Refs missed a blatant travel by Gilbert in the lane
BeddieKU23
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Rylan with a monster dunk there!
Holy crap play of the year so far!
UNBELIEVABLE
And our shots haven't fallen at all.
The switching tonight has been on point
Wow Rylan. Wide open, 4 times
Iowa St shooting 26%. Need to capitalize on this more
Yes 2
Playing good and the house is rockin
@approxinfinity said in Bounceback night What a sight:
Im here for this to be the AJ game
Needed to finish that dunk
Iowa St plays a certain way and they force refs to make calls. So far this crew apparently is hard to convince
Before that Flory was great. But he misses that board and then fouls. Tons of contact so far
Oh boy Flory you just got outrebounded by a guard
Dang Rylan! Those are your shots
Fran and Schambi. Man espn hates us
Need to play good at home start to FINISH. We had that Houston game as example but didn't finish. Tonight is a good night to lock in
Pivotal game of the season. No other away around it.
@approxinfinity said in Things i like better than KU basketball right now:
I started watching American Primeval per your endorsement @MoonwalkMafia. Was a big Deadwood fan, this is adjacent
Just finished this myself. A good series!
Good points. It's also showing Self hasn't figured out how to build a roster in the NIL/portal heavy era. We have decades of history built upon 4-year guys building up to the top, having a mix of top end HS talent spending 1-3 years here to fill the gaps. This new era has turned a lot of things upside down on roster building. The FBI issue with recruiting sucked and it impacted us bigtime. The limbo that the program ended up in for years was more damaging than the end penalties. That still falls on the Coach and the University regardless of the details, which they matter heavily, but it's something that cannot be excused easily.
The evals of players the staff focuses on and end up landing has led to high expectations but well below expected output (Timberlake/Storr) from the last two cycles. These two guys in particular were players that this staff prioritized to help fill specific roles and neither has/had thrived here. Bill has a type of player that usually fits well in the system and neither at face value looked like great fits from our fanbase observations, so I'd like to understand why they felt both players were going to become something different here. We seem to be trying to make players something they aren't and that's causing issues. This issue isn't only impacting KU but I'm generally concerned we are not getting the right guys from the portal that will have an easier time thriving here. It's one thing to take a shot on a younger transfer prospect but when you take guys like Timberlake, Storr that established habits at other schools that you know are problematic for Self it makes you wonder what is going on. I think player scouting and determining what guys fit here is something that must improve for the future.
No doubt it's difficult to replace legends. My criticism of Bill this year is not a reflection of his past accomplishments. He has adapted plenty over the years, most impressive on the fly at times.
There is a negative trend the past 2-3 years though and I do think a bunch of it centers around the 3 seniors who've been here multiple seasons. Not one of them got better from last year to this year and statistically just about all 3 of them have regressed. So what's the issue there. Bill has had countless guys hit their senior year and that was their best year. We are not seeing it, so what's changed?
Watch til half then turn it off for sanity purposes. There isn't a single second of the 2nd half that's going to please you
Valid points, Self has earned a lot of patience.
One thing that stings is the statement made about not repeating last year. That's looking like something that he didn't actually fix.
Last Saturday was the bone breaker to this season. You dont lose like that and not have it impact things going forward. Look at the mess of UCF and then yesterday's debacle. The synergy of coach and players is not there.
This doesn't look like a bump in the road situation. This is the most uneasy I've felt about the team, both coach and player in my life.
Feel bad for Flory. Been great to have him but now there's probably no hope to keeping him here. Sure hunt moves on but this is a damaging message he just sent to him
If anyone ever says bill doesn't have favoritism towards certain players go get your head checked!
That was awesome
Most are anyway.
@BeddieKU23 said in Bu Ku:
Abysmal defense this half
Crazy to think Flory is back to 15mpg. Fucking stupid. He’s the best player on the team rn lol
If he's smart he'd transfer
His parents/handler should be pissed. This is a travesty.
We all knew this would happen. We see the evidence now that the game is passing by Bill as we speak. Flory should be pissed.
53 to 25 this half lol
It doesn't take a genius to know that this team doesn't like each other. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know the coaching has been subpar
Even fran doesn't watch enough ku then.
@BeddieKU23 said in Bu Ku:
Our coach has failed everyone
Definitely one of his worst seasons (anything can change in March) ever based on the talent available.
There is zero chance this team will be doing anything in March. It's ceiling is one game
Baylor is also without its 3 best players and going to win.
Our coach has failed everyone
There ya go kj
Lol
Bingo!
LOL
Yeah their big can make a ft
Games over
Absolutely
There ya go Juan beautiful turnover
It's not epic if it's expected
There the Juan we know from the line
Lol
There's the team we know