LOUISVILLE VS VIRGINIA TECH GAME THREAD
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This team looks like a tournament team on the road. They're playing great defense and shooting well. It's all about confidence with players.
If we can just get it at the Yum center. Maybe we have those shooters who don't shoot well in big arenas with expansive backgrounds?
If we can just get it at the Yum center. Maybe we have those shooters who don't shoot well in big arenas with expansive backgrounds?
James just gives up on a loose ball and VT gets it. Lack of hustle
The hump this program is trying get over has got to be the biggest hump in history. They just don't get the good bounces and whistles at crunch time.
They played hard and played more as a team than any home game this year. They competed and lost a close game on the road. This is a normal thing experienced by every coach who's been here, but it's so much tougher with everything the program has gone through.
They played hard and played more as a team than any home game this year. They competed and lost a close game on the road. This is a normal thing experienced by every coach who's been here, but it's so much tougher with everything the program has gone through.
we played well. BHH is getting good. very physical. full court press looked good also. out of bounds plays and 50-50 balls were the difference.
Definitely more competitive play. This game’s probably a 20-point blowout last year…
If BHH can consistently contribute like that it'll be huge. Having a post scoring presence is something Cards have been missing
A very solid performance especially in the 1st half defensively. The Cards did a really good job of running VT off the 3 point line and staying connected defensively. Really good ball movement as well in 1st half that led to good shot selection.
A very good start to the game and a very poor start to the 2nd half. The Cards responded to VT’s run and stayed competitive in the 2nd half.
Agree about the 50/50 balls. VT won some key 50/50 balls in the 2nd half especially down the stretch.
It’s still not a win but a solid performance on the road against a team coming off of 2 bad losses.
A very good start to the game and a very poor start to the 2nd half. The Cards responded to VT’s run and stayed competitive in the 2nd half.
Agree about the 50/50 balls. VT won some key 50/50 balls in the 2nd half especially down the stretch.
It’s still not a win but a solid performance on the road against a team coming off of 2 bad losses.
Louisville basketball hasn't been lucky with 50/50 balls for years. We're one of the most unfortunate teams ever at corralling the loose ball. Doesn't matter if we're a good team or bad. It's the Twilight Zone when it comes to loose balls.
Looking at the larger landscape of college basketball - Unfortunately (maybe fortunately), there are a lot of lousy and generic basketball teams this year.
We are going to find out none of the so called top teams are “safe” this year. Actually makes it even sadder.
We are going to find out none of the so called top teams are “safe” this year. Actually makes it even sadder.
I get so tired of this comment. What's happened before has no bearing on what's happening now. What "IS" happening now is, we have a coach, that can't coach.. Rick would have this team in the 2nd weekend of the tournament, hell even Mack probably would. No coach or player on this team has "gone through" anything at UofL except for the last 2 years and that's all been self-inflicted..
we have to get our hands straight up on defense. the refs are blowing the whistle on minor contact.
That's the way you want to see it because it simplifies your problem.
THAT problem didn't start in March of last year when Payne was hired. Attendance was 13,242 per game in 2021-22, which is 60% of capacity. The FY2022 men's basketball was $6.9 million, down 27% from its all-time high four years earlier. Our won-lost record the year before Payne arrived was 13-19.
Compared to the past, this program was a dumpster fire when Payne walked in the door. It's convenient that you want to blame him 100% for the problem and not the people you supported in charge of athletics. That's not reality, it just helps you sleep at night...
You're talking about finances, I'm talking about on the court. Those finance problems have ZERO to do with on court issues except that Payne sucks which is killing attendance..
Money has everything to do with performance. Only people in denial don’t see the connection.
And you conveniently looked past the attendance and won-lost (mostly lost) record I cited pre Kenny Payne.
The people you hold on high brought you this mess. Admit it…
That response is a total fail. That would be like saying Kenny Payne would be winning games right now if we had more money in the bank.
As usual every point you "try" to make leads right back to the same place. You have to live everyday of your life knowing that the former regime is never going to be in charge anymore while I really don't care. Right now Heird is doing a good job and how he handles the Kenny Payne situation will determine if I keep feeling that way..
As usual every point you "try" to make leads right back to the same place. You have to live everyday of your life knowing that the former regime is never going to be in charge anymore while I really don't care. Right now Heird is doing a good job and how he handles the Kenny Payne situation will determine if I keep feeling that way..
This radio station keeps playing the same old song. Horrible lyrics and you can’t dance to it. People are tired of hearing it.
I'm talking about the CURRENT regime that you're defending.
Heird's done nothing to help basketball. He's a holdover from people who took an axe to the men's program, and he's doing nothing to change that. He's an empty suit supervising the demise of a once proud program. It's a tragedy...
Don't veer off topic (that you brought up). You're saying if we had more money we would be winning more. That's a total fail comment and you can't defend it..