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JayHawkFanToo
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SEPARATION!!!
ELLISSSSS
Great D...Should have been two and one
SEPARATION!!!
We are not getting the over the back calls...ISU all over again?
Outside in, HEM having a conniption...
Yes, separation...
We need separation...
Ooops, Greene's knee...
Need Greene shooting...
Taylor 15 point is single handedly keeping Texas in the game
KU 9 fouls, Texas 4 fouls hmmm.
that is another on Selden
soft rim
Bigs tire quicker so we have the edge. Their bigs are already showing signs of being winded.
There had to be something we agree on... :) :) :)
I read that...hard to believe.
rough start but playing much better now. Need to start second half strong and get some separation; tough to win close games on the road.
e, i, e, i ohhhhh...:)
Texas getting impatient..
...and one...
Nice win for KSU over OSU...Kitties have spunk.
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Very poor start but playing better now. BG could be huge...
I am a very strong opponent of any kind of smoking be it cigarettes or weed. I have too lost friends to smoking and drugs and I see nothing positive coming from smoking. I understand that not everyone that smokes pot graduates to harder drugs but everybody that is on the harder drugs invariably started with pot.
I am very proud that even when I went to college in the 70's when pot use was rampant and there was a lot of peer pressure to smoke, I never did (or nay other drug) and now I can preach to my kids and grand kids with some authority on the subject of drug usage.
They had long segment on ESPN about it and indicated that if he has the surgery now, he can be ready in six month or the beginning of next season. I had arthroscopic surgery on both shoulders, left in 1987 and right 2 years ago and even when the second was considerably more severe, the recovery time was less than one half the time. FWIW, I have no first hand knowledge of rotator cuff surgery so I am simply repeating what sports commentators are saying.
ESPN is reporting that it is the same injury Patty Mills had and he recovered just fine, but then he is a lot younger than Kobe who is in his 19th season the NBA. He might recover enough to play out his contract which runs through next season and is worth $25M.
Sorry Lulu but Williams did not coach under Larry Brown either; he was an assistant to Dean Smith before coming to Kansas.
...so, you are advocating a OAD presidency? I am all for it...
Like you said, other than Durant, I cannot think of another player in the conference that dominated like Beasley did. He started with drugs during orientation, when he not only got caught but got Chalmers and Arthur in trouble as well. Players are now tested periodically for drugs and after a couple of positives they get suspended, so no, players no longer play high on weed, and the ones that are caught, get suspended and pretty soon no team will touch them like Beasley and Lamar Odom and others. Beasley had had stints in rehab and you don't really go to rehab for weed, you go there for the harder stuff.
Too bad, what a waste of God given talent.
Good one...:)
BO would buy drinks for the entire house and have the taxpayers pay for it...and the effort would tire him so much that he would feel the need to take yet another golfing vacation in Hawaii, at taxpayers expense, of course.
Technically North Carolina is a Jordan brand not a Nike, although the Jordan Brand is a subsidiary of Nike. The Jordan brand does not display the Nike swoosh but the Jordan jumpman instead.
It depends on how you define a coaching three.
Self payed for Paul Hansen's Oklahoma State Cowboys and his first coaching job was at KU under Larry Brown when he replaced Calipari, who moved to an assistant coaching position at Pittsburgh. He then went back to Oklahoma State under Leonard Hamilton, followed by Eddie Sutton. He never coached under Roy Williams so it would be a stretch to indicate that Williams was an influence. Like wise with Hank Iba. Sutton was an assistant coach under Iba for one seasons and then he went to develop his own style elsewhere and came back to Oklahoma State 30 years later or 20 years after Iba retired. Iba and Self were and are big fans of playing tough man-to-man defense and Iba favored slowing down the game; of course during his tenure the NCCA had no shot clock. Other than that, Sutton likely had more influence on Self than Iba. Much like Sutton, Self has developed his own system and it would hard to pinpoint if any one coach had a big influence. Just my opinion.
Kobe has a lot of miles under the hood. He started right out of HS and it is a tribute to him that he has lasted this long ans it is probably as good a time as any to retire. Having said that, if they offer him enough money, he will be back.
Our president will do what ever is expedient to be seen with popular people to enhance his own popularity, and no one in Kansas is more popular than the KU basketball team. My last post on the subject.
The question is...do players got UK because of Nike of because of Calipari? When the squid was ta Memphis he lifted a school that had been close to mid-major and made it into a powerhouse that played for the national title and after he left, it went back to anonymity.
If UK signs with. say, Under Armour, do you think top players would stop going to UK? How about if Calipari moves to a non-Nike school such as Indiana, or Nebraska or Notre Dame or Miami or UCLA. do you think that he would no longer get the recruits he does? I personally think that he would do about the same at UK under different sponsorship and he would continue to get top players at a other non-Nike schools.
The Pitino comments were also greatly exaggerated and only selected parts are oft quoted. Let's not forget that at the end of his statement he said:
"Pitino would like the NCAA to run summer camps so that rules are explained to recruits and coaches can watch all prospects. He blamed himself for not knowing enough about the current shoe company-AAU influence, but said it has made him wiser about how he recruits."
