2024/2025 Lineup

[randylahey]

timberlake was pretty popular in the portal last year. i wonder how much he cost us.

Part of me thinks self mishandled Timberlake. Kind of killed his confidence. There was a reason he was so desired in the portal, and he was a much better than 29% 3 point shooter or whatever we got out of him

[MICHHAWK]

HCBS is the biggest turd from this season. followed closely by km.

[AlOerter]

timberlake was pretty popular in the portal last year. i wonder how much he cost us.

Part of me thinks self mishandled Timberlake. Kind of killed his confidence. There was a reason he was so desired in the portal, and he was a much better than 29% 3 point shooter or whatever we got out of him

I remember Bill saying once "we recruit scorers and teach them how to guard". The problem with grad transfers is if they don't know how to guard by now you probably can't teach them. Defense is what kept Nick off the floor which got him out of his groove. He was used to playing a lot of minutes.

[twocoach]

Let's see what everyone else's list of what they'd like to see KU do with their 13 scholarships.

1. DH
2. Kj
3. Elmarko Jackson
4. Labaron Philon
5. Rakeese Passmore
6. Flory Bidunga
7. Zach Clemence
8. Liam McNeeley (shooter)
9. Bryson Tucker (SF)
10. Cliff Omoruyi (shot blocking Center transfer from Rutgers...avg 10pt 8reb 3blk this year).
11. Khani Rooths. 6'8 PF freshman. Decommitted from Michigan a few days ago.
12. Andrej Stojakovic. Transfer from Stanford. Scorer. 3yrs remaining. Former top 30 recruit. Some of Peja.
13. Punishment scholly.

But how realistic are some of these? Do you really see Dickinson leaving? I dont. And I don't see Tucker coming if McNeeley comes. And has KU ever recruited Rooths?

[twocoach]

timberlake was pretty popular in the portal last year. i wonder how much he cost us.

Part of me thinks self mishandled Timberlake. Kind of killed his confidence. There was a reason he was so desired in the portal, and he was a much better than 29% 3 point shooter or whatever we got out of him

Playing like shit is what killed Timberlake's confidence. Not the coach taking him out for playing like shit.

[randylahey]

timberlake was pretty popular in the portal last year. i wonder how much he cost us.

Part of me thinks self mishandled Timberlake. Kind of killed his confidence. There was a reason he was so desired in the portal, and he was a much better than 29% 3 point shooter or whatever we got out of him

I remember Bill saying once "we recruit scorers and teach them how to guard". The problem with grad transfers is if they don't know how to guard by now you probably can't teach them. Defense is what kept Nick off the floor which got him out of his groove. He was used to playing a lot of minutes.

100 percent agree. Defense has always kept people off the floor, maybe self should have let Timberlake play through his defensive lapses a little more while coaching him through it. If he played more throughout the season, maybe he doesn't lose his groove

[randylahey]

timberlake was pretty popular in the portal last year. i wonder how much he cost us.

Part of me thinks self mishandled Timberlake. Kind of killed his confidence. There was a reason he was so desired in the portal, and he was a much better than 29% 3 point shooter or whatever we got out of him

Playing like shit is what killed Timberlake's confidence. Not the coach taking him out for playing like shit.

I actually disagree. Being taken out and loosing playing time fucks with a guys head way more than making a mistake does

Self has always done this. Sometimes it works with guys, to get them to fix their wrongs. And sometimes it fucks with their psyche, and we get into the season with talented broken players who you can't really play anymore

[jfish26]

But part of depth is having options when guys are playing like shit. We probably needed a young Releford type to complement Timberlake, so that Timberlake playing like shit was not an automatic 36 minutes for McCullar.

[randylahey]

Let's see what everyone else's list of what they'd like to see KU do with their 13 scholarships.

