I can imagine "Snacks" sitting in his car in front of Duval's home. stake out style, with a gigantic box of candy on the passenger seat watching the pounds pile up
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First one since 2003? Mario's number was retired and his jersey raised at AFH in February of 2013...perhaps this is what you meant?
Mario has lots of experience playing with big stars and winning, he should be able to contribute wherever he goes. Selden has talent and is young, he could be a journeyman player in the right setting.
KU has tradition of having an opposing nondescript player have a career day when playing KU...it is a courtesy KU extends to the less fortunate. :smiley:
I did see the last 10 minutes of the game and OT and Iowa got some really helpful and timely whistles from the refs, although Indiana basically gave the game away in OT with several bad turnover in a row and the Iowas kid Jok hit 23-23 from the free throw line...WOW!
In all fairness, the season ending injury to Anunoby and other key players hurt them big time and now the team seems to have given up and is in a free fall. Definitely not the team KU played or the team that beat UNC...not even close.
In the meantime let's take a look at our current players...they are seriously strong...link here...
Isn't this the definition of a "Stretch Four" that is o popular in the NBA? Although I am not sure he has the 3 point range quite yet.
Best of luck to Montell wherever he goes. The letter he wrote is representative of the classy individual he is; no doubt he will be missed.
Absolutely, Coach Self is the definition of consistency...in a good way. Today on talk radio they were discussing the difference between Texas and Indiana and the consensus was that Indiana is a blue blood program going through a tough stretch but Texas, other than having a lot of money, is not and has not been a relevant program in college basketball.
Huggy had a rough start in the Big 12 but he improved every year from 8th to 6th to 3rd and 2nd last season. Smart first year record was the same as Barnes had the year before he was fired and with the games Texas has left (Baylor and KU at home, TTU away) he will most likely finish 4-14 and you will have to go back to 1983 to find a comparable record for the Texas program. Remember ESPN had Texas as favorite to win the conference before the start of the season? Such high expectations and such a huge disappointment.
Yes...those were Rick Barnes players not Smart. Texas has not gotten better under Smart, most would say it has gotten worse. With two better coaches now at TCU and Tech. and even Drew at Baylor, recruiting is going to get a lot harder for Texas. It is not a secret that Allen wanted to stay in Texas and if he waited one year, chances are he would have ended at one of the other programs...just my read.
That is a long way down from Duke-UK to Texas; I just don't see it. It would not surprise me to see another elite program get involved but this season has done a number on Smart's coaching reputation and recruiting is going to get a lot more difficult for him going forward...the legend of Shaka is getting unraveled and he is really getting exposed.
I thought Bamba was pretty much a race between Duke and Kentucky. Most recruits will take the 4 paid recruiting trips,,,who wouldn't, even to schools they already eliminated.
Other than being able to be called to the League on a moments notices, not much advantage to the D League since the guys that get called are the ones that are already under contract and are sent there to get some playing time, like Diallo. The salaries suck, the accommodations are marginal and the locations not desirable.
At KU he gets to live in style, has access to great facilities and coaching. top competition and exposure he can only dream in the D League...plus he gets to complete his degree, something that might serve him well the rest of his life.
Thank you. That was exactly my point in a previous post.
Smart's contract was extended one year at the end of last season and he was given a raise. The contract now goes through the 2022-23 season with a base pay of $3m and increases by $100k every year and I am sure there are other incentives. That buyout will be expensive...
I find no it interesting that coaches contracts always include incentive clauses for good performance but no penalty clauses for poor performance...if he real world would be like that...
They probably still don't have the winning mindset after being bad for so long. KU appears to have mastered the art of winning close games...hopefully it will come handy in March...
Really poor execution. With the time left they had time for 1 or maybe 2 passes and I have to think the coaching staff told them so an sure enough he makes a third pass and run out of time. A bad shot would have been better than no shot at all. They did have a nice come back to send the game into OT but they had some seriously bad turnovers including missing the layup on a 3 on 1 break and getting the ball stolen under the basket. The parity in the conference is amazing.
