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[_Chase_]

I think these are the two games we make the rest of the Country lean back in their chairs and softly mumble "oh, ****" to themselves.


*Of course, the irrational side of me is still terrified of losing, but we absolutely should wax all 3 teams in our region. The tournament is a funny thing and it may not go that way, but it definitely should go that way.

 

[cawoodsct]

It's annoying UL has an opening to the FF, and it's annoying that Duke,imo, will be in the title game but i'd have to say im pleased to be playing WVU and the winner of ND and Witchita State to get to the FF. I would have taken that with a quickness before the tournament.

If we come out and match their toughness,grit and desire we win by 15 plus. And i think Cal will have them prepared for what we are going to face. Hopefully this will be the game that sparks our defense, which, imo, has dropped a tad over the last few weeks of the year.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Originally posted by wildcat1973:
The 2011 team was down by 8 at the Half. Smoked them in the 2nd Half. Won 71-63.

B Knight was NAILS that game. Went for 30. I look for Andrew to do the same.

Halftime of that 2011 game was pretty miserable. Hungover as hell, we'd barely beaten Princeton, so not feeling all that confident to begin with. Not good times.

Was at a wedding in Palm Springs this weekend for a former college buddy. He was marrying an Indian girl, so Friday was a full blown Indian ceremony, complete with my boy riding in on a GD elephant. He's from Alabama too, so lots of Roll Tide going on. Everyone in Kurtas and Saris, great time.

Saturday at the regular wedding, saw another friend who I haven't seen in 15 years. He's a small time actor now, and was in one episode of Sunny. I asked him about it, and he said he's actually great friends with those guys. So, bottomline, I got to leave a drunken voicemail for Glenn Howerton. Highlight of the weekend.

Was pretty annoyed at having to be at a wedding during MM, but flew in Wednesday, so had all day Thursday to watch games at the pool bar, and fortunately, UK's schedule was favorable. Even got to watch the game on the plane on flight home, so not bad.

 

[wildcat1973_rivals160373]

All kinds of "exorcise the demons angles" in this Tourney.

- Louisville can exorcise the demons against Izzo in the Elite Eight.
- Wichita St. can get revenge on Kentucky for ruining their perfect season by ruining a perfect season.
- Wisconsin can get revenge on Kentucky in the Final Four for ruining their Final Four run last season.
- Kentucky can exorcise the demons of Miles Simon in Indianapolis of all places.
- Louisville can get revenge on Kentucky for 2012 and 2014.
- And finally, the whole Kentucky/Duke thing. Lots going on there.

 

[SAECATFAN]

Originally posted by _Chase_:
I think these are the two games we make the rest of the Country lean back in their chairs and softly mumble "oh, ****" to themselves.

I just think we left that mentality back in December somewhere. Maybe they got spooked by Ole Miss and A&M and decided to play more even-keeled or something. Hope you're right.

-Good call on exorcise. My bad.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Oh, and everyone worried about Cal being 2-8 vs Huggins, he's what 1-1 at UK? And on top of that 13-1 in his last 14 NCAAT games? 20-3 total at UK? And 6 of those W's are with UK being the lower seed right? I think Cal can coach tourney ball too. Controversial take, I know.

 

[IsRichieGonnaStart]

- Our gear is very much a consistent one. Sure there are times when we don't shoot it lights out but what makes us so good is that by the end of the game the other team is worn the touch out by us throwing so many bodies at you and then they typically fold.

Even if a Dakari or Lee don't play all that well from a numbers standpoint it all adds up and the other team's bigs usually get worn or frustrated by the constant pounding & bodies we through out there.

We also are a team that doesn't get too high or too low. That's very key, especially on a night when you aren't shooting it well, the other team is playing out of their mind or they are trying to get in your head by playing physical.

- Geese... You don't have any confidence in Andrew against a press? He's had 3 games in a row with no turnovers. Realize it all depends on the opponent but the man is playing solid ball right now and hasn't turned it over much all year.

 

[anthonys735]

Arizona owes Wisconsin for last year.

This post was edited on 3/23 10:23 AM by anthonys735

 

[CatManDoo_rivals376463]

I'm

and will remain so from now until the end of the season. I was ok the first two rounds, but ****'s on now. I will go into each game expecting to lose. I envy those that can sit back and be confident, but I can't do it, especially with us being undefeated. It's been 39 years since a team went wire to wire without losing, so the odds are against us. And with Bricker disappearing and the sluggish starts, we're vulnerable. No sir, I don't like it.

 

[anthonys735]

I don't know about the one gear stuff. When we are engaged it's pretty obvious. Specifically when Willy is. I will buy that our swings are near what we've seen in the past, 2010 specifically. They were unbeatable at hyper-John-Wall speed and pretty frustrating to maddening at cluster-touch speed.

I think that comes down to experience.

 

[BBdK]

Good article from Doyle about Brey, and how he went through the entire day & game without telling a soul, even his assistants, about his mother's passing.

