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***** Official '21/'22 KU Men's Basketball Repository Thread *****
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https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/ The Schedule: https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/schedule/ |
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04-11-2022, 06:33 PM | #4966 |
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04-11-2022, 06:36 PM | #4967 |
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My memory (what there is of it) and opinions of these teams Tourney results:
2008 - Best team in Kansas History. 2010 - Best team in the country wire to wire. Should have won a NC. 2020 - Best team in the country. Could have won a NC. 2022 - Exciting and improbable run. Some have said (maybe even me) that the bracket opened up, but I think more accurately key injuries to opponents paved the way. 2011 - Really good team that when it was on, had a dog mentality and no team could stop. Bracket opened up and very well should have won a NC. 2012 - Overachieving team with a studly starting 5 but not much depth. Hell of an exciting run through the Tourney, should be proud to finish 2nd to that Kentucky team. 2013 - Stupid defense that should have gone to a Final Four. Scoring wasn't up to par to win it all. Gut punch of a loss in the S16. 2016 and 2017 - These teams live in my memory as 1. Should have at least made the Final Four, disappointing losses in the Elite 8 to matchup nightmares. 2018 - Played to seed which somehow seemed like an overachievement to me. 2014 - Never played up to potential consistently enough. Embiid injuries had a lot to do with that. 2007 - 1 seed shipped out west had to play an Elite 8 game very close to the 2 seed (UCLA) home. That plus UCLA was good and we were a year away. 2004 - Surprise run to the E8. A hair away from a 3rd straight Final 4. Georgia Tech was a good team. 2009 - Exciting team that oozed potential. Almost got Michigan State in the S16. 2005 - Certainly had the horses. Beginning of the 14 consecutive Conference Title Streak. I always saw this team as Self using chess pieces to play checkers. 2019 - Missing Doke hurt. 2021 - Blech. A team that you could see just didn't have it. 2015 - Disgustingly outplayed in the second round by Wichita State. Double blech. 16 of the 19 teams won the Big XII.
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04-11-2022, 07:32 PM | #4968 |
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It's interesting that 2021 and 2022 were almost exactly the same team roster-wise with the exception of Garrett being replaced with Remy. Shows what a year of development can do.
That 2010 team is one of the best teams not to win a title over the past couple of decades. 2008 team also remains the best overall team in the KenPom era (2002-2022). |
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‘19 was full of so much fluky bullshit that killed our season: Doke injury Grimes falling off a cliff Transfers not named Dedric Lawson not being near as good as we thought The debacle with KCC’s all time favorite player: Legerald Vick
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04-11-2022, 08:00 PM | #4973 |
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I don't know where Vick is today, but I'm sure wherever he is he's still unable to dribble a basketball.
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Such as it is, he came in with massive levels of **** off and it absolutely lit a fire under the team. We've rolled into March with tremendously talented teams before only to watch other teams catch lightning in a bottle and get super hot to beat us. I'll admit, it's fun as **** to have that team, even though we were a 1, it felt like an underdog story, at least comparatively. |
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We had glimpses early of how Remy could super charge the team as the spark plug, then the injury happened and the team struggled for large chunks of the season, including two bad losses in the last week of the regular season. Then Remy returned and the switch got flipped and we balled out to a title. About time we were the team on a hot streak to win a title.
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And I agree 100% that it's about time we got a hot streak. |
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04-12-2022, 07:18 AM | #4978 |
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Development, yes, that was a big factor, especially Agbagi and Braun. But you mentioned Garret. I would submit that was the biggest factor. Garret was just not cut out to be a PG. Dejaun Harris starting at PG and then Remy coming on late as backup really helped this team's offense a lot. Hell, they even played much better team defense in March and April.
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04-12-2022, 07:22 AM | #4979 |
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After the B12 tourney, I felt E8 was the floor with a finals appearance as the ceiling. Before the B12 tourney, S16 was where I felt the floor lay, with a ceiling of E8.
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In retrospect, the first round game last year was more indicative of this year's team. A midmajor team with a stretch 5 bombing threes, everything looks bleak, and yet we found a way to win after a career game on their end. That type of resilience was evident in the Creighton win especially, but we didn't just develop it this year, we were just too focused on the USC game to notice. |
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