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Ship has sailed.... Any name KU is associated with right now is going elsewhere. In the spring we'll see who the staff can recruit after we hopefully have a great year.

ARE KANSAS' CHANCES WITH TOP-10 PLAYER ... HURT?
Will the mess surrounding Kansas right now eventually prevent them from signing Hurt? And if so, who gets his services, in your opinion? #AskEvan

— Andrew (@notorious_acv) November 12, 2018
This is a legitimate question. Do I think Kansas is in good shape with Hurt? Yes, I do. Will Kansas coming up in the FBI impact things? Not sure. It’s possible, but only Hurt and his family would know the answer to that. It does seem like it may impact things with Zeke Nnaji, as it’s one factor that his father, Apham, brought up during a recent interview with 247Sports. Kansas and Arizona coming up in the trial is ultimately what I believe lead to Nnaji setting up a late meeting and trip with North Carolina.

Mackey will play better then his rank by senior yr

Michigan up on Nova early in a rematch of the championship game

Huge fan of McBride already. Kid will start here

HighEliteMajor said:

Vick returning is huge. Really felt that when it was announced. Nothing better than being humbled to increase focus and motivation.

If franny was right during the game, Self told him he was "done with him", "had enough" I think he said on TV. It makes you wonder how much on and off the court issues Vick truly had that would make Bill Self give up on him. So it must be some real change that has occurred for him to be back here. 2nd chances given in the right circumstance has paid off so far. But my only caution is, we've seen this Vick before and we need to continue to see him play and act this way. Self put his neck on the line for him.

@BShark

Daniels put his pick in for Oregon.. Interesting

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Film is the staff's best friend for this. They will figure it all out, especially how to make these guys co-exist

BShark said:

@BeddieKU23 Exactly. Makes a lot of sense to pick GT. I don't think Memphis wanted him much tbh.

Yeah plus Memphis is big game hunting. Hurt/Watford etc

@chriz

It was a letdown game of sorts. Self has his work cut out for him getting these guys to bring intensity to every game. We didn't see team balance on the box score. We fed the hot hand (Vick) and fed Doke because he had a significant mismatch against Vermont. I don't think we executed offense at a high level, not nearly as well as we did against Michigan St. We gave up easy shots in the first half and when Vermont got down a dozen or so they started to press and make mistakes which masked how poorly KU was playing overall. Vermont also slowed the tempo of the game which seemed to mess with KU's rhythm.

Some individuals have been disappointing so far. Dedric is certainly #1 on this list as we've seen him struggle to shoot in both games so far. I'm going to give him a break until we see a few more games. I've seen enough of him before to know he is as good as we think he is, he's just not there yet. Malik Newman struggled early at KU last year so the transition for transfers here doesn't seem to be as flawless as we'd hope. Maybe he's feeling the pressure of all the pre-season accolades he got. It was the home opener and he might have had some jitters. I don't know I'm just thinking out loud but I have no doubt he'll bounce back.

Marcus Garrett has been the guy I'm struggling to figure out. He's not a freshman 'deer in headlights' anymore, he has confidence and knows what he's doing out there. But he's certainly not executing on the offensive end so far and is pressing to make plays. I'm not going to get too down on him just yet as its too early for that.

Overall I think we played our 'C' game. I'm predicting Friday looks better

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

That was quick. smh these kids

I think Gundy went nuts yesterday but yeah, transferring after one game is...odd...

I wonder if there was some kind of pt/minutes promise that wasn't met.

That's what I'm thinking as well. It looks like NC St loaded up on a JC transfer & graduate transfer after signing Seere. After getting 5 minutes in game 1 he had enough. I see he bounced to 4 high schools and was committed to Creighton before ending at NC St. So a 10 foot view would certainly lead us to assume he's jumpy and product of today's culture.

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I couldn't imagine him being anything but a RS at KU. I looked at Georgia Tech's roster and boy he should walk right into minutes.

It wasn't a great game, I expected the game to be easier but we coasted in the first half and still ended up winning by 16. If we look bad and win by 16 some nights I'm not going to complain too much. We had two guys get 55 points, that's impressive individual efforts from Vick & Doke. Vermont is still a solid team, they will most likely win their league again and position themselves for a NCAA bid.

It's been two games but I think we've seen this type of game every year under Self no matter the talent level. Coach will love the film going into Friday's game. Dedric will be motivated to put this one behind him. Team is a work in progress which is what I expect. We've already seen them play at a high level against good competition and I'm sure the light will come on when we play the next P5 school on the schedule.

32 points, 12-14 fg, 8-8 3's. Discuss. He was the difference in the game last night. Can we bottle this performance until late March/early April?

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Good spot for him, early playing time

That was quick. smh these kids

Bad call

We have almost 80 and dedric hasn't scored

Pure

Doke

We can play without Marcus. Man

wissox said:

wissox starts googling record for most 3's in a game without a miss.

Tell us what it is?

Love seeing Vick make those. Big for confidence

I mean this is nuts

Q has to learn there. Killed that quick run

Fran, you dont know crap. Silvio is one of the 5 most talented bigs in the league. Definite need for a talent like that

DanR said:

I'm just constantly shocked at how bad a rebounder Doke is. That's the last negative thing I'll say about him tonight, since he's about to bust loose.

He doesn't high point the ball. What you think?

Frans already in good form. Bad for our health

Dotson, stud

Just so we all can laugh, k st only up 3 at half on denver

BShark said:

Hopefully Dedric can stay on the floor in the 2nd half.

Not if the old man has his way. Dedric stole his bubble gum

wissox said:

By the way Joel has 32 and 16 through 3 quarters.

Stop it hes terrible. Complete baller I mean

I think we come out 2nd half about 10 minutes in will start pushing to that spread

Lack of execution in that half. At least they have seen what bad looks like

Grimes has what 4, 5 assists

About time

DanR said:

Where's big Dave MCD been?

Self prolly thinks he will not defend their smalls well

We have not ran 10% of the offense we executed in the Michigan st game

Bwag said:

BShark said:

Bwag said:

Azebuke needs to watch pushing off.

He loves that chicken wing

I've noticed it several times. Afraid they'll start calling it.

Dont tell the refs, they gave us an offensive foul on nothing

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Boy, where's Dedric tonight?

Bench, fouls

Bwag said:

Is Vermont so good inside that we have to double down there?

Nope. Just bad scheme

Loving vicks on game. He had a lot of those early last yr

Well no one can say we get all the calls my god this has to stop

Refs suck

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

Or playing defense

Mitch is bad, but it's on Self for putting him in there imo.

Also on ku for not having Silvio

Lol

Or playing defense

I never want mitch shooting

Mitch make one jeez

And they are open

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

If we make layups, dont travel and just stay in front I'm betting we'd be up. But since we can't do any of that we trail. Good learning curve for this bunch

Shouldn't be hard to D up Vermont but here we are...

Becker is a very good x and o guy. But Duncan and smith are shooting nba jams right now