Svi started and scored 23

I'm back.

@Jayhawk_69 said in Kansas Jayhawks at UCF Knights Game Chat Sat. 1/3 1:00 CT:

Unfortunately this game gives us a lot of negative takeaways and only 1 positive.

The positive: Melvin Council is the real deal. He is a stud who can hit big shots, play defense, and get to the rim at will.

The negatives:

1. DP will not play a second half for us all year. It does not matter if he is "100%". It just isn't going to happen.

2. Our defense, it turns out, was a paper tiger.

3. We have no heart. This is the only explanation for us not getting any defensive rebounds. We have the size and athleticism to be great on the glass.

4. We have no toughness. Everytime we tied or took the lead we gave up an easy basket at the other end. In the last minute with a chance to win we allowed 100% 3 pt percentage, 100% shooting from the field, and gave up 2.67 points per possession.

5. Flory has not taken the step forward needed from him.

6. Tiller is not ready to be a big 12 starter.

I suppose, on the bright side, all these issues (minus number 1) are fixable, but as of now it looks like we are a bottom half of the Big 12 team.

Overreaction city, not based on our full season of work.

1. We still don't know. I wish if he was on a minutes restriction that they'd be allocated out a bit so we have him at the end of the game.

2. Our defense is really one of the better units in recent memory. Today 1st half was ugly but 2nd half was much better. Against a tall team we had 7 blocks

3. We have no heart. Really. How is that measured? I'd say we've showed a lot of heart this season in the way we've played against really good teams, even shorthanded without DP.

4. We have no toughness. One game we were down by 1 with 10 seconds left on the road against a well coached and 1 loss team. Come on man, again how are you measuring toughness? Since the championship, this is the toughest team we've had by far, we've all been saying it. Don't let a bad result (that we win if DP plays) cloud your judgment on this team. They're a fun team to watch and have given us thrills this season we haven't experienced since 22.

5. Flory has improved in many ways since his freshman year. More minutes sure, but he's been indispensible to this team.

6. I might agree on Tiller.

There was a lot of negativity on the board today. Disappointing loss for sure. End of the world? Not ready to go there.

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Yeah, even when he had an off game yesterday he got 17 points seemingly almost effortlessly.

BTW, Austin Booker with 2 sacks for the Bears today.

Fran was intolerable yesterday. I watched on delay so I couldn't sync with KU radio. I mean one point he and whoever was with him was talking for minutes on end about other teams in the country and how good they were.

I think the key to more quad 1 wins is when DP's quads heal

Really excited to not see D(N)P play Saturday because even if he does, I'd have to pay nbc money to order their idiotic streaming bull crap peaclunk greed channel and if he doesn't play I still wouldn't see it. Sports are being ruined by greedy media companies manipulating leagues into agreeing to air some of their games on their platforms, pissing off millions of fans across so many sports. Seems like a really good business model.

Did I read this right? I think I did. This is the best news I've heard all year!

KU football is so back!! Believe it, it's true. Don't give up on Lance yet folks. Now if he can find a decent defense.

Wow, Furphy got 18 tonight but Indy is proving how valuable Haliburton is. They're 6-22 this year with him out after his bad injury last year.

I'm a tech doofus so I'm super proud of myself for just scamming my way back onto these pages.

On rivalry Sunday for me, wow it was a big one. KU-Misery and then Bears Packers. That actually was a very good game, but no one cares out there in Chiefs country.

So my take on what's been going on. I'm really loving this years team. Flory is becoming more and more what we thought he'd be. Not sure I can remember a big with his explosive hops. He comps to Doke somewhat but it looks different. The price of DP coming back is the little flurry we saw of success from Elmarko and Jamari takes a back seat to DP and his amazing game. We're gonna need those guys so I hope we can count on them as we did in Vegas.

Council drives me nuts.

White had an awesome game. I saw enough Illinois last year that I wasn't all that excited to see he was playing for us. But I'm impressed and he is indispensible to our success this year.

I hate the helter skelter style of ball Misery plays. It's not pretty, not all that effective really. I watched Marquette do the same yesterday against UW. Didn't work, after a slow start, UW scored 86 points in the last 30 minutes of game time.

Did you know KU is the only team to not allow a team to shoot 30% on 3's this year? Is Bill Selfs old defense back? Seems like it hasn't been strong for a while, but the lack of timeouts quickly after our opponents score an unguarded 3 is an indicator that it's not happening very often.

DP's game was kind of strange. He had some really ugly shots. He also had some really pretty shots. Rest that hammy young man.

RCJHKU!

Looking a little more at NCState. They have 3 losses against the only teams that are major teams they've played. Their 3% is noticably lower in 2 of those 3 losses, around 30%. Against Texas they shot 48% but at a relatively low volume going 9-19. They've feasted on an easier schedule. Home court will give them a boost of course, but we should be all right otherwise.

Manomanomanoman. Whew. Someone at the party mentioned the game going to OT, so I got home to watch and watched anyway but without any tension. But then i watched the OT with a lot of tension.

I guess I'll be forced to take back what I wrote about Melvin Council and glad the refs had the sense to not slap him with a flagrant on that inadvertant elbow. But where did that outburst come from? Goodness me, if you had him going all downtown Terry Brown on UNCState tonight I hope you bought one of those billion dollar prize lotto tickets too.

Seeing the team win after losing DP was a relief of course. This is a team with some resilient players.

2 bench points. No bueno.

11 games now, no opponent has hit 30% from 3 against us. It's one reason why hope is building for a more positive end to the season.

Did Council really score 36 points?

Tough environment to play in.

I hated the announcers. Glad I was rushing through the recording every chance so I didn't hear everything. The 'clearly a flagrant foul' comment was ridiculous.

So here's how I found out about the game going to OT. My KU roomie has a nephew who is a student manager for the team. He was playing NCState in the manager game earlier and got his nose broken. My roomie sent me a picture from his nephews broken nose with the comment that it was broken just like Melvins elbow against that guy. So i watched the whole game thinking Melvin was gonna get kicked out for a flagrant. Was very relieved the refs, who weren't great, weren't listening to Jay Williams and let it go. I mean when a guy is trying to intentionally foul, if you get whacked in the nose in the process it's kind of like your own fault.

Also, how can Melvin have a game like that and then miss two crunch time FT's that nearly cost us the game?

Houston beat this team 65-48. We beat them 73-49. Clearly we're better than Houston.

@DanR At 4:38 they made a 3 to go up 15. We scored at 4:20 which started the comeback.

Misery is defined as having no wins against teams with a winning record by seasons end.

This theme has gotten a little boring for me. Lots of guys playing. Not many doing major things right now.

Braun is hurt.

Embiid is declining, although still pretty good.

Johnny F has played little.

Oubre started out well but been hurt for a month now.

Wilson's minutes are down.

Ochai's minutes are down. He's at career lows of 3.4 ppg. Sad, but he's still one my favs in a KU uni.

Hunter so far has 2 points in his NBA career.

McCullar has scored 9 points in his career.

Svi is scoring 9 a game. At least he's had a longish career in the league.

Wiggins is remarkably consistent and scoring 16.9 which he scored in his first year as well. He's no superstar, but is an NBA 'good' player. And he's making 28 million.

Grimes is also a decent player for Philly. Good for him. Wish he'd stuck around and showed us some of that.

Gradey Dick sadly is showing some signs of decline already. Seemed to be coming together for him last year, but his minutes are dropping.

If I had a dog I'd name it Rock Chalk White Sock