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JayHawkFanToo said:

@dylans

Jaybate does not let the facts interfere with the narrative. :smiley:

@JayHawkFanToo splattering again!

Howling!

Where is your attack graphic ?

😂

@FarSideHawk

Clemson seems the more predictable team.

Auburn seems the more emotionally volatile team, because Pearl is there coach.

Thus, even though Clemson is probably a little better team than Auburn, based on RPI, I would rather play Clemson and scheme to stop a little better, but less volatile team, than play a Pearl-lead Auburn that could get too emotionally high for any scheme to reign in.

Regardless, this is probably one of those "be careful what you wish for" situations.

Best to stay neutrally balanced.

@dylans

Both Auburn and Clemson pose real problems for KU.

Auburn is coached by Bruce Pearl, who is a hugely emotional coach. His teams performances vary widely. There highs can be Deep Space high. Their lows can be Mariannas Trench low. This poses a serious problem for a coach like Self. Other things equal, Self would look at Round 2 and say no amp for Auburn and amp for the second Round 2 opponent. But because Auburn is coached by Pearl, he can't be certain Pearl won't geek the War Eagles into the Stratosphere for Self and KU. Self also has to take a stand on when he thinks the coming trough will occur: first, or second game round 2. These two factors will be so tough to anticipate that I think Self should amp for the first game of the second round, if its Auburn, and try to labor through the second game of the second round, hoping the trough will have passed and the team can find a way. Pearl's teams aren't particularly good. They are emotionally dangerous.

I haven't studied Clemson yet, so I can't say what Self will do in the event we play Clemson instead.

The decision will also depend on who is likely to be the second game opponent of round 2.

If the possible opponents of the second round are super good and super bad matchups, then Self HAS to send them out flat in the first game and amp for the second game, even though its going to be very tough to win a game flat in a trough.

But all of this is why Bill gets the big bucks.

He will make a sound decision for sure.

Whether it yields a win depends on whether the opposing team shoots lights out.

@dylans

I'm guessing its a down cycle being softened by slow footed competition that has been giving KU too many easy looks.

I'm guessing we trough next game, probably 20-25%.

I'm guessing we try to dunk and drive and strip and block our way through it.

If we get our trough out of the way in Round 2 and some how win both games, then I reckon we win the ring.

But the trough game is going to be a female dog, no matter when it comes.

Frankly, the longer the trough delays coming, the tougher it will be to overcome, when it gets here, because, as you rightly point out, competition stiffens with each round.

tundrahok said:

@jaybate-1.0 The cyclic period of 6 games you've suggested would mean we're due for another trough next game. Sure hope not. But we'd hit our next peak in the Championship game!

You nailed it. I'm pretty sure this is why Self has schemed the team as he increasingly has the second half of the season.

The first half, he was building a team that would have Doke and Preston to muscle through inside on cyclic phases KU would not be shooting the trey above 40%.

But when Preston did the disappear-o for goulash land, well, it was type for Plan B.

This was when Malik really began to be tooled up for driving it. Same with Svi to lesser degree.

Self appears to have decided to live and live with three point shooting and combat dying with driving (and post dunks) on the cold nights.

Its working so far.

We CAN find a way through the coming trough, IF the other team doesn't shoot lights out from trey.

But even Self can't figure out how to beat a team shooting 50% from trey, when his team is shooting 20%.

At least I don't think he can. :-)

@BShark

I really didn't see the skill level, or the footwork, level to really compete in the top tier of the Big 12. KSU would take Seton Hall easily.

You've got to remember, KU repeatedly jumped out to 10-12 point leads on the Fighting Setons and the only reason KU didn't blow them out was that KU played the second half 4 on 5 with Devonte pretending to be playing. Sheesh, if Devonte had been healthy, KU would have shit canned them by 15 easily, probably by 20.

I mean did you see how effortlessly Svi was driving on those guys. Svi hasn't been able to shake loose that easily that often against ANY top tier team in the B12.

