What on court coaching by Cal angered you most?

[BBUK]

EVERY time Ole Cal went to "Stall Ball"... Bill Self NEVER lied... He just ran out of time. UK was KILLING ku until CAL started his stall ball and ku started closing the gap...

AD and company not willing to lose is the ONLY reason Cal is anything. Just a dumb, dumb in game coach...

 

[BBUK]

He lost all repect from me when he kneeled during the National Anthem

THAT too!

 

[wildcatdon]

He didn’t become contentious with the fanbase, the portion that hates him became contentious with him. Y’all still hate him to this day. Y’all run on hatred ignorance and lies. Cal has banners in Rupp, hundreds of great memories, and his name will be hanging there too. You all just have hatred and will be remembered for nothing.

Ok Brad. Calm down. We know you love your dad, but he sucks as a coach. And he did become contentious with the fan base. You must have missed that.

 

[KyKevin]

Cals recruiting trumps most anything he did coaching. There are plenty of coach's that can coach, but not very many can recruit with Cal, even being at Hog country. When you get the horses you have a chance to win the race, even if your not the best coach.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

The last play of the game against UConn in 2011 when we were only down by one score. There was no structure to it at all. He just had Harrelson set a high screen for Knight, followed by Knight throwing it to Liggins for a contested 24 foot shot.

He had a "go get it" attitude that left us at least two titles on the court during his tenure here. While I appreciate all the talent he brought to Kentucky, he is arguably one of the two biggest squanderers of talent in college hoops history (along with Dean Smith).

 

[CB3UK]

Not watching film on opponents.
Not running inbounds plays.
Not playing the best starting 5.
Not making obvious in game adjustments.
Not practicing free throws.

 

[KYSouthpaw]

Not running ISO plays for Keldon Johnson in the 2019 game vs Auburn to go to the final four. He had a shorter guy guarding him during the game and seemingly could have scored at will on multiple possessions. Of course we lost in OT and Auburn reaches their first final four.

 

[SenseMaker_Cats]

The 30+ three pointers against WVU.

 

[P. Fanning]

The Tweak and how everyone ate it up at the time.

 

[Bowfreak.]

The Wisconsin game. Bench Andrew Harrison at the end of that game and have Ulis in the game and we win. Send Cal to the locker room early and we win. Coaching malpractice.

 

[rick64]

1. Too much stall ball down the stretch. Cost UK much more than it helped.
2. Not calling TOs when the opponent is on a run and pulling away.
3. The seemingly constant yelling.
4. Too loyal to his 'guys' even when they were playing terrible. He didn't want to take their heart.
5. Lack of execution against far inferior talented teams.

Just to name a few.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

The inbounds plays were brutal. It seems like for whatever reason, he just refused to spend any time on it in practice.

 

[jeffky]

He lost all repect from me when he kneeled during the National Anthem

 

[KentuckyCats1984]

THAT too!

He thought that was cute...little did he know that was the beginning of the end for him..

 

[chroix]

I was over him already by the time but it felt like he tried to hold Rob Dillingham back and that if we would have rolled with him from the jump we’d have had a better season. Same with Reed but felt like he had a plan for year two Dilly that was never going to happen and was a waste of talent.

 

[Diggers_Matching_Highlighter_rivals62132]

A better question would be "What on court coaching by Cal pleased you most"

Going 1-4 on offense with John Wall against UConn in the Garden is about it for me.

 

[MegaBlue05]

The inbounds plays were brutal. It seems like for whatever reason, he just refused to spend any time on it in practice.

Lob to a big in the corner. Every damn time.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

The only answer is 2015 Wisconsin. You gotta keep playing to win. People blame the Harrison Twins a lot but that directive to run clock came from Cal.

We score on one of those possessions to go up 6 or 7 points I think we hang on. Yes, the refs missed call on Wisconsin shot clock violation was final nail n coffin but Cals stall ball had us inside already gasping for air.

 

[wildcatdon]

The last play of the game against UConn in 2011 when we were only down by one score. There was no structure to it at all. He just had Harrelson set a high screen for Knight, followed by Knight throwing it to Liggins for a contested 24 foot shot.

He had a "go get it" attitude that left us at least two titles on the court during his tenure here. While I appreciate all the talent he brought to Kentucky, he is arguably one of the two biggest squanderers of talent in college hoops history (along with Dean Smith).

Bingo!!!

 

[BigBluefoot]

Just screaming "gooooo" all season so they could get easy points in transition, because he wouldn't or couldn't teach half court sets. Once a team decided to get back on defense, slow us down and make us play a half court game, it was usually over.

