With a lack of tall players in the post, Kansas coach Bill Self hinted Wednesday that his offense will change compared to years past.

"We still have to play inside-out. I still think that’s how you win — you play inside-out," Self told Topekans at Wednesday’s Roundball event at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center. "But we’ll shoot more 3s than we’ve maybe ever shot. There’ll be more guys with green lights, so to speak, than we’ve ever had."

KU has never been a 3-happy team under Self.

Only 28.6 percent of the Jayhawks’ shots a year ago were 3-pointers — a number that ranked 272nd nationally. KU also hasn’t ranked in the top half of the NCAA in percentage of 3-point attempts taken in any of Self’s 11 seasons.

"We need to use all 50 feet going sideways, the entire width of the court, to run offense, as opposed to focusing in on getting it inside so much," Self said. "Hopefully that will create more scoring opportunities inside. But our way to score inside will be as much driving the ball as it probably was throwing it into Jo (Embiid) or Marcus or Markieff (Morris) or Thomas (Robinson)."

One player Self will be relying on for drives is point guard Frank Mason. The sophomore posted 13 points and seven assists in 24 minutes during the Jayhawks’ 85-53 exhibition victory over Washburn on Monday.

The seven assists would have tied Mason’s career high had it been a regular-season game.

"He’s a natural scorer," Self said, "but he did a good job the other day of creating for others."

Ideally, Self would like to see Mason and freshman guard Devonte’ Graham combine for 10 assists per game. Graham finished with seven points, three assists and three turnovers in 23 minutes.

Freshman Svi Mykhailiuk also made his debut, scoring six points on 2-for-5 shooting with an assist in 16 minutes.

"He’s about where I thought he’d be. I think he’s just aggressiveness away from being really ready," Self said of Mykhailiuk. "I still think that he’s a little bit away from plugging himself in to be really effective, because he can do a lot of things. But right now, he defers too much."

The coach, in this instance, wasn’t referring to Mykhailiuk’s shooting when talking about his lack of aggressiveness.

"I’m talking about strong square-ups, about going after loose balls with two hands, having a presence about himself," Self said. "I like the way he shoots it. He’s not timid about that. I’m talking about the other aspects as far as playing defensively sometimes as opposed to being in attack mode."

Both Self and KU women’s coach Bonnie Henrickson addressed the crowd at a luncheon co-hosted by the Topeka Jayhawk Club.

"We have great support from many, many places, and of course, Topeka’s one of them that’s so close to Lawrence," Self said. "For a town that’s split probably between Wildcat and Jayhawk loyalties, it’s always fun to get over here."

SELF UNDERSTANDS FRANKAMP TIMING — During the event’s Q-and-A, Self was asked about guard Conner Frankamp’s decision to leave KU right before the season started.

"When you think about it, if his desire was to be somewhere else, the timing was right, because if he’d have played in an exhibition game, he’d have lost a whole year," Self said. "So what he’ll do is … he’ll leave at Christmas, and then he’ll sit a year, and then he’ll have basically 2½ years or 22/3 years to play, where if he’d have played first semester one game and then transferred at the end of this semester, he’d only have a year and a half left."

Frankamp’s other option would have been to play the whole year with KU. If he’d have transferred after the season, he’d have sat a year and then had two years of eligibility remaining.

"Conner was going to be part of our rotation. There’s no doubt about that. And he was going to start the season out playing a lot for sure. But you also don’t know how Svi’s going to develop and how Kelly (Oubre) is going to develop and how Devonte’s going to develop," Self said. "There were some unknowns still. I think that (his family) wanted to operate more on knowns than unknowns.

"I didn’t like it, but I didn’t not respect it. We wish him the best. He’s a good kid, and he’ll be a good player for somebody. I thought he would be for us, but obviously that’s not going to be the case."

GREENE RECOVERING — Sophomore Brannen Greene, who suffered a concussion during Monday’s Washburn game, was held out of practice Wednesday.

"He still has some symptoms, but he’s much improved over yesterday and obviously much better than the day before," Self said. "Hopefully he’ll only be out another day or two."

LUCAS UPDATE — Sophomore forward Landen Lucas played 13 minutes Monday while still recovering from a stress fracture in his lower leg.

"He’s going to be able to play through it," Self said. "He’s basically close to being 100-percent symptom-free, but he may bump it a little bit. It didn’t bother him the other day in the game, I don’t think."

BONNIE OPTIMISTIC — Henrickson was happy to see her young players perform to expectations in KU’s 73-52 exhibition victory over Fort Hays State on Sunday.

"They were who they are pretty consistently every day," Henrickson said. "What you don’t want is you throw them out there and they’re not anything like who you’ve seen through the summer and through individual workouts. So that was good."

‘CELEBRATION’ A SUCCESS — Self said that last week’s "Celebrating 60 Years" event at Allen Fieldhouse — it featured Self, along with former KU coaches Ted Owens, Larry Brown and Roy Williams — raised between $450,000 and $470,000 to be split among the four coaches’ charities.

NEINAS JOINS KU SEARCH — Former Big Eight commissioner Chuck Neinas has been hired to help with KU’s football head-coaching search, assistant athletic director Jim Marchiony confirmed Wednesday.

Neinas, who also served as interim Big 12 commissioner in 2011-12, is president of Neinas Sports Services. A 2013 USA Today article reported that, at the time, Neinas charged schools $50,000 per coaching search.

A previous USA Today article credited Neinas with being part of search committees that hired Mack Brown at Texas and Bob Stoops at Oklahoma.