All the money must be coming in on Tucky and KU, as the lines have went to tucky - 2, and we're favored by up to 6 1/2. It's interesting that yesterday Dook was a 1 point favorite, so that's a 3 point move in that game to Tucky. BBD ( Big Blue Dumbasses ) must be betting xmas money.
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... of these stupid, ridiculous political commercials. I live in Florida, so I get the worst of the worst. The only blue wave I see is when I flush the toilet. The only red wave I see is if I drop a can of red paint. Shame on both of you. The loser in this insanity is America.
From Beaty to Les Miles ...what a difference. That's like going from Roseanne to Sofia Vergara.
God bless him and his family.
We're favored by 5 1/2. Tucky is favored by 1 over dook.
Ok, I have to say this one more time.... Beaty FIRED...
@BShark Translation: this will allow us to cook the books with a new system we can manipulate.
@mayjay LOL. Speaking of that, here's a really nice stretch that is real easy to do, and feels amazing:
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I goggled one time, and threw my neck out of place.
@JayHawkFanToo lolol...
@HighEliteMajor He is a major work in progress, and his best might be pretty mediocre. He's too slow to play the 3, and he's too skinny to play down low. A little like Perry ...a misfit toy. Stretch 4 in a 4 out attack. We've got a year to make him into a player. If he could work on his 3 point shot, then he'll probably have a spot at the 4.
@BShark Kevin Young.
You left out the 4th certainty in life- we kick your team's ass every year. We always enjoy whiners coming to share their tears...
@jayhawkcsg I'm kind of glad KJ isn't hitting on all cylinders. I want Vick to be entrenched at the 3. We'll need KJ next year- this year he can get acclimated.
@mayjay It's actually a very cheap imitation pawned off as real. They sold the fake stuff cheap as dirt, and put a whole bunch of genuine honey producers out of business.
He doesn't have to be effective until next year. He'll learn...
@Kcmatt7 yes, they "held their own", and lost by 18.
@Woodrow There ya go. He wouldn't sniff the 3 with us. You would think him watching Dedric go crazy, and Svi last year that playing the 4 was not a big deal. Oh well...good luck to JRE trying to play the 3.
KU 76 MSU 73.
@BShark Amen, brother. i think we'll see a much better effort from KJ the next time out...if he gets minutes. He's a 4 hiding out on the 3 line. As for Marcus, i think he'll end up doing the Dotson, and making his noise on drives to the basket. The biggest event last night was watching Dedric completely take over the game, and impose his will on them. The dude is a closer. I thought Charlie looked pretty good - with Vick, Charlie, and Dedric, we have a pretty formidable perimeter attack from 3. Of course, as Grimes gets his sea legs, he will be a force from 3 at some point in the season. My takeaway....the 4 out is not dead, and will be a mainstay in our attack. The feeds to Doke serve to give us easy baskets down low, and spreads out our shooters for 3 pointers. If we can get Doke to learn how to pass out of double teams better, we're going to be very hard to guard.
Self SMACKS Keegan...LMAO...
We watched the same 5 commercials about 30 times.
Look at all these weird fans behind the announcers.
@Gorilla72 I don't think we're too hard on them. We were hard on KJ, but he sucked. Just want to see some growth.
I think we'll play a whole bunch of experience against Sparty.
KJ's hair do is throwing him off balance. That's too much hair to hold up...
Now we look better...
@jayballer73 I think we'll show better against Sparty. So far, this looks more like 2013 than 2017.
@DanR Old man ball. His game is a testament to those of us that watched the NBA in the 80s and 90s.
@BShark He won't be mistaken for Dedric. This team is going to take time. We could have as many losses this year as we had last year. We have alot of guys not sure what to do next. There's going to be some learning curves, I'm afraid.
We look like crap so far.
@BShark he's not a point guard. he's got alot of tyshawn in him.
@BShark welp.
now we're behind...
@Woodrow The interest rate increases from the FED are wiping out the markets. The market correction hasn't even started yet. When that hits, it could be catastrophic.
Hey man...we got some basketball coming up. In the nearly famous words of Juan Ibarra...." Mr. Comer, are you eggg-cited?"
@Kcmatt7 This is put option heaven. What goes up must come down.
Maybe not getting a 4 means we'll have to go back to the 4 out. That's ok with me...
@BeddieKU23 GREAT resources...lol.
@BShark Translation: " I have doubts about my abilities, and I am afraid they will over recruit me, so I better play it safe, and go with the inferior, safer offer."
This is an instant "Hall of Fame" classic:
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article220812270.html ↗ ↗
@BShark when Bill said he was going change the lineups, I wonder if Garrett gets a start a pg, or if KJ starts at the 3.
