WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.480 Well, the last time we did a show, I said 2 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:06.559 that there was one sad land in the notes, and 3 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.919 I said that we would have one Sad Landing for 4 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:12.880 every loss they had this year. So tell me, boys, 5 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:15.599 when you open the notes to do today's podcast, how 6 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:17.039 many sad Landing's are there? 7 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:17.239 Now? 8 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:22.879 I'm seeing the first one, and then right right next 9 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:25.440 to it, there does appear to be a second one. 10 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:26.559 That's two. 11 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:29.960 Did you guys notice it? In that bad? Landon looks 12 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.039 like he's in the backdrop of like the Joe Rogan 13 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.079 studio with like the red curtains. 14 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:36.439 It does that. 15 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.960 The only waits the actual setting for that. So that 16 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:43.159 was Landon. Who was I believe you were just like 17 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:45.159 six at that point. No, you were seventeen. 18 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.240 You were watching the selection show in eighteen when Kansas's 19 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:52.200 region of death was unfailed, and you and Nick were 20 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.799 doing a live stream where you just couldn't help but 21 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.600 bury your face into your hands because you were convinced 22 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.439 that if Marvin bag He didn't send your Jayhawks home, 23 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:04.879 it would for sure be tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans. 24 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:09.239 At spoiler alert, neither one did. Villanova did. So that's 25 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:12.079 Lala looking quite said, yeah. 26 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.599 Yeah, I would take tom Izzo's team right now, just 27 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:16.640 saying I can't believe him saying that I would take 28 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.079 tom Izzo's team. I can't wait to talk about this team. 29 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.760 What a what a fall from grace in a week? 30 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.040 What a difference a week can make too, sad landings, 31 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:28.439 And we're not even to Christmas yet. At least Jeff 32 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.439 Grimes is dead, right? Is that Is that something we 33 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:35.359 can celebrate on this show? J Yeah, yeah, he'ssen Okay, 34 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:37.560 he is so not ready to get rid of that. 35 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:39.640 On the seventh day. 36 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:42.480 He comes back to bull eligible. I can feel it. 37 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:47.040 Yeah. On the seventh day, Jalen Daniels pulled up his 38 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.120 raising canes apron, put in some fries, and made eight 39 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:52.879 million dollars venile money to throw twenty four picks and 40 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.400 lead Kansas to three and nine. I'm so positive right 41 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:00.040 now about Kansas Athletics. If you guys couldn't tell, Yeah. 42 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.599 Yeah, Well he's probably gonna be throwing the like mac 43 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.319 level wide receivers next year. 44 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.319 So yeah, maybe this is the year they'll beat Kansas State. Right, 45 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.560 Surely Lucy can't pull that football out from from me 46 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:12.199 this time. 47 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:13.560 Never happened. 48 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.319 Yeah, no way, they blows this year. 49 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:21.360 That was a fluke, you know, from one rival to another. 50 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.479 Because Bill self got off the bus and led his 51 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:26.560 Jayhawks into Missouri Arena to play. 52 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.039 Did he really know? 53 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:34.400 And oh my and oh my gosh, then this happened. 54 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:42.360 It was like that they watched that Creighton uh whatever 55 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.800 you want to call it. That that game that happened 56 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.360 that had most of us by and large saying, Okay, 57 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:49.759 you're playing a team that was due to play well, 58 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.479 and they did, and they beat you in a loud environment. 59 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.080 You know, as long as they bounce back and take 60 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.800 care of business, you'll feel pretty good about where they're at. 61 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.800 And they just showed up looking like eh, Like I 62 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.199 struggled with the effort thing for a while. I wanted 63 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.639 to say it was more about Missouri getting Kansas rattled 64 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.599 and playing well, which other teams do sometimes. But on 65 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:13.520 the that was a game that was so much worse 66 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.280 on the rewatch. You guys ever have those, They played 67 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.400 bad and you rewatch part of it, so you think, Okay, 68 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:21.719 maybe it wasn't as bad, Maybe it just didn't go 69 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.800 in the basket. Stuff like that sucked so much worse 70 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:26.840 on the rewatch for me, all sucked. 