Christian Braun presser:
On the way out the door he was asked if he heard about Kansas beating undefeated Arizona

“No big deal. That was expected”

Svi started and scored 23

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.

The series was started Feb 11 1926 so we're on to the 2nd century of KU-OSU basketball!

@approxinfinity So you're saying Vitale has become a diaper dandy?

There's something about a gut punch loss that makes me philosophical. Because I have to come to grips with the disappointment so that it doesn't drag me down into the dumps I look to so many people and life circumstances that prevents me from feeling sorry for myself. That fact that it could happen again tomorrow or Sunday makes being a fan of two teams all the more 'difficult'. But it is just a game and baseball starts in 2 weeks and i have spring break in 2 weeks, and well, I'll get over it. KU surviving into next week would help. Except for one massive exception in 2022, both of my teams ending the season disappointingly every season. Even the Covid year was a BIG championship for UW and fans were excited for the postseason.

Having been a fan of 3 KU champions and 1 White Sox winner is pretty good though. I consider 1988 to be my championship since I was a senior. That's a memory that has taken me through the tough endings of so many seasons. But I do hope to see a few more before I go on home to heaven.

I know we're supposed to hate KState but I hate Kentucky way more.

I beg to differ. Yes there's some facts there in your statement, but there's also some grand exaggerations with a forgetfulness for the facts. Last decade, we made elite 8 in 16, 17, final four in 18, round of 32 in 19, best in nation 20, round of 32 in 21, national champs in 22, and first weekend exits since then. Glass half full is my view and, well take it from a fan of another team you know me for, the Badgers. We made the FF in 2015 and not even close since. Even missed it once and had to play in the NIT. So it's still not that bad. I hope it improves. If some one stops the ball Sunday we're in OT with momentum.

@nuleafjhawk you know, we don’t suck. I don’t know why you’ve turned on KU so much. We all can see the last couple of seasons haven’t been as good as we’d like, but to tell us every chance you get your displeasure is tiresome.

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.