I though that was Jamar Samuels money order...
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Spring is just a generic term and not necessarily the "coil" we commonly associate with the term spring. It could be just an expandable/compressible material such as rubber, an air cushion, a bendable metal slat or a combination..
I am not sure if there is a rule but I imagine the shoe companies use it for marketing purposes. A few years ago, a couple of guys patented a basketball shoe ↗ with a buil-in "spring" that supposedly increased vertical jumping abut the NBA banned it; best think that happened to them since sales sky rocketed.
A well deserved honor. Congrats Coach Snyder.
In looking at the picture , you can tell it was taken from not too far away and with wide angle lens (20mm?) and wide angles lenses are known for distorting the edges when using them close by making the center portion larger and the edges smaller; camera lenses are round and convex after all. For an extreme effect try taking a photo of face (portrait) with a wide angle from a close distance and you will see a huge center portion (nose) and disproportionally small ears; this is why professional portrait photographers will step back and use a zoom lens (70mm is the favorite) so they can take an undistorted photo.
In the photo you can see the subtle effects of the distortion by looking at the cornice at the top of the picture. We know that in reality it is perfectly straight and level but in the picture you can see it curved with the sides sloping down in relation to the center, particularly on the right side which indicates that camera was not perfectly level either. Had the picture been taken from farther away and with level camera, the cornice would look perfectly straight and level. Hopefully it explain why players in the center look a little taller than those toward the edges., particularly those on the right side.
KU/Lawrence is full of hills...and don't forget the Flint Hills. The "hills" on that girl seem pretty substantial as well :)
Glad to be of help. Keep in mind that recruiting at Memphis vs Kentucky is like trying to pick up a girl with Chevy vs a Ferrari. :)
I see KU building a lead and coasting to a 10-12 point win. I expect Perry to have a good game.
Orlando has one of the 3 worse rosters if not the worst in the NBA. Vaughn has done as well as anyone can under the circumstances. I would love to see him spend some time at KU working with the guards while Collison works with the bigs...I can dream...:)
No doubt that Northwestern emphasizes academics since it is one of the top ranked schools in the country, 13th according to this well know publication. ↗
I don't know how tall you are, but as Jayhawk fan, you stand tall wherever you are...
Since players cannot really score with the head (like they do in soccer); height at the top of the head is not nearly as important as shoulder height and wing span since these are the two measurement that affect reach the most. Having said that, jumping ability, position awareness...and a big rear end like Barkley have a bigger effect.
This is a list of Cal's players at Memphis that went to the NBA:
- Dajuan Wagner (6th, 2002 NBA Draft)
- Earl Barron (Undrafted, 2003 NBA Draft)
- Antonio Burks (36th, 2004 NBA Draft)
- Shawne Williams (17th, 2006 NBA Draft)
- Rodney Carney (16th, 2006 NBA Draft)
- Darius Washington, Jr. (Undrafted, 2006)
- Derrick Rose (1st, 2008 NBA Draft)
- Joey Dorsey (33rd, 2008 NBA Draft)
- Chris Douglas-Roberts (40th, 2008 NBA Draft)
- Tyreke Evans (4th, 2009 NBA Draft)
- Robert Dozier (60th, 2009 NBA Draft)
He has been recruiting good players all along, even at semi-mid-major Memphis. At UK, arguably the biggest/richest/sleaziest college basketball program, he has just taken recruiting to a new level.
Hey...no cropping allowed... :) :) :)
I thought the sign on K-177 after you exited I-70 headed to Manhattan said...if you can smell it you are near, if you can step on it...you are there.
Yes, most models give less weight to older and more weight to more recent games and, if I recall correctly, games prior to the 20 more recent games have a lot less weight, which mean the UK game will start counting less and less as time goes by.