Wow

Doyle

 

[Wrong]

Originally posted by anthonys735:
Arizona owes Kansas for last year.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Originally posted by SAECATFAN:

Originally posted by _Chase_:
I think these are the two games we make the rest of the Country lean back in their chairs and softly mumble "oh, ****" to themselves.

I just think we left that mentality back in December somewhere. Maybe they got spooked by Ole Miss and A&M and decided to play more even-keeled or something. Hope you're right.

It does seem like the team has been doing a Milton Berle lately. Just pulling out enough to win (you can google that story). I really wanted to throat stomp UC, but instead we basically quit with a minute left.

 

[BBdK]

Breaking on Twitter that Wilson Sporting Goods has acquired global brand, sales, and innovation rights to the Louisville Slugger Brand.

What's that all about?

 

[Wrong]

I wanted to MURDER Ellis on Saturday. Lots of bad things out of my mouth. And I swear to God if they let a pick like the one that happened to Trimble last night happen on Thursday I may explode.

 

[Geese Feeder]

Originally posted by IsRichieGonnaStart:

- Geese... You don't have any confidence in Andrew against a press? He's had 3 games in a row with no turnovers. Realize it all depends on the opponent but the man is playing solid ball right now and hasn't turned it over much all year.

It's the NCAA Tourney; I always minimize our strengths and pump up what our opponent does. The term 'cautiously optimistic' doesn't serve me justice.

I'm scared shitless, really. As CMD said, we're playing against the odds at this point and fighting history. Every team from here on out can knock us out if we don't watch it. I know our margin of error is greater than anyone else's but that isn't helping me sleep.

I'm sorry I'm not puffing out my chest right now. I'll wait until the confetti drops and they go live to RMK for his reaction until I act a badass. I just hope the kiddos don't act as complacent as some of you on GYERO.

This post was edited on 3/23 10:21 AM by Geese Feeder

 

[BlueKel_rivals210266]

*I'm as guilty as anyone with this, always looking at the other team and the problems they present us and worst case scenario

If you flip it around though from WVU's perspective: How do they deal with Towns? How do they deal with our size? Kentucky is not a team that turns it over - if you press and don't get back, lob city. Can they handle Kentucky's unrelenting size and depth? Who can matchup with Trey Lyles? Gonna leave AH and Booker open and hope for the best? Where is the scoring coming from?

*I sure wish Cal would have coached Dakari up to make quicker decisions. That slow dribble, let the double/triple come, and never pass...which ends up with a horrible shot or blocked shot or turnover dribbling in lane...wears me out.

Speaking of which, we rarely get forced into turnovers. Most of our turnovers come from one of three ways: An absolute knucklehead unforced turnover (stepping on sideline for no reason); a missed lob; a big doing the slow backdown dribble in the lane and getting it stolen.

*The fact that UofL had only 3 fouls with 3 minutes left in the game for both their games is absolutely ridiculous. A team that hacks constantly, and has weak bigs that cannot stop anyone with any talent.

*Most of you on Twitter saw it, but that Nancy Armour is an absolute see-you-in-tee. She wrote an article that essentially painted the UK win over Cincy as a perfect blueprint for beating Kentucky, and that UK's defense had nothing to do with Cincy's bad shooting. I questioned her on it, and she reiterated that it had nothing to do with UK's defense. Last night, Dana O'Neil tweeted that UofL going to the S16 was a "coaching marvel", and that Armour chick RT'd with a "THIS".

 

[anthonys735]

Originally posted by B.B.d.K.:

Breaking on Twitter that Wilson Sporting Goods has acquired global brand, sales, and innovation rights to the Louisville Slugger Brand.

What's that all about?

Family has been trying to sell it for a while.

 

[BlueKel_rivals210266]

Originally posted by wildcat1973:
All kinds of "exorcise the demons angles" in this Tourney.

- Louisville can exorcise the demons against Izzo in the Elite Eight.

UofL lost to them in 2009 Elite Eight. UofL beat them in 2012 in Sweet 16 when UofL was a #4 and Michigan State is a #1.

 

[IsRichieGonnaStart]

Hear ya, Geese. Not puffing my chest out ( KAYTS BY 50.. WE COULD BEAT THE SIXERS) but we've been a team that hasn't turned it over much all year and we're built to feast off a team that wants to press and try to run with us.

This will much more of a physical press than what we saw against Arkansas and I get that but think it still plays into our hands versus a grind out half court physical team.

My biggest thing is somehow/someway getting Bricker back to being the dude who was en fuego for about a 6 week stretch. We certainly don't rely heavily on the 3 and this team is smart enough to know where our bread is buttered in the paint but when we do hit 3's.. You can forget about it.

 

[BBdK]

How cocky is Gregg Marshall? Basically throwing shots at KU/Self postgame.

He's got a little Crean in him as well on the sideline, only a lot more swag, and a lot less weird.


I love that guy, he's beyond ready for the big time -- although he's got a shot at having a great team yet again next year if his studs return, as they should.

And that Wessel kid is a joy to watch. Talk about maximizing your 'talent'.




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This post was edited on 3/23 10:41 AM by B.B.d.K.

 

[wcc31]

- Woke up sicker than a dog yesterday. Still feel awful. Great timing with my busiest work week of the year and the NCAA.

