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I remember the Big 12 was also "the best conference in the country" last year, and they put two teams in the Sweet Sixteen and none in the Elite Eight.

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Kansas does only two things reasonably well: shoot threes and offensive rebound. So what does Texas do? Zone the whole game. Rick Barnes everyone! I told Machina before the season started Texas wouldn't be a Top 10 team this year, and he said how do you know that? Before I could even respond, someb...

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Kansas does only two things reasonably well: shoot threes and offensive rebound. So what does Texas do? Zone the whole game. Rick Barnes everyone!

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Kansas is not a good team.

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TJ was the one guarding Allen on at least two of those drives so I don't really think we can draw too many conclusions from that.

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Had a discussion at a Xmas party with an older UA alum who couldn't wait for TJ's eligibility to expire...I was flabbergasted. He said that at some point the proof is on the floor and he was sick of hearing about this and that with TJ and not seeing it on the floor. I wonder what he thinks today......

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People who have nothing to say when we're doing well and come back to shit all over everything when things are bad are the fucking worst, wouldn't you all agree?

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There is no reason for there to be stinky Jayhawk garbage in this sub-forum. Arch-Rivals is fine and I almost wouldn't have it any other way but not here. Let's get this taken care of please?

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Optimism: This team has the two or three best players, at least, every time it steps on the court. We are still an elite defensive team and a good-to-elite offensive team, even though it doesn't seem like it (FWIW I consider top 10% of anything elite). I would take this squad over any team it plays...

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gumby wrote:If I taught you how to post, Machina, and you kept putting up crap, that would be on you.

Early candidate for line of the year.

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Arizona v Kentucky FG: .500 to .458 3pt: .370 to .340 FT: .669 to .667 We are better in every shooting statistic other than points per possession than the almighty, espn jacked, kentucky. Worth noting too that Kentucky's PPP is raised by its incredible offensive rebounding percentage which, because...

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Your typical "great offensive team" has a shooting PG liki Sauim or Damon, a slasher who can't be stopped, and a gunner like Steve Kerr. So we haven't looked like that in a while. We had Gordon and Johnson who don't fit in the right boxes for simple minded analysis and now we have a 6'8 2 guard. Th...

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Go get Tyler Dorsey Kansas! Counting on you.

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I can't remember the last time I rooted for Kansas to win a recruiting battle but I'll make an exception with respect to Tyler Dorsey. Cuonzo Martin is already annoying me and we haven't even played them yet.

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All I know is if we lose to the steaming pile of dogshit that UCLA purports to call a basketball team this year I'm going to lose my motherfucking mind.

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On this day 4 years ago we lost to a horrible Oregon St. team after getting blown out (again) by BYU and with basically no good wins. I was 100% sure at that point we would not make the tournament, much less beat Duke and come within a shot of knocking off the future champions. Last year a UCONN tea...

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JMarkJohns wrote:If you're comfortable, I'd like this to be a front page blog entry! It's fantastic.

I am at your service.

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You saw it, didn’t you? That time Stanley gambled for a steal at the top of the key? Which time am I talking about though? The time it turned into a fastbreak dunk that brought the house down? Or the time he didn’t get the steal and left the defense playing four-on-five behind him? Or the time he to...

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Or was it honest? I don't remember.

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I'd love to but between kid/Christmas procrastination I won't be at the game and I'm trying to get everything in so I can make it home in time for tip. We WILL get that beer at some point!

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http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=collegebasketballnation&id=101656 Worst article ever. I usually give sports writers the benefit of the doubt but wow. Do you think if Arizona loses tonight that a national writer would create a horrendous excuse like this? Outside of the obvious ...

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This is Kansas' biggest loss to an unranked team since 78-79. What about the TCU loss a couple of years ago? Or Bucknell? So many too choose from! LOL. Yeah I mean you really can't go wrong: They lose inexplicable games in the NCAA tournament (Stanford, et al.) They blow almost impossible-to-blow l...

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In the panoply of embarrassing losses, Kansas actually gave up exactly as many points per possession to Temple as they did to Kentucky.

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Let's see, we have to go back to... (looking, looking) 2010 to the last time U of A lost by more than 25 in a game! That was Sean Miller's first year. And it was mostly to a guy who was the consensus national player of the year next year. So who on Temple is winning national player of the year next ...

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Kansas is gonna come back and win. It would be really pathetic if they didn't, with all that talent.

That said I'm sure glad we don't play Temple this year. They're obviously a great team!

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And of course that doesn't even include Kansas's loss to Northern Illinois which is arguably the worst loss of all of them.

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If Kansas and Georgetown ever combined teams the committee would have to invent new double-digit seeds for them to lose to.

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Probably a 14 seed.

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Maybe UCLA and Kansas should combine their teams. The resulting team would only lose to Kentucky by 15.

Other characteristics of this "super" team:

Make one Sweet Sixteen every 5 years. Lose to a double digit seed when you get there.

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Well at least Kentucky finally made SOMEONE look worse than Kansas. Although Kansas should definitely still be way more embarrassed about that loss.

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NAU won AT St. Mary's tonight.

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3goggles wrote:Just ran into Stanley at the post office on speedway! One cool dude! Took a picture with my daughter! Class act boys!

In fact, he wouldn't pass your daughter off to any other member of the team to get their picture taken with her.

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Arguably more importantly, we're top 30 in raw efficiency. Coming around.

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Since the start of 2011, in the very heart of Self's "Woodenesque" run, Kansas has won only eight more games than us and lost only six fewer. Most of those eight games can be explained by Kansas's typically lucky 2012 run where they beat a double digit seed, beat a double digit seed, beat a double d...

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dirtbags wrote:nice scrappy win by 'tah. solid defense. hope they stick it to ku this saturday!

Well they already beat the best team in Kansas.

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Stevie Wonder could see that we got a break at the end of regulation but as noted above fucking Sabonis should have already been fouled out of the game at that point.

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I don't think Hater cares a whit about efficiency. He likes the big numbers. Doesn't matter if the nature of your defense predicates fewer offensive possessions per game. I think he's more about the eye test and whipping more mature and more experienced but less talented teams in November from star...

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All these references to borderline, feels like I'm going to lose my mind.

Just try to understand, I've given all I can with this post guys.

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Duke just shot 65% and put on an incredible offensive performance...and scored 80 points. In 2003, there were only 8/32 games where we DIDN'T score 80 points. And, oh by the way, our offense last year was two points per 100 possessions MORE EFFICIENT than our offense in 2003. Put that in your pipe(s...

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No I didn't. My point is that we struggle to score on even putrid teams almost all of the time. No other top teams really do. It's borderline asinine to say that we don't have offensive issues. This is where you missed the point. Find in my post where I said we don't have offensive issues? My point...

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1) On non-putrid teams? No, you can't. You absolutely cannot.

2) You basically missed the point.

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Without looking at college basketball as a whole is either incredibly myopic or willfully ignorant. I don't care if you complain that we're not scoring 80 points a game, but for Christ's sake, can we stop acting like this is a problem unique to Arizona? As I look around the country, here are some of...

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Duke-Wisconsin is 35-32 at the half, only three points ahead of our glacial pace in the SDSU game!

Someone needs to tell K and Bo Ryan they need to learn how to coach offense!

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Noted defensive juggernauts Iowa and North Carolina just battled to a 60-55 finish. Someone tell Williams and McCaffery they need to learn a thing or two about offense!

BTW we scored less than 60 twice last year.

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Somewhat related: pretty sure SDSU was the last team to beat us at McKale.

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Good post Chi.

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