And Malik frankly looked like he could have scored 40 points, if Self had just said give him the ball and drive it, pal.

Here is how weak Seton Hall was : Vick was even getting aggressive on the drive at times.

Really, KU would have mopped the floor with these guys if Devonte had been able to add 2 and 2 the second half.

And even playing 4 on 5, the only way the fighting Setons were able to stay in the game was by massive cheap shotting most every play. And they were such babies that when KU dished it back, they started crying. Really, I would love to schedule them and this pencil neck coach of theirs into Allen Field House shortly and beat them 100 to 70 with our subs playing a lot the last 5 minutes.

@Blown

We could have won a first round game with a trough, but we would have to play a fabulous floor game and drive for short treys, and pick up all the garbage baskets possible to compensate at the Round 2 level IMHO.

What concerns me most right now, though, is Devonte's health. He really looked out of it the second half. He is a good dead pan pretender, and so can pull back on the reigns and mask how limited he is, but everyone likely recalls how Malik's head shot took it out of him for a couple games, while he played through. Devonte will play through. But wow is this a lot to ask of even the "find-a-way guys" to win a Sweet 16 and an Elite 8 with DG at half to 3/4 effectiveness.

But this is what the "find-a-way guys" have been about all season: finding a way!!!

Svi, Malik, and LaGerald each showed they could take it up a notch the second half against a Seton-Hall. The question of course is: can they take it up a notch against a Clemson, or an Auburn. I haven't seen either team play and won't get to watch them play today. I hope someone writes up a scout on the winner that KU will have to play, so I can read it.

dylans said:

@jaybate-1-0 what if 41% was the trough that KU climbs out of the rest of the games, peaking in about 4 games?

It is possible statistically speaking.

The right and left tails of distributions exist to account for such anomalies.

Teams have gotten hot for six games. KU could have gotten hot for the previous 6-7 games (trough to trough so to speak) and then get hot for another 4 games. Its is possible.

Having allowed for the statistically possible, then it is worth considering what would be implied, if 41% were the trough in a tendency, rather than in an anomaly in a right tail of the distribution.

The first trough was 19% followed by a peak of 55%.

The second trough was 35% followed by a peak of 55%.

The third trough, according to your what if, would be 41%, and let's assume it too will be followed by a 55% peak.

This implies the team is becoming a rapidly improving three point shooting team down the stretch of the season. Why?

Well, we know it is not the format. Most of the conference season, KU played 2 in 3 or 2 in 4 formats separated by about a week, same as in the March Carney.

Are a lot of our perimeter players' outside shooting mechanics being changed, or dialed in, by the coaches? Well, I see no sign of any perimeter player's shooting mechanics changing, do you?

Are our perimeter players legs getting healthier, or are our perimeter players getting more rest? No and no appear reasonable answers.

Are our perimeter players getting better shots? Hmmmmmm. Now there is an interesting possibility. Out of the last three games in the conference tourney, two were played agains lesser teams. Out of the two teams played in the first round, one sucked (Penn) and one (Seton) was no better than a bottom half of the Big 12 type team. This leads one to suspect that our impressive shooting has been produced by two factors converging.

First, there is the shooting cycle contribution. Our shooting cycles do rise and fall and rise again. The last few games, we were beginning a decline phase, but it has not gotten as deep as the usual decline phase for a reason.

Second, that reason is the relatively weak competition in the first round of the tournament.

So: I will throw the what ifs back to you now.

What if 41% against Seton would have been much lower against a team of at least the quality of the upper level of the Big12? And what if KU meets a team at least as good as one of the top 3-4 teams in the Big 12 either game in Round 2? What if the combination of KU being in a down cycle, probably even hitting a trough in the first of the two game sets, coincides with KU encountering a team as good as, or perhaps even slightly better than, one of the top 4 teams in the B12? Is it possible KU could trough between 19 and 35% from beyond the trey stripe?

