Tyler violated the prime directive of feeding the post. Never close your eyes and just throw it in there.
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That was a remarkably bad exhibition of free throwing.
One of KU's post men did a spin move and went up! Coleby, he's my man now.
Coleby really looks like a player. Got to get that knee functional.
Tyler's really making us pay for his minutes.
Hypothesis: Lightfoot and Coleby know too much about how to play the post to be given any minutes. Or too healthy.
LOL
Not to worry, its just "sore."
Is it considered good sportsmanship in today's game to keep shooting treys with a 40 point lead?
Step away a few seconds and its a 40 pointer and Tyler's checking in.
Wow, this is really sickening watching this normalization of Duke Bad Actor Basketball. Really sickening.
Kind of reminds me Psy-ops 101.
Listening to Doke, and thinking about all of the African players KU has had recently, it would be nice if Senator Pompeo soon to be CIA Director could put in a good word for KU to get an Institute for African Basketball Research and Development. We need more of these guys.
The good news is that Self really didn't help them much and they found a way to compose themselves, go on the attack and separate.
We are starting to see some guys that kind of fit together: Josh, Vick and Azuibuke, with whichever guards fill the other two slots. Unfortunately, Doke isn't yet quite ready for 35 mpg. But it looks like Self is going to start playing him into shape.
So: Nick McDevitt's bloodline tracks back like this:
McDevitt-->
Beidenbeck-->
Hugh Durham-->
J.K Kennedy
McDevitt played for and assisted for Beidenbeck and invited Beidenbeck back to be his assistant.
Beidenbeck is a Hugh Durham disciple.
This is from the way back machine, Peabody.
Durham was one of those southern coaches that was reputedly quite good but kind of out the mainstream and was involved in the big period of integrating southern basketball AFTER the northern schools did it.
Durham grew up in Louisville hoops culture and played a couple season at FSU. He later coached FSU and took a Florida State team to the Final Four back in the late Wooden Era.
UNC Ashville is running a couple offenses and one of them is so old that it is what my high school ran. Its some of the Oklahoma shuffle. Then they shift out of it and run some double high post stuff, then a little 3-2 high low. Mixing it up for our guys. But they just can't stop our guys athleticism, or our treys.
Kennedy I have no recollection of.
Bragg no chop the feet.
He's got to bend those tendonitis ridden knees, or he can't guard at all.
Max Falkenstein is starting to look a wee bit like they better keep him lashed up to a heart monitor.
Its pretty apparent so far that Self sent them out with noting but the vanilla playbook. This game we get to labor. Self isn't going to give them any plays that work until the last ten minutes of the second half.
Tyler Self becomes the missing big man.
lucas and Bragg are going to have to play behind Lightfoot and Tyler a little. :bowtie:
Self's face suggests no.
Just linked in. We're up 4. Playing good?
Each time I go home, I go get ribs first. I'm not a rib snob and think no one else has good cue. But KC CUE REPRESENTS A SPECIAL CONVERGENCE OF AMERICAN REGIONAL COOKING.
The Carolinas converge African and UK/New England roots. Gullah.
All the Mississippi River towns converge the Carolinas with the French Cajun/Creole hybrid.
Texas combines New Orleans and Mexican influences.
But KC is the only place that converged all of them and then had the incredible diversity of woods and the stock yards oversupply of throwaway ribs and low grade cast off.cuts for 40 years to allow the experimentation to bring them all together into KC barbecue where you can tastes hints of the whole country.
There is only one barbecue regional flavor that KC missed and that was a strain from central California that developed on the ranches of the central California coast called Santa Maria style. I love it too, but KC's is still the zenith.
...and lounge at the ceeeeement pond with some of granny's hot vittles.
Joe outsource's the submarine sandwiches to Seoul now.
He's bummed about the TPP getting the deep six.
But he's counting on Japanese Prime Minister Abe to keep the TTP alive bilaterally with USA and so figures to funnel subs through Japan, then to Lawrence.
Trade. Can't live with it. Can't live without it.
I want to add that I am REALLY impressed by how high up the guy in the Titleist hat wears his underwear. Most guys would have have shown some plumber's butt in that position. Props to the man in the ultra high high rise briefs!
dogchi?
Classic. Trademark it!
BULLETIN FOR DUVAL:
It is a business and that's not the way a smart business man talks about his next career move.
Josh Jackson gets it.
Make an appointment to talk to Josh.
Or forget about KU. We're all business here.
Next.
Get your hot'n spicy ideograms at Joes.
Yeeee hawwwww!
I didn't know KU had such a huge Korean fan base!
Maybe Coach Self will.be comped a Hyundai!!!
It would be interesting for someone who actually worked up close and personal with them to write candidly about what these talking heads are actually like. We learned quite a bit about Knight when the players that played for him began to talk freely.
Suspect your assessment is probably accurate, but I was kind of hoping he might be a deeper thinker about politics. Few are though.
Thx for sharing.
