Still not hearing @approxinfinity weighing in on this issue.
Nor @bskeet.
jaybate 1.0
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What up, JNew?
Have you and your Cap Men finessed your ways into the best seats in the house, so you can give us the feel of the game in real time without having to squint?
We need you guys in the thick of it to maximize the clicks!!!!!
:-)
Hey, I read over at a web site in an inverse universe that the de NonnaBO et al legal team are asking for $50M from the AACN?
Wait, can I say $50M, or is that trademarked by NSPE, or the AACN, or by la te NonnaBO, or by the laredeF evreseR ? Sorry about the backwards spelling, but I am beginning to fear even referring to them with their official names without their expressed written consent to say the words.
Like nehpetS gniK said on the ffuH tsoP, we now live in the world of 4891.
Gee, I don't know. The laredeF evreseR is a private, for profit corporation in an inverse universe. Can I even use the words "laredeF evreseR," without permission, or are they trade marked and/or copyrighted in the inverse universe, too?
Gosh, for that matter, can I say AACN, or NonnaBO, or are those words also trademarked and/or copyrighted and off limits to use, in the inverse universe, too.
Whew!
I better double check my DNA, er, AND, too. Who knows? Maybe Crick, er, kcirC dna nostaW trademarked and copyrighted you know what.
What the hell! What if someone over at Big Ag has stepped in and patented my own private genome without me knowing it? Kind of like weasels registered the names of companies online before companies got clued in to how important their name on the net was going to become with ".com" behind it.
What if all of our individual genomes have been patented by some putz in Yonkers that lives above a pizza parlor?
Does anyone know if in the age of intellectual property rightism--not in the era of the law of property rights, but rather in the era of the ideology of conditioning everyone else's individual freedoms via the conduit of intellectual property rights, that we have lost our right to be our own selves? But I digress!
What if tyranny itself has been patented, trademarked, and copyrighted? What if you are not allowed to yell tyranny while you are being abducted to be tortured? What the hell? What if you are only allowed to talk about intensive interrogation under torture because of copyright?
Ah, the Man of La Mancha. Hey, did hctiM hgieL and eoJ nairaD give the estate of Cervantes, er, setnavreC, even the sweat off its you know what's for that variation?
$50,000,000 bones. Hmm, er, 000,000,05 senob. A senob here, a senob there, and pretty soon you have quite a few skeletons, er, snoteleks!
I'm a layman. I don't know what's right here.
I like the kids finally making a few bucks for all the money they have made for the AACN and its member institutions.
But I'm just not smart enough to figure out where to draw the line on this stuff.
$50M reserve notes. Can I say that?
That sounds like one helluva a lot of likenesses having been exploited without consideration in one helluva lot of marketing events.
I reckon the AACN is going to have to make it back some how!
How about gambling kiosks in college basketball arenas with the AACN getting some skim?
No, that would be too obvious even for what some reputedly (and wrongly) call the AD cartel.
How about moving all of the college basketball venues onto Native American Casino sites and then allow gambling kiosks at college basketball games?
I don't know. Its too complicated for a layman.
But seriously, I really believed the damages would be much, much higher.
Didn't you?
(Note: all fictionalized satire. No malice is expressed or implied. Or to put it another way--on ecilam. I had to write that to keep my alter ego from suing me. You see, I forgot to ask his permission. )
I want to be the first to announce that I have coined "Ekin" and "sadida" as names for imaginary PetroShoeCoes in my own satiric inverse universe. I now claim to have intellectual property rights in them and if anyone so much as thinks about about using them without my expressed written consent, then I am going to send Mot Esiurc from the Troper Ytironim to arrest them preemptively.
Txen!
