Kansas Crimson

ChicagoHawk wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 10:29 am I really like McCullar, but I never thought he was a great fit next to a PG with limited shooting/scoring ability. That’s still the case, and as much as he brings defensively, I think the best version of this team starts two dynamic scorers in the backcourt next to Harris.

ChicagoHawk wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 10:29 am I really like McCullar, but I never thought he was a great fit next to a PG with limited shooting/scoring ability. That’s still the case, and as much as he brings defensively, I think the best version of this team starts two dynamic scorers in the backcourt next to Harris.

randylahey wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 11:00 am Good take. Dajuan is kind of the perfect role playing point guard. To maximize his skill set he needs to be surrounded by shooting. And preferably another more dynamic explosive kind of scorer at the 2

I do think his shooting will continue to improve tho

hasbeen wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:36 pm Harris, Morris (with Elmarko possibly taking over mid-season), Timerblake, KJ, and Hunter.

It's been a while since we had a big man rotation as good as Hunter, Udeh, and KJ. If Zuby stays, my gracious.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:39 pm

hasbeen wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:36 pm Harris, Morris (with Elmarko possibly taking over mid-season), Timerblake, KJ, and Hunter.

It's been a while since we had a big man rotation as good as Hunter, Udeh, and KJ. If Zuby stays, my gracious.

someone should show him the studs waiting in the wings on the ‘08 squad

Cole and DJax were instrumental

TDub wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:39 pm Udeh is so damn quick. Have to find a way to get him on the floor. He's gonna be a problem by his Junior year.

Former Michigan star Hunter Dickinson publicly committed to Kansas on Thursday, giving Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame coach Bill Self one of college basketball's best and most productive centers, specifically a 7-foot-1 senior who averaged 18.5 points and 9.0 rebounds in 32.7 minutes per game last season. So a possible starting lineup for the Jayhawks now looks like this:

G: Dajuan Harris
G: Elmarko Jackson
G: Nick Timberlake
F: K.J. Adams
C: Hunter Dickinson

That's a starting lineup with size, shooting and experience, one so strong that former top-35 prospects Arterio Morris and Ernest Udeh will likely begin games on the bench. It's enough to compel me to move the Jayhawks to No. 1 in Version 10.0 of the 2023-24 CBS Sports preseason Top 25 And 1 college basketball rankings. Simply put, trusting Self to be awesome is literally the safest thing you can do in this sport — evidence being how he's guided his teams to 24 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and earned No. 1 seeds in 10 of the past 16 NCAA Tournaments. On paper, he now has a roster good enough to win the 2024 NCAA Tournament. So, at this point, at least in my eyes, his Jayhawks should be considered the favorites to do it.

Are there other reasonable candidates for No. 1? Of course.

Any of the other schools I now have ranked in the top five — UConn, Purdue, Marquette and Duke — are worthy of serious consideration, and I won't be surprised if all of them get first-place votes in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll (provided their on-the-fence prospects who have entered the 2023 NBA Draft eventually withdraw and return to college). But, with Dickinson on board, my pick for a preseason No. 1 is now the Kansas Jayhawks.

pdub wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 12:02 pm Put me in the camp of Dajuan still has time to prove that he can be a capable scorer.
He was much better at driving to the hoop last season.
I think he will only improve there.

His jumper is ugly as get out but I also think that'll get better, however flat it is.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:33 pm i’d put money on Timberlake starting as well

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:43 pm the jerry springer audition was so ugly - really tarnished my impression of him