If Cal loves playing Collins so much he should just use him as Oscar's backup.
Tho I guess his love affair with Ware affects that too much lol.
Game thread I guess
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If Cal loves playing Collins so much he should just use him as Oscar's backup.
Tho I guess his love affair with Ware affects that too much lol.
No I won't. You really don't read well do you? For the 1 millionth time, I dont like the way Cal has done some things and the offense looks awful. I do not pump his shaft or defend everything he does. I merely support him because he is the coach of this team. What is so hard to understand about that?
Can't blame it on his dad's death, he has been like this since he came here.
We are 20% better off the bat if we simply optimize our lineups/rotation.
Yep. Really, Toppin/Collins should probably be Oscar's backup. Ware has no business being in the rotation.
I don't see why we have to see certain players on this team. There's some talent here but there's other players that are just complete black holes. Yet Cal continues to play them.
Wait, wait, wait, is this Bassfan? Has to be.
Either way, you do you, if you want to stroke Cal's shaft JUST because UK hired him, well, you're the one that has the issue.
But you definitely shouldn't be attacking others for their opinions when your opinions are based on who Mitch f'ing Barnhart has coaching this team. That's just stupid in my book.
the Bellarmine game wasn't considered good enough to even merit a nationally televised viewing on a standard channel - essentially the network is acknowledging this wasn't worth the effort
where your argument really fails is that by this performance , in the aggregate, its actually cost the UK program more because it will be harder to sell tickets and have fans viewing the games later on. Tonight's game damaged the UK brand.
I wouldn't expect you to get that given your line of reasoning on here tonight
For all the passing Bellarmine doesn't seem to get a lot of good shots. There is something missing in that offensive scheme and I don't think it's the passing. Maybe more cutting and looking for shots when available instead of always running the clock down before you get serious about trying to find a shot?
I've been saying this pretty much the entire season tho lol.
I know people think I'm one of these Cal lovers, but I'm critical of him as well when I feel he's ****** up.
I have yet to attack anyone. I have never called anybody a name and have been respectful in my post. You seem to be obsessed with cal's shaft....get some help my man
It's one of those offenses IMO that looks good but not very effective. Then again maybe if it was ran by a more talented team it would work.
But offensive efficiencies of 78th, 81st and 156th this season isn't going to get it done. It might in their conference, but it's not going to work against any good power conference team.
I’m not sure whether this is sarcasm or you’re unaware that opposing teams leave Wheeler open and want him to shoot.
Nah, just wait until Cal finishes us off this year with another embarrassing loss in the NCAAT, you'll be over here in the foxhole with me. Give it time.
He isn't as hungry as he was when he first arrived.
Ya gotta let Cal's shaft go and hit the quote button, you seem to be talking to yourself.
For all the talk about Wheeler and 3s, he's shooting a decent 35% coming into this game. If he keeps shooting at that clip, teams will have no choice but to at least respect the shot and defend him and that might open the lane up.
On the other hand we have Jacob Toppin shooting 21% from 3. He's already taken more 3s this season than he did all of last year and the previous year.
On a team with CJ, Reeves and Wallace who has also shot well from 3, I never want to see a Toppin 3. EVER.
On the other hand we have Jacob Toppin shooting 21% from 3. He's already taken more 3s this season than he did all of last year and the previous year.
On a team with CJ, Reeves and Wallace who has also shot well from 3, I never want to see a Toppin 3. EVER.
after the first five minutes I started looking for screens in the first half because I did not remember any . None the last 15 minutes of first half .
Not sure how you expect to get a spot shooter open who cannot create his own shot without screens .
I had a business call part of second half but don’t remembef more than one or two . Could have missed some I hope .
Yeah last year there wouldn’t be a play where he wasn’t going all out, I gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and say it conditioning because Oscar’s deserves and has earned that, but if the problem is still here in 2 weeks, then it may be time to seriously look at things
He's been serviceable. Not the person we want taking the shots.. but how many times did CJ pass back to him? I gotta Give Wheeler credit, he's not afraid.
Not if you're just locking them in overnight...
Wheeler plays like a seventh grader who cares about how many point he has during the game instead of doing what we need from him. Take care of the ball and find the open man.
He does not let the shot clock buzz, especially when he ends up with the ball back in his hands with 4 seconds left.
Remember the TWO violations against Wisconsin ?? At least, he’s nit letting that happen.
Wheeler has one of the best assist rates in all of D1.
And he's done that for the past 4 years.
Wheeler is many things but he can never be accused of not finding the open man.
3rd straight post your have said the phrase "Cal's shaft". Its not me, its you. No need to be ashamed, I will not judge you for being the way you are. Let that rainbow flag fly brother
Well, glad we got the loss. Not a good game at all. I give it a D.
I did like that things flowed much better for us in the 2nd half. Idk if we were just coming out flat or what. Our defense looks pretty good this early too.. idc who the team is but holding a team to 40ish is still solid.
We just gotta get the lineups right. Hoping that Reeves opening up the floor will see him with more PT.. while the minutes for Ware and Collins just needs to be reduced.
I did like that things flowed much better for us in the 2nd half. Idk if we were just coming out flat or what. Our defense looks pretty good this early too.. idc who the team is but holding a team to 40ish is still solid.
We just gotta get the lineups right. Hoping that Reeves opening up the floor will see him with more PT.. while the minutes for Ware and Collins just needs to be reduced.
Just saw a stat on the espn ticker, 21 points at halftine was the least amount of points UK has scored since 2018.
That means our 9-16 team never labored to score as bad as this team did tonight. Ouch.
FWIW tho the game only had 59 possessions.
Obviously 60 points in 59 possessions vs a team that has a horrible defensive efficiency isn’t good at all but it wasn’t completely as bad as people are making it out to be.
As bad as we shot the first half we had an effective FG% of 48%. We also rebounded 41% of our misses.
Had we not turned the ball over on nearly 1 in 4 possessions, it wouldn’t have been awful at all
Obviously 60 points in 59 possessions vs a team that has a horrible defensive efficiency isn’t good at all but it wasn’t completely as bad as people are making it out to be.
As bad as we shot the first half we had an effective FG% of 48%. We also rebounded 41% of our misses.
Had we not turned the ball over on nearly 1 in 4 possessions, it wouldn’t have been awful at all
But that's all Cal knows how to coach. He either doesn’t care, or hasn’t figured out that you have to have an effective offense, with structure, to win anything in todays game.
Good offense will beat good defense more times than not when your opponent can look at you eye to eye.
We struggled to score against a very unathletic and small team and that can’t continue.
Cal had Wheeler, Ware and Collins in the game. That tells you everything you need to know. He's playing mind games with everyone and it needs to stop.