@Crimsonorblue22 and @JayhawkRock78
CC: @JayHawkFanToo
BCC: anyone else that has trouble grasping "backfill" as used by @jaybate 1.0
Backfill. Backfill. Backfill. Backfill. Its okay to write and say the word, at least as I use it. I am unfamiliar with other usages than what I define below, and I am frankly wary of going to unfamiliar links unrelated to sports on this site for a variety of reasons. But one reason is this: Granny jaybate 1.0 used to say, "Lil' jaybate 1.0, remember, try to protect your senses from folks trying cunningly to expose you to the pornographic, because it dulls your senses and can be used to smear you." Well, I'm not absolutely sure she said exactly that, for its been a long time ago, now, but it was something to that effect. :-)
Now, here is the definition (or should I say etiology? I haven't looked up etiology in awhile), as I use it. Enjoy.
from jaybate's idiosyncratic basketball posting dictionary:
backfill: noun, verb, personally observed origin--surveyors in desert southwest, early 4th quarter of 20th Century
Definition: 1.) n, on a construction site, after a utility infrastructure trench is dug, and water/sewer pipes, or power line conduits are laid down in the trench, the trench is then filled back in with dirt, i.e., backfill.
2.) v. the act of covering up the utility infrastructure in the trench with dirt.
I have taken this meaning of the word backfill and applied it with poetic license to basketball posting.
Metaphorically speaking, then, in posting, jaybate 1.0's comments are hopefully like the digging of a utility infrastructure trench and laying of utility infrastructure that others might tap into were such comments to offer any actual utility (and that is oft doubted by some), while, say, some other poster might repeatedly (obsessively?) follow immediately behind with posts that kind of cover them with metaphorical dirt. :-)
Now, I cannot say for sure if "backfill" is still in use on construction sites, or even how widespread the usage was, for it has been awhile since I was on a construction site, but that is how I have used and intended its usage here.
There. All the fear and mystery and taboo (and potential for smear) are gone.
Now, repeat after me: backfill, backfill, backfill. :-)
PHOF!!
Damn, MU 12th in the SEC almost makes up for all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune!!!!!!
Now, if the forecast just holds true!!!!!
Sweet Red iBarber and Ring iLardner!!! It wouldn't be hoops season without the Emperor of Electrons, the Potentate of Packet Switching, the King of Connectivity, and the White Rook of Real Timing...JNEW setting'em up!!!!!!!!!!!!
Put some atomic balm on your keyboard, because I'm coming to type at you on the first Live Blog of this season.
By god, I've had everything go wrong with every body part I got including the one all women say I think with, and I've been pacing myself to try to mend, but when you power up the Live Blog for the first time this season and strap a nipple on a Heineken for Haskins to nurse on, I'm throwing off the Phallus Boot, and the Holter Monitor, and the myriad meat staples I am heir to, and the meds are going down the WC, and I'm playin' through one more season even if I die at the keyboard doin' it!!!!!!!!!!
Yeeeeeee hawwwwwww, good to hear from JNEW!!!!
Now, about The Designer...
Those are mighty fine numbers and I am as a grateful as a healthcare worker in an Ebola zone for a haz mat suit to have The Designer.
And we all know The Designer has savant scoring thing down pat.
But....
Ask this pattering papob of positivism--John Peptobismol, er, Gasaway, if he would parse these numbers, er index them if you will, fer Designer vs. guys his size and Designer vs. Blue Meanies.
I have always been in awe of The Designer's savant scoring abilities against guys his own size and smaller (and even some guys bigger) that play in a gentlemanly. Against those guys, The Designer has been absolutely unstoppable.
But what I worry about is that either The Designer disappears against the Blue Meanies, or Self simply chooses not to play through The Designer on the days he is up against Blue Meanies.
Blue Meanies are bad-posteriored dudes that are long and strong and play rougher than kick boxers on steroids and Cape Girardeau Sudafed.
Is this the season that my beloved Designer is going to learn the TRob Love Tap, the airborne forearm smash to the throat, so that these Blue Meanies will finally leave him alone to score at will every game?
Being a layman, I cannot explain why, but I just don't have a positive feeling about getting into the shirt activity in terms of possible fallout for the site's owners without first getting permission from KU, and the estates of anyone else's name, or image, put on the t-shirt. And even with the permissions, it seems some sound legal counsel would be prudent. My hunch is that @approxinfinity needs to weigh in on this, because this is his site and the actions that are being discussed are being discussed on his site and apparently aim to use the name of his site on the t-shirts.
