LJWorld- University of Kansas police were called to the men’s basketball dorm Wednesday afternoon, where a man reportedly kept showing up to give a resident there some “free-throw advice.”
The call about the man “wanting to give free-throw advice” came in about 3:30 p.m., but when police got to McCarthy Hall, the man — who’s not a KU student — had already left, KU police Deputy Chief James Anguiano said. For that reason, at least as of about an hour after the call, police didn’t plan to file a trespassing or other criminal report, Anguiano said. (Radio traffic indicated the man had been there multiple times that day before the police were called, and may have come back again just before 5 p.m.). In the final 3:37 of the KU’s 85-80 loss to Oklahoma Tuesday night in Norman, Oklahoma decided to repeatedly foul Udoka Azubuike, sophomore center from Nigeria, in hopes he’d miss his free throws. And the strategy played out just like Oklahoma wanted. Azubuike — shooting an abnormally low .375 from the free-throw line — went 1 for 8 in free-throw shooting for the game. In the final 3:37 he went 0 for 6. ----- I don't know, seems a little ungrateful if you ask me. I suppose I could see why someone might think it requires a criminal amount of fandom for a grown man to show up outside a college dorm multiple times throughout a Wednesday afternoon to scream about the intricacies of foul shooting, but can we at least appreciate the lengths this guy went to in hopes of improving his team? You can call it harassment, but I'm calling it the urgent offering of much needed advice. As far as I am concerned, that's a lot more proactive than what 99.9% of Jayhawks fans did by going home and cursing Udoka Azubuike's name until their tongue became twisted. Now granted, I'd imagine Kansas has someone far more knowledgable in the expertise of free throw shooting on staff, but you can never be so sure when the 5th ranked team in the nation blows a tight in-conference game at the charity stripe. At the very least, you can't tell me the tips of someone who probably took a day off from a trade that is almost assuredly not basketball-related to yell outside the window of an amateur athlete could hurt the Kansas center's 37.5% rate of success. Delivering those tips from outside a player's residence hall in the type of loud and desperate fashion you'd expect from a jilted ex-lover is a good way to get the cops called on you, but is it more unjust than refusing to throw a proverbial life raft to a struggling kid as he's clearly drowning under the pressure of an opposing crowd while walking to a foul line that might as well be the end of a plank?
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