Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Kansas Jayhawks Crumble at Home AGAIN, Wasting KJ Adams Outbreak in Loss to Texas Tech Red Raiders

Episode Date: March 1, 2025

Kansas Jayhawks basketball faces a pivotal moment after their third home loss in Allen Fieldhouse, this time to Texas Tech. All three losses have included struggles in late game situations for Bill Self and KU. Can the Jayhawks reclaim their home court dominance and sharpen their guard play as March Madness looms?Explore the intricate dynamics of Kansas' recent struggles, including the struggling guard play, the "Dickinson Dilemma" and the team's defensive lapses. Host Derek Johnson highlights key players like K.J. Adams' monstrous performance along with other players like Rylan Griffen and Dajuan Harris. Discover how these elements could impact the Jayhawks' chances in the Big 12 tournament and beyond and their chances this week against Houston and Arizona.Don't miss this insightful analysis of Kansas Jayhawks basketball as they navigate crucial challenges and prepare for the final stretch of the season.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Supply HouseJoin the Trade Master program today at SupplyHouse.com/TM and start ordering plumbing, HVAC, and electrical supplies with just a few clicks. Plus, use promo code SH5 for 5% off your first order. That’s SupplyHouse.com!ROYDownload the Roy app now from the App Store and start backing your favorite athletes the way they deserve—with transparency, trust, and a real impact. This is the future of college sports. Join it now by downloading Roy and supporting your favorite players!FanDuelRight now, new FanDuel customers can get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in Bonus Bets if your first FIVE DOLLAR bet wins!Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

Despite the best efforts of KJ Adams, Kansas loses at home, again behind some faulty late play and a three point barrage from Texas Tech. You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. What's going on Derek Johnson here this is Locked On Jay Hawks thanks for making it your first listen every day thank you to the every dayers catching each and every show we are free and available wherever you get your podcasts including on our

YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show on today's edition of LOJ we recap KU losing to Texas Tech this time. Another home loss for KU. Another loss for KU is there in double figures at this point in time. What went wrong for KU in the game and has been going wrong really all season long that has led to this point in time.

We'll get to Game Awards and what is next for the Jayhawks. And let me get this out of the way and say the effort level and some of the things that Kansas did were actually really good in this game, like your ability to score inside and, you know, winning the rebounding battle. And again, like the game that KJ Adams played, he was an absolute monster today. Double-double for KU. The amount of like effort plays and hustle balls that he won for you, the scoring ability, it was phenomenal. The production you got from your two big men

with KJ Adams and Hunter Dickinson was phenomenal. Of course, to call it the end of the game, that was no good, but KU ended up getting the ball back, so whatever, that happens sometimes. This one, just, you know, the lead guards weren't great for KU. In fact, they struggled to a very real extent. And I think to a certain extent, there is a bit of this game for me,

where it's a bit of the new reality. And then hopefully, this isn't a new reality we're going to see moving forward. Hopefully, this is a bit of a new reality of just what it's been the past couple years, like at the end of the day, Texas takes a better basketball team than Kansas, both in terms of their style of play, the talent on the roster, how it's put together, they're just a better basketball team than Kansas. And so to a certain standpoint, like it's, oh, you lost to a better basketball team. And yes,

that is frustrating as a KU fan where you don't ever want to be in a position where you're like, yeah, we lost because we're the worst basketball team. No, it's Kansas. Like you should be building a roster year in and year out that is not having those sorts of things happen. And unfortunately, it is to that point. But to me, this loss comes down to really three main things. With the fourth one, I do want to at least discuss, but the first one is KU has kind of just lost all their clutchness at home. This year it's just gone away. It continues to be amazing to me how poorly this team executes down the stretch.

And in these key moments, especially, I mean, it's home or road, whatever, but especially at home, when you have literally the most experienced team in the country, you would think that it would put you in a better situation for those sorts of things. And you look at the three home losses for KU now, they're all very similar in that way.

