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@HighEliteMajor

Seems likely, but...

Self usually anticipates injuries.

If he starts Doke and Preston and plays them big minutes, and one goes down, then it will be a very ugly, 83%-W&L threatening transition.

@Barney

That’s how it looks without a hat rabbit.

But I just can’t imagine him letting two players as potentially complementary and frankly devastating in tandem only playing 15 minutes per game together.

He at least has to try to find a way to get them 25-30 together. They will have to play that much together to beat good big teams in March.

Lord Self has a rim protector at last!

All hail the dump truck driver, whom ever he may be!

Give thanks to the saw bones that put the good King back together!

Behold Dokethello!

But there is a rub, Board Ratliff’s.

The King would lack depth behind him, unless Lord Self were predisposed to ask William the Second of Prestonwich to consent to be used as a veritable 6th man, as posted yesterday.

Alas, what hath this kingly stuff to do with gambling on said perimeter, my fellow Yorics?

Well, by sweetly overplaying on the perimeter, and relying on the king to checkmate the opponents’ dullards at the ring of iron, surely thus we can gain most advantage, lords and ladies.

But what then should the rubbeth be, my fellow skullduggerers?

To overplay outside, exposeth the good King Dokethello—aye he that ruleth the virtuous middle without depth—to such odious fouls that only bitter fate could befall the good king and our knights of the rectangle.

To sag, to give, to help, aye these are means of keeping King and court in proper state.

But not to pressure that black stripe which doth yield momentum shifting scores is heretofore unSelfian, yes?

What then must be done?

This I beseech thee to make sense for me.

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@drgnslayr

I suspect your reference to "passing well" is the key to how he will try to create a sustainable "who we are" that includes starting Doke and Billy.

He cannot wave a wand and turn Lightfoot into a guy with Doke's dominance, or Billy's offensive moves.

But what he could do is craft an interior motion and passing offense that all three big men could learn the footwork and passing for, and so execute regardlesss of which of the three are in the game. Then depending on which two are in the game, certain plays could be relied on more with one kind of player than another.

But Self has never really coached this kind of interior motions and passing offense before. He is generally loath to have one big man screen for another. He doesn't really like screening inside, or outside.

I suppose he could resort to Bad Ball again, because all three guys might be capable of putting the ball on the deck and taking it to iron. (Note: I pause here to let the screaming and gnashing of teeth die down.)

Whatever, he's got to find something all three guys can be threats doing, not just two of them, otherwise there is no continuity of who we are.

Self faces an interesting problem with this roster and as usual it will be an education to watch how he deals with it.

The problem is that he has a roster best suited to sustaining 4 out 1 in offense, in terms of rotating players and sustaining "who we are."

With this sort of roster, what he should do is rotate Doke and Billy, because his only other big man is Lightfoot and Lightfoot is not really a credible replacement for either Doke, or Billy, that lets "who we are" continue.

I am not knocking Lightfoot here. Its just that Lightfoot doesn't really do anything Doke does, and he doesn't do anything that Billy does. Bringing in Lightfoot, to replace either Doke, or Billy, forces the team to play a different way.

By playing 4 out 1 in, and rotating Doke and Preston, the team gets to keep playing as "who we are." Preston is different from Doke, but both are long, and both can play the 5 role, especially in college.

Lightfoot just doesn't match up with other big post men. The ideal role for Lightfoot is to rotate into the 5, when the other team has a small 5 that is too mobile for Doke to chase and stay out of foul trouble guarding. During those games, we stay 4 out 1 in, but we rotate Billy and Lightfoot, and sustain "who we are" at a shorter, more mobile level at the 5.

Self's great strength over the years has been able to find schemes that both get our best players on the floor most of the time, and simultaneously allow us to sustain "who we are" any given season. Self adapts who we are a little from game to game, but has also been able to sustain those variations for a game.

Self's ability to do the above is a great strength, because it allows Self to scheme and practice the team so that it gets to sustain what it has learned and practiced how to do. KU has tended to be able to survive injuries, off-games, and so on, and keep being "who we are", while other teams are having to take breaks from who they are, and become something else several times a game. This means KU gets to spend more time at its most effective than the other teams. Over the course of a 40 minute game, this is a big edge.

If Self schemes the team effectively (i.e., so his best players are on the floor, and so he gets to sustain "who we are" also), then Self gets to spend all his brain power on finding clever plays after time outs, and after free throws, and less time scheming new versions of who we are.

