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Over the course of the season, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has gone with some different starting lineups.
Of course, graduate center Hunter Dickinson, senior forward KJ Adams, and graduate guard Dajuan Harris Jr. have all been among the team’s five regular starters. But the combination with them hasn’t always been consistent. Ahead of this past Sunday’s game at UCF, four different guards had started with those three veteran Jayhawks at one point or another.
It might not come as much of a surprise then that, as Self has continued to work through what Kansas’ rotation will look like, for the UCF game graduate Shakeel Moore became the fifth guard to start with that veteran trio for Kansas at some point this season. That’s even as Moore has been limited at times this season due to injury.
In what became a 99-48 win for the now-No. 12 Jayhawks (10-3, 1-1 in Big 12 Conference), Moore played a season-high in minutes and collected six points, six assists, and three rebounds along the way.
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“He really came in with a passion defensively,” Dickinson told reporters postgame about Moore. “I think that’s where he’s going to help us the best, is being a dog defender, being somebody who can pick up 94 feet and really change the game defensively, and really help (Harris) out.
Because (Harris) is a great defender, but having another guy out there with him — and then, he’s just a basketball player. He’s super athletic. Coming off ball screens and stuff like that adds a bit of athleticism that can always help with us offensively as well.”
Self, who acknowledged postgame he’d been struggling with which players to start, indicated Moore’s part in the starting lineup had to do with which opponent Moore could match up against. That, as Dickinson discussed, would help out Harris. So, one could wonder how much Kansas’ starting lineup could vary game-to-game as Self and…
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Author : The Topeka Capital-Journal
Publish date : 2025-01-07 09:08:00
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