If I can interject, it should be remembered that a lot of us were scarred by our interactions with the Voldemart of this site in the years prior to when he left around the time of the 2020 world debacle. Let's not get overly sensitive and so reactive whenever we run into criticisms or comments that may seem vaguely similar or in the same vein.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Dickie V has been rabidly calling for him to get it. Called the UT AD "classless" if they didn't hire him.
Of course, he says everything pretty rabidly, so....
@DanR Charlie Moore's last hurrah...
Here is the Dan Hurley story link:
https://theathletic.com/4348076/2023/03/27/final-four-uconn-ncaa-tournament-dan-hurley/ ↗
@kuballin10 said in Welcome Elmarko Jackson!:
Selby was my guy came out hot then lost his spot to Brady and tyrel not sure why or how.
I think he had a foot problem that he tried to play through but couldn't jump off it, and couldn't defend IIRC. Starting late because of the (9 game?) NCAA sanction for impermissible benefits hurt him, too. Should have not gone pro, but his family was deeply impoverished, I think.
As always my memory may be affected by many drowned brain cells....
The Athletic has an absolutely brilliant article about Dan Hurley. Makes me cheer for him even if I still don't like UConn because I got so sick of Jim "sour face" Calhoun.
Funny how our grudges stick around, ain't it?
@kjayhawks said in KU Ladies tourney time:
@mayjay I forgot about 2018 apparently
I did, too. I just like looking things up! Someone told me once, "Google is your friend" and, well, I was lonely and needing a friend, and now we're best buds!
@dylans Except that is a pretty absurd prejudice to have considering how exciting all these games have been. F4 should be a blast
@kjayhawks We won it in 2018. But the format is different now, with only 4 teams going to NY this year. They are considered reg season games, and we already do the Champions thing. Baylor is supposed to be in it this November, I think. Called the Tip Off Classic or something.
@jayballer67 They sure know how to maximize viewership...NOT.
@wissox said in Funniest KStater ever?:
Does he/she realize how many of us were pulling for their team?
The very next tweet was from a sympathetic KU fan who had been rooting for 'em.
I do have to admit that after rooting for KSU for the first 38 minutes I got a secret emotional orgasmic delight at the ending....
This is a comment on The Athletic after KState's choke job last night:
"I'm a K-State fan from way back and it sucks to miss the final four this way. However, calls or no calls, the best team today won, without any doubt, and they deserve their due. Unlike the hoards of punks known as KU fans, K-State fans are gracious in victory or defeat and today we were, without any doubt whatsoever, defeated. Congratulations to FAU, and congratulations to our guys for making it this far. A group picked to finish last in the Big 12, who had never played together, had an outstanding year and should hold their head high."
@BShark And now you will burn for a sin of darkest evil...
@Crimsonorblue22 said in NCAA NON- KU GAMES:
Did anybody see that painting? That looked worse than a 5 yr old!
I thought maybe they stole Zags play diagram for tonite.
@Crimsonorblue22 Reminds me of Duck Soup (Marx Bros). Hail Freedonia!
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA NON- KU GAMES:
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They are now 4-10 all time in the Elite 8.
As always, I start going down the stat rabbit hole when you surface a tidbit like this.
Looks like KU is 16-7 if I read Wikipedia correctly. 10-6 since the tourney went to 64 teams in 1985. Bill is 4-5, Roy 4-1, Larry 2-0.
@Crimsonorblue22 Should have made popcorn. Bets on who gets the last word?
@kjayhawks I tried to take bets on if KSU won tonight the celebrators in Manhattan would eventually chant you-know-what.
No one was willing to bet against it
This is an argument worth having. Can we repeat everything another time, please? 🙄
@Texas-Hawk-10 The transitive property of sleaze applies to thing even indirectly connected to K.
@wissox They even used to bring the bling to the court in peach baskets!
@cragarhawk Here is the reference for these stats. Scroll down to the Advanced chart.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/kansas/men/2023.html ↗
@Texas-Hawk-10 I see that Zuby's rate was 24% drb and 19.1% trb. So perhaps we should not look at Udeh, but at Zuby for a Doke clone!
Edit: did you add the Zuby stuff while I was off looking it up? Or did I miss it? Anyway, I see you said it!
@BShark said in 2023 Transfer Portal:
People need to behave when it comes to players not yet in the portal that we are tampering with.
Or people need to not share so-called secret info if they don't want it out.
I always love it on Survivor when someone gets a secret idol and immediately tells someone who promises to keep it a secret. Yep, that will happen. 🙄
@BShark Boy, I can't wait for the freaking Masked Prospects to get revealed. All these little crumbs...like waiting for a Top 40 countdown back in the 60's when they took 4 hours to get to the top while hinting at a revolutionary new Number 1 and playing only 10 two-and-a-half minute songs each hour!
Uh...went to bed at halftime of the second games cuz I figured the outcomes were settled. Smart move, eh?
@kjayhawks They have made F4 four times. Last was 1964. Only champ game they lost to UK in 1951.
Let 'em talk if they get there and especially if they win it all. Then ask them to count theirs while you count ours.
A lot of rebounds KJ might have gotten were sucked up by KM and JW. We were first in conference play in rebounds, so I don't get the claims that we got killed all year.
Well, except for that last game.... 😒
Neat little congruence: The Miami men put the Indiana men out of the tourney.
The Miami women put the Indiana women out of their tourney.
@jayballer67 said in Assistant Coach Roberts was... "soft":
@SlickRockJayhawk said in Assistant Coach Roberts was... "soft":
Just checking in to Buckets after the weekend. I think it begs to be said that Norm Roberts was soft in how he handled his coaching duties during the games.
