**** OFFICIAL MIZZOU vs Marquette NCAA Round 2 Game Thread ****

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

No.

Most truly top level recruits do not want to play the kind of basketball that Anderson preaches. They don't want to play in a motion offense. They want to slackass on defense, get fed the ball every possession, isolate and drive, or shoot jumpers.

Think about Nolan Richardson's Arkansas teams. Who was the best player to ever come from there? Todd Day? Corliss Williamson? Oliver Miller's fatass? None of those guys were transcendental athletes by any stretch of the imagination.

Missouri will never out-recruit Self at KU. We'll never even have the level of talent that we had with Quin's first few classes, or Norm's better ones. But we will have teams that play much better as a team.

Now that you mention it, we ran into Richardson's "40 minutes of hell" in 1990. I think it was the regional finals. We had just moved freshman Adonis Jordan to point guard. KU proceeded to run Arkansas off the court. "Fatass" Oliver Miller didn't even go to the offensive end of the court the last few minutes. They thought throwing long passes equaled playing fast. They found out different. KU doesn't worry about 40 minutes of hell. Been there done that.