Texas is starting to look like the Kansas Turnpike, always under construction and never finished...
I have to think prospects knew that Mason would be a 4 year player and the big question was really Devonte and to a lesser extent Malik. I would guess prospects thought they would have to play behind Devonte and Malik and perhaps that lead them to a different school...we still don't know what Devonte will do and I am sure it is affecting recruiting. KU spent, or maybe we can now say wasted, a lot of time on Young and I would have thought KU was the logical place but then, maybe he knows Devonte is coming back and that swayed his decision. Time will tell...
I posted links with actual data and even Coach Self's comments about it but you can see it any way you want...or maybe I should just say...ditto...
At this time I just don't see Allen staying at Texas, not much more he can learn from Smart and I don't see Texas contending next year with or without him.
BTW, Allen sure reminds me of Jimi Hendrix...🎸
Sorry, did not see your post last night. I am not sure if it is my iPad updating or what but sometimes when I go over a thread I see posts that were not there before, oh well...
Yes, that was an obvious foul but a Tech really gave the game away with 2 or 3 really bad turnovers such as missing the layup when they had a 3 on 1 break or getting the ball stolen on the inbound right under the basket. It does show how much parity the conference has and how little margin of error there is.
Interesting, ISU, Texas and WVU play each other one more time and they might eliminate each other any way. Hard to believe but ISU is currently in second place and Baylor in fourth place (by tie breaker).
No, I have been lucky and have not personally had ACL surgery, if that is what you are asking, but I know several people including friends and acquaintances that have had the surgery. One of them was a nationally ranked professional tennis player and it took him about 9 months to get back to competitive shape and move up in the rankings; his surgery was in the early 2000s when techniques were not nearly as good as they are today and he retired a few years later.
The times in the link I provided was for NBA players from the time of surgery to when they played their first game; they were obviously medically cleared before that. Coleby was medically cleared a long time ago. Here is a link ↗ where Coach Self indicates that Coleby had been cleared and he shoul be ready to go...the article is from August of last year and Coleby played in the first exhibition game and many games since then. It appears that his recovery is permanently stalled as his explosiveness does not appear to have improved since then.
You can google ACL recovery time and you will find literally thousand of references and the consensus seems to be 9 months to full recovery, in as much as you can recover from that type of injury anyway. I believe @ralster is in the medical field and perhaps he can enlighten us both...unless you are doctor yourself in which case I will defer to your expertise.
That is pretty scary...
He is not that good. Most any brackets predictor can pick all the teams since the formulas are known and the NCAA conducts mock sessions for reporters ahead of time. The trick is predicting the seeds and corresponding locations and, as I mentioned, Lunardi is middle of the pack.
Google the brackets project and you will see the predictions by the various sites going back many years and you can draw your own conclussions.
Cannot stand Fran and the game is not close so I switched to the Tech-ISU game. ISU by 5 with 6 minutes left.
He was walking to the huddle and just fell to his knees. Doctors checked him and he seemed ok.
I saw a feature on him and they showed him teaching a course in bracketology at at university; I would guess he gets paid extra for that directly by the university. I used to teach graduate classes at KU on my own time and I got paid directly by the School of Engineering.
Yes, he even teaches classes/seminars in bracketology.
The recovery times I posted are total times to back to original condition, or as close as it gets. Coleby's recovery had taken an unusually long time, considerably longer than initially projected by KU staff and there is no indication that additional surgery is contemplated so it would appear there is no additional damage or indication the original surgery was not successful.
Realistically speaking, if the injury has not fully healed by now, chances are it will not heal any further and either he will have to learn to play with what he is got or if he is favoring the other knee, as it is often the case, he might end up injuring that one as well. Tough situation for the young man.
Congrats, nicely done!!!
Lunardi has the biggest audience (ESPN) but he is just middle if the pack when it comes to predicting the brackets
That type of surgery is now pretty routine; I just saw a story where new techniques can cut recovery time in half. ↗
@DCHawker said:
but with the talent and K’s experience, they also seem fully capable of winning 6 in a row.
