Happy Thanksgiving! Be grateful!
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you are all grateful for your life journeys, and for having such an entertaining team to watch!
I swear… Elmarko heard me screaming at him through the tv. I had just put him on Drgnslayr’s athletic probation, and then he knocks down a trey and became an alpha for the first time ever in a KU uniform!
We really don’t need Elmarko to hit every shot or play perfect… but if that guy showed up every game with the same energy he had down the stretch last night, we won’t be losing many games!
While I had Elmarko in the dog house, I had recently proclaimed Tre as our hawk with the highest basketball IQ. I scratched my head on the 4th personal he made.
The officiating sucked. It started with Biduuunga’s blocked shot that was clearly goaltending and only got worse. Down the stretch, when Elmarko made that miracle shot off the drive where he was in mid-air and got hammered without a call… that went way beyond horrible by the officials. And right before that, when Elmarko drove the baseline in backcourt and got tackled without a call. Are you kidding me?
The announcers? Really? They showed the typical “east coast bias” we’ve come to expect. Even though Tennessee isn’t east coast… it is further east than Kansas!
That was one of the weirdest KU games I’ve ever seen! Just glad we pulled out the victory. I was starting to dislike some of the Vol players. They seemed extremely arrogant. Turned out… they were errorgant! lol I sure like seeing our guys fight to the end! We definitely have some dog in us! Jamari… he’s fighting hard to help this team! Actually… everyone is! And what about those team cheers! Seeing our team have fun at this level is rare!
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“We really don’t need Elmarko to hit every shot or play perfect… but if that guy showed up every game with the same energy he had down the stretch last night, we won’t be losing many games!” ^^^ this!!
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PHOF!!!
Great post! The twitterverse is full of we’re back baby type of posts. Of course last year had a promising start after winning the month of November in the champions game and beating Duke. This maybe feels different.
I don’t think after the UNC game there were any were back baby feelings around here. I think there were some ‘first KU team not to make the tourney since Bush1’ posts.
I was just really excited to see guys finishing at the rim. Bidungas length was neutralized by their size, but by double teaming Flory the guards had an early turkey day beast at the rim which opens up the arc for dessert and the FT stripe for leftovers. It was a joyous half to watch.
The feast hangover hopefully is gone by Tuesday because Hurley took notes on us I imagine. A follow up win sets us up for the grind ahead. Gonna be a war but maybe this year we have the weapons to help us feast on others.
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@wissox bet! We have 10 guys that have meaningfully contributed.
Council Darryn White Tiller Flory
Marko Mari Kohl Dawson Mbiya
And G could as well
At this point none of these guys are giving “in over their head” vibes (though its fluid of course) so i would struggle to tighten the rotation on any of them.
This should bode well for the grind ahead. I assume Self will tighten to 8 or so but if any get injured we have redundancy
