Here is the Cliff’s Notes version of Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self’s comments at his press conference today.

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• The new elbow rule supposedly hasn’t changed. The officials are just enforcing it. Now, it becomes an intentional foul instead of a personal foul. The biggest negative Self sees is it takes so much time to check out. It slows the game down.

• Winning covers a lot of ills. Some things came to light the other day. Self learned his team doesn’t handle prosperity very well. Focus wasn’t what it should be in the Kansas State game. KU doesn’t have much margin for error when playing a good team. It wasn’t that KU didn’t care or try. Once things went bad, KU didn’t have very good leadership. KU didn’t have good guard play and didn’t play smart.

• If KU was told it would be 24-2 before the season, the Jayhawks would have been ecstatic. These kinds of teams frustrate Self because they spoil him, because they’ve been so good.

• The twins are getting a reputation. Self doesn’t think it’s unfair. They’ve got to do some serious things, because the things that have transpired during games have hurt their team. Are they going to be willing to change so those things don’t happen again?

• Why would a player like Marcus Morris embrace the No. 1 ranking? Self says it was an ego thing. KU doesn’t believe in doing that. That was a small example of KU not being focused. Why would a player make a statement like that? That wasn’t an issue of why KU lost. It was just one thing that happened that showed KU might not have been as focused as it needed to be.

• Marcus is not the team captain. Self picks the captains. This team has no captain. Is Marcus a leader? Absolutely. But you shouldn’t have to tell people what you are.

• Tyrel Reed and Brady Morningstar are taking huge leadership roles. To Self, Marcus and Markieff are the biggest leaders on the team, because they can get the most people to follow them.

• A lot of times in this sport, a negative can become a positive over time. The Oklahoma State loss in 2008 was when the team got together. Losing to Kansas State is not disgraceful. The Wildcats played up to the level of their preseason ranking on Monday.

• KU’s biggest issue is focus. The team struggles with maintaining things. If it was bad Monday, what will it be like with the distractions of the NCAA Tournament?

• Colorado can score. Alec Burks and Cory Higgins are two of the best three scorers in the Big 12. KU’s perimeter defenders have to play better.

• Josh Selby practiced Wednesday. He’s about 80 percent, but that’s not going to stop him from playing. He’ll be fine.

• Thomas Robinson gets his sutures out Friday. Self anticipates he’ll be practicing pretty soon. Self texted one of Robinson’s family members today. Thomas is a guy that Self really liked, and after seeing everything he’s handled everything, he’s a guy that he likes even more. He’s become a great young man.

• KU needs Selby to be aggressive and make plays. When Tyshawn Taylor was out, KU didn’t have any playmakers on the perimeter. KU needs Josh to be the player that the team knows he can be. He needs the confidence to do that.

• This year hasn’t gone the way Selby scripted in his mind, but his attitude has been pretty good.

• Self joked that in his college days, he liked to play Kansas because he and Tad Boyle were both slow and could guard each other.

• Monday was a rough night for Taylor. That’s probably as rough a night as he’s had in his basketball career. The thing that was disappointing to Self is that he couldn’t turn it. Self thinks he’ll bounce back fine. Taylor didn’t appear to be into it like the team needed.

• Self saw Burks play in the state finals, and by then he was already signed with Colorado.

• Self thinks Texas is the best team in the country since January.