If Dakari was here, Cal would go big again and start Poythress at the 3. Dude needs to learn going small.
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I'm insane for lineup combinations. I hate when he has players out there that don't compliment each other or at least 3 players that can actually put the ball in the net. We ran some Hawkins, Matthews, Humphries, Poythress combos last night and I just can't understand that. I know he wants rebounding and D but who scores? Not really fair to Murray when he's got 3 guys that the defense doesn't have to pay attention to. Gotta have some combo of Ulis, Briscoe, Skal, Willis and Murray out there at all times.
However, as we saw last night Poythress guarding a beefy center is going to result in fouls. He and Lee are almost interchangeable and should probably not be out there much together.
Lee is easily the best big. Only competition is Skal who obviously was overrated. If Skal is indeed 1 and Done regardless, that is concerning. Worst motor ever. Not a lot of motivation there.
Other than Skal and Murray finding the light bulb, the season really may depend on Willis. We need another scorer and he can do that in a number of ways. I think he absolutely earned some minutes last night.
Again, you all are confusing motivation with being lost.
My main reason for optimism is that Skal HAS TO get better. I mean, he cant possibly play any worse. We know what we have with Lee and Poythress, neither are game changers. But if Skal can play up to even half of his potential then this team can be pretty good. If something finally clicks with the guy and he takes off, then the sky is the limit for this team.
Skal is going to be the difference between a good season and a great one. Until he steps up and plays like a top 5 pick that he was projected to be, this is a top 15-20 team.
You never want a lose but sometimes freshmen need to taste defeat and the wrath of BBN to get their heads right.
Our entire team was out of position the entire night. No blocking out. Simple offensive sets were resulting in complete breakdowns on D. Fundamentally we were bad which I did not expect from this group.
I was waiting for someone to ask me to direct my attention to the east end zone or get hit in the head with a beach ball.
2 seed chill?
Anyone notice the influx of terrible callers to Mags show lately? It's like Larry Glover Live has unleashed the hounds. I know he doesn't want to screen but seems like he could with how popular it is.
Back to lurk.
I was waiting for someone to ask me to direct my attention to the east end zone or get hit in the head with a beach ball.
2 seed chill?
Anyone notice the influx of terrible callers to Mags show lately? It's like Larry Glover Live has unleashed the hounds. I know he doesn't want to screen but seems like he could with how popular it is.
Back to lurk.
Matt Jones said he was getting rave reviews on Mulder during the summer...guess that dude is just a "break glass in case of emergency" body?
Willis will give you 10-15 minutes tops. He is lost on Defense and will get in foul trouble.
We sub too damn much, tbh. Murray hit 2 early, and Cal benched him...for that oop, I think...where the defender played it well, but Alex was not even thinking about receiving a pass, stopped running, etc... Murray should have taken the layup which the defender gave him, but oh well....Murray was visibly confused as to why he was taken out. He disappeared after that.
Briscoe was on a tear at one point. All we had going. Cal took him out. Wtf? Briscoe was visibly confused on the bench.
Run em in and out. Mistake? GTFO! Next! It doesn't make sense. It's like Cal is treating these games like practice....which I guess they are. We fans are crazy. Sigh.
He should have pointed Skal to the bench and told him to take notes all night as the big boys played. That was pathetic, but what's worse is the fact he showed no emotion. He looked like "what? Huh? This is for funsies right? What are y'all doing. Slow down. Chill".
Willis looks really good at times just for doing simple things like NOT JUMPING AT EVERY DAMN SHOT. Every.damn.time. 2-3 players fly in for the block. Get faked. Layup or offensive rebound. We're just basketball dumb down low. Poythress, you'd think he'd know better. That boy has no basketballs in his blood. Momma should have signed the football slip.
Briscoe was on a tear at one point. All we had going. Cal took him out. Wtf? Briscoe was visibly confused on the bench.
Run em in and out. Mistake? GTFO! Next! It doesn't make sense. It's like Cal is treating these games like practice....which I guess they are. We fans are crazy. Sigh.
He should have pointed Skal to the bench and told him to take notes all night as the big boys played. That was pathetic, but what's worse is the fact he showed no emotion. He looked like "what? Huh? This is for funsies right? What are y'all doing. Slow down. Chill".
