**** OFFICIAL 2014-2015 Kansas Basketball Repository Thread

[ArrowheadHawk]

11 straight Conference Championships!

Ranking #9 (26-8,13-5)

Non-Con Schedule (11-2)

Spoiler!

11/14/2014 UC Santa Barbara Lawrence, Kan. W 69-59 (1-0)
11/18/2014 Kentucky Indianapolis, Ind. L 40-72 (1-1)
Orlando Classic
11/24/2014 Rider Lawrence, Kan. W 87-60 (2-1)
11/27/2014 Rhode Island Orlando, Fla. W 76-60 (3-1)
11/28/2014 Tennessee Orlando, Fla. W 82-67 (4-1)
11/30/2014 Michigan State Orlando, Fla. W 61-56 (5-1)
12/5/2014 Florida Lawrence, Kan. W 71-65 (6-1)
12/10/2014 Georgetown Washington, DC W 75-70 (7-1)
12/13/2014 Utah Kansas City, Mo. W 63-60 (8-1)
12/20/2014 Lafayette Lawrence, Kan. W 96-69 (9-1)
12/22/2014 Temple Philadelphia, PA L 52-77 (9-2)
12/30/2014 Kent State Lawrence, Kan. W 78-62 (10-2)
1/4/2015 UNLV Lawrence, Kan. W 76-61 (11-2)

Conference Schedule

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1/7/2015 Baylor Waco, Texas W 56-55 (12-2,1-0)
1/10/2015 Texas Tech Lawrence, Kan. W 86-54 (13-2,2-0)
1/13/2015 Oklahoma State Lawrence, Kan. W 67-57 (14-2,3-0)
1/17/2015 Iowa State Ames, Iowa L 81-86 (14-3,3-1)
1/19/2015 Oklahoma Lawrence, Kan. W 85-78 (15-3,4-1)
1/24/2015 Texas Austin, Texas W 75-62 (16-3,5-1)
1/28/2015 TCU Fort Worth, Texas W 64-61(17-3,6-1)
1/31/2015 Kansas State Lawrence, Kan. W 68-57(18-3,7-1)
2/2/2015 Iowa State Lawrence, Kan. W 89-76(19-3,8-1)
2/7/2015 Oklahoma State Stillwater, Okla. L 62-67(19-4,8-2)
2/10/2015 Texas Tech Lubbock, Texas W 73-51(20-4,9-2)
2/14/2015 Baylor Lawrence, Kan. W 74-64(21-4,10-2)
2/16/2015 West Virginia Morgantown, W. Va. L 61-62(21-5,10-3)
2/21/2015 TCU Lawrence, Kan. W 81-72(22-5,11-3)
2/23/2015 Kansas State Manhattan, Kan. L 63-70(22-6,11-4)
2/28/2015 Texas Lawrence, Kan. W 69-64(23-6,12-4)
3/3/2015 West Virginia Lawrence, Kan. W 76-69(24-6,12-4)
3/7/2015 Oklahoma Norman, Okla. L 73-75(24-7,12-5)
Big 12 Championship
3/12/2015 TCU Kansas City, Mo. W 64-59(25-7)
3/13/2015 Baylor KC, Mo W 62-52(26-7)
3/14/2015 Iowa State KC, Mo W 66-70(25-8)

Fri, March 20 NMSU at Kansas Omaha, NE CBS at 11:15a.m. CT

Players

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New Players
Hunter Mickelson - F Transfer
Cliff Alexander - 5 Star C
Kelly Oubre - 5 Star F/G
Devonte Graham - 4 Star PG
Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk - (Not Ranked but equivalent to 5 Star) G

Players Lost
Tarik Black - Graduation
Andrew Wiggins - NBA Draft
Joel Embiid - NBA Draft
Justin Wesley - Graduation
Niko Roberts - Graduation
Christian Garrett - Graduation
Naadir Tharpe - Transfer
Andrew White - Transfer
Conner Frankamp - Transfer

Returning Starters
Wayne Selden, Jr. - G - Sophmore
Perry Ellis - F - Junior

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by Bambi

is this real?

You don't remember Smart's backflip?

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by DJay23

Perry is inside his own head right now. He can't even dribble the ball. I think he needs to come off the bench to get his psychology right.

Good gameplan last night not helping off of Forte. That dude can shoot and we gave him, what, one open look? Dude is a gamer though. I can do without guys jumping into defenders out on the floor to draw fouls, but he seems to have a good attitude and just plays. I kind of wish we had him.

100% agree about Ellis.

And yeah, Forte is a good player. But man that was some complete BS the way he jumped sideways into Oubre to get the foul. And you knew he would hit all 3 FTs. I didn't realize they allowed that kind of nonsense in college hoops.

