Do you know that he was asked to leave? You sound certain.
*** Official #10 Kansas VS #20 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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he wasnt asked to leave so you can stop the narrative, he wanted to play in an ncaa tournament and coming off a 2 win season things didnt look promising here
I heard TJ wanted to retain him, but he didn't want to be a part of a rebuild.
Especially to KU. I can’t believe people were surprised by the chant. It was harmless anyways.
HIs (repeated) "unacceptable" comments are getting old. He needs to take some proactive action at game time.
I heard Enaruna has an undisclosed health/injury issue, the reason he is limited in minutes.
Maybe it's something that won't improve until off season "treatment"? I don't know.
He went to ISU's biggest conference rival. Had he gone out of conference, or to any other school not named Texas or Baylor, the reaction would be different.
For the game, I think sometimes you just get beat. Kansas shots were falling; ours weren't. I thought we hung in there pretty well and made some runs, but it just wasn't enough. We just have to get ready for the next game. I thought we got pretty good shots over all, considering the defense we were up against. Kansas has to be very happy with the way they played.
I didn't claim that JCL was actually run off by the new staff, it was just a possibility. Pretty sure Bolton was given his odd statement when he entered the portal and I much would rather had him than JCL stay. Hinson left right before the season started which you can assume was a playing time or culture issue.
Given how bad things were last year and the complete change in culture this year you can only assume some of these guys who had not entered the portal immediately after the season had conversations with the new staff and made decisions based off that. We lost Hinson, Harris, JCL, Blackwell, Johnson, Bolton, and Dubar and kicked Foster off the team too. Obviously was a culture issue going on and not sure how well some of these guys would have fit in with this current group anyways.
The guy I do feel bad for is Yesufu who went from being a freshman stud at Drake to playing about 8 mins a game with KU mostly in garbage time. His 23 minutes last night was a season high and he has only played 10+ mins in 4 other games prior to that which were all blowouts. Curious what kind of sales pitch he got to commit to KU then not play much. I get that KU and Drake are no where near the same levels of talent on the roster but check out his game log from late last season and he was putting up some big time scoring numbers and thought he'd at least be in the main rotation at KU based on what we saw of him last year.
Given how bad things were last year and the complete change in culture this year you can only assume some of these guys who had not entered the portal immediately after the season had conversations with the new staff and made decisions based off that. We lost Hinson, Harris, JCL, Blackwell, Johnson, Bolton, and Dubar and kicked Foster off the team too. Obviously was a culture issue going on and not sure how well some of these guys would have fit in with this current group anyways.
The guy I do feel bad for is Yesufu who went from being a freshman stud at Drake to playing about 8 mins a game with KU mostly in garbage time. His 23 minutes last night was a season high and he has only played 10+ mins in 4 other games prior to that which were all blowouts. Curious what kind of sales pitch he got to commit to KU then not play much. I get that KU and Drake are no where near the same levels of talent on the roster but check out his game log from late last season and he was putting up some big time scoring numbers and thought he'd at least be in the main rotation at KU based on what we saw of him last year.
On nights when the guards aren't shooting well would it be possible to try a big lineup of something like Hunter, Brockington, Enaruna, Kunc, Conditt and see if they could force some offensive rebounds? Idk, maybe they would struggle to defend the perimeter with that configuration and it wouldn't be worth it.
Just an average fan's opinion here but I think our flaw on offense is not attacking that basket more and settling for a lot of contested jumpers or 3's that are not high quality or high percentage type shots. We had times last night that the offense was running at the FT line or top of the key 3 point line with the ball in the hands of our post player like Jones or Conditt and everyone else spread out on the wings with no one within 15 feet of the basket. Need to be more aggressive with driving to the rim and at least drawing a foul or establish better position in the post once in awhile to open up some better shots or cuts. When Jones and Conditt are outside the 3 point line the defense sags off them because they know those guys won't shoot a 3 and the ball seems to just stall/stop there till a guard comes to get the ball from them.
Also we don't seem to push the ball after a forced turnover and try to create more fast break opportunities. I think our guards are physical enough they can drive and take some contact if they kept pushing the ball instead of pulling back and setting up the half court offense at times. I'm not claiming I am smarter than this coaching staff or know the answers to our offensive woes but just through a fans eyes our offense seems very vanilla and lacking ball movement or motion at times.
Hate it when I see the zone come out. Seems like after working so hard in man-to-man, the zone lets them take a breather so they relax a bit. And a good shooting team like Kansas will take advantage of that every time. We don't have anyone that can run the baseline on the 1-3-1.
Agree. Against Mizzou we attacked the basket. Against KU we played "let's shoot jumpers".
Although I thought Gabe did a good job attacking last night, but Tyrese acting like he was scared to go all the way.
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The only reason he played at all last year at Drake is Penn, their starting pg tore his acl.
He'd definitely be getting alot more minutes at Drake but they even have Hemphill coming off the bench this year and I believe he was All-MVC last year.
Exactly what I heard, so stop with the narrative of being asked to leave. Bolton on the otherhand.......
