**** OFFICIAL 2012-2013 Kansas Basketball Repository Thread ****

[ArrowheadHawk]

#1 Seed South Region (31-5,14-4,5-0)

Roster

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1 Naadir Tharpe Guard 5-11 170 So.
2 Rio Adams Guard 6-3 190 Fr.
3 Andrew White III Guard 6-6 210 Fr.
4 Justin Wesley Forward 6-9 220 RS Jr.
5 Jeff Withey Center 7-0 235 RS Sr.
10 Evan Manning Guard 6-3 170 Fr.
11 Tyler Self Guard 6-2 165 Fr.
15 Elijah Johnson Guard 6-4 195 Sr.
20 Niko Roberts Guard 5-11 175 Jr.
21 Christian Garrett Guard 6-3 185 So.
23 Ben McLemore Guard 6-5 195 RS Fr.
24 Travis Releford Guard 6-6 210 RS Sr.
31 Jamari Traylor Forward 6-8 220 RS Fr.
32 Zach Peters Forward 6-9 240 Fr.
33 Landen Lucas Forward 6-10 240 Fr.
34 Perry Ellis Forward 6-8 225 Fr.
40 Kevin Young Forward 6-8 190 Sr.

Non-Con Schedule

Spoiler!

Fri, Nov. 9 SE Missouri State at Kansas (W 74-55)
Tue, Nov. 13 Michigan St. at Kansas Atlanta, Ga. (L 64-67)
Thu, Nov. 15 UTC at Kansas (W 69-55)
Mon, Nov. 19 Washington State at Kansas Sprint Center (W 78-41)
Tue, Nov. 20 St. Louis at Kansas Sprint Center (W 73-59)
Mon, Nov. 26 SJSU at Kansas (W 70-57)
Fri, Nov. 30 Oregon State at Kansas (W 84-78)
Sat, Dec. 8 Colorado at Kansas (W 90-54)
Sat, Dec. 15 Belmont at Kansas (W 89-60)
Tue, Dec. 18 Richmond at Kansas (W 87-59)
Sat, Dec. 22 Kansas at Ohio St. (W 74-66)
Sat, Dec. 29 American at Kansas (W 89-57)
Sun, Jan. 6 Temple at Kansas (W 69-62)

Conference Schedule

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Wed, Jan. 9 Iowa State at Kansas (W 97-89 )
Sat, Jan. 12 Kansas at TT (W 60-46)
Mon, Jan. 14 Baylor at Kansas (W 61-44)
Sat, Jan. 19 Kansas at Texas (W 64-59)
Tue, Jan. 22 Kansas at Kansas State (W 59-55)
Sat, Jan. 26 Oklahoma at Kansas (W 67-54)
Mon, Jan. 28 Kansas at West Virginia (W 61-56)
Sat, Feb. 2 Okla. St. at Kansas (L 80-85)
Wed, Feb. 6 Kansas at TCU (L 55-62)
Sat, Feb. 9 Kansas at Oklahoma (L 66-72)
Mon, Feb. 11 Kansas State at Kansas (W 83-62)
Sat, Feb. 16 Texas at Kansas (W 73-47)
Wed, Feb. 20 Kansas at Okla. St. (W 68-67)
Sat, Feb. 23 TCU at Kansas (W 74-48)
Mon, Feb. 25 Kansas at Iowa State (W 108-96)
Sat, March 2 West Virginia at Kansas (W 91-65)
Mon, March 4 TT at Kansas (W 79-42)
Sat, March 9 Kansas at Baylor (L 58-81)

Post Season
Thu, March 14 TT at Kansas (W 91-63)
Fri, March 15 Iowa State at Kansas (W 88-73)
Sat, March 15 Kansas State at Kansas (W 70-54)
Fri, March 22 (16)Western Kentucky vs (1)Kansas (W 64-57)
Sun, March 24 (8)UNC vs (1)Kansas (W 70-58)
Fri, March 29 (4)Michigan at (1)Kansas Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX 6:37PM

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Lzen

I'll bet it will be a surprise to certain KU fans (Laz).

Reasonable KU fans.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/web..._on_3p_defense



KU's been the best by far at 2PT defense over the last five years. Pomeroy also shows that they've been 7th best at 3PT defense over that time as well (although that's mostly a product of their 2 PT defense). His old conclusion about defenses having much more impact on 2PT% than 3PT% doesn't change in this analysis, though.

Basically, if you're a team that wants to upset KU, you'd be best served to just about a bunch of threes and hope for the best (or just hope they're sleepwalking like at TCU). But that shouldn't be much of a surprise to anybody here.

I would shoot threes and try to get Withey out of the lane. Even when he doesn't block the shots, he makes the shooters look stupid by throwing up ridiculous trash hoping to avoid the block.

It really is weird watching teams attack him. Maybe he just doesn't look that imposing on the court. Maybe it's because he's white. Whatever it is, guards continue to attack him, and they lose that battle almost every time. When they do actually score over/around him, it generally looks like a lucky shot just happened to fall. It's never something that you watch and think, "they should keep attacking because that shot is there". It's more like, "he got away with one there".

