6 game losing streak should be fun. We may finish the season 1-8.
Team has regressed. Majorly.
Damn, John.
Team has regressed. Majorly.
Damn, John.
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We’re on a 3-game skid and Cal’s big adjustment is starting Gabriel over Washington.
Turn the damn thing inside out.
Turn the damn thing inside out.
Remember when we wondered if Diablo would contribute last season? Lol.
Sign better players.
Sign better players.
Meh. You can still overpower teams with our size but we refused to do it consistently. We saw 5 minutes of what our offense should be and never went back. That's on Cal. This team is young, dumb and flawed but they're not NIT bad. They're being put in bad positions on top of being dumb. Refusing to play the obvious best lineup is maybe the most frustrating thing he's done in his tenure.
Hey, hey, hey. You cannot call the team stupid. You have to call them basketball-stupid, or refer to a “low basketball IQ.” If you don’t couch the low intelligence critique with an explicit “on the basketball court” qualifier, this whole thing will come crashing down.
Didnt like the post game narrative from Cal saying he is fine but its about the kids...no buddy you are not fine. No sane fan wants to run you out of town but we expect better from YOU. Get better. Thats all.
Yep. The season was lost before it even started. Because we failed to land any of the topflight NBA prospects, we ended up with a group of freshman not skilled enough to be good outside of a narrow role. Knox is perhaps the most talented, but he is still limited by weak handles.
Having no outstanding NBA prospect is sobering, but perhaps refreshing if the group served as the foundation for future teams. Cal could devote more resources into player development rather than relying on additional recruiting dice rolls. Coaching the players in a manner to prepare them for success in future seasons instead of a get good quick scheme for the immediate season necessitated by extreme roster volatility would be a paradigm change, but it might be in order if we are going to continually miss the surefire NBA prospects.
I'm ok we lose 3 guys. Lose 5 and I'm not. That **** is fine when we're winning. Not in a 10+ loss season.
A lot of people buried K and dismissed Roy after similar lulls...in fact, worse. I mean, we were probably the second best team at the end of the year last year. Some perspective please.
I think Cal has it in him to come back HAM for another run...but I also think it’s fair to say he got cocky and it bit him. Podcast, 30 for 30, not replacing O with a like-kind recruiter, slow playing major recruits.
Bridge year, get some of these guys back...next year could be a lot of fun.
When Cal wins a 2nd title he’ll be the first UK coach not named Rupp to do so. We’ll see.
I mean just look at the number of guys who have done it. They're by far the exception and not the rule. And I can name five coaches who got a title and then their performance decreased over time either immediately or within a year or two as is the case with Cal for every one who ended up building off that title to sustained success. But we were really good in 2015, three years ago, so WTF do I know, maybe we're on a roll and I just don't realize it.
Wait til next year folks gonna be STACKED. [sick]
Its 2 weeks til march 2018 dont give a ****.
Its 2 weeks til march 2018 dont give a ****.
****, Bristol. We were a buzzer beater from a Final Four and maybe winning it all last f'n year. We're not talking Kevin Ollie or Gary Williams here.
Go read what I wrote and tell me where I said Cal is Kevin Ollie or Gary Williams. I'm saying we've taken a step back from where we were and Cal hasn't been at the level he was. That's undeniable. Just missing a final four one out of the last three years with the other two years not being a serious contender is a long way from going five out of six years where we fully expected and were a favorite to win the title either throughout the regular season, late in the tournament or both. We're not that team on the court anymore, we're not that team in recruiting anymore. We're a pretty good team most years, and a fringe tournament team this year. That's what we are right now.
He reminds me of Rondo under Tubby in that sense. He also dribbles around and 'probes' the defense in a way that reminds me of Rondo. But it's like he's running a different offense than his teammates are running.
I always thought that's what happened with Tubby Smith. Winning a title his first year at UK was a mixed blessing for him and his subsequent coaching career.
He has to be a rock right now. He’s the coach not a fan. He can’t be losing his mind with a team full of freshmen in a skid.
STFU. Yeah we were really good three years ago and we were probably a rimmed out shot from winning it all last year.
I’m fine lambasting this team but when you start making **** up and forgetting ****, get out of here.
Again, your buddy’s take was stupid and you were stupid for passing it on. Don’t get your feelings hurt. Just dry out a bit.
It ruins the entire month of March when we miss the tournament, so we at least need to get our **** together enough to make that happen.
I can understand not being really good, but to not make the tournament with this team, with this awful of a bubble, would be total unmitigated disaster.
I can understand not being really good, but to not make the tournament with this team, with this awful of a bubble, would be total unmitigated disaster.
Tubby just wasn’t a great coach. He was very fortunate. A lot of guys make one F4 and they do it at places much harder to win at than Kentucky.
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Everybody relax. Chad says Cal's got this thing rocking and rolling. Final fours and titles are forthcoming. This sub .500 SEC season is all a part of Cal's plan. #RefusetoLose #TheTweak #EmbraceMediocrity #KeepCalmBarrettIsComing #WaitNoKeepCalmZionIsComing #OopsIMeanKeldonJohnsonIsComing
That’s not what I said. You’re just such a squealing little ***** right now that you can’t see straight.
Like I said, dry out.
I don’t know- maybe it’s that I remember all the way back to four years ago, but I’ not counting Calipari or these Cats out just yet.
You’re just such a squealing little ***** right now that you can’t see straight.
Like I said, dry out.
Four years ago was dope. Keep us posted on when you count them out. [thumb2]
Yeah screw all you buttholes you dumb buttholes you don't talk to me that way you ***** farts
For me, the highest level of frustration with a player is actually feeling sorry for him. I’ve come to that with Hami.
Don’t dribble buddy, take 1 three a game max. Board, play D, and try to get trash buckets.
Don’t dribble buddy, take 1 three a game max. Board, play D, and try to get trash buckets.
Or you could buy the book that the producer of The Wire wrote that eventually became the basis for the show.
It would be an interesting experiment to have every player return next year and see what happens, development-wise. It won't happen, of course, because "ending generational poverty" and whatnot, but one can dream.
-Diallo is pressing so much. I hate it for him b/c he's handled about as well as you could ask an 18 year old. Make him 7th man and let him slowly regain confidence.
-We have to keep the "scorers" on the floor as much as possible. Time to tighten the rotation. Green, Shai, Knox..... Vando(creates), Washington... Wenyen, Diallo. Richards needs to be a foul trouble only situation.
-Get the ball in Green's hand.
So frustrating that Cal thought the big change was putting Gabriel in for Washington. SMH.
-We have to keep the "scorers" on the floor as much as possible. Time to tighten the rotation. Green, Shai, Knox..... Vando(creates), Washington... Wenyen, Diallo. Richards needs to be a foul trouble only situation.
-Get the ball in Green's hand.
So frustrating that Cal thought the big change was putting Gabriel in for Washington. SMH.
Cal is trying to finish a puzzle that has two or three pieces missing.
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