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

[cmh6476]

The Team:

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The Schedule:

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

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Not at all. I’ve watched every game this year. They are a soft team. They are lucky to have the record they have. This just feels like a 1-1 team in the tournament.

This team just won the conference regular season title in a year where the Big 12 is considered, by far, the best league from top to bottom in many years.

Good Lord, can we stop with the stupid, defeatist takes?

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Missing Kev and Bill hurt.

Not better than Harris, Adams, and Dick were, we pretty much didn’t have them either.

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Their last game against Texas that was even more meaningless than tonight's game? After they just finished and won a grueling 17 game B12 season over the previous 3 months? Yeah, I don't give a shit about that game and they clearly didn't either.

This team achieved their first goal and their next goal starts in five days.


You've got no clue. Gradey Dick is gonna be a top 10 pick in a few months and he's gonna absolutely excel in the NBA with the spacing that league will afford him. He's an excellent prospect.

He’s Fred Hoiberg.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Did you watch their last game against Texas? The other games this season where teams abused them on the boards and out physicaled them on defense. Grady Dick better come back next season to learn how to be a complete player because his game is soft and he’ll get annihilated in the NBA.

You see, this is how I know you don't know shit about basketball. Bill Self said Grady is not soft. He said he just needs to build some muscle. GTFO with that moronic take.

[Bearcat]

You would think "middle aged sports fan" would be a demographic that would understand the exhaustion of running up and down a court 3 games in a row for 90% of the game with nobody to take your place, when your own daily goals include putting underwear on while standing on one leg without losing balance and breaking a sweat on the treadmill at 3mph with a .5 incline..... but here we are.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

I think they were just gassed.

Yeah, it's what happens when you ask a team without a bench to play three games in three days at this time of the year and then also throwing in losing a guy who plays 35 minutes a game for you at the same time. Harris, in particular, looked like a player who worked his ass off all night last night chasing Kalscheur all over the court. It's hardly a surprise.

Fortunately, they aren't gonna have us playing 3 games in 3 days next week.

[Prison Bitch]

Harris was atrocious tonite

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Lzen

You see, this is how I know you don't know shit about basketball. Bill Self said Grady is not soft. He said he just needs to build some muscle. GTFO with that moronic take.

He absolutely refuses to move without the ball. He shrinks when defenses play him close and deny him the ball. He’s a soft player right now. He doesn’t have the tenacity Wilson has and he needs to return to school to learn that.

[RustShack]

Y’all went too hard just to beat Iowa State, didn’t leave anything in the tank for Texas.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

They should be a #1 over KU. They’ve pushed KU’s shit in 2 out of 3 games.

Maybe don’t lose more than Kansas and win the conference? Maybe don’t let TCU whip your ass when it mattered and you could have the 1 line and be a 1 seed. But they didn’t.

You’re being a whiney drama llama.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

He’s Fred Hoiberg.

Much bigger and miles more athletic than Fred Hoiberg ever was. Gradey Dick is putting up an even better season than Klay Thompson did as a freshman at WSU. There's a reason he's gonna go in the top 10 this year and it's not because scouts think he's gonna end up being Fred Hoiberg.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

He absolutely refuses to move without the ball. He shrinks when defenses play him close and deny him the ball. He’s a soft player right now. He doesn’t have the tenacity Wilson has and he needs to return to school to learn that.

You don’t pass up 10/11 pick in the draft for generational changing money to go back to Kansas and learn.

Not sure what’s worse. The loss to texas or these types of posts.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

He absolutely refuses to move without the ball. He shrinks when defenses play him close and deny him the ball. He’s a soft player right now. He doesn’t have the tenacity Wilson has and he needs to return to school to learn that.

What a bunch of no-nothing nonsense. Teams faceguard him all game and don't allow him to catch the ball and we often can't exploit that type of defense because we have very little shooting or spacing around him.

All of that goes away at the next level (teams can't faceguard anybody in the NBA and get away with it, the players are too good). He's gonna have all kinds of room to shoot and as good as his shot is, those shots are going to fall.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Y’all went too hard just to beat Iowa State, didn’t leave anything in the tank for Texas.

Sort of accurate actually. We did go pretty hard last night, especially Harris. It took a toll.

[Prison Bitch]

No pt even debating this but Dick has a specific skill set and a defined role in the NBA. A skill set which he’s already an NBA level talent. He wouldn’t improve his all round game coming back, nor would there be a point if he could