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

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• KU showed it could guard against Kentucky. It also showed it could battle tall guys on the boards. KU’s guys fought hard, but that’s not good enough. KU has to compete and give attention to detail. KU was on an island offensively, and that’s not the way you play against long, talented teams. UK’s best offense was KU’s bad offense.

• The UK game showed the guys they’re better as a group than they are individually. KU doesn’t jump off the page individually — not as much as in the past. KU is not one yet. Not many teams are. KU’s deficiencies against UK were magnified. Self thought KU missed a golden opportunity to be up six or eight at halftime. Self is not discouraged KU didn’t win the game.

• Tyshawn Taylor scored his points by playing “take ’em.” A lot of times when Taylor’s shots were blocked, the ball went out of bounds, so KU maintained possession. That doesn’t hurt KU as much as it might appear.

• Travis Releford had a rough night, but he’s better than that and he’ll play better than that. There’s a different pressure there. It was the best atmosphere Self was a part of that didn’t have anything to do with crowd noise. There were celebrities all around. That might have contributed to KU being sped up.

• Brady Morningstar was the best ball-mover KU had since Self has been here. But the Morris twins were great ball-movers, too. KU will get better at that. The Jayhawks have only been practicing three weeks. KU has to do a better job of running its stuff, and running its stuff to score.

• The last time KU was in Maui, there were six national champions since 1988 there, and the one that wasn’t was Gonzaga, which was loaded. That was probably the most heralded field. Self has watched Georgetown, and that team is good.

• Self is not worried about the other half of the bracket, because KU can scout in person. He’s worried about Georgetown.

• The Hoyas’ big men can pass the ball well. Georgetown can shoot the ball well also. KU will have to try to eliminate layups and threes against the Hoyas, who run some Princeton-like sets.

• In Self’s last year at Illinois, he had a young team. The Illini had a soft schedule, started 10-0 and became confident because of it. The schedule was good for that team. Self thinks playing a hard schedule this year will help KU down the road.

• Self believes your team bonds through your team, not through hand-gliding or surfing or going deep-sea fishing. Saturday will be a play day for the players in Maui. Then Sunday, it will be a business trip. Self has always told his teams if you want to have fun, win. That’s the most fun.