Why not?!!!!!!
jaybate 1.0
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You're going to have to trust me on this.
I know Chucks were bad.
Today, thin is bad, even after the little flirtation with thin soles and walking shoes with toes a few years ago.
But...
Consider a pair of W. C. Russell's minimalist boots and shoes for long distance walking outdoors.
They have very thin soles, lots of width, and lots of side-of-foot and ankle support. They were designed in WWI for doughboys.
They are custom made for you.
They are outrageously expensive.
But they last you indefinitely with resoling.
Damn, I am saving for a pair right now.
Probably no good for basketball, but a man needs to walk for so many good reasons.
http://www.russellmoccasin.com/minimalist-footwear-custom-made/ ↗
Its okay to blame coaches for players' failures to develop. Nearly 50% of all D1 players transfer according to Bob Bowlsby. Players apparently often don't get along with coaches and vice versa, and players often don't get as much development as they desire, and so move on.
But, again, that does not explain why the NBA would not draft a player with the correct potential, whether developed, or not.
Cliff was unquestionably identified as a player with such potential by the end of his senior season in high school. And he was an incredibly athletic stud, even if he were a bit shorter than the average NBA big.
He was labeled a strongly probable OAD by most.
He worked Okafor in an all-star game or two.
He played fairly well against most of the top summer competition he faced, while the ranking gurus and the NBA scouts watched him before coming to KU; that was ALL potential, not system. High school coaches and AAU coaches are not running any offensive, or defensive schemes remotely as complicated as NBA coaches. Neither are college coaches for that matter.
He was said to have a good motor.
The NBA drafts potential with a good motor.
They draft it in Europe.
They draft it in Africa.
They draft it in China.
And the for sure draft it in USA.
Cliff had the potential and the motor when playing in non NBA systems before he got to KU. He seemed to have a pretty good motor at KU, too, whenever he wasn't lapsing into lack of focus.
Conspicuously, Cliff lacked the potential after he played for KU for only one season, and played less than half the minutes he might have.
Which is more probable?
Self and his system destroyed/degraded Cliff's potential?
Or something else did?
It just seems wildly improbable that Self and his system could destroy Cliff's potential to the point that no one else thought they could develop it better than Self. Almost beyond statistical significance.
Something happened to Cliff's potential--to the worth of it in the eyes of NBA GMs.
But what remains a mystery.
He developed abnormally puffy eyes at KU that I do not recall him having in the feeds of him before KU.
He demonstrated intermittent apparent lapses in concentration most of the season, but that could have been inadequately developed neural nets from youth, or it could've been freshman jitters, a broken heart from a romance, or what have you. All have previously shaken players confidences sharply, but I don't recall any of those things degrading potential, or destroying it to the point that the NBA wants no part of a highly athletic big man with productive per minute played numbers through out his pre-professional career.
Cliff also made intermittently astonishingly bone headed plays, and intermittently failed to react entirely to the most normal circumstances of play, in addition to showing great impact plays other times. His play was extremely uneven, but when he was good he was very good.
He came with some extra weight, but then guys that come to KU often come with extra weight, then lose it, then gain it back in muscle in redistributed locations. Weight gain in and of itself does not seem a likely culprit, unless the weight gain were tied to puffy eyes, lapsing concentration, and intermittent failures to react.
He seemed to run the floor just as well at KU as before.
He was relatively productive on a per minute basis playing in Self's system in scoring and rebounding that you suggest lack of play and ill-fitting system triggered his underdevelopment, and which I note must have done so to the point of destroying his potential to the point of no one in the NBA wanting to draft him on potential. Hmm. Even the nepotistic moron GMs and stat men in NBA could read those simple ppm-played stats that you and I have noted and extrapolated from those that the potential was still there to be developed in terms of his actual on floor productivity at KU. So the potential to be productive was not what must have been degraded to the point of the NBA not wanting to chance a draft choice on him.
