Every time we lose a game, someone with 14 posts comes on here and starts a thread about Cal. Just like clockwork.
Cal out coached once again
- Thread starter Beach_Cat
- Start date
Every time we lose a game, someone with 14 posts comes on here and starts a thread about Cal. Just like clockwork.
We always have more quality depth than anyone. Would like to see our focus on forcing inside from the get go to get opponents in foul trouble early. Coming out jacking threes is bothersome. Just what everybody wants us to do so they can save their bigs.
And we have beaten VT and UofL, that's the high water mark of the season .....Woo Hoo !
Just sit back and watch how both teams seasons play out, at the beginning of April it will all come into plain view !
Exactly This! OP is just too dumb to realize it. This was exactly what I was thinking as well.
Only fan base that pouts if every team doesn't go 40-0. You do understand its a process, no?
So 38-1 and a FF is a failure? And it was another season that ended with a game that had several controversial calls or non calls that was reffed by John Higgins.
Long time reader of this forum, and before anyone questions my UK fandom, I was born and raised outside of Ashland, KY and have been a loyal fan my whole life. With that being said, the zone imo, absolutely killed us. There is no way it should look that bad. All they had to do was flash a guy to the foul line and have another roaming the baseline and they tore us up repeatedly. This team, being so long, and athletic should not have been able to be scored on as easy as Tenn. made it look. (That I give credit to Barnes - never thought much of him as a coach at Texas, but have been much more impressed with him at Tenn. - at least during the UK games. Players, playing with their hands down and poor rotations will surely be addressed so that hopefully playing zone with this team will become a strength, but right now I have no faith in it. Hope to learn from this to become a stronger team.
As for PJ, while I admit he has frustrated me more than most on this current team. He is starting to look beast. I just wish he would quit the flexing crap.(TJ used to drive me crazy with this.) You know it is pretty bad when you are worried more about flexing after a great block than making a play to secure the ball. I almost jump out of my seat on that one.
As for PJ, while I admit he has frustrated me more than most on this current team. He is starting to look beast. I just wish he would quit the flexing crap.(TJ used to drive me crazy with this.) You know it is pretty bad when you are worried more about flexing after a great block than making a play to secure the ball. I almost jump out of my seat on that one.
Not a failure record wise, but short of what should have been an undefeated NC season ..... Disagree ??
I would say that I disagree. To go into a season and expect a title is unreasonable. Titles in basketball are so difficult to obtain because of the amount of competition and the randomness of the sport. Also I would add that getting a few breaks from the officials doesn’t hurt either. UNC last year is a perfect example of that. The goal every season should be to have a team that’s capable of making a long tourney run and I think Cal has done that almost every year he’s been here.
Are really saying that Cal struggles in game because we didn't go undefeated? That's a pretty tough standard to acheive.
It’s a totally unreasonable standard to have. This guy is either a Cal hater or just a troll.
Why should it have been an undefeated season? We’re not entitled to anything. Not to mention we had a half dozen close calls before the Wisconsin game.
I'd just like to say it's an honor to be nominated.....Nominated for a Postie
It's not that hard to out-coach The Flu when the refs help you coach.
That team will come closer to an undefeated season than any team EVER will. No one has gone undefeated since 1976, 1991 UNLV and 2015 UK are the only 2 to even sniff an undefeated season, and probably will be the only 2.
That is what is so gut wrenching.
He did some major questionable things against Wisconsin, not playing Ulis and allowing Harrison and company to slow down the tempo too much, the team went stale and allowed Wiscy to get back in the game and steal our NC hopes.
Oh there’s no doubt it was gut wrenching. I was there, and I remember being sick to my stomach leaving the Dome. My wife and I had a room downtown. We walked back to the hotel, grabbed our stuff, and drove all the way home. I had a cooler of beer, and drank 8 by the time we pulled into the driveway. It’s an hour and a half drive.
Short of what should have been a NC, and if you think I am the only fan who thinks this way you are quite dellusional.
Yeah, yeah, and screwed up the last 4 minutes by a coach too loyal to the Harrisons.
You are the type of fan I am glad I don't have to be around.
Because NFL RULES REQUIRE SABAN'S KIDS TO STAY 3 YEARS MINIMUM.
I'd say a junior Davis, Cousins or KAT would be pretty good, huh.
Awful, awful, awful comparison by you.
38-1 and you wanna ***** and moan about the one loss. You truly are the worse kind of fan.
Once again, in the 8 and a half years Cal has been our coach we have the most regular season wins, the most tournament wins by far and double the amount of final fours of the next closest teams. Unc, Duke, and Louisville all have 2. Well not for long with Louisville. This is with us missing the tournament one of those years. He is doing this with the youngest team in the country annually. Dude knows how to coach. It's just growing pains.
Why the Hell would he not be loyal and have the Harrison's out there? They were maybe the most clutch players we've had. They carried us to the title game in 2014 being clutch as hell. They saved us from losses in 2015 and had just came up clutch to win us the Notre dame game. Aaron's big 3 with under two minutes left and Andrew hit the game winning free throws.
You would've had to be an idiot to not have them out there with their clutch history. Could you imagine if they were pulled off the floor and we still lost? People would have lost their **** because we didn't have our 2 clutch players in.
Please stop with the Ulis Crap. That was not the sophomore Ulis. Wisconsin's taller pg Jackson took him to the basket every time he was in the game and drew fouls. Watch the game again. For the record, the Harrison's are what kept us in the game as they were the 2nd and 3rd leading scorers in the game.
I will agree that Cal has bad coaching habits such as letting the other team set the tempo. With all the athletes we've had, especially 2015 we should have attacked and force the tempo in our favor. He goes to stall ball way to early in games. It's the literal definition of playing not to lose.He also slows us down during the season, he says because every game in the tournament is a half court game. Last year was a prime example. That team should have kept playing fast the whole season, that's when we were playing our best. Other than that he is a GREAT hall of fame coach.
Another bash Cal thread? TJ just wondering if RR is running a contest for posters on how many bash Cal threads can be started in a month? I would be willing to bet that the posters starting these threads and posting negative comments couldn't coach a fly to a pile of poop. Experts Your Not. Cry Babies well look in the mirror and answer that question for yourself.
It worked out great. One Higgins call from being in another final four, and most likely a NC. I guess it's Cal's fault that Higgins was assigned to the game.
How many times have we seen games like this where Cal says I let them play how they wanted and they got beat? Now maybe they will listen to how they need to play and then they come together as a team. He does this on purpose during some games during the season to prove a point. I believe it works more than it hurts. He will take lumps now for March success anytime. Most UK fans will take that trade.
Well when my og gets sick I blame it in coaching .
No other coach recruits new players every year ?
I think you've taken my comment out of context. I was commenting back to someone that was saying that duke was getting all the talent and having more success than UK. I was defending Cal and UK.