The presentation began with a twist, as students were encouraged to interact with Twitter, Youtube, Vine and other social media sources the entire time.
The tweeter with the most creative or largest amount of tweets won a free T-shirt at the end. Domitrz said it is important to gain clear consent before acting in an intimate or sexual manner. Rather than lessening the significance of these incidences by calling them something that seems less harsh, acknowledge that they are possible sexual assault or rape.
Although it can be easy to detach yourself from a possible scenario, Domitrz said he advises viewing the situation as if it was happening to someone you are close to. In doing so, you are more likely to act. If you feel that a friend is in danger of being sexually assaulted, or that a friend could be creating a situation of sexual assault, do not be afraid to intervene Domitrz said.
Confronting someone who could be drunk, could become angry or both, can be a frightening thing to do. There is strength in numbers and assembling a small group to break up the situation is much easier than confronting the situation alone, Domitrz said. E reaches. The Bad News: KY is losing his focus. He was 1 for 6 from 2 feet, and the 1 was a putback on his miss. He seems a bit lazy on offense and acts like his top priority is helping whithey. Guard your man and help quickly, not sag off for help and leave your man open.
KY made me think about what Coach said about tyshawn, "he will do things you just cannot coach, and then he will do things you will think he's never been coached. OH yeah, do not practice 3's from the top, if your man is in your face, get the ball up top, quick step and drive for the slam or dish, and probably the foul line. Kevin Up! The good news: Kentucky lost, we are one game closer to being the all time winningest program in college basketball history.
We started the season at KY is fine! That tip pass KY gave from Rio to Ellis was sweet! The great thing is that KY has created "Expectations" for himself and that is a good thing. BTW, he doesn't need to practice 3's A terrible pass, but still a pass. I believe that was the shot clock violation that wasn't.
KSU hit the rim with 1 second left on the shot clock and the refs wanted to make sure the ball hit the rim. It wasn't the shot clock situation. It wasn't long before that though that the refs stopped play after KU inbounded the ball and the announcers never gave an explanation. My guess would be a clock issue, but I really don't know. I must have missed that one. I thought the shot clock situation took quite a while to resolve though.
You always hear Self say you need a good rhythm game every once in a while to get that offensive spark back I think this was the potential game, but guys missed a lot of easy shots.
This game had a different feel to it in the sense that Self let guys be a little more "Creative" with less offensive sets tonight. I mean, that's the way the game viewed to me. I thought Kansas actually had some nice "flow" tonight, but just missed a number of open looks. Kansas did shoot 46 percent on only 46 attempts so that is a pretty good number despite a number of easy misses and the lack of FG attempts.
Credit K-State for showing up and they also missed a number of open looks early in the first half. I enjoyed this game. EJ seems more comfortable in that role and Tharpe's confidence as the primary ball handler seems to be getting better and better.
Despite the missed shots between the two, I thought they played the best they have played with one another tonight.
I thought his energy and aggressiveness was fantastic tonight. Yes, he missed some shots, but I think this is the EJ I have been expecting for most of the year! Well Done! He still seems more comfortable at the SG spot rather than PG, but either way he tried to be creative from opening tip tonight and I give him a lot of props. His play and extra energy tonight energized the ball club. He still had almost half the team turnovers 5 of the 13 , but he can limit a couple of those.
Big Improvement. He still finishes better going "Right" at the rim than he does going "Left" at the rim, but tonight was the first time in a long time that I have become encouraged with EJ's play. He did a lot of other small things, but he needs to hit those bunnies. That tip pass to Ellis from Rio was freaking sweet at the end of the first half. He is one streaky shooter. I liked what I saw from Tharpe tonight and EJ played well with him on the court so that is a combination I like.
That behind the back pull up jumper was sweet. He also had some nice kickouts to both EJ and Relly for 3 pointers. His game is definitely improving. Keep working on those FT's. I like the attack mode. He did a great job on McGruder and produced another efficient night offensively. That spin move for reverse layup was sweet. Pretty quiet night as usual.