His mom reputedly took out a loan that by the butt end of the season made Self unable to play him at all. The NBA is famous for playing guys that had violations in their college backgrounds. So: the loan, which he reputedly did not even take out, and the related blow back in and of itself could not explain the NBA not drafting him.
What makes the NBA, or any employer, not take a chance on a gifted applicant for a job?
That applicant's potential being wrecked by a former coach/employer, or something else?
Gotta have me a pair!
I have tried out similar logic, but its validity breaks down this way. The NBA drafts hugely on potential. Self can't destroy potential. Only an injury can do that. All Self can do is expose what any trained scout would have seen in a workout any way.
IMHO, something happened must have happened to Cliff between his last season of high school-summer game ball, when he was good enough to outplay Okafor, and his KU season. What happened we will probably never be told, but something must have happened that made first Self, and then NBA scouts say he just wasn't the same guy, or player.
Round up the usual suspects.
@ralster said:
The other thing about Gill was former players said the weights/conditioning was "optional". That is a direct quote at the time,
I have vague recall of that report (though not its timing) and having known a guy that played 5 years at Nebraska for Osborne I have always believed that the weights optional report was either psy-ops used during an apparent media campaign to run Gill, or Gill or former players talking tongue in cheek and some reporter reporting it straight to stick it to Gill.
Weights appeared about as optional at Nebraska under Osborne as a corn picker on a combine at harvest time.
Coaching fruit doesn't usually fall far from a tree.
You can lead a big to Late Night, but you can't make him change shoe brands.
Recruits? We don't need no stinking recruits!
Got to agree although I think you could put Gale Sayers on this team and it would still go 0-fer.
Isn't it amazing how WWW's blip on the media radar screen has disappeared!?
It could cost some serious change to become that invisible that quick.
The Skunk Works doesn't do one off stealth suits cheap!
I often wonder what he might think about this sudden cut back in dump trucks at Rupp!
Crucial point!
In the best interest of popular entertainment and a Fed Debt Note backed up by a $50 barrel of Saudi Tea, plus respect for minor's statutes, the conceit for the show has to be altered expediently.
"Nude Transferring!" it is.
See nuded up coaches recruiting nuded up transfers over 18. All private parts still pixilated of course.
Which Big Shoe brand will buy the first 30 second spot?!
What a pity?
Having his Twitter account surveilled by Coach K who has told reporters he maintains a Twitter account under a false identity to eavesdrop on his players tweets.
Coach K = total information awareness?
From the outtakes edited out and not shown.
Andy Katz: Who will be your best back to the basket scorer.
Self: (silence.) Expletive...Expletive...Expletive.
Just kidding.
MEMO
FROM: jaybate 1.0, CEO/CFO jSPN
TO: Whom it may concern
RE: jSPN Productions' new NUDE RECRUITING show
After consulting extensively with a consultant from a CBIA (Central Basketball Intelligence Agency) front organization calling itself Public Relations'R'Us Enterprises, I have decided that tawdry and schlocky though it may seem, the next big production of jSPN will be a sports reality program called "Nude Recruiting."
jSPN is hurting for money, since we operate entirely without funding. So: we have decided to enter the for profit sports entertainment media market with a reality show in which Division 1 college basketball recruiters peel down to their birthday suits and make in homes with high school/summer game basketball prospects and their parents also completely nude. All of the participants genitalia will of course be pixellated and any swear words used will be beeped. Schools will be paid millions of dollars for agreeing to participate and recruits and their families will be comped shoes. Indications are it will be a huge hit.
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
Who do that pricey voodoo that UK and Duke do so well?
Well, now we know why so much of the Big Shoe Meat Market Summer Game action is held in Vegas, near where the brothels are legal, I reckon. Holy cat house! Its all fitting together. Big Gaming. Big Shoe. Big Sex.
What if the guy driving all the stacking turns out to be a a guy named Barry the Pimp?
Imagine if the NCAA explicitly were to outlaw use of all unlicensed and unregulated sex workers in Division 1 recruiting!
