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We need some practice on rebounds. Who was that said their HS Coach taught RB the first year.? It's ugly. 23-9 with 13 oRB's for WV

I'm glad two of their best players are sitting

We've been saying that since last year.

Not sure what that T was about. Mason lucky he wasn't called for the push off.

Mikelson distributing. That was pretty with the Oubre finish

Announcers have been better the wife pointed out.

Wood ford Reserve not working. Switched to Makers Mark.

More offensive boards v all or RB

Boards 8/17 WV v 1/6 KU

Need to see more Mik

Oubre blocked that didn't he?

Michelson

Why was Seldon standing at center court letting WV run by him?

We can start now.

Woodford Reserve

Jamari was fouled there

14 TO's not so bad as expected. O RB's the difference.

@jayhawkfan agree, looked like the follow up by Jamari was a foul

How do you let Staten get the ball and go all the way to the rim?

RB differential narrowing but we have 1 assist.

Moving pick

Outstanding post. Loved the screen shots. Was frustrating at times when we had the 3 man out top and passed it back and forth with no movement on the floor. I hadn't picked up the shift to 2 man up top.

As many have mentioned, we are a poor passing team. We hold the ball too long (except when we feel pressure and pass crazy or are on auto-pilot). Seems some quicker passing against the zone would have created even more open shots especially when we seem to have 2 on 1 down on the baseline.

Thanks for the post.

Or has Self simply shortened his bench as he is wont to do. He seems to be playing 9 consistently except for the 1st game of that 3 in 6 days game at TCU.

For the man that is good with a hammer, everything is a nail. Bill Self has been very successful with the hammer.

@HighEliteMajor and after reading Greene's comment I saw Jesse reported Ford specifically coached his team to not let us shoot 3's. They'd live with some 2-pt lay ups.

How do we scheme to get good shots against that D? That is the question. Our "lay ups" were hurried and as ugly of shots as I've seen taken in a long time.

How much did the pressure and extended defense lead to us away from outside - in? That is referenced in recaps by players and Greene in particular.

Could it be we really haven't worked up plays and philosophy for a true O-I game? I don't see us running sets that are significantly different from our normal movement short of a little less hi-Lo.

I'll leave that for the true BBall minds to answer?

Also, Self is 3-5 at OSU. Is that his worst road record in Big 12 and, the question needs to be asked though I can't fathom it, does he "under" coach for his alma mater?

This was the worst ball handling, passing, shot selection, and shot execution - sometimes seeming to just throw the ball towards the hoop - since I watched one of my girls 8th grade game last year in their schools first year of playing hoops.

18 points off of those 18 turnovers.

Oubre's jump shot form seems terrible to me...looks like he has 1 foot in front of the other most of the time and kinda jumps forward...no wonder it seems to hit the back of the rim.

@MoonwalkMafia watching Miles shoot Tx out of game with 3-balls in 1st half. Pretty ugly and unnecessary.

Have we transitioned to Outside - In?

Gary B reporting Conner is transferring. Not happy about that. He had biggest impact in Stanford game.

Officially rooting against Cleveland now.

If Love is so great, where are all the other NBA teams trying to trade for him. Surely more than 2 teams should have interest? And Cleveland didn't seem to have huge interest until His Highness seemed to weigh.

@HighEliteMajor and has won what?

The African Studies courses on the whole, along with gender studies depts are an Institutional travesty with severely questionable academic standards and were not uncommon even at KU. As a former employee of the KUAC academic support structure, I had players from time to time offer money to write papers and such, which I declined. It is the colleges themselves that provide cover for the coaches.

Who is John Galt?

@icthawkfan316 I think Self left his A game at home tonight and I wonder if he hasn't done that subconsciously in the past (seems his record against his alma mater is not good). But here's why: seemed the player rotation was odd. We weren't playing well and only 9 players played. Seemed like 8 for the longest time because ESPn didn't even post CF's line of all 0's until post game. At the end of the game we were fouled up, tired and injured and were in no position to close out the game. I point out again that Greene had zero turnovers and so did Landen Lucas.

Tharpe 7 turnovers (I know box shows 6, but I'm giving him 1 for the misguided wrap around in the scrum under the basket) and Greene had 0 turnovers.

Nice write up on Nick Bradford in the NWA paper (subscription required so posted in full):

Right At Home

BRADFORD MAKES SMOOTH TRANSITION INTO COACHING

By Vernon Tarver

Posted: January 26, 2014 at 2 a.m.

Andy Shupe
Former Fayetteville High and Kansas player Nick Bradford helps FHS players during a shooting drill Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, during practice at Fayetteville High. Bradford is back in Fayetteville after stints playing overseas in Romania, Iceland, France and Finland.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Nick Bradford hasn’t changed all that much, even if so many people around him in the game of basketball have.

The same fun-loving kid, who grew up in Fayetteville and devel- oped into one of the top basketball players ever to come out of the Bull- dogs’ program or Northwest Arkan- sas altogether, still carries a big smile and an even bigger personal- ity everywhere he goes.

Like his personality, Bradford’s love for the game of basketball is just as consistent. From the rustic court of old Bulldog Gymnasium, to the hallowed halls of Phog Allen Field- house at Kansas, he had a sense that the sport he so dearly loved would remain with him forever. And now, his goal of continuing his hoops dreams well past his playing days are in fact, playing out in reality.