"As long as you do your homework, you're fine," Pitino said. "I didn't do my homework. ... We have to make sure we know that it doesn't matter to the kids; and those kids we want to go after."
Like drug dealers, Calipari knows what kids want and makes sure he provides them with just that. Can't really blame Calipari for staying in front of the trend and doing his homework, right?
Comcast has an agreement with Time Warner and they carry Metro sports, so you can watch it directly. I have Consolidated Communications (formerly SureWest) and they are now in several states, including Pennsylvania and California, and I have tried everything I know and I am unable to get pass the ISP filter. To get in, I would have to spoof the IP and have someone else's ID and password with different provider.
Selden has plenty of pop but his timing is off. Did you see the block from behind he had against OSU? He had some serious elevation...
Here is a couple of others...
Please be careful. KU fans were forcibly removed from the Mizzou Arena in the past for displaying a sign. The case ended up as a question in a MU Law School Exam; you can scroll down this link ↗ and look at the details. Amazingly but not surprisingly enough, the Chief of Police was cleared of all wrong doing.
That was an exaggeration, Coach Self did not break the LCD screen. the pounding simply made a small bottle siting on top of the table fall down. Those LCD screens have a super hard cover on them that will survive players crashing at full speed, a fist pounding by Coach Self is nothing.
Hoiberg is not going to the NBA, he has a heart condition that forced him to move to college.
Many times, how much talent a teams has or how well they play is not as important as the match up. ISU's personnel and style of play is a bad match up for KU. While they don't have very tall players, they don't have very short players either and the are all realtively tall, athletic and can hit from outside, something KU always seems to have a problem with.
...and Ivan Drago his cousin?
I cannot stand Mussburger and why he is still on TV? He contributes next to nothing to the broadcast...at least he did not refer to Holly Rowe as "smoking hot" so we should count ourselves lucky.
Holy Rowe absolutely jinxed KU with her comment about OU's comebacks last season; Coach Self was not happy.
Also, I noticed that, unlike the previous ESPN broadcast, they did not turn down the crowd noise and you could tell AFH was loud...real loud and the announcers were at times hard to hear. :)
IMHO, the players that pound their chests are the ones that don't have a lot of big plays and half of the time they get beaten on the next play...while they pound their chests.
OTOH, I don't mind if women want to "protrude" their chests...of course, some more so than others... :) :) :)
I was particularly upset with the refs at the ISU game not calling the over the back fouls. KU player worked hard to get in position only to have an ISU player go over the back and get a foul called on the KU player. In one possession there were 3 over the back fouls by ISU that were not called; The big dunk by McKay should have been a charge and instead he got not only the points but a free throw to boot.
In any given day, any of the top 8 teams in the conference can beat any other team, home or away, so, defending the home court advantage is critical since any road game can be a defeat..
After watching the Texas-WVU game, I feel better about playing WVU; once Texas figured out how to beat the full court press, they usually ended up with easy baskets inside. West Virginia reminds me of the UAB team of 2004. coached by Mike Anderson, that beat top seed Kentucky using the 40 minutes of hell strategy that Kentucky was not ready for and could not overcome. In the next game KU with Aaron Miles at PG easily beat the press and KU ended up with easy baskets; Simien ended up with 30 points and KU won 100 -74. This year I feel very confident that with Mason and Graham at the PG, KU should have no problem beating the press and scoring easily, much like Texas did.
As far as the next 5 away games, I would placed them in this order:
Texas
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Oklahoma State
Kansas State
We should not dismiss KSU, they have been underestimated and have been sneaking on teams; their win at OU was impressive.
Win 3 out of this 5 plus TTU and TCU and hold at home and KU (15-3) most likely wins the conference title; 2 out of 3 (14-4) and either wins or shares the title. any more loses beyond that and the chances become smaller but not unrealistic.
Oh yes, the drive with the behind the back dribble followed by the no look feed for the dunk...awesome baby!!!
There is an expression that goes...the worst day fishing is better than the best day at the office. I firmly believe that the worst defensive game for Selden is better than the best defensive game for Greene,
I have stated before that Green is perhaps the best pure 3 -point shooter we have seen in at KU in a long time, even better than McLemore. However, Green is also the most one-dimensional player we have seen in while, He has the size and physical attributes to be a top player but he does not have the quickness, reflexes or court savvy in defense to be a contributor and he is instead a liability, and it is not because he is not trying, I truly believes that he tries hard but so far the progress has been slow.
Greene know that his defense is weak. This is from the after the game press conference last night:
On Brannen Greene's mentality after only playing 8 minutes the previous two games:
"I was fine. I knew what I needed to do; I needed to improve on the defensive end. I'm still working to do that. I'm not a great defensive player but it's all about improving and that's what I'm trying to do."
As we all know, Coach Self's system starts with defense and as long as Greene cannot become at least an average defender, he will remain in the "designated shooter" role.