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@DCHawker said in This is The Feel Good Edition KU-AZ:

@BShark said in This is The Feel Good Edition KU-AZ:

@kjayhawks Could be a 7 but beating Arizona will help.

I think there could be a fair amount of variability in our seeding depending on how we do in the B12. We are only 5-10 against Q1 and 11-11 against Q1-2. That’s more like a 10-11 seed profile. What has us around a 7 seed right now is overall strength of schedule and wins against Duke, MSU, ISU and Arizona. I don’t think any other projected seed lower than a 4 has 2 wins against 1 or 2 seeds.

A loss in the 1st round would add a Q2 loss and a losing records against the first two quadrants, probably resulting in a 8 or 9 seed. 3 wins, if the third was against TTU might get us to a 6 seed. That would keep us on the 2 seed side of a bracket and avoid playing the 2 seed in the first two games…

A 10-11 seed is a bubble team. KU doesn’t have a bubble team resume. Xavier is the last team in on ESPN’s projection, they’re 1-8 in Quad 1 games. KU has 4 wins over top 13 teams in the NET rankings including over number 1 Duke. If KU somehow made a run and won the Big 12 Tournament they would likely move into a top 4 seed if that path included wins over Arizona in the quarterfinals, Texas Tech in the semifinals, and Houston/Iowa St in the championship game.

@kjayhawks said in This is The Feel Good Edition KU-AZ:

I’ll take my usual stance on the B12 tournament, win it all or lose the first game. Although with the way with this team had played if we won, it will be something

Considering our first game is likely either Utah or UCF, I’d prefer to not take a quad 2 loss going into the NCAA Tournament. The quarterfinals game would be either BYU or Arizona (they split so I don’t know who has the tiebreaker). If it’s BYU, I’d like to avenge that embarrassing performance in Provo.

Zeke not inbounding, Self has learned in that situation.

@StLJhawk said in This is The Feel Good Edition KU-AZ:

7 pts under a minute,looking good

I don’t feel comfortable yet.

Zeke having another rough game so far.

Should’ve been a foul on Love

That looked like goal tending to me

Good aggression so far

@BeddieKU23 Elmarko is close to being 100% barring a setback. Self said in January that Elmarko should be 100% by March and would begin full contact after the season was over. Elmarko should be able to go through a full off season.

Elmarko should to be the starter next season with Peterson playing off ball, or even playimg the wing. Peterson hasn’t been a lead guard since his freshmen year of high school soccer I doubt he’s going to play that role next season.

@Crimsonorblue22 Tiller played for Overtime Elite which is an invitation only league for top high school players that Tiller was playing in. Tiller got injured over the summer (ankle) and decided to enroll early at KU and redshirt to rehab and be around the program. He should be practicing with the team at this point unless he’s had a setback at some point.

@kjayhawks said in Peterson:

@Texas-Hawk-10 I think Clemence is just a waste of space at this point unfortunately

For me, keeping Clemence is bigger than basketball. It’s about helping him get his degree and setting him up for his post basketball life. I’m fine with him being the last scholarship players on the bench because he’s shown he can playa few minutes and be fine. If he feels he can keep himself out of trouble and wants to play more, then a transfer to another program is fine. I don’t want to keep him because of his basketball ability, just to help him personally stay on the right path in life.

@approxinfinity said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

@Texas-Hawk-10 mission accomplished on Hunter, I thought. (Apologies if you already circled back on your point about the importance of his engagement, otherwise would be curious if you were happy with his output in large part)

I don’t know if happy is the word I would use because he did have 7 turnovers, but his energy and effort was there all night and helped keep KU in the game until the end.

@kjayhawks said in Peterson:

Okay so what are we thinking here team wise next season? I hope Diggy stays and uses that extra year so whom else do we want to return? Obviously Flory, Mari and Elmarko. I’m really thinking that it I’m just worried that guys in the portal won’t want to come here thinking it’s purgatory and it’s how the transfers have worked out here.

For me, ideally the starting line up next season would be:

1-Jackson, Coit, McDowell

2-Peterson, Coit, Passmore, McDowell

3-Griffen, Passmore, Calderon

4-???, Calderon, Clemence

5-Bidunga, Tiller

If Griffen leaves, then that creates 2 open starting spots at the 3 and 4. I would also look at a back up 4 as I don’t think Calderon or Clemence should get a lot of minutes next season. As far as rotation level players go, that’s about it for next season for what I would be looking for.

@approxinfinity said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

@Texas-Hawk-10 ok but he didnt say that. He should say that if he means that. Sloppy Fran.

I thought it was pretty clear what Fran was referring to.

@approxinfinity said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

Frans an idiot. This team has nba players on it

He meant next season and he’s not wrong. Nobody on this roster is good enough to play in the NBA in 2025-26.

This felt about as good as could expect for the first half. Keep it up in the second half, clean up some turnovers and do a better job on the defensive glass and KU’s got a shot.

Other than rebounding, the defense has been very good tonight holding UH to 31% from the field and 36% from 3.

