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Oklahoma State at Kansas
6 p.m., Jan. 13, 2015
Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KS

@bskeet who's guarding forte? Nash?

@Crimsonorblue22 i'll guard him...

@KUSTEVE for the team!!!

Anyone here?

Yes. Perry.....turnover machine.

@Hawk8086

Whats up with this young man?

Oh guys. Come on

Perry 4 to's

I know. Geez. I keep thinking he has to snap out of this funk

I'm here until game time or dinner is ready... whichever happens first!

I'm bad at the online real time chats because when something goes wrong, I don't want to filter my outbursts! ha!

I have to admit that between my wife and I... Perry gets the most verbal abuse during a game. We both despise soft play. I don't like to call Perry names... but my wife calls him a wuss.

Haha

I'm just glad he can't hear me in my living room.

Sometimes i wish he could here me....

Wow!!

Damn

I wish he could hear us. I wish there was a way to wake him up into being the player he is capable of being.

But... there have been some good moments this season, and all we can do is hope he has more of those moments where he is pushing hard.

?????!!!

BS Technical foul

I'm an old guy. I'd love to have another crack at my youth and basketball.

Perry is right there... real time... and I hate to see him tarnish his future.

He doesn't have to be a tweener. He's a tweener because he plays soft.

Charles Barkley was shorter, and he wasn't a tweener.

@bskeet

No joke

MASON

In the middle of the fight a game broke out...

too true

always the retaliation that gets called.. Nash is easy prey.

The game is on the edge of being beyond chippy.. Not sure what the next level is called.. Maybe 'choppy'

No love lost between these two teams...

They arent even gonna have a ball when we go to a stillwater. :)

Air ball

3 T's so far.....wow. Dumb. We've cost ourselves too many points.

Forte a great salesman

Didnt need to let up that 3. Had em on their heels here

Think Selden forgot who he was guarding

Even perrys free throws arent looking good. Used to be able to count him getting then at the line for the most part

Free throws....

Right. Free throws are killing us.
Also, Greene's 3 attempt was not in rhythm....looked like he just felt like he needed to put one up....came out after that.

@Hawk8086
Agreed

Forte at the line all night

At least the base line jumper that Perry missed looked good......

Making very bad use of the double bonus last 7 minutes....

4 pt halftime lead. Feels like it should be more. If we hit a better ft% and don't give them 4 pts on T's we would have the lead it feels like we should.

Mari should be rested!! Regroup, ugly game

Wv up 13 on ou

@Crimsonorblue22
Will he see the floor again tonight?

Yes!

We will need his energy

Oh, I think he'll play in the 2nd half.

Sitting Jamari It was Coach Self's way of telling him that he made a bad decision in a close game. He will play in te second half.

Darn, I thought we played tomorrow night. What's been happening besides Cliff's big jam?

@brooksmd
Lots of missed fts so far

@Crimsonorblue22 I think that ISU victory at WVU will look bigger and bigger as the season goes on.

@cragarhawk Expected.

@Hawk8086 truth

From the looks of the stats Frank is carrying the team again. Selden, Ellis have taken a break again.

I will say Ellis atleast appears to me to be hustling hard. Just shots not falling. And some early turnovers

Mari called for reach in but no foul called when he was shoved out under our basket.

Alright guys, foot to the throat now grind it.

Have they kept Forte in check?

@brooksmd don't ask!!

@Crimsonorblue22 Why didn't you call me and remind me the game was tonight and not tomorrow?

@brooksmd next one

Good thing we haven't sent them to the line as many times as they have us.

@RedRooster Slow down, you're gonna wear yourself out.

You need to watch replay of first half.

Weak foul

@Crimsonorblue22 I'll catch it on ESPN3 afterwards. Geez, they started the half pretty good but gone down hill since then.

This might be as ugly as last year! I'll be up all pm!!!

Sloppy play is killing us. Bad look by Mason led to a foul by Devonte and 2 fts for Nash.

@brooksmd technicals on Nash Mari and Cliff first half

@Crimsonorblue22 Same time?

Well hopefully they can hang on to this one.

Mari hurt?

Does Lucas not have any hops?

OSU has thrown a lot of players to foul and make it a dirty game. 11 OSU players with 2 or more fouls.

@Crimsonorblue22 He's on the floor.

@brooksmd Nash and Mari's were, Cliff flexed after the best dunk of year. Awful call

ESPN copied my stat on fouls...

No call on Mason being shoved.

Perry is hustling a lot...

FRANNNNNK

Next year we will have the top backcourt in CBB.

OSU without Forte is like Cleveland without LeBron...just another team...

26 of 40 fts if I am correct. 65% won't cut it.

@brooksmd he's saving us, offensive boards and good decisions

@Hawk8086 36.1%, 27.3% and 65% is piss poor.

Somebody get the oxygen ready for Rooster.

Man our offense is just....

@cragarhawk :poop:

Just the fumbled balls under the basket have cost us 6 points in the 2nd half.

As bad as the ft shooting has been tonight. What if we dont have the ones weve hit. Just take a moment to process that

Rooster jump in!!

@cragarhawk Yeah, right no that's the diff in the game.