Bulletin: Amsterdam, Holland, has been picked by Barry the Pimp to replace Las Vegas, Nevada, as the host of summer game meat market games and tournaments!!!
Yeeeeeee awwwww!!!!
Let me get some gouda for the game, yah!!
And after the game we can all go skating on the concentric canals and talk about "The Fall" by Albert Camus!
But wait!!!
How will Barry the Pimp get his 1976 stretch El Dorado with Debbie Does Bangkok holographic moon roof and the fade harvest gold to maroon paint job and the endangered species quilted upholstery and chinchilla carpeting to fit through those narrow Amsterdam streets?
If its not one thing, its another.--Rosanne Rosanadanah
:-)
jSPN NEWS SERVICE
DATELINE: Somewhere Near Caningville, Malaysia
SLUG: KU Basketball Coaching Staff Labelled Recruiting Enemy No. 1 for landing so much talent despite THE REPUTED BIG SHOE EMBARGO
jSPN stringers have infiltrated the first annual secret combination Bilderburg/Big Shoe gathering in a jungle compound and resort somewhere far up the Malay Peninsula. They have learned that the Bilders and Big Shoers have declared Self and his staff as Recruiting Enemy Number 1 in their strategic efforts to take over Division One College Basketball in order to get the entire emerging global economy to migrate to petro-fiber clothing and petro-rubber shoes. Ever since Self and his intrepid staff signed one time reputed Nike lean Andrew Wiggins to play for adidas-KU, Self has reputedly been persona non recruiting grata with the Bilders and the Big Shoers. It was decided at the meeting that the current strategy of two stacks per Power Five conference would be expanded to three stacks per Power Five conference if Self and KU occupied any of the Final Four slots this season. jSPN stringers also learned that one freshman on KU's team would never receive clearance, as long as KU remains contracted with its current petroshoeco.
Developing...
(Note: All fiction. No malice.)
Oh,yeah,Banikane. They have a great water buffalo steak restaurant there. And a drink called a Diallo Dunk!
Why can't a KU grad working for the CIA declare him a vital intel asset in Mali and call NSA to hack into NCAA computers and get Cheick a set of forged clearance papers, maybe even some forged dual citizenship papers, and a US Tax ID number, then one of those SSNs that supposedly only the spooks get, then a CIA employment number, and then a DL?
Then Cheick could play right now.
I wonder if Josh will return to assisting Cal at UK? 😀
No one can recruit...Lol
...like Bruce Pearl. Lol.
3 Top 100s signed already...Lol
...after Pearl returns from...Lol
...having been banished...Lol
...from coaching D1! Lol.
Including top guard...Lol
...Mustapha Heron...Lol
...from Connecticut! Lol
At Auburn! Lol
When Self can't sign Heron! Lol
Or three Top 100s. Lol
What gives? Lol
With D1? Lol
And the NCAA? Lol
Which gives...Lol
LB and SMU...Lol
...heavy penalties? Lol
It's so baroque. Lol
Lie to us, NCAA....Lol
...about Bruce! Lol
Tell us it's...Lol
...all hard work! Lol
And how much...Lol
...Connecticut kids...Lol
...want to be like Charles! Lol
Lol
Lol
Lol
Tar was playing for Josh Pastner--a proactively damaging coach to play for. Pastner actually coaches 'em down!
Was Colby playing for someone like Pastner, or just for a Mediocre coach?
It would influence what we should expect out of Colby.
Here is what makes this suspect to an old veteran of the post pill and pre AIDS era of the last century.
No one associated with football or basketball teams ever had to do anything to get a football or basketball recruit laid but throw a kegger at Jayhawker Towers and shout "Party!"
If you tapped it, they would come.
And no one slept alone unless they wanted to.
Seriously, the problem coaches and recruiters face with 18-23 year old persons in a college town is how to keep heterosexual recruits and college women apart.
Call girls?
Have college women grown sexless, or something?
Does an OAD really need call girls to connect when an entire generation is using Software to have casual sex in any new location they walk into?
