***Official '22/'23 Defending Natl' Champion KU Men’s Basketball Repository Thread***

[cmh6476]

The Team:

https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/

The Schedule:

https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/schedule/

[Prison Bitch]

SVP just did a “Watch as Dick goes back door”

Tell me that wasn’t intentional

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Probably not but he did this year when Harris clearly should have. Time to have the ball in the hands of an actual passer/creator and see what happens.

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...s#post15639379

This was my final post about Harris in the thread two years ago leading into the championship year comparing him to Garrett.

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Who would you propose they play instead? Remy hasn't played in weeks with whatever his issue is and Yesefu has been terrible this year in the minutes he's gotten.

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...s#post16154197

And this was my post from last February questioning someone who was bashing Harris about who would play over him.

Let's try to keep the callouts with some kind of basis in reality next time. Harris has his offensive flaws, but they need his defense and decision making.

[Prison Bitch]

You’re begging me to de-pants you on this one bro

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

SVP just did a “Watch as Dick goes back door”

Tell me that wasn’t intentional

I caught that

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

You’re begging me to de-pants you on this one bro

Give it your best shot. You'll find plenty of me knocking Ochai last year and Braun two years ago, but Harris?

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

KU shot 10% better than Duke and had 13 more assists, so it would have been a shame to have lost it due to rebounds/loose balls and bad turnovers. Fortunately, their greater experience came through at the end to close it out.

It does look for now like Wilson has taken a bit of a step forward this year. We'll see if he can start making more 3s.

That's what you get when you have an experienced championship team vs a team full of very talented freshmen, I guess. Though, I will add that KU lost a few of those experienced championship players and has a few freshmen of their own. And KU can often times looks a little shaky early in the year. Good win.

And Wilson has definitely taken on the role of leader and scorer.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by smithandrew051

Zuby is way better than I expected. The 5 looks really good, at least defensively. Udeh still clearly has the highest upside. We should be able to play good post defense though.

I definitely like what I saw from Ejifor (sp?). He looks like he's gonna be a force for this team.
I like Udeh, too, but he seems a little slow and clueless at times.
And for all the crap that Adams gets, he plays hard, doesn't make many mistakes, and gives the team good energy. And he made some plays down the stretch, offensively and defensively.

It was good to see that 7ft freshman on Duke go down in flames.


Actually, that guy was really good. But a very cocky, very punchable Duke face.

[smithandrew051]

I’ve often said that Wilson is a better outside shooter than his percentage, but he does need to learn to stop shooting it when it isn’t falling.

If it’s contested, use the shot fake more to drive (which almost always works in college basketball). He’s such an effective driver that he doesn’t need to settle for guarded 3’s.

That alone will improve that percentage.

[Monty]

Originally Posted by Lzen

It was good to see that 7ft freshman on Duke go down in flames.


Actually, that guy was really good. But a very cocky, very punchable Duke face.

[PHOG]

Nice early (in the season) win. Unfortunately I fell asleep until the final 30 seconds.

[Prison Bitch]

McCullar and JW are *not* good deep shooters. JW wants to flash this for the nba but 0-7 last nite was a drag. And most of them were open anyway. We need a 2nd shooter.

Also we have zero post offense for the first time I can remember jn like, my life. Maybe the 1-2 years circa 1999 of Eric ChenoBitch

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Imon Yourside

Bilas being a bitch about fouls, showing his colors

Meh, I don't think Bilas was that bad. Maybe a slight bias but overall, he was pretty even keel. Even called out that play at the end should have been a flagrant.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

SVP just did a “Watch as Dick goes back door”

Tell me that wasn’t intentional

Lol, no. He would have said that no matter the players name. I mean, he did go back door, right? You guys gotta slow your roll on this. We got a whole season to go. Save some of these, don't use them all up in the first month.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

McCullar and JW are *not* good deep shooters. JW wants to flash this for the nba but 0-7 last nite was a drag. And most of them were open anyway. We need a 2nd shooter.

Also we have zero post offense for the first time I can remember jn like, my life. Maybe the 1-2 years circa 1999 of Eric ChenoBitch

It's been going away for awhile. I remember Cliff Alexander was in the post with like a 6'5 guy behind him on the block that he had to outweigh him by 50+ lb. Got fed an uncontested entry pass, straight up on the block, tiny dude right behind him.

.... And kicked it back out.

FFS, JUST ****ING TURN AND SHOOT. ****.

I think at 6'3 and 30 years old or whatever I was at the time out of shape as ****, I think I could have scored at least a couple times out of 10 with that post entry. JUST DO SOMETHING. At Cliffs size, whatever he did, if he did it strong it would have worked.



/RANT

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Objectively, though it makes sense. There isn't much of that in the NBA these days. Embiid and Jokic is about it right? At least dudes that are effective.

In college it's Drew Timme and Orlando Bacot right?

The NBA and NCAA games are leaning towards space and shooting.

Plus, even in the lower leagues, the amount of coaches that looked at Hakeem Olajuwon and thought, "I can teach my guy to do that" are probably out of the game these days.

As a guy that appreciates elite post play (like we had when Danny) it saddens me. I LOVE the efficiency of a good post player. But it isn't the game. I also love good movement and spacing and shooting. Basically I love good, technically sound ball.

But I think some coaches are missing the boat with post play. But whatever, if Wilson can play like he did against Puke, the dish/OREB game works for our guys.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

McCullar and JW are *not* good deep shooters. JW wants to flash this for the nba but 0-7 last nite was a drag. And most of them were open anyway. We need a 2nd shooter.

Also we have zero post offense for the first time I can remember jn like, my life. Maybe the 1-2 years circa 1999 of Eric ChenoBitch

Our post offense is going to be our big wings bullying smaller defenders around the basket.