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Rock Chalk Talk: Basketball
Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Big 12 projection, Round 5
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7 years 5 months ago - 7 years 5 months ago #15377
by konza63
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
The "eye test" certainly would say this is the year KU sadly fails to win the league. And that would be beyond sad for the program and its fans, since #14 is right there, and so enticing...
The "tale of the tape" for me is just how badly we've played at home. It's almost as if all of the mystique and power of AFH has been put in a closet for this season. (Witness the brutal losses suffered there, which were so uncharacteristic, and so telling)
That said, perhaps the Phog reappeared in the final possessions of the hard-to-watch K-State win. And until proven otherwise, we have to believe that somehow, some way we will find a way. Every year doubts creep in, but we come through in the end - often helped by some mutual damage the other teams inflict on each other, along with some truly signature wins (the insane WVU win at Allen last year, which HawkErrant and I had the pleasure to witness together, is front of mind).
The skeptic in me says we just don't have the horses this year...but then, we've only now added DeSousa, who, if he does nothing else going forward but give us a slew of rebounds, some blocks, some fouls, and some massive girth in the lane, will be an improvement over what we've had (depth-wise) so far.
Fingers crossed, looking upward to the basketball gods in the hardwood heavens ... In the name of Naismith, we pray.
The "tale of the tape" for me is just how badly we've played at home. It's almost as if all of the mystique and power of AFH has been put in a closet for this season. (Witness the brutal losses suffered there, which were so uncharacteristic, and so telling)
That said, perhaps the Phog reappeared in the final possessions of the hard-to-watch K-State win. And until proven otherwise, we have to believe that somehow, some way we will find a way. Every year doubts creep in, but we come through in the end - often helped by some mutual damage the other teams inflict on each other, along with some truly signature wins (the insane WVU win at Allen last year, which HawkErrant and I had the pleasure to witness together, is front of mind).
The skeptic in me says we just don't have the horses this year...but then, we've only now added DeSousa, who, if he does nothing else going forward but give us a slew of rebounds, some blocks, some fouls, and some massive girth in the lane, will be an improvement over what we've had (depth-wise) so far.
Fingers crossed, looking upward to the basketball gods in the hardwood heavens ... In the name of Naismith, we pray.
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
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