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Peyton Manning in the AFHouse

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Peyton Manning in the AFHouse

Tenn grad wasn't he ?

@jayballer73 yep

Moss expected to start

KU game wont be starting on time, at least on TV

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@FarmerJayhawk

Brown can show up anytime he wants, hopefully a permanent home

BeddieKU23 said:

@FarmerJayhawk

Brown can show up anytime he wants, hopefully a permanent home

For sure. Hope we don’t get Mitch Ballock’d

FarmerJayhawk said:

BeddieKU23 said:

@FarmerJayhawk

Brown can show up anytime he wants, hopefully a permanent home

For sure. Hope we don’t get Mitch Ballock’d

I cant imagine we let that kind of talent go somewhere else but we may also have a log jam at the wing. Can he be a small ball 4? Athletically I'd say yep

FarmerJayhawk said:

BeddieKU23 said:

@FarmerJayhawk

Brown can show up anytime he wants, hopefully a permanent home

For sure. Hope we don’t get Mitch Ballock’d

Brown?

Not a fan of his jumper. Shawn Marion ish

BeddieKU23 said:

FarmerJayhawk said:

BeddieKU23 said:

@FarmerJayhawk

Brown can show up anytime he wants, hopefully a permanent home

For sure. Hope we don’t get Mitch Ballock’d

I cant imagine we let that kind of talent go somewhere else but we may also have a log jam at the wing. Can he be a small ball 4? Athletically I'd say yep

We wanted Ballock a lot too. I think Brown is a dog, and not afraid to compete for minutes.

LSU Texas gonna go to OT...

Or it will just generally take forever. Give it up Shaka.

Agbaji bricked a layup and a 3. Hes off to a great start

Ugly basketball right now

Finally

Not surprised. Tennessee isn't great but they defend.

Omg what is that

FLOP CITY

SOFT

The refs already up to screwing them

Moss with a couple of misses...we need him today.

We can't afford that Doke…..

Not loving Moss taking midrange jumpers.

@BShark

Usually been money but I agree

Bill’s lack of a tie is interesting.

@BeddieKU23 Yeah I'd just rather it be a three.

We're on a pace to score 16 for the game.....

Both teams will likely be under 60 for the game.

Garrett's handles on a string

Should be up 6-8 with all these Tennessee turnovers

Moss needs to hit em

UPS time

BRAUN OCLOCK

Woodrow said:

Should be up 6-8 with all these Tennessee turnovers

Missing good looks now. :(

Damnit

@BShark Coach chewed on Moss during the time out.

Jeez doke you gotta make that

@DCHawker So is Tennessee!

F fulkerson

UPS!!

LOB

Ricky has seen that lob before.

Here we go

Wooooo

Wow. Come on Doke.

Going to be interesting to see 10 minutes of really small ball...

F 2 fouls

Doke you gotta be better than that. Just let him go if anything.

Doke needs to T Rob 2012 this ish

Just what we couldn't afford

Doke was out of position and THEN fouled. Geez.

Doke HAS to be smarter than that

FarmerJayhawk said:

Doke needs to T Rob 2012 this ish

I remember Mook making a few of those decisions too.

Weird that the main thing we had to avoid (Dok fouls) is the first thing that happens. Karma?

Well this could get interesting 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hawk8086 said:

Doke was out of position and THEN fouled. Geez.

It's hard because of instincts but he absolutely should have given up the lay-up.

Tristan chill

God

Unreal

Come on

Calling Mitch Lightfoot

Whatever

JFC stop doubling

Pons is 20%

BeddieKU23 said:

Pons is 20%

CLASSIC

Why do we leave that guy wide open?

You GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

This could get ugly without Doke on the floor

BeddieKU23 said:

Pons is 20%

I mean he’s shooting practice jumpers with no one even around here

Doke. Have to play doke

@BeddieKU23 Agree. Damn the two fouls.

Hawk8086 said:

Why do we leave that guy wide open?

Ask self

Let's hope we can keep it under 10 by half...

@DCHawker that’s a realistic goal imo

Such a tiny lineup but it worked!

Big dudes getting pooped

MAKE LAYUPS

BeddieKU23 said:

MAKE LAYUPS

And FTs...

Stupid defense

Marcus has to know just let him miss a tough shot

Taking a big risk here...

Ok Doke. Matador time

I expect them to feed it to Fulkerson...

DOKE

Yes!

Very nice run here...

Count it!

