@KUSTEVE I wonder how it is for mid-year transfers to a team like KU? Do they accept him right away and show him all the ropes immediately, or do they pounce on him in practice to make him prove himself?
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@Crimsonorblue22 I think the oblique strain completely explained LL's inability to get his arms up for, and to hold onto, passes above his waist. He couldn't finish at the rim. Now he can. His foot seems better--he wasn't jumping, and now he is.
And all muscle strain and soft tissue injuries result in varying levels of pain, and inconsistent ability to perform. Anyone with a quadriceps or hamstring pull knows that! I had a shoulder separation years ago. Some days I could not raise my arm, on other days I was playing squash. (Until the orthopod told me to knock it off.)
@RockChalkRedlock Your last big contribution on a similar topic was a couple of months ago when you also were not willing to attribute Landen's difficulties to an injury. You thought his boot was irrelevant. You said nothing when his oblique injury was revealed.
You called LL a "liability" and hoped we would not rely much on him. Any further thoughts, or do you concede that sometimes injuries do hamper players?
Now, I am not agreeing with @jaybate-1.0 here as to a major impediment. I just think DG was banged up and has come through it mostly. Remember how many times he was on the sideline working out cramps? Limping after that major knee-knock a couple weeks ago?
@dylans said:
Hopefully all fiction, no malice.
@jaybate-1.0 hasn't used this phrase in months, I believe, and perhaps since last season! So, does that mean he is now posting only non-fiction? Or that he posts with malice?
Inquiring minds want to know!!!
@ralster The Cameron thing was based on his broadcasting preferences--apparently they put the broadcasters up too high compared to other arenas.
@Crimsonorblue22 I thought that comment was more about Self's respect for Sutton, since as we know HCBS always pays tribute to those from whom he has learned. Not unusual to think a protege would want his mentor before him after he has been waiting awhile.
@DoubleDD He brought it up, and said Bragg was exonerated. Seemed pretty clear to me. And he only brought it up in the context of Bragg seeming to have trouuble generating focus and energy.
I actually appreciated the comment because there are probably people who had heard of the charges but didn't know he was exonerated.
@brooksmd From your post, it should have been "Grampa"--my favorite name!
"Po-Po" here in da bayou. It's music to my ears. Three weeks ago got a call on my b day from 3 yr old g-daughter in Australia and she sang happy birthday to me. Told my son that was better than any b-day card.
@Texas-Hawk-10 I didn't know they were limited on hosting! That's how we learn from each other here. Thanks!
@approxinfinity This week was the anniversary.
@Crimsonorblue22 Well, that sure gets confusing!
@Texas-Hawk-10 Do teams like KU ever host a recruit knowing they won't offer him but in order to get info to pass on to their coaching tree? (Like we got Vick, wasn't it, via LB?) Or just to give more high profile visibility to a kid with AAU, or some other type of connection to a KU guy, in order to get the kid a recruiting chance elsewhere?
@JayHawkFanToo I will join you in back to bb, but only after a "huzzah!" raised up to your caution on the law of unintended consequences--because we agree on something! It is my favorite law other than all the famous corollaries to Murphy's, of course. ("Murphy was an optimist" is a good one.)
@JayHawkFanToo Didn't someone fairly well-known say something along the lines of an injustice to the least of them is an injustice to all of them?
@BShark said:
Self told him he’s gonna start.
Not sure I buy that story! How many people think it probably went something like, "I can see you as a starter if you work hard because we really need good talented kids."?
@Ralph Anyone notice that there is literally only one person with eyeglasses in that entire scrum? Blessed are the optically challenged, for they are more peaceful!
@JayHawkFanToo said:
Maybe the NCAA should stick to sports and stay out of politics?
OK, hmmm..., so do you think the NCAA should have been "neutral" during the 1950's when it continued to hold the Tourney in segregated KC, causing Wilt to have to stay in a different hotel from the other Jayhawks? No role for the NCAA when state laws--politics--directly affect their athletes?