I just don't want to see any harm come to @approxinfinity and @bskeet, or the community. No one probably gives a hoot about our small online community, but I sometimes wonder about attorneys involved in seeking to set precedents for trademarks in the internet era and on the payroll of high powered players in the marketing game picking on tiny online communities like ours precisely because such communities are not funded to defend themselves, and because that makes them an easy mark for setting precedents with. Just a thought from a concerned layman.
(note: @JayhawkRock78, this is the post I moved from the quotes thread. Not sure how I goofed and got it on there in the first place. I hope it works out that it is ok to do the shirts, because they would be fun. )
Hi, I moved my comment about reservations about t-shirts over to the correct thread and off the quotes thread.
In the grand scheme of things, there is no grand scheme, but there seem to be a whole lot of little schemes.
--jaybate 1.0
Whenever you have questions about me, @Crimsonorblue22 follows me rather closely and you can expect help if I am tardy. :-)
Muchas gracias for telling DanR the proper "current" location of the photo. I had forgotten. It seemed to move from one link to the other yesterday, and I posted one place, then moved the post to another, when I saw it there. But it could just be some confusion on my end. I recently updated my OS and since that moment, there have been a lot of glitches in the way this site functions on my desktop. :-(
What I am really interested in is who took the photo and where it came from? I wonder who knows? It sure does not look like one that was meant for commercial publication, given some of the appearances of some of the figures in the photo. Maybe someone took it while the professional photog was posing the group for an official photo?
Anyway, it is an interesting photo to try to analyze. And without knowing who took it, my remarks on it were intended hypothetically of course.
Rock Chalk!
In a private central bank centric world order with untraceable bailouts, the bottom line is there is no bottom line.
--jaybate 1.0
Thanks for sharing. You and your mate are buying them the right way. Also, there is a fabulous woman in Louisiana that runs a business called "The Grits Girl" on line. If you can find her grits, I've had them shipped to me and she stone grinds them and sells them fresh but unrefrigerated. They were a reasonable price and very good. Ask your grits supplier how their grinds are ground and washed? I always like to learn how they do it.
@globaljaybird
Try your recipe with soybean oil. It's hard to find up north. Look for it on a trip south. Not the best for fighting cholesterol for sure, but it gave me no heartburn of the kind I get with canola and vegetable oils, and even sometimes with olive oil.
@Crimsonorblue22
Grits are undergoing a renaissance, since northerners found out they are polenta with the germ left in. Serious southern grits makers, like Anson Mills , are going back are reputedly breeding BACK to legacy varieties of corn typical a 100-200 years ago to reintroduce the pre hybrid flavors of corn before field corn and sweet corn were bread to optimize yield for hog feeds and super market uniformity. Completely skip instant grits. Quick White grits are barely better than no grits. Anson Mills are terrible expensive but terrible good and must be bought refrigerated or they are not worth the price. But many small southern mills still stone grind and leave the germ in and are worth ordering by mail, or on a business trip. They just don't use the old strains of corn. All conquered places save their cultures through their cooking. The South did too. Real Grits are one way to find out what America was like before the private banking oligarchy subjugated and industrialized it after the Civil War. Polenta even with good good pecorino Romano or parmeseano reggiano, is a tepid, pasteurized substitute for the real thing that Southerners inherited from southern Native Americans. Cooking with real grits is to American cooking what cooking risotto with arborio rice is to Italian cooking. Real grits can, like risotto, be made simply, or with some complexity of additions.
Small jitterbug.
Sunset.
Large mouth.
Filet.
Soak in 7-up 10 minutes.
Light flour with some salt and white pepper.
Fry in soybean oil (this is the secret I learned at the incomparable Jim Shaws in Macon, Georgia.
No wine anywhere near the frying pan.
No sauce on the fish.
Let the fish be the dish.
Do something fancy with the vegetables and put a spoon of Better than Boullion Chicken stock paste in the Anson Mills grits.
Gotta be Anson Mills, or any other southern stone grinder that leaves the germ in.
Come and get it!
Ears that receive shortwave could be a great asset to a player all the way from Ukraine. :-)
Cliff, Perry, Conner are the leading candidates for the Hair Club For Men Scholarship to be awarded by Fred Quartlebaum. :-)
Me too!