BIGTIME

My son and wife r there, 7 rows behind ku behind bench!

Doke is like turning down the difficulty from Heisman to JV

Like his head!

Holy crap

Bilas that's flagrant

Marcus going for the flush. Love the aggressiveness !

Love his D!

Ok that basket is the trouble spot

Look he went for the ball then missed.

"What can Braun do for you?" A little of everything, apparently. Totally different team with Dok in the lineup.

It's almost like we are much better with Doke in the game.

Cultural violence again

Hit him in head first. then arm. Lack of coordination is not an excuse

BShark said:

It's almost like we are much better with Doke in the game.

Ha, hes a game changer

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Cultural violence again

:see-no-evil_monkey: :speak-no-evil_monkey: :hear-no-evil_monkey:

That’s a super hard foul, tough call either way.

If nothing else, we have balanced scoring - all 7 have scored...

You can bet what that'd call on us!

If Dok stays out of foul trouble we should be okay.

So, I get it, the game is taken as a whole but man, we smoke Tennessee in a game where we have Dave to back up Doke. The only time they did much at all is when we had Tristan at the 5. Doke needs to not foul at all costs.

Take doke out at the u4

FarmerJayhawk said:

Take doke out at the u4

Dunno, Tennessee might work up a 10 pt lead.

FarmerJayhawk said:

Take doke out at the u4

I'd take him out now - Fulkerson is out with 2 as well...

BShark said:

FarmerJayhawk said:

Take doke out at the u4

Dunno, Tennessee might work up a 10 pt lead.

Yeah I think you play him

I’d take Doke out soon

COWARDS. PLAY AND PRAY.

Who guards their 7 foot giant

Face first

EWWWW SETH

2-8 from the line

That's such an obvious flagrant.

Free throws an issue

Doke, Garrett and Tristan taking our FTs. Moss was a surprising miss though.

Big foot🦶

Cheat code

What a turnaround...

DCHawker said:

What a turnaround...

Doke is the answer.

Right now, at least, they have no answer for Doke.

Doke abusing their freshman

Really surprised Doke still in now...

DCHawker said:

Really surprised Doke still in now...

Bill wants to win.

Dok is a monster - Absolutely Unguardable.

BShark said:

DCHawker said:

Really surprised Doke still in now...

Bill wants to win.

Which is why I would sit him for the last 3 minutes...

DCHawker said:

BShark said:

DCHawker said:

Really surprised Doke still in now...

Bill wants to win.

Which is why I would sit him for the last 3 minutes...

I guess run and hide now then weather the storm later?

Goaltend

Sigh, Dotson had Braun wide open.

The flow of the game favors KU.

Oh hey the 20% shooter missed one.

Oh hey Marcus

Sweet marcus

Now it's time to pull Doke. I like it.

I love our D!

@Marco me too

OMG Ochai

It looked awesome on tv until it just died

How do you airball that

Good half, just need to hit some open 3s and we can coast.

Lol that was a brutal miss but we stole 90 seconds without Doke at the end.

@BShark Yes. I liked the move even though it came with risks...worked out though.

Make a few open looks in the next half and we’ll run them

Moss seems to be all or nothing.....

Thoughts at the half... Dok, Dotson, Garrett and Braun (in that order) are our four most important players. And that is not discounting - have it both ways, Marco - the importance of the others.

Pons was killing us.

Need Moss to hit something here

At least Doke should be well rested for the 2nd half.

@Hawk8086 Strange game: Only 3 Volunteers scored. Fulkerson and Vescovi were the others with 9 each. None of their bench players even took a shot

@stoptheflop Wow didn't check the box score... very strange.

I'm fine with Doke baiting the jumper.

I think these are our best 5

On the arm doesn't count as a great block

I'll tell ya what Dotson is controlling this game

DOKE IS FEASTING

Pons is a heck of an athlete

FarmerJayhawk said:

I think these are our best 5

Not close either.

Garbage call

Agree on our starting five @FarmerJayhawk.

Wow that's a terrible late call

Unless moss is hitting, maybe he's better coming off the bench

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Unless moss is hitting, maybe he's better coming off the bench

Braun overall is better than Moss in basically every way other than shooting.

@BShark I know

Like this och

Great effort by Garrett.

BShark said:

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Unless moss is hitting, maybe he's better coming off the bench

Braun overall is better than Moss in basically every way other than shooting.

And Braun is at 45%, Moss at 40% so far. Small n for Braun but he’s been as good

Och is playing his ass off.

