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[QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 4824820, member: 175"]
We didn’t match KU’s intensity early. First true road game, crowd going crazy, Spencer started hobbling around, and KU kinda jumped us. It smelled like a blowout loss, but Newton kept us afloat, we took that punch and actually outscored them by 20 in the middle part of the game. Then they hit us with an 11-0 run in lIke 90 seconds and we almost overcame that punch too, but didn’t get a late foul call on Diarra and missed our last shot.

Newton‘s performance couldn’t be duplicated, but Spencer would be better next time, and Kansas shot 9-14 from 3 in that game which is a total outlier for them too.

If (and I consider it an “if“ since I’m not seeing it yet) Castle becomes the type of lottery pick talent we are hoping for, he was in theory a missing piece in that game. Only because KU was switching 1-4 and we didn’t really have someone who could attack a mismatch. Castle on his game could use his size on their point guard or attack their 4 man off the dribble. When we weren’t able to attack their switching D, we were left with Newton improvising a few times.
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