- I hate playing these thuggish helter skelter ******** teams, but it's about time Big Blue started rolling.

 

[IsRichieGonnaStart]

We are night/day different from that 2010 team. Look, I loved that team for getting us "back" per say but that team was full of hot heads and was borderline emotionally unstable. It was a matter of time. Krebs is on my church league team and the stories he's told me
regarding Cal having to keep that group together are hysterical. Said Wall, Bledsoe and Cousins have all matured & turned out to be great fellas & he loves them but the circus act with those personalities behind the scenes was a daily struggle and he knew the wheels would come off eventually.

This group is so much more even keel and it starts with the twins.

 

[Btothe4th_rivals376930]

If Texas doesn't have Marshall as options 1,2 and 3 or theirs then they are DUMB. That's one of the best "jobs" in all of college ball. If they actually had someone competent they would get real scary, real fast.

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

I'm looking forward to playing a team again whose strategy doesn't involve turning every game into a GD grind-it-out, horseshit rugby match. When we actually get to play basketball against someone, we generally beat the hell out of them (KU, UNC, UCLA). Oddly enough, the further along we go in this thing, the more likely we are to crush someone, IMO.

 

[UKStoleMyFish]

* Love Marshall. Really hope he doesn't end up at IU.


* Not sure why people insist on arguing that the 2010 team was better than the 2012 team or this team. They weren't. Great individual talent, but the pieces didn't fit together nearly as well as the 2012 and 2015 teams. And they had a fatal flaw in that they weren't exceptional shooters. Also, you think Anthony Davis is losing to Devan Downey? Or that this current team is going 0 for 87 from three point range in the NCAA Tournament? Stop it.

That team was 27th in AdjO. For the sake of comparison...

2011 - 10th
2012 - 2nd
2013 - 42nd
2014 - 10th
2015 - 6th

I loved 'em for what they did, but they were in no way superior to 2012 or 2015.

 

[kramer318]

BUT but but... According to Gottlieb, the 2010 WVU victory over UK was one of the biggest upsets in NCAA history!

 

[ukalum01]

I only have two real concerns with WVU...
1) Their offensive rebounding (obviously) and
2) They are one of the few teams in the country that traps off a miss. They send all 5 to the offensive boards and if they don't get the rebound they immediately trap. Our bigs are gonna have to get the board, fight the slapping without swinging elbows and get the outlet to a ball handler quickly. Do that? Dunks.

 

[PuffyNips]

I'm going to be nervous as touch from here on out just because, but…

Huggy is 1-4 all-time vs UK

WVU lost 3 times to freaking Baylor

They are not nearly as good away from home

Athletic size gives them problems

 

[drxman1]

Saw an episode of that new show about the Swinger Neighborhood...bout what was expected. Nothing really exciting at all.

 

[Geese Feeder]

Originally posted by Wildcat Willy:


Huggy is 1-4 all-time vs UK

..and Huggy is 8-2 vs. Cal

STATS!!

 

[PuffyNips]

Hugs isn't coaching against Memphis or UMass this week.

 

[JHB4UK]

Not to turn this into Runyero or anything, but could I get a recommendation of a good place to go to in Louisville to be measured & fitted for running shoes? been doing the gym thing since 1st of the year, tired of it, ready to get outside and attempt regular jogging.

 

[Beavis606]

Originally posted by JHB4UK:
Not to turn this into Runyero or anything, but could I get a recommendation of a good place to go to in Louisville to be measured & fitted for running shoes? been doing the gym thing since 1st of the year, tired of it, ready to get outside and attempt regular jogging.

Everything you need to know about running

 

[wildcat1973_rivals160373]

Swags off of New Cut or Ken Combs near the Old Sears Building on Shelbyville.

 

[bradyjames_rivals]

I think we win by double digits. The big concern I have is getting outta the game without injury. They take hacking to a whole notha level.

 

[BBdK]

Not a fan of his style, and he isn't the shiny coach he once was, but Howland to MSU is a great get for them, pretty much a Home Run for freaking Mississippi St.

Dude has been to 3 Final 4s in the last decade, and is a proven recruiter. Can't imagine they can (or will) ever do any better than that. That's 2 nice gets for SECW teams over the past year...let's see what 'Bama can do.

 

[wildcat1973_rivals160373]

2 Primary Ballhandlers in 2010...

John Wall had 149 Turnovers.
Eric Bledsoe had 111 Turnovers.

By comparison with 2015

Andrew Harrison has 59 Turnovers..
Tyler Ulis has 38 Turnovers.


Quite simply, we're a much different and better team than 2010. Much more balanced. 2010 may have had more elite talent on the top end, but 1-9, it's not even close.


This post was edited on 3/23 12:11 PM by wildcat1973

 

[PuffyNips]

Wow. You want hatred? Go read 247Sports' Cincinnati board. Yikes.

Touch them. Feels good to hate the Bearcats again. Something has been missing these last several years that they have been irrelevant.

 

[SAECATFAN]

Originally posted by B.B.d.K.:

...let's see what 'Bama can do.

K.