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Literally had no clue who Davion Mintz was. Apparently he played here
Listening to Pope’s press conference does not give me a lot of confidence he has any answers for the soft as Charmin defense. Even with Butler the defense was a big problem.
We don’t have the Jimmys and Joes. It’s just what it is. He cobbled this together in a month. We’ll be fine, but man this one stings.
Yep, our horse was high enough to KILL most people from the fall.
Still though; it doesn’t taint what this team has done so far.
Still though; it doesn’t taint what this team has done so far.
Well if you don’t want any part of a team we have ragged on all year and a coach we are happy left then that’s great.
Come March in Nashville I’m all for a rematch.
Pope lost that game and got away from some very easy adjustments that he should have gone with. He also got tied up in trying anything defensively at the cost of offense, except Noah who earned some damn playing time tonight.
I’ve seen Cal lose to too many teams less athletic than his to give a damn about that so yea I’m banking on everything that needed to go wrong not 100% going wrong again.
Come March in Nashville I’m all for a rematch.
Pope lost that game and got away from some very easy adjustments that he should have gone with. He also got tied up in trying anything defensively at the cost of offense, except Noah who earned some damn playing time tonight.
I’ve seen Cal lose to too many teams less athletic than his to give a damn about that so yea I’m banking on everything that needed to go wrong not 100% going wrong again.
Good Twitter can rag on the Mavs instead of us.
I can’t believe what I just watched. Our big man is doing post moves and pounding the ball into the paint all night trying to score tough 2s, while the opposing team is raining uncontested 3s on the other side. It’s like we have our old coach back.
AD and Kyrie are the posterchildren for load management. Paper mache brothers… good luck with that.
That was an all timer awful loss - and without butler, kriisa, or Carr a lot of joy from this season is waning
That could have easily gone a whole different direction after “of”
.Butler or not, get the defense fixed. It’s mostly effort and will and right now we don’t have it on that end.
Giving up 89 AT HOME to that team (take out the calipari aspect) is embarrassing. It wasn’t like Ark had one big run either… they scored at will all damn night.
They shouldn’t be sad they lost, they should be embarrassed.
We can’t keep relying on “all worldly” offense to win. We played good enough (minus the to’s) on offense to win at home.
Giving up 89 AT HOME to that team (take out the calipari aspect) is embarrassing. It wasn’t like Ark had one big run either… they scored at will all damn night.
They shouldn’t be sad they lost, they should be embarrassed.
We can’t keep relying on “all worldly” offense to win. We played good enough (minus the to’s) on offense to win at home.
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I feel like I've been bragging about how much smarter the new guy is than the old one (or really anybody) and they finally meet and during the conversation you find out for the first time that the new one can't pronounce "Massachusetts", " aluminum " , or "cinnamon" correctly to save their life. It's not the end of the world but it's humiliating.
- This team was built for November
-- I swore I wouldn't judge Pope on this season and I won't but in last night's game alone he came off as a buffoon
--- meh
-- I swore I wouldn't judge Pope on this season and I won't but in last night's game alone he came off as a buffoon
--- meh
Loss sucks beyond words, but I’m still 100% all in and happy to be where we are as a program. Thought Williams played his best game of the year, and I hope we continue to see it moving forward.
I understand Chandler playing last night because he was one of the few attempting to play defense, but someone at UK needs to get that guy a sports psychologist. He’s absolutely terrified on the offense end.
Noah not playing a second made absolutely no sense to me. None
It sure would be nice to have this team at full strength come March.
Load up on Texas Wednesday.
I understand Chandler playing last night because he was one of the few attempting to play defense, but someone at UK needs to get that guy a sports psychologist. He’s absolutely terrified on the offense end.
Noah not playing a second made absolutely no sense to me. None
It sure would be nice to have this team at full strength come March.
Load up on Texas Wednesday.
Our top two PGs (one of which is our best defender) are out. The rest of the team is made up of Oweh, Garrison, grad transfers who aren't good enough for the NBA, and unathletic freshman. We just beat UT at their place. I'm cutting Pope some slack here.
I don’t know why but this stings like a tournament loss. I mean I’m legit still pissed and sad and in a bad mood. I mean I don’t know how we’re going to do anything without Butler who is absolutely our most important player. Blahhh
Said that analytically, Arkansas is “better against the zone.”
I'll say this, 2012 was the most expensive national championship UK has ever won. We're still paying for it.
If Cal had hung 2 or 3+, as he should have, it wouldn't be so embarrassing for him to come back and kick our ***.
If Cal had hung 2 or 3+, as he should have, it wouldn't be so embarrassing for him to come back and kick our ***.
My son has a framed poster of Reed in his room and I’m contemplating replacing it with a Travis Perry one.
In a perfect world we win a title in two years with a lineup of Perry/TK/Jasper/Noah/Moreno.
In a perfect world we win a title in two years with a lineup of Perry/TK/Jasper/Noah/Moreno.
That was Cal's Super Bowl too. We'll be all right. I'm confident that Pope is a man who learns from his mistakes. He's learning a lot this year, especially how he needs to approach this league. We do need to get healthy though, and right quick!
That’s fine, but sometimes you have to trust your eyesight.
Chandler shows glimpses of being a good passer, too, but he needs to see some shots go in. I’m very encouraged, though, that he is apparently putting in work and embracing being a defender.
I'm hoping Chandler turns into a Jeff Sheppard type in the next couple years. He certainly has the tools I think.
Well “analytically” wasn’t working last night so hows about we try something different. I realize he really doesn’t have the horses but that’s the job of a good coach, to put the players you have in the best possible position. Unfortunately he got schooled by an old head last night.
I still think 80% of the problem last night was Arkansas shooting out of their ***. It was a one-off performance. Oh, well.
Reed's dead to me. Thanks for choking against Oakland, putting on a "Reed Sheppard Experience" to milk $250 / kid out of your fan base, and then announce you're going pro three days later. Enjoy being a D-League all-star. You and Mac McClung will have some epic battles there over the next 7 years.
Reed also sucked *** in the SECT. Eff off. Your mom is lame too.
Reed can blow me, everyone can blow me, Cal can shove it up his ***, we better not play like that ever again, brea better get his stupid **** together, butler fix your f*cking shoulder, kriisa needs to come back, WTF with your back starting PF. I mean GDit with last night
We got a bunch of Fredos for former players.
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Here is the thing about analytics and why we should have zoned last night. Cal sees it as a reason to play to the rim and not pass around and force threes.
So by his own default of stubbornness it would have pushed his team into not shooting as much and try to play at the rim.
I don’t understand why when you had Williams and Carr in that Williams was guarding Adou. Carr really wasn’t very good last night and is the one person the overly athletic Arkansas affected. So In that case go to that damn 1-3-1 with Garrison in the back and Williams in the middle and let Cal do what he historically does.
We can be better, and to that point I don’t think they can.
Period.
So by his own default of stubbornness it would have pushed his team into not shooting as much and try to play at the rim.
I don’t understand why when you had Williams and Carr in that Williams was guarding Adou. Carr really wasn’t very good last night and is the one person the overly athletic Arkansas affected. So In that case go to that damn 1-3-1 with Garrison in the back and Williams in the middle and let Cal do what he historically does.
We can be better, and to that point I don’t think they can.
Period.
Arkansas came in averaging 95.7 points per possession in SEC play. We gave up 122.6.
Lots of other factors, obviously some shooting variance, but this team basically doesn’t check.
Lots of other factors, obviously some shooting variance, but this team basically doesn’t check.
True, but also they had wide open looks all night long. We have to be better.