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Originally Posted by CoMoChief
I will say this if this team is going to make a deep March/April run, Perry Ellis HAS to improve. It will be that time of year where's he's played/practiced enough that's he no freshman any longer. Kevin Young can eat up some mins a little bit but Withey isn't a dominating offensive force....someone down low has to pick up some slack.
He's a extremely weak back to the goal type of player. I think he's a boy playing w/ a bunch of men out there. He was very big fish in a very small pond in HS, now he's playing against much better talent and he no longer can use his poor mechanics and dominate.
He's in my shit house right now. I can't believe he was a top McD's guy.
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Man, he's not that bad. He's got some really good moves down there. But it has taken him awhile to get used to the physical play. He's not a physical beast like Robinson was, but right now, he's playing one hell of a lot better than Robinson was at this stage in his career. The last few games, he has been scoring some points and doing really well on the boards IMO.
The fact is he didn't go to a prep school or some place that he went for D-I prep. He played Kansas High School Ball. I mean FFS, my HS in the middle of bum****nowhere played against Frankamp's team that was a constant opponent of Eliis' a few weeks ago, and took them to overtime. Lets be real here. SCHS isn't necessarily good training for D-I players.
I'm with Silock. Your expectations were a little high. I'd scale them back some with Frankamp.
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Originally Posted by DJay23
Since 2010 I've gotten so tight leading in to March. I get grouchy and I feel physical evidence of stress. It's ridiculous. I'm a grown man, I shouldn't get this worked up, but damnit I love KU basketball. I think the combination of making the title game last year and some other much more difficult personal shit happening right now have calmed me because I feel a lot more...zen about KU right now. I know they aren't playing their best right now, but I'm excited to see them put together a game like against Colorado again. It's going to happen, and just at the right time.
The loss to Northern Iowa in 2010 was the worst for me. That team should have steamrolled to the title, plus Sherron might be my all time favorite Hawk. I took that loss harder than any other loss of any of my favorite teams (the loss to the Dolphins in the playoffs in '90 is probably 2nd. Damnit I was so upset after that). I didn't watch basketball until the title game, and only then I watched the second half.
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Hey man, sorry about your personal stuff. But I was all zen with last years team. I looked up and down the roster and thought there's no way they win the conference, much less do ANYTHING in the tournament. I had no idea Robinson would be the best player in the nation, and Withey would do what the NPOY winner did better than the NPOY winner. I expected a lot out of TT, and while he did surpass my expectations, nothing like Robinson and Withey. My god Withey could barely walk the year before.
So yeah, there was a LOT of icing on the cake for me last year. And I think I'm a little more worked up about this years team, it is nothing like the 08 team in terms of being "due".