Nice offense

Landon about time.

This has all the pace of a Big East game. Nice to have the Eastern Time Zone fans (especially the Dookies) wait on us for a change.

@nwhawkfan Plus 1000 on that one!

@nwhawkfan indeed

Watch the press! Foul the crap out of us coming up!

Nice reaction by DG.

Nash show-up the ref like he did over the weekend he'll get another T.

I swear!!! Trying not to bad mouth kids, but Perry is driving me nuts!

Refereeing has been well below par...no home advantage at all, in fact, quite the opposite.

@Crimsonorblue22 In his 3rd year you would expect him to be at the top of the game.

@brooksmd
Agree wholeheartedly

Perhaps thats what im worried about. Maybe he is...

@Crimsonorblue22 5 TURNOVERS...HE'S THINKING TOO MUCH...

A lot of unforced turnovers for KU...

Mason leading rebounder for Hawks tonight.

Graham is learning the hard way not to give Forte any room...

@JayHawkFanToo Think they had 6 first half and up to 15 now.

Very intense game leading to turnovers...

Just absolutely horrific defense there

Why isn't BG on the floor for FT's?

@brooksmd

He cannot play defense...

@brooksmd he was bad first half

I love HCBS. But im sorry. I absolutely despise our late half/late game stategy. Hold the ball and one guy go make a play

Cobbins is toast...

Frank one rebound from double-double.

@brooksmd I'm not starting Perry sat

@Crimsonorblue22 Unfortunately you don't count.

Almost made it to 70% FT. 69.6%

Hahaha

An ugly win is still a win. But Lord, if we play like this at Hilton we're in trouble.

@nwhawkfan If they play like this Sat they can stay home.

@nwhawkfan
Ya.... We'll be longing for the days wheb we only lost by 20whatever

Unless we make them play ugly too. Anyone get time warner post game? Sorry jayhawkfan

And now, it's time for the ESPN Coach K canonization show. And I thought you needed to perform two miracles to get named a saint...

@nwhawkfan Hope Dickie V wore his Depends in case he wets himself.

@brooksmd
Thats not a question of "if" :)

Forte learned some acting from smart!!! You can't be hurt one play, then be fine when you do good, then hurt when you get beat. Etc

Hmmm, is Miami gonna give the Pukies problems tonight? Well gotta go let the kids out and clean up kitchen. Later ya'll. RCJH

Mason leads team in scoring and rebounding yet again. Idk how this team has won 14 games sometimes

@cragarhawk should start post game comments

@Crimsonorblue22
Okay. This is an official post game comment... :) 3-0 in league is hard to complain about. But i always find a way. Haha

I think after tonight, I'd like to see more of this lineup, which I think others have also suggested would be our best line:
Mason
Graham
Oubre
Mari
Alexander

At this point, why not bring Perry off the bench. He responds in 1 of 2 ways... He says "this is BS I'm taking my starting job back" or he plays poorly with diminished confidence. If he doesn't step up to that challenge, what kind of production are we going to get out of him come tournament time?

Also, WV is the second best team in our league, imo. Then Iowa State. Bobby Huggins knows how to coach. All the questions we have every year mid-conference about the coaching ability of Barnes, Ford, Drew, Weber.. those questions don't apply to Huggins. He's going to have WV contending for the conference title a lot for the next decade.

@RedRooster
As long as youre around im always really gonna feel like im worth something around here. :)

@Crimsonorblue22
That sure seemed obvious to me. I had some respect for him but I think that was a stunt and beneath him-maybe he thought he could fool KU and sneak up on them??? My guess is the KU coaches advised our boys don't believe it for a second.

Watching the game now. In laws stopped by to see the baby before they go on a week long vacation so I had to wait to watch. Almost half time. I think most of my gripes were expressed by you all. Didn't see this one though. 6'5" Selden was being guard by 5'3" Paige jr. Why not have him post up more than the one time we did at the start of the game???

@Kip_McSmithers
We just seemed to me to run very little actual offense. Now. Whether that was because of osu's defense or if that was perhaps just some early season stategy by our savvy sly head coach. I cannot say for certain

Glad it's not a free throw contest. We suck again at them!

Wow, Miami blew out the Pukies in Cameron. Stupid Pukies were still challenging ballhandlers all the way to the buzzer. And Fizzoo, well the Kensucky put a 49 point whooping on the kittie-cats. The antlers must be ready to jump off the tallest building on campus.

@brooksmd angel made the right move!

Forte had 12 points 8 minutes into the game; he scored 6 the rest of the game. Once they figured out the OU plays for Forte, KU was able to greatly neutralize him; 9 of his points were from the FT line. Selden guarded him most of the time and Oubre, Mason and Graham also took turns.

Yes, there were problems but OSU was coming on a hot streak and KU managed to beat them by 10. I cannot complaint too much and it is hard to argue with the result, although I am sure some will.

On other news, Miami trounces Duke at Cameron. Former KSU player Angel Rodriguez had 24 points to lead all scorers. Can you imagine a back court of Rodriguez and Foster at KSU?

Cliff Alexander's posterizing dunk is #1 on SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays of the Day.