@JayHawkFanToo They are a walking, talking agenda. An agenda on wheels. They are going to create a way to better control outcomes they want. It's who they are....it's what they do.
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I hate stories like this. no names, no evidence, just speculation.
@BeddieKU23 They look alot more athletic to me, and are the best defensive team Mark Few has had. Trier didn't play in the Az/Jags game, so that factors in, imo. I'm thinking Elite 8.
DOOK....DOOK....DOOK....
@jaybate-1.0 The attack on the Borg has the Bilderbergs in a tizzy. It's a world wide thing.
May he rest in peace. What a terrible tragedy.
@jaybate-1.0 I'm certainly a babe in the woods when it comes to the NBA, but I making myself learn. This week, Markieff went off for 50+ points on my team, I got one hell of a game out of Wigs last week, and I pick Embiid everytime he plays, even if he is limited to 28 minutes a game...lol. It's like being able to have my own personal KU team in the NBA...hehehe...
@jaybate-1.0Fantasy basketball kind of opened my eyes to the grind of an 82 game schedule, and what coaches do to keep their guys on the floor, and keep them motivated. I think at times Bill is resting his starters AS they are playing.The NBA does it all the time. The NBA will have a starter dominate a game for a quarter, and then do almost nothing the next. They are protecting the goods. There are times in every game where Frank and Devonte simply take plays off, sometimes numerous plays off in a row- then they swerve back in, Frank makes two plays in a row, Devonte hits the 3, and then they ease back the idle again. this allows them to accumulate minutes without wearing themselves down. I think the team looks fresher this year. We're protecting the goods.
In the first game, we have the Packers @ Atl. Atl is a 5.5 point favorite. I like the Falcons to dominate the game, easily throttling the Packers. The Packers have gaping holes in the secondary, so I look for Matty Ice to hit Julio and Gabriel on some long ones today.
Pitt @ NE. NE is a 6 point favorite. If there was any team that could beat the Pats, it would be Pitt. If they were healthy. But they're not. 15 Steelers have the flu. I have 2 scenarios I see playing out:
1-The Steelers shake off the flu. Ruthlessbooger has time, and picks NE's secondary apart, opening up running lanes for Leveon, and Pitt does just enough on defense to win a close one.
OR:
NE interferes with Ruthlessbooger's headsets remotely, the flu kicks the Steeler's butts, and Bellicose...errr, Bellichek does the NFL version of badball, and wins a close one.
Either way, I see Pitt covering the 6 point spread.
My player of the day is....
The entire ATL offense, from Julio to Freeman to Gabriel to Tevin Coleman.
My unsung heroes today:
I think Rodgers will have a hard time keeping up with the Atl offense w/o a 100% Jordy to stretch the defense, so I look for them to shorten the game with a goodly number of touches to Ty Montgomery with the potential to get some serious yards with a few tds.
NE always has an unsung hero that they try to hide from everyone, and then spring them on teams. i think Chris Hogan could be that guy. They have reported him as questionable on the injury report, so it's a perfect sneaky play from Bellicose.
@jaybate-1.0 i have recently been farting around with Draft Kings daily fantasy basketball, which means I have forced myself to immerse myself into the NBA. It is truly a maze of breakout/lay off for a game type play that bears out much of what you're talking about. Guys get jacked up for a game, and then take a siesta the next. The worst offending coach that practices this just happens to be Bill's BFF, Popovich. With Popovich, you never know who gets the minutes on a night by night basis for several of his players. Then he'll have a few games where he rests his starters for the night. All of them. other than Kawai Leonard, I won't choose a Spur. I also won't take a player facing the Spurs. The Spurs are fantasy bb killers.
@jaybate-1.0 Agreed. Maybe Doke should get some steel wrapped around the plaster of Paris. You never know when a rumble will break out.
This is from KUSPORTS concerning the game:
"And it came despite the Longhorns showing they came to create havoc before the game even began.
Twice during Saturday’s pre-game shoot-around, a feisty and fired-up Texas squad made moves to establish their presence. The first came when KU junior Devonte’ Graham missed a half-court practice shot before heading back to the locker room and saw a UT player step to nearly the same spot and drain one just seconds later.
The second came on the very last shot of warm-ups, when a 3-point attempt by KU junior Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (12 points, 2-of-4 from long range) was swatted out of mid-air by UT guard Kerwin Roach as it approached the rim.
The two gestures may not have inspired much more than a chuckle and a roll of the eyes from the players on the home bench, but it went down as the proverbial poking of the bear that the Longhorns paid for dearly during that 14-2 run by Kansas less than five minutes into the game.
“That’s all right. I knew I was gonna make that shot so it doesn’t matter that he did that,” Mykhailiuk joked. “We just came in focused, ready to play and played really good defense. That’s what got us to (14-2). That just shows when we turn up we can play really good defense and don’t let ’em score.”
Texas’ intimidation tactics did not subside once the game began. Midway through the first half, after Eric Davis Jr., drained a three to pull the Longhorns (7-12 overall, 1-6 Big 12) within seven with 9:30 to play, Davis started barking at KU freshman Josh Jackson, who briefly said something back and then turned to the official and pointed Davis’ way.
Later, after Jackson was fouled while posting up a smaller Texas player — something he did with great success throughout the day — an easy layup that did not count was poked back up through the net by a UT defender. Instead of letting the shenanigans fly, Jackson grabbed the ball and put it back in the basket.
Asked after the game if sensing that kind of challenge and intensity from an opponent brought out the fire in the Jayhawks, the KU freshman who finished with 15 points on 6-of-14 shooting lit up.
“Oh, definitely,” Jackson said. “It makes it more fun. It definitely does.... We’re all competitive. We all just want to go out there and compete.”
