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  The 3 has been freed...(not really)
  • A Former User  

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  @ralster OK Whatever? I happen to love Greene he has passion, and wants to take the big shots. Not sure how this turned to Greene? Yet ok
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  Diallo is Cleared! Now what?
  • FarSideHawk  

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  @Lulufulu Lucas should get less minutes. Diallo should do everything he does and more. Really thrilled this kid gets a chance to play!!
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  VANDERBILT COMMODORES
  • wrwlumpy  

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  @jaybate-1.0 Why? Vandy has great depth and has played two blowouts so they haven’t expended much energy either. I’ve been off work all week so I’ve gotten to watch a lot of teams play this week and Vanderbilt is very good team, they’ve been one of the 3 or 4 best teams I’ve seen this year with Michigan St., Iowa St. and Kentucky. If you ask me 10 teams I would pick as legitimate Final Four threats right now, Vanderbilt is on that list of teams. They have three 7 footers who all play big minutes and are all really good. Damian Jones is a projected lottery pick and will be the best player on the floor for either team tonight and Luke Kornet is a kid who could easily develop into a lottery pick next year. Vandy and Gonzaga are the two best front courts in the country and we’ve all seen how much KU has struggled against teams with good size in the post in the past couple of years. If Self insists on feeding the post all night, it’s going to be extremely difficult for KU to win this game tonight.
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  PERRY
  • nuleafjhawk  

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  It is amazing listening to broadcasters talk about stuff like the Diallo situation. They could have read a newspaper or listened to a Self press conference. Their information was so random and all over the place. They kept talking about the core work was not approved by the NCAA, except others from the same school were cleared. They never mentioned Kansas having 2 independent curriculum experts refute the NCAA’s conclusions. They also kept talking how Self did not say much about it until very recently. Self told us he did not have to, heck Vitale was chanting Free Diallo on one of our first games. Self said this, he would not have to lobby, everyone else would…Broadcasters are so terrible.
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  WHAT'S YOUR WORST SPORTS NIGHTMARE?
  • nuleafjhawk  

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  After all the hoopla - that Diallo is a bust…
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  FREE DIALLO
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  @Texas-Hawk-10 I tend to think the same especially when the lead invetigator paid Huggins extra for every win against ku. I don’t doubt there is some behind the scenes stick it to KU Feelings. Just glad it’s over and that this kid can finally help us
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  Diallo Is Finally Free
  • AsadZ  

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  Step closer to FF & NC
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  HYPOTHESIS: SELF'S JOB WAS NEVER IN JEOPARDY FROM FIRING, THE IDEA WAS TO DESTABILIZE THE FAN BASE, SO HE WOULD HAVE MORE REASON TO CHOOSE TO LEAVE EACH TIME AN OFFER COMES (for @wissoxfan83)
  • jaybate 1.0  

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  @jaybate-1.0 Yes.
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  Did Bill Self save his job with his annihilation of UCLA?
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  Lets not forget Bragg is a frosh, learning Self’s halfcourt offense still, which really limits his usefulness at this point in time. All those great ku highlight plays like lob dunks off backdoor cuts, etc…are usually set up away from the ball by trapdoor screens, picks, etc, to free a guy up, who is next seen receiving a lob pass for a dunk or uncontested layup. That’s hi% ball at its best, set up by Self’s system…but gotta know the plays and be in the right place. And with all that going on in a kids head, we then see him getting beat on the D end. Ive seen Bragg get yanked for this exact reason a few times already. But he seems to be a high-IQ kid, plays with fire…lets see if he’s a quick study. Raw athleticism + McDAA talent can make some plays, but extended mpg require system-level execution. Its a process, varies for each frosh. Graham was a dream-find frosh. Bragg could be similarly quick study, I hope. We’ll need more of him in March…
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  Ok, my take- - - - -my question- - - -and poof
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  Mostly, the “tale of 2 halves” is a mental thing, and also a big factor is 2nd half adjustments. Mental thing: hard to not slow down your aggression when you are up 25pts. We’ve seen this countless times all across the ncaa over the yrs, right? Its something coaches caution their teams about nonstop, but there’s a human nature letdown. 2nd half adjustments: Steve Alford or any coach will try something different on both ends of the court, sometimes it works, sometines not. Also in blowouts, when the bench guys get in, our efficiency & execution goes down, will the other team is still goung hard, and the gap shrinks. Some of this is coaching profession respect for losing coach, not run-up the score, and also getting “practice minutes” for your bench guys against live opponent. If the starters stayed in as a unit, they’d get chewed once or twice by Self…and you’d have seen Selden, Perry, etc, hang 100+ on poor UCLA. But Self knows he’ll need rested starters to try to win this thing against top20 Vandy.
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  SVI-the Ukraine LeBron
  • Statmachine  