This team picture suggests lots of interesting aspects and perhaps some intentional deception. :-)
The team appears lined up perpendicular across the midcourt stripe. And the camera is set up about 10-20 degrees to the right off of straight on. This makes figures in the right part of the picture appear slightly taller because they are closer to the lens. Figures on the left appear slightly smaller because they are farther from the lens.
Not surprisingly, Self and the camera man put his two tallest players on the paint stripe for some symmetrical effect at the center. But notice who is on the right, where they look bigger than they actually are: Frank and Devonte,
And notice that reputedly 5-11 Frank, looks about 2-3 inches shorter than 6-2 Devonte, which is reassuring. But recall that 6-0 Conner is on the small appearing end, and he looks almost as tall as Devonte. Hmmmm. Oh, well, Conner looks about a half inch shorter than 6-2 Tyler. Could it be that Devonte has some KU inches?
Now to the bigs.
6-10 Hunter looks two inches taller than 6-10 Landen and Landen looks the same height as, or a half inch shorter than, 6-8 Cliff. Hmmmm. KU height is a very strange system of measurement. Maybe Landen's sore knee is a cause?
Notice the pivot point of the top of Hunter's arms are higher than Jam Tray's but just about the same height as Landon, while Cliff's pivot point top of arm might actually be a hair higher than Landen's, or Hunter's!
Next 6-7 Oubre and 6-8 Cliff. Look at the pivot points of their shoulders. Cliff's pivot point looks a good 3 inches above Kelly's. And Kelly beneath the tall hair looks 2-3 inches shorter than Cliff, and Cliff is standing slightly farther away from the lens, which means he is actually a little taller than he appears.
Now to the right.
Jam Tray looks 2-3 inches shorter than 6-10 Hunter at the arm pivot point and at the top of head.
Svi and Jam Tray look the same height but Svi's a good 2 inches lower at the arm pivot point. Avi looks a little taller than Brannen looks, but an inch shorter at the arm pivot point.
Inference: a good 1-2 inches of Svi's height is in his long neck and so useless.
Next, notice that 6-4 Selden slumping forward and seated in the beginning of the region that looks smaller than he is, is almost as tall as 6-2 Self sitting up. Fine. But next notice that the slightly slumping 6-2 Self is almost as tall as Perry Ellis AND his shoulders appear about as wide! Maybe Self's suit is fool us on shoulder width. But what about height?! If 6-4 Selden and 6-2 Self were to have set up straight, They would be about as tall from the seated waist up as 6-8 Perry Ellis!!!! Wow, I guess either Perry has some seriously long legs with a short trunk, or he is maybe not quite 6-8. Remember, slumping 6-4 Selden and slumping 6-2 Self are seated where they should look smaller than they actually are, relative to Perry who should look slightly larger than he is relative to them. Now there is a case to be made that leaning forward buys you a little size relative to the camera at the same time it shrinks you, so let's call that a wash. Whatever, it looks like either Selden has grown up to Perry's 6-8 over the off season, which could spell killer MUA for Big Wayne, or Perry may be a wee bit less than 6-8. Or some of both. What if Wayne and Perry were now about the same height. Why not let them both swing 2-4 and 3-4 and 2-3? Further, what if Oubre were the same size as as Selden and Perry, which it appears he might be? Then what Self is saying might start to make a whole lot of sense. Basically, height wise, these guys are interchangeable, and where you put any one of them at any time--the 2, the 3, or the 4--just depends on where the best matchup advantage exists for each guy giving opposing personnel.
And, of course, this might be especially true, if the 4 position were no longer really a high post position at all, but just one of three perimeter positions.
Beyond the above, it looks like Hudy was having a good hair day, Fred Quartlebaum was in the uppermost quartile-baum of his mood distribution, Snacks was texting a recruit and the young woman on the right end of the front row appears to be engaging in auto-mind meld with herself, or just starting to move a stray lock of hair aside.
This team picture suggests lots of interesting aspects and perhaps some intentional deception. :-)
The team appears lined up perpendicular across the midcourt stripe. And the camera is set up about 10-20 degrees to the right off of straight on. This makes figures in the right part of the picture appear slightly taller because they are closer to the lens. Figures on the left appear slightly smaller because they are farther from the lens.
