Sigh... I still haven't gotten over that major spanking UK just gave us. It's not that we lost, I know that losing is part of the game, and that UK is just silly good this year. It's just all their new McD kids made our new McD kids look they should have stayed in high school for another year.
It took awhile, but I got over the Stanford loss over the summer, and my fears that we still didn't have a superior PG and/or a replacement 7footer and/or 3pt deadeye. But I read all the glowing reports on these boards and slowly got psyched again at the start of the season... such a plethora of new talent coming in.
But outside of Alexander, I've been pretty underwhelmed so far. Pretty hopeful for Svi -he seems to have the goods and just needs the shots to start falling in. Ellis is solid and gets his points, but seems to fold a bit when the going gets tough. A number of others show me flashes while some others make me wonder how they are still getting playing time.
Somebody posted the question about just how many quality wins do we have in the last few years outside of our conference besides Duke last year. Not many I'm afraid. And those early exits from the big dance smart and let these little doubts creep in.
Yes, I love winning the Conference tourneys every year, it's amazing how much we dominate our pretty good conference. And yes I love how much we win all the friggin time year in and year out, and gotta like our Big Dance '08 win. And yes, got lots of love for our coach and our tradition too.
So as I sit here still stuffed from Thanksgiving, I need to remind myself I have lots to be thankful as a diehard KU fan.
It's just... well sometimes I feel like if we were really as good as I think we are, we'd go a little further in the Dance each year, and we'd scratch a few more quality wins against non-big 12 teams during the season. I know greedy right?
Well, a nice win on Sunday vs Michigan State would really help continue that warm fuzzy thanksgiving feeling this year.
Oh and Santa, you could continue that warm fuzzy feeling with Oubre catching on fire and Greene shooting lights out from the three for the rest of the season...