Yes, when he is only allowed spot up FGAs. đ
jaybate 1.0
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Good fashion Design requires being flattering to the wearer.
These uniforms are like putting BeyoncĂŠ in a hazmat suit with a life belt.
We have brown eyed handsome men.
Make it stop before it starts.
What exactly are those squares on the bottom corner of the leg? Cell phone holders?
PHOF MULTIFACTORIAL!!!!!
Time flies when we're having fun!!!!!!
They've been going in and out of style,
But they're guarantied to raise a smile...
On Husband Kimmel's wikipedia page there is a very interesting remark attributed to Chester Nimitz, regarding what happened at Pearl Harbor under Kimmel before Nimitz took over. Wikipedia not being the last word on history, one should take this with an eye to seeing if over time the remark is borne out as fully accurate and made with sufficient context to be totally reliable. But I point it out, because so far as I have read on Nimitz, and other military leaders and strategists, disaster is not always a one way street in a bad way. If it were all those suffering disasters would never reverse them and prevail, which in fact happens not infrequently in not only war, but most competitive activities.
"In a 1964 interview Admiral Chester Nimitz, who took over as commander of the Pacific Fleet three weeks after the attack, concluded that "it was God's mercy that our fleet was in Pearl Harbor on December 7."[10] If Kimmel had "had advance notice that the Japanese were coming, he most probably would have tried to intercept them. With the difference in speed between Kimmel's battleships and the faster Japanese carriers, the former could not have come within rifle range of the enemy's flattops. As a result, we would have lost many ships in deep water and also thousands more in lives."[10] Instead, at Pearl Harbor, the crews were easily rescued, and six battleships ultimately raised.[11] This was also the assessment of Joseph Rochefort, head of Station HYPO, who remarked the attack was cheap at the price.[12]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_E._Kimmel â
Now, this quote conspicuously leaves out mention of where the aircraft carriers were that eventually gave Nimitz his edge. And it turned out it was probably not entirely god's mercy, but IMHO Husband Kimmel's decisions in the months and weeks before Pearl Harbor that in fact the best place for most of the fleet, in case of a surprise attack, was precisely Pearl Harbor precisely for the reasons given by Nimitz as god's grace. IMHO Kimmel had decided that in a world of imminent threat of attack from an overwhelmingly superior fleet possessed of aircraft carrier attack force that the only ships of his that should be at sea, or on mainland refit, were his carriers, because they were the only ones with a limited chance of defending themselves against a surprise attack at sea and retaliating against a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor or Wake Island, or Midway in its aftermath. To this end, Kimmel made sure Wake Island was kept supplied with fuel for B17s and other reconnaisance flights, and the carriers were at sea, or at refit, as much as possible, while the battleships and heavy cruisers were kept in Pearl Harbor to enable god's grace, so to speak.
Kimmel has IMHO never been given the credit he deserved for what he actually did. The debate has always centered on the wrong issues of incomplete intelligence (and the possibility of intrigue and conspiracy) and of him not anticipating a surprise attack.
Fact: Kimmel had been anticipating a surprise attack since February of 1941, while others had long planned for one. He just knew the Pacific was big, and he was not entirely in control of the timing of receipt of his SigInt, and that he was facing a Naval attack fleet vastly out numbering his in every classification of ship. His decision was the smart one. Keep the least defensible portions of his fleet at Pearl Harbor where a land based Army Air Force could provide some air cover in the event of a surprise, and keep his carriers beyond reach of the surprise. This is the part that most histories and movies and novels that always need a scapegoat to make the story easier to tell, and so usher in the heroes, leave out, or grossly oversimplify.