UPS

Good god Bill, please keep the KC pipeline open!

BeddieKU23 said:

UPS

Kid has way more in his bag than I thought.

Bowden can have that all day

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

UPS

Kid has way more in his bag than I thought.

He is my favorite freshman in years

BeddieKU23 said:

UPS

What can Braun do for you?

@FarmerJayhawk I think Bowden is going to take those all day!

Christian UPS Braun.

Bowden struggling from 3 my ASS

@Marco and he helped save a life, hey Seth you know that?

BeddieKU23 said:

Bowden struggling from 3 my ASS

Nothing like playing KU to help catch fire. At least Pons started missing.

@BShark

Pons had his shining moment

Brauns defense has been super. He is not struggling on that end at all

Bowden is a 27% 3pt shooter on the year lmao.

BShark said:

Bowden is a 27% 3pt shooter on the year lmao.

90%in allen

Crimsonorblue22 said:

@Marco and he helped save a life, hey Seth you know that?

I know @Crimsonorblue22 .... Not a bad thing, huh?

OCHAI

Agbaji

OCHAI HEAT CHECK

This team can't win a national championship? My ass! This team is a winner!

Och

Go moss, your turn

Dotson has been amazing

If this team can get one of Braun or Ochai hitting 3’s every game they become almost unbeatable.

@Woodrow and doke out of foul trouble

First time this year I will be cheering for TTU.

Flop

Danger time...

Please don’t let them back in this

WTF Bowden.

Good lord Bowden you can stop

Omg are you serious on that call

Jeez

BeddieKU23 said:

Good lord Bowden you can stop

Barnes can coach.

FOUL MUCH

And they call that??

That ref under the basket can go pound some sand and drink bath salt

Marco said:

BeddieKU23 said:

Good lord Bowden you can stop

Barnes can coach.

Ehhhh

Okay guys, settle down, need money possessions.

F this

Really bad trip down by the officials. Marcus gets clocked and nothing and then gets called for a small bump. Ocahi doesn't help with that Matador defense.

We need some 5-hour energy. Which reminds me, beer thirty.

You could tell Doke was being careful on defense...I think it cost him a couple of rebounds.

Tennessee getting a couple favorable whistles here. Let’s run some offense here.

From 13 to 6 and maybe 5....this sucks.

Game of runs

Game going to shit with Doke out, wonder how much longer Bill can afford to keep him out. The huge issue is defense. Defense is extremely hard when you don't have a single post player in the game.

@BShark not much longer

Interviews not during game

Garrett playing his ass off.

Stretch it back out

Throws baby!

Bwag said:

Stretch it back out

Getting stops with this group is hard.

Drive to the paint and draw fouls, buy some time.

Come on marcus make your shit

Moss isn't even sneaky

I’m ok trading 2’s

Pons has 3

Couple more stops...

Dot is absurd getting downhill

Wait what

He grabbed his arm. Dumb play by Doke

Dots short on those shots!

WELP

That was a foul, dumb foul

Yep. Didn’t see it in real time

Yeah that was a good call, it just suuuucccccks.

I hate that ref

Gotta get through these next two games, then we'll have Dave back.

I'm fine with not having Tristan in. He didn't do much defensively anyway so it's w/e.

Step up moss

🙏

@BShark I know, but I fear our guys will get tired and fade down the stretch...

BbIQ now

Tennessee has 0 bench points

60% from FT line and 4-15 from 3 makes games a LOT more difficult than they should be...

The problem is Moss is a senior and hasn’t done a damn thing. I’d start Braun next week.

Good defense there by Moss...that's something.

DCHawker said:

60% from FT line and 4-15 from 3 makes games a LOT more difficult than they should be...

Not far off our average on threes tbh.

@Hawk8086 hopefully he's due

Tennessee's two big runs came when Doke hit foul trouble. Even just having Dave in this game as a body inside to deter easy buckets at the lane would be huge. :(

Moss's box score line looks really bad

Lol at that Duke UNC ad

Moss. No.

@BShark 🤮

FarmerJayhawk said:

Moss. No.

Yikes

Moss make a flipping shot

Yeah sure Vols, take jumpers while Doke is out.

Call it

Lol no call

Layups are hard apparently

Moss and Och missing those layups have killed us!

Ochai was hammered tbf.

Woodrow said:

Layups are hard apparently

Apparently.