But the problem this season is: Doke and Preston are both among his best players, and so they need to be on the floor most of the time together. But if he does that, and optimizes who we are around what those two extraordinary athletes can do, it creates a "who we are" that is not sustainable with Lightfoot. In turn, it means Self has to coach two kinds of "who we are" and in his career, so far, he has avoided that like the plague, and won 83% of his games and umpteen rings.

So Self has a choice: he can make Preston a sixth man and have a sustainable "who we are." Or he can start Preston and Doke and create two "who we ares".

Now, I have felt us at this point a time or two over the years and he has found a third path I did not see, so maybe he will do his hat rabbit thing again and find some form of offense that allows Lightfoot to substitute for Doke, or Billy, that keeps us "who we are."

But I will say it right now. If Self can find a sustainable "who we are" starting Doke and Preston, he is Penn and Teller on Steroids!

I’ve been waiting for a great 6th man who is a 6-9 future NBA star!

SUMMARY: File under almost no GOOD deed goes unpunished. Self plays hated Fizzou to raise money for flood victims (Self could easily have written a personal check for what was raised) and do Okie Baller Cuonzo (Eddie-Keady-Weber line) a favor. KU almost beaten by program trying to get off a ventilator. Really bad performance that shows how shallow, weak and green KU is this year. But Self was apparently trying to turn Fizzou into an Okie Baller Mafia employment base, and solidify SPRINT CENTER finances, and pay off an IOU to Keady-Webber, so he probably thinks it’s worth it. He also gets a Brownie point from the Af-Am assistant coaches association with big recruiting influence by helping Cuonzo. And he paved way to a profit center on KUs non con schedule for years to come. Logic said do it, but sometimes logic should not be listened to. Go with your heart, Bill.

UPs:

Doke low fouls and blocks.

Devonte treys and assists

Vick kept playing on off shooting night

DOWNs:

Svi no show

Doke few boards

Billy Foul

Lightfoot = transfer out minutes

Malik TOs

Team rebounding

SIDEWAYs:

Marcus

Some things from the bad old days have be revived.

Now understand: I was against resuming human contact with Columbia, but here we are with contact resumed, because of a bunch of money grubbers that really care less about helping the flood victims in the short term (which could easily could have been done without human contact with Columbia) than wrapping surgical tubing on their “Hit Me” tattooed arms and free basing a degeneracy fix.

So: here goes the online neighborhood:

1.) We have to resume using “fuck” in posts, so the Fizzourans will understand us.

2.) We have to devote a full week of posting each season educating new young KU fans about why all the Missouri fans look like each other, are related to their spouses, and have mutations.

3.) We have to counsel KU fans that sit near the Antlers how to gracefully accept being assaulted and vomited on after whiskey bottles are thrown at them.

4.) We have fund a huge increase in all insurance premiums on Coaches and players playing at Columbia.

5.) We have to buy Coach Self new suits tailored that allow him to concealed-carry a Colt 1911 with two clips of hollow nose rounds for games in Columbia.

6.) We have to budget to infiltrate (and exfiltrate) jaybate 1.0-operatives into Columbia each game eve to blow up the columns with thermite, plastique and Double Bubble chewing gum.

7.) we have to buy a new fleet of armored personnel carriers to make the trip to Columbia.

(All fiction. No malice.)

BShark said:

Look at the people trying to get into the Sprint Center right now and tell me people don't care. LOL.

People will try to get into a cock fight.

Hey, that’s an idea!

Next week, when they play each other again to raise money for the next MVE (mass victim event), how about cock fighting before the game and pit bull fighting afterwards.

No reason to leave a cent in the Pockets of the Fizzourans!!!

BShark said:

So I would argue we've seen what KSU will look like after Bill retires. It's the last 3 or so seasons...

I don’t know. It’s taken over a century to really get to where KU football is now.

The abysmal depth of the present situation would not be so epically awful without the flicker of light under The Fat Man, after the century of futility.

Has any other program fallen as far and as completely as KU?

I don’t think so.

This was a Century in the making!

Why not play the exhibition game with the slavers on a portable floor set up in a cotton field next to a meth lab? That ought to bring out the MU fans!!!!! I mean if we are going to sacrifice our principles to play these degenerate bastards, let’s go all the way and max the Fizzourah donations!!!! Have a minstrel show at half time!

There’s still time to back out!

Rock Chalk!

@DoubleDD

PHOF!!!

Back before FOIA documents reputedly showed the CIA since the JFK assasination promoted meming of “conspiracy theory” for smearing those exploring concealed possibilities, I would have wondered if Snyder placed Zenger at KU to make sure KU football stayed as hapless and pathetic as it is, and expected the usual chorus of “conspiracy theorist!”

