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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Claws’s Legacy
« on: March 20, 2019, 09:11:29 PM »
 :combofan:
a pretty big plus that wade has going in his favor is that he is a kansas kid. for some reason that makes a difference in how people think of players. like, people love sproles and jordy but they love them a lot more because they both grew up in ks and went to ks highschools. if barry was from abilene and dean was from wisconsin, it would be amazing how much more love bbj would get and how much less dean would get. boom there's a new take for everyone.
You mean like how Ed Nealy was a Kansas kid and therefore has his jersey hanging in the rafters.  And is more remembered and revered than Blackman and Mitch. 
(For you that don't know KSU basketball, Ed Nealy is the all time leading rebounder and played for the Bulls) 

Fans love great KSU players no matter where they are from. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: recruiting
« on: March 18, 2019, 08:39:55 AM »
murphy looks like he should be rated higher, though the competition doesn't look great in that video. he's got skills
Hes a four star rated number 80 on ESPN.  (Scout)   Transferred to Concordian LUtheran high school last fall where Weber said the coaches have improved his three point shot.  Murphy attended our A$M game and Weber said then that he has grown and is pushing 6ft 9.   He certainly looks like a guy that can be about as good as the work he is will to put in to continue growing his game.  We'll have to see about that part. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: recruiting
« on: March 16, 2019, 06:38:39 PM »
This kid should help.  DaJuan Gordon plays in Peoria tonight.

4A: Belleville West (32-4) vs. Curie (34-1), 7:15 p.m.
The game of the weekend. The Belleville West Maroons are the defending Class 4A state champions and the Chicago Curie Condors are the state’s current top-ranked team.
“It’s going to sell tickets,” Curie coach Mike Oliver said. “I love the challenge and we got it. I told the guys if you want to be the best we have to go down there and beat Belleville West.”
Both teams are experienced and have star power. For Belleville West it is EJ Liddell, an Ohio State recruit and the reigning Mr. Basketball. For Curie it is DaJuan Gordon, the Sun-Times Player of the Year and Kansas State recruit.

https://www.suntimeshighschoolsports.com/2019/03/07/2019-chicago-sun-times-player-year-curie-dajuan-gordon/
i hope Gordon is a star but he was our 2nd or 3rd choice and not recruited by big boys
Seriously, 4 star and Chicago Player of the Year.  Murphy pushing for best player in Houston. 

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 :Chirp:
I'll be satisfied (which shouldn't mean anything to anyone else) when we've stopped being the "surprise" team of the year, picked to finish middle-of-the-pack in the Big XII and go into a year with the actual expectation as being either the team to beat or one of the teams to beat.

That goes for football as well.

To that end, I don't care who the coach is, what he looks like or what his/her demeanor is (almost). If they can get us past the conference championship once a generation is good enough for me/us mentality, then I like them.
Quess you are saying that you are satisfied with our basketball program since thats exactly what we did this year.  Good for you.

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Impressed with this thread.
Posters who don't like to watch basketball explaining how they do not watch KSU basketball win a championship. 

For those of you bragging about not watching..  A few things you missed seeing this year.
Two all Big 12 players.
Big 12 defensive player of the year.
Beating KU in front of a packed house.
Finishing first in the league with KU in third.
Full and packed Bramlage celebrating KSU wining the Big 12 championship at home for the first time since 1977.
The most mentally and physically tough KSU team I have seen in 30 years or so.  (Ask OU how it felt to get abused yesterday)

Now we go for the Big 12 tournament and an NCAA run.  (Probably need another thread for you to brag about missing that too)

Regarding next year,
Diarra, McGuirl, SNW, Mak, Trice, Sneed plus other big men that may already be on the team or might not.

4 new recruits including the Chicago Sun Times city player of the year, another guy who might be player of the year in Houston, a 6ft 9 guy from Lawton OK averaging 26 points and 12 rebounds a game with four games this year over 40 points. 

Get your "I don't care and I don't watch thread ready."  All the the basketball fans on this forum will be impressed.

Also, Bramlage was overflowing yesterday with basketball fans who liked what they were seeing including a packed student section who were on Spring break. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Makol Mawien
« on: March 07, 2019, 06:36:26 PM »
Mak was 5 for 6 from the field.
6 rebounds and most in traffic. 
A steal plus a few other times he poked a ball away that helped lead to KSU having 5 team steals.
Good ball screen defense even if TCUs big man scored 17,  Some of those scores were against other defenders and some were just great pick and roll offense by TCU.  Still Mak was part of the defense that made Alex Robinson look bad when he drove into the middle.
 
Two bad turnovers by Mak.  One on the lob from McGuirl, one on the pass from Wade.  Also got called for a walk that was just a bad call where the ref did not see the ball knocked loose by TCU before Mak grabbed it again. 

