Our guys played hard and with great heart. If the threes had been falling, it might have turned out different. FL has a great rebounding team, but I think in the NCAA they get beat by a team with very good guard play.
Can’t Fault the Effort Today
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50-29 rebounding tells me the effort wasn't there.
lol the woulda, coulda , shoulda team continues
what a disgusting loser comment and thread.
Florida missed a ton of 3s too. People keep ignoring that with the moral victory narrative.
This ain't little league bro
I’m done hearing about effort. Win the way Kentucky is supposed to win
I'm with you. We could've packed it in when we got down 17. We didn't. Lots of heart and a lot to build on for next week. We've had 3 close battles with them
No, it’s not an effort issue. It’s 100% a talent issue. Mark Pope put together a team full of sixth men and role players. Until he starts getting top end talent these are the results we’re going to have.
I have seen every UF game this year. UK is the only team that does not fold when it gets going. Today was the same. Chandler seems like the only guy willing to hurt himself to win. UF has a team willing to dive on the floor at all times. I guess its a chemistry thing or maybe a $$$ thing. They haven't shot this badly in 12 games. But part of that is how hard UK makes them play. But take heart. Most of this UF team will probably be somewhere else next year. Its amazing how physical the refs let it get at times. But that plays into UFs hands.
They played twice as hard as us and just missed all those wide open threes or it would’ve been a slaughter
Not a moral victory, but a disappointing loss when you consider how poorly Florida shot. With us shooting so poorly;, it was our effort that helped us seemingly have a chance late. That is how I saw it.
They played hard, they just don’t run good sets, don’t trust each other, don’t pass the ball, don’t communicate well on defense, don’t box out, don’t play defense with their hands up. Other than that, they’re ok. I actually like most of the players MO is great, DA has grown on me. Freshman are typical freshman. Oweh is a stud but needs to impact the game by creating for his team, he doesn’t have to be the one that scores the ball every shot. That has hurt us all year.
I'd be good with 1-2-3 Get Lost.
I disagree. We did not play with consistent effort today. We never do. Take plays off, no work on the glass (that’s all effort and positioning and we just did not go after it), miss a shot and just shrug and look at the ref instead of getting back on D (UF must have gotten about 10 points on that ******** alone). Poor effort for about 1/3 of the game by quite a few out there.
Son, I don’t care for your negativity right now, hop on this first round exit NCAA-T train before it departs the station.
I watched the Razornecks fold like a cheap card table and lose by 34 to Florida. Our guys have fight, their bigs are too much for our current lineup. JQ would have been helpful.
There were definitely some mental lapses--there always are. That's what this team is.
But the defense was rock solid. We held Florida to 38% shooting. An elite team with elite bigs.
We can't do offense against their size. We're at our best getting Aberdeen and Oweh down hill and into the paint. Oweh has just struggled so much against this Florida team. They take away the best part of his game. And because their rim protection is so elite, the guards stay glued to our hips on the perimeter. So we don't get 3 point looks.
Someone said Florida was goofing off. They played hard all game. They were taking good shots. This wasn't a game where they were chucking bad shots and just dominating the offensive rebounds. They were taking good shots and getting all of the rebounds.
I think if our defense is this good, we can beat all but 5 or 6 teams. Other teams aren't going to give us the problems on offense that Florida does. Other teams aren't going to dominate the boards like Florida does.
Don't get me wrong. This team is Bipolar. We may lose our 1st round game to a 10 seed.
But the defense was rock solid. We held Florida to 38% shooting. An elite team with elite bigs.
We can't do offense against their size. We're at our best getting Aberdeen and Oweh down hill and into the paint. Oweh has just struggled so much against this Florida team. They take away the best part of his game. And because their rim protection is so elite, the guards stay glued to our hips on the perimeter. So we don't get 3 point looks.
Someone said Florida was goofing off. They played hard all game. They were taking good shots. This wasn't a game where they were chucking bad shots and just dominating the offensive rebounds. They were taking good shots and getting all of the rebounds.
I think if our defense is this good, we can beat all but 5 or 6 teams. Other teams aren't going to give us the problems on offense that Florida does. Other teams aren't going to dominate the boards like Florida does.
Don't get me wrong. This team is Bipolar. We may lose our 1st round game to a 10 seed.
I’m not as mad as everyone else because when we got down 15 I expected to get blown out like Alabama blew us out last year.
As another poster said this morning this team always has “a puncher’s chance, but also has a glass jaw.”
I’m just sad about the blatant talent gap between us and UF. Needs fixin’.
As another poster said this morning this team always has “a puncher’s chance, but also has a glass jaw.”
I’m just sad about the blatant talent gap between us and UF. Needs fixin’.
We got our asses kicked 3 times by them.
We never led for a second of any game.
We never threatened to beat them.
And they aren’t that good.
They will most likely go home the first weekend.
Better get used to them. That’s the norm now.
Some will be grateful for participation trophies in Joe Craft Center......
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They do that and more the entire season. Pope calling Oweh’s leadership today outstanding are grounds for removal!
The defense played well and kept us in it. That was great effort. Rebounding advantage to FL was because of better players a d maybe lack of toughness on our part. I still think the guys played hard.
No. They didn’t play twice as hard, and we missed as many wide open threes as they did. Some of you don’t want to give our guys any credit at all. Sad.
Nobody said this was a “moral victory”. The guys played hard, rebounding aside.
I give them credit for playing harder than that have all season, Florida still played harder and their sets made ours look like we’re JV Just so much better coached compared to us and they never stopped cutting and setting picks to get wide open. They missed a ton as did we but ours were well defended and a hand in the face. It is what it is. I hate it but the truth sometimes must be told. I can’t stand saying what I just said and I’m ashamed I need to. Of course I was wrong with the twice as hard comment but it sure looked that way on the court. I blame the coaching first.
