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That a baby Zeke

Good job getting down hill Zeke

Bench has 2 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist aint gonna cut it

Like no one even made a remote attempt to get back on defense there

If we could get our guards to do a GD thing on either end

Have a game hunt

Decent half, I’ll take it

Hunt playing well so far today

Juan still leaving his feet for passes smh

Wow after the bail out on the other end no love foul

@dylans @jay4ever they have trace those accounts and no one them follows anything Kansas related and 3 of them are fakes all together. Not an excuse to act that way but hopefully Zeke has moved on from it. You gotta be very mentally tough to play at this level.

@bskeet I think the answer is D: all of the above. We looked much better earlier in the season to me. It was like the Mizzou game broke us in a lot of ways. MSU to me maybe the most improved team in CBB this season. From unranked and thought to be mid B10 level to a top 10 team. The ACC and B10 are down this season from what I’ve seen of them. The Sec has looked far and away the best conference but I’d almost put the Big East at #2 right right and the B12 #3.

Odd note here…We were having our worst year in 42 seasons but we still beat the regular season B10 and ACC champions

The raiders just traded a third round pick for Geno smith

Sad for Thuney but I hope they can sign someone that isn’t injury prone to cover the LT spot. We have Humphrey as a back up plan IMO they need to trade or draft one

Man I hope Juan, Zeke, Hunter and KJ have a helluva game Saturday. We get a decent draw and can make the sweet 16. I want that for them and appreciate what they have done for Kansas basketball even if it isn’t much. But I have never been more ready for next year at the beginning of March ever. I’m thinking Langford, Giddens, Rush, Chalmers, Taylor, Johnson, Bmac, Wiggins, Dotson…. We are Kansas basketball. NBA caliber guards playing above the rim and catching lobs. We haven’t had that since Ochai and Braun left and I long for it to return. No more walking the the ball up the court, getting it and running next season. Pushing the the ball up the court and not dribbling in circles continually. God people used to fear the hell out of us running.

I hope to see some athletes at the guard spots for us next season. I think Elmarko, Mari and Peterson are already BFS (bigger, faster and stronger) than the likes of Diggy, Juan and Zeke. I do like Diggy being a back up guard next year tho.

@bskeet I’ll say this it, I don’t agree with all of the crap but I do like the idea of having the information of where all of our tax money is being blown. Read an article last week that talked about how we spent 200 million testing monkeys to see if they were more sexually active on cocaine, spoiler they were. We all know for fact the US government is one of the worst corporations in the world. Any business ran under their practices would be done in 6 months. Literally the most inefficient on the globe

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Honestly Diggy has earned more minutes and with how Zeke has been playing I’d consider starting him. I know he is a huge liability on defense but Zeke ain’t guarded a some all season.

It is a very interesting time right now that’s for sure.

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@drgnslayr said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

Juan looks bad when you play him beside guys who aren’t scoring. He’s an assist guy. I could be wrong but isn’t he averaging double-digit scoring this year? His whole stat package would lift considerably if he was on a better team. He’s just the wrong PG on this team. We’d be better with a Frank Mason type PG. But with a better team, Juan suddenly looks right… like in 2022.

He’s averaging 9.1 points and 5.6 assists currently championship year he averaged 8.9 and 6.2 so pretty dang close to a wash. Thats one of my biggest Juan (KJ as well besides Dook and the last 2 games) complaints he flat out has not gotten better in any aspect of the game. He’s on pace for career lows in both FT shooting percentage and 3 shooting percentage. We heard the last two years it was because he was playing too much but he is averaging 3 minutes less per game and that’s with Shak being unavailable for about half of our games. Both him and KJ would be great back ups playing 12-17 minutes per game but it could be argued that they have developed less than any 4 plus year player in both the Self and Williams eras.

@Texas-Hawk-10 I think Clemence is just a waste of space at this point unfortunately

Okay so what are we thinking here team wise next season? I hope Diggy stays and uses that extra year so whom else do we want to return? Obviously Flory, Mari and Elmarko. I’m really thinking that it I’m just worried that guys in the portal won’t want to come here thinking it’s purgatory and it’s how the transfers have worked out here.

@approxinfinity said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

Dajuans stats against big 12 opponents this year are pretty comparable to naadir tharpes.

