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Worst GD decision in UK basketball history and 1000% fireable offense.
2 E8
1 S16
1 R64 loss
2 missed tourneys
Even in liberal fruit friendly Lexington, I can’t see KSBar potentially having a drag show brunch once a month going over too well. I can already here Billy Joe Wildcat saying “that Matt Jones is running a ***** bar! I ain’t goin in there or they may try to force their lifestyle on me”. One would think it’s a horrible business decision based on the clientele.
Football's jerseys staying with the checkerboard is a damn shame though (as it is rumored). Get me some solid colors, crisp lines and block font and let's kick the **** out of the Southeastern united states.
SAE's post is arguably the best I've ever read in GYERO.
I think Nike is pissed UK refuses to play in the PK85 or any of the other Phil Knight invitationals.
No more alternate jerseys, no more anything
No more alternate jerseys, no more anything
Kentucky doesn't need alternative anything.
No silver, no black (no racist), no Denim, no pink, no anything.
Tight and classic.
We need to get past the first f'ing weekend of the tourney and then we can get cute with uniforms.
No silver, no black (no racist), no Denim, no pink, no anything.
Tight and classic.
We need to get past the first f'ing weekend of the tourney and then we can get cute with uniforms.
@Century Cat - what you thinking, buddy?
Not privy to this but sounds ominous.
Century Cat, message me if in peril.
I will have you running through walls!
The door isn’t shut on an Oscar return. Just got an email letting me know the final decision will come in May. Just a heads up and TIFWIW.
So only 2 months? Awesome, should really help with the transfer portal bigs in case we lose him
I thought there was a deadline at the end of April?
-- This is easily the most numb and emotionless I've ever been following a big loss. Maybe it's a result of getting older, or maybe that Wisconsin game stole a piece of my soul that I'll never get back, but I was just mildly annoyed Thursday night and pretty much over it when I woke up the next morning. I miss really caring about UK basketball.
-- What can you say? We lost to Saint f'n Peters! I had literally never heard of their school before Selection Sunday. What conference do they play in? The Eastern Near-Mid I-95 Metro Coastal Conference?
-- Cal isn't going anywhere until he waddles off into retirement, and he ain't changing course at 63. He'll always tighten up and over-coach coming down the stretch of any big game going forward, and our only hope for any different type of offense is if he has some studs that don't listen to him and are too good for him to do **** about it. Our guards this year were cucks who ultimately succumbed to his tight leash.
-- Imagine running a 3:48 mile and, instead of instantly collapsing, actually laughing, celebrating, and just joshing around right afterwards. What a run:
-- Re: Cal, my only solution is to make life here as annoying as possible for him and his family to hasten the process. Let's see some John Chaney fatheads at Rupp for Midnight Madness. Rotate in members of the '96 Cats who are close to Pitino to come out and do the "Y" and get some juicy radio or Twitter quotes out of them... lamenting that Camelot is dead. Maybe KSR can strategically poke and prod the Billy Joe Wildcat segment of the fanbase into a louder, more consistent annoyance for Cal and the fam. Have fun with it.
-- If Sharpe never plays a minute here, f karma, I hope his career is a complete and utter failure and that 20 years from now his biggest regret in life will be the "what if?" of suiting up for Kentucky. What a crock of ****. But hey, if he returns I'll love him like a brother and go back to watching his mixtapes with glee.
-- Better Call Saul returns on 4/18. Such an awesome slow-burn and if you're looking for a TV show to get sucked into there's time to get caught up. It has been many years since I've done a Breaking Bad re-watch, but I think I like the side characters more in BBS than what we were working with in Breaking Bad. Lalo FTW.
-- Saint f'n Peters.
-- What can you say? We lost to Saint f'n Peters! I had literally never heard of their school before Selection Sunday. What conference do they play in? The Eastern Near-Mid I-95 Metro Coastal Conference?