But today?

Well, of course, Snyder did it.

Just kidding!

He has always had the potential to be one of the five greatest centers of all time.

But it’s a long flight from potential to reality and he has already missed some stops.

We will never get to see the ten years of early slender greatness. Coming to basketball late and injury took that away.

But there is still a chance for him to live out the man mountain years.

Pray it happens.

He held a press conference and said, “I’m calling off the game. It’s just not who we are. Here is a personal check for what the game would have raised. Everyone please donate.”

What a sweet dream!

He’s got the money to do it.

Go Bill Go!!

@jayballer54

To gauge Snyder’s greatness, I ask a simple question: Could ANY other coach of Snyder’s era have done at KSU what Snyder has done at KSU?

Answer: Maybe the guy at Boise State for a short while? But not for many decades as Snyder has sustained.

He is a genius.

I agree with @justanotherfan ’s characterization of how the haves have stacked the deck to keep Mavericks like Snyder at betting/eyeball/click (BEC) unfriendly schools out of the mix.

But that just makes Snyder’s adaptations and performances stand out even more.

Snyder’s genius has been to adapt as much as possible to the stacked deck and then optimize in ways others at other BEC unfriendly schools did not.

Would any other big time coach at a BEC friendly school have signed as much talent and coached it to 3-4 at KSU this year?

Likely Not!

Like all great Coaches, Snyder is no angel, but he deserves a statue inscribed “Like Spartacus, he did the impossible and won many battles before the corrupt order over took him.”

Who is Spartacus?

I AM! say the K-State fans.

Spartacus’ accomplishments starting from seemingly impossible disadvantage should not be held against him, when time and great, corrupt, structural advantage of opponents finally did him in.

He freed KSU, even if only for a time.

The flame of such greatness inevitably extinguishes.

But it’s memory lives on.

And down stream it inspires and nourishes those that seek out the memory.

All fame is fleeting, but the memory that the slaves were freed once, that is the stuff that changes the future.

@mayjay

As noted in the post, it was all meant as fiction. No Malice.

You did notice that, right?

Sometimes an alias can overlook things, right?

I thought it was a dark-funny, tragi-comic bit about Frank and Josh not getting taken higher. Not too on the nose, as they say in Hollywood, when the Hollywoodlings are not reputedly raping starlets and reputedly molesting children for reputedly sick, depraved power kicks.

Now I just don’t see how my post could fit in the politics section, since it’s about guys not getting drafted as high as I might have hoped.

But I can maybe see how your posts in this thread might fit in the politics section, so I don’t mind if my post stays here and yours get moved to the politics section, if you would like. But I’m also cool with yours stay in-thread so to speak But moving mine? I don’t think so.

Nevertheless, these responses of yours appear kind a clinic in thread posting that some might benefit from learning the apparent techniques of, if you use any and would like to share.

Let me try to see if I can get the hang of what appears to be a technique (but might not be), and remember: this is just an untrained board rat’s first dry run and is acknowledged to be entirely pretend, okay?

Untrained board rat’s trial example #1: You’ ve appeared to suggest all kinds of things ranging from plausible to borderline no multiple shooters in Las Vegas, no pedophile rings in Washington, no Apollo astronauts going to the moon, no Werner von Braun going to Antarctica to get meteor fragments that could be given out as fake moon rocks with some stored in Neil Armstrong’s closet and yet not found by his widow in his closet.

Now, again, so there is no misunderstanding, the above is a totally made up example, with exaggeration used to make its pretending unmistakable, but is that kind of the apparent rhetorical technique? Or was there none?

It combines some inclusion of unrelated subject matter with a bit of conflation?

Just between us, I’m not sure I’ve got it down yet.

And it may only APPEAR you were doing it, and it may be that you really weren’t.

But ROCK CHALK!!!

Ball approaches on little adidas soles!!!

And we got to play it anyway the opposing teams want!

It’s the Selfian way!!!

jayballer54 said:

wissox said:

So you're a Yankees fan, Packers fan and KU fan. Sounds like you're a frontrunner.

I was born in 1954. -- My dad was always on me and my brother about - - - OH you need to root for the home team - -I call bullshit. I'll root for my team .- -I sure hope your not trying to say in any way I'm a band wagoner are you? - -Na I know your not.

