Thank you for all your hard work. Now that our team has shown us their hearts our top five defense will hold teams below their average and our offense has averaged 80 in our mini win streak. If a team like St Johns can play with ISU so can we. I'm saying all this sans Darryn who is just stunning I mean come on man. Get cheap with Tre, Flory, Melvin (see the end of the MU game), and you will get it back plus some and any one of these guys have and can take over a game. I saw Tiller get rugged himself he doesn't like you trying to push him around and he is scary athletic and talented. He is going to go so off watch for the bomb. Self has told him to keep shooting the corner three he is not scared of anyone. Jamari who ends up guarding a big in the paint when we play small and gets just slung around and he gets up and sprints to his place. He is a surprise on both ends but after thirteen games it not a surprise anymore. Kohl lives in Kohland and doesn't give a darn who he runs into. He just keeps on going for it on the lobs (really dude?) and has no filter when he is open. I'd throw Samis onto those tall forwards when needed. He is about to bubble open. He will be good and needs to be this year and not next year.

@wissox83

Council leads the conference in minutes played per game. The guy before DP came back was probably Elmarko who can get it done mostly but Melvin can play defense and wants to. Council has shot sub 40 every year and it looks like the floaters he uses when penetrating are still a bit awkward. I guess DP will run things more or less now and having Melvin as a wing is good because he can assist and was getting better and better at that all year. Now that we can average 80 I think he will be good in whatever role he is in. This roster goes eight deep plus I keep dreaming of Dawson getting comfortable and going off from three. DP, Flory and Tre, Melvin and Tiller are reliable on both ends and are scoring 69 points between them. Now that Elmarko, who can go off and Jamari who defends and hits 3 balls this teams is going to get tougher and tougher to beat. Of course worry wart me is nervous about NCSU and their tall deep shooters.

If DP was really hurt again he would have been back in the locker room I think. 31 minutes was a lot for him and we needed all of them. Even when hampered he is special.

@wissox83

A boot camp nickname from being the tallest in Platoon 2015 circa 1969. My government service nickname was Kool.

My grand nephew with the Jets 9 carries 56 yds and a TD. Jets suck.

I think coach Hurley had a perplexed or stunned look on his face. UConn mostly looked just average. It's a fluke loss. Bricking lay ups even to the point of air balling is funny is retrospect. What I really want to see is this team keeping up the effort on defense. It's effective and I'm proud of them. This team has losses to NC, Duke and UConn and played them even 90% of the time. If Peterson is really good we could beat all of them.

Tre White made that work for Flory

Jamari thanking the Lord!!!

@approxinfinity Yes I am an earthling. At least until we develop warp drive.

@approxinfinity American workers have been the most efficient in the world for years. And the CEO and CFO will tell the truth that their only focus is to the stockholders. The US is addicted to low wages and always has been. When pay for performance and bonuses for management started in the early 70's and went viral in 1984 it's been pay and wealth disparity on steroids ever since. The efficiency has to improve YOY to keep the money flowing upward. It never stops. At one time it was legislated to avoid monopolies like Bell Telephone. In 1984 that all changed and it has evolved into three or four entities like JP Morgan Chase owning it all. It's the American Capitalist dream realized and it was inevitable. The media has been bought up into just a few companies like Sinclair, Disney and Murdock Media. All the big empires eventually start to decline and the US is no different. Just look how corrupt our national government and every state government is. You can't get elected without big money and you have sold your soul as the result. 1500 registered lobbyists per House and Senate member. We are being managed just like all of them. The fat dumb and happy American is not a complete lie. Enjoy your families love and warmth it's precious.

Three less treys and one less two and that's the difference.

Another big bruiser shuts down Flory and Tiller.

30 of 40 free throws and a ton of them were late in the game. When you have two like Darryn and Melvin you can get those drives. How many and ones were there. I know Melvin had of them. Two really clutch ones were the DP triplets and Mari's two in OT. They could have fouled Melvin again but let him pass to Mari. We have seen a lot of clutch FT's from this team.

First I would like to say there was a tie in my verbal reactions they were Shut Up Fran and Shut the Eff up Fran. I wonder if Melvin and Tre showed this much passion and joy elsewhere?

I'm giving TCU credit for hitting three big threes near the end to stay in touch and we found out what staying in touch can mean. Ice cold Darryn, Ice cold Melvin and Ice cold Jamari.

10 less shots that's a bunch.

The pros run a version of the defense you just can't play man up all the time as they always find a way to get mismatches. You can't get around DP. He's so quick and long.

@benshawks08

The switching defense was really exposed with Hunter who couldn't get back to the paint even on pick and roll. We've seen so many mismatches where our guard and a big were the only players in the whole lane. TCU ran a switch screen four straight times last year and got four layups. It gets bad when the players hesitate just a split second on who has who and not again. Another thing is our peremiter offense which runs well on ball movement two or three passes without dribbling. Now teams blitz clear out to the line and the ball gets stuck.

Tough game and a close game that goes down to the wire. Can we really guard or has UCF exposed us as a paper Jayhawk. Maybe it's a will we guard the whole game. Everyone plays good on O and we win by 6 or 7 points. Isn't it time we see this team show a sustainable improvement and have our bench hit some shots. Two fouls on any of our starters exposes our unreliable bench. I think we are a five deep team. Kohl adds a risk factor that makes your collision insurance go up but we at least know when he is in the game. Jamari is a sub for Tiller or Flory and nuff said. Elmarko is inexplicably inexplicable. Tiller has Tre doing what he should be doing. So I guess it's alright isn't it.t it?

Bill said Darryn feels good and that no one knows yet what the formula is to get the most out of his minutes. He is not there yet where he can play extended minutes but feels good and his legs only let him go so far currently. He said nobody has worked out the formula yet and all the monday morning qb's have their ideas. He said of course they have talked about taking away from the 1st half minutes to get him more in the second half but was noncommittal about that. And he didn't mention a minute restriction limit. Looks like he'll play tomorrow.