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TheLine 
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03-13-18 10:53 AM - Post#252694    

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I went to Penn board to see if I could gain any insight into their team and our matchup. I didn't read any posts that actually talked about the game - you know, strategy, players, strengths, weakness, NOTHING. I wonder if they even know basketball. I guess that was too much to expect.



Time to bring it. Those KU mofos are KenPommers so Jeff, you're going to have to lead this. The rest of us aren't stat-savvy enough for them.

To KU fans - tell Self he should rest that center of yours. He isn't needed against us. Wouldn't want anything happening to him.


 
penn nation 
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Re: Kansas
03-13-18 10:58 AM - Post#252696    
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Paper, Rock, Quaker

 
Cvonvorys 
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Re: Kansas
03-13-18 11:03 AM - Post#252699    
    In response to TheLine

From Jake Silpe's twitter:

https://twitter.com/SilpeSmooth?t=1&c n=ZmxleGl...

Does Pablo Torre know something?

 
TheLine 
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03-13-18 11:09 AM - Post#252700    
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So... primary matchups are blindingly obvious - they will be to Self if not to their fan base. And you know Donahue will throw them multiple curves.


 
Streamers 
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03-13-18 11:14 AM - Post#252702    
    In response to Cvonvorys

Let the trolling begin!

In fairness, with a couple of notable exceptions, the folks on that board are giving us a lot more respect than we usually get.

We can put that team under the microscope all we want but Azubuike's condition is the true x-factor. If he is out or hobbled, we actually have a shot at pulling this off.

 
palestra38 
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Re: Kansas
03-13-18 11:17 AM - Post#252703    
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Let's leave the prognosticators out of it. This game really turns on whether Azubuike is effective. We have no answer for him and cannot afford to double. IF he is not able to go far, we have a real shot--they don't think our ability to stop 3 pointers and dribble penetration is anything but based on our schedule. That is a big mistake--we have 3 22 year olds in our backcourt and they know how to play. This is not to say that the KU guys, who start upperclassmen as well (very rare for a power team) don't know what they are doing. But I doubt they have met up with a team that moves the ball nearly as well as Penn--we don't have to chug down the lane on them. I don't see speed being nearly the issue that the KU posters make it out to be--that is just the usual rhetoric from fans who have never seen us play. The only matchup we can't handle is a big 7 footer who can play and kick it out. If he is limited, AJ can more than handle anyone else on their roster. But I trust in Donahue in putting together a game plan that keeps it close.

 
penn nation 
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03-13-18 11:17 AM - Post#252704    
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I agree that we have no chance if their big guy plays significant minutes. We are going to need to spend most of our energy chasing their talented shooters off the 3 point line.



 
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03-13-18 11:18 AM - Post#252705    
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Kansas shoots the 3 at better than 40% all year. They also average 17 assists a game and a 1.5 A/TO ratio. They shoot on average 25 3's a game and make 10. Those are all better numbers than Penn's and this isn't an undisciplined team. They score a lot of points and are better than average in the Big 12 on defense.

If the big fella plays (I am guessing no--but if he does think Chris Lewis but 3 inches taller and 40 lbs heavier) we don't have an answer. If he doesn't, they will go with 4 guards the least of whom is Malik Newman and he would be the best guard in our league by a fair margin. So SD will likely go small, Dev Goodman and Caleb will play 25+ minutes each. We will have to shoot the ball at 40% + clip from 3, force/hope them to shoot it in the low 30% range and figure out how to rebound the ball with a smaller lineup.

Not trying to be a pessimist, it's do-able, but that's the hill to climb fyi.

We can shoot it and we move the ball really well, I just see this as a Nova sized mismatch.

Go Quakers!

 
TheLine 
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03-13-18 11:30 AM - Post#252707    
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  • Streamers Said:
Let the trolling begin!

In fairness, with a couple of notable exceptions, the folks on that board are giving us a lot more respect than we usually get.

We can put that team under the microscope all we want but Azubuike's condition is the true x-factor. If he is out or hobbled, we actually have a shot at pulling this off.


Yup and yup.

