We may have one sitting on the bench with knee problems. Who knows maybe he could have been that guy.
I Support Cal
- Thread starter SemperFiCat
- Start date
We may have one sitting on the bench with knee problems. Who knows maybe he could have been that guy.
I like having Cal here, but I am getting burnt out with his recruiting style. He is great at signing 5 star players, but I think he is average at signing to our needs. It seems like he just looks at the rankings and goes down the line trying to sign the tall guys, put them down a position, and then try to mold them into what the NBA wants and not what we need. At least that is how it seems since Coach K passed him and cherry picks who he wants.
All we heard all year was about our length, but all this length was mediocre (minus Vanderbilt) when it came to staying in front of your man on the perimeter, defensive rebounding, shot blocking, and defending and scoring in the post. We had to hope most could jack up 3's and shoot for a high %. I think the game is changing and all of these big guys aren't the best players to be going after anymore. You need to have a rim protector with 4 others that can shoot the 3, defend, and out hustle their opponents. Just look at all of the upsets by teams with shooters and quickness on the perimeter. If you aren't elite with your lateral quickness, it doesn't matter how tall you are.
Let's hope with the 3 current recruits we might be changing things up for the better. Now hopefully we get enough of the right players to come back to go with the new guys or next year will be a struggle as well.
All we heard all year was about our length, but all this length was mediocre (minus Vanderbilt) when it came to staying in front of your man on the perimeter, defensive rebounding, shot blocking, and defending and scoring in the post. We had to hope most could jack up 3's and shoot for a high %. I think the game is changing and all of these big guys aren't the best players to be going after anymore. You need to have a rim protector with 4 others that can shoot the 3, defend, and out hustle their opponents. Just look at all of the upsets by teams with shooters and quickness on the perimeter. If you aren't elite with your lateral quickness, it doesn't matter how tall you are.
Let's hope with the 3 current recruits we might be changing things up for the better. Now hopefully we get enough of the right players to come back to go with the new guys or next year will be a struggle as well.
Fail. Its his job to call TO.
Listen to the post game comments.
Funny thing is, he said he should have but did not.
Won't do it next time either.
You are blind not to see it.
What game were you watching? The next possession we had the ball he did call a to. Facts must be optional for you.
PJ goes 8/20 from the line and 2 misses were 1 and 1 in 1st half. He missed 12 Free Throws. That is 12 Free Throws missed for the game for PJ. I really like PJ as a player but you can't miss 12 Free Throws. If PJ hits 8 to 10 of the Free Throws then we go home a winner tonight. With Wade out in the 2nd half and doesn't play that much in 1st half scores 4 there is no way UK should get beat by K-State. Buffalo was better than the Kansas State team and we beat them by 20 points. With Wade out tonight I would have thought we win by 20 tonight easily.
It is/was Cal's fault...because of his ft shooting Knox is the one that should have had posting up.
No need to get your panties in a wad towards me Shirley, be pissed at Cal for poorly preparing his team and sticking with a flawed gameplan.
Not when you’ve slipped to #2 in recruiting. The days of hand selecting are over. This loss Was just a huge choke job. We were better than Kansas State. It’s about time Cal looked at the makeup of his rosters.
I wish they would T him up every time he leaves it. I am curious how many he would have to get before he learned to stay there.
I like Cal, but sometimes I wander they put to much on 5 stars, wander how many Kansas St. had and some of these other teams, , he let a great 3 star that playing for WKU get away and the big guy that plays for Miss St. who is a Ky kid get away, instead we have Richards and Jones both which has been disappointments ..
Only one that has their knickers twisted is you. The team was prepared fine. It’s you hindsight game plan that’s useless. Sometimes the free throws don’t drop. Anyone that knows crap about basketball knows that.
Oops.
I support Cal
However, Cal makes a **** ton of money to coach here. Terrible end game coaching all season.
Recruit better.
Recruit better
Recruit better
However, Cal makes a **** ton of money to coach here. Terrible end game coaching all season.
Recruit better.
Recruit better
Recruit better
You left out the part about hitting some free throws and asking them not to go insane hitting threes.
Chance beat us. Jacking up threes hoping they’ll go in is suicide, not a game plan. You thinking that’s a legitimate strategy is quite telling.
Shooting 10 3’s in a half is not jacking them up, it is called a balanced offense. The strategy of cramming inside to a post player who is struggling to hitting his free throws was not the wisest decision. Cal like always just hoped things would change instead of having a plan B. Spreading the floor and letting our players get into a rhythm as they have been so good at of late was the key to winning this game. Just as in football you have to pass to keep the defense honest, you have to shoot from the perimeter to open up the driving lanes (again balanced offense). We only took 5 threes making two of them before the two final desperation threes in the last 12 seconds. No clue how that would have turned out but we at least know how Cals strategy worked out. Bounced by a pathetic Big 12 team.
You left out that the pathetic Big 12 team was shooting out of their mind from three. I’m sure was an oversight to inflate your own rather laughable game plan.
Going to be great seeing you ***** about the next coach after Cal leaves who will inevitably be a downgrade from what has been a historically good era in Kentucky basketball.
You will never be pleased by anyone because you simply don't want to be. Fans like you are a toxic stain on this program.
Compared to how we shot and how they shot the prior game, it’s out of their minds
They were 1-12 their previous game and 199th in the country shooting threes. I think last nights game would qualify as them shooting out of their mind.
They shot 35% and made about 7 a game for the season. They were a little better than that last night. Not out of their mind. The Cats played and coached like ****. It wasn't some heroic fluke effort by K State.
The entire point is KSU isn’t much of an outside shooting team considering they’re ranked 199th in shooting 3’s. They shot better than they normally do last night and imo that’s the only way they could win. Even with their better than average shooting an average game from PJ shooting ft’s still beats them.
If you think having a balanced offensive attack is a laughable game plan then you clearly don’t understand the game of basketball or any sport for that matter. I Might as well be debating with a brick wall. Carry on, had enough of you as you have nothing of substance to add.
Well I could name you 8 couches by the end of this weekend that will have done better.
He also said the record doesn't matter, which must mean that winning doesn't matter, which must mean that titles don't matter, which must mean the Program doesn't matter. Only the "kids" matter. This logic sucks.
Cal also had the finest collection of talent in the history of college BB on one team for one undefeated season, chose not to look at tape on the opponent for the final game, for the National Championship (did not prepare) and put that team in a position to lose to Wisconsin, and they did. That's not HOF credentials. That's dumbass and lazy and then relies on his mouth to sell the excuse. #recordsdon'tmatter, #titlesdon'tmatter, #programdon'tmatter, #onlykidsmatter. Useful idiots were are for accepting this high-jacking of OUR program.
Yet you advocate a team playing to their weakness. Go throw your temper tantrum somewhere else. Complete and utter foolishness.
dont want anyone but Cal...but i want him to tweak his overall strategy. and maybe hire a tactician for under 3 minutes.