If you know statistics you would know that both of those games are clearly outliers, where an outlier is defined as an observation that lies outside the overall pattern of a distribution. Here is a quick and dirty graph that show the margin of victory loss for all KU games, You will notice that the average margin is 7.5 points when you look at all the games (including UK and Temple). I have also plotted lines with 1 and 2 Standard Deviation (15.4) and both, the UK and Temple game fall outside the 2 standard deviation line. Actually a line with the difference between the predicted and actual margins would be better as you would see a fairly flat distribution with a couple of huge outliers.
Spot on. My elderly father caught influenza last winter and ended up in the hospital. I caught the stomach flu from the grand kids last week and after one night of "hugging the marble throne" it was pretty much gone the next day.
The tank has been there a long time as so has the Manhattan sign. Water tanks are usually placed on high ground since you want to distribute water by gravity; not really a lot of hills in that part of the state so you do what you must. BTW, they are both away from campus and not related at all to KSU. Just a quick reference.
Height in basketball is the most lied about measurement in all sports. HSs lie, Colleges lie, the NCCA lies, the NBA lies...they all do.
Here is an interesting article ↗with quotes from one of the more height-hyped player of all time, Charles Barkley.
In reading about the subject, the consensus seems to be that the biggest exaggerator in college basketball is Duke.
- No. 1 meth producing state in the country; more than all other states combined.
- No. 1 in "Juice Bars."
- No. 1 in "juice Bars" billboards per mile.
- No. 1 in over 50 year old, single wide trailers used as primary residence.
And...drum roll...
- No. 1 / longest active basketball program without a Final Four appearance. Ba-dum-TSH!!!
sarcasm on/ ...but...don't you know that Coach Self cannot really coach or even come up with game plan and he is the only obstacle standing between this team and a National Championship??? /sarcasm off
But seriously, excellent post. :)
10 inter-conference games in one day...it should make for one heck of a game day!!!
The college recruiting-to-NBA game has changed dramatically in the last few years. We cannot compare the recruiting that was done 7-10 year ago with what goes on currently. Until last year we had only two OADs, one that was semi-ready and the other not ready at all; this year we might have 2 OADS. Just my 2 cents.
Under the new format ↗, all the games will be played in one day and it would take place later in the season.
If the challenge would be played, say this weekend, does any team from the SEC other than Kentucky win a game?
Frank's first free throw was way short, the sign of a tired player. He played 35 hard fought minutes.
The loss at UK is what in statistics is called an outlier, a result that is far away from the norm when the entire picture is considered. You have to consider that when KU played UK, it had only played 1 Division I opponent and 2 exhibition games, while UK had 7 games against National Teams from other countries and European professional teams plus 3 exhibition games. If the teams were to play again, UK might still win but it would not be a blowout like the last game. All the computer models take this factor into account and assign less weight to early games and more weight to games as the season progresses. Also, Kentucky's schedule is considerably easier than KU's so it does not help UK which is the only SEC team n the top 25. The Big 12, on the other hand, has at least 6 teams in the top 25.
Derrick Rose might well end up being the next Penny Hardaway, great talent but little durability; last season he played 10 games and the season before 39. This season he was supposed to be fully healed and rested but so far he has played in only 36 out of 47 games and is averaging 5mpg less than he did before.
Yes, some of the number from KenPom are useful, but the ultimate objective of all those number is to use all of a portion of them together to come up with a ranking. and this is where the KenPom model fails.
There are now 40+ computer generated models used to rank teams and they all use basically the same numbers with their one twists, but by and large, they are (naturally) fairly close to each other; however, the Pomeroy's rankings, at least for the teams I have been tracking, seem to be quite at odds with all these other computer models.
IMHO, once Pomeroy went "Hollywood," i.e. commercial, his models were changed to be 'trendy" rather than accurate. Years ago, his ranking passed the common sense test, now they don't. Jeff Sagarin is the pioneer in the filed and he along with Kenneth Massey are now the standard in the field.
