Will update as people declare for the draft/transfer/commit
ROSTER:
Spoiler!
RETURNING PLAYERS
G Devonte Graham - Sr.
F Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk - Sr.
G Malik Newman - Jr.
G Legerald Vick - Jr.
F Udoka Azubuike - soph.
F Mitch Lightfoot - soph
INCOMING PLAYERS
F Billy Preston - Fr.
6'9" - 240 lb
G Sam Cunliffe - Soph (eligible after first semester)
6'6" - 200 lb
BONUS:
His sister:
G Marcus Garrett - Fr.
6'5" - 180lb
F Jack Whitman - SR.
6'9" - 220 lb
BYE BYE
Frank Mason, National player of the year
Landen Lucas, chased a rebound all the way to Europe
Josh Jackson, Can't wait to be a Boston Celtic Phoenix Sun.
Carlton Bragg, Crazy bitch antics
Dwight Coleby, Transfers gonna transfer, good luck.
UPDATE: Important new dates:
Kansas 2017 Summer Tour - Italy
Spoiler!
Originally Posted by : Wednesday, August 2, 6:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. Central)
Kansas vs. Stella Azzurra, HSC (Rome)
Thursday, August 3, 6:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. Central)
Kansas vs. Players Group, HSC (Rome)
Saturday, August 5, 7 p.m. (Noon Central)
Kansas vs. Players Group, PalaSport Enrico Somaschini
Sunday, August 6, 7 p.m. (Noon Central)
Kansas vs. Italy All Star A2, PalaSport Enrico Somaschini
Originally Posted by Scooter Libby:
I'm at the Creighton/Baylor game
You guys will best Baylor by 20 easily. They play such a lazy zone D.
Good thing Squeeks ran off Foster. He's a hell of a player.
You were saying? Showing some grit in this comeback against Creighton. Really clamped down on defense in the 2nd half. Scott Drew is a sneaky good coach. He's starting to earn his chops. Can't figure out how to beat Bill Self, but he's certainly improved as a coach throughout his tenure. He has less talent than ever before, and the best he's ever been. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
You were saying? Showing some grit in this comeback against Creighton. Really clamped down on defense in the 2nd half. Scott Drew is a sneaky good coach. He's starting to earn his chops. Can't figure out how to beat Bill Self, but he's certainly improved as a coach throughout his tenure. He has less talent than ever before, and the best he's ever been.
Creighton couldnt make any 3s and KU's bigs are much better than Creightons. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
He wasn't. He was a Top 75 or Top 100 depending on the service. Looks pretty good this game. Good shot blocker. Athletic. Has no basketball skills and hands of stone, though. Reminds me alot of Jamari Traylor. Needs to work on that sweeping drive to the basket like Jamari developed.
Traylor was a better player than he gets credit for. The D would invariably go to shit when he went out and he was the only idiot on the team that could distribute from the middle in zone.
With his body he should have been a better player. But he was better than he gets credit for.
I for one wish Self would have ran a zone press more. With Traylor on the front of it, it was scary.
Originally Posted by DanBecky:
Dok just murdered that center. jesus.
Originally Posted by Pants:
Doke just murdered him. RIP Trayvon Reed.
Originally Posted by Pablo:
That was just a brutal assault on his soul. Totally made him his bitch.
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Udoka ended that guy's career on that dunk. There's no coming back from that for him, needs to retire at half.
Originally Posted by BWillie:
That was an amazing play. Doke is just a big due and really works for the ball. He takes himself out of the play quite a bit trying to block shots he has no shot at, which I think is the only reason he hasn't rebounded well this year.
God damnit you motherfuckers. I had to miss the game and I see this and no clip of it?!? [Reply]
Originally Posted by CoMoChief:
Well thats a kick in the nuts if true
It's probably just KK trash.
He sit's on an awfully high pedestal. Didn't he cheat on his wife with an intern (or babysitter) in a parking lot? I can't remember the exact details. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Traylor was a better player than he gets credit for. The D would invariably go to shit when he went out and he was the only idiot on the team that could distribute from the middle in zone.
With his body he should have been a better player. But he was better than he gets credit for.
I for one wish Self would have ran a zone press more. With Traylor on the front of it, it was scary.
Besides that, Lightfoot has none of this:
Traylor was a frustrating player to watch. At times, he would look like a stud, making plays all over the place. Inevitably, he would then make a few boneheaded plays, even as an upperclassman. [Reply]
l told you guys when this happened that my buddy who is a Uber KU fan said the reason KU suspended Preston was that he couldn't produce paperwork that he owned the car. He didn't say he borrowed it, was loaned to him etc. he owned it.
Preston and every other college player needs to get a better story where the car came from before questions are asked.
i could care less is some alumni gave him a car. But, get your story straight from the start. And get someone to "find" the paperwork ASAP. [Reply]
Ok. Help me out on the math here. Is it problematic it was bought in Florida and registered in TX? That doesn’t seem too damning from my perspective. Problem is he can’t prove who bought it right?
To me that’s better than some asshat dealership in Lawrence doing it.
Is it possible the car came from an agency or something unrelated to KU? I know that’s a pipe dream and all, but it’s not just universities giving kids shit.
Originally Posted by Lzen:
Traylor was a frustrating player to watch. At times, he would look like a stud, making plays all over the place. Inevitably, he would then make a few boneheaded plays, even as an upperclassman.
Right. And that’s what he will always be known for but I’m telling you everything went to shit when he came out. Especially defensively. And I’m sitting there thinking to myself, how can this be? He doesn’t have any length that anyone is afraid of, and his hops are usually late but more importantly he was doing NOTHING. Obviously he was doing something because it would go to shit when he’d hit the bench. That’s why he got so many minutes.
It took me a long time to get there, but I had to accept we weren’t going to get anything out of the position (save some passes and putbacks) but that’s what we have to have because everything went to fuck without him. [Reply]
As for the game last night, anyone in Kansas who doesn't live in KC and doesn't have Cox can't get those Jayhawk Network games. I use a VPN on either my phone of my laptop. Thing is, I can Chromecast it from my laptop to my TV. But when I try to Chromecast from my phone to my TV, ESPN blocks it. WTH? Any ideas? I would rather cast from my phone because the quality is better. [Reply]