DES MOINES, Iowa — Kansas went via observe Friday with coach Invoice Self however with out readability whether or not Self would work for the Jayhawks of their second-round NCAA event recreation in opposition to Arkansas on Saturday.
“It is a day-to-day scenario with him … We’ll see what occurs,” mentioned Norm Roberts, who changed Self as Jayhawks coach for his or her previous 4 video games, together with Thursday’s first-round win over Howard.
Self, 60, went to a hospital final week complaining of chest tightness and stability issues. He underwent a coronary heart catheterization and had two stents positioned for the therapy of blocked arteries and was discharged from the College of Kansas Well being System on Sunday.
Roberts has been teaching with Self for all however seven seasons because the two first labored collectively at Oral Roberts College in 1995. Included alongside the best way have been stops for the 2 of them at Tulsa, Illinois and Kansas.
So if there’s anybody who is aware of Self’s needs, it is Roberts, who broke with Self for less than six seasons as head coach at St. John’s and one as an assistant at Florida.
“Now we have been collectively for nearly 25 years, so we in all probability do end one another’s sentences in basketball phrases,” Roberts mentioned. “I do attempt to consider what he would need to do. If it is a scenario of getting the ball inside, if it is a scenario of trapping the ball display, the place we might need to assault, these issues we speak about lots earlier than the sport begins on how we need to assault, what we need to do, how we need to play the sport. So I simply revisit that in my head and coach that approach.”
Roberts, 57, additionally changed Self for 4 video games in the course of the season when Self was suspended by Kansas as a part of self-imposed sanctions surrounding the FBI investigation into school basketball corruption.
“It is no drop-off,” Kansas guard Kevin McCullar Jr. mentioned. “Coach [Roberts] is aware of what he is doing and he is a mirror picture of Coach Self. He will get us the sport plan and we go on the market and execute.
“I’d say it is his ardour and his will to win and desirous to win, how aggressive he’s. His pregame speeches get you fairly pumped up. You need to go on the market and run via a brick wall typically.”
Self has been attending Kansas practices because the Jayhawks arrived in Des Moines. Roberts mentioned that as a result of he has, the Jayhawks’ routine hasn’t modified a lot.
“It is the identical that we at all times do,” Roberts mentioned. “Now we have scouting experiences. We meet in all probability two instances an evening and go over totally different situations and what we need to do and the way he desires us to play each offensively and defensively. So we have not had any additional conferences and people issues. As a employees we at all times collaborate and work collectively and everyone has enter on what we predict could be the perfect scenario for us.”
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