Name That Recap
I can recap that game in five lines:
1) Bradley, points per 100 possessions vs. DePaul: 121
2) Northwestern, points per 100 possessions vs. DePaul: 109
3) Kentucky, points per 100 possessions vs. DePaul: 127
4) Purdue, points per 100 possessions vs. DePaul: 106
5) Kansas, points per 100 possessions vs. DePaul: 90
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December 2nd, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I can recap that game in 1 word:
Choke
December 3rd, 2006 at 6:24 am
I was hoping ORU was a fluke, but this is starting to look like last season’s inconsistency. At what point do other excuses and justifications run out and questions about coaching start being asked. With each loss like this, Self reminds me more of Danny Nee, who was an outstanding recruiter, but could never get his assembled talent to play as a team. Maybe they should have waited a few months on that contract extension…
My prediction for the season? After yesterday, I’m thinking 19-13 might be realistic.
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Bill Self needs a new zone offense. We need to penetrate and then kick out, rather than just pass it around the perimiter.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:30 am
If this team needs a kick in the ass every week to remind them that they need to play hard every minute of every game…..that doesn’t bode well for a pretty important 3 week tournament that happens at the end of every season.
And people have talked about Self not being a great coach, but when you read that at halftime and early in the 2nd half he was telling his guys that DePaul is a 2nd half team, and they still don’t pay attention, what more can Self do?
KU was destroying DePaul with the dribble penetration (much like they did to Florida). When DePaul took that away, it was a terrible thing to watch.
December 4th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
well, Self is a great recruiter. as for being a good coach or not, im still undecided. I think he waits way to long to take timeouts during runs by the opponent and i think he needs to do a little better with in-game adjustments. i dont know about the depaul game, but in the Oral Roberts game i think we got outcoached.
December 4th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Don’t sweat the Depaul loss. Every team loses and young teams lose disproportionately more. We had the game in hand until Depaul got incredibly hot and we got, well, extremely tentative.
We were waiting for the game to end and all of a sudden they hit 5-6 shots out of 7 and we were down and not ready to face that kind of a situation.
It’s not on Self, who insisted that Depaul needed to be taken seriously. It’s just what happens every once in a while when you have a bunch of freshmen and sophomores trying to lead your team.
We’ll get better as the year goes on, just as we did last year.
Irritating? Yes. Devastating? No way.
December 4th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Nice, Florida loses on the road to a lesser opponent from a major conference and drops 3 places in the AP. KU does the same and drops 7 places.
Voters, this is a new season. Stop giving Florida votes based on 6 straight wins last season.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
the difference? Brewer missed the game and Noah was not his usual spastic self due to mono. Also, Florida pretty much trailed throughout to an in-state rival, while KU blew a 10-point lead late in the second half.
On the whole, I agree KU has a Rodney Dangerfield problem most of the time, but right after the second embarrassing loss of the season is not the right time to play that card.
How is it that a month into the season, Wright is the only one of the sophs who looks like he’s taken a step forward instead of backward? When they got their preseason top-3 ranking and final 4 favorite status, did they think they could mail it in until March? What happened to crisp ball movement? Can we lock the team in a room with UCLA game film (or the second half of last year’s KU run) and tell them, this is how you defend? They realize no one is guarding you at the foul line, don’t they?
For years, KU has struggled when the game slows and half-court execution is emphasized, especially against zones. Throw in a lackadaisacal approach against lesser-talented teams, and you have a Goliath ready to be picked off by mid-major Davids.
Yes, this team is still very young. But it’s time to grow up.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Noah doesn’t have mono - only Brewer.
This team is young but growing up won’t happen overnight. These games really don’t matter and I would rather them work some of this out of the system and get the funk out early than fizzle later, assuming those two scenarios are mutually exclusive.
Watch the Bill Self show this week. He knows the team is struggling. The team knows it’s struggling. But I think they’ll come out okay.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:09 am
High Plains Drifter, I see your point, but do you really think voters actually take the time to make those considerations? I don’t.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
true enough. good thing it doesn’t really matter in hoops the way it does football.
i thought the announcers said Noah had mono too. He was coughing and had trouble catching his wind, so whatever bug he caught had an effect… unless he was just trying to look vulnerable in order to get chicas.
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