Not sure. Should we guard the stripe on Aldridge and McGarrity? They only average 48% combined from trey. Probably due for an off game. :shit:
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Now just watch the fools come out of the wood work wanting him run next season if the record does not improve.
Its quite possible his FT% would improve in that position...or in ANY other position than what he is using now.
It looks like something cloned from the combined DNA of Fox Mulder and a Sharpei that escaped from a KSU Xperimental Barn running deep state eugenics trials to be unleashed the day after the electoral college votes.
I too am ready for a piece of Marsha.
@drgnslayr said:
There are a few uber talents out there that never have to dig that deep. Carlton is not one of those so gifted...It is time for him to marry basketball.
PHOF!
Otherwise, I have no comment on this incident, except to say these situations make me sad beyond words.
Conner Frankamp (WSU): 32.6% 3PT
Averaging 21 minutes per game, 5.9 PPG
Andrew White III (SU): 41.3% 3PT
Averaging 32 minutes per game, 16.9 PPG
This is all pretty simple. If Bragg gets back, the scheme and personnel fit, work and are on track for sufficient development by March.
Not if not.
U drove a frozen rope on the things "broke" post.
Self's gotta be feeling a little vertigo. Things are going so good, and yet the prospects for them going bad are so transparent.
KU is doing nothing currently that a really good team could not clog up and so force KU to another part of MULTIPLE OFFENSE 2.0. But...
Without Bragg, and with Doke unable to play without being put on the line to get a stop, and with Coleby going on a bailing wire knee, Self CAN'T go to an offense with two posts even for short stints now without committing Josh to a lot more post play, and so stretching his perimeter depth thin too, Or committing to Lightfoot.
Feel good: Stunning stretch of guard play with Josh rounding into shape and Vick gluing, showing he could score, and going back to gluing.
Feel bad: all you called broke.
Feel queasy: losing the extra fouling for one big and the two deep depth you need eventualy for double post opponents.
The good and bad have to torque him. Extremes always do.
The feel queasy has to make his eyes do the simultaneous pull back and zoom in of Hitchcock.
Life is sweet now, but the seeds are sewn for disaster in February, if Coleby can't start playing full tilt.
This NU game WAS Coleby's right place, right time chance OF A CAREER. Nothing.
Self is likely AT a drawing board right now sketching what he hopes is another hat rabbit.
They are definitely working on stuff since i have tuned in rather than trying to run up the score on this NU coach. Must be a pal of Self's, or an Okie Baller mafiosi.
Ah, my sense of humor is not keen when I am playing catch up after getting such a late start.
Self is having them run a lot more of the offensive actions today.
I realize that. I am not sure what makes you mention it though.
Landen looks like he got his hard drive reloaded with last season's software.
Landen is like a new man today.
Hard to get used to the Huskers as a B12 team still.
Wow, Landen's foot is feeling BETTER!!!!!
Is Frank favoring a foot there?
Thanks.
What's the assessment of Nebraska? Would NU be an above .500 team in the B12 this season?
Did that trey do it for Frank?
Was that a made trey by JOSH?!!!! Way to go!!!
Good news on the scoring. He needed to get that going.
Wish AWIII were here taking this beating. :smiley:
Retiring from where?
Scoring, rebounding, or floor game?
Thx
Late show up. Who's playing well today? Who sucks? Who soaked up Bragg's minutes?
First, great job!! That was a lot of work and very readable.
Baylor should be good for two reasons. First, Drew does better with guys that don't know him well than with those that do; i.e., with teams with newcomers. Once his players find him out, then his teams tend to fall apart. Second, Drew has some good new faces.
WVU will be in the race, because Huggie will win a number of games with intimidation alone. The refs softening everyone up with the tight calling early will favor Huggins' team late, because when the refs start swallowing their whistles down the stretch, the Mountaineers will already be practiced at unloading. The mayhem allowed down the stretch always favors WVU.
ISU's Prohm proved he could coach a little last season, but he didn't really get the best out of what The Mayor left him.. Six seniors will get him enough consistency to mask his shortcomings. His real exposure comes next season.
Oklahoma surprises me in that I expected Kruger to be able to fill some of the spaces.
Texas Tech with a new coach in Beard will do better, but not great. Most every new coach does decent in the B12 it seems. They are a new mouse trap.
TCU is my pick for a surprise. Jaimie Dixon can coach. He'll find one or two hoopahs to go with last season's low ceiling prison bodies and upset some teams.
Texas is obstructed by Shaka.
Thx. That means something coming from the guy that keeps the phase space up and running. Rock Chalk!
That was a good sign for sure.
But Duke was as usual fantastically overrated. I can't recall if their guys in the paint were first rate big men, and if they had anyone missing from the starting lineup, when we played them.
I am excited, but…
The acid test is seeing if they can find ways to win against a good team, when the tray is not going in.
Indiana's big man gave them fits.
Also, what will they do when Frank falls out of "Psi" zone? It is hard to say how good the team is when Frank is playing like a super human. If stays this good all season, this is one awesome team.
You know I goofed. I read the head and saw guards and Vick, not 4 bigs and Vick. Sorry!!!