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  @Statmachine I get that. But too often, the comparison goes beyond that to saying he’s the next this or that and it blurs the line. I want Svi to be Svi because if Svi tries to play like Lebron, he will not play well because that’s not his game. I’d rather he play like Reggie Miller because that’s in the sweet spot of his game, with a little more defense like he showed last night.
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  Cheick
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  Should never do this, at least until they declare him ineligible… but it would be fun to wait unti we are having a really bad game and the likelihood of scoring a victory is remote. Discreetly send Cheick to the locker room, suit up and have him charge out of the tunnel straight to the scorer’s table to check in. If we come back and win, we vacate a single game we thought looked doubtful to begin with and we flip the NCAA a giant double bird in the process!
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  Wasting Another Good Trey Balling Game on a Cupcake...Random or Indicative of Something Significant
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  @nuleafjhawk said Automatic bench time for anybody shooting anything but a dunk or bunny. What’s this “dunk” thing you speak of?
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  U-C-L-A
  • JRyman  

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  @globaljaybird Got all kinds of family in for T-day. But me, son and nephew been sittin’ here swiggin’ adult beverages and cheerin’ da Hawks.
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  THE GAMBLER'S GUIDE TO TONIGHT'S GAME
  • KUSTEVE  

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  @BeddieKU23 still a lot of time left. They need to keep their foot on the gas.
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  UCLA BRUINS
  • wrwlumpy  

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  @Crimsonorblue22 Yep, yep. Let’s win tonight !!!
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  The Word is Out
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  @drgnslayr The case for NBA big men not playing like those of the past is not nearly as strong as one might think. Although PFs probably shoot 3s more than they have in the past, this is NOT the case for centers. I have gone through the list of current centers and their backups as regards the average number of 3 point shots per game that they have taken over their careers. The only ones who shot more than .3 attempts per game are: Al Horford of the Hawks at .34 (up to 3.4 this year) Jared Sullinger of the Celtics at 2.25 Kelly Olynyk of the Celtics at 2.24 Andrea Bargnani backup for the Nets at 3.4 Spencer Hawes backup for Hornets at 1.48 Karl-Anthony Towns of the Timberwolves at .43 Gorgui Dieng of the Timberwolves at .5 LaMarcus Aldredge of the Spurs at .34 Boris Diaw of the Spurs at 1.37 Matt Bonner of the Spurs at 2.47 Draymond Green of the Warriors at 2.42. I am listing Green since he plays center when they go small although most of his attempts are from his PF position when Bogurt or Ezeli are in the game. With the exception of the San Antonio Spurs and the Boston Celtics no other team has key contributors who shoot more than 1 per game. Most of the rest of the centers shoot in the .05 to .1 range. This is not much more than has been the case in the past. I would guess that most of the shots are in desperation at the end of the shot clock. The primary reason for this is that they are not very good (that is being very generous) as most percentages are lower than 20% and a lot have an average of 0%.
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  Bob Davis has announced he's retiring after this season.
  • Texas Hawk 10  

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  @wrwlumpy goosebumps every time!! Love that guy!
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  Just early random thoughts while watching today
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  @DanR That used to be a tradition…I guess that is a tradition no more. I noticed a couple of flowers missing from Walton’s lei…I imagine ol’ Bill rolled himself a nice Hawaiian scented fatty and up in smoke they went… :d
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  • A Former User  

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  @dylans @brooksmd the only one I want to hear is Diallo’s free!