In the midweek podcast, @brentblum said something similar, although he and CW acknowledged KSU being on an upswing recently. I do think it'd be more "absorbable" for most of us if at UA and at KU were losses, and K-State was a win, or perhaps being a single-digit loss.
And it is highly relevant that K State was sandwiched in between those games. The trap game to end all trap games.
Yeah, I can kind get being a little sluggish on a Monday game after playing on a Saturday, but the other team is doing it too so it's not really a valid excuse. Plus in the most recent case, the effort was better on Monday than it was on Saturday.
There's some pretty good suggestions about how to smoke meat in that thread.
oh i was WAYYY off for sureSo wild to look at stuff like this and then scan through the first 12+ pages of this thread. Many of us were WAY off.
3-4 since the Milan injury.
I think we’re 6-1 had he not been injured.
I thought it had always been that for Monday games, each team was either home/away or away/home with the previous Saturday game. For the Arizona game they were home/home and we were away/away.
I'm a bit skeptical of a metric that considers Heise more important to our success than CuJo and Tamin.
Are you maybe thinking of Naz Mitrou Long? He came in as a point guard and barely played as a freshman. When he did play he only hit 5 of 18 threes (.278). He worked like crazy all summer and changed his game altogether making himself into an elite shooter SG rather than a point guard. In the very first game that second season he shot 8 of 11 from three (more makes than his entire previous season) and never looked back shooting .400 that season on a very high volume.
Yep I think you’re spot on. “Best” and “most efficient” aren’t really even a valid comparison. I think we’ve all been humbled a bit in terms of how we as fans view the team as 5 players playing a role and fitting into a scheme/flow while on the court together, and how this ebs and flows even within a game or half. Clearly when Milan is available, during those games, the offense, flow, tempo, etc. has shown to be more efficient. I honestly didn’t think it would take such a major dive with him not being there - because again, he’s had many games where he hasn’t even played 20 minutes, and we only had 1 loss. But clearly we very much need him. His presence directly and indirectly makes everyone else better.
People would probably be surprised to know that he shot .348 from three his last two years at Wazzu. Granted that was only 31 makes so he wasn't shooting a lot of them but we could use an open pop from him now and then - with all of the screening he does it would make defending those a lot tougher if they had to respect him from the arc.I shot about 10 percent from threen 8th grade. I watch Chatman in warm ups and surprisingly he has a decent three point shot. Wonder if he has just been told to not try it.
No, Weiler-Babb but you make a good point on Naz. Stats don't show it and maybe I am incorrect as been awhile. But I remember Weiler-Babb couldn't shoot a lick but having good defense. Then somehow he came back from a summer and was lights out.
