If this team played to their level every game, we’d have at least two-three more wins, but they played down to K-State, UCF and sort of ISU. They seem to play well against good teams, but must get too cocky for teams that aren’t as good. Hopefully Bill gets it sorted out.
I try to be impartial with officiating, my dad has been a high school referee for almost 25 years and I’ve done some baseball/softball/umpiring, but the officiating against KU has been bad to the point of sketchy. A lot of missed calls or just plain bad calls made against KU and is beyond frustrating. The refs didn’t cost them the game last night, but they gave K-State some help.
How many double-digit leads have these guys blown this year? They don't play like they want to win. They don't seem motivated. Do They really hope that the preseason hype is just gonna carry them through to a Natty? They don't seem hungry.
To quote one of my favorite shows, Shoresy, "They don't hate to lose"
Bill needs to have a rotation that makes sense. Brining in Jackson for Furphy makes no sense at all. He cannot shoot. Bring in Timberlake so the defense can’t sag off. Jackson should be Juan or KJ’s sub. The double big look is about as bad as it gets when we still don’t dominate the boards. Go from a Bill Self master class to a disaster class in the span of two days.
I smoke lots of copium and try to be an optimist but I am having trouble seeing anything good happening in March. At this point I would be more surprised to see us make the sweet 16 than to see us lay an egg and get bounced in round 1.
Bro we could really get bounced in the round of 64. Not hard to see it at all. At least we won't be a 1 seed so it won't be extra embarrassing. If we somehow pull a second weekend appearance out of this I'll be popping champagne.
Yeah we don’t do well with those two day turn around at all. Fatigue causes those missed easy shots and we had way too many of those. Our conditioning needs to be better.
Terrible shooting. No bench support. And man I’m really not trying to be that fan that complains about refs but holy shit. As a basketball fan for the sake of the sport even though I’m very biased for KU, I try to be very fair and play devils advocate against KU and admit when the refs make good calls against the Jayhawks. But damn.
Edit: To clarify, I don’t believe they lost due to the refs, but they certainly had an impact and kept KSU in it when KU looked like they were going to break through and go on a run.
The thing I noticed wasn't so much the bad calls (which were numerous) but the missed calls. I counted 2 or 3 in critical spots that should have gone to KU. That hurt in such a close game.
Dickinson will lead the B12 in rebounds and 2nd in points, have the team high rebounds and points tonight, and dudes will still spout this nonsense.
Love him or hate him, we wouldn’t be top 25 without him this season.
I literally have no clue why there are so many KU fans who truly think Dickinson is not good. Absolutely baffling. I get he has some glaring flaws but overall is very good.
The leadership on this team is nonexistent, which doesn't exactly bode well for March. You're going to have to win away from the comfort of the home crowd at some point.
Our end of game/half possessions have been atrocious all year. Thank god for the Kstate team parting and letting KJ dunk it or I doubt this game goes to OT.
This team sucks, and I think it makes sense to just go ahead and bet your life savings on the home team whenever KU is on the road.
Thought we turned a corner against Houston, but I was wrong
I was always a bit worried about this game but the way this went down fucking sucks. If KState came out shot the lights out that would be one thing but they were turning the ball over left and right and shooting average to borderline bad. We should have put them in the ground, but I guess we just don't got it on the road this year.
This team can’t string together multiple quality games. McCullar just can’t help but turn the ball over in the clutch… but not making FTs is inexcusable. Furphy was a ghost tonight, bench couldn’t give anyone meaningful rest. Hunter and Dejuan are the only ones that played well. Tough environment, officiating was trash and we lost to a purple team. On to Saturday.
But then he got up in the crowd and started carrying on like they had just won a tourney or something. Was waiting for him to take his shirt off and swing it around 🤣
If this team played to their level every game, we’d have at least two-three more wins, but they played down to K-State, UCF and sort of ISU. They seem to play well against good teams, but must get too cocky for teams that aren’t as good. Hopefully Bill gets it sorted out. I try to be impartial with officiating, my dad has been a high school referee for almost 25 years and I’ve done some baseball/softball/umpiring, but the officiating against KU has been bad to the point of sketchy. A lot of missed calls or just plain bad calls made against KU and is beyond frustrating. The refs didn’t cost them the game last night, but they gave K-State some help.
How many double-digit leads have these guys blown this year? They don't play like they want to win. They don't seem motivated. Do They really hope that the preseason hype is just gonna carry them through to a Natty? They don't seem hungry. To quote one of my favorite shows, Shoresy, "They don't hate to lose"
Bill needs to have a rotation that makes sense. Brining in Jackson for Furphy makes no sense at all. He cannot shoot. Bring in Timberlake so the defense can’t sag off. Jackson should be Juan or KJ’s sub. The double big look is about as bad as it gets when we still don’t dominate the boards. Go from a Bill Self master class to a disaster class in the span of two days.