This sounds like a smear invented by some guy that graduated in the first or second year of Camp Destabilization back before smart phones and was hired to merk Rick to create an opening for a .600 coach and a dump truck.
But what do I know?
Maybe prostitution is a profit center in the whole commercial matrix of college sport.
Sigh.
Say it ain't for tricks, Rick.
Say it ain't.
I been believing ' in ya lately Rick.
Believin' ya broke the silence on Big Shoe and Big Agent.
Is this the blowback?
Question: How do you get rid of a commercial airliner?
Answer: paint Maylasian Airways on it.
Rim shot!
Still More Reasons Its Taking So Looooooooong!!!
NCAA secretary can't figure out how to override spell checker and allow "Cheick."
NCAA wants a little more time to exploit Cheick's image without proper compensation, before having to make good on the recent settlement during and compensate him properly during his OAD season.
Self slipped the paper pusher at NCAA clearance a five spot to drag his feet, because Self is trying scare Lucas and Traylor into thinking they will have to committee the five again and so learn to rebound and score b2b in the paint.
Self knows all about @HighEliteMajor's criticism of BAD BALL, and Self is getting even by holding Cheick out (he's been cleared but Self asked them to delay the announcement) so @jaybate 1.0 starts predicting BAD BALL will rule again and @HighEliteMajor cracks and uses his frequent flyer miles for a one way to Osawatomie, Kansas.
Hilary has asked the NCAA to wait until the eve of the election, so she can take responsibility for freeing Cheick to play and take all of Kansas' electoral votes.
It has something to do with a tear in the universe and Gakona.
A Megaladon has been discovered in Lake Perry and the President's National Security team is forcing a delay in Cheick's clearance to try to distract eastern Kansas from a mass panic.
Cheick's Kayes, Mali YMCA coach is holding out for more tennies than adidas is willing to comp.
(Note: all fiction. No malice, just lots of impatience.)
When the site went down, just before I went into the DTs, I searched with Google to see if there were anything seriously wrong with the site. Had @approxinfinity experienced a Deep Basketball Event triggered by the Deep Basketball Government? Had NBSA (the National Basketball Security Agency) accidentally misidentified KUBuckets.com as a basketball terrorist web site and taken it down? Had Big Gaming decided to take it down, because our board rats don't gamble enough, or don't bet the line enough? Had Big Shoe taken it down, because our board rats don't wear the right brand of shellac interfaces? Had Big Agent taken it down, because board rats here had not enabled the right agents, agent runners and summer game coaches? And so on.
Many were my deep worries.
On-rushing were my basketball DTs.
No, I shrieked!!!! The National Basketball SigInt Agency didn't take it down THIS close to Late Night!!!
So: I surfed with Google to find some sign that order would restore; that the CBIA (The Central Basketball Intelligence Agency) was not rearranging all of our thinking and perceptions with their antennae array in Gakona!!!
Here is what came up.
ScamAnalyze says KUBuckets.com is both safe and a risk, because it is so unpopular it has no rating.
http://scamanalyze.com/check/kubuckets.com.html ↗
Rank Evo says something really bad happened with our Alexa Rank September 30, 2015. Or it might be good. I can't tell.
http://rankevo.com/en/site/kubuckets.com ↗
XSSposed.com says really bad things about KUBuckets.com. As of July 31, 2015, some researcher with the alias Psychomantis says:
"Website kubuckets.com systematically puts its users at risk by negligence and poor website security management: kubuckets.com and its subdomains have at least 1 of reported Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, 1 of them are still unpatched and may be exploited by hackers against kubuckets.com users, visitors and administrators.