We have come accustomed to hearing Coach Self use that adjective to describe the team when they aren't giving it their all.
There would be no other way to describe Coach Roberts game demeanor than SOFT. And he didn't step up to the plate when Coach Self and the Team needed him to tear into the players when they got off to a decent lead against Arkansas and then let them back in the game so Ark could gain their confidence.
Very poor job by Coach Roberts. Lacked intensity, fire and sense of urgency. Soft.
My only question to what you said is - - How do you know he didn't tear into them? Was you there in the team huddle during that time? - -Just curious.
@Texas-Hawk-10 "November"? Auto-fill??
@BShark said in KU Offseason Chef Bill Cooking Thread:
Can’t expect someone to go from under 200 minutes played + planted in the dog house to respectable starter.
Playing KJ next to Udeh is asking to not score ever.
The very definition of irony perhaps...since KJ played 178 mins last year and became a reliable starter? (Wasn't in a dog house, though, so I guess we can cut you a little slack!)
Calimari sitting in the TO looks like a grandpa getting ready to read to the tots.
"I will always be better toward fuckheads than they are to me."
--Mayjay, 3/19/2023
@bskeet said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
are not a great look for an institution of higher learning
Or even one like Arkansas.🙃
"I care!" --Luke Skywalker
@bskeet I spent 5 mins trying to figure out who the hell he was talking about, since people have said such things to him causing great distress, but then I gave up.
It's what I mean by turning on each other, which is really more like watching a couple drunks get into a bar fight.
@BShark said in Hog Wild Game Thread:
Bill out + Dajuan being hurt for the 2nd half were the keys to the loss.
I am just amazed no one has mentioned our numerous stupid fouls. McCullar 80 ft from the basket gets his 4th, Udeh forgot how to set picks, KJ trying to body a guy away, Joe
or Pettiford drives right into someone after passing for a layup.... Our freshman big seemed panicky, our POY wasn't getting open. Way too many missed FTs. And our PG hobbled. Had to play Ejiafor and Zach, neither of whom could get anything done. Our backup little guards just ran around kind of mindlessly. 5 pts, 0 assists, 1 rebound, 1 steal in 15 mins of PT.
During the entire game we seemed lost when Ark played like a longer version of Shaka's "Havoc" team. We didn't see that combo of size/length/agility and aggression in the Big 12. We actually got sped up and the fouls crippled our normal game. When DjH lost his go to guy KJ, he wasn't able to find anyone who could make a basket. 1 assist for him in the 2nd half.
All the people saying Norm didn't adjust in the 2nd half...how would you know when the players make so many crucial mistakes?
Sometimes, like chess, the winner in bb is the one who makes the next to the last mistake.
All that said....I loved this team for overachieving so entertainingly all year. All teams that lose have had issues bringing them down. I won't remember yesterday, though. I will remember the comebacks, the beaming smiles, the pride in a NC last year, and that type of thing. Yeah, we lost yesterday...and the sun rose today and I got to see it for yet another day!
Rock chalk!
@Crimsonorblue22 @Texas-Hawk-10 I thought it was a good call, so I went back to check. Here are two pictures of the call. In both, the shot clock is showing 20 seconds (but doesn't show tenths of a second). Harris's feet are both clearly in the backcourt in the first picture, and his left foot is clearly down in the front court in the second (and the ref is starting to signal the violation). But the shot clock is still showing 20 seconds.
Time obviously elapsed as he stepped over the line. If 20 is showing, I assume it means a few tenths more than 20 are left, and thus less than 10 have elapsed before that foot was down.
So the ref was wrong, by a few tenths perhaps. But it is really so close, and coaches never want a player to let a ref make that call.
Nice to see our loyal fan base turn on our own. See ya next year.
The refs didn't call 2 clear fouls on Kevin before. It evens out.
Mizzou in trouble is nice...
Miss a bunch, then make when you try to miss!
@wissox I am in a bracket just with my brother. I had KU beating Duke. Money down the tubes!
The Athletic's panel of predictors all picked KU. Don't wanna upset your chip, everybody, but the disrespect thing is not really so bad!
@approxinfinity I have, we all know. Just not that particularly comment!
I sure wish Self was coaching, his health be damned. Ater all, it would really help our team to worry about him every time they looked at the sideline.
Sorry, some people are just nucking futs!
@dylans said in NCAA NON- KU GAMES:
We’re on plan D! Very little bench to lean on. No head coach.
Kind of unusual to have your best bench guy be an assistant coach.
@wissox I am beginning to think you are connected to somebody pretty much everywhere.
But...but...how ever will I order the damned gummies?
Thx for all you do!
Great write-up on FDU-Purdue, by Myron Medcalf of ESPN:
Don't try to figure this out. Don't search for anything that predicted this. Nothing predicted this. Prior to its 63-58 win over Purdue -- just the second time a 16-seed has won a game in men's NCAA tournament history -- FDU was 298th on KenPom. 298th. This is a team that had 12 -- 12! -- losses to sub-200 KenPom teams. This is a team that shouldn't even be in the tournament.
And then, the most amazing upset in NCAA history happened. (Sorry, UMBC.) Zach Edey finished 7-for-11 with 21 points. But Tobin Anderson strategized to limit the projected Wooden Award winner's touches by sending every person who had ever attended FDU at the 7-foot-4 star. The rest of Purdue's team finished 12-for-42. The gamble worked, and now Sean Moore (19 points) and the Knights will be legends forever.