@JayHawkFanToo Zion is in the clear. He's with Dook and Nike, and laws and rules don't apply.
@mayjay You're falling for the rhetoric. They are trying to justify the onslaught of violence they will wreak across Brazil to battle such a "monster". They need cover to justify all the terrible acts they plan on committing against the "tyrant". Once they begin the terror, the "tyrant" will strike back with some pretty crummy solutions. This is all planned, all choreographed, and the same actors running Brazil are running the same game in the US. This is all a scam...Trump and Bolo are in on it, too. Their job is to piss off the left, which causes them to react, which causes the right to react. Trump will be president when they crash the stock market. When that happens, it will be easy to start the civil war. I have no doubt civil war is the goal. And there will be civil war all across the world, as the formula is repeated again and again. This is " Death Of A Nation State" 101.
I think OU should be the poster child for "scarred by the OAD". Perfect example : Lon recruits 5 guys, and they all stick around for years, and a guy named Buddy Hield becomes a star. OU gets a 1 seed in the tournament with these 5 guys that had played together for years, and they make their first Final Four since Danny and the Miracles. They get destroyed by another experience laden teams, Nova...but at least they made it. Then the team falls off next year, and they rush to stick a band-aid on it by bringing in Trae Young...OAD extraordinare and certified team destroyer. The smoke clears...Trae is gone for the $$$, and 2 starters end up transferring. And now, they're picked last in conference. They're dog meat.
@BShark That's not the same topic. You assume they are all on the take, and you could be right. Recruiting OADs that have clouds over their heads, and whispers of wrong doing surrounding them versus taking someone who is still talented but needs a few years is a no brainer, imo. Weren't there murmers around Cliff, Diallo, Silvio and Preston before they were signed? Weren't all 4 of these guys not our first choice, and we lost out on someone good, so we settled for them? I think we're borrowing trouble...why not go for the guy that will be around to help the program for years, which become our most valuable players to the team? Both UNC and Nova had rosters chocked full of experience, and they have dominated the Final Four for the past 4 years. Neither one of them had a top 5, or maybe even a top 10 recruit during that time. All that talent that Dook and Tucky are stacking up and turning over every year isn't beating the teams with the lower ranked recruits that have experience.
The FBI involved with improper benefits. Makes zero sense. Did they just not have anything else to do, and figure "what the heck, we'll chase around NCAA rules violators"? Setting aside the question on whether their presence was legal, the idea of our FBI chasing around college coaches, tapping their phone lines, using thousands of government dollars to find out players are getting paid under the table.
Not Nike players, of course.
The biggest non-story in the history of the sport is KT discussing Zion's price. You will never hear a peep from the NCAA, ESPN, or anyone about Zion's price. Dook won't be asked ... neither will the Rat. The way the media is attacking this story is they focusing on Silvio, and aren't even mentioning Zion's price. That way, they still disparage KU without bringing up the most potential damaging revelation. The last thing the NCAA wants is to entangle both KU and Dook, so I imagine the worst case is Silvio won't play. To me, this is our get out of jail free card. This is our chance to make better recruiting decisions that don't leave us with players so checkered, we don't even know if they'll clear. Nobody wanted Preston, but we took him. Diallo had his issues. Cliff ? We're bringing misery onto ourselves needlessly, imo.
Roy and I have had our differences over the years. The fact he has won 3 national championships doesn't help. Roy is the best recruiter in the history of college basketball, not because he gets the "very best" recruits....he doesn't. In fact, there are years where he gets noone in the Top 10. Yet, he's been to the Final Four twice in the past 4 years, and he's racking up national titles. In the last 3 years, they've had 1 OAD. So, he's gets good guys, develops them, then they go to the NBA. He's looking for longevity, so he recruits guys that want to play college basketball. And we chase these questionable OADs, when we could've tied that schollie to a less talented player who is going to be around for years to help us. Who was more valuable to our program - Wigs or Devonte? Travis Releford or Josh Selby? Frank or JJ? So, we spend our time chasing talent with an expiration date, while UNC is cleaning up on recruits a little lower on the top prospect list, but are sticking around their program for multi years. Academic scandal aside, I prefer their recruiting method over ours. I'm hoping we will get back to signing the Marcus Garretts, the Big Daves, guys like that exclusively. As much as Dedric is going to help us this year, he won't be here next year. Same with Grimes. That's why I get more excited about the Brauns, the Ochais, the McBrydes than the big names. The national championship game was filled with experienced KU players in 2008, again in 2012, and the Final Four last year. Because Nova was able to keep their players from their first national championship in 2016, they were able to cut down the nets again last year ( although they lost a ton this year. ) It's really the true recipe for sustained elite success.
As long as we are with Adidas, we will have a target on our backs.