Theft of cookies, personal data, authentication credentials and browser history are probably the less dangerous consequences of XSS attacks, which are becoming more and more sophisticated these days and are being used in pair with spear phishing, social engineering and drive-by attacks."
https://www.xssposed.org/incidents/domain/kubuckets.com/ ↗
OMG! OMG! OMG! Where's my kevlar? Get me my flack jacket and pot. Oil up the receiver on the old AR-15. Dremel it, so it will go on full auto. Get me my night vision scope!! My bush hat!!!! My water purifier pills! My M-Rats!!!! The spear fishers are coming, the Spear Phishers are coming!!!!!!!! Spear Phishing! Social Engineering! Drive-by Attacks! At least, Psychomantis does not mention Gakona...yet!!!!
Now the good news.
WorthofWeb.com estimates KUBuckets.com is worth $6,773!!!!!!!!!!! It even rounds it up...to $7000!!!!!!
http://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/kubuckets.com/ ↗
@approxinfinity is rich!!!
Ahem.
He probably would have had to bill ten times that for his time just to break even.
Bottom line: KUBuckets is rich, vulnerable, and stinking with social engineering.
And its back on!!!!!!!
Next.
:-)
You got me. I'm Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch! 😃
Do you, or does anyone else, have any idea what Self makes a year for endorsing adidas himself?
And which basketball coaches are the highest paid for endorsing a Big Shoe brand?
And does any coach endorse one Petroshoeco, while his school endorses another Petroshoeco?
Wouldn't it be great to organize KU fans and collectively contract to wear a specific brand of Petroshoeco apparel in exchange for,say, $50 Million!!!!!
Imagine everyone wearing adidas brand shirts, sunglasses, caps, shoes, and maybe even parkas to work and games.
We are a supremely high profile fan base. Even President OBAMA IS WITH US!!!!
$50 Million split among 50k fans would be a $1000 per fan, plus they could comp us a bunch of merchandise we could sell on the street, like maybe coaches and players do, too.
Imagine AFH filled wth 16,500 screaming fans wearing adidas logo Crimson T shirts and adidas logo blue caps and everyone could wear a pair of those fabulous looking adidas KU basketball shoes--just like the coaches and players do!
We could sell our endorsement of adidas products to adidas just like the coaches and school do!
And imagine how many fans would join up around the world to get $1000 bucks! The contract consideration could slide with membership! 😀
Probably not but...
Isn't it insane that we live in a world where we don't even know who all is paying our own coach?
(Note: intended only for viewing amusement and satire only on this reputedly noncommercial site. Any rebroadcast, retransmission, reproduction, or re-use in any other form or medium is expressly prohibited.)
Self works for adidas?
The players play for KU?
Hmm.
@Lulufulu and @HighEliteMajor and others,
Yes, Brannen does have things to prove.
But I think history backs up that our perimeter players improve their ball handling, and become more trusted by Self to handle the ball, as each season passes in a four year career. People said Travis and Brady and EJ and Tyshawn could not handle the ball their first two seasons. In some cases those players weren't very good at handling the ball and in other cases their roles were crafted so they weren't asked to handle the ball, because Self had that covered at other positions.
Board rats said Perry could never play the three, because he couldn't handle the ball well enough, or guard shorter guys, or guard 25 feet out. I said he was born to play the three and was played out of position by Self ,because Self always has a bunch of capable perimeter players, but stretch 4s are scarcer than laugh's at a funeral.
So: poor Perry of the little hands, long neck, and Buddhist demeanor, got stuck out at the 4 with the blue meanies for two seasons learning to play bang ball on the blocks, so that in seasons 3 and 4 Self could have his stretch 4 that he covets more than Olivia Wilde in a thong.
You see, guys really do get better, and there was a period last season, when Brannen was doing okay on the ball handling; not great, but good for a sophomore with a wild hair being forced into action young and with a sub par hip needing an op.
I can only speak anecdotally, but I believe most wild hair players have their biggest season of improvement between sophomore and junior seasons; that is when the neural nets grow in and they become full time D-1 players. They spend that junior season doing the yeoman stuff. They are complete players, and expected to do everything adequately, but they are not cornerstones. Much of the time they are gluing as juniors; then that senior year comes and Self plays through them along with whatever stars happen to be present.