Let me give you examples: - -For the Yankees I loved the Yankees when they had are you ready? - - -Clete Boyer at 3rd - - -Tony Kubiak at Short - - -Bobby Richardson at 2nd - - & Joe Pepitone at 1st ALOT, - -When they had Mantle - -Maris - -& Tommy Tresh in the outfield. - -Whitey Ford,, ,Mel Stottelmyer - - Thurman Munson - - -Ron Gidry - - Goose Gossage - -good times. - -Even the Reggie era

I was Green Bay when we had Bart Starr, - -John Brockington, - -Floyd Dowler, - The Ice Bowl with Dallas - -Ray Nitschke

I was KU with Teddy and a lot of the boys, Bob Kivisto, - -Tommy Kivisto , - -Ron Franz, - -Rick Suttle - - Tommy Smith - - -Calvin Thompson -- Danny Knight - - Kelly Knight - -Darnell Valentine - - Roger Morningstar, - - Otis Livingston , Pierre Russell , Ronnie Kellogg - - -So I've been with these teams ALL these teams for some time.

I've been through the years at KU when Teddy sucked - -but I was still there, Went through Yankee down years, but through these you didn't see me jump ship - -that's the difference between a fan and a closet fan.

That's just like to me makes me sick I hear people say well I like KU in Basketball - -& K-State in football- - -bout makes me sick. - -If your a real fan for KU your not a fan of K-state in anything - -and that includes cow tipping & Cow patty skeet shooting - -so yep I guess that's what you want call me then so be it -- one thing I'm not is a BANDWAGON FAN - - - ARE YOU?

ONE OF THE GREATEST POSTS I EVER READ!!!!

PHOF!

ROCK CHALK!

“Which doomsaying charlatan to believe?”
—@mayjay

The one with nukes.

@KUSTEVE

Has anything surfaced yet about them experimenting with steering it near earth? I’ve read speculations over the years that they have explored weaponizing these Roid Rocks. Steer one the right size in at a calculated angle and you have got nuke scale projectile and plausible deniability!

Human beings are soooooooo devious sometimes.😔

P.S.: The big question is not the eye test. It’s the “Shoe Lean” test. Does he want to play for scale at KU, or rack up a $100k somewhere else?

Tyrel Reed, er, Tyler Herro is going mean another 4-5 years of board rats going to the hoop optometrist for “the eye test” failure.

Are board rats ready for wearing corrective lenses again?

Welcome, Mr. Herro, if you come. I kept my old prescription Persols! I’m ready!

For those not sitting in offices too close to recently installed, reputedly thought disrupting, street and parking lot lamp posts reputedly being used by TPTB (note: can't necessarily say the duly constituted government anymore, because it could also reputedly be being set up by an oligarchy [President Carter], or a New World Order [Bush I&II's and DRock's characterization], or its Deep State [common parlance in the fake MSM]--its just too soon to tell how things are shaking out for the land that I love), to conceal MIMO devices to track our comings and goings across entire cities, and rumored also to conceal microwave gadgets reputedly capable of mind controlling us through cell phone targeting (note: remember the US embassy personnel in Cuba for a rumored possible test case), recall that an adidas official and 4 D1 assistant coaches were recently reputedly alleged to have bribed players to the tune of >$100K per player. And UNC reputedly got off with a love tap for running a fake education system, so UNC could play guys that apparently might not have been eligible without the easy grading "assist." Think about how the shoe contracts and salaries are now migrating up into the hundreds of millions of dollars for players, schools, and the pros. Take off our naive hats a second--the ones that read "in the NBA its all diversified"--and grasp we are dealing with a producer oligopoly using petro-materials from another producer oligopoly, and they are marketing petro ware nationally and globally through a 6-holding company media cartel! The USA stock market is jumping out through the roof despite the US economy not creating high paying jobs and the US gubmint being $20 Trillion in debt and 16 years into PERMA-WAR. Oh, and massive capital is floating around looking for new derivative deals, because there isn't enough real growth around the world to soak it up. And then those pikers over at the Pentagon? They can't find $3 Trillion recently and as much as $30 Trillion may reputedly have been "lost" by the Pentagon the last 15 or so years. And today something being packaged and branded as the "Uranium One" story broke with all roads leading to $150,000,000 being funneled from the Russians to the Clinton Foundation in some kind of quid pro quo for the US agreeing to import 80-90 percent of its uranium from Russia, while the Obama Administration's DOJ (under Mueller?) slapped some kind of a national security seal on the deal to keep the public from finding out. Oh, and a poor reporter who had the gall to risk her life researching and publishing the Panama Papers in which all sort of American higher ups were implicated for moving money abroad to avoid taxation at home got herself blown to kingdom come, when her car just happened to get a car bomb! Helloooooo! Nothing to see here!

Is it remotely possible that Frank Mason, or even Josh Jackson, might have been drafted higher if Self and KU had been contracted with someone other than adidas?