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JayHawkFanToo said:

jaybate 1.0 said:

Delgado can transfer to KU anytime he wants!

He can transfer but can’t play.

HOWLING!

He would have started from day one this season.

Delgado can transfer to KU anytime he wants!

Josh 36 = amazing

@mayjay

Affirmative!

KU v. KSU 45%

KU v. OSU 36.4%

KU v. TCU 33.3%

KU v. Baylor 19.4% <------- TROUGH

KU v. ISU 34.6%

KU v. WVU 31.8%

KU v. OU 55.2% <------- PEAK

KU v. TTECH 44%

KU v. TEXAS 43.8%

KU v. OSU 35% <-------TROUGH

KU v. OSU 40%

KU v. KSU 39.3%

KU v. WVU 55.6% <--------PEAK

KU v. Penn 41.2%

KU v. Seton Hall 42%

KU v. Clemson/Auburn ?%

No trough yet?

KU v. Opponent 3pt%

KU v. KSU 45%

KU v. OSU 36.4%

KU v. TCU 33.3%

KU v. Baylor 19.4% <------- TROUGH

KU v. ISU 34.6%

KU v. WVU 31.8%

KU v. OU 55.2% <------- PEAK

KU v. TTECH 44%

KU v. TEXAS 43.8%

KU v. OSU 35% <-------TROUGH

KU v. OSU 40%

KU v. KSU 39.3%

KU v. WVU 55.6% <--------PEAK

KU v. Penn 41.2%

KU v. Seton Hall ?%

The last 14 games indicate a KU team that is like a basketball vessel sailing up and down and up and down the swells of 3 Point seas.

The last 14 games show show two troughs and two peaks.

The first trough cycle from peak to peak was 7 games, or so, with a DEEP trough of 19% in the middle.

The second trough cycle from peak to peak was again 7 games, with a shallower trough in the middle of 35%.

The highs for both cycles were 55%.

KU appears to be entering a third trough cycle and appears to be two games in with the third game coming today versus Seton Hall.

Based on the previous two cycles, we can expect something less than the 41% KU shot against Penn. KU will likely shoot between 35-38% today, again based on the pattern of the two most recent cycles.

KU can win at the 35-38% level of trey shooting, if KU can drive it and score short treys inside, protects, strips, blocks, and boards, and if the other team isn't too scorching hot and turns it over for us.

Seton Hall would be an easy W if KU were to shoot unexpectedly well from trey. KU could beat Seton Hall on an off shooting night if Mitch and Silvio can be productive, and if Doke can give 15 minutes.

Round Two of the tournament the next weekend is when KU will apparently really need Doke to over come a BAD outside shooting game.

Likely the bad shooting game (somewhere between 19 and 35%) will come the first game next weekend. But it could come the second game, also. Either way, it is almost a given that Round Two (Sweet 16 and Elite Eight) is the weekend that KU is going to have to rely almost solely on a combo of BAD BALL driving and playing through the bigs, if this KU team wants to enter the Final Four to play two games on the ascent to a new peak of high percentage outside shooting.

Rock Chalk!

Now is the time to hire Tony Bennett. His stock is down. :-)

Why he is no good. He can't even win a first round game. But would he like to run our program. :-)

I know a lot of aliases don't like him, because he plays slow down, physical ball without draft choices, until TPTB in the apparently rigged recruiting process deign to give him some.

And I hope we can find someone better, when the time comes, but...

This is the time for an elite major to get him cheap.

And this early exit monkey will ride on Bennett's back unfairly, same as the early exit monkey rode on Self's back, until Bill got the knack of making it to the Elite Eight and Sweet 16 regularly.

Also, this is the Carney.

"Let me take you down

'Cause I'm going to strawberry fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry fields forever..."

--The Beatles, "Strawberry Fields Forever"

Statistically improbable things routinely happen in this tournament.