@brooksmd I am curious. I read this board on my phone, and all posts show up chronologically when I click on my "Unread" button, not separated by type of category. Does it work differently on a tablet or computer? I'm just wondering whether the category matters depending on the way you access posts. I know they are separated on the Buckets home page, but I never navigate from there.
@jaybate-1.0 I think you are the only person I have ever seen argue that failing to call a foul on a last second shot in a tie game somehow favors the shooting team.
All these years of watching coaches gripe about noncalls when they should have only bitched about their guys getting free throws to break a tie with a second or two left. Who knew?
Has any country figured out how to effectively win a war against an insurgency willing to martyr its members and supported by external forces/governments? Especially when the war is waged in an occupied country, the host government is not stable and is virtually hostile, and the occupiers are unwilling to utilize massive secret police operations, summary executions, and terror tactics themselves to root out and suppress sympathizers?
Our forces were equipped and trained for fighting a war over territory but not against a foe unwilling to respect civilians or to preserve the lives of its own "troops." I don't think a freedom-loving democracy can win such a war.
@ralster I don't think Fran is overly critical of KU. There are posters here who lament KU's failures and discuss underperforming in the tournament as regularly as a metronome, but they aren't seen as biased against KU because we recognize other things said as well.
I have listened to a number of broadcasts where I have heard lavish praise for KU players from Fran, with a couple of caveats and mistakes also pointed out. Then, here, in the game thread, it is only the negative that is remembered or pointed out. Okay, he isn't a KU fan, but he isn't supposed to be!
@wrwlumpy said:
More local talent. @Crimsonorblue22 was asking for some male cheesecake.
Careful, when @jaybate-1.0 gets upgraded to 2.0, then you are in trouble! (That AI program doesn't get upgraded very often does it?)
@wrwlumpy Yeah, I wondered what parents would name their kid Grayson with Allen as a last name...
I had a neighbor who was an English teacher, I believe. Helluva nice guy, whose name was Warren Pease.
@Fightsongwriter said:
I would bet JJ in a handful of games already has more floor burns.
I haven't found this year's floor burn stats (it is apparently an internal coaching staff stat not published). I did find a Keegan list for AW's year (as of Feb 17, 2014, when KU was 19-6):
Floor Burns:
1 - Embiid: 40
2 - Selden: 34
3 - Ellis: 33
4 - Wiggins: 26
5t - Mason: 21
5t - Traylor: 21
7t - Black: 13
7t - Tharpe: 13
9t - Greene: 6
9t - Lucas: 6
11 - White: 3
12 - Conner Frankamp: 2
13 - Justin Wesley: 1
Anyone know where we can get floor burn info?
@Crimsonorblue22 Wow, very long post for Shorty!
@Kcmatt7 said:
There is football on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Frankly, I find it unAmerican, probably a godless Commie plot, that Tuesday is left out.
@Crimsonorblue22 said:
How bout some guys for @RockChalkinTexas and me?😬
The John Wayne head and the Red Raider statue aren't enough? At least you know where to find them--only @wrwlumpy knows where the bikinis are hanging out!!
@jayballer54. I am confident that Jackson and Lucas and Tyler will be gone. Other than that, who knows?
@jayballer54 Those of us who cannot do those things anymore should not let ourselves be ruled by bitter envy. :older_man:
@Crimsonorblue22 I didn't know you were short! Sweet? Except to Squeaky, Shaka, Calimari and that WSU stiff.....
@jaybate-1.0. 63.555555555555...
(repeating 5's)
@wissox. Good idea. Of course, the opposite can be true, too: sometimes it would be better to start a new topic rather than adding a tangential branch to a thread that started 2 months ago and has 80 posts already!
@elpoyo. Still trolling on Wiggins? At least he has risen to a level of accomplishment from which downward is possible.