 

[Crestcat]

When he had no clue of how to attack WV's zone in his first tear.

 

[SenseMaker_Cats]

When he had no clue of how to attack WV's zone in his first tear.

And he had Patrick Patterson and Demarcus Cousins!! Unbelievable really.

 

[loublue22_rivals308424]

Gonzaga scoring on the same action every time down the floor the last 10 minutes in his last year.

 

[KYAnywhereEverywhere]

Not exactly an answer to this specific question, but I am still bitter about losing the three pointer streak.

 

[KYAnywhereEverywhere]

As far as direct coaching goes, the constant yelling. That yelling had to shake players confidence and/or focus. Seems like it got worse in later years, but maybe that's because he didn't have as many guys that could just make a play.

 

[paulcalhoun_rivals397471]

I haven’t rewatched it since but near the end of the 2017 game was some of the most horrendously heinous coaching I have ever seen or heard of. Everybody says it was the roofer. It was not the roofer. It was the last time we had the ball down only one point (or possibly two?) and there was very little time left. We had that incredible roster including at the time the fastest ball player on the planet not named John Wall. All we needed was for him or Monk or Bam to score on a simple play and then play defense a few seconds. So what do we draw up in the timeout?

No timeout. No play called on the fly either. No, obviously the thing to do at that point with a Final Four berth on the line is to stumble down the court blindly, getting in each other’s way, then dribble the air out of the ball with no plan until eventually we ran out of time or we turned it over or we threw up a brick, whatever it was. I have no interest in watching it again but it was despicable and it was not Roy Williams’ fault and it was not the roofer’s fault. Both may have done their best to beat us but neither could have done it without that special lift from the guy telling our guys to runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

It was the rooferee's fault. The game would have never been close without his massive impact.

 

[paulcalhoun_rivals397471]

The Wisconsin game. Bench Andrew Harrison at the end of that game and have Ulis in the game and we win. Send Cal to the locker room early and we win. Coaching malpractice.

That is just a guess. If you sit down a sophomore who helped lead you to the championship game the year before and then lose it is an even worse look imo.

The last four seasons were rough but an 81.1% winning percentage with 7 times reaching the elite eight, four final fours, two title games, and a championship from 2010-2020 was excellence even if you wish to argue more may have been on the table given the talent (though largely young and lacking in experience) at his disposal.

 

[Titpwhahi2014]

Trying to turn Skal into a back-to-the-basket center when he was clearly a very reliable face-up shooter from 15-17 feet. I could never understand it.

 

[Ukdaddy98]

Not using his timeouts

 

[megablue]

1) Failing to get the ball inside to Cousins and Patterson against WVA. We shot far too many 3's for no reason, 32 of them.
2) Failing to get the ball inside to Towns, via Ulis, against Wisconsin. That was obvious to everybody.
3) Failing to get the ball to hot-shooting Lamb down the stretch to close out Connecticut. Knight shot too much.
4) Failing to get the ball to Randle and let him operate into the lane to score against Connecticut. Young shot too much.

 

[Cats_2010]

He didn’t become contentious with the fanbase, the portion that hates him became contentious with him. Y’all still hate him to this day. Y’all run on hatred ignorance and lies. Cal has banners in Rupp, hundreds of great memories, and his name will be hanging there too. You all just have hatred and will be remembered for nothing.

About the only thing you got right is I hate cal. The only ignorance is your cal nut hugging but you do you. I promise you I wanted cal here before you did, so cal earned that hatred I now have for him. It is not a lie to say cal played his favorites to the detriment of the team and he most certainly talked down to the fan base numerous times when fans stopped kissing his *** at every turn and dare to question his coaching or lack thereof.

 

[CameronCat22]

About the only thing you got right is I hate cal. The only ignorance is your cal nut hugging but you do you. I promise you I wanted cal here before you did, so cal earned that hatred I now have for him. It is not a lie to say cal played his favorites to the detriment of the team and he most certainly talked down to the fan base numerous times when fans stopped kissing his *** at every turn and dare to question his coaching or lack thereof.

Hatred is your group’s default setting. Every day it’s something new to hate, SportsCenter, the NBA, nearly every UK coach, every UK athletic director, JMI, or the latest player that doesn’t live up to your expectations. It’s a constant cycle of negativity.

You literally hate a man over basketball. That says far more about your character than it does about John Calipari. Listening to you, you’d think Kentucky has been a struggling program instead of one of the premier brands in college basketball.

