Official game thread
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We aren’t playing that bad. D could tighten up some but they are on fire on their home floor on Senior Day. They should come back to earth this half. If they don’t, shake their hand because they were the better team today.
We shot the ball very well at the 1st of the year. This team can play with anyone at times then lose to my local HS team.
It's the refs on our end, because there were at least 4 times that they got an extra possession because of no calls on fouls. Several more where we didn't get foul shots. On their end, we played some poor defense 5-6 times, but, when we did have a hand in their face, they hit fade-a- way 3's. They could beat anyone in the country, if they shoot like this. This UK team is not really built for spreading the floor and guarding the perimeter at all 5 spots.
We compound it when we don't snag defensive rebounds and turn it over on almost 25% of our possessions. Hot shooting happens sometimes, but the key is to mitigate it's effect by playing well in other areas. Take care of the ball and the defensive glass, and we are likely still losing but with a much smaller margin.
It's hard to get going when you are not allowed to, we aren't playing that well but the first 15 minutes most of the calls went against us when several should have went the other way. Spanarkel is taking pleasure in what's happening to the cats, you can tell it in what he is saying.
What'd PJ ever do to you? He'd even be embarrassed by Richards ability to drop the ball.
Take your anger out on me. By all means. I mean I’m the one losing by 15 at half time and will probably have 10 losses by the end of the day. It’s all my fault
The auto-bench for Vanderbilt and Washington for two fouls led to us playing inferior players for extended minutes. That certainly didn't help.
I have no idea what SKJ is doing wrong that gets him the quick hook when he's actually fortunate enough to get into the game.
He's better than Richards at every facet of the game than Richards.
I just don't get it.
Go look at my history. If you think I’m a UL fan as much as I make fun of them , then ur nuts
Thing is - it's the end of year. Richards has had all season to play through his mistakes and improve and he hasn't. It's winning time now. Ride the best players to get you a trophy. Richards is nothing more than a 5-10 minutes back up center at this point and should be used as such.
**** off you're a bubble team playing hard because it's UK, no different than all the rest
It's a MESSAGE BOARD. People post their FEELINGS during a game. If the team is playing crappy, emotions are going to reflect that. As long as everyone is respectable, it's all good.
The refs did set the tone at the start of the game letting them get physical with no calls and calling touch fouls on us. Then our guys act like they don't know what to do and start playing hero ball. Then throw in Cal being stubborn with the lineups and waiting until we are in a big hole before trying to go zone. I don't know why he refuses to go zone until things are going bad. Duke uses zone and is getting better players and still getting them drafted. Screw worrying about the NBA. The players can improve their man to man when they are getting paid to play as a job.
Do you know the meaning of the word pathetic? You throw it out every game post at some point. It’s like saying everything is amazing etc exaggerate much? Florida at Florida isn’t a bad loss and certainly isn’t pathetic. We are 35-25 all time in Gainesville. Over dramatic as always....
SKJ is actually not very good either. He rebounds at a lower per 40 than Richards and shoots much worse. Neither player getting many minutes would be ideal.
*******, I'm tired of taking *** beatings to football schools..******* 2-6 vs. UT and Florida the last two years is a joke. It's bad enough UK is like 2-60 combined in football vs. those two programs since the mid 80s...now they're kicking our *** in basketball..******* great.
Agree with always hope, but are you really comparing this team to Duke??
Totally agree. At this point, he should be out starting center, unless Cal wants to go small and use the Vanderbilt/Washington line up. But in no way should Richards play more than 10 mins a game at this point. He has a lot of work to do.
Not talking about emotional fans. Talking about people who only post when we are losing or playing bad. There is a huge difference in the two.