Kruger's B12 Media Day Press Conference Quotes/Photos/Stuff

[OUHoops]

Full Transcript of Kruger's Press Conference: http://asaptext.com/asap_media/medi...1.pdf?SPSID=106110&SPID=13134&DB_OEM_ID=10410

@ChuckCarltonDMN: Awkward media day question No. 1 to Lon Kruger about advantage of Big 12 tournament in Oklahoma City. Kruger tactfully notes its in KC.

@BDavisAAS:OU coach Lon Kruger on Big 12 POTY Buddy Hield returning: "Buddy took the experts' opinions and said I can get better."

@ryaber: #Sooners Lon Kruger excited about not only Rashard Odomes but Christian James, OU’s two freshmen guards.

@ryaber: Kruger said Akolda Manyang still hasn’t quite fully recovered from stress fracture #Sooners

@OU_MBBall: "Buddy took his projections and said, I can improve. He made a decision that was good for him and our program."

@GuerinEmig: Here at Big 12 Media Day, #Sooners coach Lon Kruger says JUCO big man Akolda Manyang hasn't fully recovered from foot inj.

 

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@milessimon: Not only a great player but an even better person. @buddyhield is a legit natl POY candidate. @OU_MBBall

 

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Kruger's Big 12 Media Day Press Conference Quotes

Full transcript of Kruger's Press Conference:

http://asaptext.com/asap_media/medi...1.pdf?SPSID=106110&SPID=13134&DB_OEM_ID=10410

 

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@joeyhelmer10: Kruger on if Dante Buford can be like Cam Clark: "I think it is, given that Dante's a freshman & people remember Cam as a junior & senior."

@GuerinEmig: Big 12 refs supervisor Curtis Shaw emphasizing crackdown on def players initiating contact is coming this yr. Trying to clean up game.

@ryaber: Shaw: Defensive player can use forearm bar into the back of an offensive player w/ his back to the basket in the post

@ryaber: Shaw: Defenders have to make contact in order for pick and roll to be legal #Big12MBB

@ryaber: Shaw: “It will be ugly early. … But I think as our players learn to play legally, it’ll get better up and down the line.” #Big12MBB

 

[DenverSooner]

Huggins looks horrible. I don't understand why so many coaches refuse to take care of themselves. To me it sends the wrong message to your players.

 

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@GuerinEmig: Shaw references Naismith's original rules of basketball, and his emphasis on freedom of movement. How game meant to be played.

@GuerinEmig: Shaw on crackdown stopping 2 yrs: There was some panic in the "hierarchy" as certain coaches complained. Thinks it'll be different this time

 

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#FordBall

 

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@Big12Champ4Life: Congrats to @buddyhield of @OU_Athletics for being named a Big 12 Men's Basketball Champion for Life!

 

[SoonerBounce13]

champion for life?

 

[jackson_supersooner]

Don't think it's possible to be any more pumped about a season as this year. BGs sophomore year was big but we all kinda knew it was BG and 4 other guys. We have an insanely well rounded team that can score and defend...play fast and play in the half court...can sub in 5 and not lose a whole lot overall. Thus team is lethal! Boooomer!!!

 

[BCSooners]

Don't think it's possible to be any more pumped about a season as this year. BGs sophomore year was big but we all kinda knew it was BG and 4 other guys. We have an insanely well rounded team that can score and defend...play fast and play in the half court...can sub in 5 and not lose a whole lot overall. Thus team is lethal! Boooomer!!!

Can't say that AJ, Crocker, WW, & T. Griffin were 4 other guys. Without Blake that team could've made the tourney imo.

I do agree that I am more excited for this year than that year.

 

[DenverSooner]

I am really excited to see what McNease, Manyang, Buford, Odomes and James can do.

OU doesn't need much from them to be a very respectable 8 deep and I think they will get quite a bit for a couple or three of those guys.

 

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@GuerinEmig: I reminded Bill Self he thought Buddy Hield could be Big 12 Player of Yr at Media Day last year. He joked: "I wish he would've left."

@GuerinEmig: Self, seriously this time, thinks Hield made a great decisions to return to the #Sooners and improve his draft stock.

 

[ksSooner13]

#FordBall

I think this pictures correctly parallels the progression of an OSU season....

 

[KBaden145]

I think this pictures correctly parallels the progression of an OSU season....

Funny...


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[sdcloud9]

I think this pictures correctly parallels the progression of an OSU season....

That is frickin' hilarious!!

 

[jackson_supersooner]

Can't say that AJ, Crocker, WW, & T. Griffin were 4 other guys. Without Blake that team could've made the tourney imo.

I do agree that I am more excited for this year than that year.

Don't ask me how but WW completely slipped my mind. I will give you that. But the rest were average at best. Crocker was great at times but then had games where he would fall off the face of the earth. We can say BG and a good WW and 3 other guys. My point is the depth is not even comparable.

 

[CoachTalk]

Don't ask me how but WW completely slipped my mind. I will give you that. But the rest were average at best. Crocker was great at times but then had games where he would fall off the face of the earth. We can say BG and a good WW and 3 other guys. My point is the depth is not even comparable.

Taylor played in the NBA for a period of time. Very Avg!:facepalm