@ChrisFisher247: Alabama is a good team, maybe the best in the SEC, but Kentucky with a clear step back tonight. Progress is rarely linear.
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@ChrisFisher247: Alabama is a good team, maybe the best in the SEC, but Kentucky with a clear step back tonight. Progress is rarely linear.
@markcstory: Kentucky’s Keion Brooks tells UK Radio’s Mike Pratt ‘We got punked at the rim.’
@JonRothstein: Reminders of how hard it is to win:
1. John Calipari and Bill Self --- two Hall-of-Famers --- have each suffered the worst home losses of their respective current tenures this season.
2. Michigan State is 2-4 in Big Ten play.
3. Duke's best win is at Notre Dame, who is 3-7.
They got destroyed from 3-point range.
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Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
@johnclayiv: John Calipari: "Not one of our players didn't play well. Obviously I didn't coach well." Says he told team he's going to find five guys who will fight and play them. #BBN #ukbasketball
@JDrumUK: Calipari: "We reverted. I'm not sure I'm even going to watch this tape. On to the next one."
@markcstory: Calipari: ‘Let me ask you: Did we have anybody who could stay in front of anybody?’
@JDrumUK: Calipari: "We didn't get it to Olivier. We showed them at halftime five times where he was open, and we didn't get it to him. Or he was in a dogfight and we threw it then, so he couldn't get it."
@KyleTucker_ATH: Calipari on Bama: “One of their players at the end asked me, ‘What’s the score?’ I said, ‘You know what it is.’ " He laughed. Said Tide came right at UK. "When you’re getting clubbed, you got no confidence."
@JDrumUK: Calipari asked can he beat a team like this as constructed... Can't go 4-for-18 from 3. "Maybe we're not a good 3-point shooting team."
@johnclayiv: Calipari: "First half they made 10 (threes). They were either uncontested or we were late getting there." #BBN #ukbasketball
Ya think, try recruiting some shooters Cal!
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Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
@KyleTucker_ATH: Asked Calipari if he can beat a time(team) that plays like Bama as his own team is currently constructed. He went on a thing about how they took 18 3-pointers and only made four, so should they have taken 25 to make six?
Huh.
Says UK could've taken advantage inside, failed to.
Has to change his approach surely.
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Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
That's the part he just doesn't seem to get. If you see the post right underneath yours, it makes it even clearer that the question was very pointed, that Kentucky doesn't have three point shooters, and maybe we should have them. Calipari just glossed over it. Surely to goodness he understands and gets it by now. Surely he does.Quote:
Originally Posted by catmanjack
I learned a long time ago that when someone says surely, it means they're not sure.
Seems like he is going through the motions.
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Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Not doing a great job, that is evident.Quote:
Originally Posted by catmanjack
@DrewFranklinKSR: Kentucky layups: 8-18 (44.4%)
Alabama 3-pointers: 14-30 (46.7%)
Goodbye.
Starting to feel myself like at the end of the tubby era. Games just do not have the same meaning.
I think I'm going to call it a night myself, guys. I do think the truth of Kentucky basketball is somewhere between this game and the Florida game and we can reach the Florida game more often this year. It's still not going to be a good year. But I will be here, good or bad, as always. They're my team. See you guys in the morning.
It’s no longer the game is passing Cal by.
It is now passing Kentucky by. Kentucky is a pick-up truck on leaded fuel playing in a hybrid world. This program is a Radio Shack Tandy computer in the internet age. We are as Cal is.
We are Indiana
Or close
No court vision. Not only can't they see their teamamate to pass it, apparently they can't see the opponent to guard them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
We continue to play like we did tonight, we could lose on WedQuote:
Originally Posted by LakeCat
I dont know about the fan backlash and don't really think that would have mattered. But I do know when the university has to publicly address something like this, that can obviously have an effect on the teams psyche.Quote:
Originally Posted by TRUCKERCATFAN
Wait, I thought it was the passing of Ben...Quote:
Originally Posted by kingcat
That or UK is a poorly designed team that lacks defensive intensity and has no perimeter shooting.
Me, I lean towards the latter because UK has not played well all season including before the kneeling episode.
The latter certainly appears true, and for all but the staff and Brooks i just dont see how Ben's passing could affect them that much. I am truly sorry to hear it myself though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc
But what I suggest is likely true at least to some extent also Doc. Now, I don't know how much it would have effected their play but I say it's a big deal for a college student to be defended by a public university statement. A group of students could see that effect multiplied exponentially. Even if it was about abusing bathroom privilege's or getting caught in a coed drinking game. We don't know what all may have been said to them by the A.D. and the university president. Fact is those two did feel the need to make a statement to the press.
I'm making no comment one way or the other about the kneeling incident positive or negative..
I can only relate my own experiencesQuote:
Originally Posted by kingcat
while in vet school, we had an instance where 2 students in the class behind me died. was a traffic accident where the driver fell asleep and hit a car on the shoulder. Left the passenger and one kid in the back of the pickup dead. was a shocking incident, but our school work didn't suffer, at least not mine. Then during my final year we had a graduate from the year before died when kicked in the head by a horse. While it affected the school, my academics continued. When in HS, my senior year I had a good friend stalked and murdered in Gatkinburg TN. That too did not alter my school work. I always see such things as an excuse, not the cause. Of course thats just me but I suspect every poster has a similar story or example
As for the knealing, its the trendy thing to do. VS FL many credited the act as an inspiration for solid play, now its an excuse for poor play? The university and coaching staff came out in support, hardly a negative. Add these are young people who have little concern about such issues (as a rule of thumb) of a reaction. But if so, I don't excuse the consequences of your actions. They elected to do what they did, free choice. And if that action and the result produced that, they need to rethink their actions.
The national articles about it such as USA Today are also a big distraction.
Ok, they do not get to grab that excuse, especially Cal. Mature adults and individuals realize that if they take an action or allow an action to be taken, they are responsible for that action and if that actions effects their performance in their job (in this case player athlete) they should not take that action. Especially if they are not prepared for possible negative responses to that controversial action.
Again, this is on Cal. The players have too many that just became adults and need leadership and guidance.
No one making any excuses that I have heard. Our opinion of the actions they took have nothing to do with discussion on my whether such national attention is a distraction.
Simply put, it most certainly is. A big one.
In a way that is funny but his attempt at comparison humor is a bit off. Defeating UK in the regular season dims in comparison to wiping out tOSU in the last football game of the year, regardless of how UK fans feel about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
king, not going to argue the point it is a distraction. My point is if you make yourself the disctracty you do not get to use it as an excuse for your performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingcat