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Top 10 teams Ohio St, Memphis, Villanova, Louisville have all gone down. Let's avoid losing today!

First to 40 wins

need to shoot about 40% from three today

Huggins has a big chalk handprint on the back of his shoulder.

Doke!

@FarmerJayhawk I thought he stepped on the line, but I'll take it!

Quick whistle on the 3 second call

welp

We need the time out cause we are poop

@BShark If we're losing at halftime I'll switch to your game thread.

Fieldhouse is lifeless and the team is lifeless so far

1/4, 4 turnovers, getting exposed defensively by Huggins. Great start.

How long until we go to a 4-1 today?

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

How long until we go to a 4-1 today?

probably after this timeout

@Woodrow Crowd at WSU for Ole Miss came seems to be pumped...

DanR said:

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

How long until we go to a 4-1 today?

probably after this timeout

Yep

@DanR Good call.

Crowd seems dead in part because of the audio balance of this lousy production

Good news they called a foul bad news Doke at the line.

lol

Why tf are they talking about Seth Greenberg? Oh yeah, because that’s what ESPN does. Say something stupid then spend all day talking about it.

DOKE WYD

FarmerJayhawk said:

DOKE WYD

So much amazing happened there.

these announcers are crap

Game is over, gonna eat.

Yikes. Time to wake up!

Braun in. Moss out.

Kinda glad I can't actually watch this game. 5 points in 7 minutes at home. 1-7 from floor. 4 TOs. WTF...

Exposed much

DCHawker said:

Kinda glad I can't actually watch this game. 5 points in 7 minutes at home. 1-7 from floor. 4 TOs. WTF...

It's worse then the box score says

Back-door all the time today. That's how you punish defenses that over-play.

Pretty sure we still have time to come back in this one

I wish Ochai wouldn’t be so passive after only missing one shot.

I'm not sure our defense needs to collapse so much on drives that we give up a wide-open 3.

They hardly shoot 3's. Cept for today!

Their defensive strategy of letting Garret shoot 3s and putting Doke on the line is a good one.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

They hardly shoot 3's. Cept for today!

When you get wide open looks cant turn em down

Hawk8086 said:

Their defensive strategy of letting Garret shoot 3s and putting Doke on the line is a good one.

Neither can shoot so it's a win win

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

I'm not sure our defense needs to collapse so much on drives that we give up a wide-open 3.

that strategy almost worked against Villanova!

Guess we forgot we had a game this afternoon

take that shot, Braun

Dotson needs to sit for perspective, but the roster is devoid of ball handlers.

I’d like for one player to show that they want to play in this game

My god. Make a FT

2-9

Food was good, I see we still suck.

@BShark made a free throw while you were gone

Hey we made a free-throw!

DanR said:

@BShark made a free throw while you were gone

It's a miracle!

1-3

Garret should do that all day. Dotson and Ochai too. Playing too passively

Marcus. Hooper.

Don't have to shoot as many free-throws if you make your lay-ups. Smart, Marcus.

Gotta make free throws and finish strong to beat WVU.

Moss sucks at blocking out

Moss has to make that

Braun is feisty af.

Maybe they'll all foul out

Heyyy Doke

what's Braun's wingspan? his hands reach his knees

Whoa!

@Crimsonorblue22 Still not sure we would make anything???

Doke shooting better freebies than Dot

Udoka - Steve Nash - Azubuike

Three point shooting is just PAINFUL

Have to pass that Doke

FarmerJayhawk said:

Have to pass that Doke

That one hurt.

As if Doke wasn't fouled there.

Get back down the court and block that, Doke

BShark said:

As if Doke wasn't fouled there.

Then we get the soft whistle on Oscar

Awesome shot Ochai. Way to kill the run.

Moss get in front of him

Offensive rebounds are killing us!!!!

@Hawk8086 Oscar is a problem. Just went to WVU over UK by coincidence though.

If we can keep it single digits @ half, we will win.

Honestly didn't really see a foul on Moss there.

Yikes

Holy terrible entry pass Batman

@FarmerJayhawk Tristan might not be playable today.

If Doke won’t block Oscar I'd like to see Dave try

L O L

Golf clap

Should we play a zone?

@BShark I think making a shot would be nice too

Hey Bill please try Dave

He was shoved

“Fell”

Our D isn't that bad. Offense is more the problem IMO

Oh shit!

Offensive foul

Dorks

Ok, let’s try SDS

Woodrow said:

Ok, let’s try SDS

Lol

NFL time. I'll check back later.

Ochai doesn't look very engaged today.

Big Dave looks like he ate 3 turkey dinners

DanR said:

Our D isn't that bad. Offense is more the problem IMO

I take that back.

This is where not having two actual PGs really hurts. Denying Dot the ball and forcing others to get us into the offense. Killing us.

Fundamentals! Balls worth a million bucks, hang on to it! Block out!

Dave sucks

Huggy just knows how to scheme against us and we don't adjust...

Tsheibwe is what I expected SDS to be this season.

Hopefully Doke is a little bit embarrassed by getting shown up by Tsheibwe. Crank it up, Doke.

Oscar to the bench. Time to make a run

I wonder if the guy doing the play-by-play knew he was going to be doing the play-by-play when he woke up this morning.

He gets a buck every time he says sheebay

Get a forking rebound

Embarrassing effort there

Pretty sure I could've jumped thru the tv and grabbed that

To be fair, I don't think anyone expected that automatic left-handed hook to miss that badly.

grab the dang ball. Good grief.

That looked off Doke.

Oscar is flat out dominating

6 is not a lot! Must not have seen us play

This is the worst decade of KU basketball ever.

eh I’ll take it the way we played.

Óscar reminds me of Konate minus the crazy.

Give the dudes some bibs

I feel like we should be down 15 so I’ll take it.

@FarmerJayhawk Exactly. Down 6 and playing this bad? Things have to improve in the 2nd half (I hope)

2-11 from 3. Under 50% on FTs. Give up 12 ORBs. 10 TOs. Not gonna win many games. Lucky we're just down 6...

I'd like to see more Braun in the 2nd half if Moss and Ochai continue to not do anything.

@Woodrow Double-double in the 1st half...

Braun does stand out as a kid that gets it.

I would not want to be Doke in that locker room!

We've only had 3 players score.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

I'd like to see more Braun in the 2nd half if Moss and Ochai continue to not do anything.

Ochai struggling means the team struggles since he always plays.

Doing a nice halftime feature on San Antonio's new head coach.

@DanR lol

@KirkIsMyHinrich Yes....Moss missed two wide open 3s. He has to hit those (or at least one)

Espn+ is just crappy I'm afraid to switch it

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Espn+ is just crappy I'm afraid to switch it

Clear as a bell on my end

It's clear, just a lot of dead space, till now

I don't know when they took all the dreary KU campus shots, but it's been sunny all day today with the bluest skies imaginable, so ESPN even managed to screw that up

I predict we win by ten

what changes at half?

@Crimsonorblue22 Do we stop switching?

@Crimsonorblue22 make some threes

Crimsonorblue22 said:

what changes at half?

DO NOT SWITCH OFF OSCAR

@Hawk8086 can't have the lil fella on him🤣

Rebound the ball

Crimsonorblue22 said:

what changes at half?

Stop playing crap

FarmerJayhawk said:

Crimsonorblue22 said:

what changes at half?

DO NOT SWITCH OFF OSCAR

Preach.

Grab the damn ball

Interesting choice starting Braun

Doke went over-the-back there.

FarmerJayhawk said:

Interesting choice starting Braun

I like it!

AND 1

Yes

4 point play Doke.

Missed it on purpose

Braun kicks ass.

First timer here.. how ya'll doing?
That was nice pick & roll by Dok!
Let's go Jayhawk!!!

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Braun kicks ass.

He just gets it and makes plays.

@msanchez give us some luck and baskets!

msanchez said:

First timer here.. how ya'll doing?
That was nice pick & roll by Dok!
Let's go Jayhawk!!!

Well hey! Welcome to our little cabal.

msanchez said:

First timer here.. how ya'll doing?
That was nice pick & roll by Dok!
Let's go Jayhawk!!!

Keep your hand away from @BShark 's mouth and you should be fine.

How sad. I now cheer for made KU FTs. Pathetic

More of that OCHAI

OH WE BACK

@stoptheflop You will happy less than half the time...

Nice deflection by Ochai!
And 3!!!

It's about time!!!

@msanchez we r keeping u!

msanchez said:

Nice deflection by Ochai!
And 3!!!

Thx for coming by so far!

