Open Game Thread: Kansas State vs. Chicago State

I was calculating how much time I would have once I got home to get an open thread up. Turns out I could have stopped for gas, too.

Oh, and Arthur Bryant’s for lunch today. Mmm…

I always think, “Man, I’d like to visit that place. It just sounds nice.”

It’s like something out of Candy Land. You hop on the gum drop train to get to the Sugar Forrest. Along the way, you stop in Apple Valley to pee and grab a fresh cup of coffee.

Where tall white guys learn to get rejected by the rim.

Thank God he makes his free throws.

Not doing anything really poorly, but not really looking that good, either. Probably going to get an earful from Frank in the huddle.

So, this should be interesting.

Also, another reason I hate traveling…

I paid $8 for a Caesar salad at the hotel restaurant downstairs. Why did I pay eight bucks? Because the rest of the meals were $25+.

I refuse to pay that much for a meal on principle. Unless it comes with three or four rounds of drinks.

Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering why everyone is just jacking up threes (and missing nearly all of them)?

This is a team of tiny guards – hit ’em in the paint!

Kid’s growing into a good player.

is a freak. That is all.

"Tied up by cougars. "

I just got an image of our players surrounded by Demi Moore, Jenifer Aniston, and Ashley Judd.

Meow.

One of the little joys of going to the University of Houston is going to football games and yelling “Shock ’em, Coogs!”

Go cougars (not Chicago State).

This stuff on KSAL is almost hypnotizing in it’s awfulness.

Why do all bank jingles sound like someone paid their fifteen year old son/daughter/grandkid to come up with something on a Casio keyboard?

Oh, Member FDIC. Gotta work that in there in some form of melodic fashion.

have found a team worse at shooting free throws than us.

I want Fred on the floor more than Clemente.

I like Jake as the true PG, and Fred on the wing is just deadly.

Anyway, I just like Fred’s game more than Clemente’s in this offense. He’s just more of a dynamic scorer, and we need that consistently from the guard position.

Denis has his strengths, but I like him as a change of pace PG that you can interchange with Jake.

How about something like this:

Pullen: 30 minutes
Brown: 30 minutes
Clemente: 20 minutes

That way, any time that Jake or Fred take a breather, Denis is there to back them up. Jake and Fred play the PG and SG exclusively, and Denis fills in for whoever is out?

That’s my dream anyway.

Jamar’s dunks are, like, mana from Heaven.

That’s ripping a team’s head off and shitting down their throat, kids.

Oh, and allowed less than 10 points through the first 10 minutes AGAIN.

I thought this team was supposed to be good at scoring? Oh, yeah, that’s right – they ran into the Lynch Mob of the Hardwood.

Woot!!!

They’re going to show the bubble drill at halftime on FSN. Sweetness.

is about 100x better than it was a month ago. He’s rebounding, blocking shots, and most importantly, he seems to be enjoying that. That’s how you get on Frank’s good side.

…Frank’s halftime interviews are about to gain legendary status.

“Well, we played offense pretty well until about the last four minutes of the half when Jacob Pullen decided to do his own thing.”

…let’s take a recent Frank Martin quote, the one about taking his shirt off and fighting Denis Clemente to keep him from playing against Idaho State.

What would you do if Frank Martin ripped off his shirt and challenged you to a fight?

Jake: “That’s the worst drill ever.”

Dom: “That’s the worst drill … EVER.”

Jake: “I heard stories about Jason Maxiell was the only guy to ever break the bubble…”

You’re welcome, Panjandrum. ;)

Stan and Ben don’t seem interested in describing the action right now.

Looks pretty crappy…

Anyone at the game at all that you can see on TV?

These refs are SHIT.

Two intentional fouls that they missed. A crap ton of fouls in general. Blown calls left and right.

Typical Big 12 crew. At least we’re getting some free throw practice.

I’ve started diving into work e-mails.

Did I just hear Matt Wolters right? We’re almost at 50 fouls?

Is Hightower calling this game?

You couldn’t hit 100?

Sad. Real sad.

From what I saw of the game, we had our moments on offense, although it’s hard to tell when Chicago State was hammering us left and right. I think their coach just decided to try and hack the shit out of us and force us to make free throws, which we did (35-46, I think?). Holy crap, 46 freaking free throws?!!

So far, from my observations over the last couple of games, we just haven’t been challenged defensively yet. We make some pretty routine plays that the guys in your local rec league make against low pressure D. While I don’t feel like we will lay an egg on Saturday, I just hope our offense doesn’t panic early when Oklahoma is in our grill from the tip.