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Unless Kansas won each game by 30 and won the Atlantis title, there wasn't going to be a scenario in which the positives were going to outweigh the negatives in Atlantis.
You are playing three games where you only have mere hours to prepare for 2 of the 3 games, not to mention you have to factor in what is working and what isn't working within the confines of your own system and team.
Kansas faced 2-3, 3-2, 1-3-1, box and 1, triangle and 2, and had to defend against four corners offense over the span of three days.
With a team that is ranked 348th in the country in terms of minutes played by rotation players, you simply cannot prepare for that, nor expect your team to look fluid on offense. KU was going to have to basically labor through this tournament and just do what they do against whatever defense and hope shots were falling.
Still a fair amount of distrust from Self on the defensive end with this team, and with it being so early in the season and really not meaning all that much, he wasn't afraid to sit his best players for extended time.
My biggest problem is that considered the various and junk defenses Kansas faced, you would want your play makers to take shots and just use their athleticism to make plays.
Wiggins barely took enough shots against Wake, then took only a combined 17 shots against Nova and UTEP. Wayne Selden doesn't take enough shots either. This is why stat freaks think one and done players don't fit at Kansas. They are way too unselfish and rely on ball movement and gaining position for points. While Wiggins isn't going to take 20 shots because that won't work in this offense with this much talent and scoring, he needs to average a minimum of 12 shots a game.
That's partially on him, partially on his teammates, and partially on Self.
Way too early to take anything away other than Kansas needs to get a lot better, and the positive to that being that their ceiling is so high that you have to feel good looking at January and on.
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