Same thing I’ve said the last couple of games, I want to see Hunter active and engaged. If that happens, KU has a chance. If he plays half-assed, KU loses by a lot.

@wissox said in It's time (Irrational thought of the day):

Labaran Philon…? in an article said backed out of his commitment last year because of the guards Self was bringing in through the portal. He’s a 4 star guard now for Alabama averaging 10 pts, only 21% on 3’s so he wouldn’t have been better than Mayo, for long term depth Diggy and Shak may have cost us keeping him

By the time Philon decommitted, KU had retained Elmarko, and added Storr and Mayo in the portal. Elmarko and Zeke would’ve definitely been viewed as competition, but it was Rylan Griffen’s commitment that spurred Philon’s decision and they essentially traded Philon for Griffen.

@bskeet The note was in response to all the stuff directed towards Zeke to try and take some blame off of him since Self can deal with all that stuff.

@wissox said in Peterson:

@rcjhdraft I don’t think that’s our recruiting strategy, do you? I mean lets get a 1 year rental because it’ll bring in all the system guys we need? Of course the portal is a game changer too and maybe guys will want to come alongside him next year thinking they’ll all mesh into a championship team. Someone will probably fact check me on this but I don’t think there’s a championship team since Duke in 2015, or maybe Kentucky in 2012 that’s ridden OAD’s to the championship.

A player’s end goal is not playing Kansas (or whatever school they go to), it’s to play in the NBA. Darryn Peterson is a difference maker and him being successful at Kansas and then in the NBA will attract more of the OAD level talent. That in turn will attract a higher caliber role player to fill in around those superstar players so that in years when there isn’t a OAD caliber player on the roster, it’s still a roster loaded with players who have an NBA future.

@wissox said in Lets go 3-0 on the new season:

@Texas-Hawk-10 PD on Saturday? What kind of school district you work for?

Not a mandatory one, something I needed to work towards my GT certification so I can at least show my admin I’m being proactive even though I have no desire to teach GT long term. I prefer working with my SpEd kids much more, but since I’m the only teacher in my content this year, I have to teach all subpops this year.

Basically sacrificing 6 hours to keep admin off my back.

Currently on a lunch break for a professional development and will end up missing the game today.

I just want Hunter to play with energy and be engaged throughout the game because KU won’t win otherwise.

Peterson is in the Andrew Wiggins, Josh Jackson level of impact at the college level.

@SlimShaddy54 We’re going to have two players who were recruited to KU after NIL began that will be entering their 3rd year at KU next season with Elmarko and McDowell.

@benshawks08 said in Bill Self on potentially hiring a GM…:

Doesn’t Peterson need to be “on ball” too? Is anyone good “off ball”?

Seems like that’s a big part of our problems this year. AJ needs the ball in his hands, Hunter needs the ball in his hands, and if the ball isn’t in Juan or kjs hands they are actively not guarded so better get the ball in their hands, and if Rylan doesn’t have the ball in his hands he just kind of floats to the corner and waits (this has been a little better the last few games).

I see why we all love flory.

Peterson can play off ball just fine amd at his size, he may well end up off the ball the NBA as well.

@drgnslayr said in Bill Self on potentially hiring a GM…:

@Texas-Hawk-10

I hope you are right about Elmarko!

Elmarko was put into a bad situation his freshman season. He wasn’t intended to be a starter or play off ball. That all changed when Morris was kicked off the team. Elmarko is an on ball player and should look much better and more natural running the point next season.

@drgnslayr said in Bill Self on potentially hiring a GM…:

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Bill Self on potentially hiring a GM…:

Zach Clemence, Elmarko Jackson, and Jamari McDowell

We are putting next year’s team with these 3 as leaders?

Now I’m worried.

I was watching Houston tonight. Every one of their guys are athletic and want the rock down the stretch. Until we can fill a team with guys like this, we are going to get beat down in games against teams like Houston.

I don’t want to post the full section of that article because it’s behind a paywall, but it’s essentially saying these are three players who have been around the program and can show newcomers what it means to be a Jayhawk under Bill Self because they’ve only ever been apart of Bill Self’s system in college. Jackson and McDowell will be entering their 3rd year in the program and Clemence his 5th so they’re going to be the veterans of the program that will be responsible for setting the tone and culture for next season. Flory, Rakeese, and Tiller have only known Bill Self’s way so it should be harder for players not originally recruited to KU to become a negative influence within the program and not meet program standards or not be held accountable for not meeting program standards.

Essentially KU will have more KU guys going through the offseason to keep incoming transfers from gaining too much influence in the program.

With Elmarko, he’s got a chance to be one of KU’s two or three top players next year amd hopefully become a leader next season both on and off the court.

Obviously not the cleanest game, but that wasn’t what was needed to be seen tonight, but the biggest thing was KU’s energy and effort levels were high throughout the game. At this point, this team will go wherever Hunter carries them to.

We’ll find out tonight if the OSU game was a one off or this team turning the corner to make a run.

I just want to see them come out and play with energy tonight.