Not surprisingly, Self and the camera man put his two tallest players on the paint stripe for some symmetrical effect at the center. But notice who is on the right, where they look bigger than they actually are: Frank and Devonte,
And notice that reputedly 5-11 Frank, looks about 2-3 inches shorter than 6-2 Devonte, which is reassuring. But recall that 6-0 Conner is on the small appearing end, and he looks almost as tall as Devonte. Hmmmm. Oh, well, Conner looks about a half inch shorter than 6-2 Tyler. Could it be that Devonte has some KU inches?
Now to the bigs.
6-10 Hunter looks two inches taller than 6-10 Landen and Landen looks the same height as, or a half inch shorter than, 6-8 Cliff. Hmmmm. KU height is a very strange system of measurement. Maybe Landen's sore knee is a cause?
Notice the pivot point of the top of Hunter's arms are higher than Jam Tray's but just about the same height as Landon, while Cliff's pivot point top of arm might actually be a hair higher than Landen's, or Hunter's!
Next 6-7 Oubre and 6-8 Cliff. Look at the pivot points of their shoulders. Cliff's pivot point looks a good 3 inches above Kelly's. And Kelly beneath the tall hair looks 2-3 inches shorter than Cliff, and Cliff is standing slightly farther away from the lens, which means he is actually a little taller than he appears.
Now to the "LEFT". ;-)
Jam Tray looks 2-3 inches shorter than 6-10 Hunter at the arm pivot point and at the top of head.
Svi and Jam Tray look the same height but Svi's a good 2 inches lower at the arm pivot point. Avi looks a little taller than Brannen looks, but an inch shorter at the arm pivot point.
Inference: a good 1-2 inches of Svi's height is in his long neck and so useless.
Next, notice that 6-4 Selden slumping forward and seated in the beginning of the region that looks smaller than he is, is almost as tall as 6-2 Self sitting up. Fine. But next notice that the slightly slumping 6-2 Self is almost as tall as Perry Ellis AND his shoulders appear about as wide! Maybe Self's suit is fool us on shoulder width. But what about height?! If 6-4 Selden and 6-2 Self were to have set up straight, They would be about as tall from the seated waist up as 6-8 Perry Ellis!!!! Wow, I guess either Perry has some seriously long legs with a short trunk, or he is maybe not quite 6-8. Remember, slumping 6-4 Selden and slumping 6-2 Self are seated where they should look smaller than they actually are, relative to Perry who should look slightly larger than he is relative to them. Now there is a case to be made that leaning forward buys you a little size relative to the camera at the same time it shrinks you, so let's call that a wash. Whatever, it looks like either Selden has grown up to Perry's 6-8 over the off season, which could spell killer MUA for Big Wayne, or Perry may be a wee bit less than 6-8. Or some of both. What if Wayne and Perry were now about the same height. Why not let them both swing 2-4 and 3-4 and 2-3? Further, what if Oubre were the same size as as Selden and Perry, which it appears he might be? Then what Self is saying might start to make a whole lot of sense. Basically, height wise, these guys are interchangeable, and where you put any one of them at any time--the 2, the 3, or the 4--just depends on where the best matchup advantage exists for each guy giving opposing personnel.
And, of course, this might be especially true, if the 4 position were no longer really a high post position at all, but just one of three perimeter positions.
Beyond the above, it looks like Hudy was having a good hair day, Fred Quartile was very bubbly, Snacks was texting a recruit and the young woman on the right end of the front row appears to be engaging in auto-mind meld with herself, or just starting to move a stray lock of hair aside.
Ok, I am an old layman coot and know nothing of such things.