@DoubleDD Mitch handled himself well. That tip in was really nice. He was surrounded by Shorthorns.
@jaybate-1.0 Really good stuff. Where the hell is Vick? Vick needs more minutes.
@wissox Absolutely.
@globaljaybird lololol.....
I jinxed the grape apes by putting up an identical thread. My bad.
@jaybate-1.0 We played 20 minutes today. Maybe it was three dimensional chess, but that other 20 minutes that we took off, man oh man.
@HawkChamp 3 straight games against top 10 teams, two of which are on the road. I know we're better than what we've shown.
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I disagree. We normally get 8 to 10 points behind, then we decide to start playing.
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Sloppy? There has to be a word... an adjective that is 10 times worse than sloppy to describe what we do after we take the lead.
It looks like to me we don't take the game seriously at times. Maybe we're simply that good...maybe we're not. I guess we'll find out shortly.
@Crimsonorblue22 We'll always have our Bill Self critics, I guess.
@JayHawkFanToo Little known Jethro factoid: the last 4 national championship teams all started two point guards. Coinydink? I think not.
@jayballer54 6'7" 210.
@BeddieKU23 Williams is a monster. Geez, louise...
@BeddieKU23 said:
Duke’s Amile Jefferson has missed the past few games with a foot injury. I believe this is the same foot that has derailed a few of his seasons and is part of the reason he’s still playing at 37 years old.
LOLOLOL...PHOF.....
@BeddieKU23 They are corrupt- rotten to the core, imo.
BOOMER SOONER..BOOMER SOONER....I was reading a gum flapping moron talking about how the Hillbillies were going to run away with the Big 12 today- the timing couldn't have been better...hehehe...
@BShark That was the only juco player I could remember that even played for our team. not major at all.
@BShark Mario Little.
Clone land is gettin' ready to start squirting tears....
This team is waiting to take off....it just needs a challenge....
Lando with the left hand....WHAT?????
@Blown Good for you. That's pretty cool.
I know you won't see this anywhere within 100 miles of the NY Times, NBC News, ABC, CBS, or any other socialist accomplices in the media, but socialism is simply an advanced way of stealing wealth. Overthrow, and steal everything you can get your hands on.
http://nypost.com/2017/01/10/how-venezuelas-corrupt-socialists-are-looting-the-country-to-death/ ↗ ↗
And we're number 1 in the Coaches Poll....
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2017/01/16/kansas-no-1-mens-basketball-poll-duke/96634202/ ↗ ↗
I can live with playing badly, and being number 2...
@Texas-Hawk-10 6 teams at least. The Big 3, along with Texas Tech, the Grape Apes, and the Clones.
I agree with all the pessimism. The loss to Okla St was simply unacceptable. Woe is us.
@DCHawker The polls aren't seeding the tournament teams. They are meaningless in the big scope of things. To "merit" moving up in the poll, you simply win when the games, while the teams ahead of you lose. That's the rule they use, even though there are several team's resumes that might look better. It would be funny if we just kept winning ugly game after game, imo. Butt ugly w after w- it would drive people up a wall...lol.
I hope we're ranked number 1, and we continue to win ugly ... game after game. Wouldn't that be a hoot? The turbo charged badball reborn!
That's what he wrote. He did. On purpose....
http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/kansas-16-game-winning-streak-has-the-jayhawks-heading-to-no-1-in-the-polls/ ↗ ↗
I am not worried about this team. I don't want our best game to be against okie st. We'll know a lot more when we play the @ WVU @ Kensucky and home against Baylor trio. The visit to Clone Land will be a good one as well. Bill's teams always play ugly about this time of the year, then they have their breakthrough. He'll get them to play defense- he's going to scream at them until they do.
@Bwag I don't want our best game of the year to come against the worst team in the Big 12. if we play the same way against WVU, Kensucky, and Baylor, then I'll be more than willing to discuss what's "wrong'. Until then, I think you're simply fretting.
Why is this some big revelation when we look like crap and win????? Have we forgotten badball? this is badball on steroids....badball with offense included....
I don't think it's fatal. We're 16-1. We're KU- we've always won ugly.
@jaybate-1.0 But after the Weimar republic, that's when it gets vewwy interesting, doesn't it? Many think the Nazi Regime was a right wing group, but I could make a strong case they were left wing socialists with a God complex about their race, combined with a nationalist narcissism that allowed them to round up people and put them to death. The real interesting part is the occult element that influenced this group so profoundly.The swastika has been an occult symbol for centuries- it was selected due to it's occult origins.
When I hear recent stories about college professors discussing "white privlege", and "death to white people" , it reminds me of the sick and diabolical ideas that were floating around the beer halls back in 1928 in Munich and Berlin. Those sick and twisted ideas became the basis to rationalize murdering millions of innocent people. We have supposed "educators " drawing tax dollars calling for the genocide of white people. These are dangerous people- these are people who must be opposed, must be stopped from tearing our country apart.
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it, ah, out of sight
Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red
Now on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huh
Lies a body just oozin' life, eek
And someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?
There's a tugboat, huh, huh, down by the river don'tcha know
Where a cement bag's just a'drooppin' on down
Oh, that cement is for, just for the weight, dear
Five'll get ya ten old Macky's back in town
Now d'ja hear 'bout Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe
After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash
And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor
Could it be our boy's done somethin' rash?
Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, that line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
@Lulufulu I started Thomas several times on my Draft Kings teams, and he's a little bad ass. I love watching the calmer, more poised Frank Mason. Still wish he would pass the ball more, BUT 28 points w 5 dimes is strong as horseradish. Talk about a stupid call on my part- I remember floating the idea that maybe Francamp could start over Frank after the 2013 season. i mean...that was Skip Bayless stupid.