Kansas Improves To 13-3 With A Convincing Win Over Texas Tech
by Owen on Jan 11, 2012 10:02 PM CST
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PrintAnother game and another solid performance by Travis Releford. The three game stretch by the Kansas junior is really starting to turn some heads as his play has been a key component to the Jayhawks 3-0 start in conference play. With each game Releford seems to gain confidence and during Wednesday night's game Releford once again provided a lift when the usual suspects weren't quite hitting on all cylinders.
Heading into Lubbock there was a little concern because Tech has sometimes been a bit of a tricky matchup for Kansas on the road. The Red Raiders have had more than one notable upset over Kansas in West Texas and after another somewhat slow start some of those memories came flooding back.
Two technical fouls, one flagrant two and a 16-2 first half run led by Releford helped to catapult Kansas to a lead that left very little about this game in doubt by the intermission. It was a lead that continued to grow in the second half as Kansas seemed to settle into their normal routine as a team. Thomas Robinson kicked his game into gear after a slow start and Tech just couldn't recover the early first half intensity that made things just difficult enough for Kansas over the first eight or so minutes of the contest. No doubt about it, Billy Gillispie has some work to do.
The Kansas Jayhawks win this one on the road 81-46. The Jayhawks were led by Thomas Robinson who continues to make his case for player of the year. The junior started a bit slow but showed a tremendous amount of versatility in the second half even knocking down a three pointer en route to another double double. Robinson finished with 19 points and 12 rebounds. After a strong first half Releford would take a bit of a back seat but he still finished with another solid line adding 12 points including 2 three pointers. Tyshawn Taylor would round out the notables with a 15 point, 5 assist night.
Next up for Kansas is a home game over an improving Iowa State Cyclone team that lost in a close game tonight against Missouri in Ames. Kansas now sits 3-0 in the conference, tied for 1st place with the still undefeated Baylor Bears.
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Anybody know what KenPom projected for the margin?
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Releford is really going for
the Brady Morningstar “Golden Sleeves” award, given out to the maligned KU player who steps up to be the hero of Big 12 play.
I know
the shots came when the game was out of hand but I was pleased to see Tharp knock down some 3’s. Hopefully that gives him a much needed boost of confidence. I would like to see him play a bit more.
worried about his defense
The word on the street (and off the street, wherever that is), has been that Self wasn’t happy with Tharpe’s D. His on the ball D looks good – he’s quick, seems to do well with positioning. Off the ball, though, last night he was awful, to put it mildly. The biggest problem is that he watches the ball and doesn’t track his man. That’s one of the most basic things a defender must do, and he seems both clueless and disinterested. And, at least twice I noticed him fail completely in looking to box out his man.
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 12, 2012 12:18 PM CST up reply actions
I thought the announcers were pretty good (can't believe I'm saying that about Miles Simon)
but they were wrong when they said the contact when Releford was inbounding the ball was a technical. It’s a flagrant 1. That’s why Releford shot the free throws instead of Tyshawn.
Still a bench warning, a bench technical, a flagrant 1, and a flagrant 2 in the first 8:00 of the game is pretty novel. I can’t tell how much of a funk we started off in (the offense was stagnant, but those floaters with :02 on the shot clock seemed more like bad luck than bad defense), but the flagrant 2 definitely seemed to shake the team out of it.
I was shocked that Miles Simon did a decent job.
I don’t think Mitch Holthus did a good job. It took him well over a minute to even acknowledge the second Pettaway incident, even though it was obvious that something important happened.
I think the producers had to point it out to them.
After the first replay when the announcers were still clueless, the camera focused on Pettaway for about 10 seconds before showing it again.
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The KCStar article claims 4 technical or intentional fouls in the first half
Aside from incorrectly describing flagrant fouls as intentional fouls, isn’t that wrong on the count too? One technical on the bench, one Flagrant 1 on Pettaway, one Flagrant 2 on Pettaway. That’s it, right?
There was another technical/intentional foul at the end of the game.
Not sure what it was for though.
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Lack of participation
Tech checked out of the game at halftime. Most viewers likely did, too.
by jayhawk1996 on Jan 12, 2012 10:38 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Good call...
Yeah, I was “watching” the game in the second half. However, I was also doing other things at the same time. I start to feel bad for teams when the game gets to 25+ points. The only exception is when we play Missouri. I want to destroy them each time.
As for the final technical/intentional foul, I saw someone shooting the ball with no one else standing at the foul line, but I’m still not sure what was called. Does anyone know?
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I went back and looked.
Guy on TTech went up to Niko and started grabbing him/fouling him for whatever reason. Almost looks like Billy G wanted Niko to shoot FT’s, because after the foul, the camera goes to the player and Gillispie talking about it and you can see Gillispie say something like “yeah, but why did you do it that way?”
It was completely obvious that he was trying to foul. The ball wasn’t even on that side of the court, and they were just walking up the court when it happened Then the guy just runs up to Niko and starts grabbing him. One of the stranger things I’ve seen.
About the 1:54:45 mark on ESPN3 if you have that and want to look.
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