FarmerJayhawk said:

OH WE BACK

Ochai playing better, team playing better. Have to hope for that going forward because he will continue to get big minutes.

Braun has been a big spark! Good move by Self.

Tie game, nobody with >1 foul, time to start over. Reboot! Lets go!

BShark said:

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Braun kicks ass.

He just gets it and makes plays.

I am happy to have been wrong about his ability to contribute immediately.

I joined the game late, but was surprise we only had 10 TOs. But 4 assists, expected, against Huggies' thuggies..

@Hawk8086 Ya I texted him at half.

@KirkIsMyHinrich LOL

@msanchez MOst of the TOs were not caused by WVU. Unforced.

I Lost two homes. First in the Far. Then the Tornadee.

Hawk8086 said:

@msanchez MOst of the TOs were not caused by WVU. Unforced.

The biggest issue with this KU team imo. Good news is it can be corrected.

how can that be a foul?

Kcmatt7 said:

BShark said:

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Braun kicks ass.

He just gets it and makes plays.

I am happy to have been wrong about his ability to contribute immediately.

To be fair he looked lost early.

Wooow

FarmerJayhawk said:

Wooow

SOFT CALL

@BShark Cheap call..

OSCAR SO DOMINANT INITIATING ALL THE CONTACT AND GETTING THE CALL ANYWAY

Awful call but have to rebound

And he hacks Doke. No call.

Maaan.. those guys can rebound well...

Braun pulling a Frank there

@msanchez Huggy teams always have. It's called coaching...

Gotta finish that, Dot.

Come on Dotson

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Gotta finish that, Dot.

YIKES

D came to play this half

He doesn't have to always take them on!

@DCHawker hehe.. I thought that's more like athleticism, but you're right.

7-16 from the free-throw line in this kind of game or any game really is a problem.

@Woodrow shouldn't you use all CAPS? :)

Why can't you make your layups, sit

@msanchez it’d be one thing if it’s just doke. But it’s everyone.

BeddieKU23 said:

Why can't you make your layups, sit

You can't sit Dot but yeah.

@BeddieKU23 LOL!! Dot is an exception! Can't run offense without him.

We had one good minute of basketball so far

Not sure about that 3 second call.

Was he even in the paint? I thought he was standing outside.

@BShark thought you had to be in the lane...

MARC G

Can’t get over the hump. Terrible possession there

We made a layup!!

That was a nice floater, just didn't get in! But Garrett showed good sign. We can play D, too!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

Come on ref

Bailed out

Ummm

What a stupid foul!!

Stupid call, that's ALL BALL.. Sheeesh..

Bleeding from that “all ball” “bad call!”

Drip drip

That wasn't a foul! I demand a trial by free-throw line.

WOW!!! LOB!!!

DOKE OMG

AND F1

Shebob

Good job Marcus!

Doke made FT!!!

This is fun

Marcus wyd

Sigh

WTF??? Can the ref just let Garrett steal those balls... F..

Oh boy

Oh jeez 3

CHRISTIAN BRAUN THE GOD

Braun can ball... I like this kid!

Let’s go Braun!

My guy UPS doing what he do.

She way go away

Doke actualloy 50% at the FT line. Everyone else 3-7...Make than 4-8...

Turn that frown upside Braun

Flopper..

HOLY SHIT BRAUN

I have no problem with that foul, Braun. Crash the boards

@approxinfinity u r a dork!🤣

@DanR he was pushed

Braun so strong he just rekt a dude that’s like 260

@Crimsonorblue22 it's called "dad jokes" I can't help it

FarmerJayhawk said:

Braun so strong he just rekt a dude that’s like 260

Must be the hulk.

Nice job by Braun. Forced that up with touch.

Then nice tackle.

Honestly wasn't sure if Braun was tough enough for this kind of game but dude's a gamer.

Can we please recruit some shooters. Holy s*hit

We have missed 3 wide open corner 3’s

@Woodrow nah. Known fact shooters don’t play d

@Woodrow got one next yr, think these will still be here.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Honestly wasn't sure if Braun was tough enough for this kind of game but dude's a gamer.

Toughed up in prison by Mitch.

@Woodrow 3-13 from deep...

@Woodrow Heck, we even missed layups.. but we're still in the game.. let's hope we can finish this one..

@Crimsonorblue22 Who are you referring to?