At this point I ld say it’s a wash to whom I’d rather have and also whom is the worst PG of Self era

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@kjayhawks said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

@TYOHawk I guess Tyshawn got on X and told him to toughen up. Seems like a lot of former players are calling out the Charmin softies

Frank criticized the leadership on Twitter on Saturday. Devon had a vague tweet today as well. Safe to say the former guys aren’t happy

Well they out a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this program while not getting the 6 figure salaries most of these guys are

@TYOHawk yes times a hundred he has several wide open looks. Instead he likes to dribble in a big circle to underneath the basket, beating his man .2% of the time and leaving his feet to throw a crappy pass.

@TYOHawk I guess Tyshawn got on X and told him to toughen up. Seems like a lot of former players are calling out the Charmin softies

@TYOHawk in fairness to Juan, Zeke has 1 made 3 point FG in the last 3 games and 13 turnovers lol

@drgnslayr I think it’s 50/50 at this point

@approxinfinity said in Peterson:

Think everyone is rubbed a little raw this season. Im thankful to still be playing meaningful basketball in March and we have the potential to spoil someones dreams in the tourney. I doubt we fix this teams problems but we hung with a top 4 team on their senior night. We showed heart. Light years better than some of our losses

Good thinking, I just hope we play with energy Saturday and end the season on a high note. Odd stat I seen on X Bill Self is 0-12 vs top 10 teams while unranked to think we should’ve had a few of those this year.

@approxinfinity we played hard and with this group sadly that is a thing. We just don’t have the guards, swap jerseys for Cryer whom wanted to come here and Juan. We win that game by double digits

@stoptheflop We just don’t have guards to compete, I think if we had 4 good guards to surround Hunt. We would look a lot like the 2018 team with Doke. Juando is a good guy and I really wish him well after he graduates. He was a decent get in the mist of the NCAA allegations but he’s never been the answer for starting PG. He likely doesn’t start at any other B12 school. Yes he made a good steal in the national championship game that help build momentum to start our comeback no one can say he didn’t help but I’m so tired of him living off of that one play for the last 3 years. He also had a huge blunder in the final minute that is right up there with Chris Webers time out if we don’t win. He was on the bench for much of the second half, his stats for that NC game are 2 points, 3 assists and 4 turnovers.

@TYOHawk said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

Can’t win and won’t win anything with that level of guard play.

Yeppers been saying for 2 years, been catching shit for it too. Which starting PG in the Self outside Juan goes out there and doesn’t impact the game in the slightest? 2 points and 2 assists outta the best pure PG around. People who say that are only bull shitting themselves.

@DanR Correct for a team that returned 3 starters and has the most experienced team in CBB is just mind blowing. Wasn’t expecting to win either way, let’s hope we can keep the 20 win streak alive and survive another crap season.

@DanR said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

@approxinfinity flory

I can live with a freshman making mistakes but this is just poor coaching no other way to slice it. As I said before get up every morning and hit yourself in the hand with a hammer, then tell me if hurts less the second, third or fifth day? Do the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is insanity…. Albert Einstein

@approxinfinity anyone with a pulse at this point sorry but he has cost us countless times at the end of games.

On Self for having Zeke in the game, same flipping story

We gave them a scare you just can’t win road games giving up 16 offensive rebounds, 19 turnovers and getting nothing from 2 starters. Juan and Rylan combine for 4 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 points…. That’s just not gonna win games as I’ve said a 100 times like a broken record you have to have elite guard play to win not only on the road but in March in general. We just don’t have it.

@DanR if we were getting hammered I’d be asleep by now lol

@bskeet said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

Actually we are very consistent.

Just not in the way we want.

We consistently making losing plays down the stretch in games that we should’ve won. That’s why this group is so frustrating, some of the mental lapses are elementary plain and simple.

Well really need kjs rebounding from Saturday to make an appearance

Well that may have been the straw that broke the camels back. Our guards have been terrible outside Diggy for really the second game in a row

@wissox do your grades reflect the score lol

@wissox I have the TV muted for this reason

I feel like we are keeping them in it but yet hanging in at the same time. Waiting for our 6th year PG to actually show up Diggy making a fool outta him tonight

Cut down on the turnovers and get something outta Juan and Rylan, we can win this

I’m sorry but Diggy and Storr> Zeke and Juan

Or Diggy works lol