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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.

Never knew there was a Funny category on the Bucket. Here's a few. What are some of your favorites?

Roman guy walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says give me 5 beers.

Dyslexic guy walks into a bra.

Skeleton walks into a bar, says give me a beer and a mop.

When they installed artificial turf at KState football the cheerleaders realized they'd have to find a new field to graze in.

Nebraska stressing academics decided to put the letter N on their helmets for knowledge.

Drug dealers in Missouri not so smart. They didn't want to risk jail time so they sent one of their interns down to Mexico to get some coke they could sell. He came back with a couple of 12 packs of Pepsi saying it was cheaper.

I hate it when people use your and you're wrong. There so dumb.

@FarmerJayhawk

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

I miss RedRooster approving of every comment.

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.

The more I think about Melvins Wabash taunt the more I think of how brilliant it was. FKU heard every game we play there. Reportedly they chant it when we're not even playing there. They chant it while doing that dance. Melvin's been in town for less than a year and totally gets it.

Tre's dunk at the end, normally i don't like but again, he's new in town and gets it. They're going to chant FKU then I'm gonna do a FKSU style move.

These guys have some flair and they're proving what a special place Lawrence is.

That's the first made 3 for Tiller since last year. And only his 3rd since we played Princeton.

@BeddieKU23 That dunk was pure gamesmanship. Their freshman had just dunked and DP said, OK rival, I'll show you how to dunk. That 30 seconds of game time really just showed us all what we need to know about DP. Is he better? Based on today that's an easy debate but it's not fair to the other kid, uh what's his name...JJ by20losingia? Seriously can't settle the debate by one game but we do like what we're seeing today.

After a score to make it 57-47 with 8:17 left we finished 17-4. This despite zebras rewarding them with 2 replay reviews. I was distracted by something at that time so watching with great scrutiny was happening, but what I thought was we could have won both of those challenges. Held them to 4 points over 8 minutes. Held them to 61, their 2nd lowest total of the season. Purdue walloped them back in November. Obviously our offense didn't win the game for us last night, it was our defense.

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.

The cannibal dad came home late for dinner and his wife gave him the cold shoulder.

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.

I'm a tech doofus so I'm super proud of myself for just scamming my way back onto these pages.

A couple's young daughter went to college.
After 6 months she happily let them know she was engaged to a student who is studying to be a pastor, and is bringing him home for the holidays.

And after the introductions the father and the boy sat and the father asked: " How old are you?"

Fiance:"19"

Father: "And where are you going to live?"

Fiance: "God will provide."

Father: "And where are you going to get money?"

Fiance: "God will provide."

Later that night the mother asked the father: "What do you think of him?"

And the father: "He seems to be a nice guy, he thinks I am God."

On rivalry Sunday for me, wow it was a big one. KU-Misery and then Bears Packers. That actually was a very good game, but no one cares out there in Chiefs country.

So my take on what's been going on. I'm really loving this years team. Flory is becoming more and more what we thought he'd be. Not sure I can remember a big with his explosive hops. He comps to Doke somewhat but it looks different. The price of DP coming back is the little flurry we saw of success from Elmarko and Jamari takes a back seat to DP and his amazing game. We're gonna need those guys so I hope we can count on them as we did in Vegas.

Council drives me nuts.

White had an awesome game. I saw enough Illinois last year that I wasn't all that excited to see he was playing for us. But I'm impressed and he is indispensible to our success this year.

I hate the helter skelter style of ball Misery plays. It's not pretty, not all that effective really. I watched Marquette do the same yesterday against UW. Didn't work, after a slow start, UW scored 86 points in the last 30 minutes of game time.

Did you know KU is the only team to not allow a team to shoot 30% on 3's this year? Is Bill Selfs old defense back? Seems like it hasn't been strong for a while, but the lack of timeouts quickly after our opponents score an unguarded 3 is an indicator that it's not happening very often.

DP's game was kind of strange. He had some really ugly shots. He also had some really pretty shots. Rest that hammy young man.

RCJHKU!