@truehawk93 seriously dude?
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Go get your lobster Frank!
No wheat left for ya dude
Oh my god was that a shot put Landen?
click click
Alright LL Cool Jay.
Oh Carlton
GET LOST WV!
Break their backs
@Texas-Hawk-10 haha thinking the same thing.
You can't spell Bill Self without #BILL !
I'm scared to abandon the pressure that got us back in this.
Wow.
@ParisHawk yeah you have a point. I thought the same thing but wondered if the value of the tags would make it more acceptable as we acclimate to it. Imagine we want to look up all the live game threads, or find a posting about Frank... I agree it's busy though. Maybe we can cut the tags down shorter and limit to three at most on a post. If that's still too busy then I think we should can it.
I'm going to predict a tight win, and these things to happen:
- Frank to feel a little better and shoot a little better % than 4 for 13. I still think if he can help it, Self might limit Frank's minutes. This has been a long season for him, and while Frank is a Wooden candidate, I think pushing him when he's not well is not worth putting up another 20 point game tomorrow.
- Devonte to shoot more than 8 shots, and make more than 2.
- JJ to regress a bit, on all fronts.
- Landen to get a few more rebounds than 5.
- Carlton to have a big game. Thought he looked good again last game, got a couple crappy calls go against him, and got the "you did some stupid stuff recently so yoink" quick hook by Self. I think Self is going to look for a big game from him sooner or later, and why not tomorrow?
I'll also predict that Baylor and West Virginia both pick up at least one more loss, be it from us or someone else.
Just saw that someone put BIFM on urban dictionary lol.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BIFM ↗
Stoneface Mase!
@Crimsonorblue22 I was thinking we should go the Jason Kidd route. Level him intentionally and get him slapped with a T.
So I think it's working. Check this out:
@kjayhawks its true. they got a wide open look from 3.
rewatching it, it looked like Landen destroyed someone, took him to the ground in the first half, no call. If nothing else, the whistles seemed to get much tighter in the second half. I mean other than when Gray "fell down" :smile:
@wissox alright. thats better.
@wissox ah yeah, I have to delete those. good call.
@wissox So I think they help boost our search rankings, I want to see if this is true. and also, you can search by them on this site, so we can find old postings on a particular topic (click on a tag)
Just FYI. If a posting is edited by me, I'm not editing content (unless its "say hello to your mother for me" variety). I'm just adding tags.
Man. Turned that kid into jello. Rewatching the first half now. Svi had some big 3s and Carlton caught some crap fouls but looked pretty focused first half. i was wondering how those two guys did.
@Crimsonorblue22 The 76ers have little to play for without Embiid, and they won't risk his health to claw back into the playoff race. Looking forward to next year and hope they play it safe.
@wissox very happy for your guys that Greg Gard has taken the program by the horns and made the handoff by Bo to him seem like a no brainer in retrospect. Gotta love continuity.
Fear the Beard. This ain't Grampa Smith's Red Raiders.
Alright. Here we go. Who has faith?
@Hawk8086 DG agrees with you.
Dude put the pall down got up and picked the ball back up. That's a self pass.
Holy CRAP where is the foul on Landen
Ah crap
Good job Josh
Didn't rush them.
Here we Go.
@BeddieKU23 he's shading too much to take away the right. Guys blowing by him with the left.
Carlton doing OK?
Just got done with sons basketball. How we looking?
Josh's stats are eye popping. If his %s were up we'd be talking about how Frank should be this year's runner up to POY. Also, Svi with the treys. Did not realize he had canned that many.
@jayballer54 you're right about that... Better talking about surfing and the fruit he likes on his waffles than talking about Duke, but still...
@jayballer54 I've always assumed that he's more well received by a left coast viewership. Would be interested to see if tangential stories are more common in conversation out there.
It does seem like he's frequently badmouthing Kansas in other Big 12 games, without the small amount of restraint he displays during KU games. I wonder if he realizes KU faithful are always watching.
@drgnslayr half full. We can beat anyone on any night. And thats all about the backcourt being able to...
A. knock down important threes
B. hit FTs (Devonte and Frank are fine in this department)
C. break pressure
D. perform in the clutch
E. play lock down D in important moments.
Mix in a slasher Mr Fixit in Josh that can rebound, hit a few threes make smart passes, D up anyone, jump passing lanes, and read defenses.
