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[jtksu]

Not nearly as disappointing as your fans' trip to OKC.

[Booze_Cat]

Not nearly as disappointing as your fans' trip to OKC.

 

[Belvis Noland]

I'm sure the 5,000 fans that bothered to show up for a top 10 team's Midnight Madness were awfully disappointed.   

It wasmore like 8-9K if I had to estimate.  2/3 full.  Nothing spectacular.  But, certainly not a dissapointment. 

Returners:  Not much to report.  pretty much a globe trotters expo out there.  At one point, it was 6 on 6.  JHR - still super skinny.  But he's legit 7'0, coordinated, fast (relatively) and can move well.  He's also got good ball handling skills and touch.  Not a bad combination.  Irving can jump.  really, really high.  he also looked jacked.  by virtue of clemente's departure, he's gonna get a lot of minutes.  i guess we'll see if he can sink/swim. 

Newcomers:  spradling can stroke.  probably the most pure form shooter on the team.  I can see him giving some quality white guy minutes this year.  Southwell is built like lance harris.  Longer arms.  athletic as crap.  other than the long arms, didn't see much comparison to Akim Wright.  quicker, better ball handler.  Asprilla (pronounced Ass-puh-rilo by our dumbass announcer) looked a lot smaller than I expected.  Maybe 6'6, 6'7.  Didn't do anything out there.  Juevol looked terrible. 

     

[skycat]

Nino?

[jtksu]

How the hell could Spri only be 6'6" or 6'7"?

[j-von]

Nino?

Adorable smile

[Dr Rick Daris]

How the hell could Spri only be 6'6" or 6'7"?

dunno. but if you look at the second post in thread you will notice that i reported this as well and i am very "in tune" with things like this. i'm very sleuthy. guy is just not that tall. seemed pretty happy go lucky though. exact opposite of what i expected.

[Belvis Noland]

dunno. but if you look at the second post in thread you will notice that i reported this as well and i am very "in tune" with things like this. i'm very sleuthy. guy is just not that tall. seemed pretty happy go lucky though. exact opposite of what i expected.

He looked pretty akward at times.  Not, in a basketball kind of way, though.  More in a human interaction kind of way.  Had kind of a dumb grin on his face half the time.  As long as he can ball, I don't really give a crap if he's awkard. 

As far as his balling ability, see the rest of the posts.  It was an exhibition.  Probably Definately would have rather watched 20 minutes of little cat slam jam.


Asspuhrillo may be 6'8 if he wears thick-soled shoes. 

[jtksu]

Well crap.  I was kinda penciling him at the 5.  Colon sucked but at least he had the body of a center.

[mcmwcat]

fwiw, Freddy is taller than Lou

[Belvis Noland]

fwiw, Freddy is taller than Lou

I disagree. 

[jtksu]

So Sweet Lou was only like 6'6"?  eff, he looked quite a bit taller than that?  He was taller than CK- how tall is CK then?  Like 6'5"?  I thought this team was supposed to be long...

[Belvis Noland]

So Sweet Lou was only like 6'6"?  eff, he looked quite a bit taller than that?  He was taller than CK- how tall is CK then?  Like 6'5"?  I thought this team was supposed to be long...

Sweet Lou was a legit 6'9-6'10. 

[jtksu]

That's what I thought.  I also (apparently mistakenly) thought Freddy was in the 6'9"-6'10" neighborhood.

[Belvis Noland]

pictures speak a thousand words.  Anybody have any photos from MM? 

I'm just passing on my own observation from 15 rows back.  He didn't look that tall.  Looked a few inches shorter than Kelly. 

[Belvis Noland]

Draw your own conclusions.  It looks to me like Luis and Freddy are about the same size.

[Underdog Wildcat]

2 quick observations:

1. Irving can really get up. I knew Judge was an elite dunker and he absolutely lived up to that, but to me, Irving was the most pleasant surprise of the dunk contest, I just don't recall him being that athletic last year. Doesn't guarantee him success on the hardwood as a KSU Cat, but certainly can't hurt him.

2. Gruds was the only dude to shoot a true jump shot during the 3 point contest. Props to him for not selling out.

[Mixed-Nutz]

Draw your own conclusions.  It looks to me like Luis and Freddy are about the same size.

Freddy has an excessively relaxed posture.

[Dr Rick Daris]

Draw your own conclusions.  It looks to me like Luis and Freddy are about the same size.

Freddy has an excessively relaxed posture.

freddy also has about six inches of hair in that pic. man, oh man though. i can't believe how much better he looks now. it's like kstate takes their basketball players and puts them into some kind of how to look really handsome school or something as soon as they arrive on campus. just incredible work.

[mcmwcat]

fwiw: http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=44981.msg635994#msg635994

[doom]

fwiw: http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=44981.msg635994#msg635994

Copy/paste

[hemmy]

Here it is:

was eatin tailgate next to bball tailgate and undies was talking to cruits about how ku and texas would be the best 2 teams in the country   saying ku had 8 pros and 3 lotteries   also heard him talking about elite non con sched for ksu. 

saw asprilla and was like he aint as big as colon.  then standing next to each other asprilla was actually bigger.

then high stepped past wally back to the tgate when we scored to make it 38-0 right before half

[jtksu]

Sweet.  Not sure why, but I'm really jazzed about the thought of having a legit 5 for once.  One that doesn't consider 8 pts a great night.

[SleepFighter]

fwiw: http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=44981.msg635994#msg635994

I remember this thread because it was when I learned what the word "allometrically" means.