Recent content by Excalibur

Clingan with 9 and 10 with 3 blocks in 27 minutes. Still jacking a few too many threes. 1-2 max per game should be it for him. Hawkins played 9 minutes, 6 points on 2-4 from deep.

1) I agree. Stewart's engagement and energy levels have been high and consistent despite the lack of production. 2) We won't be encountering many teams with duper deep frontcourts. I'm far less concerned about Reibe than many here, but keeping Reed out of foul trouble will be key.

He dunked plenty as a sophomore. He didn’t last year, and a lot of that was due to injury.

Of course, we did plenty of hard hedging, and it was generally effective.

Team plays poorly against bad opponent: “this is not a final four caliber team” Team obliterates similarly bad opponent: “can’t take anything away from that game” It’s amusing, at least. . . .

Demary has showed that he is a good defender. Not sure if he is still hampered by the calf (even if officially healthy), but I'm mostly unconcerned (though fearful of what tends to follow strained calf muscles). We got beat off the dribble a lot, but many of those layups were off of...

So you would have been questioning K’s future when he didn’t make it out of the first weekend for three years after Grant Hill graduated?

Timberlake (Kansas), who everyone wanted and was wrong about. But we had a ready backup plan that ended up working out.

No. Spot minutes when there is foul trouble.

That's why I say it's 84-98. The league thrived until the Jordan Bulls were broken up.

This is where people will cite "floating" the ball. Technically it's legal so long as the ball is spinning in his hand and no part of his hand is below the ball. They always miss that part of his hand is under the ball for most of the move.

This is like saying that the NFL isn't made up of bigger/stronger/faster players now than in the 1960's or 1970's because Jim Brown and Earl Campbell existed. Those guys were outliers. The depth of big, athletic players is so obviously greater now just by casual observation. Even if the...

A pivot foot is always established when you don’t land on both feet together. He takes a gather, +2 steps. The end of the second step establishes the pivot foot, and the back foot drags after that. Travel.

It's not even legal here, because the back foot drags after the last step. You can lift it, but dragging it is a travel.

Riebe hedged plenty but didn't blitz the dribbler like we have done with Johnson and Whaley. I'll guess that we'll see a bit more of it with Reed. If Koroma gets minutes he will do it, and Riebe will do what we saw last night, which was more of a Calhoun-style hedge and recover.