Yep, I typically listen to previous day show while at the gym in a.m. the next day. I was pretty steady listener up until covid and then shifted to some other podcasts. I really like listening during seasons buy not so much off season.
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Yep, I typically listen to previous day show while at the gym in a.m. the next day. I was pretty steady listener up until covid and then shifted to some other podcasts. I really like listening during seasons buy not so much off season.
Matt says things that people with common sense were saying 2-3 years ago... "Matt nails it."
Sure, it's about time he came around and figured the basics out.
Sure, it's about time he came around and figured the basics out.
I think his handling of the fans is extremely important. To the point that it needs to be his main focus. How many coaches get in a war with the fanbase and survive? They don't. He'd be smart to apologize and say he's going to do better by us.
Why would I? Cal pissed this season away with his bromance with Boston and to a degree, Askew. Then blames everyone for his actions.
Just because we’ve known it for years doesn’t mean he didn’t nail it, he did. I was just saying he was correct. To me, that means something. Coming from a Cal nut hugger like Matt and company.
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Allen has pretty much said he is coming back. i think UK is in line for FF type team next season
When he’s gotten ample playing time, he’s been solid to very good. No excuse for Cal not to play him more. If the target is making or missing shots or making a defensive mistake, nobody would’ve logged one minute for this team.
Cal is a hypocrite in regards to Allen. Has been all season. That’s really all there is to it.
I was a MJ supporter for a long time, even though he and I couldn't possibly be on more opposite ends of the political spectrum. But, I lost a lot of respect for MJ around March-April of last when he went political on the whole Covid thing. Traded text messages with him several times. But, honestly I haven't listened to his show since then. No idea what he's been talking about for the last 12 months. However, I am listening to the first hour of today's broadcast and he seems to be pretty much nailing it. Especially on Calipari's player management and relationship with UK fans.
On Kyle Tucker, he was on the Finebaum show this afternoon and he said a lot of the same things MJ did on his show. Hit on the toxic relationship between Cal and UK fans, including the massive yearly roster turnover.
The bottomline is Calipari can't just replace the guys exiting the program without changing his system, bringing in new assistants and trying to reconnect with the fanbase. This offseason is VITAL for Kentucky Basketball. Probably the most important off-season since 1989.
On Kyle Tucker, he was on the Finebaum show this afternoon and he said a lot of the same things MJ did on his show. Hit on the toxic relationship between Cal and UK fans, including the massive yearly roster turnover.
The bottomline is Calipari can't just replace the guys exiting the program without changing his system, bringing in new assistants and trying to reconnect with the fanbase. This offseason is VITAL for Kentucky Basketball. Probably the most important off-season since 1989.
Son, you are one lost soul.
Ya ever think maybe they were critical because it was the first season in which to be critical??
no, because they were critical last year with the crap start as well noting that fans were fed up with the November/December garbage was had to watch every year
Maybe but what I am not is a fair weather fan that bails on a team and a coach after a bad season during a pandemic. You know all this so there is no sense going over it for millionth time on this board.
what has Calipari done to convince you it won't happen again?
This season was coming no matter if there was a pandemic or not. The writing has been on the wall for a while now.
What kind of fan supports the worst season in history?
These are my thoughts exactly. People will call you a Cal lover. But for me that’s not the case at all. I agree with everything you said.
Allen was not good 90 percent of the season. I get Cal was probably to harsh with him but he didn’t deserve to play turning it over 5 times a game. Allen needs to improve just like the rest of the returning guys do.
He shot about 20% from 3 between his first big breakout game week and up until the last game.
Pitino had it and I wasn’t a fan of Pitino at all except his coaching style but I thought he was an arrogant prick but you have to be at a place like UK. You don’t have to like the coach to know that it still a perfect match.
As far as this year, I know how the team got here this year and for the most part it is Calipari’s fault but it’s not something that can’t be fixed now hopefully he will or he will move on.
Just listened to the first hour segment. Don't usually agree with MJ on anything, but he hit it out of the park on that opening commentary. A lot of truth in what he said.
Not sure Cal will fix or change anything.
Not sure Cal will fix or change anything.
Okay, first of all, it's "Kentucky Sports radio", as in "UK sports", not the state of Kentucky.
And are you seriously going to judge the guy because he got the name of the conference WKU plays in, wrong? You're pretty f***ing petty dude.
The truth is, the guy has a show that focuses on UK sports, which is something that is of great interest to all of us on this board and we have people nit picking everything the guy says. How pathetic.
Think about this. What if you had a radio show that thousands of people listen to, are you telling me, you would never make a mistake, like what you're calling Matt out for? Are you perfect?
What was the issue with clarke this season off court? Matt said he's not sure he will be invited back. What is he referring to
that is the main difference i see
most coaches are prideful, Cal is no different
Cal has fought hard to be recognized as one of the top coaches in the game (he always felt like they disrespected him)
he needs to sit down and take a hard look at himself and figure out how to get rid of "angry Cal" and bring back "swaggy Cal"
It seems like when something doesn’t fit your narrative your go to line is “ he’s lying “ .
Will you at least admit that Cal screwed many things up this year? He mishandled the lineup for most of the year, played favorites, talked down to the fans and failed as a game coach all season long. The last 4 minutes of every game was a clinic on how not to coach.
Then, he blamed everyone, but himself. He blamed Allen for missing a screen, in a game Allen single handedly almost won for us, but said nothing about the zero points Boston and Askew combined for.
You have to admit Cal screwed this up and the very last thing he should be doing is calling out the fans, especially when he is, by far, the highest paid coach in this sport.
I get it, you and Jace are on board and firmly believe Cal will fix this, but at least admit he screwed this up. I mean, you can't hide 9-16.
Yea man I mean the hall of fame top 5 winningest coach in the last decade just doesn’t care about winning. Nope no drive at all to win. He wakes up and wins by accident every day. Never in his life did he want to win a basketball game. In fact he even hates winning.
Yes of course he did all of that. He was a screw up all season long and he pointed fingers and was an ******* about it. He singlehandedly lost us games. I just don’t think it’s going to continue to be like that.
Jace should probably retire from posting.
He never had the chance to get into any kind of a rhythm, he played 2 minutes here and there.
Take a long look at Askew and Boston's stats. There was a point when Boston was shooting 17% from 3 point range, but still got 30+ mpg. That's crazy.
Yeah, he got 11ppg, but he constantly shot 3-11, 4-15, 4-12 or so, to get it.
If Allen had the same leash and the same minutes, he would have far better year end numbers than Boston and Askew combined. At least Allen can make a layup or a 5 footer. Boston might be the worst finisher from 8' and in that I've ever seen.
But yeah, lets focus on what Allen did in the 2 minute spurts he was getting every game.
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