Oh, my! as Dick Enberg used to say back when President Carter still thought of us as a functioning republic and not an oligarchy elected by high bid.

(Note: all fiction. No malice.)

I believe that players should approach the business of basketball based on the examples set by D1 university chancellors, D1 private oligarchic alumni, D1 ADs, D1 Coaches, Petroshoeco officials, Agents, the current and former Commissioners of the NBA, the NBA Franchise owners, NBA Superstars, NBA players, and the NBA players association.

What approach is that?

TAKE. EVERYTHING. YOU. CAN. WHENEVER. YOU. CAN.

SACRIFICE. ANYONE. THAT. IT. ADVANCES. YOU. TO SACRIFICE.

BREAK. RULES. WHEN. YOU. WILL. NOT. BE. PUNISHED. FOR. DOING. SO.

TAKE. AS. MANY. BENEFITS. AS. YOU. CAN.

SHIFT. AS. MANY. COSTS. AS. YOU. CAN.

START. A. NON. FOR.PROFIT. AND. EMPLOY. YOUR. PALS.

SPIN. YOUR. PUBLIC. IMAGE. AS. GRATEFUL.

EXPLOIT. YOUR PUBLIC. IMAGE.

KEEP. GETTING. RICHER.

@JayHawkFanToo

Howling!

Freemasons playing Black Jesuits in Vatican City could raise some money, too!

How about the Rothschilds vs the Ayatollahs in a natural gas field in Iran? That would raise some money!

@jayballer54

It could be worse. We could play Fizzourah again.

Eh, no, I guess it couldn’t.

But basketball will come soon.

THE REVIVAL OF THE BORDER CRACKING WAR!!!

Cracking bad for a good cause!

LATENIGHT WITH METH

@BShark

Hey, let’s have the players collect sudafed donations and set up two meth labs at center court at half time and have the two teams see who can crack and sell the most Meth to the fans. That will raise even more money...especially if we play the game in Cape Girardeau!

@BShark

And they cracked the sudafed themselves!

@mayjay

Nothing Changes At All

Normalized Corruption Athletic Association

Hey, let’s play SMU in Dealy Plaza on November 22 and reenact the Kennedy Assassination to raise money!

No! Wait! We can do more!

Let’s play St. John’s at the WTC site next September 11th, get the Deep State to reenact the thermite charges, and raise money!

No! We must do more!

Let’s play Oklahoma City U at the Site of the Murrah building and have Tim’s doppelgänger be in a holographic re-enactment and raise money!

Jesus H. Montecristo!

Can’t we just have the players go door to door offering autographs and complimentary adidas for donations and hit the same fund raising target in about three weeks...without having to play Fizzou?

Help me, help me, help me, I think I’m going insane!

@BShark

Thanks for this ray of hope!

@BShark

At this rate NCAA will soon stand for:

Never Charge Allow Anything

This game with Fizzou is just having sex with your ex-wife after both of you meet up 10 years later at the hospital waiting room seeing a dying relative. Mortality and time passage make you both forget how much you hated each other. Hollywood movies work this sick cliche endlessly. But this isn’t a movie and Fizzourah was the worst thing that ever happened to KU basketball.

If Bill were really serious about raising money, then sell “Muck Fizzou” t-shirts at the game along with fifths of McCormack’s Whiskey with labels reading: “DRINK ME AND THROW ME AT THE MU COACH FOR CHARITY! MUCK FIZZOU!”

Ah for the bad old days!

Don’t do it!

Abusive relationships are sick!

DON’T PLAY FIZZOU AGAIN!!!!

@BShark

Laughter is our business.

Our only business.

:joy:

@BShark

No, that was performance art--an edifying emulation of the bots emulating aliases.

Ah, but you knew THAT!

After hearing of the reputed Draconian punishment meted out to the University of North Carolina for its reputed easy grading scandal, I have wondered as a fan and legal layman about how the NCAA might respond to some hypothetical future infractions by a recent national champion. Would a program receive more severe, less severe, or the same punishment as recent national champion UNC? Based on my layman's bewilderment at the NCAA response to the UNC situation, I clearly lack the legal/regulatory compliance and enforcement expertise and insight to authoritatively comment on whether the following hypotheticals might trigger more severe, less severe, or the same punishment as recent national champion UNC received.