I believe we are up to 2 minutes of good basketball

We got a poster over on the inner city?🙄

Braun hasn't come out of this game in awhile. Wild.

Was that a trap?!

Garret reaches in again. Lucky no call

Braun knocked that off a WVU player.

Garrett got fouled first.. no call.. WTH?

Braun holy crap

I think Garrett got all air on that block

That's a nice block!!

Ochai doesn't not look confident in his shot at all.

So, KU hit 40. The game is over right?

BShark said:

So, KU hit 40. The game is over right?

Duh

Need to get a quick 4th on Oscar

BShark said:

So, KU hit 40. The game is over right?

I think we can hold em

C'mon.. slowly but sure, let's harass WV, and win this one by double digits..!!

Hit our throws?🙏

@Crimsonorblue22 Granted!!

Thx!

Enjoying Marcus throwing lobs with that length

Oscar is flopper

WTF? that's a travelling call!

Walk

xactly..

Lol

Ka..... BOOOM

OKAY

WOOOOOT WOOOT!!!!

Yoooooo

Up 7

Braun another deflection.

Oh my Doke

This braun kid is ok

Been waiting for that in my whole life!!!

Oh my Braun

Can we get that poster pls

Ref. You suck.

That's #4 on Marcus.

F...!! Ref doesn't like Garrett's hair..

4th on McG

4 on Marcus. Not good.

Oh boy Silvio. Your time bud

Oscar throwing elbows.

Have held WVU to 8 points in 11 minutes. Make that 10.

Not a good shot

Let's see if we can close this game out. We have the upperhand.

Two bigs on the floor. Let's see how this goes.

Self isn’t going to be able to sit MG very long

Trash refs

Culver got the elbows a little high there

Stupid ref..

Caught a break there

Lucky.. Silvio likes to do that..

Makeup call

He pushed Mac anyway.

A scorer

BRAUN

Woohooo.. Braun!!

Braun isn't going to give up his hold on his extra minutes

Elbow!!

There it is, ref. Took you three trips to see it.

Ya!!

Ride or Die guys update: Christian Braun added

DanR said:

There it is, ref. Took you three trips to see it.

That's being generous.

@KirkIsMyHinrich three trips in a row

Braun never sees panicking, or in hurry.. that's what amazing.. yet he got all those rebounds, buckets..

msanchez said:

Braun never sees panicking, or in hurry.. that's what amazing.. yet he got all those rebounds, buckets..

High bbiq

Player of the game so far - CB with 6pts, 4rbs, and 2stls - when most needed

2 steals from CB? Great job!!

msanchez said:

2 steals from CB? Great job!!

Plus a couple deflections. Dude is a machine

BShark said:

msanchez said:

Braun never sees panicking, or in hurry.. that's what amazing.. yet he got all those rebounds, buckets..

High bbiq

Braun out here playing 8D blackjack while everyone else is just playing basketball.

hehe

@KirkIsMyHinrich whatever that means!

What happens to DMac? How's he in 1st?

SICK pass from Braun too bad Ochai couldn't make the shot.

Nice try, Ochai!

Really liked that possession. Just need to make shots

Nice strategy to give them the smaller basket in the second half

FarmerJayhawk said:

Really liked that possession. Just need to make shots

Agree, great possession.

Ochai is really struggling

WV 35 rbs, KU 23. OUCH

@Woodrow Give him a lob, that'll change things around..

Sheboob got in the way

Daaaamn it. He traveled.

We need to box out better, pushing those bodies out..

Marcus goes to the bench and the offense goes stagnant

Braun needs to shoot a three

3 fouls on Silvio in about 3 minutes

Dotson settling for mid-range.lets at least pretend our wide open perimeter players can Shoot 3s

@DCHawker more like six, but only three called

Getting killed on boards

CB should take those 3s..

Braun is doing an excellent job getting up on challenging 3s

THATS NOT A FOUL?!?!!?

WTF Silvio

@DanR That doesnt' come by very often..

Was he pushed? Was flying

@Crimsonorblue22 He took off too early..

NOT in OUR HOUSE!!

Mutumbo wag

Oscar is good but he pushes off a lot.

Shebob shine wearing off

Doke🔥

oh my

Holy hell, Doke.

DOKE!

DOKE!!!

D dot come on

Crimsonorblue22 said:

D dot come on

Im about to murder that ref

Close to being in the circle

Oh gawd, free throw time.

