LAWRENCE
Here is Bill Self’s predicament. He wants his Kansas men’s basketball team to play faster. Yes, he really does. He yearns to see them run more. He desires more transition buckets and easy dunks, the kind of play that would make any basketball purist nod in approval.
His players, Self says, want this, too. The KU staff sells this style of play during recruiting pitches. If you play defense for us, they’ll say, you can have freedom to run on offense. Listen to Self in any given year, and you’ll likely hear him talk about Kansas playing faster.