Hope your turkey, or substitute, is good and you are ready to share your insights as the season unfolds.
Correct me if I'm wrong here.
KU=adidas
UA=Nike
Oregon=Nike
USC=Nike
CAL=Nike
The above asymmetry in brand distribution makes me ask if he played for a Nike power summer game team, or an adidas one?
If Nike, then unless adidas has reason to believe Trump's election will make them privy to untraceable bailouts, which might be an indirect, if remote possiblility, if the apparent Trump-Adelson-Koch complex successfully take over the Federal Reserve and build a German-Russian-USA central bank and oil alliance, I've gotta think the odds and the cash are on the side of Nike in this one.
I'll trust you, because you care and keep up.
But unless Baylor's chain of command above head football coach up to Chancellor is sacked and replaced with high quality persons, I'm afraid taking the Baylor job is akin to a dog lying down with fleas.
Back at ya.
LOL
Have you seen Coach Knight speak, since the election about his steadfast support for Trump during the campaign? I look forward to reading why he is such a big Trump supporter. That part of his Knight's message was either inadequately reported, or I missed it during the campaign. I respect Knight's intellect, even though I disagreed with him on how he treated players and media. I would like to read what his take on Trump vs. Hillary was and on whether he was really pro Trump, or just pro Republican and pro Mike Pence of Indiana.
Its easy to get confused about what others mean in their writing.
For future reference, I try never to deal in rumors, without identifying them as such, and then usually in humorous posts. Regarding theory, I try always to use theory as a proven explanation, or assertion, describing a phenomena. I try to be consistent in using this definition of theory for two reasons. First, I know that the word theory has many definitions and so how is a board rat going to know which definition I intend if I use it one way one time, and another way another time? I also use theory in the way I do, because it is helps keep clear in my and readers' thinking the distinction between hypothesis and theory, between a proposed possible explanation, and a proven one.
Folks around here that read me regularly understand that while lots of folks use theory to mean everything from an empirically verified fact, to an explanation found true by a jury, to an assertion supported by a lot of evidence, to a refuted hypothesis, to an inconclusive hypothesis, to an untested hypothesis, to off the cuff guesses, to outright smoke coming out of the posterior, I try to be consistent in my use of the term theory, so that persons understand me..
I deal in phenomena I can observe on TV, or at a game (the latter sadly too rarely), and what is reported, and then hypothesize about it. Even if I argue based on my hypothesizing that it appears likely that my explanation is accurately in conformance with reality, I am not in a position to assert such with an empirically verified level of statistical significance, or in my defintion of the word, to characterize something as a theory in any proven sense. So: my "explanations" of observable events rarely get beyond the hypothetical stage. Once in a while over time facts and further observations may emerge and lend support to my hypotheses. But hypothesizing is really all I try to do here; that and try to be funny from time to time, depending on my level of creativity at any given time.
I don't deal in "theories" much. Theories to me are already proven according to a reasonable methodology of analysis and standard of evidentiary support and so I hardly need to "deal" in them. Most of us are already aware of the proven stuff.
For one example, I try NOT to propose conspiracy theories, because I lack the expertise, funds and time in most cases to analyse and conclusively support, or refute, hypotheses about conspiracies to the point of proving them to be conspiracy theories. I try to look at things from the non-conspiracy point of view and see if there are any plausible hypotheses that might be formulated to explain a phenomena without conspiracy.
As I like to say, conspiracy theories (unless proven) are for suckers, and are best left to the authorities.
And if they are already proven, then there is nothing to dispute, or analyse, anyway, right?
So: it makes good sense for you to disagree with my injury hypotheses, when you suspect, or find, evidence that refutes them. And to argue for them , when you find evidence that supports them. And I will be grateful, when you do, because I like to keep refining my hypotheses, or junking them, when evidence and/or logic dictates doing so.
But I have to say with all due respect that, so far, on this particular subject of team performance this season, I don't read any facts, or observations, or logics, that tends to refute plausibly the hypotheses I've proposed.
But each game generates new evidence that could blow my performance/injury hypotheses out of water.
Rock Chalk!
Things I am thankful for:
The word thanks.
Good pumpkin pie.
Moist turkey.
Elections with properly counted votes.
James Naismith.
Wood and shellac.
The mythical bird.
Every season.
Board rats that love to understand the game.
This site.
And laughter among friends.
Yup, for sure.
Let he who is without sin pass and cast the first kidney stone!
If you say so.
I rarely view this as a bad thing. KU fans care and know the game some. They recognize when the anticipated V-8 is misfiring some.
Their only problem is like most persons they expect each new team to be more like the last one than new teams ever are.
Fans, like players, also expect officiating to stay the same, and it changes and they take time to see its impacts clearly.
But I would be sad if they ever got to quiet. I like their energy and analyses.
Is good.
It's been awhile since we got free Chinese lessons. 🤓
Is that Roy's house?
Do they have easy classes for ballers, too?