Recent content by Excalibur

They still play fast, though not abnormally fast.

You still haven’t answered which you think it is. And a lot of people like to conveniently ignore the BYU game.

You just described something that doesn’t exist . . .

He was dribbling just as much when he got the assists.

I noticed the same. I think it will be a while before he’s 100%.

He’s setting up guys off of dribble penetration. Still seems to be struggling to find guys coming off of cuts on the perimeter, which is why some people are saying he dribbles too much. I’m far less critical. He’s still learning the offense and managing to find guys and disrupt the defense.

Not sure what you are talking about. We've assisted on 63 or 64% of our field goals for the last three seasons. The assist to turnover ration was down a bit last year, as was the average number of assists per game, by 1. That hardly makes them anything close to one of the worst passing teams.

He should be playing 30-32 minutes.

I don't know if he was referring to the game or the season as a whole. But that team was far more talented than their record and eventual seeding reflected, and it should have been better than they were. The 2015 team got a pass because of the massive loss of talent from the previous roster...

I don't think the stats tell the full story there. He essentially had a third where he walled up perfectly on Tiller to force a miss, turned, grabbed the board with two hands only to have Tiller knock it out of his hands out of bounds (arguably a foul). Team rebound, none to Karaban. He also...

He took two bad shots and missed them both. Helped on the boards early but otherwise was invisible.

We don't know, but it's the only somewhat logical implication of Hurley's statement. The whole "soft" thing continues to be a stretch.

We have plenty of people saying he's better than Clingan. What's wrong with arguing that point?

On that front, did anyone notice that they got what was probably their best OOC win in half a decade last night, and it was still an afterthought nationally?

The off ball movement is reminiscent of Rip. He just knows how to find the correct spot based on what the defense is giving him in a way that (for example) Ball does not. A couple of times our guards didn't even recognize that he got himself open by using Kansas' switching scheme against them.