@Crimsonorblue22 One was delivered by buzzards :eyes:

I hope everyone is having a good one. Woke up and opened all the nonsense that came in the mail these last couple weeks. :)

@dylans I'd be okay with EE or obviously FF with this team. Not expecting a title at all, just don't have the offensive capability. It's a shame with Dotson 99.9% to leave, I think JR or SR Dotson could easily (it's relative) win a title.

approxinfinity said:

@HighEliteMajor did you ever watch The Wire? If you haven't you absolutely must. No excuses. It frames the inner city violence / drug epidemic in Baltimore from all sides. 1 season focuses on drug dealing in the projects and the police trying to crack down. 1 season focuses on foreign trafficking through the ports. 1 on the politics. 1 on the schools in the inner city. 1 on the media's relationship. Everyone on set saw it as their duty to portray the situation as realistically as possible. Almost 100% of the cast were not trained actors. It stands alone.

Easily a top 5 tv show of all time.

@jayballer73 RCJH is the news, but hasn't been announced yet.

approxinfinity said:

I'm not a Christian but I believe you should love your neighbor. I believe that having common positive culture matters. Our culture is more fragmented than ever, our lives more in a bubble. Our media tailored to our needs and tailored to manipulate us more effectively at the same time.

I was actually having a discussion about more or less exactly this on another forum recently-ish. The fragmentation and hyper targeted media is not good.

I don't think the internet is helping either. I'll share some of that discussion here.

"Once the promise of a sci-fi future, now a dystopian chaos that's turning against us by making the transmission of stress, worries, resentment etc all over the world much more viral, faster and in a larger scale than even the old press and TV ever managed to.
It's keeping billions of people around the world in an unhealthy constant state of fear, even if there are legit reasons to worry, the weight, the 'bandwidth' of daily shitstorm probably passes the threshold of what we as individuals and groups of population can endure. So it's disabling part of our intelligence and wisdom, of self-control, ability to get along and to find solutions to our problems.

TL;DR, I suspect the internet - just being there - is the main cause for many modern economical and social issues, and works as a potent amplifier at the same time. It kills jobs, and makes us angrier...'stupider'.
Maybe in the future historians will call that period the Great Internet Disruption or something like that, after realizing it was much bigger deeper than we realize now."

Kcmatt7 said:

I just want someone in who is going to crack down on corporations.

:skull_and_crossbones:

@approxinfinity yeah, seems like a big shill like Obama.

Biden is trash.

@FarmerJayhawk if Tristan starts to know what the hell to do on D that line-up could be amazing defensively.

@Kcmatt7 I mean... With the roster next year how do you do anything else???! Tristan and Wilson are great fits at the four for it.

@Crimsonorblue22 both. Defense has been great five straight games.

nwhawkfan said:

Well, at least ONE of my teams won this weekend.

Nice job by the defense.

Looking damn good!

Hawk8086 said:

I can't even process this loss.

To pile on to how baffling it is...

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Very good read from CJ Moore here.

@Crimsonorblue22 doke

@rockchalkwyo To be fair he is only a SO. A shame we won't get to see his JR season.

Small secret here...

I don't blame Self too much for the gameplan today outside of maybe playing two bigs a bit much. Garrett going down sucks. A lot of this loss is on the players.

@FarmerJayhawk Just frustrating because this game should have been a win.

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Woodrow said:

Game was lost when Dotson inexplicably got his pocket picked and gave them two points

Strongly agree. Worst case it should have been Nova ball down 4 having to go full court with like a minute to go.

Attempt to back up the brinks truck.

OnBrand @FarmerJayhawk

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

That's the shot we get?

Should have won this game so many times over...ugh

Gotta score now is the big issue...

This game was over and then the team gave it back to Nova. Learning experience I guess.

Absolutely pathetic loss. Handed it to Nova down the stretch.

Ofc

Woodrow said:

Are you serious Devon . Had a chance to win the game with a score there

Yup...

BeddieKU23 said:

That's dogsshit dotson

That was unbelievably bad. Force a blocked three then don't run off much time and give up an easy bucket.

Yikes devon

Christian Hooblehauf!!!!

Braun said taste it jre

Defense!!!

Good lord

DanR said:

Considering the 36 fouls nova committed on that last rebound on the other end, Doke got jobbed.

Ikr

@dylans pretty bad

Imagine rebounding at any point on that last possession and being up three.

Rebounding, refs etc

@BeddieKU23 Worried that they will just let Nova hack but it is our best offense...

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Kansas can't get a foul driving to the basket this game. Wild.

Nova is not capable of fouling according to these Philly refs.

Thankfully we are rebounding now.

BRICK BRICK

Crimsonorblue22 said:

I've never seen doke this bad, gotta get him going, bread and butter, toast and jam

Tough match-up against an athletic team. This is why Doke's pro future is overseas.

I do fully believe KU has the better roster and team but playing two bigs to give them wide open looks ain't it.

FarmerJayhawk said:

ThIs oNe Is OvEr

Could you imagine if Bill played four guards the whole game? Might be boat racing them.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Okay. I'd like to point out that this run has come with a 4-1 and Tristan at the 4. Like I said.

I might lose my mind if Bill goes back to two bigs.

Woodrow said:

Bill, PLEASE go recruit some kids that can shoot

I'm hopeful for Bryce as well as Wilson and Braun once they are ready. This year it's not really gonna get better but next year might be interesting.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

The way the whistles are going definitely favors Nova. They allow hand-check defense but they are calling moving screens.

Jay's check must have cleared.

chriz said:

KU ain’t playing great but these refs are missing all kinds of calls. How is it a tie up when one guy is out of bounds? And novas guy was CLEARLY inside the cylinder.

Jay Wrong implements the Huggins/Weber mugging defense and dares the refs to call it. They are in Philly so...lots going uncalled... IM SHOCKED.

It really is gross though.