He needs to find a way to get more shot attempts. He should be averaging double digit shot attempts IMO. I know, foul trouble had a little bit to do with that tonight. With that said, Withey is Withey. I have become so comfortable with him on the court because of his defensive capabilities, I don't really fault him for his offensive flaws.
Tharpe's pull-up two in transition was silky smooth! And I love when Releford drives the paint. Transition or half-court set, Releford can finish it in traffic like a pro. Totally agree about that pull up jumper. You know, I really like Tharpe's penetration. I know to some, maybe most, it looks like he's just dribbling and he's probably done that in the past, but tonight I thought there was a purpose within the confines of the offense for him to be creative and look for seams.
I really think Tharpe being all over the floor offensively caused K-State some issues. K-State wasn't able to tune in Kansas' offensive sets because Tharpe was unpredictable.
That unpredictability was very good tonight IMO. Wish he could have knocked down a couple of those open 3 point attempts and I am sure we as fans would have even higher praise for Tharpe right now. Historically, we have not fared well when sporting the Crimson Jersey, going back all the way to Final Four and that gut-wrenching loss to The Rat. Amen to that AzHawk97! Even the Mrs. The crimson jerseys are gross. The only reason KU wears them once or twice a year is because Adidas makes them.
It's a marketing ploy, unfortunately. He's said it in post game press conferences after KU's worn them before. Think about why KU only wears them during exhibition games also instead of during the regular season also. I only remember high profile regular season game KU's worn them and that was against Missouri early in Self's tenure.
I remember that too. Adidas requires us to wear them twice a year. Bill Self usually pulls them out for an edxhibition and then one time early in the season against Towson or someone like that. I'm sure many of you astute posters have noted this hypothesis already -- aka Jaybate, HEM, BigManU, TexasHawk10 to mention a few -- but what about the theory that goes something like this: Our Jayhawks expend SO much energy playing rock-solid defense that their legs get tired to the extent they won't have enough "ups" on their jump shots, and to perhaps even dunk KY -- save Ben McLemore of course.
That dude has enough hops for an entire squad! There is something to what you're suggesting. Fresh legs definitely make shooting easier. I was actually happy Tharpe was fouled down the stretch after just coming off of the bench, for that very reason. It's a lot tougher to shoot free throws when you're breathing hard and have rubber legs. The fewer factors affecting the mechanics of the shot the better. I'll be honest, I don't think it really is an issue at all.
Plus, Relly has been the most efficient Jayhawk from a statistical standpoint I have seen in years so far into this season.
To me, it would be interesting to stat check EJ's 3 pointers and attempts going forward from when he plays PG to where he gets to move over to SG. We've seen it late in games lately since the Temple game where Tharpe and EJ are on the same floor together because of close games, but please correct me if I am wrong, I believe this is the first time we've seen Tharpe and EJ play significant minutes McLemore foul trouble in first half together where Tharpe is the point and EJ at the SG.
I do know that EJ's one and only made 3 point FG attempt came off a great penetration kick-out by Tharpe to an open EJ on the far side in the first half. I think one thing to consider as well is that Henriquez for K-State is also a "Footer" and got 24 minutes and 3 blocks last night.
He also altered a lot of shots as well defensively for the Cats. I think that is definitely something to note. When you have a Withey or somebody like Henriquez in there Henriquez is obviously not as good as Withey, but he did cause havoc last night. Finally, I am also a firm believer that despite this Jayhawk squad being a significantly better shooting team than last year's Jayhawk squad regardless of what the statistics show If the Jayhawks monitor and watch the number of 3 point FG attempts this team takes I just absolutely hate seeing teams "Panic" and then completely go away from what they did all season and start jacking up 3's.
Henriquez seems to play his best games against Kansas. He has a pretty clean stroke too, at least when KSU is playing against Kansas.
