These guys need a talk from Kevin Young. It's going to be a long season if they don't start climbing up the backs of guys for boards.
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I think JOSH came to KU, because Vick's legs would make Josh's legs look bigger!
Vick could get a steady job as a pipecleaner with those legs
Luke, ya gotta shoot to get the foul
We need some uniforms out of that stuff when we go into Manhattan!
Now that sailor was wearing some proper AOR-2 camouflage
Our slender jumpin' Jays are starting to feel the effects of Big 10 banging now
Crean got to much sun
Doke looks like a Big Boy locomotive from WWII.
Takes awhile to get the mass moving but once it starts there is no stopping it!!!!
Don't like DG grabbing his string
Josh is a little faint around the big guys down low
Josh is good but his concentration on fundies wavers
Bad defensive footwork by Josh before that drive on him
True, true
Frank's hair is 6-5
Everyone on our team is named Honor. BIG FAMILY the Honor's are!
Looks like Luke's got some support inside that left pontoon
Luke's hair is 7-2!!!!!
PHOF
Doka no foul loca
With all these stove pipe hair cuts everyone might only be 5-9
Ratso in black✔️
Has anyone gotten rough yet?
IU is triple teaming Landen on the glass!
And so real Ball starts!!!
And is it time for the five Guard offense ?
Poor Stumpy.
He just doesn't seem quite as impressive without the long stacks.
Know nothing about IU.
Can't predict.
We may see another story of him being cut loose from D-League and heading overseas.
Something went waaaaay wrong with Diallo.
Very sad.
The NBA drafts potential.
The NBA cuts lack of skill.
Why, oh why won't these players listen to Self?
Diallo could have spent 3 years at KU developing himself into a player with a career!
Nauseating!
Just a guess, but these stress fx and reactions often seem to go on for 6 months or more. The temptation would be to play him now against Duke and IU to get a Split, then let the rest start, since it could take 6 months regardless.
Keeping it close is all that is crucial. A big blow out by a top team hurts your RPI I thought, but maybe I'm wrong?
Imminently fair and reasonable.
I would only recall the many players, like Tyrel Reed, that have played operable without missing a game.
I suppose that is the sort of distinction that drove the author of reputed CIA DOCUMENT 1035-960 to select "conspiracy theorist."
Imagine an Intel plant working as a network talking head scoffing and saying persons that doubt Oswald did it are "conspiracy realists!" 😄
It's more respectful than smearing.
In my case I am a "conspiracy factualist," when the conspiracy is proven and I try to be a "conspiracy neutral," who looks for all non conspiratorial explanations and leaves the heavy lifting of conspiracy to those with authority and/or budgets required to run down conspiracies. I do feel that exhausting all non conspiracy explanations can imply some possibility of conspiracy.
Regardless, it's good to return conspiracy and.conspiracy theory to ranks of respectable discourse. Thank you FOIA!
Don't EVER feel self doubt about being a conspiracy theorist.
The reputed FOIA release of CIA document 1035-960 put all that nonsense to rest. The CIA REPUTEDLY WEAPONIZED AND SEWED THE SPREAD OF THE TERM "CONSPIRACY THEORY" for Intel assets in government and media, as the term of art for discrediting reaonable inferences about actual activities.
It's okay to think again. 😄
Et al,
No one seriously believes what Self says about injuries anymore, do they? All talk is strategic. Especially before two must keep the score close games for RPI end of season Carney, er, tourney engineering, er, seeding kinds of opponents?
No one wears a boot to prevent a stress fracture unless they have symptoms and history suggesting reason for concern. Period.
So: at the very least Big Luke is symptomatic.
Next, there is that weird category called stress reaction (?) that is between well and stress Fx that they boot up for; that appears what this likely is. But Self apparently wants to call it a sore foot to make them prepare for Luke. Good for Bill!!
Next, Self appears to tend to make opponents prepare for rotation players, even if he intends to use them sparingly, or not at all.
Inference: Luke is injured. He's going to play injured. It will likely get worse.
Self will likely play him to shorten the game against a top opponent, especially since Bragg is in a "funk" (injury?), Doke fouls, Coleby's knee still looks like Pinhead in Hellraiser, and Lightfoot is a sapling..
No mystery here. No conspiracy theory either!
ive always wondered if "Freudian slip" were a Freudian slip itself for Freud's fascination with women's lingerie!
Did you know that Freud only had around 10 patients and never successfully resolved/cured a single patient.
And his hypotheses of human personality have largely been refuted?
He is apparently a phenomenon of the nexus of public relations and states hope to break down legacy cultural value systems to help the state assist assist the private oligarchy in social engineering a nation more responsive to rationales deemed useful in the industrial era; I.e., a technique for defining those that resisted migration to tiresome, unfulfilling and disposable industrial roles, as discontents requiring "treatment. Note: not entirely sure of this since I have done farm work and disliked it, but it definitely coincides with the rise of unions, and corporations and state ruthlessly successful efforts to destroy unions.
I have never been able to verify this, but have been told a time or two by some reasonable persons that the role of Freudian talk therapist was also fairly widely appropriated at times by state intelligence among non Roman Catholic elements of culture, as a secular means of gaining confessional information among targets.
And that's the rest of the story!
Goooo...day!
