Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Maybe, but if they do it won't be because of anything that happened in this game without one of their best players.
No, it will be because every player besides one on this team is mentally soft and nobody on this team thinks rebounding is important. Texas is a better team up and down and any tough defensive team that has a couple of players that can move without the ball is going to throttle KU. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJay23:
Yes, the post season tournament is only meaningful to teams vying to get into the tournament on an auto bid or make a splash on a resume they couldn't build over a 40 game regular season.
It's pretty annoying listening to media types say the winner of this game is the Big XII champion too.
Missouri was the "B12 Champion" in 2012 too. Look how much that did for them 5 days later.
Originally Posted by DJay23:
Yes, the post season tournament is only meaningful to teams vying to get into the tournament on an auto bid or make a splash on a resume they couldn't build over a 40 game regular season.
It's pretty annoying listening to media types say the winner of this game is the Big XII champion too.
It won't be that annoying this year. They whopped our *** twice, they legitimately deserve to be called champions. [Reply]
Originally Posted by LoneWolf:
No, it will be because every player besides one on this team is mentally soft and nobody on this team thinks rebounding is important. Texas is a better team up and down and any tough defensive team that has a couple of players that can move without the ball is going to throttle KU.
KU won the best and most physical conference in the country without a bench and primarily through their defense. They're the furthest thing from soft there is.
Looking at a game where they clearly didn't try and were also missing their defensive anchor as some kind of sign of things to come is bizarre. [Reply]
Not at all. I’ve watched every game this year. They are a soft team. They are lucky to have the record they have. This just feels like a 1-1 team in the tournament. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
It's pretty meaningless. I couldn't tell you how many of these we won in the last two decades and I doubt anybody else could either. Our season gets decided a week from now, not here after 3 days of basketball without a bench.
That's true and I think we should all keep this in perspective. It's just really annoying to watch this pathetic effort. And fuck Texas! I hope they lose the first weekend. [Reply]
Originally Posted by LoneWolf:
They are lucky to have the record they have.
The only thing you've said here that actually makes sense. They've won a ton of close games this year, which is either a sign of luck or a sign that they have players come through in big moments.
I'd suggest given the experience of two of them winning a NC a year ago, it's more of the latter than the former. [Reply]