What does Chauncey Gardener have to do with this? I forget the details of the movie.
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Someone mentioned Zavier Simpson. This should preclude him from any honors. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/shawn-windsor/2020/02/08/michigan-basketball-silence-zavier-simpson/4695959002/ ↗
@Texas-Hawk-10 Deandre Ayton to Arizona and Sean Miller is on tape talking about a boatload of money. Zion didn't get the house he wanted from us for his mom to stay in so he goes to Duke, who presumably gave her a house. You're right. Throw the book at us, it better keep moving and take down all the other dirty programs.
@kjayhawks That's great that you do that. It's a huge need.
@approxinfinity I wasn't complaining, just making an observation!
@BShark Interesting that you say that. If we can delve into religion a bit, I was just listening to this story today about FDR. He was very slow to act on reports of the horrors of what was happening in Europe. His viewpoint of mankind was what you just said. People are basically good. How could people do this to others? But he read a book by the theologian Kierkegaard on original sin, which takes an opposite view of mankind. People are not good according to that book, which is based on teachings in the Bible. The book caused FDR to help end the holocaust. Compelling stuff in my view.
Maybe not as compelling but just as interesting is the fact that many of us reading this right now have keys in our pockets. Why are keys needed? Not because people are basically good!
I like and dislike the way our formerly hoops only forum turned a little from that. That has allowed us to discuss many of the things that people argue about on the internet. To be honest, I think HEM's political views which he was willing to share tainted him for some of us. While he has strong opinions about basketball too, we were able to discuss the finer points of why Landen Lucas was playing too much or JamTray or whoever.
And while I enjoy a good internet fight as much as the next some of @BShark's comments just above me I disagree with but I'd rather not delve into it here.
Two great voices on this page that have gone awol. Hopefully you guys (gals?) come back! I took a hiatus, enjoyed but have come back for another spell.
Accepted!
I heard they're making a sequel to the classic baseball movie "Bang the drum slowly"
@rockchalkwyo Uproar?
I read over on the other site that I think it was the OSU coach who said KU will win the NC if Doke can shoot FT's like he did last night.
@rockchalkwyo One of those big names made us 0-1 on the season.
Ochai has no positive stats other than his points and 1 assist.
@jessejayhawk Same forecast in NW Indiana!
Wow, 7 teams in our league below .500 in league play.
San Diego State is still listed as a 1 seed despite not having beaten a top 25 all year.
@DanR Like I said earlier, this coach is smarter than Drew
Joel 42 points tonight so far. Harden 31 at the half. Big scoring night for him possible. He and BMac combined for 43 at the half!
Good grief Fran. They're 20 year olds. Playing 40 minutes Saturday means they're going to be gassed tonight?
Dang we paid a lot to get these guys. They ought to be able to make some shots.
OKState coach already proving himself smarter than Drew by collapsing on Doke.
@FarmerJayhawk What about the Kansas City Grays?
Good grief, why don't they schedule these games for 2:15? Then they can yack between games about bracketology or whatever. Missing these games starts can be frustrating. Well, ESPNNews works.
Altuve got hit by a pitch in his first AB!
@Woodrow Does that mean students haven't been filling up their sections?
Why are KU tickets so low on Stubhub? Seriously? I never dreamed I could buy a ticket that low especially for a league game. Next wednesday against TCU shows 25 bucks also.
Stubhub showing 25$ for tonight. If I was within 100 miles I'd be going.
You're going out on a limb saying we good.
I saw one writer, a fan actually on a message board claiming Kansas was just Doke. I had to set him straight.
I've never liked Forde. His twitter tag says something about how good looking he is. I mean who puts that as their tag?
This baggage is our reality.
Right now if there's a downside to yesterday it's the favorite to win it all tag. Adds some heaps of pressure.
@DanR Oh, yes, duh, it felt like one!
@Crimsonorblue22 Is this the line you're confused about? "We’ll move up a place or two, but with a 1 point loss, Baylor won’t be punished much."