It is always interesting to me to go big, too.
Especially if one plays a zone defense that can stretch with the bigs on one end and make teams pay for going small by cramming everything inside to the bigs.
This is what I have been calling the 5-0 that might work better than the 4-1.
It's crazy not to pull both their post man out and drive on them, if you can. But it requires lots of help defending Post men.
Note: the above was an affectionate but pale stylistic homage to the maestro of murder and malfeasance, and one time best crime writer in Prairie Village, James Ellroy. Buy his books and read the real thing, but prepare to bathe afterwards.
The lucky part for Doke is the NBA drafts on "potential," so missing basic skills doesn't inhibit draft rank much. 😄
33% FT shooting just means he has even more potential to improve than most!!! 😂
Anyone can be beaten by counter scheming against a weakness and finding an unfair advantage. Kelly Anne Conway entered the history books of Presidential upsets by realizing Hillary Clinton was a "joyless candidate" and telling Pres-Elect Trump he and his campaign needed to be "happy warriors." Pure genius, Ms. Conway. Great counter scheming has to see the opponent correctly and offer a feasible alternative that works. But you need an unfair advantage too, because the opponent will have one. Something like Crosscheck was reputed to be and like Wikileaks was.
All teams can be beaten. All schemes can be counter schemed. Not talking about off shooting nights. Talking about catching mice with a better designed mouse trap.
So how to beat KU?
OFFENSE
Offend through a 4 down low, force Josh to guard the low post.
Post Frank up inside.
Make KU bigs slide. They can't.
Take 20 treys on kick outs and curl screens.
DEFENSE
Deny long treys: Over guard the Trey stripe to force them to drive.
Deny short treys: Foul them when they drive before they shoot.
Make KU HAVE TO MAKE FREE THROWS TO WIN.
FOUL DOKE EVERY TOUCH.
The above is what KU has to prepare for.
The cheerleaders yell.
The dipshits cheer.
Everything in ball is downside up.
Basketball pencil necks see the genius not doing this or that.
Basketball fans see a coach doing the impossible--winning with guys like he used to win with at Tulsa some seasons and other seasons putting together talented bunches of perimeter guys and whatever the cat dragged in in the paint.
They see that a nice guy finishes first. Wins rings. Cracks wise. Strings 12 titles. Does it the right way. Makes guys go to class. Builds the Assists Foundation. Stays married. Raises kids. Wins with guys no one thinks can win. Wears a suit. Stays humble. Cracks back. But leaves the wood on good terms.
But over this time when the genius was defying all the odds from ORU to Tulsa to Champaign-Urbana to the building where amazing things happen, the rest of college basketball was getting down on its belly and crawling like komodo dragons injected with effing meth.
While this guy was winning 83% of the time and racking up a cold six hundred wins, college basketball was taking a trip down.
Down through the media-gaming complex shaping what the suckers thought and bet.
Down through the petroshoeco-agency complex trafficking in child ballers and making them leans to this brand and that brand, hyping them into Top 100s and then forcing them to turn pro before they were ready, so the leaches that had been sucking on them since seventh grade could release the blood tourniquets and let the biggest rush of all--the rush of red hot blood stained NBA money flow from the player drafted, signed and sent to the d-league; that flows into the veined wallets and bank accounts of the leaches.
This guy that the dipshits love to love; this guy that walks over the shit like Jesus walking over the top of a Superfund sight in a wetland where the tasered and wrist bound bodies are sunk in concrete ; this effing guys is just too amazing for words.
He finds a way through.
He gets used some times, but not really USED!
He gets made some times, but not really MADE!
How KU got lucky enough to find him, when it could just as easily have found Travis Ford, or Frank Haith, or Bzzzzzzzz Bzzzzzzzzdelik, is beyond me.
How many bullets has this guy had to dodge already even at goody two shoes KU?
Early in his tenure, a buncha effin' glans heads over at the Williams Fund and KUAD were running a ticket scalping scam running into the millions of bones.
Drug dealers have preyed on the team from just a few rows behind the bench.
The kinds of guys that the Pete Bondurants and Wayne Tedrows and Ward Littells have to make disappear in ways we don't even want to think about surface every now and again thinking they can score some green by speed balling some shit up the arm of one of our players, or hustling one of our coaches. Its not a jungle out there. Its a fucking James Ellroy novel out there. If James Ellroy has any more great books in him, someday he will write a trilogy about the underbelly of sports.
And some how Bill Self--the genius--keeps finding a way around and over the shit that passes for bottom feeding scum suckers in sports.
Some how he keeps graduating guys that grew up in hoods counting bullets fired around dark corners and waiting for the clips to eject, before walking the last block home to the projects from practice.
Somehow he keeps finding enough good parents and enough good kids to patch together winners that go to class. Somehow he finds kids with enough want to to sleep in the streets and somehow turn their lives around and contribute to 30 win seasons and conference titles and number one seeds.
Somehow he keeps dodging the graspy maneuvering of private oligarchs trying to use him, and the players, and the athletic department, as the backdoors into the university with the billion bone budget in a red state that keeps net importing federal revenues, and keeps electing guys that say they want less gubmint subsidy but never deliver.