My fav example is Travis Releford. He was the wild hair poster boy--the player that could do ANYTHING physically, but was operating on about three quarters of mature neural nets. It was not a knock on him that he matured at that rate; this is what so many need to understand about players and about Self 's decisions about who to play and who to make wait a year. Most of the players that he makes wait couldn't lose the wild hair no matter if he played through them starting in July in grab games and played through them every minute of every practice and every game for the entire season. The neural nets literally aren't there to be burned in with reps. It is that simple about wild hair players. Some few don't grow out of it, but most do.
No one seems to be appreciating what Self is really saying by not tossing Brannen a med red.
Self is saying Brannen is now beyond the wild hair developmentally and he is a future draft choice and he HAS to play!!!!! Self is saying 3/4s of Brannen Greene is probably going to be better than 4/4s of anything else he has on the wings this season. Self is saying if Brannen can't heal, then he's my best back up wing. And if Brannen can does heal, then he is my best wing outside of Selden, IF Seldon can stay healthy, which history suggests he probably can't. Selden is already tweaked! Selden has become one of those athletes of incredible potential, like Wayne Simien, that if you ever get even one whole, healthy season out of him you lucky.
Thus Brannen is absolutely crucial to this team winning another conference title. Conference titles get won with guys that can already get it done. Conference titles are won with guys that can play through. Conference titles are won with guys that can do their primary roles (Brannen's being shooting treys) against any defender in the conference, and inspite of any kind of a play-through injury. Brannen proved that to Self last season.
Who thinks LaGerald Vick can make the treys he made in Korea no matter who he plays against in D1 his first season? I don't. And Self doesn't, or Brannen would be wearing a med red.
Who thinks there is a high probability that Wayne Selden will make it through the season without tweaking his knee two more times and ceasing to be able to hit treys and drive it for at least 2 weeks after each tweak? Not me. And not Self either, or Brannen would be wearing a med red.
Who thinks that Devonte Graham can consistently guard big 2s and big 3s through out this season, should injuries drop one of the wings for a month? Not me and not Self, or Brannen Greene would be wearing a med red.
The man from Georgia proved he had brass balls packed in red clay and put in a kiln and baked to bricks. With a operable hip and a wild hair, BG did the job from three. My god!!! Self has to be drooling about what BG will do with a full deck of neural nets, and a fully functional hip.
And here is another reason I expect BG to play a lot unless he cannot regain his pop: Self knows the only reason he needs two ball handlers in the game is if he has rest Frank Mason on the floor, instead of on the bench, because his perimeter is too banged up; i.e., if Selden is tweaked, BG doesn't regain his pop and Svi's neural nets need another year of watering and fertilizing.
This whole notion that you need to ball handlers is ONLY true if you have to keep one of those two on the floor all the time.
The history of college basketball national champions is rife with one point guard dominated Carolina Passing Game High-Low Offenses. In fact, Dean and Roy almost never relied on keeping two primary ball handlers on the floor at the same time. Eddie didn't either. Kevin Ollie relied on one for his quick ring. Self has relied on one some years and two others. But the example of 2008 is an anomaly. Self had to keep two ball handlers on the floor that season because, as Self said later, Sherron was probably the first or second best player on the team that season. Sherron had to play somewhere and with two great 6-2 guards in Mario and RR, and Rush at the 3, the only way he could craft a role for 5-11 Sherron was to keep 2 ball handlers on the floor full time and rotate the three based on which of their skills were needed most situationally.
So: when you look at this year's KU team, you don't see three point guards that have to play. What you see is two exceptional point guards and a bunch of 6-5 to 6-7 wings.
If ever there were a situation where you become a single point guard dominated offense, this ought to be it. Self can rotate Frank and Devonte and never have a drop off for the entire 40 minutes.
Frank and Devonte can just drive the lane and dish, or go to iron the entire game, if Self wants to play drive and kick.
Frankly, it would be very odd to play Frank and Devonte in tandem more than situationally against short guards, because of all the wing talent on hand.