71 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:27.719 Yeah. 72 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.639 Agree, they didn't even get off the I think so 73 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.120 much of it is Yeah, I think a lot of 74 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.560 it is the It is the intensity that you expect. 75 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:39.080 And like Twitter, Warriors like to think that they should 76 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.039 bring their pitchforks and fire torches into Columbia because the 77 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.639 teams hated each other one hundred years ago. But like, no, 78 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.639 that definitely looked like a team that was well disinterested. 79 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:53.919 I think that, Like, we've watched eighty minutes of Kansas 80 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.919 basketball this week where they were outscored by a total 81 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.159 of what twenty two points something, Yeah, twenty two points 82 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.719 and they played like eight good minutes. 83 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.919 The other seventy were awful. Yeah. I think all, like 84 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:10.280 Kansas bad losses at one point or another have a 85 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:12.400 run where you get hope and then that run is 86 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:17.519 just completely diminished by just a terrible mid range transition 87 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:22.040 jumper or if you're Kja Adams, it's ten foot floater. Yeah. 88 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:24.800 Yeah, then there was one. There was one that worked 89 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:26.680 against him on the other end. It was it was 90 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.240 in a lot of ways, your classic. It was the 91 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.079 perfect Kansas the last couple of years on the road game, 92 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:35.319 the deficit got a little bigger than I thought it would. 93 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:38.399 If the biggest the deficit got was like fourteen, I 94 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.879 would say that's every Kansas game on the road the 95 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.600 last two years. But it got worse, and then it 96 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.600 almost was all for not and then it was so 97 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.759 here we go. This is inside the paint on rock 98 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:51.160 Chok blog. Two losses in two shows. I'm Ryan Landrath, 99 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.360 I'm double as Sad Landing Fields. 100 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.240 And I'm sure, hey, o Towny's bookie, sign me up. 101 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.000 Hey, he's only making two million dollars a year till 102 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.360 he retires, sir, he could use a few bucks from 103 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:08.199 what I understand. So let's talk about those Jayhawks. They 104 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.800 went into Colombia, their second road game in as many days. 105 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:13.879 And well it went like this. 106 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.439 Oh I wanted to push the crash drop, but I 107 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:20.160 have ads all over this freaking thing. There we go, 108 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:23.519 We're off to a very Kansas in Columbia sort of 109 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:27.959 start here. Let's let's give it a go, all right. Well, 110 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:29.399 the good thing is we won't have to see that 111 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:32.000 pesky number one in front of their name for probably 112 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:32.720 the rest of the year. 113 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:36.360 Now, Missouri seventy, now you get two of them, Number 114 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:38.800 one Kansas sixty seven. 115 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.879 Man, all right, who wants to read? Who wants to 116 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:44.920 tell me what happened? 117 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.040 I go ahead, lean and you have fun. Yeah, I'll 118 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:51.120 save my rage for later. 119 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.040 Fresh off whatever you want to call the Creighton game bad. 120 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.360 The Jayhawks responded by putting forth one of the worst 121 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:02.519 first halves in modern cool history, scoring twenty five points 122 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.639 and turning it over just ten less times than that 123 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:09.360 fifteen turnovers in the first half. That they trailed by 124 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.839 fourteen after the break and fell behind by as many 125 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.480 as twenty four with fourteen minutes left, seemed like they 126 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.800 were well on their way just getting trounced. It was 127 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.759 at that point, and a furious comeback was made as 128 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:23.720 Kansas cut the deficit from twenty. 129 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.639 Four to two with a thirty to eight. 