@KUSTEVE I assume at the 39:52 mark of elapsed game time all that optimistic grape snacking had you going, "Uh, GULP!" followed by a huge sigh of relief!
@Lulufulu said:
i mean seriously, did Sherron get this much love? I dont recall.
No, he didn't, for one simple reason. He and Cole were the holdovers from a championship team. Although Sherron was a star for two years, his teams did not live up to the 08 team's accomplishment. During that period, people tended to hold him responsible for the failures and focused on every mistake, turnover, and pound gained. KU had nowhere to go but down after 08.
Frankly, although everone knew we had to replace all the starters after 08, Sherron was the victim of overexpectations since fans had gotten used to miracles. Winning the conference was not enough for lots of people. I hope everyone someday can appreciate what a freakin' good job he did in taking the team on his back those two years.
@RockChalkinTexas said:
Higgins is reffing Tech game.
Higgins is no doubt both reffing and effing the game.
@DoubleDD No matter how many times it is recounted, it still equals 3. Left, right, left, shot.
@DoubleDD said:
You guys are nuts. That was far from a travel.
If it was far from a travel, it is only because it was one step beyond. That many steps is a "journey" I believe.
@justanotherfan I like it on offense, but on defense I think somebody has to play completely out of their comfort zone. I am afraid a two-bigs team would eat us up with passes to the rim.
@dylans. I don't believe in a "Who's the Good Guy?" contest between Saban and Kiffin that Kiffin has any chance of winning.... A pox on both, I say! Of course, that is partly my (slight) geographic Clemson loyalty talking.
@approxinfinity said:
but you likely aren’t any more valuable to your employer having gone to Duke.
Possibly, but the Duke alumni network, as with any highly regarded private school with a large national attendance base (most of the Ivy, Stanford, Northwestern), can open a lot of doors closed to many alums of state schools. Advanced degrees are different, with many state schools having the same rep that opens doors.
BUT, funny story: The national rep of Michigan Law School was why I went there, hoping to leave KC to do great things in DC. Because they were our family lawyers just down the street in Prairie Village, I did interview at a former Kansas governor's law firm. When I met the managing attorney his first question to me was, "Why did you go to Michigan? I take it KU wasn't good enough for you?" All the law degrees in the offices I saw were from KU or UMKC. National reps, I found, we're valuable only where there wasn't a good old boy network. Same is true here in South Carolina: SCarolina & Clemson degrees are respected more. Ivy League is suspicious to many.
So, like all generalizations.....
@JayHawkFanToo I think they suspected financial shenanigans. There could easily be rumors we never heard. Remember, many delays in NCAA investigations are due to waiting for voluntary compliance from 3rd parties. I think we saw other athletes from Africa subjected to lengthy investigations, too, so I don't think we are singled out. (By referees, either, but I am probably a minority of one there!)
@Texas-Hawk-10 I think the comparison in
these two games is also unfair because we have had our rotation, and practices, unsettled for the past few games by missing first Bragg and now Doke. It will take a few games to get it sorted out. Hasn't Villanova been pretty stable since the beginning?
So, suspending Allen -- so very reluctantly -- used up all the backbone he had and he needs a new one?
@JayHawkFanToo But it is the bank's job to act on the loan application and let you know if something is missing. As I recall, the NCAA went way beyond the usual required info in Diallo's s case. They investigated the adequacy of his African schools back to middle school, and took their time doing it.
It was clearly a case of sanctioning by taking their time, as all that investigation of the coursework ultimately resulted in irrelevant sanctions for receiving improper benefits from the guy who helped him come here.
@Crimsonorblue22 Midnight EST! Happy New Year to the entire Midwest! My 2016 ended sooner than yours!!!
@Crimsonorblue22 Well, like I said, I didn't hear it. didn't say I was paying a lot of attention. It was Duke, after all, and my stomach has its limitations..
Happy 2017! Only 15 minutes away, here. Soon, I can post a message from the future!