I know from my own playing days, tired legs didn't affect my jump shot nearly as much as my free throws. Probably because the jump shot has more moving parts anyway. I think it is Self's way of making the team mentally tough. There can be no doubt, from last year and this year, that these guys are tough as nail, especially in crunch time. Look how cool and confident these guys are in these close games!
I've been following the Hawks a long Sorry, JHOX, didn't mean to exclude you from the list of "astute posters" ;- Thanks for your commentary. After Travis' performance, was fun to flip over to watch Trevor Releford have a great game and hand Kentucky another loss.
That was great! Alabama should have won by more. I kept thinking to myself that they were going to blow the game. I watched a little of it, and was surprised that Trevor and Travis look so little alike. One would never guess they are brothers.
I actually think the floppingwe saw last night isn't being taught by Weber. Pretty sure that's a reminent of the eyebrow Wizard. As four year schol hall resident with my buddy, Bill James, I find there is always room for more statistics, thus I propose the Comparitive Victory Value. This simple formula gives a pretty accurate assessment of a team's win totals. It would seem that by assigning a consistent set of values across the board, a fair comparitive value can be deduced for every team in Division 1.
For instance, last night's victory over KSU was a 4. Oakville, you are definitely on to something. Gotta' be something for bludgeoning a team by 40 vs. They were just gushing over him the entire game. In fact, I posted on Facebook that I expected the announcers to invite him to their hotel room for a threesome after the game.
What did you guys think of that play Self drew up in the last few minutes I have not seen that before. That was a Royce White ISt type play. Maybe we'll see it more next year with Selden coming in.
Too bad Elijah's hops are disappearing too. That would have been a play I remembered for life, had he thrown it down like he used to be able too. As he did that in High School. I believe in Naadir. I believe he has a chance to be our Sherron Collins ala and come up very big in the tourney this year.
But like Sherron, he can also have the problem of not knowing when to stay out of the trees. I'll take his aggression over that risk, though. Yeah, that was a pretty sweet attempt by EJ. I thought he was going to flush it. Wow, if he could have done it. He may be losing his hops a little, but he's never been a one footed jumper. He's a two footed jumper. Amazing game from Travis! What really makes me excited is the development I have seen in Ellis over the last few games.
He looked really good last night. He is agressive and actually is starting to look comfortable. Once his shot starts falling including free throws he will be a major force for us going forward! They did an especially good job getting McGruder open enough to get a quick shot off at least , he just had some trouble hitting the open shots early last night thanks to Travis Releford.
Also, last night was another example of how Withey impacts every game defensively just by his presence alone. No way they attempt 30 three pointers if Withey isn't doing a good job of guarding the paint. A lot of people were expecting Withey to play a lot less yesterday so that KU could better match up with KSU's size, but I'm glad Bill Self went with his normal game plan.
We're one of the best teams in the country this year like most years , and if anybody is going to adjust their game plan it should be our opponents. Obviously, what we do works. EJ needs to protect the ball a lot better, but at least he makes up for it with aggression on offense. He made a few easy layups just because he was aggressive early in the game. Those are the kinds of plays that are the difference between a win and a loss. Our team as a whole needs to figure out how to make good passes.
There were so many senseless turnovers last night. Losing the turnover battle has been a trend with this team all year long and eventually that will come back to bite us. Overall though, this was a huge win for KU. This may be the toughest road test for KU all season, and they passed. It's certainly looking like a 9th straight Big 12 regular season conference championship is in order.
A little off topic, but last night's game is why we should never play Wichita State. An epic battle on the road, and a solid entertaining game. Lots of story lines e. And who carried the game Even Kentucky at Alabama made it before this game. I realize that many of these games are set at the beginning of the year; however, if there was a game of North Carolina that wasn't on TV, you know ESPN would have found a way to move it onto the network.
All that shows is how ignorant the national media can be when it comes to sports in the "flyover" states. I agree with you that they would have been able to adjust something to get a team like UNC on national TV if say they had been playing NC State in an unexpected matchup of top teams.
