The hot topic with Kansas basketball this year will be shot selection, and one can understand why.
These Jayhawks will fire up more threes than any other Bill Self team, and that’s basically because they have to. KU is short on big men and long on shooters, meaning those sorta-guarded threes — ones that would have gotten players benched in the past — have now become tries that should at the least be forgiven and perhaps even encouraged.
Shots will go down some nights. They’ll miss others.
But in the aggregate, that philosophy has the potential to push up KU’s offensive ceiling for an important reason — and one that was on display Friday night in the Jayhawks’ 98-64 victory over South Dakota State.