None. Fran is one of the better informed analysts. His ESPN beat is the Big 12 and he is very familiar with all the conference teams, unlike others, like Musburger, that read from notes prepared by someone else that are also unfamiliar with the conference and end up making silly statements at game time.
Ken Pomeroy jumps the shark once again...
It should not come as big surprise but Ken Pomeroy now has Oklahoma at #11 (13-7 and 4-4 in conference) ranked higher than KU #12 which is 17-3 and 7-1 in conference; of course he has Wichita State also ranked higher than KU at #9.
In comparison, Jeff Sagarin has KU at #10, WSU at #13 and OU at #17. Massey has KU #4, WSU at #13 and OU at #28. The average of all computer rankings as of last Sunday has KU at #7, WSU at #13 and OU at #22; all 3 teams won so the rankings should not have changed much.
Pomeroy's rankings do not "match national perception" like he mentioned when ranking conferences and they are ad odd with all the other computer rankings as well. I would really like @Jesse-Newell to explain the discrepancy ,although it would not surprise me if by now he also has a problem with Pomeroy's rankings.
Turning point of the game...Ellis gets his second foul and sits the rest of the half; he was getting inside with ease and had scored all KU point up to that point.
TCU is a team that will not allow many 3 point shots period. Look at the number of shots taken and made by the other conference teams:
- WVU - 3-11 - 27.3%
- KSU 4-10 - 40%
- Baylor 1-12 - 8.3%
- Texas Tech 3-16 - 18.8%
- Texas 5-13 - 38.5%
- WVU 6-25 -24%
- KU 3- 8 - 37.5%
No question that TCU does not allow a lot of 3s and the ones taken are guarded and the made percentage not good. Maybe we should have hoisted 25 like VWU and make 24%. Considering that KU players were heavily guarded on the perimeter (one picture notwithstanding) and shot 21-44 from 2 (47.7%), seemed like the better option...but then...I am probably wrong since I don't know nearly as much about coaching as other member(s) of this forum.
Ugly game, ugly win but a win is a win is a win...
The conference has a serious refereeing problem. Tonite, it seemed like the refs said...TCU sucks from the line, so...let's give them a bunch of extra chances. Pathetic.
I have been posting periodically big inconsistencies in his ratings that are impossible to explain away with numbers. He seem to like OU and Wichita State, among others, and KU cannot catch a break.. His number are at odds with the majority of the other computerized ratings as well.
Is it too late to have Mr. Ben Heeny and a couple of other football players to walk on?
You don't like the built-in "Depend" holder? :) :) :)
Other than the "W" I just cannot imagine any coach liking that game. It was the sloppiest, worst played game I have seen in a long time. Huggy played 12 players and ended up with 28 fouls and it should have been 40. As @Kip_McSmithers mentioned, the refs were pretty inconsistent and allowed a game that would have given Jay Bilas a heart attack.
KU Athletics posted the pic on Facebook. Looks like they did not want those shirts to slip off the shorts...:)
The KSU-WVU game was painful to watch....Huggy said he loved it!
There were several other times in between 1988 and now. I just mentioned the recent time when they were not supposed to beat us (KU highly ranked, KSU not) and yet they did. BTW, KU is ranked #9 and KSU is not ranked...just sayin'...that's all.
Does this help?
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Interesting analysis by Ken Pomeroy. I found it puzzling that he uses the expression:
"That matches national perception a little bit better."
when tweaking his projections; however, he does not use this logic on his team rankings, many of which are way, way off the "national perception."
I also agree...
I have an issue with the story, for example the statistic about KU being the 54th team by height. This number is misleading and means absolutely nothing since it represents the average height of all players in the roster. Here is the current ranking ↗ of teams with the average height. If you click on the columns header it will sort by ascending order by that column and if you click again it will change it by descending order; you can do this with any of the columns. If you click on the school name it will bring the roster and you will see that it is the current roster with 5 FR and 1 Sr. By the way, of teams that list age, KU is the 3rd youngest which we already knew.
