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Okay. Grimes is gonna crawl out of the cellar now. Come on!!

Amazing what actually wanting it more will do for whichever team that does that

We know they are gonna somwhoe pull this off by 1 or some shit.... But damn it's ugly right now

4? Jesus. Can we get the kid charged with the Kennedy assassination

Gosh where would this game be without Lawson

I tend to not enjoy seasons like this more and more. Not cause we suck. It's the disconnect with the group. Ya know. A season where we lose alot of guys. Not alot of the group that's been here is back. And it really feels more that way with Silvio out and Udoka as well now. Takes me almost the whole season to feel connected and invested in a largely brand new group like this.

That's the basket the eggs are all in I guess right now. That guys who aren't great shooters are gonna suddenly become that. Idk.

For the love of God

We're trying to play 4-1 without shooters. I said before. Like my chances 3-2 with this group better. Just because of the lack of shooting. We will only look decent when 3's fall.

So a guy can get the chance at the last second put back vs three white jerseys in the immediate area and it's because we don't know who we are? Nah. These guys have been playing ball awhile now. A sense of urgency... A drive to excel.... I won't make excuses for that. It's just plain lazy

That's what I see. Playing harder=want it more in my book

@Bwag broken clock is right twice a day. Doesn't work often enough. Can't rely on it

It's just sad to watch other teams come into our building and just plain want it more

I think at some point we gotta learn that Vick throwing up prayers just isn't gonna win games

Crowd in it. Come on d

@Bwag upvote infinity

Lmao

@Woodrow ya I can't figure how anyone would think this team is good defensively whatsoever

Ya. We just aren't used to it

We should do something on off days... Like work alot on defense. And we shall call this practice

Ugh

@Fightsongwriter sure could use one

And lucky it's not more. Leaving them open way too often

Can agbaji just come in and hit a 3 every offensive possession. It's easier

They are leaving it open most of the time anyway. May as well press and get a chance at a steal

Dotson we've got Dotson here

Lol. Wow. If they could hit the ground with their hat in 3 tries this is a blowout already

I'm sure it's a design. If we leave them too open they'll miss like we do...

I love how we leave shooters open on the perimeter. It's a bold strategy.

@BShark idk, I give that a better long term chance. I think it gives the team the highest ceiling at this point. Otherwise we're basically saying we're gonna rely on guys that aren't good shooters becoming great shooters. I don't think that happens. Even Vick's run of lights out performances was (Suns shines on a dogs behind some days) kind of stuff. Things almost always revert to the mean. Love to see it work. But am highly skeptical. If there's a somewhat positive way of looking at it, I guess for me it's that idk that we're gonna be ridiculously great either way. So pick one and go with it I reckon. Lol. Why not

I'm not sure we have the guards to play 4 around 1 with this group. Definitely don't think Ochai is the savior that changes that either. This is kind of an odd move in my opinion.

I think I would have given big Dave alot more minutes and a leash to grow for the next 2.5 months and still played mostly a 3 around 2 with Dedric obviously as the 4 man. It does seem a bit like desperation to me. If Ochai was so great then why the redshirt? The best athlete on the team? Wow. Thats saying alot or not much at all. I'm not sure which. But even with the injury if Self thought there was even a glimmer of a chance of having a freakishly athletic guy by the time big 12 play starts I don't think we see the redshirt. One could argue we thought we had more depth sure... But that would seem to be naive considering Self has largely known what he had for months now. Minus Udoka of course. He always knows things long before we do. If we ever do.

Hell maybe he knows Ochai is gonna be spectacular like now.. or soon. I'm on board. What do we got to lose at this point. The team as it is certainly doesn't appear to be going anywhere great. Maybe this is a game changer. Time will tell

We knew they were gonna get bit eventually. Terrible sloppiness and just plain lazy defense. Probably the least fundamentally sound team in quite a few years. There's time to fix it, but it's just plain ugly and has been and the truth is we're probably fortunate to be ahead of 500 right now as it is. May be a harsh reality. But it simply is reality. Can blame officials or injury or the NCAA or whatever. Doesn't change the fact

A win is a win. It was sure ugly in the middle

We picked it up defense. Nice to see we can

Defense!

2 fts?!? Hell ya

Just get KJ out for the year. Or at least until he learns body language. Good God.

Ft!!!! Whoa

@kjayhawks well this one us giving me the runs... Lol

If we buy anymore guys can we pay a lil extra for some ft shooters....

Is that a thing?

We know we gotta win games without Doke. He can't play 40 min every night. Let's find some defense here

Lots of time to improve fortunately

Well. Missing fts and throwing the ball to nobody is certainly a bold strategy

Ya I guess I've missed the part where Grimes is even remotely ready for the NBA. Maybe not even college

Sigh...

I'm not sure we've even ran an actual offense yet

We won't turn it over or miss a ft or have a complete defensive lapse for the next 15 min or so. So that's a plus

Instead of improving Dokes ft percentage. We decided to bring everyone else down to that level so it doesn't seem so bad

Sigh...

Take Moore of that