130 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:27.439 Run that I think had a lot more to do 131 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:32.399 with defense and Missouri going extremely cold than Kansas, but nonetheless, 132 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:35.800 with two minutes left, Missouri led to sixty five sixty 133 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:39.959 three and twenty five percent. Shooter Mark Mitchell, Kansasity native 134 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.040 Mark Mitchell hoisted a line drive three at the rim 135 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:45.279 toward the end of the shot clock in a very 136 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.959 good defensive possession. It went in and that ended the 137 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:51.759 comeback hopes. Missouri wins by nine. The result was the 138 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:53.639 team second loss of the week and their second court 139 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.480 storm of the week as well. So let's just start 140 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:58.600 off job by talking about what's wrong with the team. 141 00:06:58.720 --> 00:06:59.759 Cam take it. 142 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:05.160 Yeah, So everyone sit down, grab a cup of coffee 143 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:07.920 or tea, whatever time it is of night's let's talk 144 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:12.000 Bill Self, head coach, Bill Self, hall of famer. We 145 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.399 talk about him all the time. Great guy, great coach. 146 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.720 He has completely butchered the start of the season and 147 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:21.720 completely mismanaged this roster. Bill Self said last year, we 148 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.800 can't do this again. Guys, we need scores. So let's 149 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:26.759 go into the portal. And he goes into the portal. 150 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.199 Kansas spends millions of dollars, millions of dollars for guys 151 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.519 to come and play basketball. And you know what those 152 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.959 guys aren't doing. They're not playing basketball. You get Ryland 153 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.319 Griffin on the bench. I don't care if he is 154 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:43.759 one hundred and five to side, you put him in 155 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:48.040 the game. It doesn't matter. I am one more kJ 156 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:51.319 Adams mid range floater that has no chance of going 157 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.360 in away from checking into a psych ward kJ Adams 158 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.519 could not score in a whorehouse outside of five feet 159 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:03.439 It's un believable. You have a guy that went into 160 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.120 the portal and said this won't work, guys, we can't 161 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.319 do this anymore, and he runs it back with the 162 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:12.639 same offense. You go to your biggest rival in college sports, 163 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.720 arguably at all of college sports. This goes back to 164 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.680 the Civil War, and you have a team of seniors 165 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.680 that come in look completely disinterested, get fire bombed in 166 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:22.800 the first half, and Bill self has his thumb up 167 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.480 as butt, going wow, I wonder why the two non 168 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.439 scorers aren't scoring baskets while I have scorers on the bench. 169 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.639 Oh my gosh, All right, that's my rant. But geez man, 170 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:37.440 this team blows. And by the way, if if nothing changes, no, 171 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:40.639 I'm not done. If nothing changes and this team continues 172 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:42.960 on the trajectory that it's on right now, they won't 173 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:46.200 win anything. I don't care what anyone says. And if 174 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.559 any mouth breathing degenerates come into our mentions on Twitter 175 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.279 and say Hunter Dickinson was a problem. If Hunter Dickinson 176 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.879 didn't play this game, Kansas loses by twenty five plus, 177 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.039 He's not the problem. The problem is the rotations, and 178 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.600 it is unbelievable. This team is the best on paper 179 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.639 roster since ten twenty eleven, and we're watching them struggle 180 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.639 to get out of the sixties. And yes, they'll probably 181 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:09.240 be fine, and I'll look like a moron in a 182 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:10.639 couple of weeks. But that's my take. 183 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:15.080 I mean, basically, everything that you said there I believe 184 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.919 has all the ingredients in place to be true, and 185 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.480 Bill self has the opportunity all the ingredients in place 186 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:22.039 to make sure. 187 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:22.399 It's not. 188 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.200 Because you took a team last year that struggled despite 189 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.519 looking great on paper because a couple of the guys 190 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:32.039 they were counting on to be secondary pieces it didn't 191 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.320 work out. And you leaned on kJ, Adams, Dewan Harris 192 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:37.960 and Hunter Dickinson, who all have their talents and all 193 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.080 have their strengths, but only one as a scorer, and 194 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.879 together making up sixty percent of your lineup the majority 195 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.440 of the time, you leave room for a lot to 196 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:48.240 be desired. You don't have a lot of shooting on 197 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.200 the floor, you don't have a lot of athleticism on 198 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.399 the floor. And the defense, it's fair to question, especially 199 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.240 with Hunter and kJ and to one having his worst 200 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.600 defensive season last year, and look what happened. They lost 201 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.600 eleven times. They lost ten of their final twenty one games. 