It's already a stress fracture, or probably worse; otherwise he would have had double digit rebounds against the Division II teams . The MO with self on this sort of injury is play through it all costs, because it is likely to get worse and worse, so use playing on the injury to squeeze any W early or late that you require such a player, then rest him against the lesser teams. Without several months of staying off it, it won't heal. So: he plays till he cant play against IU and Duke to shorten games for his greenwood bigs. This also implies Bragg is likely injured, too. Self could be playing 5-0, not 4-1 shortly. Josh Jackson could be destined to be the high post man on this team for 20 mpg. It worked for UCLA in 1963. It worked for MU under Haith the last season we played them.
It seems like one call from Tar Black would change the outcome.
Isn't it odd how Travis T. Ford can get the best big man in Illinois, but Bill Self can't?
Travis T. Ford > Bill Self?
NOT!
END THE APPARENT EMBARGO!
Free Bill Self!
Thanks. It is good to have him back. What a great opportunity for him to climb up the rungs of the latter of the staff
I missed that!!! Or forgot it.
Welcome!
Two words: Ken Starr.
If Bragg's funk continues, he's probably got an unreported condition.
With Doke fouling up quick and Coleby a gimp, get ready LIGHTFOOT!!!!!
He's staying in the faith at least.
Maybe he will play for an Under Armour summer team in LA?
Your are right about Mason. He is the best rebounding short PG I have ever seen at KU, maybe EVER. Frank is just amazing.
And Svi and Jackson, when in together give us ample defensive rebounding height for today's game against many teams.
My concern about Josh and Svi goes to them having to guard a 6-8 to 6-9 power forward weighing 245-255.
Svi is listed 6-8 and 205 and Josh is listed 6-8 and 207. We know from he past that KU appears to have had a habit of inflating guys height and weight a bit. From appearances, and past inflation tendencies, likely as not Svi is 6-7 and 200 (20lbs from Hudy the last couple years) and Josh is 6-7 and 195.
Both Svi and Josh seem capable rebounders at a conventional 3 position that generates around 4 rpgs from wing rebounding.
But if they play a wing 4, as Perry did, and have to go inside on the blocks and guard 6-8 240 pounders on up to 6-9, even some 6-10 240-255 pounders, I grow concerned about their weight deficiency, skill, and stamina to defensive rebound inside.
Perry was close to their height, but Perry spent two full seasons trying to learn how to mix it up with the prison bodies on the blocks learning the hard way his limits at defensive rebounding inside. And Perry had actually played post in high school, if I recall correctly. Svi is a converted point guard and Josh was one of those guys that was so athletic and tall in high school that he apparently played every position at one time or another, but was clearly labeled a perimeter prospect. So: I'm not sure these two mostly perimeter type players have the same kind of capacity to get in and defensive rebound as effectively as Perry did, and there were a couple of years there where Perry would disappear in most aspects of his game including rebounding, when the prison bodies were matched up with him.
Clearly, the plan initially was to come with Bragg, Coleby, and Doke both as backups for Lucas in 4-1 against small ball teams, and as conventional double posts with Lucas, when the other team came with two big men.
But Coleby ran into persisting knee problems.
And Bragg has hit a funk BEFORE the season.
And Azuibuke is a fouling machine, as in 5 in 8 minutes against a DII team.
We have the interesting prospect of Mitch Lightfoot doing some pretty good things down low, but he is 6-8 and 210 and so he is not exactly qualified on paper to get in keep guys from backing him down and offensive rebounding over his back either. But at least lightfoot appears to have played the post in high school, so he might, like Perry, after some hard knocks, be able to at least stay on the floor some against the prison bodies.
Anyway, I see a problem here.
You've got to get rebounds to run.
If you're a small ball team, you've got to run some.
Has Anyone Seen Any Stats on What Percentage of Rebounds Are "Long Rebounds"?
I am looking for some QA premise for thinking that KU can go 4-1 and still control the defensive boards against Top 10 teams with two bigs to: a.) keep other teams from too many second shots; and b) let KU grab enough defensive rebounds to get out and run on the break.
Makes sense.
But I do not see how KU can ever control the boards with any one of our bigs, except against other small ball teams.
Do you think Self has given up on controlling the rebounding game?
Or does he think that if we shoot enough treys that most of the rebounds will be long ones gotten by some of our relatively tall perimeter guys?
I have still never seen a team win a ring without being able to defensive rebound effectively. Even the first UCLA ring team with everyone under 6-5 found a way to defensive rebound effectively.
Have you seen any signs in the first two exhibition games of how Self intends to get on the defensive glass effectively with only Lucas?
I know Big Luke has had some fine rebounding games last half of last season, but do you think he is capable of 15-20 rpg against the Top 10 teams that come with two legitimate, even NBA type bigs. I know these NBA type bigs today are 6-9 and not the footers of old, but even these 6-9 future NBA big types are powerful and hugely athletic.
Landen with a power forward seems like a great fit.
Landen on his own?
That seems to be asking an awful lot of the man from Oregon.
I did the best I could, coach.
Thanks.
Is playing 4-1 the way Self hopes to play to win in March (an end game), or is it just a way to buy time for his struggling bigs to develop and then later a technique for him to shorten games for foul prone bigs (means to an end)?
Lord knows, Coleby isn't rehabbed yet. Doke, whom Self suggested could foul out anytime, appears a foul-a-minute type, Bragg, said to be in a funk, is either "in development," or fighting some so far unreported injury or sickness.
Landen and Lightfoot seem the only two fully functioning bigs presently. But neither one seems likely to control the glass on his own now, or in March, against even a good major, much less a Top Ten team.
After two exhibitions, logic and performance point to Self buying time now and shortening games later.
High: Vick with zero TOs in 25 mpg. It means they can feasibly play 4-1 for half a game.