**** OFFICIAL 2014-2015 Kansas Basketball Repository Thread
11 straight Conference Championships!
Ranking #9 (26-8,13-5) Non-Con Schedule (11-2)
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Fri, March 20 NMSU at Kansas Omaha, NE CBS at 11:15a.m. CT Players
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Hello everyone!
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I don't think we'll be able to overcome the Wesley loss. Write off season coming up.
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Sure hope we are able to bring in some quality walk-ons.
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Did Garrett actually PLAY this year after the exhibitions?
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Ready for next season! Hope Selden indeed returns...he will be a stud.
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Replacing Wiggins and Embiid with 2 top 10 recruits in their positions, everyone else a year older. Will be a top 5 preseason team. Still would be nice to have a great PG, but should be (another) great year.
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Added Turner to the header. The freshman madness will not end as much as I would like it to.
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Another KU thread to add to the ignore thread list. Yea!
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Frankamp will start at point guard. At least he should.
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Cliff will start at PF. At least he should. But in the end it won't matter if he keeps running Tharpe out there. He is atrocious.
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Ellis and Tharpe bring the team defense down considerably. Was a fatal flaw this year. Hope it won't be again. Because Perry is almost certainly going to be starting and I'd be surprised if Tharpe didn't (at least at the beginning).
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Better decision maker. Didn't pick up his dribble. Didn't drive into trouble, then jump and hope someone is there for a pass after he's already left his feet or put up a bad shot. You're right that he didn't hit his shots nearly as much is he should have but all of his shots where the right shot to take. Neither Mason Nor Tharpe can say that. |
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Personally, I'm very excited by what I saw from Mason this season (an interesting fact is that one of his top statistical comparables is freshman Tyshawn). I don't see how any KU fan couldn't be. He didn't always make the right decisions, but he showed no fear in big moments. It's a good trait to have. |
Thing is, Frankamp doesn't HAVE to break down a defense. The other perimeter players are good enough (or should be) to get in position for a good pass.
Mason can break down a defense just fine, and I imagine his decision making will only get better. These guys are FRESHMEN. To think they're not going to mature is naive. They WILL get better. And they're already damn good. The present sucks, but the future is bright (as always). |
For whatever reason, I just wasn't that excited about our team this season. I felt that, outside of our 1-and-done players, the team was just pretty "meh". Hopefully next year they give me something to truly be excited about. I know a lot of fans felt the same way. Me and KC Connection for example...neither of us were surprised that we fell to an inferior Stanford squad today. I didn't feel that bad after the loss at all. Normally I'm just depressed as hell after a tournament loss. That loss to Michigan last season? I felt awful after that. Today I feel just fine. We'll be back here next season.
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And obviously I'm not saying Frankamp can't improve. Happens all the time. I'm just saying Mason showed great signs this year, while Frankamp didn't show much of anything in that regard. He barely even played. |
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I personally think he should be shooting 3's over Selden. Selden to me reminds me of a stronger Keith Langford. That guy should be driving to the hoop. What's with this Hunter Mickleson kid? Is he any good? |
Watching the other two games makes me remember the times we were actually fun to watch. Self wins like a bitch but I'm honestly weary of these garbage hackfests and surviving 2-13 shooting lines. It's boring to watch and frankly other people around the country were probably grossed out by our game. He needs to start letting shooters play more so they can get a rhythm rather than yanking then every time they give up a bucket.
Watching Kane and all these other point guards makes me nauseous that he can't land anyone worth a squirt. Since Tharpe doesn't play defense either what do we have to lose by playing Conner over him? Self needs to look himself in the mirror when he keeps seeing these atrocious shooting lines in the NCAAs. He's causing it |
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I'm just glad I got to see a little bit of Wiggins and Embiid's development before they go on to be great players for the next decade plus. |
Good year. Self's first double digit loss season. I think he'll have extra motivation next season.
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Some Perspective
For all the people that want to bash the Kansas Jayhawks because they hate KU, or for all the KU fans that are pissed at Bill Self and the players, READ THIS: Here is what you must be forgetting. Bill Self lost all 5 starters from last year.
58% off all scholarship players this year were Freshmen. Yes. 7 out of 12 players were Freshmen. Mason, Frankamp, Selden, Lucas, Greene, Wiggins, and Embiid were all Freshmen. Ellis, Traylor and White were only Sophomores, and they barely played last year. Black, who is a Senior, was in his "freshman" year in Self's offensive and defensive systems. Only 1 player had significant playing time under Self, and that was Tharpe. Just think about that. 7 Freshmen, and 3 Sophomores, a first year Senior, and a Junior, replaced all 5 starters from the year before, played the toughest schedule anyone can remember, won the statistically toughest league in college basketball, and gained a #2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Was this loss disappointing? Yes. Was this season a disappointment? HELL NO. This young team played a non-con schedule that was unreal, played a conference schedule that saw them play ranked team after ranked team, and they won the league. I wish we could have won today, but given all the info I just posted, I am proud of this team, and proud to be a Jayhawk. If you think this team underachieved, that is your problem. Rock Chalk. |
Hopefully Cliff and Oubre bring that killer instinct that none of the current starters on the team have.
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Taylor, Robinson, Collins, Releford. These guys were leaders. Tharpe is a joke. Black tried to be a leader, but not having played at KU before this year, it was hard for him to be seen by so many new players as a real leader. |
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Great coaches don't start , let alone recruit, Naadir Tharpe. |
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I guess that sort of thing is acceptable for PB? |
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What difference does it make? We lost to a garbage team just like he did.
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Self is fantastic. I might trade him straight up for Izzo. That's about it.
We'll be a good, competitive team next year no matter what. Favorites to win our league and probably a four seed or better in the tourney. Life isn't that bad. And this loss doesn't cut me deep. There is always hope for next year as a KU fan. |
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But yeah, you can beat off to your 2014 NCAA Tourney participation ribbon. |
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This message is hidden because Prison Bitch is on your ignore list.
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Why the F can't we lure a great point guard here these last few classes?
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If we're gonna excuse a 4 point tourney showing with 'aww, he's just a kid' let them be kids elsewhere and make their millions in the NBA. |
lol @ PB
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You can't have it every which way, he's a phenomenal talent, who isn't mature enough to contribute when it matters, and YES the NCAA tournament is when it matters, Self himself said and says so, but it's OK because he's a kid and he feels bad, but it's also OK that he's leaving before he matures because he's gonna get that NBA scrilla, yo. Poor kids cryin' their eyes out are a little less sympathetic when they're moving on to MTV cribs and a Maybach with 22's and millions more in the bank tomorrow. And though I stick with Self, I also put that failed 1'n'done gambit on him, not Wiggins. He picked a shitty approach for how he coaches. Learn, and move forward. |
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For the 2015 PGs, check out Jalen Adams, King McClure and Justin Simon. All serious KU guys.
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Without one and dones we may have struggled to even make the tourney this year. Had a KSU type season were we win at home and lose everywhere else. Having a roster totally turn over made the gamble no-lose really.
We sucked last month mostly because our few holdovers didn't really progress into good players. |
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Wiggins is the most talented Kansas player in your lifetime, he's a good kid, and it's usually a solid idea to have the basketball team with the best player on the floor. If he was born a year earlier you're probably touting him as one of the greatest players in the history of the program. |
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