And, of course, he overlooks the fact that not all of these players had a good experience playing for Cal. I rather doubt that Cal considered Khalil Whitney to be “my guy” before last night.Yeah, that's how I took that comment as well. They arent Kentucky's guys, no they are his guys.
It’s two non alumni teams. Davis Steel or The Mecca. Looking at their roster Davis Steel has Gabe York that played well on the team that eliminated La Familia last year. They also have two guys from South Carolina and I don’t remember them at all. The other team has a bunch of guys from smaller west coast schools. Fresno State, Hawaii, and Nevada.
Was that Eberlein Drive or something like that? Can’t remember exactly.
Very cool, thank you. I hope we pull it out. Cool that we won the Alumni side at least. They should get some cash for that imho.
That team name sounds familiar to me, and after searching that is who they lost too in heart breaking fashion. I remember now. WCS got injured during the last play of the ELAM Ending and we were up 70-68(71 target). Archie Goodwin came in to shoot a FT for the win and missed. They came down and we forced two missed shots, but had nobody to rebound inside without WCS and they hit a 3 to win the game off the offensive rebound.
Yep. Goodwin played for them at one point.
Too bad we couldn’t get Kanter to play for us again. I looked at the rosters and he’s playing for the non alumni team Heartfire Elite this year. He was really solid.
Indeed. This tourney has made me realize how Cal should’ve used Whitney. Not as a 3 wing, but instead as defensive specialist/cleanup guy at the 4 spot. Khalil has been flying around like a maniac on the defensive end, it’s just the dribbling/perimeter stuff that he struggles with.
It really is refreshing watching a good Kentucky defense... It's been so long.
Cal often got tweener forwards and played them at the 3, and we suffered with ball handling and shooting as a result. Whitney, Livingston, Edwards. Hell, 2015 Poythress and Lyles were ours 3s. Throw in years when we played a guard at the 3 (Briscoe in 2016/17, Maxey in 2020 when Whitney was mostly off the bench, Grady in 22) and you could say that in Cal's last 10 years (2015-2024) we only started a true SF three times with Knox, Keldon, and Boston.
I don't think you celebrate the coach of an SEC rival, but that's just my opinion. It was a little different to celebrate Tubby b/c he was at a place like High Point. But I 100% believe Cal will be back in Lexington, after his retirement, and will get a lot of love from BBN- I just don't see that happening while he is still coaching in the SEC.
He wasn't capable of that at that point. He looked like a guy who had played very little organized basketball and had been poorly coached in the fundamentals. Besides, Whitney's handlers had him quit in the middle of the season. If Cal had tried to use him as that, they would have had him quit sooner. I'm guessing that at the age of 25, Whitney no longer has handlers; only an agent who tries his best to keep Whitney matched up with a team somewhere on the planet.
We should have kept Calipari. He has a better shot of making Final Fours each season then Pope does. His ambassador aspect for the UK program would have been great after he retired as well.
Hell no.. I had come to 100% hating that SOB by time he left,, no way i could of dealt with him staying.. Once i hate you its over,, yain't never getting back to my good side..
Yes it's me. I own it all. It's called resigning yourself to the fates. I'd rather have Calipari knowing we can't win a title with him than have Pope knowing he will do even worse. I actually think the benefits of keeping Cal would have outweighed the benefits of hiring Pope. It's actually easy math for me.THIS YOU?
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Yeah, I don’t really see your positions as inconsistent. It was perfectly rational to want Cal gone when we did not yet know who would replace him. Lord knows it certainly looked like change was needed near the end of his run here.
I agree with you. It’s not popular on here, but it’s the truth. People were frustrated and done with Cal absolutely. However, they probably expected an actual coaching search for the best candidate. Not hiring a guy with 0 tournament wins because he played here 20 years ago. If he got the NIL Pope is along with the NBA players he produced UK could be loading up with talent. Whether that won anything I don’t know, but they did win the SEC tournament and go farther than UK last season. As far as UK season 1 under Pope
Just razzin’ ya but I’d rather not have Cal. I would take Golden though.
100 percent this as much as it pains me to say it. If it was Cal or Pope, 99 percent of fans who are smart would have chosen Cal. Pope literally hasn’t won a single thing in over a decade of coaching. And we hired him at the university of Kentucky. The best basketball program in the world.
I guess you don’t listen to KSR. That’s been a big part of this week. Apparently they used to sponsor us last year and switched sides.
I get this too. I was so tired of him but so far, Pope has been nothing but depression.
He’s been consistent in not liking Cal. As have I, that doesn’t mean Cal was perfect. What an awful response.THIS YOU?
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Oh wow I didn’t know that. I listen from time to time when I’m not busy with work.
You aren’t “razzin” a thing. You were just wrong and got called out on it. Of course we would rather have a title winning coach than Pope. We don’t have him.
Yeah man, the GM of their team came on said it’s cause they wanted naming rights to the team, Ryan lemond said they were mad about the lack of access they got with the players. Who knows? But yeah, they used to sponsor us until this year.
Good points. I do believe if our AD was more in sync with Calipari, Cal would have performed much better his last few years. You could cut the tension with a knife, and I believe it greatly affected Cal’s attitude. I.e. Cal wanted a new practice facility even if he raised the money himself. Barnhart said no. The beginning of the end.
No Kentucky basketball coach should be denied a facility they believe can help the school. Mitch got the fanbase to agree with him about the identity of our athletics department and it’s no surprise we are struggling to return to form. We are a basketball school — at least we still barely are. That won’t remain to be the case if the next generation keeps drinking the kool aid imo.
To be fair everyone was tired of what Cal had done since 2020. He was burnt out here. That said, if for someway he could have renewed his energy and made the changes we wanted he was an easy keep. The majority really would have preferred that, but now we know how it played out too. Mitch being lazy and his relationship with Cal made it worse than it should have been.THIS YOU?
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Truth, it needs to get back on track and it can with the right leadership. We should be dominating in this environment, at least competing for ships a ton.
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