Each year, this tournament is the 9-11 of sports.

Good teams fall in their own footprints.

A blackmailer’s threat to himself and loved ones reputedly made him resign. Hmmm. Were the blackmailers blackmailing him for money? Or to make him resign? Both? Neither?

Something still seems odd.

“The oligarch grabs nine cookies for himself then says to the white dude, "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"

—@BShark

I like the spirit of your tag line, and always think of it amended as follow.

“The oligarch grabs nine cookies for himself then says to the white dude, "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!" And then, randomly switching monikers for the cookie thief to watch watch out for, says the same to the black dude, the Hispanic dude, the central Asian dude, the Asian dude, the European dude, the Arab dude, the Persian dude, the African dude and all the dudes of the world.”

Rock Chalk!

KU is now 3 to 4 games into a run of 40% + 3 point shooting; this second game of the first round is the one I fretted over as being the possible breaking point of the run of hot trey shooting and coming coincident with Doke still being out.

Seton Hall has WVU size and toughness, if I recall correctly, so this could be a very tough game to win without the 40% trey and without the Doke.

This could be the game all the gut it out games earlier in the season could help us.

Tomorrow could be a find a way to win game.

If Doke doesn’t play this game, KU blows cold, and KU has to “find a way”, this could be an opp for one of KU’s great wins!!

Pray for one more hot hand.

But don’t bet against “the find a way guys” either!!!

Go KU!!!!

The integrity of those at the top packaging and covering D1 college basketball is beyond question.

Anyone seen the betting line on the chances of the "one bad apple" meme coming into play?

Next.

(Note: VISUAL graphics to distract from and defuse the message of a reputedly self-proclaimed blackmailed cocaine consumer running major network sports coverage may be inserted below at any shill's preference, if the budget permits. :) )

wrwlumpy said:

A basketball writer for CBS posted on twitter "Yes I am a Mizzou graduate and I do hate KU, but there is no way that KU will get past NC State."

I don't believe ANY Fizzouri graduate learns to write, much less read.

Just had to write that headline!

Former Wichita Congressman and new SecState nominee Pompeo better lay low a few days until Penn grad Trump shakes it off!

Wow, this guy did the disappear-o!

What team did he finally join and what kind of season did he have?

@jayballer73

Of course he should sit another 2 games, but Self will play him limited minutes both games.

It’s all out time now.

Everyone that can put on a shoe and guard plays!! 😏

Ollie —-> LB

Stallings—> LB

Tough sledding for LB disciples.

Unemployed coach of a national champion: Kevin Ollie.

This makes me sick to my stomach!

You’ve got to really luv hoops to watch the National Irrelevance Tournament.

Hats off to all you hoops addicts!!!

3 Nike, one non Nike.

He wants to coach.

What?

No Archie Miller advocacy?

Archie could bring Stumpy in to recruit. 🤥

When you hire a coach at KU, you should be trying to identify a guy that could be a HOF coach, if things go right for him.

You are looking for a guy that can for guys like LB, Roy and Self, guys that can get the players to Lawrence, coach them up, and win 80% or more.

What separates LB, Roy and Self from Dick Harp and Ted Owens?

Its not Xs and Os. Its not work ethic. Its not self-confidence.

LB, Roy and Self each had the intangibles of charisma, hardness, insight about who could play (and who could not), cunning about winning, master psychologists, and each were great strategists (on cutting edge of where basketball could go next, and cleverer than all the rats in recruiting trying to compromise them. These intangibles add up to basketball genius and are hard to recognize unless you have seen them up close before.

HOF fame coaches do it each their own way. Each one is remarkably unique. They learn from and steal from all manner of coaches, even each other, but they are just 100% originals as human beings. One Allen. One Rupp. One Wooden. One Smith. One Knight. One Crum. One Sutton. One LB. One K. One Roy. One Pitino. One Donovan. One Self. No copies. Each one did it unlike any of the others. Even Roy, who was such a clone of Dean Smith for so long, finally became utterly unique when he finally began innovating the running game the last couple years at KU and then he left the Dean Program at UNC.