The only fans that annoyed me were the ones from Vandy the year Harvard played them. They were jackholes. The KU guys seem like OK dudes.

I only know 2 things about the state of Kansas. One is that Kansas City Steaks are mucho better than Omaha. The other is that my daughter's former karate instructor is from Kansas and I was real bummed that he moved back there. We still keep in touch with him - great guy, knows his stuff and is unfailingly polite. If he is a typical Kansan then it's hard not to like them. After we put a beating on them Thursday that is.


 
penn nation 
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03-13-18 11:33 AM - Post#252708    
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I remember when Roy Williams scheduled a home and home with the Quakers because either he (or perhaps one of their legendary broadcasters, I forget which) had always wanted to do a Palestra game.

That's class. And we gave them quite the game at the Palestra until Kirk Hinrich took charge late.

 
10Q 
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03-13-18 11:38 AM - Post#252710    
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Comment deleted

Edited by 10Q on 03-13-18 11:38 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

 
T.P.F.K.A.D.W. 
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03-13-18 11:39 AM - Post#252712    
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  • penn nation Said:
I remember when Roy Williams scheduled a home and home with the Quakers because either he (or perhaps one of their legendary broadcasters, I forget which) had always wanted to do a Palestra game.

That's class. And we gave them quite the game at the Palestra until Kirk Hinrich took charge late.



I definitely remember the Roy Williams-coached UNC game at the Palestra. They beat us by about 30 but Bernardini had a hell of a game and Williams had some really nice things to say about him afterwards.

 
10Q 
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03-13-18 11:41 AM - Post#252713    
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I was at that game and it was competitive into the 2nd half.

 
palestra38 
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03-13-18 11:43 AM - Post#252714    
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"Why the hell didn't we recruit him."

 
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03-13-18 11:44 AM - Post#252715    
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  • T.P.F.K.A.D.W. Said:

I definitely remember the Roy Williams-coached UNC game at the Palestra. They beat us by about 30 but Bernardini had a hell of a game and Williams had some really nice things to say about him afterwards.



Methinks you are talking about the 2008 opener at the Dean Dome (I was there) when Tyler dropped 26 on them. See Here

 
QHoops 
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03-13-18 12:05 PM - Post#252719    
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Tyler had (I think) 26 again when NC came back to the Palestra. That was Roy Williams point, he torched NC twice.

 
Streamers 
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03-13-18 12:11 PM - Post#252722    
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Ah correct. Talking about This Game

 
Quakers03 
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03-13-18 12:18 PM - Post#252723    
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It was the Jeff Boschee Kansas team (was heinrich still there?) and we took the #6 team in the country down the the wire. The bad taste of losing that one went out the window when we beat #7 Temple, for the first time in 15 years, the next week.

 
TheLine 
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03-13-18 12:24 PM - Post#252725    
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What is interesting about their posters, is they seem to think that if we don't have Dok, there is a real shot at an upset. While I won't say that there isn't a better chance they pull it off if Dok doesn't play, it seems they are conveniently casting aside our Big12 POY, and so far consensus 1st team All-American Devonte Graham, Svi for 3, and Malik "Big12 Tournament MOP" Newman. Also have seen no mention of Silvio filling in for Dok in the tourney and scoring 30 points and grabbing 29 rebounds in 3 games. It's odd and doesn't seem like they have done much research on our personnel, other than that Dok is 7ft.


We know who you have and even what Donahue's primary answers are going to be for each. Whether the answers are going to be good enough - dunno but know we don't have a good answer for Doke.

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Their guards looked solid. I just don't think they'll have an answer inside, no matter who we throw out there. Again, watching that Ivy Championship game, their big guy is just not on the same athletic level as anyone we have in that spot.


Guess we'll see on Thursday.


 
10Q 
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03-13-18 12:24 PM - Post#252726    
    In response to Quakers03

It's time for some new memories.

Let's fast forward 10 years when I hope to post the following:

Remember 2018 when Coach D finally helped us break through and win the Ivy Title. And what a ride. All the way through Kansas and into the Sweet 16. That really set the tone for the 10 years of dominance that followed. These national championships never get old.

 
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