Somehow he raises his own kids, and keeps talking to persons out on Mass Street and making people believe that the midwest is not dead and persons making $10M per year can kick back and chase a bacon scramble with coffee in a restaurant and sign an autograph with a smile.
Yea, underneath, it isn't all as smooth and easy as he makes it seem. No doubt he's got an ugly side and a wrong side of bed side.
He ain't no angel.
But he ain't no devil.
And he's an angel flying over a stinking swamp of college basketball.
Some how he has built something that works and lasts in a world where every other coach seems a flash in the pan. He's making players believe in teams in the middle of a country a Federal Reserve chairman that isn't even sure whether America is still a republic or not. He is making them believe it is smart to be smart and loyal to your school in the midst of wikileaking and fake news about fake news and s elections stolen, then stolen back, then stolen, then stolen back...
Some how Bill Self has racked up a cold six hundred...the right way.
Rock Chalk!
Frank "Psi" Mason's performance against UMKC was not just sick, to use today's vernacular, he was acutely ill.
He was 11-14 FGs and 6-7 3PT, and 2-2 FT. The rim was the size of Jupiter--a gas giant. As usual, Frank beat or tied most of our big men in rebounding with 5. He dished 5 assists. He had 3 steals. He had 0 TOs and 0 blocks.
C'Mon, Frank, no blocks? What was the matter with you? Did you intentionally leave yourself something to improve at?
So: why do I call him Psi? Back in the 1950s, Psi was not just the 23rd letter in the Greek alphabet, or an engineering coefficient. Noooooooo. It also had another Twilight Zone definition. See definition 2 below.
psi
(p)sī/Submit
noun
noun: psi; plural noun: psis
1.
the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet ( Ψ, ψ ), transliterated as ‘ps.’
ASTRONOMY
the twenty-third star in a constellation.
noun: Psi
"Psi Aquarii"
2.
supposed parapsychological or psychic faculties or phenomena.
"he turns to anecdotal evidence to prove that psi exists"
Yo, Frankie, you be tapped into a spooky substrate of basketball right now. You are into deep ball. You are cruising around bending time and space like its Tesla vapors. You are standing still like a humming bird. You are like Henry Miller once he figured out how to turn the end of a sentence into a surreal unexpected ending. The words suddenly wouldn't shut off for Henry. The stories wouldn't quit. You are in a place where the ball just keeps coming to you. The Flow. The still point of the turning world in T.S. Eliot Ball. Enjoy it. Take notes. Map what its like down and in there. It will end sooner or later, but you can still tell us all what it was like when you surface.
Oh, and the scouts there to see Josh notice this sort of a brander.
Speaking of Josh, he decided to show everyone what 19/12 looks like from a perimeter guy. He decided that Psi is not the only KU guard that can crack double figures on the glass. SCREW DOWN THE TOs and the improvement continues.
KU IS THE LAND OF REBOUNDING GUARDS.
Devonte got his groove back. Devonte looked like, well, like Devonte. And that's very good.
Only Lagerrie got quiet, and he seemed to be saying that is what my teammates need out here on the perimeter. They need me to just let them find themselves. He played 22 quiet minutes, but was productive nonetheless.
And then there was Svi Brickhailiuk again. 2-7 from Desoto. And yet he got two high flying dunks and cleaned 7 caroms. Not bad for an off shooting night.
So what about our composite post man? How does 22 points and 20 rebounds sound? Sounds GOOD to me.
KU beat UMKC the way they were supposed to beat a Mid Major: 105-62.
Next.
OMG! Tubby left too soon.
Thx
Aw how does it feel?
Travis Ford is a Lincoln.
Jim Calhoun believed in graduating players..
Bob Huggins is lean, firm and without need of a man bra.
Bill Self will NEVER play Bad Ball again, or mention the extra pass.
Frank Martin stays calm and praises his players.
Rick Pitino believes that his living monogamously makes relying on prostitution to recruit players completely unnecessary.
Referees are impartial and call fouls the same for the home team as they do for the visiting team.
Texas Tech is a destination basketball coaching job.
Kenneth Starr insists on the highest moral standards among Baylor athletic department officials, coaches and players.
ROTFL
I wish basketball would get over, so we could start talking football again.
Self would be perfect, if he just had hair like Bruce Weber's.
Coach K is a handsome man we can look up to, because he insists on clean play and likable players.
We were always too critical of The Antlers.
There are times, when I would rather watch a Chick flick, than attend a KU Game in Allen Field House.
@jaybate 1.0 is right more often than Bill Self.
The NCAA engineers the seeding and refereeing in the March Carney in KU's favor every season!
Players and cheerleaders should be selected solely for their intellects.
John Calipari is a straight shooter that plays by the rules.
Dick Vitale is impartial.
It would be so great to have Fizzou back in the Big 12.
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
And it can happen. Roy came home and won two rings for UNC.
Heart says: tree.
Head says: best.
Agree.
Humans do silly thjngs sometimes.
Then they pay for it.
No Ellis = Tributary
@drgnslayr 's overthinking = tributary
But until I see that easy, fluid motion return...
Foot = main stream.