At the same time, uniqueness is NOT enough. Each unique Hall of Fame has to have the other intangibles, or they wind up as also rans.

Shaka Smart is unique, and smart, and has some charism and confidence, and he can get guys to play hard, but he is a mediocre strategist, an inflexible thinker, and clearly just does not really deeply understand the puzzle parts of a team and who impact with and build around, and who to mask.

Brown wasn't Allen. Williams wasn't Brown. Self wasn't Williams.

Looking at Brown, Williams, and Self, each one made one want another coach that played it the way he did, and such a coach was never around. Even when you can find one that is remarkably similar in approach to the last great one, conditions have usually changed and so, while coming to KU means the guy will get some better than average players to coach, if he can recruit a lick, the problem is, he will not optimize aping the last coach, because the game has moved on.

You have to find guys with the intangibles that can get players.

You can't worry about whether they play a game similar to the last great coach.

They probably won't.

The game has changed and they have already, if they are the kind of coach we need, will be on the cutting edge of the way the game can go under contemporary constraints.

I actually haven't watch Tony Bennett closely.

But he has the intangibles and he is winning while he is learning.

He comes from a basketball coach, his father.

He has made a number of programs play winning basketball.

He is winning in a tough conference of 16 teams. Danny Manning is not doing it, and Danny knows a ton about basketball. But Tony Bennett is doing it. He's doing it against two Hall of Famers in Williams and K.

No, I don't like his brand of ball much.

But KU is not about playing a brand of ball we already know we like.

KU is about playing the next brand of ball that can win 80% of the games, win conference titles and play for national championships.

Tony Bennett would be a terrific hire.

And I would learn to appreciate this new kind of ball he coaches, same as I did with LB, Roy and Bill.

HOF coaches always take the game to a place no one else has taken it to before.

That is the kind of coach KU needs, when Bill retires, or moves on.

No one but a hall of fame coach should ever follow a retiring half of fame coach. The expectations are too brutal, unless you know where to take basketball next...and take it there.

First modernity.

Then post modernity.

Now, welcome to hypermodernity.

Quite a ways below follows a quote and a link to an interesting commentary that characterizes culture migrating through the above phases.

It is an interesting staging. It carries with it a vantage point that millions cannot climb high enough to share in, but it probably applies to just enough of us to make it worth a read.

I recommend reading the commentary the following quote is from at the link supplied. i don't know anything about the author.

As preface, "signs" in the quote and the commentary refer to memes and images that are not necessarily connected to a reality with a wide consensus, and take much of their meaning not as symbols of reality being operated on with human logic, but rather as signs untethered from reality and operated on by human logic largely in terms of their relational meanings. For example, the battle between Trump and ALL his opponents is fought not in the trenches of reality, for at the limit there is no discernible reality, just signs of a reality beyond all but our digitized experience. These signs behave as fungible items in a market--like stock in a stock market. There are some fundamentals, but there are also a lot technicals and beliefs shaping stock value. Even the fundamentals are suspect, because inflation and unemployment are so misleadingly measured and expressed. Hence stock values become disconnected from the underlying values of the corporation's enterprise performance. Similarly, in hypermodernity, where nothing can be known with high confidence, because of the high probability of untraceable digital mischaracterization of the most basic drivers of apparent events, signs not symbols take over, and the signs begin to take on the characteristics of sign markets without verifiable fundamentals, if you will. Trump can be falsely accused of collusion with Putin for a year with skillfully chosen allegations beyond the realm of verification for all manner of reasons. And in the end, Trump can be found not guilty, but because of the very unverifiability of the claims, no one ever has to give up the relational sign value of the charges--and so those that dislike Trump still dislike him, and those that like Trump still like him. Signs exist only in a realm of relational demand and supply dynamics. Symbols tied to verifiable objects and operated on with logic, from which humanity's cultural realm arose, are no longer driving outcomes, but merely feeding into sign markets that largely ignore them as fundamentals in stock markets are ignored and technicals and emotions are defaulted to.

