It's hard enough to win on the road with a healthy roster, let alone down 2 starters and playing 5 on 8. When we get Butler and Robinson back with a now healthy Carr, lookout.
Proud of the boys.
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I love this team. I just hope we get healthy enough for a real chance. I love our odds on a neutral court if we have all our guys.
Although it sucks right now, this definitely could all pay off if everyone can heal up by tournament time. Lotta guys have had a chance to improve and get experience.
Really hope they get healthy but for some reason I don't think everyone will to be affective.
They've been out so long I'm starting to wonder if that day will ever come.
I’m with you. I didn’t expect to win this one on the road down 2 starters but we hung in there most of the game. A lot of calls sure didn’t go our way but we fought.
Yep I was pleasantly surprised. One of the biggest “score didn’t reflect the actual game” examples I can remember
I would've liked to keep the margin inside 10.
Oweh being the worst offensive player on the floor tonight was why we weren't able to keep it closer.
Oweh being the worst offensive player on the floor tonight was why we weren't able to keep it closer.
I’m worried about Robinson getting back into a groove for the tourney but Butler’s game is distribution and defense and I think he’ll get back into that quickly
The officiating was the most questionable of any game we have been in. It has a tendency to affect your play on both ends .
Agreed , Guys played as hard as possible in general . Perry fought , Chandler fought , couple guys just had awful games .. Oweh wasnt able to do anything . I've seen improvements in our D . SUCKS to lose but we have to buy better athletes . Just have to , open the Big Blue Vault and spend whatever , I know , if we had the players that are out we are fine . just sucks overall. The Ref's are trash , pure garbage as well.
Tore my rotator cuff 15 years ago. Had the surgery. I still have issues from time to time raising my arm higher than my shoulder or lifting things up on higher shelves.
I tore my rotator cuff 25 years ago and I still have trouble with mine also.
A lot of frustrating moments but in general think there were some major positives.
We are even more dependent on the 3 without Butler. A team dependent on the 3 went on the road against a “desperate 1 seed”(if there is such a thing!) and made 5 3s the last 36 plus minutes of the game.
Moving on let’s get Oweh refocused, find a way to get something out of Garrison besides easy buckets, and find a way to get something out of Almonor if his shots aren’t falling. Oh and get healthy if possible!
We are even more dependent on the 3 without Butler. A team dependent on the 3 went on the road against a “desperate 1 seed”(if there is such a thing!) and made 5 3s the last 36 plus minutes of the game.
Moving on let’s get Oweh refocused, find a way to get something out of Garrison besides easy buckets, and find a way to get something out of Almonor if his shots aren’t falling. Oh and get healthy if possible!
Playing basketball with a bad shoulder is brutal. Probably worse than football. You know how many times you get your arm shoved back behind its apex?
I know. That wasn't a dig at him being hurt. I just didn't know if we ever heard the full extent of it.
February 12 - Kentucky guard Lamont Butler appeared to re-injure his left shoulder during the second half of the 15th-ranked Wildcats' home game against No. 5 Tennessee on Tuesday night.
Butler dove for a loose ball with 8:40 left in regulation and appeared to be in pain after landing on his left arm. He left the game, and Kentucky later said that he would not return.
Butler previously missed three games with a shoulder injury before returning Saturday to play in the Wildcats' 80-57 win over South Carolina.
I've had both rotator cuffs done.. Left one I had Dec '23.. Fell off a ladder July last year and retore it plus tore my meniscus on my left knee,, lol.. Had a resurgery Dec last year to repair rotator again and had planned on doing the knee end this mth but gonna wait until Dec.. I'd also had surgery on the same left knee back in '20,, can't remember what it was but they went in on the outside of it.. Think they said on the meniscus they'd go in on the inside plus the outside.. I don't know but its not been right since the first surgery 5 years ago.. Knee wants to give out and acts like it don't wanna lock in place when walking and it straightens out.. I'm a damn mess..
X2 right and left! I've said this before, I hate losing as much as anybody, but if Cow did anything, his coaching and so many loses, taught me to take a loss and move on, we have brighter days ahead!!!
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They need massive support from us right now. Heck, maybe we should give them an NIL bonus for playing through this.
Back last March if you told me, Cal would pull this stunt, leave and not one player returns, a new coach has to come in a bit late in the portal, create an entirely new roster from scratch, then we would lose 30% of our offense and our best one on one defender, literally never have a full roster except for 7 games, and still we are ranked most of the season in the top 25, win all those games against top 15 ranked teams, beat Duke and the Zags and right now looking at a possible 3 seed I would be thrilled to death.