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Posts made by Jhawk69
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RE: SEC Wooing KU?
I hate this. But its good to have options. SEC probably doesn’t think twice about us without Leipold
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RE: Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster
I think McDowell likely beats out Passmore for bench minutes unless Self wants to redshirt him.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
So how would you fellows (and ladies) rank the following possible outcomes in terms of likelihood:
A. We add nobody else to the roster
B. We add Noah Shelby on scholarship
C. We add Noah Shelby as a walk-on
D. We add Jaxson Robinson
E. We add both Jaxson Robinson (scholarship) and Noah Shelby (walk-on)
F. We add someone else.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@BeddieKU23 I would much rather eat the scholarship penalty than have him on scholarship.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@rockchalkjayhawk The way I recall it he was amazing until an injury, after which he absolutely sucked.
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RE: Furphy
I’m guessing if Furphy somehow, miraculously, comes back Riley Kugel will conveniently turn out to be academically ineligible.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 The year we lost to WSU we just weren’t any good.
I don’t think you understand what low ceiling high floor means. It has nothing to do with shooting very poorly in losses. If anything, a team that loses because it shoots poorly from 3 is actially high ceiling low floor. But anyways, you want to check a teams record against top 5 or top 10 teams to determine whether it has a high ceiling or not.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@Crimsonorblue22 Maybe Josh Jackson was one of Selfs’ “pets” whom he randomly decides to love despite being terrible players
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 Criticizing Self for playing through the post too much is one thing, but I already explained that claiming Self to be a high floor low ceiling coach makes no sense.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
Before I respond let me see if I understand your argument. Are you suggesting that Self’s offensive scheme is good at getting us open looks but the players Self plays, including Brady Morningstar, Tyrel Reed, Devonte Graham, and Svi Mylhailiuk are not good enough shooters to knock them down?
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
I explained to you earlier that the argument of “Self should have more titles” is the smartest way to bash Self. Honestly I commend you for trying to play your best card. However, you don’t understand why Self “only” has two titles. When you come up with an idea, you should analyze the idea and see if facts corraborate it before wholeheartedly believing it.
In other words, the theory that Self’s teams get upset in the tournament because Self chooses to play high-floor/low-ceiling players and thus creates high-floor/low ceiling teams holds absolutely no water. Let us take 2011 as an example. That team went 35-3 and had multiple impressive wins, including against Arizona and Texas, who were both top 10 teams (and both significantly better and more athletic than VCU). So to argue that we did not have the ceiling to beat VCU makes no sense.
The other example you provided was us playing Jamari Traylor, who was just a bench player who came in to relieve Perry Ellis and Landon Lucas. It is hard to see Traylor getting bench minutes as the kind of situation that cripples our ceiling but let’s look at this team anyways. That team went 33-5 and had multiple top-25 wins including 4 top 10 wins. Too low a ceiling to win a title? No. If you can beat top 10 teams your ceiling is fine.
If I were you I would argue that Self does not mentally prepare his teams for the tournament well enough. There is evidence for this, unlike the low-ceiling argument. We have missed open jumpers and free throws at astonishingly high rates in elimination games. Start your arument here, think through what you say, and take it from there.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 Great point! Not winning the title every year and having a down year (which would be a good year for most programs) last season proves that Self has no idea which players to play.
I also agree that playing Josh “20 turnovers a game” Selby would have helped us survive VCU’s fluke 3 point barrage and win the title in 2020.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
It couldn’t possibly be that coach favors the players who help us win games
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@kuballin10 I think you are reaching here. You conveniently include all the things that went our way while ignoring the things that did not go our way in 2022 (Creighton having their best 3 point shooting game of the season and making tough 3s, Villanova doing the same, UNC getting some favorable calls from the refs). It is also important to recognize that luck is a part of every title run. If you want to make a strong case against Self I would suggest using the following points
A) arguing that he got us wrapped up in sanctions
B )arguing that with all the regular season titans and all the talent he has had he should have more than 2 titles and 3/4 final fours
C) arguing that his style of developing players over the the course of years worked well in the past but won’t work in the modern era of unlimited free agency
I would still disagree with you but if you were to focus on these points you would at least have an argument worth respecting. The argument you have now is just lazy and is clearly focused more on scoring “debate points” than on employing close analysis to reach any sort of truth.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
I do not want DaJuan to average 14ppg because that means he is shooting too much. I do want him to cut down the turnovers and finish better at the rim. Stats don’t matter that much but just for a fun ballpark figure I would like for him to average around 8 points and 8 assists per game with a couple steals and relatively low turnovers.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
It does not matter whether some fans are happy with DeJuan or not. What matters is whether he plays well and helps us win games. He has done that for four years and will likely, as you pointed out, be able to play even better with a decent backup pg to gibe him some rest and some shooters and creators to take the burden of running the entire offense off his shoulders. Some people will not be happy because DeJuan will smartly play to his strengths and set up other people for shots instead of trying to score a lot himself, but like I said it doesn’t matter as long as he makes the team better.
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
Mark Mitchell of Duke is from KCK. Do we pursue?
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All-Time Great KU Hoops Game Nobody Talks About
I figured that some of us could use a break from the controversy about a technical foul being called on a technical foul. So here is a reminder of one of the greatest games of KU basketball history even though our fanbase rarely brings it up. Enjoy:
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RE: Furphy out for Friday's game vs Yale
@Texas-Hawk-10 That would not be the sole reason but Timberlake is bad enough to cost us a game that we would have won otherwise
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RE: Furphy out for Friday's game vs Yale
@BeddieKU23 We play down to Yale-caliber opponents.