The memes and images the Deep State's apparently controlled media feeds us largely without connection to reality leave us in a predicament. Whatever meaning one's mind attempts to wring from the images and memes is largely relational between, or among, the signs consumed and not reliable indications of reality.

"In Modernity, civilizations with their own sign regimes clashed with one another; in Postmodernity, terrorist groups as social formations clashed; but in Hypermodernity each individual is a nation state unto himself armed and equipped with his own electronic sign regime to do battle with other suits of light in cyberspace."--John David Ebert, poet

http://cultural-discourse.com/on-hypermodernity/ ↗

I don't agree with summarization of the quote above, because, a.) history is not dying, its becoming more complex; and b.) among other reasons, reduction solely to hypemodernity fails to address the patchiness of hypermodernity's emergence. I see a world that is something of a quilt of legacy functionalism (neo functionalism), legacy Modernity (neo modern), increasingly legacy Post Modernity (neo post modernism), AND Hypermodernity. Maybe a better and more accessible metaphor is a front yard of blue grass, and crab grass, with patches of invading bermuda grass and some plugged zoysia grass emerging and spreading. A lot of what is going to happen to our yard is tied up in both emergent complexity and in choices we make about what we encourage and what we discourage and what we simply overlook, or throw up you hands in frustration at.

But the commentary is still a useful hypothesis that makes us think about what has happened to our world in large part as a product of digitalization and the crisis of verifiable truth it has enabled.

(Note: Modernism, Post Modernism, and Hypermodernism are simply three concepts referring to complex constellations of observable cultural behaviors with a bewildering array of dynamics operating within each. Try NEVER to lose sight of, or be reductive about, the rich ecology of activity that each refers to. Doing that reduces the three concepts to signs with only relational meanings to each other and no objective referents; i.e., to hypermodernity. For example, never reduce these with bromides like this is just dazzling them with bull shit. To be reductive is a form of intellectual cowardice under conditions of modernity, post modernity, and hypermodernity. We're in this mess of largely unverifiable sign reality, interplaying problematically with more conventional legacy cultural function, and reductions that don't acknowledge the ascent of significant unverifiability, persistence of intermittent verifiable realities and the emerging complexity these trigger are pointless. We are sailors on a sea of signs and symbols and rocky outcroppings of objective reality in need of good shit detectors, reliable depth finders, AND good compasses.)

Rock Chalk!

@justanotherfan

That was a marvelous run down of the other great programs of college basketball history. Thanks for refreshing my memory with it!

I also get your logic and conclusion. Persuades me.

They all look like NBA players, when the shots are falling.

The question is: what do they look when they are not falling.

The first half of the season, it was not clear Malik was a D1 player, when the shots were not falling.

The second half he got it and has become a very good college basketball player, regardless of how big, or small the rim gets, in a given game.

He needs to torch a future NBA player within the team framework in the Carney to build trust in NBA GMs.

If KU can get out of the first round without blowing cold, he should get that chance.

If he gets the chance, he seems ready to leave second, or third degree burns.

Thus, I expect Malik to being playing for money next season.

If he were to come back next season, he would become dominating.

He is a helluva basketball player, once he gets it.

@BShark

I wonder: would tournament promotion and brand management be helped, or hindered, if UK beat UA early and made the UA/Stumpy "issue" disappear ASAP from "the narrative"?

There. I used "narrative" to try to be hip and hypermodern.

:-)

@wissox

batenac 1.0, the all seeing one from the east only predicts KU games, and is at this very moment withdrawing the KU bracket from a mayonaisse jar and will get back with you if/when he can foresee clearly the future.