(NOTE: I am absolutely NOT recommending, explicitly, or implicitly, that any school, athletic department, coaching staff, coach, trainer, player, cheerleader, faculty, alumni, petroshoeco official, agent, agent runner, summer game coach, media official, big gaming official, bookie, hooker, drug dealer, sports attorney, drug mule, money launderer, Deep State official, fan, or other individual possibly involved in college basketball in any way, engage in such activities. But I feel have in good conscience to pose these hypotheticals in hopes of further clarifying for the good of the game, what sort of acts can and cannot be expected to receive similar draconian punishment. Hopefully, the legal and regulatory experts among us can weigh in as appropriate.)

What might the likely NCAA responses be to:

1.) players being allowed to graduate magna cum laude without ever attending a class in the same decade they played in?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC?

2.) players being allowed to shoot any person through left and right eye sockets that tried to pay less than the player's asking price for a pair of complimentary basketball shoes?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC?

3.) coaches being allowed to begin the season with Gitmo camp, where in if any one player does not finish a drill, all players are water boarded along with Sean Hannity, who reputedly once said he would be willing to be waterboarded to raise money for a good cause?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC.

4.) petroshoeco officials being allowed to move into NCAA headquarters and run the NCAA in favor of its favorite programs entirely without the overhead of NCAA officials?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC.

5.) The Deep State being allowed to coopt the NCAA and use it to launder money through college sports betting needed to engineer the double overthrow of Vladimir Putin and President Trump during the cover of a covertly orchestrated USA-Russia Basketball Grudge Match?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC?

6.) An alumni being allowed to give a recruit a Formula One Grand Prix racing car and a limited partnership interest in a new hotel-casino in Moscow, Russia?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC.

7.) A future player being paid $100,000,000 to be the first Number One NBA draft choice after the player matriculated an NCAA member institution at the age of 6?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC??

8.) A player being given a Nobel Prize for Economics despite having had a tutor take all his classes for him online, while Deep State fx techs generated 3D holographic imagery of him attending classes he in fact did not attend?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC?

9.) An OAD being given the skim on every third game he plays in?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC?

10.) An OAD being paid $500,000,000 in exchange for the University being able to market a likeness of his genitalia tatooed with the school's shoe brand for up to 10 years after he leaves school and signs with the NBA?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC?

11.) Going to regular classes like a regular student, studying, taking his own tests, and coming back to finish his degree, but with the university unable to exploit marketing his image until he actually graduates?
More severe, less severe, or the same as UNC?

(Note: all fiction and satire. No malice.)

JayHawkFanToo said:

jaybate 1.0 said:

@BShark

And I hope someday we sign a 5-star OAD.

You mean one like Wiggins or Embiid or Josh Jackson or Diallo or Oubre or Alexander...? All 5-Star OADs...

This is @fun. I want +*play. My name &is Personabate 1.0.

No, as always, I mean $his at the 1, or 5.

I have no #idea aliases was going become so Fruit-of-Loom wadded and ?frustrated about D€evon Dotson¥ not refuting the hypothesi$ of a embargo€ on KU re£cruitment of 5star* OADS at the {1 and ¥5.

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🔆

@BShark

The hypothesis some seem frustrated with being unable to refute fully so far appears about as elegant as it can be until you, or someone else fits more data to it.

Is 5-star Devon Dotson the #1 or #2 ranked point guard on most of the rankings?

Is he projected as an OAD?

Am I missing something?

Or are those frustrated at failing to refute the hypothesis so far missing something? 😉

@BShark

Hypothetically speaking, it appears the only way Frank gets beat out of a roster spot and 10 minutes per game first season is if Joerger is part of the Alt Bounce Network (ABN), and the ABN wants the back up PG positions in Sac to be Alt Bounce guys.

Again, hypothetically speaking, it would appear that one of the best ways to discourage top PGs and 5s from going to addias schools, would be to make sure the lion's share of the back up positions in the L go to players affiliated with the ABN.

I've been saying this for years now about Frank: Frank had to slow way down for D1, because, like Tiny Archibald, and lots of other short, high-octane PGs after Tiny in the NBA, Frank was just tooooooo fast for most of his teammates in D1.

"Usable speed" at any level of the game is the speed that all one's rotation teammates can play at "under control." Every one in D1 is pretty speedy straight line and some are blindingly fast. But very few D1 players--basically the ones that will one day play in the NBA--can play at NBA speeds, while in D1. As a result, D1 coaches have to slow the players with NBA speed down to play with the rest of the team; this is why D1 plays so much slower than the NBA. Its not just the shot clocks. You could set the D1 shot clock the same as the L and D1 ball would still be played slower.

