Can't believe the team Self has now compared to last year's.

Night and ****ing day.

Yeah, it is a complete overhaul. It needed it.

Yup it's literally 2 tournament teams put into 1.

I need Fall to hurry up and get here. Only having the Royals on sucks.

I need Chiefs football and KU basketball. I feel pretty confident one of my teams will win a title this year.

I think Marcus Garrett made a mistake not coming back. I'd love to see him at the 2 and 3 with this group

While your comments and statistics are valid, this team is loaded! Anything short of a Championship title game appearance is a colossal failure!

While we may miss his Defense, his limited offense won't be missed.

Agreed. He was great two years ago when we were absolutely elite defensively. When we’re not great defensively (which we won’t be), it’s probably better to just load up offensively and outscore everyone.

He would give us more balance, but probably keep us from having an elite offense and wouldn’t elevate us to an elite defense.

From a technical perspective, sure.

But I miss the guy. Dude had want-to, played hard, played in big moments. Nothing to fault with Marcus Garrett. But yeah, he was limited offensively.

He always gave you 100%. But, he should never have been the point guard. We need to score. The team clears out to the edges and the plan is for Garrett, alone, to drive and beat the defense? Thats a very low point in this era.

Agreed. Garret was never a good fit at PG. Much better as a 2 or 3, IMO.

I used to think that way but it's hard to control results in the NCAA Tournament. I feel like if you go to the Final Four it's always a successful season no matter what.

He's like Ben Simmons. It kills your spacing offensively. Coaches love him, and he has value but in today's game I'm not sure it's as much as Bill thinks it is.

I'll admit. I expected more from him at the PG. He showed good passing acumen in the years before and was a PG in high school - it just didn't come together for him. Without Doke and Dot his assist numbers actually dropped his JR year from 4.6 to 3.7 his SR year when he was given much more minutes at PG. I guess having to play with one-dimensional players in Bruan and Agbaji and more of a plodding bigman in McCormack took it's toll.

I'll take Ben Simmons all day, every day as an off-ball 3rd or 4th offensive option on a team. You run into problems when he becomes a top scoring option, which is what Garrett last year became by default.