Yep we get all the calls at home.🤬

Och is a terrible finisher. Actually, he's not a finisher.

Moss and Ochai were fouled especially when you look at the weak calls on the other end in the last 5 minutes

stoptheflop said:

Moss's box score line looks really bad

You mean 1-6, 0-3, zero rebounds and assists and 2 fouls. What's wrong with that???

Need to keep the lead for a couple of more minutes until we can bring Doke in at about 4mins.

Get a foul on pons

Ochai finishes like a guy who weights 180 lbs and Dotson finishes like a guy 6’5 240

🤷‍♂️

Of course when he comes back in...they will play hack a Doke.

Regardless of the outcome, our Kenpom defensive efficiency is going to take a hit...

I’m watching the game in Nashville right now and I have to say that these particular fans are very nice. And they agree that KSU started the whole thing. So that’s cool I guess.

Hawk8086 said:

Need to keep the lead for a couple of more minutes until we can bring Doke in at about 4mins.

I'd be really tempted to put Doke in now and hope he doesn't foul. It's a damned if you do damned if you don't deal. It's soooo hard to get stops without him though and it's already down to 6. :/

DCHawker said:

Regardless of the outcome, our Kenpom defensive efficiency is going to take a hit...

Yeah. Thankfully just one more game of this...

Moss don’t be an idiot

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Another bad foul. And they're in the double bonus now...

Attaboy Dot.

Stupid play Moss

Anyone else hate the hair band?

Lol Moss

I'd take Moss out for Tristan, screw it.

That's just pathetic...

If we win this game with how terribly Braun and Moss played and having to play 5 guards most of the game Bill deserves a tip of the cap.

Jesus what is that

DCHawker said:

That's just pathetic...

Ochai made a great play and then....

GD it Och. Missing a one and one is a TO!

Get Doke back in right now.

DCHawker said:

That's just pathetic...

Sure is

Only 12/21 at the line

Nice FT Ochai. Good grief.

57% from the line

@BShark Here he comes!

At least we're going to make Kentucky wait a long time to get to see their game.

Moss might be our worst player when he’s not on fire from 3

stoptheflop said:

Only 12/21 at the line

That makes it tough to win. They are killing us at the line.

FarmerJayhawk said:

Moss might be our worst player when he’s not on fire from 3

Toss-up between him and Tristan.

Free throws are killing us.

Just seeing how hard it is to play with only 7 guys and guys who cant play the 4 and 5 position without Doke in there

Hawk8086 said:

@BShark Here he comes!

Have to do it.

F u ksu

The 5 out sux

Sorry folks, I have a bad feeling about this finish. Hard to win with so many missed FTs. And I think they are going to hack Doke...I would.

I'm not going to be too hard on them they had 4 days to prepare for a team with an athletic freak

But we have missed so many layups or free throws its maddening

@Hawk8086 they don't play many guys

BeddieKU23 said:

Just seeing how hard it is to play with only 7 guys and guys who cant play the 4 and 5 position without Doke in there

Having to play possessions without a single post player will always look awful.

Good point on 7 guys too, fatigue factor.

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@BShark

Cant expect greatness just need Doke to play smart the last 4

Need a classic AFH wills us to victory game

There’s the Hack a Doke

There’s the Hack a Doke

FarmerJayhawk said:

Need a classic AFH wills us to victory game

Ghost of Phog Allen plz help.

Wow that's not intentional or nothing

Suck it

Doke Nash-Curry

4 on Pons. :D

Stupid foul Braun.

91% and he missed ?!?

It's not even a foul

To quick on O

Not the shot we want from Ocahi at this point in the game...

Woodrow said:

91% and he missed ?!?

Phog Allen's ghost.

Have to bit that if you take it

Why are we drawing up plays for Ochai

@Crimsonorblue22 Yes....we can get that 3 anytime!

Ugh. And fulkerson makes that over a 7'5 wingspan jeez

Yeah I'm fine with that from Doke. Do anything but foul out.

Stupid shot and stupid foul by Braun, just gave them 4 points of stupidity

Fulky a lefty?

approxinfinity said:

Fulky a lefty?

Yup

Wow

BeddieKU23 said:

Wow

My heart skipped a beat.

Huge doke

Jeez Dot - Doke's making above average...

Doke is like 10’ tall. Can’t lob over him

Look

DCHawker said:

Jeez Dot - Doke's making above average...

Has Dot played every single minute? He still should make it but sheesh.

