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8 years 9 months ago #3677
by konza63
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
Welcome aboard, Canahawk!
It's great to have you come out of the shadows and into the limelight. I really enjoyed your first post and insights, and I don't have much to add to AZhawk's thorough response. I concur with AZ's thought that tonight we seemed to attack it appropriately. There may have been a few instances where we could've gone to the hoop, but by and large I thought we did a great job picking our shots. Recall the time that Selden went in, drew Devin Williams and another forward out toward him, and then both Lucas and Ellis converged (almost like a pincer movement) toward the hoop, giving Selden the nice lob opportunity to Perry. That was a great example of when we did attack it, and closed it out effectively. I noticed a couple other times where Frank took it in aggressively, but then he appeared to see the defense closing and made a split-second decision to pull it back out and set up the offensive set. I applaud that kind of decision-making.
Overall, using the same criteria AZ laid out, I really believe we did a very good job tonight in beating the press but then making mostly the right decisions on when to aggressively go for the quick bucket versus pulling back out to run our sets. And the nice thing tonight is boy, did we run our sets well. Our offense tonight, IMO, was a thing of beauty. Classic KU ball at its finest on display. Really nice to see!
Again, thanks for posting, and don't be shy!
Rock Chalk...
It's great to have you come out of the shadows and into the limelight. I really enjoyed your first post and insights, and I don't have much to add to AZhawk's thorough response. I concur with AZ's thought that tonight we seemed to attack it appropriately. There may have been a few instances where we could've gone to the hoop, but by and large I thought we did a great job picking our shots. Recall the time that Selden went in, drew Devin Williams and another forward out toward him, and then both Lucas and Ellis converged (almost like a pincer movement) toward the hoop, giving Selden the nice lob opportunity to Perry. That was a great example of when we did attack it, and closed it out effectively. I noticed a couple other times where Frank took it in aggressively, but then he appeared to see the defense closing and made a split-second decision to pull it back out and set up the offensive set. I applaud that kind of decision-making.
Overall, using the same criteria AZ laid out, I really believe we did a very good job tonight in beating the press but then making mostly the right decisions on when to aggressively go for the quick bucket versus pulling back out to run our sets. And the nice thing tonight is boy, did we run our sets well. Our offense tonight, IMO, was a thing of beauty. Classic KU ball at its finest on display. Really nice to see!
Again, thanks for posting, and don't be shy!
Rock Chalk...
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
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8 years 9 months ago #3682
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
At 20+ years, you have been lurking for as long as some of old oldest members! Are you a KU grad, or just a fan? If the latter, what got you started? I've been an RCBer since 1996, and I know for sure Senex68 was here were I first found the site. Can't say for certain about any others (aside from Dave, of course). Sadly we have lost so many good contributors along the way since then 
(thankfully most to other priorities rearing their heads, and not the Grim Reaper).
Glad to see you finally choose to jump into the conversation.
To your question, I have nothing to add to what has already been written. Nice job, all, and one of the reasons I am still here 20 years later.
KU!
(thankfully most to other priorities rearing their heads, and not the Grim Reaper).Glad to see you finally choose to jump into the conversation.
To your question, I have nothing to add to what has already been written. Nice job, all, and one of the reasons I am still here 20 years later.
KU!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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8 years 9 months ago #3705
by Bayhawk
The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet
. . .to come!!! 
I found the board in 1996 but didn't register for a few years. You, our friend, probably hold the record for waiting the longest!
Cal Bear wife and I love Canada. I'll leave you with this bad joke: What does C N D spell? Canada (C eh, N eh, D eh).
O.K., no more jokes about the great white north,
RC
I found the board in 1996 but didn't register for a few years. You, our friend, probably hold the record for waiting the longest!
Cal Bear wife and I love Canada. I'll leave you with this bad joke: What does C N D spell? Canada (C eh, N eh, D eh).
O.K., no more jokes about the great white north,
RC
The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet
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