The bigger issue is that your group constantly exaggerates, distorts, or repeats rumors as fact because it fits the narrative you want to believe. Calipari isn’t above criticism, no coach is, but pretending he accomplished nothing is revisionist history. He’s a Hall of Fame coach who brought Kentucky a national championship, multiple Final Fours, countless NBA players, and will have his jersey hanging in the rafters forever. The positives far outweigh the negatives but we all know what your miserable filled with hatred group is obsessed with.

Meanwhile, all your group contributes to UK is another daily dose of negativity. I’d rather celebrate Kentucky than spend every day looking for the next thing to hate.

 

[bigblueinsanity (the real)]

Not starting Dillingham and Sheppard against an overmatched Oakland Team. Oakland was terrible in the early minutes of the game...but we were just as terrible. Having two high 1st rounders in there to get off to a good start and bury Oakland might have been a good idea. Instead we let them hang around and gain confidence.

To me this one was the absolute worst. The rest, bad as they were, were just honest mistakes. This move was solely to gouge the fans and promote his two guys Edwards and Wagner.

We weren't going to win a title but we had at least a sweet 16 run in that team. Instead we suffered a historic loss solely because he was motivated by reasons other than winning that game.

 

[NociHTTP]

Every second of every game that he refused to make Shady Sharpe play.

 

[Bleedin Blue in Ohio]

My only real complaint about Cal as UK Coach was his inability to keep players that were not ready for the NBA. That was frustrating. He had sure fire lottery talent, and they were 1 and done and that is fine but so many players were 1 and done that were not ready. Then I would watch North Carolina win with Juniors and Seniors that stayed in their program get to and win the National Title.

 

[JakeKx]

His ineptitude against Kansas state in the elite 8 in 18 or whenever. He should have been fired after that game but I knew right then he was done and we’d have to suffer threw another decade of humble cause no way Barney was gonna get rid of him.

 

[JakeKx]

I think if you take a Pitino and give him cals rosters every year, Pitino has 4-5 titles in that span

 

[seccats04]

It was the rooferee's fault. The game would have never been close without his massive impact.

That was the most obvious point shaving scandal I've ever witnessed. How he didn't get investigated by the FBI, I'll never know. Of course UK fans were furious with him and rightfully so. They knew nothing would happen to him and it cost us another title.

 

[KFuqua]

Hatred is your group’s default setting. Every day it’s something new to hate, SportsCenter, the NBA, nearly every UK coach, every UK athletic director, JMI, or the latest player that doesn’t live up to your expectations. It’s a constant cycle of negativity.

You literally hate a man over basketball. That says far more about your character than it does about John Calipari. Listening to you, you’d think Kentucky has been a struggling program instead of one of the premier brands in college basketball.

The bigger issue is that your group constantly exaggerates, distorts, or repeats rumors as fact because it fits the narrative you want to believe. Calipari isn’t above criticism, no coach is, but pretending he accomplished nothing is revisionist history. He’s a Hall of Fame coach who brought Kentucky a national championship, multiple Final Fours, countless NBA players, and will have his jersey hanging in the rafters forever. The positives far outweigh the negatives but we all know what your miserable filled with hatred group is obsessed with.

Meanwhile, all your group contributes to UK is another daily dose of negativity. I’d rather celebrate Kentucky than spend every day looking for the next thing to hate.

Keep telling yourself that, Brad!

 

[Cats_2010]

Hatred is your group’s default setting. Every day it’s something new to hate, SportsCenter, the NBA, nearly every UK coach, every UK athletic director, JMI, or the latest player that doesn’t live up to your expectations. It’s a constant cycle of negativity.

You literally hate a man over basketball. That says far more about your character than it does about John Calipari. Listening to you, you’d think Kentucky has been a struggling program instead of one of the premier brands in college basketball.

The bigger issue is that your group constantly exaggerates, distorts, or repeats rumors as fact because it fits the narrative you want to believe. Calipari isn’t above criticism, no coach is, but pretending he accomplished nothing is revisionist history. He’s a Hall of Fame coach who brought Kentucky a national championship, multiple Final Fours, countless NBA players, and will have his jersey hanging in the rafters forever. The positives far outweigh the negatives but we all know what your miserable filled with hatred group is obsessed with.

Meanwhile, all your group contributes to UK is another daily dose of negativity. I’d rather celebrate Kentucky than spend every day looking for the next thing to hate.

My group? What group is that. I’m a single poster on a message board. Must have missed I was part of a group. My hatred for Cal was as UK’s basketball coach, nothing more nothing less. I don’t hate or like cal as a person, don’t know him at all to make that kind of determination. In case you forgot, this board exists to talk about sports. You seemingly take everything personal however but again that’s a “you” problem not mine.