I think it's their ball.

Doke is our hero

Mutumbo wag

@BShark Marcus and och?

DOKE DOKE DOKE DOKE DOKE

UT ball

No open 3s...

Ohhhh

Pons pushed the F off anyway

DOKE

Azubuike is the most important player in America

Doke just ended the state of Tennessee

Not in our house!

Uh oh... Doke with the finger wag. That’s taunting. Can’t wait for everyone that was up in arms about tainting you talk about that.

@Hawk8086 big time, Marcus should have sold thst

UnREAL

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Doke just beat Tennessee harder than Sherman

@Woodrow love the cultural finger wave

Make the dang throw

Why let him get the ball

@BeddieKU23 Yes, I was going to say nobody but Dot touches the ball.

Doke is going to make an NBA roster.

Whew!!!

Tough win. 4/17 from 3; 20/33 FTs and Moss 2 pts. Yikes.

Nice try Ricky.

Other than 2 not very smart fouls that put him on the bench for a couple of longs stretches, Doke was a monster. 18 points, 11 RBs, and 4 blocks...

Welcome home rick! Doke loves you!😘🤩

Kim English still 0-fer in AFH

Doke was a monster, starters did fairly good outside of Moss. We flat out can’t have Moss, Braun and Tristan play like expecting to win.

So look, plus minus is silly sometimes, but it made sense today. KU +18 with Doke on the court today.

@BShark hard to ask anymore from Doke. Even made more than 50% of his free ones.

Like to be a fly on the wall watching Silvio and big Dave in the locker room. Class act deciding to stay in there.

@Kcmatt7 I hope he does!

@kjayhawks Glad to see Rickey's "Poke a Doke" bit him in tha ass

Positive thing about David is he really only misses 3 days with us playing Monday. That game is worrying me and I don’t think we can afford to lose it. On paper we caught a break with them being the last place team but they gave Baylor everything they wanted.

@kjayhawks Playing at Stillwater is always tough

Pts off to's 17-8, bench pts. 8-1

@kjayhawks I think Okie St. will win. With having no bench guys will be worn down in that game with the quick turnaround.

@Woodrow would be hard to predict otherwise but who knows

Doke only played 27 minutes today, so if he can stay out of foul trouble at OSU, KU should prevail. The other guys are used to that many minutes. But..... KU has had significant trouble there.

I'm with @FarmerJayhawk on what our starting lineup should be, bring Moss in off the bench to fill in at two or in a pinch even three spots - think it will do both him and the team some good.

Anybody see postgame?

That was a solid win against a talented Tennessee team. They will have some success late in the season.

Looked like a great atmosphere today. Classic AFH victory!

Step one in removing the cloud: Win with class. (check!)

@bskeet I like it!

@Crimsonorblue22 I saw it. Walked by in the background like a doofus.

@bskeet not too sure on them being good but any win with one big available to play is a great win.

Doke has always been KU's most important player. They will go as far as he takes them. Tennessee face OSU a blueprint to beat KU without McCormack and Silvio, get Doke in foul trouble and force Self to play Tristan at the 5 or go with a 5 guard line up with either Garrett or Ochai guarding the opposing post players.

Okie Lite as bad as they are does have a bunch of bigs on their roster.

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@BShark that was scary!

@BShark that one guy is good, Anei

Since this was mentioned somewhere in the game thread KU’s defense fell to #3 on KenPom but the offense moved up to #7.

They are still the #1 team on KP

Ok St has some good players they are just young.

PER's from the Tennessee Game. Doke's impact/importance I don't think can be quantified.

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kjayhawks said:

Ok St has some good players they are just young.

3 of their 4 top scorers are Seniors.

@BeddieKU23 Dave's went up without playing? So Silvio has a chance to advance big-time over 12 games!

@mayjay

Yeah I don't know why that was the case. It was only 0.1 but still I saw that and was puzzled

@BeddieKU23 I should’ve worded it better, they have some young guys that will be good like Likekele, Anei and Harris I think will be good players in a year or two. Their seniors like Mcgriff and Waters haven’t really seemed to improve much over the years so who’s knows for sure.

@kjayhawks

Yeah they are young as well. The Boone brothers look like they have promise. Likekele is a poor man's Garrett who can't shoot, Anei was a ghost against Doke and really hasn't pushed forward since about end of November. It's going to be interesting to see just how good Cunningham makes them because they don't seem to have enough currently or signed with him to make a big leap