ONCE A JAYHAWK, ALWAYS A JAYHAWK

Bradford, like many skilled athletes who fall just short of the ultimate level of competition, wasn’t ready to hang up his high tops as soon as his college days were done. After a successful four-year career at Kansas from 1996-2000, the Fayetteville native kept the ball bouncing for more than a decade. There was a two-year stint in the ABA with the Kansas City Knights.

“I played for Kevin Pritchard in the ABA, and that was a great experience,” Bradford said. “Kevin is now general manager of the Indi- ana Pacers and he taught me a lot.”

Then came an eight-year jour- ney through Europe, with stops in Iceland, France, Romania and Finland.

While it wasn’t basketball at the highest level like the NBA, it was professional hoops. And Bradford had no complaints.

“The biggest misconception about European basketball is like in France they say they’re not supposed to like Americans,” Bradford said. “But that was my favorite place to play. I had a great time over there.

“Basketball over there is real competitive, and I played against some really good players and some guys like Boris Diaw who went to the NBA. So it was a great experi- ence.”

All the while, though, Bradford knew life after his playing days was fast approaching. And he had a plan.

Following the spring of 2011 season with the UMFG club in Iceland, Bradford accepted his first coaching position at Labette Community College. A member

of Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference, Labette put Bradford right back in his old stomping grounds, back where he credits much of his drive to become a coach.

“When I was in school at Kansas, coach (Roy) Williams and his staff always thought I had those coach- ing abilities,” Bradford

said. “I was the type of player that did a lot of thinking and played a lot of positions on the floor. Soalotofmy coaching came from that.”

B r a d f o r d played alongside several Kansas greats in his time with the Jayhawks. He was roommates with Paul Pierce, and teammates with Raef LaFrentz, Kirk Hinrich and Drew Gooden.

Those names, and others, served Bradford he headed out on the recruiting trail for Labette and even more so now in his new position as a first-year assistant at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin.

“I think that’s a good thing I can add in there to young guys,” Brad- ford said. “They might not know my name, but I can give them some names of guys I played with. Or when you’ve been around a guy like Danny Manning and you can talk to kids about that, it sure helps.”

FOLLOWING BROTHER’S FOOTSTEPS

Bradford gives plenty of credit to his former college coach, Roy Williams, for being a big impact on his coaching style. But there’s no mistake in who provides the major inspiration for Bradford as a coach, or in life.

His big brother, Ramon.

In December 1994, Ramon Brad- ford was an assistant basketball coach at Fayetteville when he was

killed in an automobile accident while returning from a Bulldogs’ away game at Siloam Springs. Nick Bradford, Ramon’s younger brother, was a junior on the Fayetteville basketball team and just 16 at the time of his brother’s death.

“No question (Ramon’s) life being cut short and his dream of being a Division I coach has been my biggest inspiration into being a coach and just being a good person,” Nick said. “He affffected so many young people’s lives and I’m trying to live my life in that same way, by impacting young kids just like he

did.” Bradford

is only getting started. After two seasons at Labette, he moved to the Division II ranks and headed closer to home with the move to Joplin-based Missouri Southern

State. “It’s great. My family can get

up here and see me now and I’m close to home,” Bradford said. “It’s crazy how things have grown back in Fayetteville. I went to the last game played at the old gym and I went to a game in the new arena last year. And I talk to Kyle Adams and Tommy Deffenbaugh and keep up with what’s going on with those guys and the Bulldogs.”

Bradford also hopes the move to Missouri Southern will lead to recruiting players from around the Northwest Arkansas area. And with his personality, Adams is sure Brad- ford won’t have a problem selling young players on the MSSU prod- uct.

“You didn’t know it at the time he was playing about him coaching, you just knew he had a great sense of the game,” Adams said. “But the great thing about Nick is he’s just a great person. He’s always got a smile on his face and every- body loves being around him, so he’s got a great personality for coaching.”

THE KIDS OF TODAY

Bradford has entered the coaching profession as basketball undergoes plenty of changes, not necessarily in the style of play or the rules on the court, but in the young athletes who choose to continue their games onto the next level.

“The mentality of kids today is different,” Brad- ford said. “Some kids have a mentality that everything has to be given to them. Not to say that all kids have that sense of entitlement, but it’s out there.

“What we’re trying to do here is show them that it’s about a team, and that nothing

is going to be given to you. We want them to work for every- thing they get.”

Dealing with a different brand of youngsters from even when he played the game, Bradford isn’t scared off. Instead, he’s more passionate and driven than ever to succeed. His goals for now are to help MSSU, and so far he’s off to a great start as the Lions sit at 13-3 on the season.

Beyond Missouri Southern State? Bradford isn’t one to look that far ahead.

“I would like to be a head coach someday,” Bradford said. “But right now I’m in a great situation, working for a legendary coach in coach Robert Corn. After this season, coach Corn is step- ping down and Jeff (Boschee) will take over and I’m just focused on helping us out here.”

And you can bet Bradford will wear a big smile every step of the way.

@jaybate, I think Self was saving strength and motivating Wiggins, Perry etc for Baylor game Monday as per your theory.

I'm with you. Play hard, play fresh. Beat the heck out of other teams.