Beasley

Isn't calling Beasley the best player on KSU like calling someone that smartest rider of the short bus?  Can anyone honestly make the argument that an Eric Gordon, Kevin Love or even Psycho T wouldn't be able to score 40 ppg on that team with them REQUIRING them to do so?  KSU's offense has two plays. 

#1 Pass to Beasley

#2 If #1 is not an option fall into fetal position

This is not an indication of his talent but more so the lack of talent around him!  He is a talented player no doubt.  I am not making the argument that he is not.  Mentioning him with Gordon, Love and Hansbrough should make that clear.  But look at more than the numbers that he puts up for a below average team! 

UNC, IU and especially UCLA don't need those players (and many more through the nation on teams that will last past the first weekend of the tourney) to score 40 points to win games.  Could those players put up those numbers?  Easily!  But they don't need to for their teams to be successful!  A great player makes the players around him better and really makes his team better in the process. 

The last time I checked KSU just finished a 3-5 stretch with wins coming over the #10, #11 and #12 teams in the Big XII.  A blowout of Missouri, a 6 point win over 11-19 Colorado and a 4 point win over 14-17 Iowa State.  This is not the material of a team that has a true leader.  This is NOT the material of the team that has someone deserving this NBA hyped recognition.  A true player of the year would not stumble so harshly down the stretch as the nations eyes are finally rested on him! 

I don't like Coach K but his quotes shed some real light on this sad situation.  "Beasley's terrific, but you don't give player of the year and all this because somebody says he's a better pro prospect."  And this is what it is.  Beasley will make his millions and be a star in the NBA.  A league that plays "basketball" by name only.  But he is NOT the best player in COLLEGE basketball. 

He is the best player on a horrible KSU team that needs him to put up those numbers to win a game at all.  The players I mentioned and many more like them could and would put up those numbers on that team if they were needed too.  That doesn't make them the best in the land.....just the best on that team.

Ok I went back and reread a lot of the other posts and let me stop this before it starts.....

Beasley was double teamed yes....but teams figured out that you let him score his 40, hold the rest of his "team" to under 10 total and you score atleast 51 and you win.  Seems pretty simple to me. 

Its how KU lost when Beasley scored 25 but won when he scored 39.  Hes going to shoot but he can't everytime down the floor.  He just can't.  But if you force the guys around him to make guarded shots...which they have shown time and time again that they can't.....you beat them everytime.  Hence the 3-5 stretch.  Its the same method they used against Texas and Durant last year....and Durant had more talent around him!

Of course Beasly gets all the stats the rest of his guys are at the other end of the court. Against Duke Danny green had 16 rebounds, hard to lead the nation when you got 3 or 4 guys on your team pulling down 4-6 a game.

This is stupid, this is college ball. Hansbrough is the better college ball player. He plays a team game and is totlay selfless on the court.

Beasley will be a great pro, because in the NBA one guy can be so good it makes your team win because its like 10 guys playing 21, no team at all.  (see tracy magrady and the rockets)

So vote him most likely to be a great pro, but not POY!

Wow really?  Not one game?  See your just plain lazy.  If you would check the profile I reside in the middle of freaking Kansas you artard. 

And I am a freaking KU fan.  So if your pee sized brain can pull itself out of Beasleys arse for a minute you would see that I might have atleast watched two.  I don't have an exact count of how many times i had to see his grill but I do know a local station runs triple headers about every weekend on Big XII ball and really what else is there to watch on Saturday afternoon in the middle of a Kansas winter that has been exceptionally cold? 

Your only play Karl is pass ball to Beasley hope he makes it and if he misses grabs his own rebound and then shoots again.  If this formula works and he can score 60-70 a game through the tourney you MIGHT win a game.  Meanwhile players like Hansbrough will lead their team into the tourney ready to play and win with a shot at winning it all.   

You Beasley KSU fans are clinging to scraps of this season while in reality he is half a step out the door and you will never sniff another prospect like him ever again.  Come back to reality and see that the smartest, fastest short bus rider is not better than that the is the smartest and fastest of the rest of us.  Hansbrough could and would score 40 a game in Manhattan.....and so could countless others.  Not only that but it is my personal belief that there are numerous other players who could do the same most of who would have spent the season making those around him better instead of "leading" his team down a 3-5 stretch with wins against the scum of he Big XII!  Good players in the college game make their teammates better around them and he obviously has not done that!  He will make a great pro because thats what the pro game is.......whoever has the ball shoots it like some lame highlight reel. 

Iamaclown

Beating the scum of the Big 12 huh, like Oklahom State? We did beat them how did KU fair? Your right The fact that we have 2 other players in double figures and Walker pulling down 6.5 rebounds per game and 2 other players averaging around 4 rebounds per game and 9 first year players at KSU 7 of which are freshmen Beasley is a mediocer player.  Your KU Bias and disdane for KSU has blinded you to the talent that is right here in your own state.  How do you know he hasn't made his team mates better?  You don't know the potential of his team mates, and not to mention his job is to score that is his role for this team,  So you think he should pass up shooting a couple of times just so your happy because Gilber to 4 more points?  Talk about a retarded argument.  I can count on 1 hand that Beasley had shot when he probably should have passed this year. 

Huh.

One wonders how Bill Walker scored 16.5 points a game when all K-State does is throw the ball to Beasley.

And how Beasley shoots 54% if he's always firing up shots from everywhere on the court.

Or how they won their last conference game at Iowa State with freshman point guard Jacob Pullen leading the team in scoring with 19 points.

Or how Pullen's 20 points against KU were the deciding factor in the win in Manhattan.

Or how Bill Walker managed to score thirty points several times this year.

Oh, wait...the problem here is that most message board posters HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN BEASLEY PLAY, so they invent ridiculous assumptions, and speak directly from their tailpipes.

Everyone's seen Psycho Whitey bleed all over the place, and he's a GREAT player, but he's not in the same league as Michael Beasley. Not even close.

First off KSU fans are great.  Kevin Garnett and Dirk rolled into one.  I guess  that might be true.....neither one of them has lead a team to anything either.....

Best player in the NBA too!  Wow can he just win the MVP this season and save all of them the trouble him doing it next year?  Are you freaking kidding me?  Do me and everyone else a favor.  Take your hand out of the cheetos bag, your man luggage turned yellow a long time ago thinking of Beasley and realize that your "team" is average at best.  As a KU fan I will take our 24 straight years of dominance...and being 25 I will gladly wait until I am 49 to see that loss again by the way.......and only limited "dominant" players and numerous Big XII Championships, Final Four Appearences, and a National Championship....and laugh all the way to the Final Four again this season.  Enjoy your one and done wet dream KSU fans.  No one of this magnitude will EVER sniff Manhattan "The Little Armpit" again. 

Thanks "traybuster"  Heres something that I think all the KSU fans need "'," its called a comma and you put it in the middle of long run on rambling sentences. And judging by your press conferences with players can you pass that along?  Grammar Lesson Over. 

KSU fans.  I think your a little delirious.  I know that you have been off the scene for over 25 years but this is getting sad.  Beasley is not the next coming of anybodys savior.  Not the NBA's and certainly not yours.  $20 says that since he couldn't find Kansas on a map before he will forget where it is before the last buzzer on your season sounds sometime next weekend.

And on a final note I know your a farming school.  So just remember 'BAAAAAAAAA!!!!' means No.