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RE: Furphy out for Friday's game vs Yale
If Timberlake gets too many minutes we could lose this one. Jamari and Jankovic need go step up
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RE: Andy Kotelnicki
Have the bridges between us and Brent Dearmon been irreparably burned?
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RE: Andy Kotelnicki
Does anyone know whom we might replace Kotelnicki with if he does go to Penn St?
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RE: Anyone else feel this way?
I probably will never stop watching Kansas basketball. Maybe I won’t be as invested as I once was but I will always watch. One thing I will say is that it is a great disappointment knowing that neither Furphy, Elmarko, nor McDowell will be a Jayhawk next year as they will all either declare for the draft or transfer. It used to be fun to watch the freshmen and look forward to their futures with the program but that aspect of college basketball really doesn’t exist anymore.
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RE: Jalon Daniels health
Now it is time for a new question. Who will be next years Jason Bean? As much as I like Jalon as both a player and a person, two years of experience have proven that he is too injury-prone to have a realistic chance of being a full-time starter. With Bean moving on, we will need another good backup who can step in and win games for us assuming that Jalon is injured again next season. Cole Ballard? Will the recruit from Michigan be ready as a true freshman next season? Or do we find someone in the portal?
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RE: The Qustion been going around/debate
Didn’t Jalon have another setback? I don’t think its likely that he comes back this season, let alone this week.
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RE: Some People will spew out anything, who actually believes this BS
On a somewhat related note, who is the QB of our future after Jalon leaves and does he suffer from injury issues?
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RE: IARP update
I mean, I don’t think the NCAA can play God and change the past. Sure they can force us to censor the records but we know what happened in 2018. UK is now number 1 all time according to the censored records and we are number 1 according to what actually happened. Sure, I’m a little upset we aren’t number 1 in both anymore but I’d rather have the latter than the former.
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RE: IARP update
Read a GEM of a comment on Rupp Rafters: "If this would have been UK, we would have been buried.
DEAD. AND. GONE."
Yeah, UK and coach Cal are completely clean. The NCAA definitely hasn’t been turning a blind eye to them or anything.
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RE: Jalon Daniels health
I’m guessing KU was only favored by 2 initially because of the possibility that Daniels might be out
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RE: whats up with our Espn late night feed ?
I think the problem is that it is ESPN+
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Jalon Daniels health
Does anyone have any updates on his health? It seems like the staff is keeping mum about it. Should we expect him to play against UCF?
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RE: Arterio Morris
In general I’m in favor of second chances but a second chance at a place like Kansas was not what he deserved. With his baggage he needed to drop down to the mid-major level, pay his dues, play well, and keep his record clean for a year, then after that returning to elite college ball could be an option. Allowing him to play for us after the past he’s had sends the wrong message.
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RE: 2024 Recruiting
@FarmerJayhawk Those who believe strongly enough in the philosophical views of Fyodor Dostoyevsky could be said to “like adversity.” However, this all comes down to which specific emotions that one registers qualify as “liking” something.
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RE: Arterio Morris
Does anyone know, seeing as we just lost another scholarship player, if we are looking to add anyone else to the roster for depth?
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Luke Grimm
He exited the game with an injury. This is a HUGE and potentially devastating development and it is surprising that nobody is talking about it. Has anyone heard anything?
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RE: Let's play ball guys /Kickoff
I’ll give the second half a B+. Hopefully Daniels and Grimm are okay.
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RE: Let's play ball guys /Kickoff
I would give that first half an F. It barely escapes F- territory because we are still winning and we were playing with a backup QB. Overall a terrible performance, stuffed on 4th and 1 by an FCS team, terrible third and fourth down defense, and the one positive (tackles for loss) will almost surely go away once FBS play starts. Hoping for a better second half and rest of season, but its looking like we are back to being a 1-11 or 2-10 caliber team as of now.
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RE: 2024 Recruiting
Most likely it means Flory thinks he can come in and take the starting job from Dickinson. Luckily for him, Dickinson is unlikely to be around to show him otherwise
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RE: TBT
For those of you who don’t have espn+ you can listen to the game on Sports Radio 810
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RE: TBT
Is there a way to listen on the radio? ESPN+ is as reliable as ever (ie not at all)
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RE: 2023 Season Predictions
My guess is a 4-8 season. We will be competitive in most games but we got a really tough Big 12 draw (no Houston, no WVU, no TCU) and I think our 3rd down conversion rate will drop from last year.
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RE: 2024 Recruiting
Back in the old days this would have been a good class to grab some 4-year program guys that we can develop patiently. Unfortunately there is no point in doing so anymore as they will transfer away
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RE: Early Hearings TM
“Self loves (player X)” translation: (player X ) is a very good player and Self, because of his elevated understanding of basketball, recognizes this and chooses to play him accordingly.
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RE: Best KU game you've been to.
@FarmerJayhawk Nice. I was also at the WVU game where we were down 14 with under 3. Is that the one you menat?
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RE: Off-season starting lineup ever changing thread
The following my my guess of the rotation and minutes:
- Harris (32 mpg) / Morris (8)
- Morris (18 mpg) / Elmarko (11) / Timberlake (11)
- McCullar (23 mpg) / Timberlake (15) / Elmarko (2)
- KJ Adams (22 mpg) / Marcus Adams (9) / McCullar (9)
- Dickinson (32 mpg) / KJ Adams (8)
In games where we have foul trouble we will see Braun, McDowell, or Johnson get minutes as well.