Mix in a veteran Landen seemingly healthy and rebounding well, and making big buckets against future NBA players, and a refocused Carlton for a legit front-court. I feel as good about what I saw from Carlton last game (finally!) as what I saw in the promise of Udoka. He could be a monster the rest of the way.
There has been a step forward offensively for Svi, and a step back defensively for both Svi and Vick. Vick is probably deepest in the doghouse on the court atm. But these guys are complimentary, they don't damper my optimism, though they could definitely enhance it.
The most important thing now is health.
@dylans Michael Jordan, the 90's and being a kid are all inseparable in my mind. I agree, it was easy to idolize Jordan, he was charismatic and amazing, and it was great not having to think about endorsements or politics watching him work.
@BeddieKU23 you're right, 75 million loss for a Texans-Raiders game is obscene. Whats the point?
Agree that making cable tv pony up to offset viewer attrition is stupid.
Furthermore, running ads for horror movies in the middle of a day game sends a message to parents of little children that they don't give a damn about your kids, as long as the ad money is flowing.
@wissox good points, all. I vaguely remember having WGN with my basic cable growing up in the 90s in DC. Weren't the White Sox on there as well as the Cubs? I remember thinking it was cool having WGN and having braves on TBS as strange alternatives to the Orioles. I don't remember watching Boston or NY games in DC back then. What was up with that? Were the Cubs and or White Sox in any way trying to go national back then or just happenstance that we had WGN? I know Ted Turner wanted the Braves to be America's Team.
You know, I didn't dig into the Mark Cuban story too much earlier this year, when he banned two reporters. From what I gather, he didn't have a problem with the reporters, rather the opposite. He did it to protest increased automated coverage of his team. I wonder along those lines, if ESPN, facing rising production costs, having to shell out for massive contracts, and having thin profit margins, might do away with their own content entirely, or outsource it regionally, allowing for voice overs on their video by whomever wants to pay a small fee, while still retaining all advertising revenue, and see if someone else can do their job for them, while they focus entirely on infrastructure and retaining the big contracts, something we can all agree they are good at.
Also, I wonder if they will just start inventing their own sports and tournaments and locking in contracts with sports before they are big, then growing them with coverage. (Ex ESports)
@tundrahok if viewership is declining with their current formula, something systemically has to change with the way they cover sports. I was suggesting that they might consider that improved regional coverage could draw people back. Sometimes operating in an egalitarian manner can also be in one's self interest.
I have an alternate premise (not mutually exclusive)... This was from a Duke forum in a thread entitled "Why I hate ESPN"
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I believe that ESPN respects viewership ratings and money. As long as people are going to tune in to watch Duke play (even if they are hoping to see us lose), ESPN will continue to show our games. Lots of haters think ESPN loves Duke because they show our games. It's the ratings they love not Duke basketball. How the broadcast is edited and what the announcers say will paint the real picture....they don't like us (hello Len Elmore). At the same time, as others have mentioned, I'll take the passive aggressive shots against us in trade for being able to see all our games on TV.
Nothing new, but maybe part of the problem is that by nationalizing coverage of regional sports, a company with a monopoly on sports has shifted it's primary audience from the fan to the hater. Recognizing that the majority of the country will hate Grayson Allen, they pump out a brand of faux regional homerism to a national market knowing that it will receive the polar opposite reaction.
Maybe this wasn't their original intention, it just morphed into this from east coast regional coverage roots? Maybe their dependency on hate is something they can't cut, despite an awareness of it being a problem, like advertising. Maybe they never investing in enough local writing talent for each team, having spent the majority of their money on coverage contracts, equipment, infrastructure, and consolidated staff that loosely resemble regional biases but usually only really appreciate specific teams (as most people are prone to do. Ex Fran <3 Oklahoma, so he's the big 12 guy). Is there a path out of the darkness for ESPN?
Also, this intersects with ESPN as they struggle to find an identity that resonates with people in a larger context than just sports. Unfortunately their dependence on advertising revenue drives story lines too. Can athletes speaking out against corporate America sell shoes, jerseys, Sprite, Gatorade, etc? By proxy through their spokes-people, can these companies go the Altria (Phillip Morris) route and create the equivalent of the Massey Cancer center and publicly support smoking cessation while continuing to peddle their superfluous products?