-- Cal isn't going anywhere until he waddles off into retirement, and he ain't changing course at 63. He'll always tighten up and over-coach coming down the stretch of any big game going forward, and our only hope for any different type of offense is if he has some studs that don't listen to him and are too good for him to do **** about it. Our guards this year were cucks who ultimately succumbed to his tight leash.
-- Imagine running a 3:48 mile and, instead of instantly collapsing, actually laughing, celebrating, and just joshing around right afterwards. What a run:
-- Re: Cal, my only solution is to make life here as annoying as possible for him and his family to hasten the process. Let's see some John Chaney fatheads at Rupp for Midnight Madness. Rotate in members of the '96 Cats who are close to Pitino to come out and do the "Y" and get some juicy radio or Twitter quotes out of them... lamenting that Camelot is dead. Maybe KSR can strategically poke and prod the Billy Joe Wildcat segment of the fanbase into a louder, more consistent annoyance for Cal and the fam. Have fun with it.
-- If Sharpe never plays a minute here, f karma, I hope his career is a complete and utter failure and that 20 years from now his biggest regret in life will be the "what if?" of suiting up for Kentucky. What a crock of ****. But hey, if he returns I'll love him like a brother and go back to watching his mixtapes with glee.
-- Better Call Saul returns on 4/18. Such an awesome slow-burn and if you're looking for a TV show to get sucked into there's time to get caught up. It has been many years since I've done a Breaking Bad re-watch, but I think I like the side characters more in BBS than what we were working with in Breaking Bad. Lalo FTW.
-- Saint f'n Peters.
I would say "it moved just a little", but then I realized our coach is a heavy flow period with diarrhea.
I, for one, would like an Art Deco look with a typeface matching the marquee at the Kentucky Theater… Royal Blue and white only,
No serifs… we ain’t Wild West.
Assuming Sharpe makes the announcement we all know is coming, we as fans (members of the media) need to unleash a backlash to insure that sort of **** never happens again.
Cal should reimburse the university for the scholarship and expenses.
When Stevie Wonder asks you why Sharpe isn’t playing in February that should’ve been enough.
Hoops Insight
^ As always, dude does a great job breaking it down. After studying the season, he feels our biggest issues came in the clutch, notibly:
- In the last 5 minutes of close games, Cal tightened up, turning our offense to a grind and completely abandoning transition opportunities.
- Wheeler was awful in the clutch - his turnover rate was abominable.
- Tschibwe’s rebounding wasn’t nearly as good in the clutch.
- Instead of getting to the rim or 3s in the clutch, we relied on late shotclock midrange jumpers and were pretty poor at making them. TyTy was especially terrible and took the most.
I don’t think anyone who watched us would be surprised by the above.
- Cal continues to tense up and take the air out of the ball in close games. We stop attacking.
- Cal put our PG in a bad spot, dwindling the shot clock and making him force the issue.
- In an era where analytics data available from a thousand people on Twitter clearly states MIDRANGE JUMPERS are bad news, Cal continues to encourage them. I’m not talking about Tschibwe’s pick-n-pops or Brooks from 13 feet. I’m talking way too many nonsensical 17-20 footers. This has been an issue for years - hell how many did Lyles shoot?o
^ As always, dude does a great job breaking it down. After studying the season, he feels our biggest issues came in the clutch, notibly:
- In the last 5 minutes of close games, Cal tightened up, turning our offense to a grind and completely abandoning transition opportunities.
- Wheeler was awful in the clutch - his turnover rate was abominable.
- Tschibwe’s rebounding wasn’t nearly as good in the clutch.
- Instead of getting to the rim or 3s in the clutch, we relied on late shotclock midrange jumpers and were pretty poor at making them. TyTy was especially terrible and took the most.
I don’t think anyone who watched us would be surprised by the above.
- Cal continues to tense up and take the air out of the ball in close games. We stop attacking.
- Cal put our PG in a bad spot, dwindling the shot clock and making him force the issue.