But in the NBA, surrounded by athletes that can play under control at ANY speed, PGs like Frank actually get to use their after burners. In fact, their after burners are prized. Men with after burners that can play under control, shoot lights out, guard, protect and do what is necessary, but never more, ARE professional basketball players defined. They are men admitted to the professional society of hoops. They are colleagues of speed. They are the initiates that can, with the right coaches and teammates become 32 degree Rimmasons. From among these ascend the Ball Illuminati. They can either become part of the venerated traditionalists perfecting what already is, or become the "magickal" magicians of hops endlessly imposing change on the tradition bound rectangular order of the Backboard Knights Templar. But always there are both the traditionalists and the innovators. The traditionalists rise through the conventional orders of the Orthodoxy eventually, if good enough, ascending to the Basketball Knights Templar to reaffirm the most ancient order of hoops. These are the two recognizable paths to basketball salvation in this world that exist behind the marketing hype and spin for naives put out by the Wizard of the Basketball Oz and its Media-Gaming Complex. Behind the curtain, one path is little "o" occult. The other path is little "c" catholic. One is little "l" lucifer bringing light from inside the player himself and changing the game. One is little "s" saint continuing the sacred game in its grandest universal tradition in tact, untainted by human baseness. These are the two paths--the two tectonic spiritual plates rubbing each other and loosing fearful tremors. These are the two "orders" that are endlessly vying for control and they are caught hopelessly intertwined like a pair of hands in an M.C. Escher picture and only the wisdom and forgiveness of the true traditional basketball god can keep either of them at times from ruining the greatest game ever invented with their frequently savage cruelty in the ignorance of means justify ends. The very same pair of sides are currently turning our beautiful, awesome, blessed world into a living night mare right now as they search for a new equilibrium at all our expenses--these same paths inform the greatest game ever invented. Let this be known. These two paths let nothing alone under god's heaven. Nothing. The dynamic of these two paths makes empires rise and fall. It makes nations rise and fall. It makes Presidents rise and fall. It makes basketball players rise and fall. It makes basketball dynasties rise and fall. Not only the rich shall we always have with us, as Jesus said, but the two paths too shall we always have, so long as the Indo-European paradigm survives. How we ordinary people democratically manage those walking the two paths--and not they us--determines, whether this world is tolerable, or intolerable, forgiving and compassionate, or intolerant and vicious, at peace, or at war. truthful, or prevailed over by lies. But I digress.

With any luck, the NBA will love Frank same as they loved Tiny, John Stockton, Isaiah Thomas, Steve Nash and Rajon Rondo, and even some of the Super Smurfs like Mugsy Bogues.

Frankly-speaking, the best prior model for Frank is John Stockton. Frank has Stockton's temperament and Stockton's quickness, shooting, controlled style, and blazing speed, when he turns it on. Why I liken Frank to John Stockton is that Frank, like Stockton, is comfortable and smooth at any speed, while at the same time tough as nails, and willing to do what it takes, but never more than what it takes to control the other PG. Like Stockton, Frank will come up against guys that are too tall for him. And that is where his deceptive quickness saves him, same as it did Stockton. But the A-Number-1 threat that Frank and Stock share are shooting from the field and from the line. Deadly basically from anywhere. If Frank finds his Karl Malone and Jerry Sloan, rack him for the Hall. Not if not.

Joerger doesn't sound sold on him yet, so that means Joerger is either a slow learner that fought his way up through the Bush leagues without ever having played in the NBA, and who spent none of his formative years around top talent, or he is keeping Frank close to his vest. I want to be optimistic about Joerger, but so far he appears the kind of guy you would expect Isiah Thomas to hire in the bush leagues. He's someone that will do the scutt work--especially the dubious portions--exactly as told. Thus, he may not be the guy to recognize Frank's true worth. It took Jerry Sloan, who played in the NBA and had coached there awhile, and who still had a basketball soul, not a basketball sole--to recognize Stockton was HofF grade. But the good news is: Joerger at least realizes Frank is a tough dude that can make big shots and has an NBA gear. If Joerger is beholden to nothing but talent, Frank is in his own private Space X launch pad. If Joerger has to make the Petroshoeco-Agency Complex happy, then Frank may have to get his backup time increments for his resume in Sac and move on.