Not a perfect game by Mak but solid enough. 

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  OP is trolling by copying and pasting a post that was on another web site.  He feels this douche move was very creative but it didn't get the response he expected.  He should ask his mom's advice next time.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Big 12 Arenas
« on: February 15, 2019, 06:11:18 PM »
I'll date myself.

Ahearn, like Allen, changed over the year, For the first 20 after opening in 1951, its entire interior surface was dirt. Games were played on a raised platform floor. Sometime in the ealry 70s, they put in the running track and some kind of synthetic court. That court was used only one year because it wasn't kind to legs.

Seating dropped from 13k plus when it opened to just more than 10 kin its last year. Some end zone bleachers seats had views restricted by court side. Basically little league baseball stands.  There would sometimes be mud puddles you had to walk around.In the late 70s, I watched games from the student seating, wich was courtsid to the north and the mable eastern third of the sourth court side.

It was a loud, great experience. But restrooms were a horror. Unlike in its early days, fans couldn't smoke in their seats, bbut they could go down behind the bleachers at have time and light up. There was often a haze of smoke handing around the second half. Photos from the 50s capture a constate smoke haze.
During the early 80s Blackman years, a guy I worked for bought me season tickets in the metal balcony in the west end zone. I remember watching the 96-69 win against KU from there in which a staggered VD. Valentine walked the ball up court late in the game so that we didn't score 100.

BB ended at Ahearn after 37 years. Bram is now 31 years old. Games at Doom can get just as loud, but its not as consistently crazy as when we competed for championships every year.
  I agree with your recollections except the Doom can not get as loud as Ahearn.   The fans make as much noise but the acoustics are nothing like Ahearn.
 For example
 Former Kansas State coach Tex Winter said in his biography Trial By Basketball: "Kansas State won a lot of ballgames because of that crowd. Many times during timeouts you couldn't hear yourself talk. All I could do was scribble a play on the floor. The crowd there never died, even in one of our lulls – the crowd would come alive and pick us up."

The other thing Ahearn had was students filled the east side bleachers and they were within six feet of the floor.  Very intimidating for other teams.  Wish they would modify Bramalage to allow students that close.  Maybe there are rules prohibitying it now but it would also get the students competing for those front row seats like we used to do a Ahearn.


Also,  The changing fire codes did drop capacity but not to 10,000.
Changing fire codes over the years forced changes to the seating arrangements that eventually reduced seating capacity to 12,220 for the 1987-1988 season, the final season of men's basketball at Ahearn. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: mid range jump shots
« on: February 15, 2019, 04:17:01 PM »
Least efficie :combofan:nt shot in basketball? We don’t give a crap.
And yet the teams taking around 30% are in the upper half of the Big 12. OSU and WVU take the least and are at the bottom of the Big 12. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Makol Mawein
« on: February 13, 2019, 08:23:47 AM »
Mak was 5 for 7 last night and stopped most of the UT lobs to their big men.  11 points compared to 9 for Jaxson Hayes in similar minutes.  Big part of the win. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Texas thread
« on: February 13, 2019, 08:17:51 AM »
Texas has MM.
We have wierd Robert.

How did that work out last night. 

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Big 12 conference championship in basketball is equal to one in football.  And if we stop KUs streak it is better.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: underappreciated.
« on: February 09, 2019, 08:52:10 PM »
Some believe Kam is not better as a senior than he was as a freshman. There are some major differences we have seen in Big 12 play from his freshman year.
1.   Decision making on offense this year has been at a high level.  Shot selection, pushing the break or pulling it back out, etc. 
2.  His turnovers are way donw and particularly the bad pass turnover from trying to force something that is'nt there.  Or throwing a kickout pass that misses his target. 
3.  Passing has really been good.  Very crisp and strong.  He is doing a lot to get the ball to Dean in the right position. 
4.  His defense including on the ball, help and forcing turnovers is really strong this year. 

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How big of a tuck would you have to be to chant F-B-I at KU?
Guess you nailed me.  I would do it in a second.  Very meaningful in KUs current state of affairs. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Texas Tech
« on: January 23, 2019, 05:48:13 PM »
despite being always right, i have low bbiq. we seem to be passing a lot better to the point where they get carried away sometimes. offense is way more watchable. what's going on? talk dirty to me
Hitting shots helped build their confidence. They look less hesitant in passing and getting to the rim. Communication looks better, especially defensively. Wade's come back timed with winning on the road made a perfect storm for his confidence and team chemistry, imo. Everyone knows they need him and I'm not certain everyone thought that before...could be wrong. Kam's role is clearer, and he is filling it well. Trust is big, and they seem to have it in each other and coaches right now.

