We have two lottery picks on this team and Cal doesn’t have enough sense how to utilize them.
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About 5% of me hesitates to write this team off because of the talent. But still, we now have enough evidence to know that three wins is asking a lot, much less six.
The recent past doesn't exactly inspire optimism regardless of who we have on the roster.
2018-2019 - We lost in the Elite 8 to a 5th seed Auburn without their best player while we have 5 or so future NBA players on the roster.
2019-2020 - No tournament.
2020-2021 - The worst season of Kentucky basketball anyone can remember
2021-2022 - Lose to Saint Peters in the first round despite having the Naismith Award winner in Tshiebwe
2022-2023 - Lose to Kansas State in the second round.
2018-2019 - We lost in the Elite 8 to a 5th seed Auburn without their best player while we have 5 or so future NBA players on the roster.
2019-2020 - No tournament.
2020-2021 - The worst season of Kentucky basketball anyone can remember
2021-2022 - Lose to Saint Peters in the first round despite having the Naismith Award winner in Tshiebwe
2022-2023 - Lose to Kansas State in the second round.
Leadbelly will just reboot a new account when he makes a fool of himself.Mark it.
We are more than capable of beating good teams. UNC, Tenn etc. Our achilies heel seems to be poor to average teams for some God awful reason. Therefore, I’m less confident in the first games.
Hope I’m wrong
Hope I’m wrong
110% not whoever you are accusing me of being and will gladly see this post come back if I'm wrong, under this exact alias. So you're wrong.
LOL at you accusing others of new accounts when you obviously just opened this one 11 days ago.
I am optimistic too, but you have taken it to the state of delusion.Mark it.
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Agree. Typically an E8 is my bar for a “successful season” or not. Anything less is disappointing and anything more isn’t a lock in a single elimination tournament but we should always be a top 10 team…so between a S16-E8 average over the course of your history puts you in Gold Standard zone and all time leader in almost every category.
But when we haven’t made noise since 2019 and haven’t made a F4 since 2015…combined w the worst season in our history and some nationally embarrassing losses…an E8 isn’t good enough with this team. This is the type of high end talent that is suppose to make the title game or minimum F4 to average out the S16 “bad years” and give you an E8 average. Instead we haven’t touched a S16in near half a decade
The debate used to be about whether we would win the NCAA championship because it was pretty much assumed that we would play in the SEC championship even if we didn't win. Unfortunately, we have fallen so low that we can't get past the first round of the SEC tourney. My how the mighty has fallen!!
He doesn't care enough about anything but his salary. I've given up hope he will do the right thing.
He won’t negotiate as he doesn’t have to because of the guaranteed contract. There are no stipulations in the contract.
Not an elite roster at all. Some elite shooters but that’s it. Way overrated as college freshmen.
Read a post yesterday where someone opined that DJ had a pretty good year. He had a pretty good freshman year for a 4 year player. Nothing more.
Edwards got better but clearly way overrated.
Bradshaw another 3/4 year player.
Dilly lived up to the hype. Reed better than rated.
Cal was happy to let Reeves leave. Team talked him back.
Cal doesn’t even try to build a team. Just recruits 5 stars whether they fit together or not. He’s lazy.
An elite 8 appearance isn't bad but when it's the best you've done in a 5 year period, well yeah it's bad.
Here’s hoping he’s shown the door! He has completely took the excitement out of a sport that I love dearly!
Yeah, funny enough I feel like a worse seed could benefit us. If we make it past the first couple of rounds I actually think we have a shot to do well. I just don't think we can win two in a row against average teams. We play down to our competition too often. I suspect it's because inferior teams know they have to gameplan well to beat us and Cal never has any answers for it.
Expect Shep for 3 more years. Hopefully Cal gone after this one.
If he’s not then maybe Cats are gonna win more than one next week.
They can get rid of him if the AD would stop ignoring his poor performance by going to the press and stating that his performance is unacceptable. It is one thing for fans to bad mouth him, but I don't think he could handle the university criticizing him.
I hope you are right, we all need it. If not I’ll see you right below my famous last words in March 2028.Mark it.
Anybody but UConn dear god. I can’t handle being screwed out of 2 titles and then ineptness causing the other. I’d rather lose to K State or Marquette 10 more times than UConn.
I'll be shocked if we make it to the EE. We obviously have a great offense but the defense is just too bad to go far. We can probably score 90+ on just about every team in the tournament...problem is it means nothing if you give up 105+
Just wait till we get Sumo Somtro next year. Cal gonna fix that center problem.
You just wait and see.