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Old 02-04-2013, 07:28 PM   #3543
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KU’s Elijah Johnson says Sunday’s three-hour team meeting with head coach was productive

Kansas University senior Elijah Johnson is hoping a Sunday pep talk from his coach — during a three-hour team meeting in Allen Fieldhouse — is just what he needs to turn his season around.

“We talked a lot yesterday. We talked a whole lot yesterday. ... I like the confidence he (Bill Self) is putting in me. I know he’s still riding with me no matter what. I’m just trying to grow up right now,” the slumping point guard said Monday.

He turned the ball over on the final possession of KU’s 85-80 home loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday.

“Usually I don’t,” Johnson said, asked if he needed a pep talk once in a while, “but yesterday I did. I definitely needed one yesterday and coach gave it to me. I didn’t realize until I went home that’s what I got. He gave me one.”

Self on Monday told the media that Johnson will remain the team’s starting point guard.

“He’s my guy,” Self said. “We have the best chance to win when Elijah is in the game.”

As far as other messages in the meeting in the fieldhouse, Johnson explained: “He called us in as a team. We sat over there for about three hours yesterday talking about what we didn’t do hard, what we did do hard and it balanced out the wrong way. We got outplayed. They outplayed us. There were a couple plays he showed us where players from their team were diving on the ball and there were four people on our team standing around watching them do it. The same thing with rebounds.

“Everything on the court falls back on me. I never rallied our team at the end of the game. I blame that loss on me 100 percent because no matter what was going on in timeouts on the court, regardless, a senior guard always rallies the team up and gets the fieldhouse to turn up and take care of the job. I never did that. I had a blank face out there and I didn’t like that at all.”

Johnson said he was struggling about this time last year as well and turned it around. He said he’ll fix the problem at practice.

“Personally I don’t think I’m doing a good job at practice,” he said. “I’m kind of pacing myself and it’s coming back to haunt me now. I think that’s what I’m struggling with now.”

For more on Johnson struggles, Self’s vote of confidence in the senior floor general and the Jayhawks, see Tuesday’s Journal-World and KUsports.com

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2013/f...-hour-team-me/

"Turn the season around." Lol. Top 5 team in the country, perennial title contender needs to turn the season around. Love Bill Self. Dude means business.
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