This one more similar to the West Virginia game, but they're all similar in that you had issues at the end of the game, closing the game out. The Houston game, you know, you couldn't close the game out with a lead. In the West Virginia game, you storm back, you tie the game, and then you foul him on a three point shot. And it felt like Zeke Mayo was trying to be like, oh, I'm going to do the Javon Small right here on that play.

And then in this one, it was similar to West Virginia that you came storming all the way back and then you couldn't close it out in a game that, you know, you got tied at different points in time toward the end of the game. And it is just weird after all the years were built off as one, these close games and one, these single digit games or one possession games, it's all gone out the roof this year. And the lack of execute, like it's not just that, oh, you know, Kansas, they lost another game by three because they missed the game

tying three or the other team hit a crazy buzzer, buzzer beater three to beat them. It's like they're having execution issues to write like fouling the guy like Jovan Small, like you don't foul in that situation. Execution issues of throwing the ball out of bounds, like in late possessions and this one, it's execution issues that you're not being able to get an inbound pass in against Houston. Right. Those are execution issues.

Those aren't just, oh, you ran into like some, you just missed the shot and they made a shot, right? To where you feel like, oh, maybe it's going to reverse at some point in time. No, you're just not executing again. That is weird that it is this experienced team. The second part of this is guards win in March. We're officially in March now. It is March 1st and guards win during the month of March. We talk about it all the time in the NCAA tournament. Well, Kansas doesn't have the guard play. They just don't.

And you look at Texas Tech who does have the guard play and that's what you're kind of seeing here. And I mean the KU Bigs were just begging for consistent scoring to some extent from the guards I think in this game and really have been the last two games. You'll be the last two games for KU hundred against it and KJ Adams between Colorado and Texas Tech combined have 86 points on 65.5% shooting now obviously usually big men are going to have a higher shooting percentage, but when it's this dark, it's, you know, wild 65

and a half percent from those two 86 points between the two of them through two games. All of the KU guards which I'm counting the wings into. So Harris, Mayo, Koy, Griffin, Stor, that is five players compared to two. 52 points over two games and 31% shooting between those two. So yeah, they you're just kind of begging for big contributions. And if you would have got some big or guard contributions in the Colorado game, you win by double digits.

And you're not really sweating it out late. If you would have got some big card contributions in the Colorado game, you win by double digits and you're not really sweating it out late. If you would have got guard contributions in this game, you probably do end up winning the game. And that matters moving forward because yeah, guards do matter in March. And to be clear, like I actually thought Rylan Griffin showed some good things today. Diggy Coy, you know, you're only going to ask for for so much off the bench and he did at least hit you that big three. But I do think this plays into number one, Kansas losing the clutchness at home and not

having the requisite guard play and guards that can score. The biggest area that I noticed it in is when like you're playing other teams and you set a ball screen and there's games where Duann Harris, you know, gets you double digit points. There's games where Zeke Mayo has got off, but where teams, you set a ball screen, they go under the screen. And in past years, if they did that, it would just be an automatic fire from whatever KU's guard was. And a lot, you know, they shot those at a pretty good rate and stuff. So I think that does matter because you look late in games, the guards are going to be the ones with the ball in their hands. And a lot of times if you are down late in the game, you need a guard to

make a quick decision and score you a quick bucket. And Cagney doesn't really have that luxury, right? Like if they need a bucket, they're going to a hundred tickets and well, it takes time to set that up, right? To get the ball to the big man in the post. And that makes it tougher to come back from behind in these late game situations. So I do think those two things are tied a little bit there.

I also think this is the third one, and maybe this is the most pertinent. Kansas I think feels a little stuck in the past with how they play basketball and whether this is something that is just tied down to what the roster construction is of this specific team that dates back to last year, or whether this is something that is starting

to be an issue for Bill Self. The thing about it is like we've seen Bill Self have rosters that are three point dependent or have teams that are spaced out. The weird part is he had so much success with those teams from really the 2015-16 team through that 2017-18 team.

The fact that they went away from it after that was certainly weird. That it's like, you had a lot of success here. You made three Elite Eights and you made a final four. Like, why do you go away from that? And you look at the title winning team, like it was playing, you know, a bunch of guards that could score.

