Michael Swain

They're deciding that, hey, instead of being teams that are heavily reliant on threes where there's a little bit of variance, you're seeing a little bit more of the Arizonas of the world

even though they're very more radical in that, but really trying to dominate the glass, get extra possessions, and control the paint.

So for KU, that does kind of feed into what Bill Self wants to do.

KU tried to do that this past year, just so Bryson Tiller, as a foreman in theory, works, but just didn't have the intensity on the glass.

Flory defensively had it, but again, offensively, we talked about the issues.

So KU tried to do it last year.

I think, again, if you get into that world this year, you could see how the guys have got visiting this week, right, Bonk from Charlotte and Dawes from Utah, how those two could fit together.

you know, as a front court tandem together that you really try and go out there, control the glass.

You've got a certain level of skill offensively still at those spots, even with their size.

Correct.

So it's one of those where his agent, someone close to him, basically had put out, hey, Paul intends to enter the transfer portal before it opened.

He's not in the transfer portal.

He did not actually ever enter it.

For Kansas football fans, it's a little bit like Trey Latham.

In the winter where he announced, hey, I'm going to go in the portal –

KU comes back and says, hey, let's talk about this.

Can we get you to stay?

What's it going to take?

Blah, blah, blah.

I think that's very similar to what happened with Paul.