1. DH
2. Kj
3. Elmarko Jackson
4. Labaron Philon
5. Rakeese Passmore
6. Flory Bidunga
7. Zach Clemence
8. Liam McNeeley (shooter)
9. Bryson Tucker (SF)
10. Cliff Omoruyi (shot blocking Center transfer from Rutgers...avg 10pt 8reb 3blk this year).
11. Khani Rooths. 6'8 PF freshman. Decommitted from Michigan a few days ago.
12. Andrej Stojakovic. Transfer from Stanford. Scorer. 3yrs remaining. Former top 30 recruit. Some of Peja.
13. Punishment scholly.

But how realistic are some of these? Do you really see Dickinson leaving? I dont. And I don't see Tucker coming if McNeeley comes. And has KU ever recruited Rooths?

Aint nothing realistic about this list. We can hopefully pick up a couple good players. All I ask is that they are athletic and can shoot

[DeletedUser]

1. DH
2. Kj
3. Elmarko Jackson
4. Labaron Philon
5. Rakeese Passmore
6. Flory Bidunga
7. Zach Clemence
8. Liam McNeeley (shooter)
9. Bryson Tucker (SF)
10. Cliff Omoruyi (shot blocking Center transfer from Rutgers...avg 10pt 8reb 3blk this year).
11. Khani Rooths. 6'8 PF freshman. Decommitted from Michigan a few days ago.
12. Andrej Stojakovic. Transfer from Stanford. Scorer. 3yrs remaining. Former top 30 recruit. Some of Peja.
13. Punishment scholly.

But how realistic are some of these? Do you really see Dickinson leaving? I dont. And I don't see Tucker coming if McNeeley comes. And has KU ever recruited Rooths?

Aint nothing realistic about this list. We can hopefully pick up a couple good players. All I ask is that they are athletic and can shoot

At Kansas, in the NIL era, anything should be realistic.

[twocoach]

But how realistic are some of these? Do you really see Dickinson leaving? I dont. And I don't see Tucker coming if McNeeley comes. And has KU ever recruited Rooths?

Aint nothing realistic about this list. We can hopefully pick up a couple good players. All I ask is that they are athletic and can shoot

At Kansas, in the NIL era, anything should be realistic.

That feels like fan speak, not realism. KU isn't heads and tails above everyone else in NIL where they can just buy whoever they want.

[randylahey]

NIL could actually make it harder for Kansas to recruit depth. Why sit on the bench here when you can get paid to play somewhere else?

I think KU will get whatever they want when a starting spot is available. But depth might need to be recruited from high school

It's hard to pitch a guy to come play 5 minutes a game backing up dajuan, kj, or hunter.. when some other big school is saying come start and play 30 a game

[DeletedUser]

Aint nothing realistic about this list. We can hopefully pick up a couple good players. All I ask is that they are athletic and can shoot

At Kansas, in the NIL era, anything should be realistic.

That feels like fan speak, not realism. KU isn't heads and tails above everyone else in NIL where they can just buy whoever they want.

The guys I listed are hardly "whoever they want". It's got a few of the last uncommitted freshman and a few good players from the transfer portal.

It's not like I listed guys committed to Duke or other schools.

Look at the schools fighting for those guys. We are superior than them.

[ousdahl]

Flory named Indiana Gatorade player of the year

Second year in a row

[DeletedUser]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C44Jp_tuFkK ... Bsb2c5dWNh

[DeletedUser]

Malik Mack into the portal. 17ppg his freshman year at Harvard.

Seems like an upgrade over Elmarko. We want this guy.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C4-0c4QrGaz ... d5cnRveHNo

[DeletedUser]

Here is a portal update:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... he-portal/

[randylahey]

The hometown kid is in the portal

Zeke mayo, kid from Lawrence ks. 6'3 guard played at south Dakota st
Averaged 19 a game, 39% 3pt shooter

[randylahey]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C44Jp_tuFkK ... Bsb2c5dWNh

I'd be curious what 3 problems Christian Braun saw. Cause you know he ain't blaming his boy dajuan

[ousdahl]

I hesitate to expect much from anyone who put up any numbers at a mid major