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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: It's time we have a conversation about Bill Self

« on: June 04, 2025, 02:11:23 PM »

If you don't know about John McLendon, you should. https://kuathletics.com/news/2021/10/8/a-tribute-to-coach-john-mclendon

thanks for this

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Fran Fraschilla Tweet. Funny stuff

« on: June 03, 2025, 04:25:57 PM »

Fran outing himself as a racist today

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Kansas State Football / Re: HUSKGUY

« on: June 03, 2025, 11:45:23 AM »

Tom

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: June 02, 2025, 06:43:43 PM »

Crazy that he shrunk two inches just between those middle paragraphs.

Adidas gear is notoriously inconsistent.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: June 01, 2025, 01:33:13 PM »

My numbers pretty clearly and obviously suggest that Dug and Tylor had nearly identical assist, turnover, and steal numbers, all less than .3 per game in each of those categories but Tylor is twice the scorer than Dug but I'm not going to post about it anymore because I can't tell if you're gEing or just not willing to come off the claim that Dug is better than Tylor despite what they objective measures are telling us.

The o ratings and win shares aren't close and I don't even think Dug would claim he's a better defender than Tylor.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: It's time we have a conversation about Bill Self

« on: May 30, 2025, 06:11:06 PM »

Is Jacque Vaugh(a)n replacing Norm Roberts or something?

yes.  They also fired Fred Quartlebaum this week. I'm assuming they will hire another DOBO and not just go without one.

Really makes you wonder whether he's HCIW.

ain't no way

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 30, 2025, 04:35:06 PM »

Mobi absolutely is a freak athlete, I'm hoping that he isn't playing a lot though. Tyreek Smith will lead the team in dunks, if he gets the waiver.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: It's time we have a conversation about Bill Self

« on: May 30, 2025, 04:32:32 PM »

Is Jacque Vaugh(a)n replacing Norm Roberts or something?

yes.  They also fired Fred Quartlebaum this week. I'm assuming they will hire another DOBO and not just go without one.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 30, 2025, 03:54:34 PM »

Upperclassmen on KSU team who have never recorded a dunk: Bashir, Marcus Johnson, PJ Haggerty and David Costillo. Will this be the least athletic team since Wooly?

I think you're conflating dunking with athleticism. I'm not going to pretend I know anything about Bashir and Johnson. Castillo is not athletic. Haggerty shot 414 2 point shots and 274 free throws, he can get to the rim as good as any college player we've seen in a long time. He's athletic, even if his vert might be lacking. Haggerty also has small hands, and below average reach and wingspan for his size, that really effects your ability to dunk.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 30, 2025, 03:47:24 PM »

he’s not the reason we didn’t make the tournament

No, the team was ass and poorly constructed but he was probably the worst starting point guard we've had since the Wooly era. We're replacing him with an all American. Even with the concerns I have about PJs turnover rate, I'm 100% sure he's going to be a better point guard than Dug.

man you and I have vastly different opinions on this dude.  you only have to look at who dug replaced to see a worse pg than he was.

wait, you aren't talking about Tylor Perry, are you?

i am.

ORating
Nowell 111.0
Perry 111.3
McDaniel  92.2

FG%
Nowell 38.6   
Perry  35.8
McDaniel  37.8

3PT%
Nowell  35.5
Perry  33.5 
McDaniel  25.8

FT%
Nowell  88.9 
Perry  90.9
McDaniel  72.4

eFG%
Nowell  48.1
Perry  48.2
McDaniel 42.2

True Shooting Percentage
Nowell 56.0
Perry  57.0
McDaniel  44.5

Assist Rate
Nowell  43.0
Perry  24.1
McDaniel  30.2

TOr
Nowell  20.4
Perry  19.6
McDaniel 19.5

Steal Percentage
Nowell  3.9
Perry  1.8
McDaniel  3.1

Fouls Drawn/40
Nowell  5.1
Perry  4.5
McDaniel 1.6

Win Shares
Nowell 6.3
Perry  4.2
McDaniel 1.4

Points
Nowell  633
Perry  519
McDaniel  366

Assists
Nowell 297   
Perry  148
McDaniel  158

Turnovers
Nowell 132
Perry  92
McDaniel 85

Steals
Nowell  92
Perry  54
McDaniel  54

Tylor won't get credit, because his team was bad, but he was much closer to Markquis than Dug. Dug was slightly better at getting assists than Tylor, but everything, outside of steals is really really lopsided. I think it's worth noting that Dug had the luxury of being able to pass the ball to Coleman Hawkins, Brendan Hausen, and senior year David N'Guessan. The only offensive weapon that Tylor had that was close was junior year David N'Guessan. Dug should have had a lot more assists than he did.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 29, 2025, 03:15:06 PM »

he’s not the reason we didn’t make the tournament

No, the team was ass and poorly constructed but he was probably the worst starting point guard we've had since the Wooly era. We're replacing him with an all American. Even with the concerns I have about PJs turnover rate, I'm 100% sure he's going to be a better point guard than Dug.

man you and I have vastly different opinions on this dude.  you only have to look at who dug replaced to see a worse pg than he was.

wait, you aren't talking about Tylor Perry, are you?