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Great post.  I would also add that they went back to running Webers motion offense about the time Wade came back and the off ball screens in motion offense are creating some open looks. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Master Dudes Thread
« on: December 31, 2018, 07:23:07 PM »
Goodnews is now enrolled at KSU and practicing.  Unexpected to me and I am sure he will not play this year but will be a start for next year.
https://www.google.com/search?q=goodnews+kpegeol+highlights&oq=goodnews&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0j69i59j69i61j69i60l2.6146j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Ken pom has us ranked number 2 in the nation in defensive efficiency adjusted for opponent. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: FOOTWATCH 2018
« on: December 17, 2018, 08:52:36 PM »
He is out 2 to 8 weeks with a torn fascia. (The ligament that runs along the bottom of your foot from your heel to your toes and supports the arch.)

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South Carolina lost to a 2 and 6 Wyoming team last night.  Now 4 and 4 with the losses all being to bad teams.  Total of 13 wins by the four teams USC has beatern.  Now have a tough 3 game stretch in front of them.   

outh Carolina Upstate   W
2   Stony Brook   L
3   Norfolk State   W
4   Providence   L
5   George Washington   W
6   Wofford   L
7   Coastal Carolina   W
8   Wyoming   L
9   Michigan (5)   
10   Virginia (4)   
11   Clemson   
12   North Greenville   
13   Florida

Is Frank's offense still a huge dump and chase clusterfuck?

I gotta think the myriad "points of emphasis" are impeding his defensive philosophy
I honestly don't follow them enough to know.  Reading the SC and Illinois message boards, sounds like man to man pressure defense without guys like Pullen and crew is hard to pull off.  Need really good athletes who know how to guard one on one.  Otherwise, you get lots of breakdowns and chasing like Underwood had at OSU til he reined in the pressure.
Also sounds like SC does not have a good point guard and does not shoot threes well.  Sounds like our team this year but at a much higher level of dysfunction.  I still think it is early in the year for SC and they could start performing better.  However, the season is moving on and they are running out of time. 

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South Carolina lost to a 2 and 6 Wyoming team last night.  Now 4 and 4 with the losses all being to bad teams.  Total of 13 wins by the four teams USC has beatern.  Now have a tough 3 game stretch in front of them.   

outh Carolina Upstate   W
2   Stony Brook   L
3   Norfolk State   W
4   Providence   L
5   George Washington   W
6   Wofford   L
7   Coastal Carolina   W
8   Wyoming   L
9   Michigan (5)   
10   Virginia (4)   
11   Clemson   
12   North Greenville   
13   Florida   

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Stokes is capable of having good games, wetwillie. He also has games like Penn where Oscar has to have Barry run point because Stokes pounded the ball at the top of the key for an entire half and we looked like dogshit. The reason that some people prefer Barry or Cartier at point is that they keep the ball moving, even if they're not shooting well that night. If Stokes isn't shooting well, he stops moving the ball, and the offense becomes about getting him on track, which should not be the ultimate goal.
Did you watch all the games in tournament.  Kam moves the b

We looked like crap because we did not make open shots.  We made those same shots against Missouri and the offense looked good.
In my opinion this offense does not have a point guard in the half court.  This offense is four guys outside who play positionless and one guy inside.  Any one of the four outside can create offense or get the benefit of an open shot from one of the other players creating.  When scoring is hard to come by, Brown and Claws are the best creators and finishers and are goiing to get the ball.

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Guys, there's no reason to disregard the optimism for this team. We watched them beat 5 NBA players in the Sweet Sixteen without Claws. Saw several role players play great in the tourney. Forecast is reasonable. Hopefully they clean things up soon. I would start by sitting Stokes and starting Diarra.
  That might happen as soon as Diarra plays better than Kam.  So far he hasn't. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: The Trice is Right
« on: November 14, 2018, 09:21:55 PM »
Trice hit 35 of 59 free throws at Moberly his freshman year for 59.3%.  His form is not bad.  You can not judge how a juco player shoots free throws til at least half way through the season and some times longer.  Trice was so excited he was lucky to hit the rim in the first game.  Didn't even remember to use a pre shot routine.
You'll have to wait a while to determine if he can make free throws. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Stokes
« on: November 14, 2018, 09:07:57 PM »
Kam played 39 minutes against Kentucky and we won.  That seemed OK to me.

Against Denver he had three steals, four rebounds, drew at least one charge, forced a couple of other turnovers, three assists and two turovers.

He didn't make shots.  Diarra didn't make shots.  One of them needs to step up and put it in the basket to earn more playing time than the other guy.  If we're lucky, they both start hitting shots and Weber has a tough decision. 

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