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K-State point guard bounces back
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No way, Koehn said. They were ready to get back at it.
MANHATIAN — After a dismal performance against Stanford on Sunday, it would have been easy for Laurie Koehn's confidence to be damaged. But Koehn isn't that type of player, Coach Deb Patterson said.
"I don't really know what jetlag is — sitting around on your backside all day. I don't know how you get tired doing that. That's what we did yesterday, so there is really no reason to be tired," she said.
"We were all really excited to come out and play and be in the game, whether at the beginning or the end."
The Wildcat sophomore point guard scored a team-high 23 points Monday night as K-State rolled over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 115-37.
Koehn was coming off her worst offensive performance of the season, a five-point effort against the Cardinals.
Enough said, according to Patterson.
"It's kind of hard to compare offensively," Koehn said. "We just took what their defense gave us,
and they were giving us outside shots, and I think everyone stepped up and shot well."
"Just another demonstration of competitive maturity tonight," she said. "She stepped off the floor after Stanford, just seeing a lot of good shots not drop for her. Tonight, the first shot she saw, she put it up with great confidence — nothing but net."
However, Patterson thought differently.
Junior center Nicole Othde grabbed a defensive rebound and passed the ball to Koehn.
But Koehn would have to wait to get into the flow on K-State's third possession.
K-State's point guard took it from there,promply dribbling to the other end of the court and sinking a 3-point shot.
"Just another demonstration of competitive maturity tonight."
"That's what great players are all about," she said. "That's what the best in the game — the jordans and the guys like that — can have a bad night or a couple of bad nights and come back and drop down big plays. That's what Laurie Koehn's night was all about tonight."
Deb Patterson
Kansas State Coach
Koehn would have five more that night. She missed just three shots from behind the arc.
Koehn shot 7-for-10 from the field and 6-for-9 from three-point land. She put up 23 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. She also had four steals in just 25 minutes of play, partly because the bench gave Wildcat starters some much-needed rest.
It was K-State's third game in four days. So it was conceivable to think the Wildcats were a little fatigued, right?
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The Jayhawk basketball team has begun 2-2. "We haven't found ourselves as a team yet," said senior forward Nick Collison after Kansas lost to Florida in the Pre-season NIT consolation game.
filling in for injured Kirk Hinrich, said he looks forward to the team finding its chemistry again. Lee said he was trying to keep his head squarely on his shoulders.
“It's kind of hard, but you just have to put things into perspective.” Lee said. “It would be foolish for me to try to do something I can't do. The best thing to do is, when you get out there, know what he wants from you and just play within yourself. Don't try to do too much.”
Kansas is still struggling to find its outside shot, as the Jayhawks sank only 5-of-25 attempts behind the arc in the two losses. Defensively, Kansas is working on the perimeter, hoping to limit another three-point clinic at the team's expense. Florida made 14-of-31 three-point attempts in the game Friday. Williams said these were just a few of the weaknesses of his team.
"Now we've gotten to a point where somebody did show us that we had some deficiencies, some soft spots," he said.
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right now, like our identity and what we have as a team and what will be successful for us. We have to find that out."
Two key components — potential NBA rookie of the year Drew Gooden and the Big 12's all-time three-point shooter Jeff Boschee — are missing from a year ago, but blaming them for the early season blemishes is merely a convenient excuse.
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Kansas, deficiencies and all has the weapons to at least compete with any team in the country.
The Jayhawks just didn't show that in New York.
Thus Williams' task has already begun.
He has to mold this team,to shape it.
Turn it into putty in his hands and make the Jayhawks fine-tune their talents — ball control, focus, defense, intensity and poise — which they showed incapable of showcasing against North Carolina and Florida.
"What I want us to do is do a better job in practice everyday, do a better job with the little things," said Williams. "I think that's where we probably slipped more so right now than anytime."
Slipping up now is not entirely meaningless, but close. The last time a Jayhawk team lost two in November was the 1987-1988 season.
That team went on to lose nine more games, but it won the one that counted — the NCAA Championship.
Losses show problems, and certain problems can often be fixed. Sometimes it just takes time.
And time is something the Jayhawks have plenty of. Patience, on the other hand, is a virtue that can be venomous for a community which has been spoiled by incredible success.
"If this has to happen, it's better to be early," Collison said. "It doesn't necessarily have to happen. It would be better if it didn't happen. But if this type of thing was needed for our team, it's better now than later."
Williams is patient. Now it's important that Jayhawk fans are too.
"I think a lot of times you try and look into things too much," Williams said.
Losses in November — fine, but if the acorn goes kerplunk in March because of a lackluster effort, then Kansas fanatics have the right to go nuts.
Samuelson is a Wichita senior in journalism.
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