@benshawks08 said in Biggest game of the year thread:

That’s still 9:00 mountain time? What the hell? I’d get it if it was full west coast pacific time because a game starting at 8 isn’t unheard of but 9 seems late add in the central time of 10:00 and it just seems silly.

The old Pac 12 After Dark time slot.

@kjayhawks said in Biggest game of the year thread:

Is Shak hurt or what?

Mentioned a few games back, he’s dealing with a foot injury. That’s why he had been playing reduced minutes recently, nothing to do with being in Self’s doghouse.

We saw what a fully healthy Shak could do on defense and how much that energized the team.

Today was encouraging. Whether it was a one off or something more remains TBD. We didn’t look like this against Colorado 11 days ago though and Colorado is a much worse team than OSU.

I mentioned it in during the game, but this team will go as far as Hunter carries them. When he’s active and engaged like today, everyone else feeds off that energy. When he plays half-assed, pretty much everyone else plays half-assed as well.

Can Hunter have a Remy-like run to end his KU career and change his KU legacy? It was about this time 3 years ago that we were wondering if Remy was even going to play for KU again, but that’s rarely brought up because of his run to end the season. That doesn’t necessarily mean Hunter has to win a title, but making a run in the B12 Tournament, making it past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament would do a lot to change Hunter’s long term legacy here.

This team goes as Hunter goes. When he’s playing motivated, KU is damn near unstoppable.

Already in the bonus, nice!

The aggression on offenses is nice to see today.

I do want Coit back next year. He’s a great bench piece for a program like Kansas with his shooting.

@benshawks08 said in Biggest game of the year thread:

@patoh3 if he had real scorers around him someone would have been there to throw that down.

Griffen went up intending to shoot it and changed his mind last second. That was 100% on Rylen.

Today, I just want to see them play loose and free.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Biggest game of the year thread:

No time to eff around. gotta come close to winning out the rest of the way to guarantee we’re dancing.

KU doesn’t need to win out to make the tournament. Just win today and the first B12 Tournament game and KU’s in. This will likely be the first time since the 2000 though that KU isn’t a top 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament which might be an unbreakable record.

Those GM’s don’t handle external scouting. They manage the NIL deals for players already within the program.

I was reading something from Matt Tait that one of the issues in the transfer portal is how fast things can move and coaching staffs don’t always have the time they would like to vet for fit with the team.

The other thing that really stood out to me in Matt’s article was how much the portal has changed the culture of KU. Transfers have pretty much always been a part of the rotation from Self (Rodrick Stewart, Jeff Withey, Mario Little, Kevin Young, Tarik Black, Dedric Lawson, etc.), but there was always enough leadership from the established players brought up in the KU system and culture from big time players to the homegrown talent to show the transfers the KU way and hold them accountable when they weren’t meeting expectations. KU doesn’t have that this year as Dejuan and KJ aren’t the most vocal players and not suited for leadership roles and it’s allowed non-KU culture to take hold this year leading to a lot of the issues.

Yes, there are Zach Clemence, Elmarko Jackson, and Jamari McDowell, but they have minimal influence at this point because of their injury and redshirt status within the team.

Matt said the hope is next year with those three back, with at least Elmarko expected to have a prominent role, along with Passmore and Tiller that a lot of culture issues will resolve themselves as KU should have several players in the rotation and leadership roles that haven’t been “tainted” by other programs.

Tied for 3rd worst loss in program history.

@wissox said in Tonight's game:

@bskeet First time maybe was the 2018 ff against Villanova. I mean that was a historically great Nova team, but it looked like a lot of these losses, them just making 3 after 3, bill calling TO, then more of the same.

That loss wasn’t like these. That Villanova team was an all time great team and got red hot and shot above their normal %. KU wasn’t great that night, but they were nowhere like this.

That didn’t look like a charge

That wasn’t a flagrant

@SlimShaddy54 said in Tonight's game:

Serious question , wonder how many wins we get to end the Season-- - Houston – loss – Texas Tech – loss - -Idunno

2, Saturday to OSU and 1 in the Big 12 Tournament.

KU’s worst loss of all time was a 40 point loss to Nebraska, in 1900.

Get KJ out there for Hunter and run that line up the rest of the game.

AJ Storr, 1 rebound, 4 turnovers tonight.

@TYOHawk said in Tonight's game:

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Tonight's game:

@TYOHawk said in Tonight's game:

It’s not the money. They’re just not that good. Imagine if we built a team around Naadir Tharpe and Darnell Jackson…that’s essentially what Coach has done the last two years.

Don’t insult Darnell Jackson like that. He was actually drafted and spent 3 years in the NBA. I’d take him in a heart beat right now.

Fair point lol. Maybe Jamari Traylor and it’s nothing personal against him

I’d take Traylor too at this point to because effort was never an issue with him and he was willing to do the dirty work Dickinson refuses to do.

@TYOHawk said in Tonight's game:

It’s not the money. They’re just not that good. Imagine if we built a team around Naadir Tharpe and Darnell Jackson…that’s essentially what Coach has done the last two years.

Don’t insult Darnell Jackson like that. He was actually drafted and spent 3 years in the NBA. I’d take him in a heart beat right now.