Need to make free throws

Lob much in our game plan?

Dotson has not scored this half

Run that back door all day. It works.

@Bwag With a team like West Virginia definitely.

@KirkIsMyHinrich He's strong too, and it's so freakin' obvious on Doke, but yet, stupid refs didn't call those push-offs..

WVU has 41-26 RB edge

Woodrow said:

Dotson has not scored this half

Already more points this half too. Crazy.

@DCHawker Thanks for the reminder.. we need to protect our rim, at least.. no 2nd chances..

Bwag said:

Lob much in our game plan?

As long as their game plan is undercut the jumper

Can we close a tight game this time?

@msanchez Good point. Have given up a ridiculous 20 ORBs..

@DCHawker YIKES...

FREE THROWS UGH

Ochai. Dude.

@BShark dots hands

WALK

F.. travelling..

CHRISTIAN MF BRAUN

YES!!! Great rebound, DMac

Yes

Attaboy big Dave

Huge

Nice sequence from Dave

WOOOHOOOO!!! Look at that... 5 lobs in a game??

Nice sequence there for Dave.

little quick on that one, Garrett

The ghost of Phog Allen is protecting our rim.

come on Dot. Pass it.

Maan.. that would've been another lob.. Dot forced it..

Too many empty possessions last minute

DanR said:

come on Dot. Pass it.

Awful possession.

Doke🙌🏾

A couple of bad possessions there and now only up 3!

Dotson has not passed well all game

Braun might finally be tired

Braun was open, too..but Dot decided to take it by himself.

This team cannot execute in crunch time...

benshawks08 said:

Braun might finally be tired

Has he come out all half?

Come on. Awful possession after another

@approxinfinity Agreed with you on this one.

BShark said:

benshawks08 said:

Braun might finally be tired

Has he come out all half?

no

@DCHawker Marcus and Braun can.

Dot come on, why u came back!🤩

MARC G

Atta kid

Nice off the glass, Marcus!

Close this

5 freakin blocks by Dok!!!

Doke with 5 blocks?? Awesome

Ayfkm

FLOP!!!

RANCID CALL

Protect the ball, Dotson.

Oh so you can’t bear hug a guy on an out of bounds play?

UH OH, FREE THROW TIME

This crucial time, by now, we should learn how to close out for good..!!!!

What about the flop calls?

That guy bear-hugging Marcus Garrett is surprised it was a foul.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

That guy bear-hugging Marcus Garrett is surprised it was a foul.

As was the wv bench

YESSS!!!!

Garrett 4” off the line

Garrett’s improved FT shooting has been awesome

Bwag said:

Garrett 4” off the line

But if he makes them !

Rock chalk🎼

Jayhawk!!!!

Almost there

CLOSED IT

We could run Braun and Marcus in the backcourt more.

Good time for Dot to pamper stat.. :)

Braun's marked improvement on defense is insane.

West Virginia and blowing double digit leads at Allen. Name a more iconic duo

Marcus closed it

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Marcus closed it

Rough game for Marcus Iverson Garrett haters.

@FarmerJayhawk Errr... BIFM & DG?

@FarmerJayhawk Bob Huggins and a flask.

@KirkIsMyHinrich He will be looking for that flask tonight.

I always enjoy Huggins during press conferences

0-8

Missed opportunity 🤣 Huggs knows better💨 phogg

@BShark Bill will find it for him.

This proves, we really need Marcus to be in the game 90%

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

@FarmerJayhawk Bob Huggins and a flask.

Dude does love him some Johnny Walker per a bartender friend in Manhattan

Ya so I said it a while back but we probably beat Nova with Marcus.

Hugs should be happy he didn't get to see the bench..

Down side. ESPN+ for this game.

If Dotson can't shoot 3s or pass well, he's not as good as Marcus.

It's a W. Figured we'd have to grind this one out.
Good to see us cut down on the second half turnovers.

I enjoyed the second half. First half was UGLY. Rock Chalk!

This is fun, guys, thanks for letting me hang out with y'all!!! Great win!!!! Rock CHalk!!

Got killed on boards. ORB was ridiculous for WVU

@msanchez come back!

@Crimsonorblue22 you betcha!

Although yeah, Devon was a big part of the O in the first half.

WVU slowed us up with all things - a zone - for a period there in 2nd half.