High-Low offenses are very, very happy with one point guard, especially with two shooters on the wings and one that can drive it.
With Wayne healthy and driving it on one wing to keep them honest for his trey, all that is needed is peak energy point guard (achieved by rotation of Frank and Devonte), and a hellacious trey baller that can guard and feed the post on the other side, plus grab 4-5 rpgs.
@HighEliteMajor said:
When his butt puckers, when the situation is tight and tense, he will simply play who he perceives as the best players until they die or foul out.
PHOF!!!
While I am waiting to form my opinion on Brown, I respect the conviction expressed in yours. And I would recommend you find a copy of Indiana Professor Emeritus Murray Sperber's 1990 book: "College Sports, Inc." If I recall correctly, it portrays Larry Brown in an unflattering light, regarding recruiting ethics. It used Brown as an example of a guy who made "the motion play."
That said, it is also interesting that Sperber reputedly spent part of his retirement affiliated with a sports institute at UC Berkley that appeared to be one Harry Edwards started, or came to head up.
It is interesting IMHO, because Harry Edwards was significantly involved in bringing Cuonzo Martin from UTenn to Nike-UCBerkley and Martin somehow signed reputed adidas lean Jaylen Brown--a player adidas-KU reputedly pursued hard--for Nike-Berkley.
How much of your personal shoe contract money would you be willing to give up to sign an OAD player with a long term relationship with another shoe brand?
IMHO, Brannen is a lot more well rounded than board rats are giving him credit for.
The only reason he didn't look very well rounded last season was he was playing operable.
If Brannen can beat out Svi for the 2 last season and shoot 40%, while playing operable, Brannen should be able to beat him out this season, too, if Brannen were healthy.
Svi has to prove he can hit the trey at the 40% rate.
Brannen has already proven it.
Svi even has to worry about Vick.
Vick shot the ball pretty well in Korea.
Self also said Vick plays pretty good defense; that is a warning to Brannen and Svi, but even bigger to Svi. Sri has to prove he can guard at the D1 level. Brannen already proved he could guard while operable.
The message is: Play defense, or else. A 40% trey without defense is going to get you a bench role.
My hunch is the season will play out as follows.
Svi and Vick get a bunch of minutes early at the 2 to see if either can guard, trifectate, and feed the post early at the D1 level. They get this time, while Brannen plays rehab and catch up in conditioning.
Brannen should be ready to be the starter by mid season, if he gets his pop back.
One of the three is going to become Wayne's back up at the 3. Which one that is depends on how well Brannen heals and how much pop he gets back.
Brannen at full pop will own the 2.
Brannen at half pop will back up Wayne at the 3.
I really doubt Frank and Devonte will start the way so many expect, unless Devonte just blows everyone away, which is possible.
But I think Devonte's future is at the point and he will play there 10-15 mpg and then play another 5-10 at the two when match ups call for a shorter 2.
The team should be two deep at each position if everyone stays healthy.
1-Frank/Devonte
2-Brannen/Svi
3-Wayne/Vick
The perimeter.
I think we will see extensive use of all six, because I don't think KU is going to be able to score out of the 5 at all, and will also not be able to score out of the 4, when Perry takes his 10 minutes of down time.
Playing all six guys around 20 minutes per game is a great way to keep the legs fresh on a great bunch of perimeter shooters.
Perimeter shooters with fresh legs probably add 3-5% to 3pt%; that right there is enough to win most games.
Self will cut back to 5 instead of six if defense, or injury, or lack of physical strength, becomes a problem.
I think we are going to see more treys shot than any time in Self's tenure, and by quite a margin.
This is going to be the year of the trey ball, if the guys stay healthy.
There's no more scoring in the post than there was last season, especially if Diallo is a scout teamer.
HOWLING!
A question for Coach Self regarding ShoeCo influence would be:
Coach Self, how would you rank in order from most to least the influence on recruiting: a.) ShoeCos; b.) agents and their agent runners, and c.) AAU coaches?
