Timberlake is in year 6 of his college career. I don’t think more practice is going to fix it.

He probably is what he is.

Oh, well ok, didn't realize that. So he's in for a quick 3 point try and then out.

Timberlake’s gotta be able to catch and shoot like Forte to justify getting 10 minutes of playing time.

So far he hasn’t done that, so it’s the Furph experience.

Shaka goes down easily to Wisconsin on the road. Turns out the strategy of hacking all the time is a bit more difficult in someone else's building.

So Arizona to #1, and Kansas to #2?

I love KJ. LOVE him.

I thought pulling Dickinson out and letting McCullar in particular but also KJ work bitches in the post was goddamned good basketball.

KJ is one of those dudes everyone wants to play with, and I love watching him dunk on bitches.

That was me. I said it last night, and I'll say it again. I will eat that crow. Dude was playing man's basketball yesterday. I was incorrect.

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Those were some long commercial timeouts during the ESPN2 broadcast last night. I thought I had somehow inadvertantly changed the channel to an infomercial for treating bags under the eyes. It just went on and on. And Medicare advantage plans -yikes. That's my complaint about the game.

Man, the crowd really fed off the 1st half defensive effort and returned that energy to our team. That was phenomenal.

I think his shooting struggles so far are mental. Once that mental block is lifted, he'll probably be a solid bench contributor.

It's pretty epic to be fans of KU and KC Chiefs IMHO

Maybe Timberlake will come on around February, but so far he is just outmatched. He struggles to guard anyone, isn't a very good rebounder, and seems kinda lost when he is on the court.

Once upon a time, if KU was at AFH down by say down ten with ten minutes left or down 3 with two minutes..., I just assumed that they would win.

And it seemed a pretty good assumption up until recently. (Up until Chiefs became a dynasty, strangely enough.) Not 100%, but still pretty good odds.

KJ is a liability at the FT line, but everything else is just a thing of beauty.

On Timberlake, I went back and looked at his last two years vs power 5 teams. He has 4 games against Pitt, Clemson, Ohio State, and Wake Forest. Not a murderers row of teams but a decent spread of talent. In those contests he shot 20-56 from 2 and 8-27 from 3. Obviously 4 games isn't the biggest sample size, but it's interesting his numbers line up with what has happened so far this year against power 5 teams. If your hypothesis is he's bothered by elite(power 5) athletes, we don't really have any evidence that he's going to figure it out unfortunately.

It's going to be interesting the scouting on guys transitioning from mid major schools to high majors in the coming years and the analytics behind it. Yesufu had really weird splits that suggested he wasn't ready for Kansas and so does Timberlake. Then again I'm sure there are other guys who have worked out with red flags. The data will be fascinating to watch the next few years and the teams that figure it out first will get a big advantage.

Somebody needs to be able to hit 3’s consistently. Hopefully Self gets the rotation figured out soon.