Texas Tech, on the road. They don’t lose there — Grant McCasland has a crazy, Self-esque home record in Lubbock. For most of the game, DP is struggling, or whatever you consider “struggling” for DP.

He’s forcing stuff — some of it goes in, he is going to score 70 as an NBA rookie — but for the most part, nothing is falling and he looks a little gassed. I’m sure many Jayhawks fans had made peace with the L — of course DP was going to have a down game at some point, he is a 19-year-old playing Division I basketball. He’s not Superman.

Hold that thought.

In the tradition of my magnum opus, let’s just take a look at the tape, with time-stamps. This demon child is unreal.

0:00 Tech gives us a bad turnover, which sets the stage for something … else.

SHOT 1: 0:26 Flare screen for DP, who gets loose out on the wing. Off the catch, he lands a little awkwardly, forcing him to collect on the fly, which gives Tech time to contest. DP launches … middle-middle, leaning toward his right. The way he makes a tough shot pure nylon is magic.

DP gets a ton of Kobe comparisons, although as Paul Pierce will tell you, it’s not a great comparison, and not a comp I’ve liked all that much either. The analogy speaks more to his mentality and calm, the way he never celebrates anything because he expected it to happen.

I like anything in the “Brandon Roy before the injuries” camp, maybe mixing a little bit of Kyrie in there with the ball control, the way he carries that thing in a way that draws a foul every time he starts to initiate. Also, DP is a far more advanced shooter than Kobe was at this age. If you disagree, I will meet you in Temecula.

This is pure game-breaking. Nothing’s going, doesn’t matter. All of the sudden, KU is steering. C’mon.

Side note: I love that DP wears the same pair of all-black Don Issues every single game. It’s so nonchalant. Ant gifted DP a custom pair of KU Ant 2s, and he does not wear them. Who does that? Who is this guy?

SHOT 2: 1:19 Ok, here we go. This happens so quickly I almost missed it. It’s the “nothing but Peterson offense” here.

High screen from Flory frees Peterson going left. He gets the shot up a little quicker than he’s expecting — a good friend of mine astutely observed that Peterson lets his shot go on the way up rather than at the summit, and it’s like a card trick, it’s up before you can blink. The defender isn’t exactly in great position, not sure what Tech is thinking there after they’ve flocked a double toward DP on the touch, and yet there’s just no chance even if there’s a good recovery there.

Watch the angle on the replay — the elevation is so quick, so smooth, it looks fake. Bottom. Ha. HAHAHAHA. Zero celly. What else was going to happen?

Wow. We are lucky to watch this savant play basketball for the University of Kansas. He has a gear above the common definition of what gears are and how they work. Words get slippery here.

Great win. I couldn’t not platform this. Rock Chalk.