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I would shoot threes and try to get Withey out of the lane. Even when he doesn't block the shots, he makes the shooters look stupid by throwing up ridiculous trash hoping to avoid the block.

It really is weird watching teams attack him. Maybe he just doesn't look that imposing on the court. Maybe it's because he's white. Whatever it is, guards continue to attack him, and they lose that battle almost every time. When they do actually score over/around him, it generally looks like a lucky shot just happened to fall. It's never something that you watch and think, "they should keep attacking because that shot is there". It's more like, "he got away with one there".

For the most part, ISU and OSU did that in the games they played (well except when Smart took it to the rim and dunked right on Withey...but that only works if you're ridiculously built and athletic like Marcus Smart). Both shot a ton of threes and tried to get Withey out of the lane (and for the most part, it worked...they both made a lot of shots).

It's really the only way to play Kansas. I don't quite understand why teams like Baylor and KSU haven't picked up on that. Might be the coaching or it might be that players are just too undisciplined on a lot of these teams to do it. Also, I guess you've got to have the right personnel as well (some bigs just aren't comfortable playing on the perimeter offensively, which is necessary to bring Withey out).

[the Talking Can]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Basically, if you're a team that wants to upset KU, you'd be best served to just jack up a bunch of threes and hope for the best (or just hope they're sleepwalking like at TCU). But that shouldn't be much of a surprise to anybody here.

one word summarizes this: Vealy-ed

[KC_Connection]

Looks like Rio Adams missed the bus to Stillwater and now is going off on Self/the team/his position on the team: https://twitter.com/RealAnrioAdams2

2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
Alot of Hype can get you far I see it every time someone makes it and gets far...
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11 mins 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
Haha this is funny I tweet and its direct towards my team and KU give me a break if I feel I need to say something about my team ill say it
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21 mins 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
It's 2 Late Now....
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23 mins 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
There's no question that I would of been getting mad minutes anywhere else in America people its a #FACT..
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25 mins 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
All I was Tryna show this man is he had a guy that will take 50bullets for him but he's blinded by his favorites...
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33 mins 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
I just wanna be happy and play ball
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44 mins 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
It's tough....
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45 mins 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
Yeah the situation I'm in is great and all but it's obvious they want me to quit...
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4 hrs 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
I laugh y'all off ...
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4 hrs 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
I'm more exclusive then you see and think I am
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4 hrs 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
@RMoore206 you got the rite #??
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5 hrs 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
I'm a dude that's focused on so many other things...
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5 hrs 2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
I'm looking for a buss down..

Pretty funny stuff.

[Ceej]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Looks like Rio Adams missed the bus to Stillwater and now is going off on Self/the team/his position on the team: https://twitter.com/RealAnrioAdams2

Pretty funny stuff.

That was pretty hard to read.

[silver5liter]

What an absolute idiot...

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by CJizzles

That was pretty hard to read.

I should probably also post them directly in the thread...as I'm sure they'll be deleted whenever Self finds out (which should be soon).

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Looks like Rio Adams missed the bus to Stillwater and now is going off on Self/the team/his position on the team: https://twitter.com/RealAnrioAdams2

Pretty funny stuff.

2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2 Yeah the situation I'm in is great and all but it's obvious they want me to quit...


2Easy ‏@RealAnrioAdams2
There's no question that I would of been getting mad minutes anywhere else in America people its a #FACT..






Sure thing little buddy. Does Washburn need a player?

[KC_Connection]

On the bright side, tonight it looks like we won't have to deal with the one mistake that he makes when Self rather generously plays him for that 1 minute at the end of the first half (or perhaps any other night for the rest of the season).

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

You are kidding yourself if you thought "Hey, he's a MCDAA - he's going to start and be awesome as a freshman." He's a freshman playing at KU. He's obviously had some struggles, but he's still the 1st big off the bench.

Without looking, I'd bet you can count on 1 hand how many freshman have started the majority of their freshman season for Self. Freshman bigs even less.

This doesn't mean anything.

In recent history other than the 06 recruiting class w/ Chalmers, Rush etc. there has usually been an established player already in the starters role.

The #4 spot has been literally wide open for taking....and Ellis simply has not been able to transition from the slower HS game to the much quicker bigger faster, stronger NCAA KU-level type of play.

I hope to God he changes overnight during the summer or something and comes back next season being all big12 or something. But it ain't happening. He's a boy playing w/ a bunch of men out there and it's completely obvious.

Young isn't anything special. He can't shoot, he has athleticism that carries him a little bit but he's not a scorer, if he gets fouled and gets to the line he can't make free throws. He's a tweener, just another body. I will say he plays good defense at times. But Ellis, couldn't even beat out someone that probably should be coming off the bench in certain situations.

[Ceej]

Is it safe to say goodbye Anrio Adams?

[KC_Connection]

He already deleted the Self blinded by favorites tweet. Guess he thought that one was too much.

[the Talking Can]

well, it was probably inevitable with adams...every freshman at KU has a moment where he thinks about quitting...Self humbles them on purpose


truth is we'll probably get a better recruit to take his place...

[Mr_Tomahawk]