***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/

[RaidersOftheCellar]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

“They’re so much better than us.”
- Bill Self pic.twitter.com/Os8ukweHyG

— Eric Steyer (@EricSteyer) January 24, 2023

I'm pretty sure that's not what he said.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Of course Udeh and Rice are bad. They haven't been given adequate minutes early in the year. Some players learn by actually doing it. Some can learn in practice. It's always been one of Selfs weaknesses. He wants to win every single minute, every single second compared to playing a guy through mistakes. And now its too late. You have to play Adams way too many minutes and watch Yesefu throw up bricks.

I think Rice would’ve been given minutes though. He just had several flukey things happen that prevented it early. Now, it’s probably too late.

Hope he understands what another year at Kansas could mean and doesn’t get frustrated. He wouldn’t get drafted, but it’s easy for us to see.

[Prison Bitch]

Sagarin has Kentucky -0.04 over KU.

Official line isn’t out

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Rupp is a tough environment, esp for a freshman. Dick needs to show balls

Yeah and these shittin kitten fans here are obnoxious as hell about this meeting Saturday

Hope get our of our funk!

[BWillie]

Bill is going to need to play Zuby alot in this game. Tschwiebewaywaywayawhatever is going to feast on the glass and KJ can't rebound. Zuby isn't great right now but at least he can rebound.

KJ Adams, our center, is 9th on the team in rebounds per 40 minutes. This goes without saying, is not good.

[ROYC75]

I feeling like I'm being watched over!





Shit. I'm sideways!

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by ROYC75

I feeling like I'm being watched over!





Shit. I'm sideways!

Jayhawked up :clap clap:

[ROYC75]

I walked into a Kroger store today and literally people were booing at me! LOL

[SithCeNtZ]

Originally Posted by Meatloaf

Really nice assessment, Sith, and you do make a good point. However, do you not feel that "something" is kinda off with him? I can't put my finger on it, but he just doesn't seem as assertive now as he was in prior games. Of course your take, that the guys around him ain't doing it, seems valid too. Hmmm.....

I didn't get in to him defensively because I didn't want to make my post even longer than it was, but he draws energy from being good on defense. I think we can all see that. The problem is when other guys around him aren't playing well defensively, so much of what he can bring doesn't happen. Their screen and roll defense has been pretty bad the last few games, and as has been noted they can't stop anyone inside, even an injured center that can barely walk. This allows teams to scheme him out by attacking Wilson/dick/any backup center we have on those pick and rolls and attacking anyone inside with post ups. Harris could be in his prime Gary Payton and it doesn't matter, he can't erase everything.

Where he's at his best is early in the season and last year when he can essentially play more of a free safety role and jump passing lanes and surprise people with double teams. For that to happen, he needs the wings to hold up well on the perimeter and force them to make lots of contested passes, increasing the odds that he can get a steal or deflection. It also leads to more long shot clock possessions where his guy might get the ball with 6 seconds left and he can attack defensively, knowing he has no other options than to try and score. We saw him really excel last year because we didn't have any easy things to exploit defensively and Agbaji and Braun could obviously hold their own against anyone. Early on the wings were doing that, but lately they haven't been. But just watch, when we have a great defensive effort all the way around, you'll see him bounce back and be more of himself. This UK team is pretty weak on the perimeter so there's hope it can happen tonight.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Not going to lie...after the weekend last year and those cousin ****er Bengal/Wildcats fans in KC last year...beat their ass ku

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother

Not going to lie...after the weekend last year and those cousin ****er Bengal/Wildcats fans in KC last year...beat their ass ku

Whoa..you've finally come to your senses.

With this blessing I'm gonna call a KU victory 74-70. And a Chiefs victory 35-27.

So it is written. So it shall be done.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Whoa..you've finally come to your senses.

With this blessing I'm gonna call a KU victory 74-70. And a Chiefs victory 35-27.

So it is written. So it shall be done.

Seeing those bandwagon sack of shits celebrate at Arrowhead and the thought of it happening again changes a man

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother

Not going to lie...after the weekend last year and those cousin ****er Bengal/Wildcats fans in KC last year...beat their ass ku

Ditto. Kill them.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Whoa..you've finally come to your senses.

With this blessing I'm gonna call a KU victory 74-70. And a Chiefs victory 35-27.

So it is written. So it shall be done.

Last year we got sand blasted by Kentucky then blew the AFC Title. I was like welp, there goes my fandom title hopes until next Feb

[ROYC75]

So far, playing timid!