BShark said:
They lose so many regular season games they shouldn't. He gets routinely overrated due to fortuitous tournament runs.
Correction: fortuitous tournament whistles!
jaybate 1.0
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Great quote. Thx for posting. I’ve been advocating this all season even before Preston got side lined. The apparent recruiting asymmetry has finally had its effect.
Glad Self is talking plain English to fans.
It might mean he has given up on Preston returning and Da Sousa providing much help this season.
He is stealing wins at home and away.
I think he had them leave it on the floor for a W today and we will get our clocks cleaned in Morgantown.
But a pattern is emerging.
Garrett’s job is to shorten both halves for Vick and Malik, so KU has two fresh scoring threats the last five to 7 minutes of the game.
Devonte and Svi are supposed to shoot us into leads around 12-8 minutes to go, then play through Doke for a couple minutes then finish with Vick and Newman balls to walls on the attack and pressuring the wings and stripping and tripping on D!
This is jungle fighting the last 10 of every game, especially las 6.
KU was using everything from the dirty play book on defense but the COACH K XTReme Cheap Shotting.
The last 10 minutes were a grad seminar in guerilla tactics.
Self understands they are all alone on The Canal and the fleet has sailed for the time being.
Ka-Bars and deception and fighting unfair from here on. Stay engaged but never over commit until a chance for a massacre shows itself.
Saddle up for Morgantown!!!
I expect to see Self use him against WVU
Blown said:
@jaybate-1.0 Did you see Self's wry smile after that last shot.
He always asks do you want to be up with a chance to stop or down with a chance to win it. He was proud.
PHOF!
It was his idea of a perfect defensive moment! Happiest I’ve seen him all year!!!!
Self saves Cunliffe, Mitch, for Morgantown full court press!!!
Doke Man’s up!
Devonte deadly!
Vick plays healthy!
Svi guts another one out!!!!
MARINES HOLD THE RIDGE!
MARINES HOLD THE RIDGE!
MARINES HOLD THE RIDGE!
MARINES HOLD THE RIDGE!
No, but just as hard
Just a flipping had to have win on THE CANAL!!!!!!!
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BUILDING!
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BUILDING!
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BUILDING!
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BUILDING!
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BUILDING!
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BUILDING!
AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BUILDING!
DEFENSE WINS IT!
DEFENSE WINS IT!
DEFENSE WINS IT!
.15 tied up Malik gets FTS
15 to go. ..Malik on drive refuses easy dish to open Doke. Gets fouled instead. Why Malik doesn’t start.
.30 to goTime out to ice FT shooter
KSU gets a free throw out of confusion
Ku confuses with 1-2-2 zone
Weber guessed right and his guys tie up lob to doke
Newman in at crunch time.
In TO Weber warns of Doke lob
Devonte answers with Doke follow at 1:35
Brown makes great drive on Devonte
Malik redeems
LaCobra is HEALTHY again!!! Legs working. Getting away with a trip at 2:40
Trading trays at 3
Doke back to a MAN today!
JayhawksandChill said:
No one expects the Spanish inquisition (weave).
And stretch on the rack !!!!
With 3 to go...But then back to ball screen point and a fake weave intended for a lob that doesn’t happen because of TO by Malik.
Both coaches are following the same principle the last 6 minutes. Less offense....
BUT WAIT! Self fools Weber by going back to Weave!!!!
No at 8-6 to go Weber has countered with a stretch offence, more pressure D and less gambling. All tied up! Self is countering with Devonte driving
Writing with 12-10 minutes to go second half, Self has made Weber look sick with half time adjustments!!!!
First half, Weber clogged the weave with doubles and route interference with his postman and helping perimeter man in aid of the on ball defender—essentially flooding a zone where the weave toss occurs. Self let it go on all first half as is his custom, then second half ran a weave but sent Doke for easy lob, then stopped weaving and tore KSU apart with wing drives and post feeds KSU struggled to answer. KU separated then defended lead, then attacked inside, but ku’s D let KSU back in the game.
Self has to play for at least a split, so he has to get them up for KSU, then hope for a hot hand and morphing zones to carry the day in Morgantown. Translation: be willing to take a loss on short rest in Morgantown. Only unacceptable scenario is 0-2.
Crimsonorblue22 said:
@BShark hope svi doesn't see that🤮
I second that puker.
Great technique on the mash up, but no KU person should ever have to hug Squeaky, even virtually.
Very Runyonesque picture of Runyan.
Increasingly each game is an indicator of how KU will shoot the trey the next game.
If they are hot against KSU, they will be cold against WVU, and so will lose.
If they are cold against KSU, they will be hot against WVU, and so will win.
If they are middling against KSU, it could go either way against WVU, and so there is no predicting how they will do against WVU.
What we can say with confidence is that KU will be mugged by WVU.
What percentage of struggling D1 head coaches that fire 1-2 coaches from their staff are themselves fired within 2 years?
If he had stayed, the curse of KU Big Men would have gotten him somehow.
He would have become addicted to lingerie.
Or an alum would have improperly contributed to the purchase of a Braun toothbrush.