Doesn't really feel like you're doing that same thing. So I don't think that the game is passing by. I think Bill South is still, once you get the right players in his hands, going to be an excellent basketball coach. But it certainly is a little bit of a weird thing that like you see the post game comment afterwards of like, you know, we can't trade twos or threes and it just became about them shooting all

these reason that shooting all these students that well, you're the one who put the roster together. So there is that, that certain element of that, right. And you look at it and KU has a past first point guard. That is more old school, right. And again, that's the weird part. Like KU for so many years under Bill South had success with these kind of combo guards

who could score like Sharon Collins and Frank Mason and Devontae Graham, right? You have two bigs on the court who can't really shoot the basketball. I mean, this has become an even bigger problem for KU this year because Hunter Dickinson, at least last year for a stretch of time was shooting well from three.

This year he hasn't shot well from three. And so now it's really two bigs who can't shoot for you. Although Hunter can consistently hit from the mid And so now it's really too big. You can't shoot for you. Although Hunter can consistently hit from the mid range, but lots of mid range shots. And that's an area where analytically doesn't really, you know, speak well for KU. They can't really defend the three ball.

That was pretty apparent against Texas Tech today. Texas Tech wants to take a lot of threes. And they were like, we're going to take even more than normal in this game. And the crazy part about this is like, Texas Tech shot 35% from three. That's, you know, like it's a good percentage. It's not like a insane percentage that you look at and go, wow, they were just bonkers from three.

It was on an insane volume, but it, and honestly that is a crazier percentage given that they had that one cold spell that they still shot 35%. But the thing is so many of them, whether they made them or missed them, were like wide open shots for Texas Tech in this game. The three point defense was not good.

And the end result is in a game where Texas Tech shoots again a solid but relatively normal three point percentage because of the fact that it was on such high volume and they did not turn the ball over, which has been a thing that Kansas defense doesn't force turnovers. And because they did have at least a little mix of scoring inside because JT Toppin mostly that was KU second worst defensive efficiency game of the season.

The worst one was BYU, another team who can space you out and shoot threes. And so you look at it, Kansas shoots 60% on two point shots in this game. They had a 44 to 20 advantage in points in the paint. That's a plus 24 points in the paint. That's plus 24 points in the paint. They made more than double the amount of layups plus dunks that tech did. And they lost a game where they trailed the game for over 34 minutes.

Like they were clearly not the better team here. And I think that's kind of the biggest one of why this happens and where things are at at this point in time. Now, can they change it up with the roster construction next year? Yeah, absolutely. Oh, wait and see what ends up happening. The fourth one in this one, I don't think is as prevalent.

And I don't know. I hesitate to even bring this one up because I think Hunter Dickinson overall like had a pretty good game today. And he obviously just had that unbelievable performance against Colorado. He's a good player. I don't want this to be misconstrued. Hunter Dickinson is a good player who overall is a positive impact for KU that they do not have all of the right pieces around him

to make it work at the maximum level. Okay, can we start there? At the same point in time, here's where I'm calling the Dickinson dilemma. The dilemma is that how it affects your defense against teams like this, like Texas Tech, and also that you brought Hunter in to be the best player on the court.

You brought Hunter against it and you paid all that NAL money. You, you know, had a bunch of players leave your program. You went out and got this kid because your idea was we're bringing this player in to be the best player on the court when he's out there. And I don't even know that I blame Hunter for this again. Like this is something completely different. But like coming into the game on paper, JT Toppin was the best player on the court. And I think on paper, I would argue Darian Williams was probably the second best player.