Wonder if we’d practiced / scouted that for this game.

Azubuike 6-6, 17 points, 11 rebounds, and 6 blocks.

Lack of rebounding against WVU isn't too shocking especially with KU having to play 4 out to score.

@msanchez yeah! Thanks for stopping by!

@KirkIsMyHinrich wow! Self doesn't seem thrilled w/that announcer

Weird interview, with Self standing and neither announcer bothering to stand up to talk to him.

Only plus for ESPN+ was watching while getting hand X-ray’d in 1st half!

@tundrahok I thought that too. streaming crew.

@Bwag ok?

@Crimsonorblue22 yep. Not broken. Momentary light affliction from a mountain bike crash.

@Bwag ice! Your dominant hand?

@Crimsonorblue22 yep. That’s what my wife makes me do. Off hand but after another injury on other finger I’m down to a thumb and 2 fingers 😀.

But if there are any MTB’s on here and want to come down to NW Arkansas, hit me up.

@Crimsonorblue22 thanks!

@Bwag mtb's? Not good w/initials. I figured that's all u need to do dishes, not sure about your job🥴

Mountain Biking

Crimsonorblue22 said:

@Bwag mtb's? Not good w/initials. I figured that's all u need to do dishes, not sure about your job🥴

Mountain Biking- MTB.

Not work - play!

Anyone else concerned about another game with very little bench scoring? Only Braun scored. Only 6 shot attempts by nonstarters. WV got 20 points from its bench

@stoptheflop Weird game, low-scoring, so not too worried. Interesting that Braun played the entire second half without coming out (like Dot and Ochai).

What happened to Enaruna? Only played 1 minute.

Self said he'd give us a passing grade? Need moss och and ? Tristan to make shots. Can't rewind. Sounds really bummed about moss

@tundrahok just guessing he didn't do much, great guess huh?

Moss is hard to play if he's not hitting 3's because he doesn't really fill up the stat sheet any other way. There will probably be a handful of games where his 3-point shooting is very helpful to winning, though. This was not one of them. Kansas was 3-17 from deep today.

19-30 from the free-throw line. But if I'm remembering right, we were 3-10 from the line at one point, which means we shot 16-20 (80%) after that.

Enaruna came in, made a horrible play and promptly went to the bench.

A good win on paper and we finally finished a tight game. But man that was ugly to put it nicely. The 6 bench points are frustrating, Moss was a ghost with Tristan and Silvio has major issues. I’m not sure where to even start with him, air balling a 4 foot shot that’s wide open. Would suck to get sanctions over a guy that’s only been effective in 3 games in his entire career. Dotson continues to force up shots in the lane instead of kicking it out, resulting in turnovers and his 15/45 shooting performance the last 3 games. If we want to win anything this season he has to play better end of story. The effort put forth in the rebounding department this afternoon was elementary at best, out rebounded 44 to 30. Rarely does a team shoot the way we did and rebound like that to win the game. Not sure if it’s just me but the last 5 or 6 years more often than not we don’t look ready to play. Not sure if the guys are out partying til 2 am or what but we had no energy or give a damn for the first 15 minutes today.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Moss is hard to play if he's not hitting 3's because he doesn't really fill up the stat sheet any other way. There will probably be a handful of games where his 3-point shooting is very helpful to winning, though. This was not one of them. Kansas was 3-17 from deep today.

19-30 from the free-throw line. But if I'm remembering right, we were 3-10 from the at one point, which means we shot 16-20 (80%) after that.

Absolutely agree. Braun otoh is a Marc G type that impacts the game in a multitude of ways.

@kjayhawks This is typical Bill Self. Game is tight and he rides 5-6 guys.

Ugly game but it's a win against a team that has become a big thorn in our side year after year. Since West Virgina came into the league they have given us fits almost every game.

Marcus, Doke and Braun get the game balls. Without marcus making that tough lay in and 2 fts we dont win this game. Hes big time

Had to stream the game on my phone (was at a bday party) and the quality was really good and convenient to be able to see the game away from home. Couldn't contribute much to the game thread but happy for the W. Thought Dotson really struggled again. Hopefully he gets out this slump

BShark said:

@kjayhawks This is typical Bill Self. Game is tight and he rides 5-6 guys.

Ride or Die with the guys who were playing well

BShark said:

Enaruna came in, made a horrible play and promptly went to the bench.

