it's not just that we're down 8 - it's how we're playing. UCLA isn't a very good team
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How about a game thread where you cant complain about fouls. Someone please start a new thread!
They are playing us for the drive as they should....damn hard to drive with four guys in the paint every play. They know only Ullis and Murray can shoot sagging way off all the other perimeter guys. It's the pack...wayyyyy back line defense.
another blowhard that blames refs when we are losing and playing like crap.
Wow. Overreact much. Did you see John walls first few games? How about Anthony Davis? Was well after Christmas - even into league play that AD started blowing up. These guys are 18 and have played SEVEN college games.
I think Cal is perfectly fine with losing tonight. He's not making any in-game adjustments and seems to be more stand-offish than usual. Lose now and the pressure is off perhaps? Just speculating.
I don't know what adjustments Calipari can make. Alford's gameplan is exactly what the numbers suggest: make us a jump shooting team and we'll flail.
Defense has been just as bad or worse. Entire team looks lost and blaming a tough home whistle doesn't excuse some of the poor execution.
Defense has been just as bad or worse. Entire team looks lost and blaming a tough home whistle doesn't excuse some of the poor execution.
Umm both Wall and Davis also showed signs of brilliance early in the season. Not saying Skal wont at some point but the comparison is silly.
If you shoot jump shots and not aggressive on the offensive end of the court the other team doesn't have to foul. Likewise on the defensive end if you aren't aggressive and lazy you will foul alot. It ain't the refs...it's how Kentucky is playing. I would be shocked if they don't come out more aggressive and drive the ball to the basket. If they do they win by 6 - 10 points.
Sorry, but if you think we were really only fouled twice in that half then you're simply wrong. Yes, we could have been more aggressive, but there was one possession where we were fouled twice alone, and yet they called nothing. The refs have been very tight with the whistle tonight, but UCLA has gotten a bit more favorable one.
This is Alford's superbowl. If he wins this, he buys himself several more years, and his programs takes a bump up.
At least we haven't yet had to infuriatingly watch these guys brick free throw after free throw
Our guys, I didn't see that I missed the "o". Trying to type too fast on my phone.
Alford did a nice job last season with a team that had no right to even make the tourney. He's rebuilding the program.
Part of the reason the offense is all jump shots is because UCLA has been allowed to grab and put 2 hands on any and all players that start to drive. After that goes uncalled for 10 minutes, young players tend to start "settling" fornjump shots.
Call the game by the "new rules" and this is a different game. That said, our guys need to go all out to the rim anyway.
Chill with all the paranoia. It's a cross country game against a team hungry for revenge in a packed stadium. We are young. They executed and we settled. They got hot we stayed cold. There's still a whole second half in which I believe we'll play better. Fans jumping off on Skal or Murray as high draft picks? smh. IT'S EARLY.
