SlamSam here... I figure I should get the PI out of the way and post in here. I've been a lurker in Hale for awhile now. I grew up a K-State fan, but never followed it as informed as you guys have allowed me to my first three years of college. Unfortunately, this leads to my positive attitude toward our Cats right now (since I haven't experienced more than 4 or 5 meltdowns myself and the extreme KITN endings). I like what I see from our team's offense. It seems like we use our possessions a little more carefully than at the beginning of conference play with a few exceptions. Jake's ability to run the clock down to 10 seconds and create has been a lot of fun to watch and has been key to us controlling the last few games (less time with the ball in the other teams hands to make a comeback). JHR has made an interesting improvement, learning to take that drop step to the basket which gives him quite the advantage instead of going to the middle where everyone can make a play on his below average hook shot. Curt is Curt (a beautiful human being with very few flaws). The big one that is missing is JamSam. If we could get him to step it up to half the
of last year's performance in the Big 12 tournament,
. If not, I think we are still ok. Defense has been pretty wicked lately, the only downside is that we see a lot of
and it kills me every time they decide to move their hands from that straight up position. If we continue to play how we have the last couple of games, I'm pretty confident about our runs in the Big 12 Tourney (Championship game) and NCAA (sweet sixteen)