To reiterate, after the thermonuclear hot shooting of games 2 and 3 in the useless conference tourney, I have great trepidation about game 2 of the first weekend, despite strong reassurances of other swamis that the first weekend is a lock for KU. One can now be assured that at least one game in the coming potential three 2-game tournaments will see KU having more difficulty getting the trey ball to fall through the orange rim than an elephant dancing on one leg through the sphincter of a Tse Tse fly.

But, I must make clear, that as of this moment, batenac 1.0 has no clear vision beyond the trepidation of Game 2 of Weekend 1.

And most certainly no theorizin'.

@Bwag

It is always refreshing to find truth spoken with conviction, so early in the morning.

Rock Chalk!

wissox said:

@cragarhawk Thanks!
@jaybate-1-0 , come on bro, you do a fair amount of theoryizing! Of course, most of your theories are 99% accurate 3/5th of the time except on Sundays and days that are above 82 degrees.

What I am, of course, penultimately thrilled about is how "conspiracy theory"-- lately sheepishly being reduced to "theorizing" and other variations--by persons so long conditioned by the CIA's MSM meme-ing them with "conspiracy theory," came to be proven to be CIA/Deep State memes (thanks Judicial Watch). I admit, I figured "conspiracy theory" and "theorizing" had to be propaganda terms propagated in the CIA shaped reverb chamber of the CIA-shaped MSM, but, well, even I couldn't predict that the term itself would be tied straight to the Company. Damn, that was very sweet and I missed it! There. I admit it. I'm only good at forecasting KU basketball. Good forecasting requires true love. I don't love politics and propaganda, as I do KU Basketball. But you know that.

Ultimately, I am all yeeeee hawwwww, its Carney time at last, and as usual, that ain't no "theorizin'". :-)

Oh and I refer you again to my "playful predictin' ":

1. Called 14th title 2-3 weeks before and stuck to forecast, when the hand wringers were bed wetting. Check.

2. Called the wheels coming off TTech-less, after Self and his players exploited their weaknesses. Their wheels went off in every direction. Check.

3. Said losing Doke was best thing for KU that could have happened. They won 3 in 3. It was. Check.

"How sweet it is," as Jackie Gleason used to say.

But these are just the usual results for the Oread Oracle, as you know. :-)

Rock Chalk, my theorizin'-projecting fellow Jayhawk!

@wissox

Actually theories are what I NEVER do.

THEORIES are for suckers!

Yeeeee hawwww!

It’s CARNEY time at last!!!

One more weekend and Doke is back!!!!

@wissox

I said we would win the 14th 2-3 weeks before we did. We did.

I said the wheels would come off Tech after we beat them. They did.

I said Doke going down for two weeks the day after he got hurt was the best thing that could have happened to this team. They won 3 in 3 in KC. It was.

No theorizin’ from the ‘bate 1.0.

Just clear vision.

Now for next: I don’t like how hot we got in KC. Needed the hot game for the second game of round 1 in the Carney–the last one before Doke plays again. If we flame out from trey in game 1/round 1, we can labor through
Without Doke. But if we flame out game 2/round 1, we will likely get beat. Ugh!!

Here’s hoping we stay hot till the second round!!!

Cant recall another than LB.

@DoubleDD

Copy.

Paste.

@Hawk8086

Every game will be like this till Doke gets back. Until Doke gets back, this is Whackka Mole! It’s not how dominant we are. It’s how we find ways to whack just enough moles to win!

BeddieKU23 said:

They can't defend but they sure did enough to help us win

New nickname: the enough bunch!

Duo Post is getting better every game!

If KU keeps this substitute production up, the team with no bench just may become known as the with the Finishing Crew!!!

The team also got 16 points and 16 boards from the bench.

Svi and Malik were 9-16 from treyville!!

KU was +7 on the leaded crystal!!!

Everything is starting!

:sunglasses:

The future is so bright, I have to wear shades.