- In an era where analytics data available from a thousand people on Twitter clearly states MIDRANGE JUMPERS are bad news, Cal continues to encourage them. I’m not talking about Tschibwe’s pick-n-pops or Brooks from 13 feet. I’m talking way too many nonsensical 17-20 footers. This has been an issue for years - hell how many did Lyles shoot?o
He promised though, and we've already been through so much together.
Signed,
Its time we burned the house down with the son of a ***** sleeping inside.
This is 100% the problem, all the other noise is just that. If you look at the majority of tourney losses starting in 2014 (UConn, Wisconsin, auburn, St. Peter’s) all those bullet pts are applicable. Hell, even in some of our wins (Houston, wofford, ND, Kansas), they are all applicable.
Fix this **** and keep your substitution patterns in line and this will solve the majority of our issues.
It’s not going to happen my dude. Everybody can keep repeating it if it makes them feel better I guess but he’s not going to change. He’s not going to do things “differently”.
It’s Same **** Different Day. And before it’s over we’re going to be even more of a national joke then we are now. Not IU bad but the memes will be plentiful.
It’s Same **** Different Day. And before it’s over we’re going to be even more of a national joke then we are now. Not IU bad but the memes will be plentiful.
Everything people are saying about what Cal needs to do was being said after last season, too. Keep wishing, I suppose …
He made some progress- new assistants, older team and smaller lineups. The optimist in me has to hope he continues to evolve.
I lean this way, too. Cal did make almost every external change UK fans were asking for -- new assistants, recruiting multiple shooters, getting veterans and looking like he was committed to more roster continuity, much less talking down to BJW, etc.
He just reverted back to his habits down the stretch. He's a stubborn 63 year old man but he's also a competitor and has innovated his entire approach before. Maybe the last two years have been sufficiently humbling to him to make the internal changes that are hardest for people to make.
Ahh, I see we've gotten to the bargaining/acceptance phase today.
Figure 2 more weeks and everyone will be pumped for next year
Figure 2 more weeks and everyone will be pumped for next year
WTF am I going to do, Randall? Get excited about the Reds? Bleed myself dry of blue like a F’ing Coldplay song?
I'm not making light of it. It's what we do. The $9 million man isn't going anywhere, he did make changes last year a lot of people were clamoring for, and as ****** as it's been, it's still Kentucky GD basketball.
Let’s not act like Cal is the only coach to try to limit possessions late in the game with any kind of lead. He isn’t.
It’s not that I disagree we shouldn’t do it when we are clearly the better team, but all coaches, players and even refs treat the last 5 in a tight one different.
It’s not that I disagree we shouldn’t do it when we are clearly the better team, but all coaches, players and even refs treat the last 5 in a tight one different.
We all watched Kentucky football for decades prior to Stoops, we’ve perfected irrational preseason hope.
All Cal had to do is use the roster he had to make adjustments. No offense to Wheeler, but the dude’s decision making was abysmal in the last few games.
TyTy at point was a revelation (for offense) when little man had concussion/whiplash. So was Grady… Cal should have tried everything to stem the tide. He didn’t.
Relying on smallish PGs who can’t shoot is a pattern.
TyTy at point was a revelation (for offense) when little man had concussion/whiplash. So was Grady… Cal should have tried everything to stem the tide. He didn’t.
Relying on smallish PGs who can’t shoot is a pattern.
In game, Cal ain’t changing. Year after year he keeps telling us he ain’t changing and we refuse to believe him.
FFS, coaches that do that don't have the luxury of our rosters and does so to try and close the talent gap. When you've got Oscar / Towns / Bam / Monk / Fox / Gillie you shouldn't be the one going into puss-mode.
The fact he continually does with superior talent tells you that when it's nut-cutting time, he's going to turtle. You just better pray he amasses a generational talent or two on the same team or our opponent goes brain-dead if you still think #9 is happening under his remaining tenure.
Speaking of...
^ is fiscal malpractice. Pay him that much per, fine whatever. But to tie an anchor around the greatest college basketball program with one man is asinine. Anyone dumb enough to concede that much leverage to a coach has no business running an athletic department.
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