This. It’s amazing that posters here are calling out DA and other posters for stating facts. They’re absolutely butt hurt over it. One of OUR all time great players. ******* unbelievable.
Derek Anderson is right
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Really.... Thanks for letting me know. I was talking about Wisconsin Green Bay. Do you actually think I don't know the record of the 96 team?
That's true, but Pitino hasn't been able to put together a team like that since.
He sounds right. He smacked Cal and I like it
I'll take an NIT season if it follows a championship season. Unfortunately we haven't won a title since ...
Maybe you should do better things with your time than post ignorantly, as well.
Truer words have never been posted .. They cant even take normal day after arm chair QB stuff.. they take it entirely personal .
I’m pretty sure recruiting is a HUGE part of coaching. And for sure you can’t be implying 96 UMASS had more talent than UK in 96. That would be a ridiculously stupid statement to make for sure.
Nothing brings out the squad like questioning King Cal . Look at this thread , it gathered them all up . Thats what we should call them -- " The Squad". they have about as much sense as AOC and whatever other group of morons she hangs around with , truth doesnt matter, just feelings . And those are some tender feelings .
This 1000% end of thread!!!
I’m not a part of anything on here. I just call it like I see it. I don’t defend anything about last year for sure because that kind of season is unacceptable. But a certain portion of this board has lost their minds over Cal. This used to be a place that rational fans could discuss the team but the crazies have taken over.
He hasn’t been at a school like UK either. UK helps make these coaches!
And why did Pitino not run that offense at Louisville? And why did Cal beat the crap out of Pitino while he was at Louisville? Cal beat Pitino 8 out of 9 times while Pitino was at Louisville. Pitino did have one more win but it was vacated by the NCAA just like Louisville's 2013 title. Pitino can't carry Cal's jock and that has been proven on the basketball court.
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And everyone defines that differently . Its been beat to death , you are either OK with the past 5-6 years and the method/style. of play out you are not . But it should NOT be debatable Cal needs Top Ten types recruits , and more than 1 on a team , to get Ky type results . The back to back losses to Kansas St and Auburn , two games we had no business losing , were the last straw for me .. the regular season was point blank sold to us a path to better in March .. your regular cant be so-so if you don't produce in March , now we have rough regular seasons and March isn't paying off either . Its not good . IMO .
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Stomped? That was a stressful game. UK didn’t stomp anyone. No offense.
also, UMASS stomped us at the beginning of the season if you do recall. That was not a great way to begin.
Derek has forgotten just how much TALENT was on that 1996 team. Hell, he didn't even start for first half the season, as he was the sixth man. Ron Mercer started ahead of him. It wasn't until Pitino FINALLY made the move to start DA over Mercer that the team racheted up for the run it made. Few teams (if any) in history were as good and talented as the '96 team. That team averaged 91.44 points per game. Next year, the team averaged 83.13 points per game, which is a pretty big drop-off. Why ?? ... because considerable talent was gone, don't kid yourself.
Tubby's team won it all in 1998, averaging 80.08 points per game.
This year's team is currently averaging 82.87 points per game.
Defense matters ...
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One of our all time great players that Pitino refused to play after he had been cleared by his doctor to play. Just another way for Pitino to show his arrogance for the UK fans. Pitino knew he was leaving for the NBA so screw UK fans because I want to prove my superiority and that it is all about me. Pitino is an arrogant SOB and has proved that many times.
So UMass leading us 82-78 with two minutes left in the first game was "stomped" but UK leading by as many as 15 over UMass in the second game wasn't being stomped?
Both games were close. "Stomped" was probably an exaggeration in either case, to be fair.
I think without question we'd have won it had we lost in the SEC tournament. I was in the minority and adamant that we needed a loss to reset. Just look at 1996 and 2012. But I also admit by the time we got to the SEC final I was thinking might as well go for it.
This is my answer.
SLU beats Iona, Ford bests Pitino.
Wonder why Pitino didn't run the same offense against Travis Ford and Saint Louis yesterday. Iona only scored 67 points total. Why?
Not cal I guess. He leads SEC on scoring. Which I just saw ESPN say was th e toughest and deepest conference .
Imagine if UK had a real coach that ran a real offense. This team would average over 100 a game and be unstoppable lol.
Imagine if Dick Vitlate was right, but instead wrong.
Kentucky has the most educated basketball fans…
He's not coaching anywhere. Now, you're gonna pretend you didn't do what I said or are you man enough to admit it. I'm guessing you're not.
DA played many seasons in the NBA. Pretty sure he knows more basketball than you. But you'd dump on anybody to defend Cal.
But why wouldn’t someone defend Cal here? Sure DA was great for us, but this is such an obviously embarrassing attempt to take a shot at the current head coach by a guy that is jaded because he wants to be apart of the staff.
That's your take because Cal comes before everything with you.....to me it was just a guy commenting on basketball....of course you trash DA to rescue your hero
If Cal was the coach the genius some of you think he is....the display for titles would be a lot fuller....he got his title and his HOF and coasted for a while until he forgot to pedal last year and fell over
I believe a hungry motivated Cal to have no peer....have said so....hard to re-gain that when you lose it...I also don't think he's above criticism....hoping the fire gets rekindled
I could say that DA is your hero. It’s all just this BS narrative that some of you have on here. I’m critical of Cal when I think he deserves it. If you go back to my comments after the ND game you will see that. But there is no need for this former jaded player to throw shots. With all of knowledge maybe he should prove he can coach rather then make a social media post. I’m sure he he can do that he will get a shot at gig somewhere.
Ahhh yes...the old change the narrative tactic...go ahead show all my posts about DA before this....you were wrong but can't admit it....very obvious
What is it exactly that I’m wrong about? And why would you have a bunch of current posts about a player that played 26 years ago? You realize Cal is the Current HC right so obviously we will discuss him on this board lol
It was a normal year too. The fans were jam-packed into the stands. There was no social unrest to further distract people, either. No excuse to have such a totally out of character season......
Oh wait.
Cal haters using the fake outrage over last year's mess reminds me of Democrats clutching to January 6 to ride it for all its worth. You can repeat last year's record a million times, he is not leaving and he'd nowhere NEAR getting fired.
Where is your evidence that DA is trying to get a coaching gig here in Kentucky?
The 9-16 season had little to do with off court Covid and social issues and if it did, Cal deserves criticism on that front for making it such a part of the season.
Obviously other teams seem to manage and have successful seasons despite it all.
Example: The night Oscar broke the rebounding record, I listened to the post game (which I rarely do) and Cal spent the majority of it talking about masking, bragging his team being fully vaccinated (which is irrelevant for COVID transmission) and how everyone in KY needs to go get their booster shots. This isn’t Cals responsibility or what I tune in to a presser for. I wanted to hear about Oscars big night and game breakdown. Also, still pretty sure a BLM banner hangs in the practice facility. It’s past time to get back to focusing on just playing basketball.
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