@RockChalkinTexas They're a fraud. They haven't even played a ranked team this season. And Gonzaga is losing 6-4!
@DoubleDD Yeah, I guess I was just looking at it nationally. I was thrilled as well and look at it as a great win we'll remember for quite some time.
@Crimsonorblue22 I said Baylor took a one point loss!
First comment on the game thread "We Good". I think most of us were in agreement. But we still had some tense moments.
1st tense moment. 5-0 deficit. Was a little surprised Bill didn't use one of his TO's there. He likes to do that sometimes which irks me a bit, but today, he had a confident look on his face. So we outscored them by 8 from that early flurry.
2nd tense moment. After a foul free first ten minutes, the refs at Scotts suggestion started calling fouls on us. Suddenly at the 10:09 Big Dave gets whistled, and Marcus, and then again seemingly for everyone except, most importantly Doke. What irked us was Baylor's aggressive D seemed to be fouling us at an equal rate, without the whistles. Home court advantage. But even as the fouls mounted, we just kept adding to the lead a little at a time.
3rd tense moment. Dotson and Garrett return with 2 fouls in the first half. I think Bill really wanted to walk off the court at the half ahead. Big decision. Baylor weak 1st half FT shooting helped. Our superb FT shooting in the 1st half was keeping us in it, we were perfect in fact, Doke making 1-1.
Of course we frittered away the lead as the D had to be careful not to saddle guys with the 3rd foul. Doke was doing his think like almost never before. I'm thinking this was his best game as a Jayhawk, but I may be wrong.
4th tense moment. Each little run cutting into the lead but the pick and roll offense was working superbly. It helped early in the half that the officials were calling fouls.....on them. But each run of there's was countered by our superb defense. They tied us at 18 apiece with 9 minutes left in the half. They never tied it again.
5th tense moment. The end. As we built the lead we figured a comeback was coming. Unfortunately we allowed it to happen. Garrett (I think) gets tied up (actually he got fouled) and could have used the TO, but decided not to. One of the two sketchy inbounds plays could have been saved by a TO also. Not sure if Self doesn't like our guys using them but I sure wish they had.
6th tense moment. Moss tries to take on several Baylor defenders on a fast break and misses when we could have run a little clock. In fact that miss was one of many in the last 5 minutes. One reason we were holding our collective breaths at the end was because after Dotson made a layup at the 5:27 mark, we only had one more FG, the Doke put back that wasn't dunked.
7th tense moment, and this is on Scott Drew. Hack a Doke maybe wins that game for Baylor. Thanks Scott. I kept waiting for it, and of course ultimately we won the game at the line which is a nice thing to write.
So there you have it. We won, it was actually beautiful. Ultimately it's really a insignificant game big picture wise. We'll move up a place or two, but with a 1 point loss, Baylor won't be punished much. Both of our teams are currently almost locked in for the top seed. I'm excited as the midwest regional is in Indy, just down the road from Chicago, might be able to catch a regional final, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Looking to the future, we get DeSousa back in a week. Not sure it will help us any, but it's certainly another big on the bench and he might have found a little PT today. Maybe he saves Big Dave who the officials had a vendetta against.
So we saw what our team can do, at full strength, as most of us wanted to see. These are special times for us fans of the greatest program in the country. Let's keep this going.
To win a NC we are going to have to learn how to finish a game. This one could have gone bad easily. Villanova. Lack of execution down the stretch against Duke cost us then too.
Doke could have had a 3 second in the lane called on him
The guy passing it travelled. He was falling, knees on the ground when he passed.
Poke a doke coming up
No that wasn't a foul.....
I don't get nervous until the last minute.
Why a call can only be reviewed in the last 2 minutes makes no sense. That rule is so stupid.
Hack a doke coming?
I don't want to ride only 7 guys through 6 games in March and April
Baylor has scored a point per minute in the 2nd half.
Ochai can't draw a foul
@Crimsonorblue22 You always have been ahead of us slowpokes
What can Braun do for you? Part 2
Dang Doke was actually driving to the hoop with a couple of spins!