Where Kimmel guessed flat wrong was that there would likely be a sabotage attack from persons on Oahu, and that his movement of B-17s and fighters to Wake Island to fly reconnaissance would alert him to the surprise attack in time for the Army to get the tightly gathered planes airborne long before being caught on the ground. I have looked at this many times from any angles and, while he bet wrong, it was a very sound strategy, tactic and bet. If it failed, he would still have his carrier planes to fall back on. So, IMHO, Kimmel did exactly the right thing with his forces for that entire year, given what little he had to work with, and the overwhelming opponent he faced, and the problematic SigInt procedures involved. To survive a surprise attack with out the loss of his carriers, and to have several of his capital ships salvageable was frankly the best one could have hoped for, when America was not committed to defending itself by putting overwhelming force structure in place, and when part of one's SigInt was held up in Washington, and other parts of it were being dispensed subject to the biased self-interest of an ally, Great Britain, still needing the USA to enter the war, and never sure when it might. And this is so regardless, of whether one says the untimely communication of intelligence was accidental, or intentional.
But the gist of this quote regarding Nimitz is that effective leadership dare not stop trying to understand adverse situations either in the moment, or in forensics after disasters. Disasters teach many lessons. And these lessons, if we analyse them with the kind of mind possessed by a Nimitz, are not just what went wrong, but what the errors triggered in a positive direction also were. We need both kinds of lessons to deal with the cascading effects of disaster in the moment and with dealing with future disasters that will befall us, not just in avoiding disasters. There is nothing better than avoiding disaster. But there is nothing more naive, and dangerous, than believing disasters can be indefinitely prevented. The goal should always be to learn from disaster not only how to prevent the next one, but just as importantly how to respond and capitalize on the next one that we fail to prevent.
The only total disaster is the disaster you and your organization do NOT survive, at all.
Our losses this season, from Kentucky, to Temple, to first ISU, to OSU, to WVU to KSU, point the way to a title and to a championship, if leadership listens, and can distinguish between random error, and systemic error, and can find fitting fixes to the systemic error.
It takes courageous leadership to look into the maw of disaster and see it for what it REALLY is, and then move ahead with all deliberate speed and commitment to adapt and resume attack.
We needed these losses to show us how and what change.
Self has invested heavily in building an inside out game, because of the necessity of one, if one is ever going to be allowed to attack outside in from a reasonable position on the perimeter.
The work the team has put in has paid dividends with Perry.
Texas will have to focus more on shutting down Perry Ellis after the last few games and not stay quite so fully committed to stopping our perimeter play.
Self dealt with Snacks sooner rather than later, and shortly we are going to have the benefit of his return to duty.
Self first grabbed a conference lead that built to two game.
Then he has spent it for three weeks shoring up the team's weakest point--its inside game. He has succeeded with Perry. The five has shown no progress, except that Landen is able to play a few more minutes now. Jamari was supposed to have gotten a lot of work to develop as a Mobile Big Man Attack Platform, but the hip flexor injury has stopped that progress. Cliff has declined in effectiveness, especially in the absence of Snacks. But Cliff's scoring, rebounding and blocking stats are still the better than Jamari's and Landen's. Cliff is not useless even now. Cliff is going to benefit from Self pulling way back on the learning lever for the team and pushing forward on the "now play" lever.
The team may seem in disarray, may in fact even be in some disarray, but the team is now clearly Perry's team, which I believe Self wanted it finally to become. And now what the team becomes will be slightly more Perry centric than the one that played so well against Texas.
Self saw how good this team could be in the first Texas game that he took the team back into shop and took it appart in order to strengthen some of the pieces, and then he reassembled it and it has run roughly, as it tried out its altered capabilities, and now we enter a period of fine tuning.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
Nothing worth accomplishing comes with out paying a price and enduring some failure.
Right now is the time for this team to begin "finding itself" again after the rebuild.
The only variable is that a lot of injuries appear to be hampering return to full smooth operation.
But that is the nature of competition.
Injury can gum up the works.
But this is when we must fall back on the toughness training.
We can learn much from great strategists like Nimitz.
But there is a part of all competition that at certain moments defaults to toughness--will to go on against great obstacles--at least when one can reason a feasible, if risky, way to an objective.