I really wish it wasn't this way, but money rules and in the Big12, Kansas and KState are the only schools that care about basketball. In other words, few Big12 fans outside of Kansas probably watched this game, even though it is a matchup. ESPN wants viewers and they must have determined that this game doesn't attract the viewers that they want.
I am tired of watching these games on my computer. Seemingly happens often. We were on regular TV much more in the non-conference portion of the schedule. Incredibly frustrating, but as I pointed out, Kansas' relatively small population is as much of a reason as anything for being slighted like this. I think you're a little off base there. Unless we're talking about two teams' local markets, I think most basketball fans want to watch ranked teams play.
I'm that way, even when we're talking about two ranked teams from the coasts that have no bearing on the Big 12 race. Without the rankings, KU vs. KSU is definitely not very interesting to the national audience, but with a 2 v. But, if you are business person looking to make a dough, finding buyers is a must. With the populations as you put it, there is no reason to play them.
Anybody that throws in recruiting, we already get the Wichita kids if they are good and we want them. The post by TexasRockChalk kind of leads to my thoughts after last night's game. I would say that our defensive intensity has nothing to do with our sputtering offense, agreeing with BigManU.
But I would also agree with jhox that fresh legs mean something. I just don't think that playing good defense means an elite athlete's performance should be diminished on the offensive end. Now, the arduous chasing of a top player that Releford did? That's arguable. But Releford has shown that he can make plays on offense really anytime he wants to. He actually turns it up most often near the end of the game. Really, our lack of offensive "pop" is related to a "play slow" mindset, in my opinion.
We created a very slow pace to the game, and do this regularly. And despite Self saying he wants to play faster sometimes, his approach creates a slower game. Specifically, we do not push the ball up the court. On a made shot, we stand around and wait for the designated player to throw the ball in.
EJ and Tharpe will stand there and wait for someone to throw the ball in, instead of grabbing it, and throwing it in immediately. Others just turn and run down the court. That is coached. Most of the times, we don't force the action down the court off a miss, and we're content to "set it up. I mean completely zero.. There is obviously no secondary break scheme.
We played in the 50s. We did that because coach Self is ok with it. He must believe that this team is best playing this way. Defense first, slower pace, break only when it's clearly there, value possessions. We are Who's arguing? My only caution is the hot shooting team. We hit a hot shooting team, we may not have an answer.
It's hard to turn the faucet on only when needed. That is my biggest concern. That we play a slow game. That we allow a slow game. A possession by possession game permits inferior teams to hang around because the game is shorter.
Add that to a team that might be unconscious for a stretch, and that spells disaster. Recent examples where teams hung around and weren't even hot Iowa St. I completely value our defense. With a good sample under our belts, my only real concern is that our style of play makes us more vulnerable to the hot shooting team, while acknowledging that coach Self installing this style of play may be what has us at vs.
I thought the pace was much better last night despite the "Ugly". That's what I meant above when I said this game had a different feel to it than the other games against Temple, Iowa State, Tech, and Texas. Kansas almost got there in the first half of Iowa State and the retreated. I thought for the first time in a long time, Kansas was not "Robotic" last night and played ball. They ran less structured offensive sets last night than what I've seen since middle of December.
Some years it works better than others, but with Self, it's always "defense first. Our halfcourt offense is good enough, but it could be great if we made better passes.
Good passing leads to open shots. Poor passing leads to turnovers. Elijah Johnson in particular needs to do a better job protecting the ball. If we cut down on the turnovers, it cuts down on the opposing team's transition points which KSU had a lot of last night and it keeps the opposing team from gaining momentum. Clearly, it's much harder for a team to hit a good percentage of shots from beyond the arc than it is for them to hit a good percentage of close shots. I don't know the stats, but it seems like barely anyone has luck scoring in the paint against KU this year.
It appears our philosophy is "If you can get hot at the beginning of the game and drain threes all day long, you have a chance to beat us. If not, we win. They're scoring So, I don't think that this is an especially low-scoring team. I didn't get to see last night's game, but I know what you are talking about, although this year's team seems to rely more on its athleticism than others in years past.