A little known fact is that Nostradamus' aka Michel de Nostredame, from Salon de Provence, Provence, France, had an Italianate nickname given him by his fellow Provencal "prophets," in places like Nice, Arle, Avignon and Marseille. The prophets of 15th and 16th Century France and Italy used to meet, socialize, and exchange prediction techniques, at a place called the Prediction Castle. It was much like the Magic Castle in LA, where magicians meet and practice new magic acts and generally hang with their professional pals. The Provencal Prophets used to hang out and test new predictions on each other so as to gauge their effects and decide if the new predictions would get them more patronage and government prediction contracts, or alternatively get them thrown in dungeons and torture to death. Anyway, Nostradamus' nickname was La Cosa Nostradamus, because he used to take bets on the next big hits in Marseille, and down to the Ligurian coast in Genoa, Rapallo, St. Margherita Ligure, and on down to Bologna, which was always the pivot point for control of the Italian peninsula, where the northern gangs and southern Neapolitan and Sicilian gangs duked it out for dominance in what we today call the time of the Italian Renaissance, but which they called "the time of duking it out for dominance." Why, La Cosa Nostradamus, as he was called at the practice prophecies by his colleagues, even once predicted the year the Knights of Malta would come from Rhodes and build a new Colossus in a faraway land across an ocean and up a very long, very turbid river called Mississipimus. The specifics of the prophecy have been lost, but there is a stone in the town of Santa Margherita Ligure that shows a picture of an unmistakable likeness of the KU Campanile and has the roman numerals for 2014-2015.
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
Nostradamus rules amidst emergent complexity. :-)
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I still suggest asking Mr. Keating before doing anything. Give him and KU a chance to be generous and kind, or to explain why they cannot be. And unless the image DanR used of Naismith IS in the public domain, and probably even if it is, because DanR used Naismith's name in the slogan, you should probably ask the representatives of his estate. And Wilt's estate, too, since his name is used in the slogan. It seems the right thing to do.
It sure is a handsome looking t, regardless.
Backfill here.
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Self is a walking inner war between pretty and tough.
He loves the running and jumping, but he deeply respects the grinding and bumping.
"He is a walking contradiction/
Partly fact and partly fiction..."
--Kris Kristofferson, Silver Tongued Devil (if I recall correctly)
Like a Fuller tensegrity, Self's flexibility is in tension with his rigidity.
"Flexidity." You read it coined here first.
When it works, it is a self reinforcing pattern.
When it doesn't work, the structure comes down like, well, like the puppets of a marionette, when the strings get cut by a wise guy that sneaked behind the box.
(Note: I forgot to put "back fill here." My apologies to JayHawkFanToo.) :-)
Bringin' out the manhood challenger stick for the Myles mon.
Takin' a young man to task for de minimus cojones in the pre-season.
Makin' him a batch of digital sigint doubting his ability on the blocks of macho.
Shoutin' small at his cup size.
Sayin' he not be enough of an hombre to guard his own borders.
Callin' the family jewels paste.
Yodeling that Wile E Coyote is lacking gravitas in the fur pouch where the sun don't shine.
:-)
Now, wiss, I know you worry a LOT about board rats cribbing your nembutals down on the bayou, but I can assure you, if you go to your 7 day pill box, you will find every one of them in the exact place your care giver put them in.
Feelin' frisky and just wondering back at ya! :-)
You are right, but these are things most Self teams resort to under most referee calling most seasons in the past, except for the last one. And the last one had a rim protector and a cast of players that were very limited in their help abilities.
This team should help a lot. And i believe Self is signaling to Hunter that if he wants to be apart of things, his lateral quickness has to step up. His focus has to broaden in terms of guarding the post AND helping others. My guess is that Landen is a bit more agile side to side and has been getting the idea of exploding out of position to help. Hunter just may not be very explosive and, if Self is planning to give the team a theme of explosiveness then Hunter has to fit that theme, or the head coach/author of this basketball team/novel is going to toss out those scenes involving Hunter, not because he is not a good post player, and shot blocker, but because he is not adapting to the team theme of explosiveness.
At the same time, my post is an argument that coaches/authors carry themes to their productive limits, but then have to recogonize certain situational dramatic needs and break their own themes when needed.
I think what you saw was the hi-lo being run by guys that did not get how to run the hi-lo very well. :-)
Seriously, last year was an anomaly and not something to worry much about. We can explain it pretty easily, if we analyze it, but the fact is this year's core team is an entirely new cast without much overlapping capabilities. So your early, wise and frequent focus on the x-axis and on small ball and becoming 40 minutes of toughness has been really, really productive and insightful for the fan in me, anyway.
Nostradamus predicted that a KU coach would one day use the 3/4 court 2-2-1 zone press at least half the time, but he did not say his name would be Bill Self and he did not say which century it would be.