Willis looks really good at times just for doing simple things like NOT JUMPING AT EVERY DAMN SHOT. Every.damn.time. 2-3 players fly in for the block. Get faked. Layup or offensive rebound. We're just basketball dumb down low. Poythress, you'd think he'd know better. That boy has no basketballs in his blood. Momma should have signed the football slip.
* Ugh. Flat, ****** performance from tip to horn.
* Murray has the James Young "I'm just going to throw the ball to the other team twice a game" gene. Drives me nuts.
* Ulis needs to find his shot. Now.
* Team simply needs to play hard all the time.
* Most of AP's fouls had nothing to do with guarding a big man. His 5th was when he got posterized by a guard. At least 3 were rebounding fouls.
* Was it just me or were both teams sliding around like they were on ice a lot last night?
* I start Ulis, Briscoe, Murray, Willis, Lee right now until Skal's balls drop.
* Poythress has to stay out of foul trouble, play D, hit the glass and get garbage points. That's it. No more jumpers.
* I like that Hawkins plays hard, but we are not good with him on the floor.
* Murray has the James Young "I'm just going to throw the ball to the other team twice a game" gene. Drives me nuts.
* Ulis needs to find his shot. Now.
* Team simply needs to play hard all the time.
* Most of AP's fouls had nothing to do with guarding a big man. His 5th was when he got posterized by a guard. At least 3 were rebounding fouls.
* Was it just me or were both teams sliding around like they were on ice a lot last night?
* I start Ulis, Briscoe, Murray, Willis, Lee right now until Skal's balls drop.
* Poythress has to stay out of foul trouble, play D, hit the glass and get garbage points. That's it. No more jumpers.
* I like that Hawkins plays hard, but we are not good with him on the floor.
False. Rebounding is hustle and being motivated. Skal is either really lazy or really scared. Im not sure whats worse. But he certainly doesnt play hard.
That pissed me off. Finally game out of the gate hot and gets an immediate yank for one bad pass. He wasn't the same after that, either.
For such a confident/cocky kid, he's not as 'tough' mentally as Cal thinks he is at this stage.
Considering our issues and Mulder's one specialty...he must be absolutely awful. Kid was a 1st team JUCO All American and best player on the #1 team in the country... I don't get it. High level JUCO kids make immediate impacts all over the country on good teams every year, and he's sitting down there with Jonny David.
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-Murray looks as if he starts all of his running on an invisible treadmill for a second. Dude is not quick on his feet when first getting the ball.
-Let me know what Skal Lapussyhair is good at again. He plays like he is on a 3 second delay.
-The offense stinks. It is becoming borderline Harlem Globetrotters when they run around passing to the different guards. Showy AF but teams can just sit back and let the shot clock run down.
-Let me know what Skal Lapussyhair is good at again. He plays like he is on a 3 second delay.
-The offense stinks. It is becoming borderline Harlem Globetrotters when they run around passing to the different guards. Showy AF but teams can just sit back and let the shot clock run down.
We've got bigs who can pick and pop but we never do it. Willis, Humphries, Skal and even Poythress can hit from 15-20'. If the guards can't hit a GD jump shot, then let the bigs stretch the defense and open up the lane. Until Ulis and Murray start hitting jumpers, the three guard lineup is not going to work. With the three guards teams will just clog driving lanes and it's a liability on defense and rebounding.
This may sound completely reactionary, but it seems like the big Aussie is picking things up faster than the Haitian. Maybe let him and Ulis/Murray play a little Knight/Harrellson action. I don't think Briscoe really needs the damned screen to get in the paint, but if Humphries can pull a defender away from the rim to help the other two it may open things up.
We have a lot of parts. We have a lot of very good parts. We have a few great parts. It's just figuring out what we do best. Finding guys who can make open jump shots is probably the easiest cure because that allows us to set up a press and try to force turnovers. We are only going to be an average half court defense team at best.
Like Anth, I am relieved in some way that they actually lost before reaching a big number. This team had no chance at 40-0 but if they had gotten to 15-0 or something then a few people would start beating their chest and the whole program would have been the subject of unmerciful ridicule from the media.