202 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:04.720 Now you run that back. 203 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:06.000 And you go go ahead. 204 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.159 No, also in after the game, Bill just come down 205 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.000 off the cross from you man, quit being a preacher. 206 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.080 Your team knows. The whole thing with Bill self is 207 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.320 it takes time for him to develop to develop trust 208 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.279 in his players. But when you're watching your team getting 209 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.679 boat raced in a rivalry game and you have a 210 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.200 guy on the floor that doesn't bring offense to the table, 211 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.080 what do you else do you need to see? Did 212 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:27.679 you guys see the quote? After the game, He's like, 213 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.039 I know in theory who the best players are, you know, 214 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:32.480 and who should be starting? But I have who shouldn't start? 215 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:33.320 In theory? 216 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.679 Who are five starters should be? But I haven't seen 217 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:36.519 it in practice yet? 218 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:37.440 But what are you like? 219 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.240 What do you need to see? Like? I don't know. 220 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:45.200 He's an amazing coach, but Lord, clearly that quote is 221 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:47.919 directed at Ryland Griffin and aj Store. 222 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:49.480 Those are the two guys. 223 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.000 That were in the starting lineup in the first three 224 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.240 games of the year, at least one of them was, 225 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.799 and now they're not. And Ryland Griffin, as you mentioned, 226 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.480 when Kansas is trying to make a comeback, can't get 227 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.960 his warmups off. Aj Store couldn't play until the team 228 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:07.200 was completely buried. And I mean, I know he didn't 229 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.039 look good at all in the second half, but man, 230 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.360 it would have been nice to see what it would 231 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.879 have looked like had he gotten a chance in the 232 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:15.120 first half to get his feet wet. You bring in 233 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.279 these guys. Aj Store is a million dollar nil player. 234 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:21.120 Ryland Griffin, I'm sure got a nice check and a 235 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.480 hundred decads and is two million. I can't imagine that 236 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:26.200 the donors and it's not like that's all that matters. 237 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.360 I can't imagine that they're pleased with what's come as 238 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:31.759 a result of their investments. And yeah, you're right about 239 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.039 Bill self. Bill selfa doesn't have to prove anything to us. 240 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:36.919 He's a Hall of Famer and he's the best coach 241 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.000 in the history of Kansas basketball. But it is really 242 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:44.279 interesting that you're seeing him build back to back years 243 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.039 the number one team on paper in the transfer portal 244 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.559 and struggled to get the most out of it that 245 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.120 we saw him through thirty five games last year, it 246 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:55.120 didn't work very well. 247 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.279 This year, a whole whole lot of runway in front 248 00:11:58.320 --> 00:11:58.559 of them. 249 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.679 They could go thirty for their next thirty three and 250 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.679 it wouldn't surprise me at all. But there's land and 251 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.519 I'm assuming that as I'll pass the hot potato to you. 252 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:10.159 The point that you have. 253 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:13.320 Tried to make is they may be better on paper, 254 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:15.600 they may be better at the end of the year, 255 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:19.639 but to this point, the problems that doomed them last 256 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:23.200 year that they vowed to fix are the exact same 257 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:24.960 things that are holding them back. 258 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:25.279 Now. 259 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.320 Yeah, I do think that is the case. 260 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:31.919 Not to be bill self and stutter my words, but 261 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:36.279 I agree that that is my take. Now, this year's 262 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:42.080 team does have like three to four Nick Timberlakes as 263 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:46.240 opposed to last year, which had like two, one of 264 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:48.440 them being Johnny Furfy who kind of worked. 265 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.159 So they have more darts to throw. 