Or he would have pursued a girl friend from party to party and gotten arrested for looking for who she had dumped him for.
Or he would have found hedging point guards led him to tendonitis.
Or he would have become too interested in academics to continue playing basketball.
Or he would have left us mid season for a D-II program.
Or he would have gone down on Edson's Ridge.
We must wish Coleby the best and let him go.
Friday Fake Hypothesis: Self has purposely been holding Preston and Da Sousa out to develop the team’s mental toughness. Further he intends to hold them out till the start of the second half of the national championship game!
Talk about chutzpah!!!
Ready, set, research!!!!
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
PHOF for the private!
Following are some of batetradamus' "Cant Miss Predictions" for 2018...
Some day there will be news about Preston and Da Sousa.
The future is ahead.
KU will either win a 14th consecutive conference title, or it will fail trying to do so.
It will be found that in the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth, or a simulation of them.
Truth will never be uttered by mainstream media, except by accident.
The climate will cease to be engineered with directed energy and chemtrails at the same time the powers that be admit to having engineered the climate.
Feeding the post the last five minutes of a game will become a facet of KU's offense, when Udoka Azubuike is able to make 60% of his free throws.
The Weave will be disliked by some KU fans for as long as Bill Self uses it, but not a single win enabled by the Weave will be declined by KU fans.
Bruce Weber will remain interim head coach of KSU until he is fired.
Trae Young will be outplayed twice by Devonte Graham and still be selected first string All Big 12 point guard.
Identity politics will never resolve the question of who we are.
The Big Jayhawk on the floor of James Naismith Court will never be found to be a listening device put there by interdimensional aliens.
Zones will become Bill Self's preferred form of defense, when the moon is fully irrigated and used for growing organic quinoa.
More solar eclipses will occur and be absurdly over covered.
President Trump will leave office one way, or another, some day and be replaced by someone.
Someone on KU will get double digit rebounds once more this season, or more likely they will not.
The Deep State will always oppose any candidate it did not support and deny both its opposition and that it supported another candidate.
Oprah will be named the first Presidential candidate of a newly formed Victim's Party, but the party will become the victim of a mass mind control illusion and no one will ever know it.
Poppy fields will always be defended by one military force, or another, of one country, or another, for one cartel, or another.
There will be no peace regarding any natural resource worth stealing.
New weapons will never defend us as they were supposed to do, but they will always kill far more of us than anyone imagined before their application.
Anything can and will be used against us, if we advocate for representative government.
Official inquiries into anything will always publish findings consistent with those in power.
KU will win the March Carney but MK-Ultra mass mind control may prevent our awareness of it.
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
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(Note: pre-emptive notice of ensuing fiction. Do not read, if you lack a sense of humor, or are a shill getting paid by the smear.)
Everyone knows that KU-KSU is a fierce in-state basketball rivalry.
Everyone knows that Interim KSU Head Coach Squeaky Weber's tenure hinges significantly each season on how the Farmers fare against KU.
Everyone knows that it is only recently that Farmer-driven court-storming has only recently been successfully suppressed.
Everyone knows that the Farmers' desperate desire to achieve parity with KU in basketball has NOT been successfully suppressed, despite (maybe even because of) the incessant beatings KU administers to the Farmers.
Everyone knows there is strongly asymmetric distribution of playing and coaching talent between the two programs, even this season, when KU is short handed on front court depth.
Everyone knows that KU has vastly better looking architecture, uniforms, venue to play games in, and VASTLY superior "emotive support projection managers" (formerly known as cheerleaders and yell leaders).
But...
It has just occurred to me that:
a.) KSU is big into biological warfare research; and
b.) KU maybe have been trying to play catch up by hiring Chancellor Girod.
This seems a potentially dangerous situation and I am dry-washing about it intermittently as I type about it.
Could it be that Coach Weber and Coach Self may now, like leaders of many world powers, have access to, and so be tempted to deploy, daunting new biological warfare levels of basketball strategy and tactics for tomorrow's game?
Should concession stands begin selling antiviral medicines for the big game to minimize collateral damage?
I notice on KUAthletics.com that even venerated AFH has instituted new requirements mandating smaller, transparent hand bags and excruciatingly tiny clutch purses for everyone from students to those wild and crazy private oligarchs that can afford the good seats.
The state of fear Michael Crichton warned of in "State of Fear" seems to have finally come to pass.
(pause for dry washing)
Maybe we should just call the game off, declare KU the winner, and then enter into negotiations for a mutual build down in university biological weapons research to end the awful coaching temptation to take the greatest game ever invented to the next level of humanity's inhumanity to humanity?
Maybe this could send a message to all the military-industrial complexes of the world's great powers and their accountants that we are willing to fund their research into peaceful applications, but not those that trigger such awful eventualities as can only be survived by moving to a subterranean condo complex in Antarctica!
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
Rock Chalk!
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Whatever.
Question: if the car reputedly involved in the Preston issue were a late 2017 model and a new model year were to have since occurred, would depreciation have to be factored into decision making?
:thinking:
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