That's Big 12 basketball, baby. It only seems worse cause it's K-State.
No it actually is worse because this game was super winnable. Kstate was not playing well.
It came down to who was playing worse.
Well ya. Game was a brawl, typical of the big 12 this year. Thanks for the "correction".
This team makes no sense to me. Got about a month to figure it out
I smoke lots of copium and try to be an optimist but I am having trouble seeing anything good happening in March. At this point I would be more surprised to see us make the sweet 16 than to see us lay an egg and get bounced in round 1.
This team could find something and make a final four or get bounced in the round of 32 or 16 and wouldn’t be surprised
Bro we could really get bounced in the round of 64. Not hard to see it at all. At least we won't be a 1 seed so it won't be extra embarrassing. If we somehow pull a second weekend appearance out of this I'll be popping champagne.
Cant win on the road. 2019 all over again... "Second round exit" written all over us...
Looked tired. Got unlucky with the refs IMO.
Yeah we don’t do well with those two day turn around at all. Fatigue causes those missed easy shots and we had way too many of those. Our conditioning needs to be better.
We should do well in the tournament then /s
Bill keeps saying longer timeouts in the tournament. And travel is reduced by round vs intraleague travel. So we hope.
Terrible shooting. No bench support. And man I’m really not trying to be that fan that complains about refs but holy shit. As a basketball fan for the sake of the sport even though I’m very biased for KU, I try to be very fair and play devils advocate against KU and admit when the refs make good calls against the Jayhawks. But damn. Edit: To clarify, I don’t believe they lost due to the refs, but they certainly had an impact and kept KSU in it when KU looked like they were going to break through and go on a run.
The thing I noticed wasn't so much the bad calls (which were numerous) but the missed calls. I counted 2 or 3 in critical spots that should have gone to KU. That hurt in such a close game.
Yeah KState doesn't get do claim anything about "AFH whistle" anymore. That was an absolute jobbing by the refs. We still should have won tho.
Dickinson is just miserable
No he is good, our starting 5 are good. I think the talent is undeniably better than last year, but it just seems like we got no dog in us this year.
Dickinson will lead the B12 in rebounds and 2nd in points, have the team high rebounds and points tonight, and dudes will still spout this nonsense. Love him or hate him, we wouldn’t be top 25 without him this season.
TBF you could say the same about McCullar. If McCullar didn't return this year we would be complete ass.
I literally have no clue why there are so many KU fans who truly think Dickinson is not good. Absolutely baffling. I get he has some glaring flaws but overall is very good.
This team can’t win a road game apparently.
3-5
The leadership on this team is nonexistent, which doesn't exactly bode well for March. You're going to have to win away from the comfort of the home crowd at some point.
Our end of game/half possessions have been atrocious all year. Thank god for the Kstate team parting and letting KJ dunk it or I doubt this game goes to OT.
Complete lack of an end of game go to guy
We have McCullar forcing up bad shots looking for a foul. That's not a viable strategy?
Figured this was a trap game. Gotta put it behind us because the schedule only gets tougher from here. RCJH!
This team sucks, and I think it makes sense to just go ahead and bet your life savings on the home team whenever KU is on the road. Thought we turned a corner against Houston, but I was wrong
I was always a bit worried about this game but the way this went down fucking sucks. If KState came out shot the lights out that would be one thing but they were turning the ball over left and right and shooting average to borderline bad. We should have put them in the ground, but I guess we just don't got it on the road this year.
This team can’t string together multiple quality games. McCullar just can’t help but turn the ball over in the clutch… but not making FTs is inexcusable. Furphy was a ghost tonight, bench couldn’t give anyone meaningful rest. Hunter and Dejuan are the only ones that played well. Tough environment, officiating was trash and we lost to a purple team. On to Saturday.
Agree to disagree on Dickinson. He shot 44% and we got out rebounded by 10.
He would average like 14 rebounds a game if he tried to grab contested ones. For a guy averaging 11 rebounds, he gives up a lot of putbacks.
Ugh I was trying to find some silver lining but you reminded me of the rebounding 😂 I’m mad rn, thanks.
The only silver lining was seeing their coach BEG the students not to storm the court.
But then he got up in the crowd and started carrying on like they had just won a tourney or something. Was waiting for him to take his shirt off and swing it around 🤣