Bill Self w/ 2

[DeletedUser]

We need to pair dajuan with a quick athletic scoring guard. Someone with a good jumpshot and the ability to create their own shots

That will help people forgot dajuans limitations and appreciate him for his strengths. Because he is a really really good pass first point guard

You have someone in mind there?

No I don't know who's all in the portal. But there's a shitload of players and options, I'm hoping/trusting self and company find a player that fit that description

I think elmarko and philon both have potential to grow into those high end explosive combo guards, but probably won't happen until after next season

Being in the portal is irrelevant.

We can poach from any team if the player has eligibility. And we should.

[randylahey]

I don't like going down that road. We don't need to be recruiting anyone that's not in the portal.

In pro sports, "tampering" is illegal and penalized. Should be in college too

Weren't there like 1500-2000 players in the portal last year? Or some ridiculous number. There's no reason we need to be coercing anyone to enter the portal and come here

[jfish26]

That's fair.

Unfortunately Self hasn't been able to recruit anyone better than DH over the last 4 years.

With a big question being whether/to what degree it’s cuz Dajuan’s been playing 35 mpg

If he sucks so bad then what are people afraid of? You earn your minutes at KU. It's always been that way.

It's a bit of a stacked deck though.

I have no idea what the percentage is (for this stupid example), but a player who simply IS 5% better than Harris is not cutting much into Harris' minutes. That's the problem.

It's well beyond one that can be solved at this point - Harris would not lose his job to freshman Derrick Rose at this point.

[ousdahl]

I honestly kinda wonder if Self is so competitive that even he is willing to shuffle his hand, even tho he’s been holding onto certain cards for years.

I know some fans are sentimental toward certain players and seem to somehow not notice the on-court product, but you gotta figure Self at least has realized this current lineup has been getting our asses pounded in embarrassingly bad ways.

[ousdahl]

I just dunno if we can play Dajuan and KJ for like 30+ minutes a game together. Reprising Hunter might make that worse.

Or maybe it’ll make it better.

It just sucks that, tho we’ve got several veteran pieces including an all American all eligible again next year, we somehow still gotta rely on the right crop of newcomers to field a competitive lineup.

Maybe it’s newcomers good enough to compliment the existing pieces - or rather, good enough to have the existing pieces compliment them. Or maybe it’s newcomers to replace existing pieces.

Stay tuned!

[DeletedUser]

I just dunno if we can play Dajuan and KJ for like 30+ minutes a game together.

We can.
We have.
We will.


Get over it. We aren't going to kick everyone off the team and start completely over. You're going to have to endure 1 more season of them both starting even under the best of circumstances recruiting wise.

[TDub]

I guess the good news is I got to cancel sling a month early and save that $40

[ousdahl]

I just dunno if we can play Dajuan and KJ for like 30+ minutes a game together.

We can.
We have.
We will.


Get over it. We aren't going to kick everyone off the team and start completely over. You're going to have to endure 1 more season of them both starting even under the best of circumstances recruiting wise.

ugh. you're prob right. sigh.

this was the least excited I've ever been for the tournament since becoming a KU fan.

And, as of right now - which is to say, short of some seriously shiny new roster additions, and maybe even some roster shakeups - this is the least excited I've ever been for an upcoming season.

Even if we return everyone still eligible, I'm not sure there is a single complete player among the bunch. All have pretty gaping holes in their games.

[DeletedUser]

this was the least excited I've ever been for the tournament since becoming a KU fan.

Same.

[jfish26]

I just dunno if we can play Dajuan and KJ for like 30+ minutes a game together.

We can.
We have.
We will.


Get over it. We aren't going to kick everyone off the team and start completely over. You're going to have to endure 1 more season of them both starting even under the best of circumstances recruiting wise.

Serious question - can we pay for, or would KJ have to pay for, like a two-week shooting camp? I have a hard time believing, particularly given his background, that he’s simply incapable of getting to “meh.”

[ousdahl]

what's a two week camp gonna do?

has he really never practiced this shit?

if we haven't already, we should lock him in the goddamn Fieldhouse from now until Late Night.

[mjl2]

I just dunno if we can play Dajuan and KJ for like 30+ minutes a game together.

We can.
We have.
We will.


Get over it. We aren't going to kick everyone off the team and start completely over. You're going to have to endure 1 more season of them both starting even under the best of circumstances recruiting wise.

Serious question - can we pay for, or would KJ have to pay for, like a two-week shooting camp? I have a hard time believing, particularly given his background, that he’s simply incapable of getting to “meh.”

The rebounding issues seem more solvable.

Though I suppose with the shooting he actually has shown improvement, the elbow jumper was fairly decent this year. And if his rebounding issues were solvable, you'd think they would have been solved, or at least improved.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Probably posted in another thread. Either way, I feel it deserves to be on this one.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5pPmYPN0qP ... _copy_link

[twocoach]

Probably posted in another thread. Either way, I feel it deserves to be on this one.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5pPmYPN0qP ... _copy_link

Not to be a downer but he said that last offseason and thought he had achieved it.

[ousdahl]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6B7_euA ... gyZmJzbWty

[DCHawk1]

The rug looks like shit in that video.

[Shirley]

Inside Kansas Jayhawks Coach Bill Self's Office: Memorable Stories And Hidden Gems

Bill Self, the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball head coach, provides a personal tour of his office adjacent to Allen Fieldhouse, revealing the stories behind the photographs and collectibles.

Subtly nestled on a shelf in Bill Self’s vast and vivid office is a photo among the images of family and friends. Among several other pictures, this one is of Self and his wife, Cindy, bookending a man he casually refers to as Garth — better known as Garth Brooks.

“Cindy went to high school with Garth,” he said, “and I played on the same softball team with him for seven years or whatever.”

That was in Stillwater, Oklahoma, during Self’s playing and assistant coaching career at Oklahoma State, where he met then-cheerleader Cindy and Brooks lived in his dorm for three years.

Their group of friends tended to tease Brooks about his seemingly inauspicious career aspirations. At one point, Self recalled, they donned mock T-shirts that said “Garth Brooks World Tour” long before that ever seemed possible.

[KUTradition]

friends in low places (does it get much lower than stoolwater?)

[randylahey]

Here's a statistic that makes bill self look godly. Records against top 10 teams

https://x.com/CBKReport/status/18285571 ... m5HQQ&s=19

[pdub]

The ISU fans are upset their boy isn't on there.
Is that Bill's record just at Kansas or his career?