Have Diante suit up. Pretty sure he has a year or two left. 
Milan Rumors - Hand Injury
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DWat played out of necessity last season and had a couple big moments - again, out of necessity. He didn’t look like he belonged even with the walk-ons earlier this season. Granted some of that may be coming back from injury.
He was recruited over imo. Staff will elect to play Nojus because there’s greater talent and potential there. If we need to give time to somebody over the next month to maximize the potential of this team at the end of the year, it’s clearly Nojus over Watson.
Have Diante suit up. Pretty sure he has a year or two left.
I love Milan but he has been really inconsistent. Heise seems to be in the floor during crunch time every game, TJ trust him more defensively. We'll miss Milans shooting or at least that threat. I think we'll ask Tamin to carry a bit more of the offensive load but like we normally do the last 10 minutes of games. We play without Milan enough in important minutes that I'm not that worried. I don't expect the rotation to grow much, maybe some spot minutes for someone else but otherwise it'll just be more small ball.
He was on the 2022-2023 roster as a freshman.
He wasn't ahead of these guys then and I doubt he would be now...
Grill (when healthy)
Holmes
Kalscheur
Kunc
T. King
Lipsey
Osunniyi (when healthy)
...and probably Rob Jones and junior Hason Ward, too.
Heck, he was probably behind just about everybody but Eli King.
Eight pages of conversation after the "did anyone hear" comment. Not gonna read thru all this.....has anything been confirmed or is this the wildest of rumors?
what this really does it screw with depth and chemistry. it takes a while for guys to get used to substitution patterns and playing together. that will change for the next 4-6 weeks. Then you have to acclimate him back in so there is a chemistry period there. We should be ok, but it just narrows the margin for error.
Thinking those are the only two options shows how much you have your head in the sand.
If a big gets in foul trouble or if Dishon isn't fully back from the flu then we might see some D-Wat. If a guard gets in foul trouble we might see Nojas. Otherwise I doubt too much changes. My guess would be that Heise starts to maintain the "Jones off the bench" role, but Jones could easily start as well.
That is what you're losing - a guy that you can probably lose defensively but offensively Milan has the ability to hit a lot of different shots and make KU guard the perimeter more.
Ames isn't that big, I'm gonna go drive around until I see him.
I remember the Kansas game last year when Tre hit the 4th 3 and Self looked down at TJ in disbelief.
When Lipsey went down last year, it allowed Curtis Jones to really get a chance to grow and become what he is today.
Maybe we can get that same kind of good fortune from someone taking Milan's place. We'll be all the better for it comes March.
Maybe we can get that same kind of good fortune from someone taking Milan's place. We'll be all the better for it comes March.
