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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Has incredible athleticism. Just doesn't bother to actually use it most games.
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Thank God he did. If he'd just turn it on for half the possessions KU would rape.
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Frank was great for the entire game, continuing his trend of good play these last few weeks. Hope he didn't get hurt there at the end, but I'm sure he'll soldier on anyway.
Lucas was also key down the stretch again. Baylor stopped getting the OREBs/extra possessions because of him (although we have to again give thanks to Drew for pulling Rico Gathers for no good reason and making it much easier on Landen).
One more win to #12. Best to get it on Saturday and not leave it to @Texas/ISU.
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I'm glad Landen is moving well and playing aggressively now. Why he hasn't with his size to this point in his career boggles the mind. He obviously wants to win, he just refused to be aggressive for 3 ****ing years. I don't get it.
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So am I. Been counting down the days for 2 years now.
He's certainly been one of their better offensive players. Unfortunately, he's terribly soft (the beating on the boards that he took today from Gathers/Motley/Prince only being the latest example) and a horrific defender. I'm sorry that it hurts you so much for anybody to point those facts out, but I'm never going to neglect mentioning that as long as he's playing basketball at KU.
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You have to give Perry credit. They obviously ran a bunch of plays to get their guards to drive right into him and he shut them down every time, several times playing on the ball defense against a guard without help for long distances and plenty of time for the guards to break him down. That is really, REALLY difficult for a guy his size and lack of experience doing so. That was really impressive.
It was also quite obviously the wrong gameplan. The right one is to isolate Garthers on him and foul him out. They were calling it tight tonight and Gaethers was raping him. Well, everybody. God I'd love to see Gaethers in red.
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Originally Posted by RealSNR
Somebody brought it up earlier in this thread that he seems to really have a lot of success when in the full-court press, oddly enough. I definitely saw that tonight on the couple of possessions that KU went to the press
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That was me. Obviously Self reads my posts and values my opinions
I just don't understand how he can be so damn effective on the front of a press and be so brain dead in the half court. His 4th foul was an epic facepalm. And being the front guy on the press is far more complex typically and has a lot more risk of getting abused and Traylor does the hard stuff and FUBARs the easy stuff.