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Author Topic: How are you liking "ugly" basketball?  (Read 1030 times)

January 24, 2007, 02:23:05 PM
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It's being stated more and more that playing hard is not an inate trait . . . that playing  hard has to be learned. 

The problem I always had in the past was that Wooly's teams NEVER played hard enough to overcome other areas.   I think if this team keeps playing hard, tough defense, and hitting the boards, and limiting turnovers then many things can be overcome.   If they slouch back into half ass Wooly ball, they're only prayer is to be on fire from the field and how often has this crew pulled that off??


January 24, 2007, 02:26:06 PM
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If they slouch back into half ass Wooly ball, they're only prayer is to be on fire from the field and how often has this crew pulled that off??

Never consistently, but they had some incredible stretches vs. BU and aTm.  I know against the Ags they scored on like 10 of 11 possessions.

January 24, 2007, 02:28:34 PM
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Agreed. Slowly but surely they will adopt the Huggball concept, I just don't think we're all the way there yet and have a few hiccups left up our sleeve.
Hope I'm wrong....                :hope:


Cheesy Mustache QB might make an appearance.

New warning: Don't get in a fight with someone who doesn't even need to bother to buy ink.

January 24, 2007, 02:29:55 PM
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"Ugly Basketball"

A term used by ku fans to describe any style of play by an opponent that results in a ku loss. 

January 24, 2007, 02:38:12 PM
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"Ugly Basketball"

A term used by ku fans to describe any style of play by an opponent that results in a ku loss. 

This should probably be added to the Basketball IQ test.

January 24, 2007, 04:12:56 PM
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Ugly Basketball may have originated from Jack Hartman's game plan against teams we didn't match up against well.  The zone defense coupled with that four corners offense made for some ugly viewing.  You could literally leave your seat, hit the john, grab a coke and popcorn and return to your seat all in the same KSU offensive posession.

January 24, 2007, 04:40:17 PM
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the ability to win on the road is nice.

really nice.

January 24, 2007, 07:05:47 PM
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We are not going to score 80 points/game vs competition equal to us regularly.  I like the fact that we generally hold the ball a while on offense.  however we've looked pretty good when teams try to press us and have gotten a lot of points by breaking press with passes up the court.  Wooly's teams NEVER did that.  I also like how everyone plays D this year, lances is still lacking at time but he's trying much much harder than I've ever seen him.  Cartier this year to past years is no comparison, he's drawn tons of charges this year with his help D and has gotten all kinds of easy putbacks on the offensive end.

January 24, 2007, 07:07:01 PM
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This should probably be added to the Basketball IQ test.

Slimz, get on that.  It should have a reference to Kelvin Sampson's 'thug ball' concepts of basketball.  With one of those classic Bob Davis lines:

"And they're gonna call it on Kansas"??!!!?