Disgusted by the commercialism around the Naismith award. Have to jump through hoops online to watch the ceremony. Something about citizen watches... Nothing to do with who is the best college player.
That would be Frank Mason. This award means nothing. If they get it wrong, then they're idiots or sellouts. If they get it right, I don't care.
All done for the night. Thanks guys.
no message.
Powering down the board in a few min to take a backup
@HawkChamp Wellp. I was going to dog Bell for not boxing out twice, but his box score was pretty good. 13 pts off 5-7, 16 rebs, 1 steal, 4 blocks. Can't say he cost them the game, although I'd like to.
Roy: "This is the hard part. Class is easy."
Duck is served.
Make em hit the Oregon Trail!
@truehawk93 Goes both ways. They lost a footer didn't they?
@Lulufulu I wonder if our irrational dislike of west coast teams (I have it too) is projecting our feelings toward east coast teams on the west coast. I might be thinking, subconsciously "well, I don't like the east coast bias, but at least they have been validated by winning championships, even if the means by which they have won have been sordid. Any west coast hype, on the other hand, is completely invalid. Because they have had highly ranked teams but have flamed out since Bill Walton, with the exception of a Lute Olsen Arizona team. Let's not validate them with post-season success now."
Besides that, I felt that Few has given up prematurely in tournament games in years past. I hope that does not occur in the final.
I'm prepared to brainwash myself into thinking that I want Gonzaga to score more points than the other guy now.
@Bwag That would be the silver lining. But no, I don't like Oregon. At all.
@Bwag Yeah, I appreciated that they fought, but Gonzaga shooting 47% from 3 was the slight difference.
Bah... Gonzaga advances. Wellp. Let's go Mark Few and Co. Beat whomever in the Final!
@Crimsonorblue22 Can't score from the outside either :smile:
Wellp, here's the ballgame, down 3 with 12 seconds to go, Gamecocks have ball.
@Crimsonorblue22 still hanging in, down by 3, 2 minutes to go, got ball....
@bskeet Let's also cut Devonte some slack next year, assuming he stays. While he'll be a senior, Frank made a tremendous leap from junior to senior year; those are big shoes to fill, and we can't expect Devonte to just slide into doing what Frank did (POY caliber). I'd be ecstatic if he does, but don't expect it.
@approxinfinity Zags answer with 7-0 run, now up 5.
Let's go. Come on Gamecocks!
All tied up! 14-0 run for South Carolina!
Here come the Gamecocks! 8:47 to go, cut the lead to 4. Offensive foul Gonzaga! Higgins making the call.
@bskeet Plus Dean Smith, Adolph Rupp, Dutch Lonborg, and Ralph Miller all played for Phog Allen at Kansas and are HOF coaches.
@ZIG So yeah, I should tell you guys. The reasons for the upgrade are:
I hope to get prepared for the upgrade tonight and then whenever Julian is ready, he'll upgrade us.
Please note! There is the possibililty for a bit of downtime / miminal data loss. Hopefully very minimal, like... an hour. We shall see. I'll try to give a bit of heads up before upgrading (figure out the time we're going to do it), but if for some reason we're unstable at a time you're online, I apologize in advance and hope to keep it as minimal as possible.
@jayballer54 100% with you. Want the Gamecocks to Cinderella their way all the way. Gonzaga a distance second. Don't want UNC to win re: Easygate (thanks for rekindling my feelings on that one @jaybate-1.0 ) and absolutely 100% do not want Dana Altman and his players to win.
The order of whom I think is going to win is the complete inverse of who I want to win.
@REHawk You're not old man. You figured out how to be a meaningful member on an online community. That makes you not old! We've hit the target and we're set for a while I think, but if you'd like to contribute at this point I'd put it in the coffer and save it until we need it. If you'd like to contribute via paypal, it should be pretty straightforward. I just went and looked and what you'd have to do is tap the "pay or send money button" on front page and then put in my email address and the amount you want to send and probably a send button. If you want to hold off until next time, that's cool too!
@Red.Rooster Oh man. 42 years! We're at 9 and counting. 9 is short for a marriage but long for an NCAA title eh? :smile: And thank you for all the support my man. You're a good soul.
@ZIG Thanks Zig!
@mayjay lol. you the man! Thanks for doing that!
I verified I got $20 bucks on paypal (thanks @BShark !) so thats $560 total now. Didn't just meet the goal of $450, we smashed it, so assuming all goes well with migration that should be 5 extra months of server cost. That makes it easy to just run the board I love without worrying about cost, and keeping it ad-free and up-to-date! So sweet.
Wow! We made it already! Thanks so much everyone! You guys crushed it. I will reach out to Julian and let him know we want to move forward with the upgrade and will keep you guys looped in on when that will be and can't wait to try out the new features once that's done. Exciting! Wow.
@wissox DUDE! Hope you got a comfy couch!
@madmaxKU Right on man. You make me think back to the middle of the season where I wondered if the perimeter could carry this team. Even though we fell short of the F4, the perimeter achieved remarkable things this year. Can you imagine this perimeter with Sasha, Darnell, Darrell and Cole?
Of course, that would never have happened because we would have ran high low and Self wouldn't have evolved, and the perimeter players along with him. But imagine the future with guys like these! With the cupboards full on the block as well as on the perimeter will Self blend his guard oriented offense with high low and terrorize the NCAA? I can't wait to find out.