Not his game. He will get other chances but Braun is replacing him quickly

BeddieKU23 said:

BShark said:

@kjayhawks This is typical Bill Self. Game is tight and he rides 5-6 guys.

Ride or Die with the guys who were playing well

Every time.

Braun is really moving up the list. Did not see this coming based on early returns.

@BShark very true just disappointed in everyone on the bench not named Braun.

BeddieKU23 said:

BShark said:

Enaruna came in, made a horrible play and promptly went to the bench.

Not his game. He will get other chances but Braun is replacing him quickly

Yeah, could have played out differently if he didn't go full derp.

I feel better w/game in marcus's hands than dot's, at the end.

kjayhawks said:

@BShark very true just disappointed in everyone on the bench not named Braun.

Honestly Braun might not be coming off the bench much longer. Trying not to overreact but he does a lot of things that make Bill love/play you.

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

BShark said:

@kjayhawks This is typical Bill Self. Game is tight and he rides 5-6 guys.

Ride or Die with the guys who were playing well

Every time.

Braun is really moving up the list. Did not see this coming based on early returns.

He is becoming a really nice player. 4 straight good games. Self was right about him, he is a gamer

Crimsonorblue22 said:

I feel better w/game in marcus's hands than dot's, at the end.

:hundred_points:

@BShark he does a lot of things crims loves too!💪🏻

Get ready for a lot of these ugly games in the 50's and 60's today. KU also played essentially 6 men today.

@BShark He was crashing the boards hard today to the point of tackling people and was just on 50-50 balls in general. Only had 1 assist, but I thought he made some nice passes that weren't rewarded with made shots. He's a decent ball-handler and doesn't force things. It's already been said a million times but the guy just seems to get it.

Moss gotta find another way to help the team when his shots not falling,

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Moss gotta find another way to help the team when his shots not falling,

Didnt play much either but he saved us last game. Just how he is I guess

U think all our games will be tough? I kinda do.😩

@Crimsonorblue22 KState and Iowa St are pretty bad. Thinking at least our homes games against them won't be too bad. But KState is a purple team and Top 5 teams have been struggling with or losing to bad purple teams this year so I don't know. You're probably right, they'll all be hard.

@KirkIsMyHinrich great impact on defense too.

BeddieKU23 said:

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Moss gotta find another way to help the team when his shots not falling,

Didnt play much either but he saved us last game. Just how he is I guess

Yep. This is who he is.

Doke, Tristan and Ochai should all have games where they make big plays on both ends. I think those three plus Braun and Marcus should start. We need a 4-1 and so Tristan is the guy by default, because Dave isn't a 4 ever, and Silvio is awful atm. I'd play those 5 and let Marcus be primary handler until Dotson demonstrates that he can be more than a scorer.

@approxinfinity no way

@BShark which part?

@KirkIsMyHinrich we will struggle @ KSU, probably worse than most years because usually they are solid defensively but we are good offensively. Last season was an L because we sucked on offense, this year we look a little better but will struggle against defensive teams like we did today. Has a second round exit written all over it to me.

@approxinfinity can't bench Dot

@kjayhawks ksu is truly horrible

Move him to 2 spot, take him out at times

Foul! Isu tcu game

@BShark agreed but they’ve had teams they didn’t make dance beat us before and we all know it’s their super bowl. It should be a 30 point game here and 15 point game there but I’ve seen us coming into that building asleep too many times in the past hand full of years.

Texas Hawk 10 said:

Get ready for a lot of these ugly games in the 50's and 60's today. KU also played essentially 6 men today.

5 guys played >30 minutes, 4 guys played 10 minutes or less. Bimodal distribution.

After today’s game, I’d burn Wilson’s redshirt if he’s able to go in the next few weeks to help find some bench production.

kjayhawks said:

@KirkIsMyHinrich we will struggle @ KSU, probably worse than most years because usually they are solid defensively but we are good offensively. Last season was an L because we sucked on offense, this year we look a little better but will struggle against defensive teams like we did today. Has a second round exit written all over it to me.

The offense is honestly worse than last year. The difference this year is the defense is much better. KU hasn't allowed more than 73 points in regulation in a game this year and only given up 65+ in a game 3 times this year.

That quality of defense can carry a team deep into the tournament, especially in a year without an elite team.