To me, the biggest threat is a team with real strength and size on the inside. It's nice that Ellis is coming along, but he doesn't have the bulk and Traylor doesn't have the size that will probably be needed to win the NC.
I posted part of this over under the Postgame Discussion tab, but this seems like the place to share thoughts about the game, so I love Kevin Young's hustle, but the last few games, he has certainly shown signs of why he was not a highly-touted recruit.
Tonight, I counted a handful of really great, hardworking plays where he enabled KU to score or get the ball from KSU, but I also counted several completely terrible plays. The most glaring was obviously his WTF!?!
If it was a pass, it was a top-five worst I've ever seen. There was no explanation for it whatsoever. He also missed 4 or 5 bunnies around the rim. Granted, he got his own rebound and scored for one of those shots, but for the other three, that's points that KU should not have left on the table. It's the difference all else being equal between a double-digit win and a 4-point squeaker.
The silver lining here is that Perry Ellis is the heir apparent to Kevin Young's spot in the lineup, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, he has looked like a completely new player over the last games.
Maybe Kevin's gaffes are happening because he's seeing the writing on the wall and Ellis breathing down his neck to take his spot. While that worries me a little bit, I can't help but return to my early-season thinking that we are best served if Ellis is starting and Kevin Young is coming off the bench to "lead" the second unit. Maybe the uncertainty--or the impending change that seems to be coming--is contributing to Kevin's erratic play or affecting his focus, which is what seems to be the problem, to me.
Of course, Ellis needs to hit his free throws a bit more consistently, but that doesn't worry me. He seems to have a knack for scoring and nice form, so the free throws will come. I'm so excited about his new sense of aggressiveness and tenacity. He didn't have great numbers in today's game, but he inserted himself in the thick of the action and made a couple of really good plays. He also seems to be showing improved hands--earlier in the season, I felt like he had the tendency to bobble the ball as it was coming to him on passes, but he caught a couple of really difficult passes tonight.
I have a feeling that he will be a huge asset come tournament time. I was forced to listen to the game on a wildcats radio station and i promise they were many calls and non-calls they were unhappy with I agree that it was overall a fair-called game. There were iffy calls on both sides. I counted several fouls and moving screens and even a couple travels on both teams that weren't called.
I'm rather tired of people suggesting that any discussion about officiating is automatically "whining". Some people just like to talk about details of the game, including the job the officials do. Regarding those who've suggested fatigue might have been an issue tonight, I really don't think so. Fatigue can be an issue on jump shots, but the kinds of shots we were missing were around the rim, and the guy who should have been more tired than anyone for chasing MacGruder around 5 million screens shot the ball quite well.
I'll close by saying this about these Jayhawks--I'm concerned that they are ultimately going to succumb to one of two big-time flaws: 1 tendency to fall asleep on perimeter shooters Southwell might've had more open looks than our entire team , and 2 our inability to make crisp passes that are less likely to be picked off. There are some things about this team that remind me of the team, but one of the most glaring differences is the passing.
That team might have been Self's best passing team in his time at KU. The ball was constantly moving and rarely stuck, and when it was moving, the passes were crisp frozen ropes, rather than lazy parabolic arcs. This team not only throws tons of arcing passes, but the ball tends to stick and they tend to over-dribble especially Tharpe. That being said, I think Tharpe had a good game. I really hope they get that fixed before the postseason, because I have a bad feeling about a tourney game where we let a guy go off from three while also committing a bunch of turnovers with lazy passes.
Hopefully I'm just being overly-sensitive. I have the same concern. I was at the Texas game and UT got hot making outside shots when they were open. The second half we were terrible with the ball and gave up the ball back to back to back possessions. They survive, and can live extremely successful lives, and I think he really proved that point without making people feel uncomfortable. Noelle Remy, senior in criminology, said it is important that people let their friends and family know that they have their support in cases of sexual assault.
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