266 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.080 If you will, more spins of the roulette wheel to 267 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:01.080 get right and wrong. Yeah, But to to Cam's point, 268 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:06.960 the portaling has not worked yet, and that's been I 269 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:11.279 think so noticeable in the last two games is that 270 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:17.600 the chemistry, particularly on offense, is once they get into 271 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:21.159 a bind, it goes out the window. Like once they 272 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.639 get behind the eight ball. Once the opponent takes a 273 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.639 little bit of control and puts Kansas in a bad 274 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:30.240 spot or on a spot where they need to start scoring, 275 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:34.559 being forced to score to stay in the game, it 276 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:38.360 just becomes like one pass, dribble dribble shot. It becos 277 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:43.840 it becomes very rudimentary ISO offense with not really anyone 278 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.559 that can do that at a high level. It's not 279 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.879 even that they're getting horrible shots all the time. And 280 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:52.840 in this game against Missouri, I do think they had 281 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:56.720 a fair amount of open looks that just bricked. But nonetheless, 282 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.519 like the offense just becomes completely nothing and it doesn't 283 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:04.799 look like these guys have played together because they have it, 284 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.480 And I think that's a huge problem. 285 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.759 With a very portal. 286 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.720 Built roster in the last two years, that's a huge, 287 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:13.639 huge reason they had the problems they had last year. 288 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.080 Obviously got some unlucky as well with the way that 289 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:17.080 roster ended up. 290 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.120 Being well, it kind of reminds me a little bit. 291 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:21.879 It kind of reminds me a little bit of like 292 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:25.720 whenever you watch an NFL team like the Derrick Henry Titans, 293 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.679 or ironically the Derrick Henry Ravens and that like, whenever 294 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:33.080 they are forced to play from behind, they're a completely 295 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.120 different team than when they can dictate the style. If 296 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:40.399 they can they can quickly enforce. If they can quickly 297 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.159 establish what they want to do, and in Kansas's case, 298 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.919 that is feeding the post, getting Hunter to work, getting 299 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.360 kJ to work, and building a lead and playing from 300 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:52.279 ahead at Allen Field House, then they're really really hard 301 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.240 to keep up with. But the same thing, we've watched 302 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:57.840 this team go on the road. They're three and ten 303 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:00.279 on the road now in the last two years, and 304 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.039 they fall behind in almost all of those losses. They've 305 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.879 gotten off to horrible starts, and they here comes that 306 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:11.360 that old reliable but not it doesn't have a nitrous 307 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.000 sort of clunker coming behind you. 308 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:15.320 That's just not gonna roar back from. 309 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:17.159 Big deficits two points out of time. 310 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:18.679 This team is kind of the way I view it. 311 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.200 This team, on paper is the best roster I think, 312 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.399 arguably since probably twenty ten, twenty eleven. But I almost 313 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:29.519 wonder if if it's a thing with the portal two 314 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:31.679 of like some of these guys don't know what it 315 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:34.559 means to play for Kansas. Bill self has had his 316 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:37.519 best teams where guys developing his system for years. I mean, 317 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:40.759 the twenty twenty two team had seniors, and obviously it 318 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:43.200 was even even someone like friend for Schilla, who's an 319 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.919 imbecile and is insufferable to listen to you mentioned on 320 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.600 the telecast. He was like, well, you know, Dwan Harris 321 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:50.960 is a great point guard, but you know you have guys. 322 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:54.159 He needs someone like Christian Brown, oh Chai baj around him, 323 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.080 and it just doesn't work the way it is. But 324 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:57.799 I also wonder, like if these guys coming in from 325 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.399 the portal, you know, it's just not one and they're 326 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.120 not playing much in two. It's just I don't know, 327 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:04.840 it just doesn't seem like a great fit. And yes, 328 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.480 this team probably will be fine. It's it's this is 329 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.440 like a meltdown pod. But it's just frustrating to watch. 330 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.879 Call your shot. What happens to this team. I'm gonna 331 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.120 start and say that they will be just fine. I 332 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.159 think that they end the regular season twenty nine wins 333 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.320 and five losses entering the Big Entering the NCAA Tournament, 334 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:26.639 I think that they will be not just fine, but 335 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:28.279 they will be one of the three best teams in 336 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:29.159 college basketball. 