BShark said:

@approxinfinity can't bench Dot

yup, exactly what @Crimsonorblue22 said. not suggesting we bench him, just move him to the 2.

@Texas-Hawk-10 very true, this team has potential to be great on that end of the floor. But KSU always sucks on offense and will go on droughts pretty much every game. Last year is hard to tell because of much better we were with Doke and Vick with his head outta his rear end. We had Dedric shooting it 14-20 times to just get 20 points.

@approxinfinity you posted a starting line up without him unless I saw wrong.

@Texas-Hawk-10 see also: 2012

@BShark he can't count😂

I loved the play where Braun got the ball at the top right of the key, looked downhill, nothing there, dribbled to left side scanning, nothing available. Dribbled to baseline, defense didnt challenge him on baseline where he was slightly behind the backboard, so he collected himself, and calmly potted a jumper from about 6 feet out.

The kid is woke.

Watching isu game?

kjayhawks said:

@Texas-Hawk-10 very true, this team has potential to be great on that end of the floor. But KSU always sucks on offense and will go on droughts pretty much every game. Last year is hard to til because of much better we were with Doke and Vick with his head outta his rear end.

I don't expect many blowouts this year home or away, maybe 3 or 4 and all at home. I also think we'll be able to count on one hand the number of times KU scores 70+ in Big 12 game this season. This team will struggle to score and play most B12 games in upper 50's and low 60's like today was.

@Texas-Hawk-10 I think that’s a safe bet at this point.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2869755-bob-huggins-slams-referees-calls-them-3-blind-mice-after-wvus-loss-to-kansas?fbclid=IwAR3ofPyEvW-bKImrCeUqUK0q3KtGwX9PV5s3HyxdWmBNtmJyBZeDxUezPy8 ↗

Thoughts?

@Crimsonorblue22 asinine, we shot 30 free ones to their 22, with them fouling us twice on purpose. I thought it was physical game but a good officiated one.

So Huggins is upset Dok shot a ton of freebies? It looked like his damn game plan.

Every team that plays at AFH thinks we get breaks! 🤬

At least huggs didn't get kicked out today. I think this is the first wv game I've missed in a few years. Bummer.

kjayhawks said:

@Crimsonorblue22 asinine, we shot 30 free ones to their 22, with them fouling us twice on purpose. I thought it was physical game but a good officiated one.

KU got whistled for 19 fouls to WVU's 18.

msanchez said:

First timer here.. how ya'll doing?
That was nice pick & roll by Dok!
Let's go Jayhawk!!!

Welcome!

BShark said:

CHRISTIAN BRAUN THE GOD

Join the dark side @BShark Lol

And yeah they were definitely hacking Doke. Can't have it both ways Huggy.

KU shot more FT because KU started to aggressively attack the basket.

@Marco I'm all aboard.

KU now 7-2 vs Kenpom top 100. #15 offense, #2 defense. The defense is winning games cause the offense isnt playing 4 guards enough.

BeddieKU23 said:

KU now 7-2 vs Kenpom top 100. #15 offense, #2 defense. The defense is winning games cause the offense isnt playing 4 guards enough.

Amazing to me that we suck at offense and are #15. If the team ever figures it out, watch out.

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

KU now 7-2 vs Kenpom top 100. #15 offense, #2 defense. The defense is winning games cause the offense isnt playing 4 guards enough.

Amazing to me that we suck at offense and are #15. If the team ever figures it out, watch out.

Probably #15 because of the good field goal %, low 3 attempts with decent % made and a few other metrics that matter.

It certainly is surprising given how the offense sputters and struggles to score at times. We may have an over critical look since it's our team but certainly the offense isnt as good as we have seen in other years and it's very likely not going to change

@BeddieKU23 Last year was pretty bad as well to be fair. Offense was give the ball to Dedric and pray.

BShark said:

@BeddieKU23 Last year was pretty bad as well to be fair. Offense was give the ball to Dedric and pray.

True. Somehow I think unless we scrap the 2 bigs for a majority of the game, say 30 minutes small, 10 big we wont see the offense maximize its potential. It's a good thing most of the Big 12 will force KU to go small.

@BeddieKU23 agree. I think the offense can be better if this happens. Doesn't require sacrificing much if anything on D either.

@msanchez welcome, um just a question with your user name. You didn’t butt fumble for the New York Jets a few years back did you??