Well, let's talk some Kansas Jayhawks with Mike Plank, the managing editor of Rock Chalk Talk.

He's on Heartland College Sports Weekly, part of Heartland CollegeSports.com.

Your independent, Big 12 digital media outlet.

I'm Pete Mundo. And Mike, let's get right to it.

This team is lost two in a row now, losing to Oklahoma State last week and Baylor this week.

They've got Oklahoma coming up this weekend. Obviously, KU fans have national championship aspirations every single year.

So this is just by their standards, not up to snuff.

What is the biggest problem right now for this team as you see it?

Well, Pete, first of all, thanks for having me on.

It's been a while, and it's always good to talk to you,

and I definitely appreciate the opportunity to talk a little kidding sports with me.

But to answer your question, I mean, I think they have two issues, I guess.

And those two issues are offensive defense.

If you want to make it real simple, defensively, it just seems like they struggle on defensive

communication, you know, when to switch or not switch is a good example of that.

The Ken Palm numbers, I don't know if they're a believer in those kind of metrics.

They seem to back that up.

And then offensively, I don't know, you know, I'm not even close to being a basketball

coach, but I just can't tell what they're trying to do on offense.

They obviously aren't doing those old traditional high low, but they also haven't fully embraced, you know, freeing the three.

You know, a good example of against West Virginia.

A top 15 teams, Katie took almost 60% of its field goal attempts from behind the office.

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