Sweet 16 Thread
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Dude that region has been all about luck. I mean, Vandy lost because a shot went half way down and the universe said, "Nah, screw you in particular Tyler Tanner. So much so in fact- screw you TWICE"
Having to work till 1am sucks (Damn gubment!) But I'm loving x tonight and making some new Arkansas friends
Yep. If Arkansas hadn’t killed my parlay Houston would have anyways. Oh well.
No chance he is a Davis. McCollum is a proven winner all through his career. From winning championships in D2, to turning Drake around in a year, to now leading freaking Iowa to the E8.
you missed the point. i didn’t down play arizona. i said cal gave them a signature program win. not just a tourney win. cal could have done anything different and lost by less. but no one will talk about it, and he won’t apologize for it.
John Calipari hasn't made a FF In 11 years.
Hasn't made an E8 in 7 years.
Hasn't made an E8 in 7 years.
Just saying. We've had our own "savants" go south. Nothing is guaranteed.
Cal choking the chicken, Tyson money can't be happy after that one.
I honestly think he knew UK fans wouldn't support that stuff. Cousins was an enforcer, not a thug. He's also my favorite Cal player.
his way of coaching is so consistent i can be acute about analyzing this. arkansas in terms of talent is not that much worse than arizona. it’s relative to his recruiting nba sized players, and losing on quickness, which beats you in basketball. and even with no advantages, we know he can’t coach. in other words, as good as arizona is, this is an inflated win. they lost this badly only because of cal.
It’s true. Cal should have been our version of Roy Williams. Retired here with multiple titles. Never would have thought he would have fallen off like that after that 10 year run from 2006-2015.
5 final fours. 8 E8’s. 7 30 win seasons. 2 more with 29 wins. 1 national title. another runner up. Like a dozen conference and conference tourney championships. 10 years is a long time on top.
But it happened to Bobby Knight and Denny Crum as well.
They had no depth to speak of, once Knox went down it limited their lineup options and put a strain on the guards. The front court was awful when fully healthy, and one of them was only 80% after getting injured last week.
They really had no chance from the jump against AZ and their bruisers. Their guards could probably overcome a big, slow team, but AZ has elite perimeter talent as well -- not as good as Ark's but don't need to be.
Brazile also settled for way too many 3s. He was probably the only mismatch and should be been driving / in motion more. This is probably the one area -- exploiting Brazile against their bruisers -- that a good coach would've helped. I still don't think a good coach wins this -- AZ's strengths just "hard counter" ARK's weaknesses.
As much as pope has sucked Cal hasn’t been insanely better down there.
We tired to tell them.
He did take alot of guys and that certainly factored into his year 1 success. Year 2 he lost alot of those guys but took them to another level.
Same thing here. Especially in basketball where only five guys can play at once, that level of continuity provides a massive advantage. Year 2 will tell much more.
This. Watching these games is depressing. Way early in the season, after watching Duke and Arkansas I posted it was like watching a different sport compared to what we're playing.
We have so far to go its hard to imagine a world where we get there under Pope. This off season absolutely must be massive. No more mid major mindset.
He peaked early, he’s not quite big enough, doesn’t shoot it well enough, isn’t quite fast enough to break D1 guards down consistently. He’s a solid college player. He’s not the number one guy everyone thought he would be.
That’s crazy to think about after 2015. He was on a tear. Granted one team got screwed out of one, two choked, and another potential one got canceled.
Arkansas execution against us in the last 8 minutes this season felt like a familiar script.