Nostradamus predicted that a team in Lawrence, Kansas would play small ball during the Gregorian calendar years of 2014-2015, but he also said the team would wear sports bras.
Well...
Based on Self’s 1999-2000 Tulsa team which frequently resorted to a 6-10 backup as its 6th man, and based on Self’s 2008 ring team, which resorted to 6-10 Sasha Kaun, who didn’t even have working knees that season, my current wind chill adjusted predictiont is that 100 percent of the time Self will rotate either, or both of Mickelson and Lucas in when opponents have 6-9, or larger 5s.
Don’t misunderstand me. I would like to see Self play small ball for a season, just to see if he could pull something similar off to what he did in Tulsa, in the big time, and to have lived long enough to see another coach follow in Wooden’s 1963-1964 footsteps.
But I just don’t think Self can resist the temptation of those two long men when Self is jaw-working, and shouting for a stop.
I know @dragonslyr thought they didn’t play much hi-lo last year, but my recollection was that they played it almost all the time, except for the occasional show case games for Wigs, and even then they lined up in hi-lo formations and just let Wigs slash from a wing.
For Self to get serious about small ball—and in turn for us to get serious about Self getting serious about playing small ball—Self has to jump shift his offensive set at least some of the time.
You cannot really get serious about small ball by playing a small high and a small low. Sooner or later, you have to stop lining up in the hi-lo formation and you have to start lining up in a high post, or in Fred’s 1-4 no post, which my high school coach used to call a 1-4 double high post, because our center and power forward posted at both ends of the free throw line, and our 2 and 3 lined up on each of their shoulders, and ran scrape off screens on the double high posts to shake loose for a pass and imitation of play.
But Bill Self running Fred’s no post, or the old double high post? This seems about as likely as Saturday Night Live changing to Sunday night.
The closest I can see Self coming to this is everyone lining up in the conventional hi-lo formation and running a low post up occasionally to the free throw line and keeping the high post out high with him.
But think how far the rebounders are from the caroms when that is done?
OMG!
I know Bill is talking a good game about marginalizing Landen and Hunter, but…
I still cannot see Bill Self watching the small ballers getting out rebounded +5 and needing a stop against an opponent’s L&S 5 and Bill saying, “No, Kurtis, no Norman, no Jerrance, we are staying small and hoping for the best."
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First, I am not a lawyer. But if I were you, and wanted to pursue these T-shirts, I wouldn't let any one's gloom-and-dooming and fears get in the way. Why don't you just write Larry Keating a letter and ask him if it would be okay with him and his lawyers if you were to make up some KU Buckets t-shirts, and sell them to cover costs, and inform him that any surplus that might unintentionally result you would be happy to donate to KUAD, or the Williams Fund, or the Assists Foundation, or whatever he thinks would be appropriate. And if he says no, then respect his wishes and just don't do it. We live in an age when too many don't give persons in authority a chance to act with some generosity of spirit, or to explain why they cannot. You would not be asking to do something similar to what the firm mentioned in the story was trying to do, so there is no real reason to assume what Mr. Keating might decide without asking him. Too many persons go negative and/or scare the heck out of others rather than just give them common sense advice. You are a fan. You love KU Basketball. You like this web site. Its not a commercial web site, so far as I understand it. Its reputedly 42 board rats that post frequently and some others that don't, and a bunch of spam identities; that's all. We are not talking about commercial competition for anyone. We are just some fans using the web to talk hoops. I am not even knowledgeable enough to know if KU would have any implied rights in such t-shirts. So: probably all you ought to do is write Larry Keating, or whomever is the appropriate contact person and ask them; that 's all. In the story, Mr. Keating sounded reasonable to me. He indicated KU gave the firm and its management in the story many chances to stop before any legal actions occurred. The key thing is you won't know until you ask. Mr. Keating might have a very honorable and legally sound reason for saying no, or he might say, sure, go ahead. I don't know. But it can't hurt to ask. At least that is how it seems to this layman.
Rock Chalk!!!
Come on!
There's reputedly a technique that is taught for how to respond to what I'm doing.
I'm serving you a lob! ;-)