If you were just drafting players before the game started, you know, because he's a he's a matchup problem for for other teams that gets 15 points, like six rebounds, four assists per game, shoots a three stretches the floor. I would argue those were the two most impactful players on the floor, they had both of them, right? And that's a problem if you're basically, you've set your roster up to be like, yeah, our best player actually isn't

the best player on the floor. It's like having Alex Smith. Everybody loves Alex Smith. Alex Smith was a good player, right? Alex Smith was a solid quarterback, right? 100 Higgins is a good player. And you can build a roster around 100 Higgins and you can build a roster around Alex against and you can build a roster around

Alex Smith that has leaps to him having a lot of production and having a lot of success and making postseason right. But this is Kansas, if you want to be elite, if you want to be a Final Four team, you know, one of the best teams in the country throughout the season, as opposed to just, you know, tournament level solid or a good team. Do you want your best player to be, you know, the second or third best player on, do you want your best player to be, you know, the second or third best player on the floor

and have certain deficiencies, but still be an overall good player? Or do you want to go out and make that move at some point and be like, yeah, we need Patrick Malmes. We need that upgraded quarterback from Alex Smith. That's how I kind of feel about this. And so it's an unfortunate thing because, again, like a hundred against him can work

if you have the right pieces around him. You go back to his freshman year of Michigan, he had Franz Wagner and Isaiah Livers, like two good three and D wings. And they were able to make the elite eight and they were one of the best teams in the country. And if not for a really bad shooting performance against UCLA, they make the final four.

And you know, who knows what happens for them against Contagga in that final four game. But you look at it now and it's just, it goes back to all this idea of it like, yeah, DeJuan Harris can work too. You saw him play next to a bunch of wings and when they had a scoring point guard coming off the bench to pair with him

or play for him at certain times and it worked. Same thing with KJ Adams. If you use him in a specific role, he started as a center on a one-seeded NCAA tournament team. All these players can work, but then when you mix them all together, it's just, it's not the right fit altogether. And I think bottom line here,

it's just tough to see this team making noise when they are inconsistent overall. And there's really one exception to the inconsistency. It's been a lack of clutch ability. Like that has been a consistency for this team, unfortunately, and with a lack of guard play for March, kind of combined with that, even with Hunter and KJ playing good ball right now.

Like Hunter Dickinson is playing good ball right now. KJ Adams is playing great ball right now. You're getting as good of pairing between those two as you have their entire time they've been together at this moment, and yet you lose this game anyway. And I hate that they wasted this KJ Adams game. It was phenomenal in so many ways. You even fouled out JT Toppin in the second half.

You had him in foul trouble for a lot of the second half that helped you to hold him toT Toppin in second half. You had him in foul trouble for a lot of the second half that helped you to hold him to three points in second half. But of course, I think the hope is that, you know, all these close losses reverse fortune for a short time for KU like what we saw with KU football, where it's like, okay, maybe they're doomed for some close wins and maybe they can eke out a sweet 16 run.

At this point, if you told me they're gonna make a second weekend, I call that a success based on where we are at this point in the season. But I don't really think my opinion changed about this team today. And that is kind of a sad state to be in because I don't know on a certain standpoint, like you don't want to overreact to losses and stuff in general, but that we're at a point at least to me where I'm just like, okay, yeah, they lost to a better team. And that's not a fun place to be in for KU basketball that the expectations have dipped to a point where it's like, yeah, there's a lot of teams they lose to where it's just

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subscribe to the show. We will be back on Monday for a KU Houston preview. Don't love that that's such a short turnaround. That feels like an auto L at Houston. Who knows, maybe they'll play as well as they did at home and then just not kind of, you know, blow the game late. And then that'd be great if they could certainly do that. If you were giving me I don't know, whatever. If you give me the option one and one these this final week, I just like, okay, let's take it and move forward.

Anyway, game trophies here. Best moments of the game. Some of the early KJ Adams dunks, Ryland Griffin's three that made it 51 to 46. It cut it to a five point game. If they get captain nine, I'll run for you to start the second half to get back into it. KJ had a really good save before Hunter made a shot

to make it 60 to 57. The Diggy Koi three that puts you up 61, 60 was like, okay, here's that big vintage Allen Fieldhouse comeback in the second half. And now they're going to be able to win this game, right? And then they immediately will get to that worst moments. But anyway, there was the later one where Hunter forces the steel. KJ grabs it, dribbles it up, passes it to one who immediately throws up a lob.

