Offensive rebounds killed the Cats...

[Raptureme]

They allowed 14....FOURTEEN freaking offensive rebounds!

 

[Cowtown Cat]

Absolutely was the difference.

 

[jeffky]

They allowed 14....FOURTEEN freaking offensive rebounds!

We need more guards according to alot on this board

 

[flacat22]

Did I step into a time warp?

 

[Cat in ga]

And Tennessee can’t rebound today.

 

[ukwazoo]

And Tennessee can’t rebound today.

They have 11 offensive boards. But Houston has 12. UK only had like 3-4 offensive boards yesterday

 

[whack0001]

It was a general lack of toughness, plain and simple.

 

[Randy Bob]

Ky was a weak offensive rebounding team all year.

 

[clifm]

They allowed 14....FOURTEEN freaking offensive rebounds!

Amen brother. We just stood around and looked at the friggin ball and let it hit the floor. We had sometimes 3 players around the ball and Tennessee had 1 and he came up with the rebound. Where is Oscar when we need him.

 

[anon1790746896]

It was a general lack of toughness, plain and simple.

We are just soft

 

[DraftCat]

This team may of only lost 1-3 games all year if they could rebound + stay healthy.

 

[ScottGreene22]

We need more guards according to alot on this board

Yes we need guards who like to rebound

 

[cathouse_rivals216755]

It was a general lack of toughness, plain and simple.

Same problem all year. Our bigs were sooooofttt.

 

[thebluestripes]

Mark has got to get some "dudes" in here or next season won't be much better than this one.

 

[trey g 4 UK]

It was a general lack of toughness, plain and simple.

And a general lack of effort if we are being honest. That’s what has me more concerned and disappointed than anything. If Pope can’t get our guys motivated to play in that game???

 

[trey g 4 UK]

And speaking of rebounds…..better go snag Flory before someone else gets him too!!! We have way too many holes to fill than to let the very best targets slip away and sign elsewhere.

 

[rick64]

Amari and BG were the laziest rebounding and shot challenging bigs I've ever seen at UK. Every single game I've seen them stand flat footed not even putting their arms up to challenge a shot.

 

[jc2010]

And a general lack of effort if we are being honest. That’s what has me more concerned and disappointed than anything. If Pope can’t get our guys motivated to play in that game???

Faar Pope

 

[NociHTTP]

It was a general lack of toughness, plain and simple.

Bingo. People keep looking for cherry-picked stats to justify the loss, when the fact is the Cats were rarely ever prepared mentally for a game, generally didn't fight for the rebounds, 50/50 balls, just didn't fight.

 

[ala_kat2]

If I could give you 1/2 a like I would have. It does seem that they weren’t prepared mentally and therefore didn’t fight hard enough. That might have come from 4-5th year seniors who weren’t used to diving on the floor. Trent Noah was our best 50/50 guy and rebounder for his size.