[Lzen]

BTW, what the heck happened to Cliff's playing time in the second half last night?

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by Lzen

100% agree about Ellis.

And yeah, Forte is a good player. But man that was some complete BS the way he jumped sideways into Oubre to get the foul. And you knew he would hit all 3 FTs. I didn't realize they allowed that kind of nonsense in college hoops.

I don't blame Forte for the play, but the refs got that call horribly wrong. That was some 2002 Chauncey Billups, Derrick Fisher bullshit.

[KC_Connection]

Ridiculous calls like that set the tone for the entire game. It was just horribly reffed.

[DJay23]

Originally Posted by Lzen

100% agree about Ellis.

And yeah, Forte is a good player. But man that was some complete BS the way he jumped sideways into Oubre to get the foul. And you knew he would hit all 3 FTs. I didn't realize they allowed that kind of nonsense in college hoops.

It does go on and it's a chump move. It needs to be a no call.

[Superbowltrashcan]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

I don't blame Forte for the play, but the refs got that call horribly wrong. That was some 2002 Chauncey Billups, Derrick Fisher bullshit.

From where we were sitting at the game, it appeared part of the problem was Oubre's actions as Forte did his thing so to speak. Oubre's arms moved in a manner that all but insured a call from the ref from his visual perspective at that point. Oubre would have been well served to immediately have gone hands up to put all the origination of contact on Forte. Forte got his payback later on. There was one instance in particular where he got absolutely hammered going to the hole and the refs all swallowed their whistle. I don't think they took kindly to being baited like that earlier and it sorta backfired on Forte.

[saphojunkie]

Self on Perry Ellis today:

Originally Posted by Bill Self Press Conference

I think that Perry is just a fraction away from doing the things that we had envisioned him to do. I think one thing he has to do, he's just got to go be a player. He's got to go be a player that's aggressive and believe that he's a player. He needs to believe that he's the best player on the floor every night he takes the floor, because when he plays well, he is, and he's proven that.

I think he goes through -- I think Perry is going through a little bit of a situation where maybe we're winning and maybe it's okay for him to defer like he has in years past, because the end result has been okay. And that's no good for us. He's got to be a guy that is the most aggressive guy looking to score every night that we play. Even if he misses shots, he makes things happen if he's aggressive.

I don't think he's far off at all, and certainly his talent level is as good or as better as it's of been since he's been here. I just think there's a little bit going on with him from a confidence standpoint, or maybe from a mental standpoint that maybe he's rationalized that it's okay to be the way I am because the team is doing well, and I don't think it is.

I think he's got to be our go to guy, and I don't think he's far off. Wouldn't be surprised at him having a big game and a series of big games very soon. He remembers his misses where some guys don't remember their misses. He remembers his screw ups because he's conscientious, like you would want your son to be; where a lot of coaches, just assume not coach your son. They would rather have some guys that, you know, they can't remember their bad plays.

And I think that that's something that he's got to get better at. I think he's almost too sweet and too nice a kid at times when things are not going well and he rationalizes, well, we are doing fine, so it's okay to miss. But one thing that I worry about with our entire team is our body language. I don't think we have been a great body language team and I think Perry is one of those guys that can improve on that.

I think plays affect him too much. Perry to me is this, okay. You know how we say, coaches all the time, that sometimes winning never feels as good as losing feels bad. I think sometimes with players, sometimes they -- hey, making good plays, never feel as good as when you screw up. And I think that as a player, that's a bad way to be. Hey, don't remember your screw ups and every great play is an energy boost.

I think when there's expectations on you with things like that and things go well, well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing, as opposed to, man, this is great, God, I've never had so much fun. I think this that's kind of -- that's probably a bad analogy but I think that's something that's very correctible and I really see him taking off the last half of our season.

[Reerun_KC]

Bill is spot on to what everyone thinks about Ellis....

[Silock]

It's almost like Bill Self knows more about his basketball team than we do.

[Three7s]

Originally Posted by Silock

It's almost like Bill Self knows more about his basketball team than we do.

He's a coach and could probably make one heck of a sports psychologist as well.

[Chief_For_Life58]

Originally Posted by Silock

It's almost like Bill Self knows more about his basketball team than we do.

Naahhhhhhh

[the Talking Can]

Originally Posted by Silock

It's almost like Bill Self knows more about his basketball team than we do.

shhh...phog.net will hear

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Silock

It's almost like Bill Self knows more about his basketball team than we do.

[Al Czervik]

Self is a great coach AND a great person....
KU is lucky to have him....

One thing that I really like seeing is Oubre and his steals.
He has such quick hands and is always knocking the ball free.
Reminds me of Mario and how quick he was......