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Svi is about 3/5 of the way back to form

I agree. Good game for some confidence

Got about another minute of Doke unless Bill wants to test the free throw shooting

@DCHawker he owned that rebound

Doke's pass leveled two cyclowns

@BShark that's his trick, and it's a good one!

Doke is a one-trick clydesdale

GRAHAM LAYUP ALERT: he made one.

Vick playing D like he's 2 inches wide. Oh, wait.

Devonte shoots layups like he's tired. Which he probably is.

Getting the cow hair off the cyclone player's uniform

Gotta be the braids. Welcome back, Vick! Play some D though.

Cyclowns, meet your Nigerian nightmare

@BeddieKU23 and almost threw it out of bounds!

VIck tightened up the braids

We're 5/17 from three. 29%.

Can still match the 5/30 from the Baylor game, but I think we're getting out of the slump!

Thought it was good, but NOPE

Silvio fired UP

That was going in anyway

Cunliffe sighting. Bill is going deep

Silvio's longest stretch in a month!

second chance points. Rare

Graham probably ought to get three minutes rest each half. He's absent about that amount of time anyway. Can't blame the guy.

Hard to believe the kid from the wonder years grew up to coach ISU basketball

Get Lunardi off my TV

@jaybate-1-0 I think Mitch looks paler than usual too.

Good to see Svi hit one this month

Hauling a load without current registration and license + speeding. The guy is a moron.

Or maybe he was excited about his new trademarked weed... "Brand Greene"

Naw. Moron.

OK

@Blown You should create a new Tray Young category so I can avoid it

Do we need a category for OU games? I figure we'll play OU once or twice more and this guy will be no longer in my universe.

jaybate 1.0 said:

@Jayballer54

Second, most KU fans at the other sites now view the Jayhawks as entertainment, rather than as sport. They don’t want to savor and understand the game. They watch them like an episode of a drama; I.e., strictly for stimulation. They don’t know what makes us win, or lose. They can’t appreciate an undermanned team finding ways to win, or bouncing back from adversity. It’s all Win-stim, or Lose-Stim.

@jaybate-1.0
You nailed that one, JB. There's not really anything wrong with being a stim-based fan (I was probably a bit of one 25 years ago), but it's hard to watch a game with someone who just watches to see the ball go through the net.

One of my KU fan friends will inevitably explode with rage when, for example, a player on the other team makes an open shot (screaming "f%#-ing Devonte, play some %$#ing DEFENSE!"). I'll point out that Graham got creamed on a screen and Vick should have switched, and that just makes him madder for some reason.

We both agree that KU players need to try to "try to get a %#ing rebound" once in a while.

I was at the game Saturday and it was loud. I forgot my ear plugs that I usually bring, and my ears actually were ringing for half the day. The crowd really got the team going early in the second half when KU made cut into the lead, and then two timeouts (one by OSU and the under 16:00 timeout) took FOREVER. Were those CBS timeouts longer than usual? Total momentum killer. Crowd was "helping" pretty loudly on D at the end, but OSU kept hitting ridiculous baskets at the end of the shot clock.

I saw a few lame ass fans leave with about 2 minutes left who seemed angry that they weren't going to get the victory they were entitled to seeing. Game wasn't over at that point, IMO.

@Crimsonorblue22 120 years! Plus my wife's birthday (and she actually let me go to the game without her)

@JayHawkFanToo It's 35' 9" to the center circle from the center of the rim

Carter for WVA has been pretty worthless this season when I've seen him. Wouldn't doubt if he just couldn't handle the pressure from his own coach. Weird.

Maybe too smart a player for that kind of system

Distracted by "clever" signs made by KSU students about Billy Preston

As always, I like our chances better than the other guys'

That said, come on, Devonte, we need 20 pts from you in this one.

@Crimsonorblue22 I'm covering for you at the OSU game next saturday!

All right. I'm done for the night. Hyperbole aside, I want Doke to be a guy that can be in the game at crunch time down the road.

Pretty sure Bill Self knows he could have won this one. Hopefully the team is better in the long run. Maybe there was some rope-a-doke going on for future games (what a set up that would be!), or he just gave the kid a chance.

@Crimsonorblue22 He got nailed on the push off tonight though, which was satisfying considering how often he does it.

The "U-S-A" chant kind of irritated me while Doke was shooting freebies, but that's probably just me.

1. Self knew the risk of leaving Doke in

2. We still had the lead, despite the 6 blown freebies

3. ?

4. Victory/Loss

lessons learned... Self BLEW IT.

Statmachine said:

Yall are saying keeping him in shows Doke that Self believes in him?

That's what Self said in his post game interview

Listening to Self in the post game interview, it was probably not Doke's confidence on the line tonight.

Guess you have to see what you've got to work with in crunch time at some point.

@HighEliteMajor I have disagreed with the strategy in the past of playing the best players. I thought EJ sucked compared to Brady, and was proven right in the end when he choked against Michigan. But, I'm sold now. Let them learn. Lose some games. Shoulder the responsibility of being the teammate that lost the game because you were lazy in practice and didn't listen to coaching.

Then, improve in practice, and hopefully be ready for March. If not., fire coach Self.

@Texas-Hawk-10 should've been intentional

@Big-Clyde52 Let him play harder and foul out! Unleash the beast.

@HighEliteMajor Play the best players, man. Everyone has some weaknesses

Hey @Big-Clyde52 I doubt we'll see the same scenario again. Was there some reason why Devonte couldn't take it right to the rim while Doke was planted in the corner on those four possessions? ...I think we can exploit the poke-a-doke strategy better than we did tonight.