If Dontae Allen leaves we will never get another great Kentucky basketball player including Reed Sheppard and a few others....As long as Cal is here...
Allen needs to think about his future.
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If Dontae Allen leaves we will never get another great Kentucky basketball player including Reed Sheppard and a few others....As long as Cal is here...
Nope don’t agree, if he is the player y’all say he is then he would be playing.
Cal gave him a chance today, he played scared and timid.
Let's be honest here. Allen missed two shots and ran away from the ball, the kid doesn't know how to free himself up for shots. Either he is too slow (I think so) or he has no confidence. When talented players come in his best option is to transfer because he will rarely see the floor imo.
You’re really comparing monk with Allen lol
Mintz isn't a PG and has questionable handles as well, but I wouldn't mind seeing if this works since it can't get much worse.
However, at this point this season is a loss, so I'm actually on board with getting Askew as much experience as possible to close out the season to prepare for next year.
I hope Askew transfers.He's not a UK type point guard.
Yes, he is. He's also conveniently leaving out the fact that Monk took 262 threes to Allen's 52.
Allen doesn’t deserve to play I don’t know what games y’all been watching but the guy doesn’t even fight to get open and on top of that he runs straight up and is slow as hell
Don't tell that to the Cal Suckers. They always want to argue about how much time the transfers got at UK. They always have an excuse.
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JOKE! Then you run a shooter off screens. He is a better shooter then anyone we have. A good coach, which we don't have, can figure out how to get a shooter open, double screens work very well. With your lack of knowledge about basketball, you probably don't know how to run a player off a double screen.
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Is it a extra ordinary bad year my lord yes ! Has the program been destroyed I don’t think so your just being silly now !
If we're honest with ourselves (and believe me I'm frustrated with CAL), Allen can only do one thing well; ie. open 3 point shot.
Teams know this... he's easy as crap to guard -- just kind of glides around the floor.
Oh well, give me some heat if you must, but ...
Allen is gonna' take some more time to be more than just a 3 pt. shot
Teams know this... he's easy as crap to guard -- just kind of glides around the floor.
Oh well, give me some heat if you must, but ...
Allen is gonna' take some more time to be more than just a 3 pt. shot
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I think your right, Cal has taken his confidence away from him. He had confidence in High School, but bad coaching can destroy that.
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Lighten up Francis. Just a humorous response to another poster's questioning of me using the old saying " in my book" which is another way of saying in my opinion.
But, I do find it startling at the direction this program has turned under Cal.
Even the most exuberant optimist would have to admit the program is not in a good place right now and I'm not sure Cal can fix it since he no longer gets the top recruits.
Superior talent can overcome mediocre coaching.
Mediocre talent combined with mediocre coaching equals mediocre team with mediocre results.
We are 6 games below mediocre and trending down.
And also leaving out that many , or maybe most, of Monks threes were shots he created. Dante is a good spot up shooter but he cannot create for himself.
So run an offense that isn’t one man running off a bunch of stationary screens. It isn’t brain surgery. It’s basketball.
90% of other D1 universities would be finding a way to run a pass first offense effectively to get your best shooter shots. You think Sam dekker was a super quick player off screens? It’s the same reason Wiltjer couldn’t get shots here his soph year and went to Gonzaga and thrived.
No. Was agreeing with the other poster that DA is NOT Malik Monk. I didn't make that comparison. He did.
Nice try. Read the entire post before jumping to the wrong conclusion.
Me. And many others. I wouldn't blame him one bit if he transferred somewhere where he'd be appreciated and lit our *** up for the next three years.
Old guy, clean your glasses. Allen is easy AF to guard and does not have the strength nor the motor to get open. If you paid attention, or truly knew anything about basketball, you would see that they try to run Allen through the same screens that all the other big time athletic shooters we had. He just can’t create any space so he can’t get off shots.
If boggles my mind that someone who constantly acts like he has all the answers can’t see what really happens on the court. It must be that you left your glasses in the old football stadium.
Allen doesn't have the toughness to play against a team like Missouri.. He was given at least two chances. He needs to get stronger. Hope he stays and becomes a Darius Miller type player for us..
People need to pump the brakes on Allen, he's not great right now..he has 4 years to be great and in a couple of years he'll be an all-SEC player.
This.
If you’re going to make an argument that a player’s poor performance warrants that he seldom see the court (which many in this board attempt to do), then Askew averaging more minutes than anyone, of late, defeats your argument.
Askew hurts this team more than any other player. Yet, Askew plays 30 mpg.
So please, you’re going to argue that Allen deserves only 7 minutes, do it rationally. It’s irrational to make an argument based on in-game performance, because of Askew.
Dude have you watched Mintz run point this year? He is hands down 10x worse than Askew when actually running the offense. That’s not his strength, and all the blame this year should be on Cal for making a HS SR run the show for the winningest program of all time. Askew should be playing spot minutes and learning the game, but no he is our floor general b/c Cal didn’t have a backup plan
The whole team sucks and this team needed to score points, not saying Allen should start or play major minutes but there was no excuse not to play him some minutes in the second half. He shot 2 threes, how many shots has Boston been allowed to brick all season. Face it the guards on this team are not top D-1 material, period. So tell me what Askew brings to the table, for the minutes played tell me what Boston brings, he has a decent game one night and sucks the next but gets to play thru all his mistakes over and over and over.
. How come other KY boys can stick, but Allen can’t? This year doesn’t even have to count. He could play four more years, be a legacy and be set for life in this state.
I hope Allen transfers its unfair to him to have a coach like Cal trying to stop his potential.
Would be more direct Karma to Coach Cal and his galaxy sized ego if Allen would quit and enter the transfer portal this weekend .. would be fine by me .. I wouldnt advise him to stay , no way in hell
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You nothing about the game itself apparently. The problem is not Allen, it’s what the coach has done to Allen.
Yeah I see statements like that and think about our countries Sec of Education appearing before the senate yesterday describing why its perfectly OK for 6'2 men to compete in Track n Field or Wrestling with 5'4 inch girls .. and I think hmm what world am I living in . Guy says Allen is clueless .. you cant be that dumb . Or as my wife says " dont be dumb and stupid at the same time "
I agree about too many threads but I think many of us see that he has shown enough to invest in the future and is the type of guy that is not sticking around for certain reasons (most likely that they won't really get a chance).
Look, there is no one, and I mean NO ONE on this site that has ever said that DA is MM. This is a false flag being thrown up by Cal Huggers who are attempting to deflect from the real discussion, and that is why does Cal refuse to allow DA the same amount of mistakes and give him enough playing time to actually see what he can do in an extended amount of time WITHOUT the coach screaming at him every time he doesn't shoot and then yanking him out when he does shoot if he misses the shot.
Also, tell me which player on this team DOES HAVE Malik Monk LEVEL TALENT, and deserves to continue to play through multiple mistakes, missed shots, taking bad shots, missing defensive assignments..........
Please tell me, because I haven't seen it. And THAT is the problem that a lot of the fans are having with the way Cal treats DA.
Cal wants to talk about equality and social justice. His system is the epitome of unfair treatment of players based on a solely subjective decision making process headed up by the chief dictator.
Yeah. It really pisses me off to think we've got a guy who can be his senior yr here be as beloved a Wildcat as any we've had in a long time, and that he won't be here because our coach is being a stubborn fool in order to try to prove a point and pick a fight he can't win.