You missed the part that goes... with Coach K ability to berate the refs into submission and giving him all the calls, Duke has a distinct advantage.
Want to talk about unwatchable? You should have seen the NBA All-Star game yesterday. The 192-182 score says it all.
You should do a story on the NBA All-Star game...talk about unwatchable. No defense whatsoever, when a player drove to the basket the defense would move out of the way to let him dunk, the score 192-182 tells the story and the Unibrow was the MVP scoring a record 52 points; only 16 fouls called the entire game. Even the announcer were saying that players needed to take the game more seriously; I have seen shootarounds that were more exciting. I watch a fair amount of NBA games and this game was not at all representative of what I see, frankly, it was an embarrassment.
Unlike facts, opinions are not right or wrong, they are just that, opinions. We just see it differently and there is nothing wrong that we agree to disagree.
Lots of sites with ACL surgery recovery time for athletes/basketball players and the consensus seems to be about 9 months plus or minus a couple of months. The typical time to full recovery from ACL surgery in the NBA is 8-12 months ↗, anything beyond that is usually due to the wait for the season to start. Rose had the longest recovery and it was 17 months. I believe it has been a year and a half and counting for Coleby and he still cannot jump much. At this time I am inclined to think it is more mental or his condition is such that he will just not get better than where he is now.
I really don't get how all of this works. WSU just won big, moved into the top 25 in both polls, #16 Sagarin, #13 Pomeroy and yet the drop in Bracketology?
I was simply responding to your post...
I believe that WSU has tried to join higher rated conferences but it is not an easy task. If they tried to join the Big 12, who do you think would oppose it? My guess is KU and KSU...plus they don't have football so it is a moot point. Their only hope is to join a major basketball only conference such as the A10 or the Big East but the later is basically restricted to Catholic Schools so not really an option. I am sure they would like to move up buy they are between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
If KU ends up 4-0 there is nothing to worry about, right? Also, the regular season and post season titles are independent of each other, right? KU has won 12 and on its way to 13 Regular Season Titles, but it has not always won the post season tournament the last one being the year before last when it lost to ISU and the 2012 when it lost to guess who...Baylor...
Just sayin'...be careful with what you wish, have you checked the tie breakers on the years KU shared the title?
This season, KU really did not have a problem with WVU press and bringing the ball up like in previous years; I really don't think Louisville's press will be much of an issue either.
Please, do tell, how is that working out for Drew/Baylor? No Final Fours, no National Titles and...wait for it...no Conference Titles either. SMH.
No, conference records is and should always be the most important factor. If Baylor finishes 4-0 and KU 0-4 and Baylor ends up with the best record should KU be the champion since it swept Baylor? I think not.
If two teams end up with the same record it should be a tie like it has always been and the head to head, among other criteria, used to determine tournament seeding like it has always been. One would think that if the method is that bad no conference would use it and it would have been changed a long time ago...in my opinion, of course.
Coach Self has said before that KU has 6 starters and it really does not make a lot of difference who starts the game...
Nothing instills more fear to Scott Drew than the words "Kansas" + "Basketball"...even little purple brother out a West benefits.😄
We are talking apples and oranges. In the NFL the winner gets a huge home advantage, in the conference it might give you a seed advantage in the tournament but every team plays in the same place so the advantage is minimal...and allows teams other than KU to occasionally say they also won the conference.🏆🍾
In 2012 KU lost the las game of the season and if KSU does not lose the same day KU streak would have stopped; KU has finished tied 4 times during the streak. How about if instead of making the biggest comeback ever KU lost to WVU and then it end tied up, would you feel the same way seeing the streak end even if KU finished with the same record? However, I just don't see any need to worry this year since all KU has to do is beat TCU and bottom-of-the-conference OU at home and it is all over.
As are you. I was talking about college sports not professional. The Big 12 and other conferences use that rule for all sports.