TT is good. Damn good. They embarrassed KU at the Phog. Recency bias makes us forget all that but we were playing well at the time and they housed us at our place. The wheels started to come off when Evans went down but he was back, albeit not at full strength.

WVU IMO exposed more than TT. But that’s probably a bullet that only gets fired once against a team like that. I doubt they’d let it happen again.
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On the rotation front, did Lightfoot sleep with Selfs daughter or what? You’d think he’d at least see A minute when doke was in trouble.
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Oofta. I looked at the numbers and Doke played 19, Silvio played 26, Garrett played 8. Everyone else was north of 40. Yikes.
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i don't believe self thought Lightfoot has the physicality to stop duke's frontcourt
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Obviously, but I figured he’d go with a couple possession look with 2 bigs at the very least. I guess not.
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Right now, the team is better with DeSousa in the game instead of Lightfoot. That’s clear to anyone who has watched KU play this year.
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I hope Lightfoot red shirts next year. He's a talented kid, and needs time in the weight room and more development. We should be stacked with bigs in 2018/19.
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The last two games have required more "lead in the pants" in the paint, than what Mitch can provide, at this point.
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I hope so too. I think he’ll benefit from being able to play a true stretch 4 someday. Having to play the 5 is a bad situation for him.

I see him long-term as a better Kevin Young, especially better as a shot blocker.
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You can say that about most teams, but the way this team hits 3s (and especially Svi), an open 3 is like a layup.
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It's not like they haven't given him multiple chances over the years. Hootie has been banned, re-instated, banned, re-instated, banned, and re-instated more times than I can count.

He always finds a way to get himself banned again, usually because he gets triggered over something and then he starts spamming the board with endless hysterical rants about how badly he is being treated.

I'm pretty sure the mods created The Romper Room just so Hootie would have a playground where he could post his hysterical rants without spamming the entire board. Even then, he managed to get himself banned yet again.

I like him as a poster because he makes some interesting points and he's obviously well-informed. He has nobody to blame but himself, but if you try telling him that, and you'll get bombarded with endless diatribes about how everyone mistreats him and everybody lies about him.
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I agree with pretty much everything except the part about Chalmers. Not true. He was known for clutch shots, for being the guy that wanted to take them. There was no question on the team who was that guy.
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Yeah I wouldn’t say Chalmers only hit one shot.

I remember him launching one from deep against USC in the non-con (I think it was OT too) to win that. Also, he hit a bunch of big shots against Texas in the Big 12 Championship game.
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The USC shot was abt the end of regulation to seal it.
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Didn't KU and Duke lose the same number of games going into the tourney?

Besides, teams with better talent lost all the time to inferior talent in the NCAA tournament. Talent isn't everything. Coaching, drive, experience, luck, etc. all determine how teams do in the tourney.
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