In this regard...
Myitkina isn't going anywhere.
We are going to Myitkina.
And Self is working his way along the path without a center with a back to the basket game, without a rim protector, without a lot of players on the perimeter that can create shots, without a lot of experience.
The next three games are going to require great toughness.
If we can survive them, we have the tools, and the strategy, to attack in March.
But I ain't lying, board rats.
This is a job only for those willing to go on through anything.
Nimitz had to first had to be sure he was getting the kind of intelligence that Husband Kimmel was reputedly denied before he could make the correct move.. He had to know there were 200 ships steaming east bound toward Midway and perhaps Hawaii, before he knew where to position what little he had to work with.
Self is actually lucky. He has not three but five carriers: Perry, Frank, Kelly, Brannen and Devonte in theater to launch a devastating air attack at the unexpected moment from the unexpected approach.
It can be done, but we have to understand what our weaknesses are and what has to be knocked out to prevail against our large adversaries, before we can understand where and how to attack.
We are going to beat these Shorthorns.
And then we are going to win at least one of the next two and probably all three.
Ah, so elegant.
Going to be a very hard fought game with TEXAS ' height staying close to basket this time. Our guys will see a level of rough play they haven't seen this season. Perry is finally going to get a taste of being put down hard--Brannen too, if he gets hot.
TEXAS will be ready to play.
Do not run the action KU ran at the end of the KSU game, where your shooters run away from the basket along the sideline and curl inward. That is easy to guard. Sideline means defender knows you have to turn inward. The best routes always make defenders guard both right and left turns. Also going away from the basket is a hard shot to make. Never run action to create a hard shot!
Time for StarWars refresher course. I don't recall Palp's order 66. What was that? Something to do with Joseph Campbell? đ
Something like 4 or 4:30 CST.
I am trying to imagine Perry's contribution.
"What Frank said."
Good call.
I thought maybe after Kentucky.
I am now going to take my meds....all of them at once.
Its like adidas has been keeping these uniforms a secret until just the right moment to de-pattern us all.
PHOF
PHOF
PHOF
OMG, I take that back.
Don't tell adidas I wrote that.
They will having him coaching in a Tom Ford tight leg suit with a big red stripe around the hips.
Things can always get worse.
adidas, you owe us THIRTEEN OAD/TADs next season for these uniforms.
I think Self should coach in them.
Spool that up and make T-shirts.
Brannen needs to shoot first and ask questions later.
And Self needs to let him.
If they make Self give the 30 trey order, I will eat and sleep in them. :-)
@jaybate-1.0...this is your super ego.
Got to bed and when you wake up maybe it will be over.
Oh, what the hell.
At least they are not pink.
Maybe just wear the shoes and no uniforms.
How about some flapper fringe on these uniforms, too.
There, I just @-ed myself for the second time today.
The whole team is going to have to play with paper bags with eye holes the entire tournament.
Hell, I'm going to have type with one.
Unless adidas is stacking us with 13 OAD/TADs, for god's sakes burn them immediately!!!!!!!
They are as bad as Louisville's atrocious uniforms.
MYOCARDIAL........INFARCTION.....911!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am very superstitious about uniforms.
Those grey with the pin stripes are the reason we haven't been as solid the last two years as in the past. :-)
But I have no superstition about Danny's uniforms.
Anything to do with D Man is solid.
Oh....I thought it was the grey with the faint stripes. Danny's will be okay.
Regarding the Return of the Snackâit will energize the team and he will help them find themselves. He is the only non-dad, or non granddad type on the staff to 19 year olds. He is the fun Uncle. And now he is going to be the purposeful Uncle, who comes home and says, "I screwed up, and the only way I made it through was thinking about paying you guys back for screwing up. If you will accept me back, I will lead you where you have to go. I owe you. I still remember what 19 was like. Now you know what 30 can be like. Let's do it right from here on out, no matter how it turns out."
