Eh. I dont think he is trolling too hard but i appreciate @Texas-Hawk-10 explaining the perspective of why @kuballin10 is grating on him at present. People are different and its not always clear how without context.
I think its good to explore what can be improved even after a 51 point win, but there is a difference between “what can be improved” and “why Bill Self and this team arent capable of winning the big one, period”.
@kuballin10 if everything happened based on a script we wouldnt watch
@kuballin10 our roster in 2022 wasnt good enough to win a championship for 80% of the season, and yet they did
Let it breathe
Love the activity in these offseason football threads. Feel like i know the pulse of where we are. Also, glad this team has a pulse. Fair to say at this point that Kansas football is … reloading not rebuilding?
The team we saw vs UCF would have destroyed our team that limped into the post season last year
@kuballin10 yes i do.
Yeah its hard to be bummed about KU basketball at this particular moment.
@SlimShaddy54 that block and transition dunk was something special.
Continues to perform in the NBA on a competitive team, Dallas.
Is Grimes now the most successful ex Jayhawk to transfer out after freshman year, ever?
Crazy how wildly the assessment of his ceiling bounced around.
@SlimShaddy54 yes. Also the hunter 25 minutes kj 23 minutes flory 20 minutes usage was great
I’ll say it so @kuballin10 doesnt have to: Self used his personnel well today. People were used in the roles they were intended to be used and they responded.
Foury Flory
Who thinks Elmarko can have a monster season next year?
Flory! Flory! Flory!
Dickinson shooting 3 with Flory rebounding. Like it
Wasnt there a players only team meeting after which the consensus was that Lucas should start in 2015-2016? Did we put Mickelson on mothballs after something like that? A precedent to put a Hunter on the shelf.
@Texas-Hawk-10 ah thats right.
Are you in the “Bidunga will start by years end” camp, if you had to guess?
I started looking at All American selections to see if there is a comp for Hunter and I didnt have much success…
Do you guys remember when we had no first, second or third team all americans in 2007-2008? That was fun!
https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/all_america.html ↗
@rockchalkjayhawk lucas’ senior year we had dwight coleby, freshman udoka and sophomore carlton bragg. The talent was there but bragg was a headcase, and udoka was not in great shape until junior year.
As far as I can tell, Bidunga is a better option than any of those. The only problem is he is not a 4.
@wissox Rick Pitino, O.G Turd.
The last game i coached last year was against an aau team with my 15 year old rec boys. We were down by 4 i think at half. Second half the aau guys shot about 5o% from three and there was nothing we could do. They practiced every day. We didnt. They shot 3s way way better than us because thats all they did.
Bidunga needs to be the only dude who cant shoot the 3 on the floor.
@mayjay you mean frogs?
I havent watched Alabama this year but Grant Nelson and Lebaron Philon look pretty good statistically.
A few more words of praise for Camel Up. It sounds like something you guys might enjoy based upon the games you listed @kjayhawks . You are betting on camels and every round you can bet on which one you think will be in front at rounds end. Each camel has a die that is rolled each round but the order the dice come out is random and the camels can stack, so one camel can carry others! Its a sneaky math and probability game. Simple enough to be fun for all ages.
@Texas-Hawk-10 well i have two teens and a 6 year old, so ideally i am interested in stuff engaging to all 4 of us. The most complicated we might get is something like Wingspan or Caverna but we tend to play shorter games. I will say though that I am interested in playing a little longer games now that the youngest can handle it. We have recently been playing Clank, a deck builder, dungeon diver. That went pretty well, but I think the replayability of Clank may be limited.
@nuleafjhawk could you convince him to come join us?
@kuballin10 yep KJ. If only Bidunga had Tarik Black ahead of him on the depth chart…
@Zabudda Flory will start by end of year.
This is the way.
Any recommendations? Must have games in your collection? This year i want to trade some of the games we never play for something fresh.
I bought a couple copies of Camel Up recently, one to replace our warn out copy and one to stash for gifting. Highly recommend. Its over, but Target has had a BOGO half off sale on board games last 2 years after Christmas, and they stock Camel Up.
If you want a cute little auction game thats still in print I recommend For Sale.
It’s feeling pretty dark post Christmas this year. Hope we can find stuff to feel good and engaged about.
@nuleafjhawk maybe we can transition over to collage sports ↗
@kuballin10 i think we made a false dichotomy around that one. “Trading” the streak for titles was never on the table. We won the conference in 2008, 2012 and 2022.
@wissox 2 wins wasnt a certainty.
Feel bad for the ageless one here. Imagine if KUs boosters were flaky and Self was stuck squeezing them and encouraging the kids that the money was coming. What a drag.
@rockchalkjayhawk it could be a promise of future NIL that didnt materialize?
And yeah, seems like thats on the kids to get it in writing or accept it was never a sure thing.
@Texas-Hawk-10 isnt it more like “nuleaf, we cant pay you as much as we said, but all the food is
still free, as is the awesome room, and the student body will still adore you, and you still get to play for a hall of fame coach that gets people in the League”
@drgnslayr apparently to husband meant to manage carefully, particularly an estate, and expanded to include animals and crops. Wife meant woman.
I now pronounce you manager of the estate and woman.
How romantic.
@SlimShaddy54 ouch. Ive had pneumonia one time before and i think i caught it earlier this time, that sounds about how i remember it last time. Jello sounds good.
Furphy sighting. Hes currently on the floor for Indiana against Boston
@dylans rough man. Sorry to hear. Hope your shoulder heals like it should. Its still important even if it seems less important.
I’m sure you are feeling a lot of things right now. Please give yourself time.
@nuleafjhawk yes very, thanks for sharing! Glad its in the passed... I just took 2 kinds of antibiotics so hopefully will be in the rear view too shortly.
Hope you guys arent getting destroyed this year with stuff but if you are let us know. Misery loves company and all that
Wellp its pneumonia. Apparently its very common this year for a particular strand of viral flu to lead to bacterial pneumonia? I dont know how it works, i just take the drugs.
@nuleafjhawk ha. In our own self interest of course.
@nuleafjhawk i was pulling for Big 12 tbh
KSU Rutgers is a high scoring, big play game
Thanks, i have a few days off so i will be able to relax. Did you guys know Chris Columbus the director of Home Alone was the original director of National Lampoons Christmas Vacation but quit and told John Hughes, the producer, that he was really sorry but he couldnt work with Chevy Chase. John Hughes called him up 2 weeks later to offer him Home Alone. It all worked out.
6 threes and 8 blocks in his last game. 10 blocks the game before. Pretty sure that combination is a first.
Merry Christmas! I currently have the flu but hope to rally any minute now:)
@wissox i was at both semifinal games with my goalie son btw. We sat right behind the goal for the vermont denver pks. My boy stopped a huge PK in his showcase game the next day. Small world fun stuff.