@dylans Yeah!! This is fantastic!
Thanks so much to all that pledged so far! I'm blown away by your generosity and this is proof that this board is truly all of ours. We all make it great!
I've received $20 in paypal thus far :star:. Any additional amounts over our goal that I collect on paypal I'll save for additional months of the board and state on here where we end up.
:star: = It's been so long since I've used paypal I don't remember my password. To reset my password I need my cell phone to receive a text. My cell phone died this week and my old cell phone's SIM card is dead. Heading to Verizon store in a moment to get the old SIM fixed. When modern cyber security goes wrong it feels like that "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" song! Long story short, I only saw one email for paypal donation; so I believe we're at $20 at the moment, but will log in and verify shortly.
@Blown good point. OK, I moved it to basketball news. Several people have expressed the same thing so even though it's not basketball news, I guess it makes sense to move it there.
I'm aiming for a years cost plus the cost to upgrade to latest version of the board. Check out the go fund me campaign for the details.
@mayjay Either way works great man! Whatever is easier for you.
If anyone does prefer donating via PayPal my accnt is my name here at Gmail.com (move along bots, nothing to see here)
@wissoxfan83 haha, thanks bud.
Oh well sh--. This is my first funding rodeo. So you guys prefer I shut this down and go the PayPal route?
@Red.Rooster Thank you man! :+1: :100:
Hey guys.
Now that the basketball season is over, I've put together a KU Buckets Go Fund Me campaign for this coming year. This campaign covers only costs. I reached out to Julian Lam from nodebb, and he told me that he expects the upgrade for the board won't take him too long, and that the cost should be $150. I've added that cost in, as I've wanted to upgrade the board for a long time, but was unable to do so myself due to errors I was hitting in the upgrade path.
https://www.gofundme.com/ku-buckets ↗
Please only contribute what you can and feel inclined to do! No pressure here.
Thanks for a great year on the board. I've really enjoyed all your company through another season of KU basketball.
Wellp. 2/4 west coast teams and Jay Bilas tootin the west coast horn : http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/19034333/jay-bilas-gives-some-advice-need-know-gonzaga-oregon ↗
Certainly, it would be big money if West Coast U's were good at basketball, would it not?
@jayballer54 hear hear! :beers: we're the anti-Fakebook.
@BeddieKU23 yesssssss
Right on man. Have I told you that your writing has noticeably improved a lot? more often than not you're making really compelling arguments that I can get behind. Enjoying what you're laying down. Keep it up!
@BeddieKU23 Thanks for shedding light on his backstory. His postgame interview really annoyed me; I've been trying not to say he's a selfish idiot and be dismissive of him even though that's how I felt at the time. People are always more complicated than packages -- can't slap a label on them and send them on their way.
On LaGerald's 360 dunk the other day, I thought of how he has the capacity to make both fans and foes alike uneasy. He's got an edge. A chip. He's out for blood. He's a shark. A killer. He wants to win by making you lose. Badly. Its everything. On a good day he will destroy someone. Break them down. I contest that he is exactly what we need.
Look at Oregon's Bell. Damn if he wasn't effective. What @KansasComet pointed out was spot on. Altman whipped up a hate for Kansas and his players were under it's spell. For 40 minutes I don't think Bell had a single thought other than that he was on a mission to destroy us. He did just that. In his post-game he couldn't put much of a sentence together. It was like he was in another place.
I believe LaGerald is significantly smarter than Bell, and he does not need a complete duck of a coach to get him all pissed off. He comes out of the gate with that edge. I think that edge could be razor sharp and something we need. Josh had his creativity. Devonte had his swag. But only Frank of our big 3 didn't lose his edge once we got punched in the face. Frank has the edge. He came to Kansas with it. He's refined it. He's a complete human being, can call that intensity and rein it in. But the edge is all important to basketball. I will win and you will lose and you cannot stop me and I will stop you.
That is not for the feint of heart who do not like competition. One can be a gentleman off the court. But on, until the fate of the game is sealed, I want the guy who will never give an inch to the opponent. That is only bound by the rules of the game.
And then there is Greyson Allen. Someone who is not bound by the rules of the game. And I would argue that he did not find salvation in basketball. The rules are not a holy code for him. They are an inconvenience. He would just as well stab you in the back with a knife. Take the ball from you as you lay dying and shoot it.
The rules are holy because it is within the rules that we have a standard means of assessing who has won. If the rules are bent then it invalidates whether I have beaten you. And as an executioner, I want it known by me you and whomever happens to be watching that I will break you on fair terms.
I believe LaGerald has the edge and we need it. I want more ballers with the edge. Guys who want the taste of iron in their mouth. And I hope more of these guys coming in have it too.
@globaljaybird nah man timestamp on rymans post is 3 years ago. What's interesting is that when you Google fire bill self that thread is still near the top. To me that means no legit news or even many message boards are calling for Bill's head. All is more or less right in the Jayhawk universe.
@Crimsonorblue22 ah yeah, i didn't remember his stance on Self, just thought the future dated question was interesting.
Lol @JRyman for his prognostication. All of your guesses as to why might be valid, though I do recall a few mentions of having him until then at least due to Tyler.
Welcome aboard @FarNrthJHwk. I'm glad this random message in a bottle washed your way.
@wissox lol. if you're reading this, mrs wissox, thanks for being a good sport.
@approxinfinity oooooo b--chi'm bi--chi'm Frank Martin! lol