Regarding KSU swarming the courtâgo swarm themselves.
Regarding the KSU homecourt advantageâas usual the KU bench appeared to have been slathered in a layer of cattle manure solution. How could our guys concentrate?
Regarding Butcher Barnesâhe will thug first, and most, but we wonât be sure when the first thug will come. But come it will. We have to be ready to play through and to look for the right moment to make them pay.
We likely will not see the weave much for awhile, since Weber showed the world exactly how to play itâ3-2 formation, with the two playing m2m and the 3 playing zone until one of the weavers commits to attack, then matchup.
For all of Cliff Alexanderâs troubles, his stats per minute are still more productive than Traylor, or Lucas. He has to play 20 minutes. And he has to outrun the opposing teamâs bigs the way he started doing right before he cratered. That outrunning the opposing bigs to both ends of the floor put more stress on opposing teams than any other single thing we have done all season. We have to get big Cliff in the game, we have to get him running, and we have to feed him on the breaks and get him throwing outlets off rebounds as close to midcourt as possible. We get on the move sooner and more often.Cliff is the guy that can do this and hurt them most when he does. The time for punishing for mistakes is now ended. It is now time to get something out of each or our guysâwhatever they have to give. Snacks in his ear will help Cliff. It appears a mentor relationship between the two.
So long as Wayne stays in his present role, we need Wayne to shoot treys and protect and ONLY go baseline, not over the top.
Devonte never goes baseline, only to the middle.
Frank needs to stop driving the iron and start pulling upâEVERY TIME.
Players need to stop waiting for Brannen to shoot the treys.
Every time one of our guys grabs a rebound, he needs to pass it to someone near mid court. We can become a much better release passing team. Making long release passes will do more to put us on the attack than any other single thing.Rebound, long pass. Strip, long pass. TO, long pass.
MOVEâŚ.THEâŚ.BALLâŚ.UPâŚ.THEâŚ.COURTâŚASFASTASYOUCAN!!!!!!!
Gathers can play. But we beat him and them twice with our weakest inside game in 11 seasons.
I believe KU will go farther than both of them.
We are about to see Self let up on the "development" of the team, and start engineering the gelling of the team.
"Finding themselves" is Self's code for stop thinking about learning new stuff, and start finding your center from which to play.
The Big 12 this season is reminding me of some of the old ACC seasons back in Dean's day, and the Big Ten intermittently when they used to get 4-6 teams capable of beating each other. Its hairy and unpredictable, and results in lower seeding for all that make it to the dance, but it toughens them up and they usually do better in the Madness. Fingers crossed.
I share in empathizing and encouraging a team approach to our goal of slaughtering the Shorthorns.
Honk-honk!
TEARS.....RUNNING....DOWN.....FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew things got tough and that they were going to get tougher, but not this.
NOT THE THROWBACKS!!!!!
GOD WILL NOT PERMIT THIS TO HAPPEN!!!!!!
You said you are a woman. Talk to Cindy. It may come down to you and Cin. Eleven years of hard work hangs in the balance of two women working this out and changing his mind.
"I am woman, hear me roar..."
:8ball:
Help us get out from behind this thing.
We CAN't wear the throwbacks.
God is in the details.
Bill is nothing if not a detail freak.
Oh, god, NO!. We can't give away any edge. Please, Bill, pretty please with Oklahoma Joe's barbecue sauce on top, not the throwbacks!!!!! I have stood by you through thick and thin, Bill . I've never asked anything of you. Well, maybe a few more threes, but I've argued your approach as valid, too. Please don't let them wear the throwbacks. Not now. Not when an eleventh title is now within our grasp after Baylor anti-cycloned ISU. Oh, noooooooo, not the throw backs, Bill. Just man-up to aidadas this one time. Not the the throw backs. Help me, help me, help me, I think I'm going insane!!!!!!!