337 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:30.480 I think Bill Sell figures it out. 338 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.320 I'm betting on what I've seen, what twenty one years 339 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:35.679 of sample size, he's figured it out and become a 340 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.200 one or a two seed in all those years except 341 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.200 for like four, odds are in my favor. 342 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:41.200 I'll say that. What say you? 343 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.080 Oh, what's that music in the background? I know this one? 344 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:46.840 That's round of thirty two? Loss? 345 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:56.960 Yeah your prediction? Yep? Oh please what seed? Four? 346 00:16:57.879 --> 00:16:58.320 Three? 347 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:05.279 No? No? My okay? I I actually yeah, I hate 348 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.559 doing these. I know someone out there of our five 349 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:10.599 listeners is gonna remember this. But I think they get 350 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:14.920 a one seed and I also think they lose in 351 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.559 the round of thirty two. Boy ouch. 352 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:21.039 But if that happens, I could also see if they 353 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:24.720 don't make the second weekend, Hunter Dickinson will be probably 354 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:30.359 the the the least favorably remembered Jayhawk in the self era. 355 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:36.480 Yeah. My dad, who's like a lifelong Kansas fan. Yeah, yeah, 356 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:40.559 well he's gonna drop fourteen and uh, Kansas Twitter is 357 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.119 gonna be like, oh, Hunter Dickinson, really, what's down today? Meanwhile, 358 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.720 we see Raylan Griffin buried on the bench with a 359 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:48.960 box of chocolate next to him. He's munching out of 360 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.039 because bill selves looking at him like, oh, you didn't 361 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:54.359 guard yesterday in the shoot around. Huh? 362 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.759 kJ has four and three and twenty eight minutes. 363 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.519 All right? Yeah. By the way, the biggest insult to 364 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.359 injury was him putting Ryland Griffin in with one minute 365 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:08.880 to go in the Missouri comes. What the hell was that? 366 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.400 Like, Like, it's like you realized, oh, now we could 367 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:14.039 use some scoring here, so go get them Ryland. 368 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:19.960 They believe the three porto three. Why do you put 369 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:22.680 him in in the middle of the second half. Unbelievable. 370 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:24.559 I'm a jerk on a podcast and I know this. 371 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:25.480 It was here. 372 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.920 Here's here's a couple of stats. Uh, that'll that'll really 373 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.440 epitomize the pain of this game. The stats show that 374 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:34.240 Kansas made two more baskets than Missouri and actually finished 375 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:36.839 plus twelve on threes. In the last couple of years, 376 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:39.519 whenever they get railed on the road, we've gotten on 377 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:42.839 the on this microphone and said, wow, they were outscored 378 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.480 by twenty binds from the three point line. Well, this 379 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.480 time they were plus double digits on threes and still lost. 380 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.680 Typically such figures resulting wins, but amazing on a night 381 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.599 when they committed twenty two turnovers, including fifteen of them 382 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.279 in the first half, and they were a minus seventeen 383 00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:58.240 at the free throw line. 384 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:00.720 It was not meant to be the turnovers. 385 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:03.200 Let me tell you two things here, Landa, then tell 386 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.559 me about where you can tell me this next stat 387 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.240 which I think we definitely need to get into. I'm 388 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.039 not concerned about the turnovers. I'll get that out right now. 389 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.039 This is a team that had been very protective of 390 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.319 the ball in their first eight games. They get into 391 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:20.240 a setting that's loud. Missouri is an athletic turnover forcing team. 392 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:24.079 They had a horrendous half in a horrible environment. I'm 393 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.680 cool with that, And by cool with I'm not concerned. 394 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.599 It's gonna be a long term problem. But not getting 395 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.799 to the free throw line and being a minus seventeen 396 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.440 at the line, when you are the team that wants 397 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:40.640 to play ground and pound basketball, that's a huge problem. 398 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:43.599 Yeah, and this other stat gets at this as well. 399 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:45.799 I didn't know this. This is pretty interesting. 400 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:49.039 Now nine games in, Kansas is getting sixty one percent 401 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:51.759