Post game thoughts
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Collins and Aldrich are our only Mickey D's left. The rest were all 4 star recruits.
I actually thought Haluska did a decent job on Collins, nobody is going to shut him down completely. You're right about Petey, he couldn't keep up with him at all. That was pretty evident in the first five minutes of the game. You could put Cameron Lee on him, but that means giving up offense, (usually), not yesterday tho', Petey just didn't have it, and that's very unusual for him, he's generally one of most consistent guys.
The bottom line is they have much more talent and depth, and played lights out. Some nights are going to be like that. We're still not very good at helping on defense, and against teams with superior talent, that's going to show up as a glaring weakness.
Hi Buggy...I don't want to BUG you so I will agree with you re gmac....
I dont know how much more time gmac is gonna get to turn this program around but I am starting to think that the best thing that ever happened to gmac was all those players er Taggart and co leaving ISU...Thus giving gmac an endless amount of time to turn this around...
I will leave you with this...In John Orr's first year he beat Drake and Lewis Lloyd with virtually a team of nobodies!!!
Now tahts coaching.....I do miss the good old days!!!!
It's not an equation, it's a statement of fact.Wow, that's a convincing equation...
As others have pointed out, athleticism is directly responsible for those shooting percentages.
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I know you refuse to give the team any credit, but we clearly had open looks yesterday. I'm not sure how you could say otherwise.
GREAT POST! Totally agree! Boozer has performed well in the games that he has been in this year. I think he should be seeing more minutes as well. Also, with respect to your point about playing the young guys, this is where I am at as well. Thought we should have simply taken our lumps last year and allowed DG to run the point the entire season. Count me in with being tired of watching walk-ons trying to compete. They bust their humps and no one can deny their effort, but the talent simply isn't there.
I will give the TEAM credit, they played very tough dispited the talent advantage KU had. They just weren't put in a place to succeed...
I think you had some blinders on last night. They were put in a place to succeed, but the "TEAM" couldn't make the open looks.
Yeah, a Butler team that is in the top 20 and is 18-1...how dare he talk about them! The gaul...BUTLER IS TOO YOUNG TO BE ANY GOOD. Did you know:
+ Of Butler's top 8...they have 3 freshman, 4 sophomores, and only 1 junior.
+ Their top player is a sophomore, the next 2 are freshmen, the next is the junior, and the fifth is another freshman. They top three off the bench are all sophs.
I WONDER IF BUTLER IS COMPLAINING ABOUT THEIR "YOUNG TEAM" OF GUYS THAT WERE NOT MCDONALD'S AAs?
So who besides Brackins and Vanderbeeken had OPEN LOOKS. At the game and watching the DVR this morning, not one guard got more than one open look. Lucca was running off screens shooting 22 ft fadeaways because he couldn't get a guy off him. We shot plenty of forced guarded shots, but not open the open looks KU was getting... You can put it on the players all you want I guess...
Uh, maybe we need Petersen out there because...he's our second-leading rebounder??? Think about that for a minute.
If some others had Petey's heart and effort (Lucca anyone?) we wouldn't need him so much...
we definately had open looks. like you said, when we cut it to 6, then stopped them, I think it was JVB that missed a wide open 3 at the top. the place would have exploded. something should have been done with Collins in the 1st half, he was incredible. but, if we make a few more shots, this would have been a diff game.
You can say whatever you want but Staiger specifically was built up to herculean proportions on here last year. I seem to recall a lot of talk about one of our best players not being able to help us because of the NCAA.
that was a difference also. Brackins and JVB were the ones with open looks. not peterson, lucca or other guards.
Wow, that's a convincing equation...
Here's mine:
We shot terrible as a "team."
Cyclones <> Good Team Shooting
They shot very well as a "team."
Jayhawks = Good Team Shooting.
Beyond that, the "Big XII" talent & styles of play were there on both sides in the game I watched. We just need a few guys besides CB to step up and make shots. They did not dominate us based on overbearing talent or style of play - we just didn't make our shots and they made theirs.
Kansas Shooting:
FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A
31 for 61 | 6 for 13 | 14 for 18
50.80% | 46.20% | 77.80%
ISU Shooting:
FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A
19 for 55 | 6 for 26 | 23 for 27
34.50% | 23.10% | 85.20%
You must factor in our defense, or lack thereof, was a major contributor to KUs success from the field.
This point you make is spot on...the teams that make a run in the NCAAs always have solid guards. Look at ISUs best teams...mid 80s and turn of century...both had top notch guards. Garrett's game is lacking on a number of levels. Buckley never gets in, Boozer doesn't get much time, everyone else seems to be a walk on type guy (Peterson, Haluska, Eikmeier). We have to shore up the backcourt.
Surely you remember our resident insider (kg cylcone) telling us that he was a cancer and we would be better off without him...don't you?
They play hustle basketball.
Does the McD system encourage hustle or does it encourage people to hold their place and stand around or does it allow something in between?