KJ throws it down for Duncan. He got like 13 feet in the air. That made it 73-71. You were down two. That was a really cool moment. And then when JT Toppin fouled out and it allowed Hunter Dickinson to go to the line, he made both free throws to tie the game.

That was a cool moment too, where it was like, you tied the game and you got the best player out of the game. Fortunately, Keough was outscored, what, five-nothing from there to finish out the game. Worst moment of the game, I mean, the general, the three-point defense. Watching JT Toppin be the best player on the floor when,

again, that goes back to the Dickinson dilemma, who it's still a good player. But I'm looking back at last off season when I was like, yeah, JT Toppin at this point is the best player in the transfer portal. And I'd love for KU to get him. If you didn't have Hunter Dickinson, you maybe go out and get JT Toppin or maybe you're more aggressive for a player like that. And who knows what ends up happening? And again, I don't want this to come across like I'm just blaming Hunter. I'm not like, I think it's it's more about the roster construction than anything and Hunter did play a solid game today. It's just, you

know, one of those things. Rylan missing back to back gimme layups, that little lob play where they threw it to him, and he has the wide open layup on the lob, and he missed it. And then he got to get it back And then he misses again. That was no fun. So you go up 61, 60 on the David Coy three and then Hawkins for Texas Tech scores the next eight points for Texas Tech. He hits a three immediately to make it 63, 61.

Then you tie it at 63. He hits another three to make it 66, 63. And then they have that nice little loose ball play where they poke it ahead and he hits the layup to make it 68, 63. And then they have that nice little loose ballplay where they they poke it ahead and he hits the layup to make it 68 63. There was also that that sequence where Hunter misses a three where it's like, you've not shot threes well this year. Why are you taking that one when you're down 68 63. And then he gets burned on defense for a Federico Federico

bucket to make it 70 to 63. Zeke Mayo dropping the ball out of bounds on the pass from Duann Harris. I mean, the whole game for Zeke Mayo was a struggle. We talked about the guard struggles as a whole for KU. Zeke was kind of at the pinnacle of that. And then you had the Darian Williams three to put them up, three, 76, 73 at the other end. KU got messed up on the switch and left them open.

You can't do that to a really good player who's gonna be either all week, 12 first or second team this year. And then DeJuan Harris throwing the ball away again, this experienced six year point guard. How do you let that thing happen? Just kind of another bad end to the game. It feels like DeJuan has had a lot of these

kind of brain fart moments at the end of games. And it's been unfortunate here for six year point guard. And then I don't know what that shot attempt was from Zeke Mayo. Again, it felt like he was trying to rekindle what Javon Small did against him in Kansas. Or no, I think it was against Flory. Whatever, the first big 12 game of the season.

And yeah, that clearly didn't work for him. There were still nine seconds on the clock. Like they had more time. I can understand that a little more. If it was like two seconds, like you had to shoot it like it is what it is, but that was a no bueno in a game that was no bueno for Zeke Mayall all the way around.

All right, appalling stat of the game. KU were shooting 52% at half, they were down 11. That was certainly appalling to see the difference in the styles of play. Texas Tech was plus 33 in points made off of three pointers. That certainly is pretty appalling. And then here's the last one. And this one is pertinent to me.

I mentioned the numbers of Hunter plus KJ versus the KU guards the last two games. Well, for this game specifically, the KU guards as a whole. So again, I'm counting the wings into this with Duann Harris, Zeke Mayo, Ryland Griffin, Diggy Coy and AJ Storr, 28 points between those five on 10 of 31 shooting good for just 32%. I think that is the winner for most appalling stat of the game.

Offensive MVP for KU, KJ Adams. He had 21 points, 10 of 12 from the floor. He was fantastic. He had double digit rebounds, but if we're just talking offensive MVP, if five offensive rebounds, that's what you want to see from him. He also three assists to one turnover. He was great for KU. This was probably the best game of his career.

I mean, he's had some other good ones. He had a good scoring game. He didn't have a good rebounding game against Colorado, but he did both in this one. And he made so many hustle plays as well that contributed on both ends of the ball, including getting extra possessions for the offensive side of it.

