ChiefsPlanet - ***** Official '21/'22 KU Men's Basketball Repository Thread *****

Miami can't beat us. Have no defense and not slow enough paced. Its over. We've made the Final Four.

That is if we for some reason decide to play McCormack at all. I don't even see a role for him vs Miami. They play 5 out.

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection (Post 16216270)

So the better offensive team and the stretch 5 it is. I can just see the threes being hit in McCormack's face already. Dangerous times ahead.

We just saw this same scenario vs. Creighton. You know Miami is going to follow the same strategy. If Self is stubborn and plays McCormack, we can lose this game.

Great coaches do this all the time. Cincy rushed 3 and played 10 yards off the ball, Reid refused to run the ball. We are going to win the way we want to win regardless of the defense the other team is throwing at us.

We won against Creighton because Self put him on the bench. He needs to sit there again for this game.

Prison Bitch

03-26-2022 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection (Post 16216277)

Self always plays McCormack. He plays the guys he trusts. He did it against a literal 5 guard lineup against Creighton, you think he won't do it against a 6'10 guy?

KU is in trouble. Deep trouble.

You do this every tourney game every year.

It’s stale.

Bearcat

03-26-2022 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 16216722)

You do this every tourney game every year.

It’s stale.

Yeah, it's jumped the shark and what people tend to do as others lose interest in it is post even more, so now we get 10 posts... didn't you read what I typed the first 6 times, they're dangerous!!!

Yep. We did.

Mr. Plow

03-26-2022 11:19 AM

Wouldn't be a tourney game without KCC coming in to tell us how much better these teams that finish 4th in their conference and unranked are than KU.

Gonna get boat raced.... AGAIN.

Bearcat

03-26-2022 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Plow (Post 16216849)

Wouldn't be a tourney game without KCC coming in to tell us how much better these teams that finish 4th in their conference and unranked are than KU.

Gonna get boat raced.... AGAIN.

Running out of boats.

Or races.

Still not sure how that analogy works.

KC_Connection

03-26-2022 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 16216722)

You do this every tourney game every year.

It’s stale.

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From there, it was one of those if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em situations for the Jayhawks (31-6). Eventually, Croswell slowed down. But throwing the ball into McCormack and trying to re-establish a presence in the paint helped Kansas survive the Friars’ threat of taking control of the game.

“We wouldn't have won the game without him,” Self said of McCormack, who got to the free throw line a couple of times late and hit four of six charity shots overall.

Bothered by a foot injury throughout the season, McCormack continues to look like a guy who is playing at less than 100%. He and Self have been asked about his foot on multiple occasions during the past several weeks and both continue to say it’s fine. Sore, but fine.

And there’s not a soul alive who thinks that McCormack is going to start worrying about it now, with his team one win away from reaching the Final Four. According to their coach, the Jayhawks might not be in that position if not, in some small part, for the play of their big man on Friday night.

“At the end of the day he delivered for us when it counted,” Self said. “So it's not how you start, it's how you finish.”

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2022/m...-help-kansas-/

Self even loved how he played yesterday's game. There's no question what happens on Sunday.

KC_Connection

03-26-2022 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Bearcat (Post 16216831)

I don't see anyone losing interest. What I do see is many doubting Miami.

Doubt them at your own peril.

Prison Bitch

03-26-2022 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Bearcat (Post 16216831)

It’s really become a boy-who-cried-wolf. If every team is a serious threat then no team is. Constantly warning we could lose is so lame becasue everyone already knows that. It’s the tourney.

In reality, we are playing about as weak an EE opponent as possible. -8 spread. Imagine what KCC would do it we played Dook Arky Houston or Nova tomorrow.

Imon Yourside

03-26-2022 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 16216871)

I'm worried about Dook refs most of all, seems we are playing the Rodney Dangerfield role against the likes of Providence and co

Mr. Plow

03-26-2022 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Bearcat (Post 16216854)

Running out of boats.

Or races.

Still not sure how that analogy works.

Where you are this weekend, you could watch a literal boat race WHILE watching KU get boat raced.

Lzen	03-26-2022 11:40 AM

ESPN piece on reseeding the Elite Eight.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esp...3fplatform=amp

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1. Kansas Jayhawks
Original seed: No. 1
Elite Eight seed: No. 1
2022 tournament record: Defeated No. 16 Texas Southern 83-56; defeated No. 9 Creighton 79-72; defeated No. 4 Providence 66-61

In 2020-21, Remy Martin recorded four games with 30 points or more for Arizona State. With Ochai Agbaji and David McCormack returning from the previous season, Kansas didn't need any additional pieces. Still, Martin's arrival through the transfer portal over the summer expanded the talent pool for a squad that was already considered a national championship contender.

Then his season stalled, thanks to a lingering knee injury. Even when he was available for long stretches at the start of the season, Martin never looked like the first team all-Pac-12 player who had averaged 19.1 PPG in back-to-back seasons before coming to Lawrence. As Kansas continued to excel, he had challenges finding a role on a team that had established players at every spot on the floor and reliable reserves.

But this, right now, is the Remy Martin we thought we would see back in November. This is the Remy Martin who has given Bill Self a significant opportunity to win his second national title. Since the start of the Big 12 tournament, KU's opponents have made just 39.8% of their shots inside the arc. That defense is guiding this team. And Martin has been consistent, averaging 19.3 PPG and connecting on 64% of his shots inside the arc and 40% of his 3-point attempts in the NCAA tournament.

Five months ago, we wondered what Kansas' ceiling was: "How good can Kansas be if Martin becomes the same star he was in the Pac-12?" Now we have the answer.

KC_Connection

03-26-2022 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Imon Yourside (Post 16216878)

I'm worried about Dook refs most of all, seems we are playing the Rodney Dangerfield role against the likes of Providence and co

UNC will handle them, just as they've done before.