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

BeddieKU23 said:

Bowden struggling from 3 my ASS

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

BeddieKU23 said:

UPS

Kid has way more in his bag than I thought.

Great effort by Garrett.

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.

FarmerJayhawk said:

I think these are our best 5

Not close either.

DOKE IS FEASTING

I'm fine with Doke baiting the jumper.

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

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

Oh hey the 20% shooter missed one.

Sigh, Dotson had Braun wide open.

DCHawker said:

Really surprised Doke still in now...

Bill wants to win.

DCHawker said:

What a turnaround...

Doke is the answer.

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

That's such an obvious flagrant.

EWWWW SETH

COWARDS. PLAY AND PRAY.

FarmerJayhawk said:

Take doke out at the u4

Dunno, Tennessee might work up a 10 pt lead.

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.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Cultural violence again

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

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

BeddieKU23 said:

Pons is 20%

CLASSIC

Tristan chill

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.

FarmerJayhawk said:

Doke needs to T Rob 2012 this ish

I remember Mook making a few of those decisions too.

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

Ricky has seen that lob before.

Woodrow said:

Should be up 6-8 with all these Tennessee turnovers

Missing good looks now. :(

BRAUN OCLOCK

Both teams will likely be under 60 for the game.

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

Not loving Moss taking midrange jumpers.

SOFT

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

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

LSU Texas gonna go to OT...

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.

We good.

Self nailed it today.

Another feather in Cal's cap. Don't even need minutes to be drafted derp.

Snow Trail, a Japanese post war b&w movie. Also notable for being Mifune's first role.

@dylans Josh was a great college four guy, total mismatch.

We do really need another big.

Kcmatt7 said:

BShark said:

What a twat.

I read the article. What she said wasn't necessarily bad. She shouldn't have said anything, but the newspaper was on the hunt for a quote and weren't getting it from the Admin. So they took advantage of a College Kid.

And the headline makes it sound worse than what she meant it to come off as I believe.

Again, I think the journos wrote this story and then found a person to give them any sort of quote that they could spin into the article. Full on smear job.

Yeah I just read it too, I think it's time to delete some posts.

Here are some quotes from other coaches. Obviously, these coaches have to remain anonymous for the article.

The coaches were relatively one-sided on the final play of the game, with a majority saying going for a steal and layup while down 20-plus is entirely unnecessary.

"I do think it's dumb to go steal the ball down 25 when they are dribbling out the clock," one head coach said. "It's false hustle. You're beat! How about playing better defense when the game is being decided?"

"It's bush league. I'm glad he blocked it," an assistant coach said. "It's bulls--- [for De Sousa] to stand over him too though."

Some coaches are using Tuesday's brawl as a teaching moment for their teams.
Some coaches said it's hard to tell your players to back off in the final seconds of a game when you constantly preach playing hard for 40 minutes, regardless of the lead or deficit.

"It's a double-edged sword," one SEC assistant said. "You want your guys to play until the final buzzer. But when you're down 20-plus points, you have to let the clock run down. When he stole the ball, the Kansas player did what he was coached to do. He played until the final whistle. Where he went wrong was with the taunt. You're already up 20-plus. Take the block at the end of the game and celebrate the win."

While the coaches generally thought de Sousa was in the right to chase Gordon and try to block his layup, they also were unsurprisingly unanimous in saying his taunting and standing over Gordon was just as bad as Gordon's steal.

"The steal when they were down 30 and trying to dribble the clock out instigated it," one coach said. "The block and staredown were a result of that play. Both were wrong."

Moving forward and preventing this from happening again is the hard part. Nearly every coach said that they talk to their teams about how to act and react at the ends of games, how they need to stay on the bench -- but sometimes, things happen and lessons go out the window.

"I think it's talked about with every team all year," a mid-major coach said. "You don't try to score on a team on the last possession when the game is over. And you also don't try to get a steal on defense, either. The game is over. When it does happen, either way, it's just a kid trying to get attention."

"We always speak to our team about being calm and in control of the moment, no matter what happens," a Big Ten assistant said. "Of course emotions run high, especially in rivalry games, but nonetheless we always emphasize not letting the moment make you do something you'll regret. Can they be prevented? I don't think so. It's a fight. They happen. Emotions run high. Competitiveness is real. So, unfortunately, at times kids lose their mind in the moment."

One coach said there were several different points in the lead-up to the brawl that should have prevented it from getting out of control.

"You need other guys not to escalate it that aren't involved -- which is what happened," he said. "There's also a s--- ton of suits [assistant coaches and support staff] at the end of the Kansas State bench that should have been all up in between them. You gotta have your antennae up. We're the adults. Bruce [Weber] should have been yelling at that kid to not go lay that up. It was right in front of him, if he was walking to go shake hands."

Outside of harping to their teams about winning and losing with some level of class, there isn't much the coaches said they can do.

"You would hope that something of this magnitude could be prevented," one head coach said. "I know how high emotions get and things can spiral downhill in a hurry. I will definitely bring it up with my team today and reiterate how to handle being in those situations -- up or down."

Kcmatt7 said:

We aren't Baylor. But we aren't exactly a church choir either.

Most of this comes from just being under a microscope. We've made ourselves an easy target though too.

Completely agree. The team had really been doing a great job this year not making any off the court news and being good kids until this crap.

I still think Silvio is a good kid. Yeah the flex was dumb but it's a heat of the moment thing for a 21 year old kid. Then he reacted like many human beings would react after being physically attacked. To completely vilify him is insane.

Kcmatt7 said:

KSU, in my opinion, was just as much at fault for the incident. But that isn't what the media has said at all. The narrative has been "evil terrible bad cheating team coached by known villain Bill Self preys on measly weak innocent Wildcats team coached by civil rights activist Bruce Weber in backyard brawl."

So stupid, but sadly true.

@DanR That's who this is, but maybe a low blow to post? If @approxinfinity @Crimsonorblue22 or any other mods feel it should be deleted, I won't fuss about it.

BeddieKU23 said:

BShark said:

KSU commitment: https://247sports.com/Player/DaJuan-Gordon-46055176/ ↗

Very solid pick-up for Bruce.

He's perfect for Bruce. I knew I wouldn't like him

Looooool

FarmerJayhawk said:

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Sam is awesome. A quality twitter follow in case anyone here isn't already...