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 29, 2025, 08:16:00 AM »

he’s not the reason we didn’t make the tournament

No, the team was ass and poorly constructed but he was probably the worst starting point guard we've had since the Wooly era. We're replacing him with an all American. Even with the concerns I have about PJs turnover rate, I'm 100% sure he's going to be a better point guard than Dug.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 28, 2025, 09:08:03 PM »

probably would have been easier if we could have just kept dug

easier to miss the tournament and continue to be a joke, absolutely

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 28, 2025, 11:57:40 AM »

I'm a sunshine pumper but I am concerned that Haggerty has a really high TOr as a shooting guard but we're moving him to point guard. That being said the comparison to Tylor Perry is a bit foolish, for multiple reasons.

1. Haggerty is a better shooting guard
2. Haggerty plays completely different than Tylor did. Haggerty does get to the rim, in fact he's elite at it, probably the best in the nation. He's a developing 3 point shooter. Tylor was the opposite, he was a driveway shooter that we needed to get better at penetrating defenses. Tylor only took 94 2 point shots his senior year, Haggerty took 414 2 point shots last year. Tylor was really good at drawing fouls and getting to the line. He drew 4.5 fouls every 40 minutes and shot 176 FTs. Haggerty drew 6.1 fouls every 40 minutes and shot 274 FTs. He made 48 more FTs than Tylor shot his senior year.

Also you must be Mandela Effecting Tylor's senior year, because he was way better than you are making him out to be. His Offensive rating was 111.0, Markquis's was 111.3 his senior year. Steals, assists, and 2 pt FGs made were the only stats in which Markquis was noticeably better in. Markquis has the Big 12 record for assists* in a season and the NCAA Tournament record for assists in a game, there is no shame in not being a better passer than Markquis.

Apologies, he ended up two assists short of the Big 12 season record, 297 to Gottlieb's 299.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )

« on: May 26, 2025, 10:23:07 PM »

Those videos were crazy, luckily no one was killed

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 26, 2025, 10:15:52 PM »

Haggerty and Nate Johnson get to the line at an amazing rate. But the new assistant wants to fire up threes and neither are really great from range. Haggerty does rebound very well for a guard, with more than 5 a game.
FYI, phog is divided over whether this helps us or not. Everybody is pointing to Hawkins when they should be city Keyonte Johnson. I wonder if part of his incentive is a nice payday for winning in Allen?

1. Stay off the phog
2. We have shooters, we don't need the point guard to do it. Abdi Bashir and Marcus Johnson made 200 3s off of nearly 40% between the two of them last season.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 23, 2025, 05:38:46 PM »

Word on the streets is that we have the high bid for Haggerty

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Assistant Coach Rumor Thread

« on: May 22, 2025, 09:36:27 PM »

He's coached good, poachable players before, but it's mid May and the portal has been closed for weeks. Anyone who could get the hell out of North Florida left on the first thing smoking damn near two months ago.

True. But they aren’t tied to new schools yet. Could still poach them.

Well this year there were two who transferred to Indiana, if they enrolled in summer school they can't transfer. Not like they're going to leave Indiana anyway.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Assistant Coach Rumor Thread

« on: May 22, 2025, 03:13:06 PM »

He's coached good, poachable players before, but it's mid May and the portal has been closed for weeks. Anyone who could get the hell out of North Florida left on the first thing smoking damn near two months ago.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )

« on: May 21, 2025, 04:32:46 PM »

I'm so pissed I watched that. I'm glad the season is over. I hate this team so much.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )

« on: May 21, 2025, 04:00:07 PM »

god rough ridin' damnit, eff utd

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )

« on: May 18, 2025, 11:09:22 AM »

The literal first tweet when I opened twitter
https://x.com/MenInBlazers/status/1924133527378874631

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )

« on: May 18, 2025, 11:05:39 AM »

Ego Nwodim wore a palace jersey for the SNL closing credits last night

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Kansas State Football / Re: what if avery johnston is a complete badass??

« on: May 18, 2025, 11:02:06 AM »

Guys, Coleman was awesome.  C'mon.

He wasn't awesome. He was one of the two best players on a very disappointing team. Al of his numbers were down from the previous season other than rebounds and assists. This wasn't his fault, it was his usage that him shooting 7% worse from the 3 point line, 7% worse from the field, and 22% worse from the free throw line.

More to the point of this thread, it's silly as hell to think that any issues Coleman Hawkins may have had will be any sort of and issue with Avery, he's the real deal and it's weird to be worried about it.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )

« on: May 17, 2025, 05:45:16 PM »

I cannot imagine what it feels like to be a long time palace fan today. I was a Red Sox fan in '04 but I wasn't one for that long. 119 years without a trophy is insane. I imagine there will be a lot of scarves and pints being left on gravesites this weekend.

It's been longer than that for K-State athletics. I hope my kids or grandkids aren't visiting my gravesite one day because I wasn't alive to see a championship.