This may sound completely reactionary, but it seems like the big Aussie is picking things up faster than the Haitian. Maybe let him and Ulis/Murray play a little Knight/Harrellson action. I don't think Briscoe really needs the damned screen to get in the paint, but if Humphries can pull a defender away from the rim to help the other two it may open things up.
We have a lot of parts. We have a lot of very good parts. We have a few great parts. It's just figuring out what we do best. Finding guys who can make open jump shots is probably the easiest cure because that allows us to set up a press and try to force turnovers. We are only going to be an average half court defense team at best.
Like Anth, I am relieved in some way that they actually lost before reaching a big number. This team had no chance at 40-0 but if they had gotten to 15-0 or something then a few people would start beating their chest and the whole program would have been the subject of unmerciful ridicule from the media.
I was laughing to myself just trying to picture Cal with his 189 bpm TEMPER TANTRUM AHHHH!!!! talking to a 23bpm silent Canadian ninja assassin. Just chill a *little* bit. Maybe let Drake talk softly to him.
Really do feel for Poythress bc of his injury.
That being said his injury has nothing to do with the kid having ZERO basketball IQ. None. No sense of angles or understanding of how to play the game. Zero skill with the exception of once every blue moon deciding he wants to use his athleticism and finishing a dunk or tip jam. And that's not really skill juts raw athleticism.
Can't get over how bad he is. The dribble into the baseline and try to get a shot off behind the backboard deal is middle school stuff.
That being said his injury has nothing to do with the kid having ZERO basketball IQ. None. No sense of angles or understanding of how to play the game. Zero skill with the exception of once every blue moon deciding he wants to use his athleticism and finishing a dunk or tip jam. And that's not really skill juts raw athleticism.
Can't get over how bad he is. The dribble into the baseline and try to get a shot off behind the backboard deal is middle school stuff.
Said it last night, but Izak needs to put last night's tape of Welsh on a loop in his dorm. My God that kid was :fire:. That's *exactly* the game that Humphries should be striving for.
I thought Skal would be popping out and taking 15-footers, letting Lee/Poythress just crash and finish. That's how I'd figured this would go. Problem has been Ulis and Murray haven't hit the Js to open everything up and Cal's trying to develop Skal's nonexistent post game.
Big Aussie has been playing big boy ball for a while. I have no idea wtf Skal was doin in Haiti. Running PG against middle school talent, I assume. He doesn't appear to have basketball experience against players of similar skill.
On the rare occasions when the ball is actually whipping around on offense, it never fails to stick in Poythress' hands. If it's not a lob, a put back dunk, a FT or a wide open corner 3 he basically has absolutely no chance of scoring. We should never, ever run a play for him that requires him to do more than dunk a lob.
Let's wait until Draft Night before making any judgments about this team, folks.
How can you even make a joke like that on the day Scott Weiland died?
That's part of the problem... It's a lot more complicated to learn to be that kind of big man than it is to learn and be effective as a back to the basket power big man. It's like calculus vs. algebra. What Skal is trying to learn (from basically square one, I'm glad his handler was too busy hitting people up for money to shag some rebounds and throw out some orange cones, thanks jackass.) is spacing, screening, getting free for hooks and jump shots. It's a lot more complicated than "Use your big *** to get your man behind you, raise your hand, if that doesn't work clap, catch the ball, back that *** up and dunk." (And I'm not saying that's all that goes into being a good interior post player, but if you're talented, that's all it takes to be effective and not look lost.)
Combine that with the fact that Skal is obviously skilled from an individual standpoint but has no previous understanding of offense or defense, and you've got a kid who's not going to make that typical Calipari big man impact for a long time. Hopefully it starts clicking in March, but it might not.
Helluva singer, but he was a complete junkie for 25 years. Can't believe he made it this long. RIP.
Thought he died a long time ago tbh.
How can you not know Scott Weiland and be a kid of the 90s?
How can you not know Scott Weiland and be a kid of the 90s?
Honestly thought he was already dead. Didn't he come close recently?
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I'm amazed on a daily basis by just how stupid BBdK is. It's remarkable.
B/c I wasn't a grunge kid, pretty easy.
That kind of music sucks. :100points:
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