KU ***** Official 2018-2019 Kansas Basketball Repository Thread ***** - Page 172

Bad job from Self this season... had a top recruiting class and still got clowned.
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Originally Posted by Al Bundy:
Bad job from Self this season... had a top recruiting class and still got clowned.

At least he didn't lose to a Bucknell,Bradley,Northern Iowa,VCU or Wichita State
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Great job by Self to overcome losing 3 main players & fielding 4 freshmen. Hope KU can keep some of the young key players. They will reload for next year. They always do.
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Originally Posted by Nzoner:
At least he didn't lose to a Bucknell,Bradley,Northern Iowa,VCU or Wichita State

All of the Elite Eights and trips to the Final Four are fun though. :-)
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Originally Posted by Nzoner:
At least he didn't lose to a Bucknell,Bradley,Northern Iowa,VCU or Wichita State

At least he makes the tourney. If he didn�t you wouldn�t have anything to gloat about.
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That Auburn team is a bitch and a half to play.

The entire roster is willing to just rain shots from everywhere. And they don't have a conscious. They'll just keep kicking the ball around, spreading you out and bombing away. And every damn game they'll have a 15 minute stretch where they can't miss.

Most days they'll also have a 10 minute stretch where there's a lid on the basket and that's when you beat them. But if that doesn't happen, they'll just bomb you into submission.

I saw that as a likely matchup for KU and suddenly didn't care anymore that the NCAA gifted them a home game in the Sweet 16 because I was pretty sure they weren't getting there. That's a tough team to match up against who can simply beat anyone on any given night. They have no chance to win it all because they don't have a plan B and sooner or later they'll go cold. The tournament is full of teams like that every year. Auburn's just an extreme version of them.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
That Auburn team is a bitch and a half to play.

The entire roster is willing to just rain shots from everywhere. And they don't have a conscious. They'll just keep kicking the ball around, spreading you out and bombing away. And every damn game they'll have a 15 minute stretch where they can't miss.

Most days they'll also have a 10 minute stretch where there's a lid on the basket and that's when you beat them. But if that doesn't happen, they'll just bomb you into submission.

I saw that as a likely matchup for KU and suddenly didn't care anymore that the NCAA gifted them a home game in the Sweet 16 because I was pretty sure they weren't getting there. That's a tough team to match up against who can simply beat anyone on any given night. They have no chance to win it all because they don't have a plan B and sooner or later they'll go cold. The tournament is full of teams like that every year. Auburn's just an extreme version of them.

So you're saying they're Villanova on steroids?
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I was telling someone yesterday (before the KU game), moving the line back seems far overdue.... it wouldn't fix some of the more annoying aspects of the game, like terrible shot selection with 22 seconds left on the shot clock, but watching a team shoot 30 threes a game is like watching NFL offenses fly up and down the field with little resistance.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat:
I was telling someone yesterday (before the KU game), moving the line back seems far overdue.... it wouldn't fix some of the more annoying aspects of the game, like terrible shot selection with 22 seconds left on the shot clock, but watching a team shoot 30 threes a game is like watching NFL offenses fly up and down the field with little resistance.

I've been saying that for years.

It's shorter than the WNBA 3-point line, FFS.

At least push it to the WNBA/FIBA range.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat:
I was telling someone yesterday (before the KU game), moving the line back seems far overdue.... it wouldn't fix some of the more annoying aspects of the game, like terrible shot selection with 22 seconds left on the shot clock, but watching a team shoot 30 threes a game is like watching NFL offenses fly up and down the field with little resistance.

If you could defend the 3. Then a team wouldn�t have an opportunity to chuck 30 a game up. And make halfback of them.
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Originally Posted by Reerun_KC:
If you could defend the 3. Then a team wouldn�t have an opportunity to chuck 30 a game up. And make halfback of them.

When you just have to ask.

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Originally Posted by CoMoChief:
This was a young team that gets pretty rattled when teams start draining 3's on them.

It's almost like they just give up.

And the bigger problem is, unlike teams of the past, this team is so bad offensively talent wise, they can't shoot themselves back into a game or keep up pace w/ the hotter shooting team. That's why we saw them get blown out a lot this season a lot more times compared to teams of the past. KU got worked this yr......a lot (by their standards).

And really the way Auburn was shooting the first half, KU would have had Graham and Svi and it may not have mattered. Maybe they wouldn't have been up by as much, but KU also couldn't stop shit at the same time, even in 2nd half.

I’d like to think that If Graham was out there he’d do more to rally the troops in getting back in transition, try to get in some passing lanes, try to strip some guys on the way up or something to make a difference defensively.

Not many teams can beat Auburn if they play that well, which is unlikely, but it was still a bad matchup for the slow ass roster KU is fielding. But there was also a failure of on-court leadership to do something to alter the flow of the game in the first half.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat:
I was telling someone yesterday (before the KU game), moving the line back seems far overdue.... it wouldn't fix some of the more annoying aspects of the game, like terrible shot selection with 22 seconds left on the shot clock, but watching a team shoot 30 threes a game is like watching NFL offenses fly up and down the field with little resistance.

That cuts both ways tho. Last year E8 Dook fires up a tidy 6-25 from deep in their OT loss to us. When they had the best player in the country getting only 10 shots in the post. Teams can live by the 3 but they can also die
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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch:
That cuts both ways tho. Last year E8 Dook fires up a tidy 6-25 from deep in their OT loss to us. When they had the best player in the country getting only 10 shots in the post. Teams can live by the 3 but they can also die

That was great that Coach K kept trying to get Grayson to shoot guarded shots instead of getting it to Bagley or Carter. Bless his heart.
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If they�d gone 8-25 instead and won, our fans would be screaming about how we �don�t defend the 3�. In the tourney you can�t defend everything, you have to choose. Self chose to defend Bagley and it worked. Cal defended that 3-pt shooter for Wofford yesterday. (Not sure what we defended yesterday but that�s not worth even discussing)
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