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***** Official '23/'24 KU Men's Basketball Repository Thread *****
The Team:
https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/ The Schedule: https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/schedule/ |
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03-11-2024, 10:14 PM | #3661 | |
Perpetual Mediocrity
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Dickinson, McCullar, Harris, and KJ don't have that kind of track record to simply make the assumption that they'll just enormously raise their game in a week and a half. It does however remain a possibility though and I'll take that. |
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03-11-2024, 10:19 PM | #3662 | |
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But this team has too many HUGE warts.... Turnovers Offense that has only 2 scorers Shit defense that leaves wide open 3s Free throw % Those warts have been there all season. Expecting to change during the tourney is wishful thinking. |
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03-11-2024, 10:25 PM | #3663 | |
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The biggest issue of all for this team is always when Timberlake, Elmarko or Braun step foot on the court, which unfortunately by necessity happens quite often. |
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03-11-2024, 11:19 PM | #3664 | |
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Totally spot on with your second....Just a garbage bench. |
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03-12-2024, 09:18 AM | #3665 | |
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Harris McNeeley Adams Dickinson Bidunga Passmore Philon McDowell I've heard that Elmarko plans to transfer and Furphy is probably going to the draft, so I'm not including them. But if Furphy stays, bonus. Passmore might be the best athlete KU's had in years and can also shoot. Bidunga is the highest-rated recruit KU's landed since Josh Jackson. McNeeley's an amazing shooter. Probably better than Dick. Find an experienced guard who can shoot, and maybe a wing, and that roster's looking as good as any in years. |
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03-12-2024, 09:23 AM | #3666 | |
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If you're 3-1 vs 1 seeds, your ceiling isn't the Sweet 16. That's crazy. I won't be surprised at all if that's where they lose, but it's not the ceiling. |
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03-12-2024, 09:37 AM | #3667 | |
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03-12-2024, 09:43 AM | #3668 |
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anybody want a couple free tickets to the early session tomorrow? I'm going to make like $7 for the pair off what I have them listed on stubhub for...
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03-12-2024, 10:24 AM | #3669 |
In Search of a Life
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03-12-2024, 10:41 AM | #3670 |
Has a particular set of skills
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Flip the switch and go on a run sounds good. They have looked like world beaters in some games on the road. So they have it in them.
But, we have all seen the horrible effort at times. I hope it’s not an early exit but the flip the switch theory prevails. Be a lot more fun to watch. |
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03-12-2024, 10:43 AM | #3671 | |
Would an idiot do that?
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And they aren't playing a 1 seed in a week and a half. There's also a lot that goes into the Chiefs ****ing around and finding out in the regular season... rotating 8 receivers, giving CEH more snaps to save Pacheco, holding back plays for the postseason. And they adjust ALL of that, plus ramp up their intensity... and they aren't going to run into a 12 seed in the WC round that can knock them off. Starters will obviously play as many minutes as possible... that's like the one magic formula difference they have, at least until an injury flares up or they get into a bit of foul trouble. And you know every team they play will be focusing on getting them into foul trouble. And then games get tight to some 11 seed that they're trying to stay focused on after ****ing around for 3 months and having 2 weeks off, and how much mental fortitude have they shown in the past few months to handle it. If anything, I might compare them to those UConn teams that would finish 10-8 in conference and win the tourney, but don't know a ton about them... if they underperformed in the regular season or just played god mode in the tournament, had easy paths, etc. At some point though it turns from a Mahomes team that just happened to **** around in the regular season to pointing out how an Alex Smith team beat the Patriots in September and that should be the postseason barometer. |
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03-12-2024, 10:47 AM | #3672 | |
Would an idiot do that?
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They've completely blown ass in true road games... their best road wins are what, Indiana and OU? Because after that I think it's OSU... yikes. |
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03-12-2024, 11:02 AM | #3673 |
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We'll see how it plays out, but I'm not sure he would leave in that scenario.
But if it does come to that, you have to ask yourself if you're better off with one year of Bidunga or a 5th year from Dickinson. I highly doubt Bidunga is going to be more productive in that one year. |
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03-12-2024, 11:37 AM | #3674 |
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03-12-2024, 11:40 AM | #3675 | |
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I wouldn't be too surprised if we find out in a week's time that neither one has even practiced yet. |
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