The height numbers have been rounded of to the nearest inch which means two teams with the same listed height are within 1" apart. Now look at the listed heights for KU, Texas and UK and they all both listed at...surprise, surprise...6'-5", which means they are within 1'" of each other...does any one in his/her right mind think KU, Texas and UK are about the same height? I certainly don't. Further, the only KU player under 6'-2" is Frank Mason at 5'-11" and the only two players over 6'-8" are Mickelson and Lucas, both listed at 6'-10" and neither of whom plays much; we also know that neither Ellis nor Traylor, both listed at 6'-8", are close to that height. KU is not a short team but it is most definitely not a tall team.
Even if we look at the 5 starting players the average height is completely irrelevant:
- Teams 1 - 7-0, 7,0, 6-5, 5-10, 5-10 ==> Avg: 6'-5"
- Team 2 - 6-8, 6-8, 6-5, 6-2, 6-2 ==> Avg: 6'-5"
- Team 3 - 6-5, 6-5, 6-5, 6-5, 6-5 ==> Avg. 6'-5"
- Team 4 - 6-8, 6-8, 6-7, 6-5, 5-11 ==> Avg. 6'-5.4"
- Team 5 - 7-0, 6-11, 6-10, 6-6, 6-6 ==> Avg 6'-9"
There is no question that the teams would have a very different makeup height wise; however their average height for the top 3 are exactly the same. BTW, the fourth team is KU and the fifth Kentucky. Just my opinion and I am sure I will be told I am wrong.
January 2006 - Unranked KSU snaps a 31 game losing streak to KU and comes back from 12 points down in Lawrence to beat the team that 2 years later won the NCAA.Title
January 2008 - #22 KSU beats #2 ranked KU to break a 24 year losing streak in Manhattan. KU would go on to win the NCAA Title.
February 2011 - Unranked KSU beats #1 ranked KU at Bramlage.
February 2014 - Unranked KSU beats #6 KU at Bramlage
This is what I meant by unranked KSU teams beating highly ranked KU teams (#2, #1, #6) when they were not expected. to win. They also won in Lawrence on several occasion in the not too distant past including in 1988 when KU went to win the NCAA Title , that year they were 2-1 against KU prior to the NCAA Tournament and the next season they also were 2-1. KSU has nothing to lose and every thing to gain against KU next Saturday and they can and will be dangerous. Just sayin'
KSU lost and so did Baylor
- Kansas 5-1
- West Virginia 5-2
- Iowa State 5-2
- Kansas St 5-3
- Oklahoma St 4-4
- Baylor 3-4
- Texas 3-4
- Oklahoma 3-4
- TCU 1-5
- Texas Tech 1-6
OSU, Baylor,Texas and OU are probably 1 game away from being completely out of contention.
The losers of Texas-Baylor and OU-OSU are probably done title-wise. If KU beat KSU on Saturday, then I would say there is 90% chance that the conference winner will come from KU, ISU and WVU since ISU and WVU play Texas Tech and TCU at home and will likely win. The winner of the Monday night game between KU and ISU will be the favorite to win the conference even when only OSU and KSU have played 8 games (half the schedule) and the rest only 7 except for KU and TCU with only 6. If KU sweeps the next 3 games and moves to 8-1, I just don't see any team catching up.
Svi's parent are very academically oriented and I will guess they would prefer that Svi stays in school one additional year while playing basketball rather than play pro euro ball which might not allow him to attend school and play. In any case, he will get considerably more playing time next year at KU which might prepare him better for the NBA than Ukrainian pro-ball would.
No need to apologize. As we get older we forget more, but on the other hand...
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. - Friedrich Nietzsche
and last but not least...
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. - Mark Twain
I respectfully disagree. I would call Oklahoma (on the road) and Baylor (both top 25 teams) and Oklahoma State (fringe top 25) top tier teams and they lost to ISU in Ames by just about the same margin KU did...wouldn't you agree?