I appreciate your spirit, but I must take a moment and reiterate something I write from time to time. I hypothesize about what I assume to be legal activities and leave the illegal stuff to the authorities, so I am not a crime fighter in any real sense of those words--just a fan trying to understand how things work.
Rock Chalk!!!
I believe I will keep an open mind awhile over what has happened to LB before forming an opinion. The Chancellor, a member of the Knight Committee, has not fired LB. And LB has appeared to leave open the prospect of a legal response. The plot may thicken.
Foundational post, not just ok!
PICTORIAL THOUGHTS...
In wheel chair basketball, Evan Manning would be as tall as Jam, Mik, and The Designer.
I count 11 suits. Most I recall in a KU hoops team pic.
BG has a gut, so we know he is a long way from playing condition.
What is up with dark suits and light brown shoes among young and poor assistants? Can't adidas comp some dark ones?
Devonte is a little stud now.
Tweets suggest this team will not be depending on the new big men; that they are a year away. Uh-oh. Jam and Lucas will be playing big minutes again.
Lucky you.
Don't marginalize my religious experience with yours, or the last 1000-2000 years of monasteries hustling the grape to create dependent flocks. Where the hell do you think states and corporAtions learned the trick of addictive substance dumping from? Aliens from outer space?
I wish you hadn't written your post either, but it's a free, 24/7 surveilled web.
First, you go to church and they tell you wine is the blood of Christ.
In time you become addicted to the wine.
Then you lose your faith in Christ because of your addiction to the wine.
Then wine addiction wrecks your life.
Then you go to AA and put yourself in the hands of a higher power: a God with coffee.
It's all makes sense.
@KansasComet
Thx, Comet. Isn't it great another season is rolling round?!
Still more questions for Coach Self.
How often does he run a set play after a time out recommended by Cindy?
When he retires and doesn't have to recruit anymore, will he finally tell us the low down on whether he has plugs, or a rug?
Which infuriates him more: missing a trey he did not want taken, or missing a defensive assignment?
Does he intend to testify as a character witness for the Morri?
Has he ever worn orange underwear under his suit to coach a KU game in order to invoke the ghost of Hank Iba in his favor?
Who was better: Iba, or Allen?
in his younger days, could he drink Coach Sutton under the table, or vice versa?
Has he ever envied Kurtis Townsend's sartorial splender?
Did he hire Jerrance to make himself look slimmer?
Did Joe Dooley's ears ever block his view during games?
Did he have to wear special polarized contact lenses to avoid the glare from Danny's head while prowling the sidelines while Danny was still an assistant coach?
Is it true that he bought Sherron his first Big Mac?
Will Tyler be ready to take over the head coach role when he graduates?
Did LaGerald Vick decide to go to KU instead of SMU, because he knew inside scoop about the NCAA penalizing SMU and Coach Brown?
Will Janks come back to assist Self, or will he stay at SMU and ride out the penalties?
Have Coach Self and Cindy ever gone skinny dipping in Potters Lake in the middle of the night?
Has KU ever practiced inside The Flamingo?
Would Self ever follow Bruce Weber?
Does Coach Self think he could have won the national championship with Nike-UK's Long Stack last season?
Does Coach Self have a kind of quantitative dyslexia that makes him call 6-6 players 6-8 players?
Who does Coach Self think was the more inept head football coach: Turner Gill, or Charlie Weis?
How old was Coach Self when he learned that Oklahoma is considered to have a sub tropical climate?
Has Coach Self ever gotten tired of being 50 steps ahead of fans on everything?
Are the rare lapses in his bench coaching caused by being distracted by Olivia Wilde?
Has Jerrance Howard ever eaten a low cal snack?
Do Coach Self, Norm Roberts and Billy Gillispie ever get together for pops anymore?
Who was best: Don Haskins, Eddie Sutton, or Jack Hartman?
Which Big 12 team outside KU has the best looking Cheerleaders?
That about covers it.