Post Script: Historically, the Sacramento franchise, wherever it has been, has always appeared to be an NBA Siberia. You know. It has always appeared the place the NBA sends good, but improperly "tuned" guys--the loose canons aka the guys without the NBA-subordinated go-along-to-get-along programming. Call it the place you go to do your penance for what you done wrong before or after you got to the L. Sacramento gets the guys with baggage it wants to deny another start-up league, but that it wants to keep buried in the NBA. Sacramento is the Eastern Front of the NBA. Sacramento is a DEW line radar installation in Point Barrow for USAF guys that know too much about their commanding officer's side action and who cannot be trusted down in CONUS. Get out of line and you wind up in Sacramento; that's how it has always appeared anyway. So: why is Frank Mason, the NCAA D1 Player of the Year in NBA Siberia? The Wizards of Basketball Oz will tell you "he's not in Kansas anymore," and he's short as a Munchkin relative to the NBA. But lately the curtain has been lifted on wizards in USA and UK. Lately the wizards are hard to take at face value any more. Lately, you can't tell the players without a hypothesis. But what hypothesis could even begin to help us do our duty as fans and over the coming years fit data and maybe find some truth? Its practically like throwing darts in the dark sometimes. But here is one possible hypothesis: it might be something below the knees and above the wood, Toto.

@BShark

The height doesn't matter much to me, regardless. 6-1, or 6-2 just doesn't make very much difference. Whatever his true height, he will grow at KU, even if he were not to grow.

And I'm glad we signed a point guard. We needed one.

And I hope someday we sign a 5-star OAD.

@BShark

Now I just checked one non KU site and he was listed 6-1.

Is your 6-2 in KU inches?

@mayjay

I’ve always meant to hypothesize the apparent embargo based on no 5-star OADS at PG being signed and hypothesized it appeared to be expanding to 5 star non OADS.

I’m flex. I like modifying hypotheses to fitted data. That’s the whole point of making hypotheses.

Hypothesis: it appears there has been an embargo on 5-star OAD signings at KU.

Don’t know how. Don’t know why. Only referring to appearances, not realities. Don’t know what the rumored Persona software generated aliases say. Don’t even know if there are any such things.

There, that was easy.

You’ll have to get over thinking I have an agenda, or an interest in being right. There’s no gotcha here. I hope there is no embargo. I hope Harvey Weinstein is innocent. I hope Fox is wrong about child trafficking surrfacing soon in Hollywood. I hope child sex trafficing rings in Washington, London and LA are false. I hope the authorities shot the lone gunman and not a patsy in Las Vegas. I hope 23 assault rifles can shoot slow enough and long enough to match the acoustics instead of an M-260 belt machine gun some rumors suggest as a better match. I hope the photographic evidence some present indicating crisis actors faking part of the Boston Marathon Bombings are fake. I hope the Murrah building blew from Tim’s fertilizer and not a blast from internal charges. I hope the airlines weren’t shorted shortly before 9/11 and the University of Alaska Fairbanks is wrong about the 2 planes not being able to make the three towers fall in their footprints. Heck! I hope Lee fresh from fake defector program was the only shooter in Dallas and didn’t know Ruby the gun runner, and Ernst Stavro Gault, er, James Earl Ray, was the lone guy in Memphis despite the King family proving a conspiracy in civil court, and i hope Sirhan had no handlers and was not under mind control.

On the other hand, I don’t care what the truth is. I just hope for it to be discovered and taught to our kids some day.

One thing appears for likely, despite the King family proving conspiracy in Memphis. Most conspiracies appear probably for suckers! In a national security state like ours has reputedly been, since the National Security Act of 1947, it appears secrecy makes conspiracy largely superfluous in many cases. Who needs to conspire about things, if classifying and compartmentalizing can keep activities from being known, right?

I don’t know. It’s all just so darned complicated. Who knows? Maybe we’ll never know why KU appears to have such a tough time signing an 5-star OAD PG. Maybe it’s microwave activity in Kansas. Or too much wheat chaff. Or maybe it’s the Secret Societies. Or inter dimensional aliens. Or the Campanile. Or not enough 32rd degree Masons from KU. Or Phog’s ghost is scaring them away. Or maybe Self thinks “the spacing” would be all wrong with a 5-star OAD at PG. What the heck! The guys at CERN refuted the locality assumption and verified quantum entanglement. Maybe 5-star OAD PGs are just not quantum entangled with KU!

Rock Chalk!

@Kcmatt7

Meth revenue donations will cover a $1M the first hour. The next year will be gravy!!!

PG DevDot has 5 stars; that's a chip in hypothesized embargo.

Did he decommit from anywhere?

Now, at 6-1, is he an OAD?

@kjayhawks

NCAA basketball...Its Corrupt-tastic!!!!!!!

@kjayhawks

It appeared this investigation was a white wash the moment UNC got the shoe contract and the ring.

Corruption is dead in college basketball!!!!

Long live corruption!!!!

Self could not say no.

(Note: all fiction. No malice.)