But if we're going to the offensive side of it here, I hope KJ continues to do that. There were a couple moments in the game where he attacked a one on one and the one that's sticking out the most in my mind, I think he caught it and did like a spin move and then laid it in. And it's like, hey, if you're going to play this way, like, don't be adamant or don't be, you know, passive. If we're going to play too big basketball, they're winning if you're just sitting in the mid range

and they're sagging off you and being like, yeah, if you want to shoot it, shoot it. Attack the defense, go into them, right? You're a strong finisher, go at them and finish. And that's what I like to see from this game. And I hope Zeke or I hope KJ continues to play like this for the rest of the season in his final games with KU. Defensive MVP, I mean, I don't know,

defense wasn't great for KU. This was their second worst defensive game of the season in his final games with KU. Defensive MVP, I mean, I don't know, defense wasn't great for KU. This was their second worst defensive game of the season by efficiency. KU had only four steals. They had no blocks. Like everyone was giving up threes. So I don't really know that I want to pick someone. I guess if we're having to pick someone,

like Texas Tech did only have six offensive rebounds and KJ had eight defensive rebounds. So I guess if we want to go with KJ, he also, you know, I've said this before. I think that the KJ is a really good defender overall and has been a good on-ball defender for KU. Even the shot that like Darian Williams hit over him on that kind of turnaround was good defense.

It was just a better make. There are certain times where he gets lost off the ball on three point defense, which is the struggle of when you're playing three bigs or two bigs even against teams who want to shoot a lot of threes. And it's just difficult because everything for KU that is even good has holes in their game.

So it's like a hundred against it is this good player. These holes on the defense event. KJ right, has certain holes with shooting or the offensive end. You can go with every player. There is no like all around player for KU and that makes it difficult when you're putting things together.

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as an 11 point favorite, which I don't know if that will be enough. And maybe I'm just in my mind, just like scars from last year because Houston beat Kansas by 30 points last season. That was game Hunter Dickinson got hurt. It was just all around bad vibes for KU playing down Houston

Who knows maybe you know You could point to the loss at home to Houston to the start of this kind of downturn for KU and how that maybe Mentally affected them and sent them in a tailspin and maybe this is what they need Maybe they just need to play Houston again And and you know try to beat him on the road and maybe that would be the elixir for everything at least That's the hope but Ken palm only gives them a 15% chance to win that one. Ken Palm gives the Arizona game is kind of a coin flip at home. Again, like I said earlier, if you guarantee me one and one right now

this week where you lose it, even if you told me you're going to lose by 20 points at Houston, but you're going to beat Arizona, you're going to squeak one out to just keep the senior day streak alive. I'd be like, OK, that's fine. I'll take it because we've seen enough streaks on this year, right? Just give me that one at the very least, right? Then after that, we get the big 12th tournament

of which at this point, like, I wonder if they're mathematically eliminated from having a first run by. So Houston at 16 and one, Arizona in tech 13 and five. So Kansas, so yeah, Kansas cannot get higher than the four seed. The four seed though is still in play. Iowa State's playing Arizona late tonight.

And then BYU is playing West Virginia late tonight. So Kansas needs BYU and Iowa State to lose. But if BYU beats West Virginia, I believe BYU would have a two game lead on Kansas and the head to head. Now I don't know what happened hypothetically if there was three or a tie, but basically more likely than not,

there's a real chance that after tonight, Kansas is with still two games to go. Normally we're like, oh, has Kansas clinched the big 12 or can they clinch the big 12 outright? And there might be like a game to go or like a week to go. We're now at a point where there's a week to go and Kansas might, based on the results tonight, be clinched out of not even getting a first round buyout of being that

not even a top four seed in the big 12 with a week to go. Insanity, man, insanity. All right. We'll preview that KU Houston game on Monday, Gulp, and we'll have a postcast for you up after that game as well. I'm looking for today's episode of lockdown Jayhawk so you can find our show anywhere you podcast including on YouTube for another edition of LOJ see event