.

We're gonna lose if we can't keep our bigs on the floor.

I mean I love the Bears but they couldn't have waited for the conclusion of this game?

Believe it or not FOX here in Chicago is going to local Bears coverage at 12:30. They have a lame 'the conclusion can be viewed' tonight like at midnight. I'll be hunting for a channel it looks like.

Jeff Goodman tweeted that in his last 50 minutes on the court he's scored 48 points. I think that's good?

A few minutes ago I'm sure people were getting ready to tweet, 'only 7 points' at DP, etc etc, and suddenly, 16 points. He scores so effortlessly.