If UK is a "Superbowl" for most of the teams, and I believe it is, and if we see teams like Vandy and Ole Miss and Texas a&m bring their best, why doesn't UK also bring its best every game. We are basically half way through the season at this point. I can see no reason why we shouldn't expect the best effort from UK's players for every game. I suppose that another thing to consider is the question of whether or not a "best effort" also brings about best results.
Why doesn't UK bring its A game every night?
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I don't understand anything in this post. Are you a human OP? Okay, well so are the olayers...they arent machines.
Because we depend a lot on freshman and sophomores, I think it is more difficult for younger players to have the same level of intensity every game. Not to say juniors and seniors can't have a bad game as well, but I think in general the upperclassmen tend to be a bit more dependable in regard to consistency.
You want the truth about why we don't bring our "A" game every night? You think you're entitled? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. Son we live in a world that has games and those games have to be played by fallable human beings. Who's going to play them? You? You ***** about UK not bringing its "A" game every night and you curse John Calipari. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what Cal knows -- that "C" games, while frustrating, probably are inevitable, and their existence while irritating and incomprehensible to you ARE INEVITABLE.
You don't want the truth cause deep down in places you only talk about on message boards, you KNOW "C" games can't be helped, you REALIZE they can't be helped. Cal uses words like teamwork, platoon, tweak. Cal uses these words as the backbone of the program he's built -- YOU USE THEM AS A PUNCH-LINE. He has neither the time, nor the inclination, to explain himself to a man who says he "supports" the players from the very team Cal coaches AND THEN QUESTIONS THE MANNER IN WHICH HE COACHES IT.
Cal would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, he suggests you pick up a clipboard and find your own team to coach -- either way CAL DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT. YOU. THINK. YOU. ARE. ENTITLED. TO.
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This post was edited on 1/21 3:25 PM by maverick1
Because they have been told how great they are and how bad the SEC is. Happens to everyone though. It's why upsets happen. Why IU beat UK in 2012. Why EKU smoked Miami, why Miami smoked Duke. It happens in sports and this team plays to their level a lot. Good news, when the bright lights come on so do they.
I know football coaches say in the course of a season, you can only hope to have your team at a peak level 2 or 3 times. Same sentiment holds in other sports, my guess.....
These guys are not robots. No way you can bring top emotion and effort every game. They were coming off 2 games where the energy was top notch. Vandy is known as a good, not great team. No matter what speech Coach Cal gave the team, it wasn't gonna work.
Not only is it hard to bring it every game but during a game when your up big there's a natural tendency to let up a bit. While you let up, the other team is obviously still trying to make the score respectable and so you see the losing team go on a run.
It happens in all sports to ALL TEAMS.
It happens in all sports to ALL TEAMS.
For all intensive purposes, they are human beings and have ups and downs like the rest of us are. Like Cal says, "They aren't robots." They are still great kids and hard workers.
So let's see... We are playing Vandy at home.... Do you think we are going to be as focused and want to make as big of a statement as much as when we play Kansas on a national stage? No... We aren't...
As much as you want us to get full effort and focus for all 40 games... It isn't going to happen... That's why being undefeated is extremely rare... But we still have a good shot at it... Just enjoy the ride and stop bitching.
As much as you want us to get full effort and focus for all 40 games... It isn't going to happen... That's why being undefeated is extremely rare... But we still have a good shot at it... Just enjoy the ride and stop bitching.
I'm guessing I know what the C stands for....
Dont feel like the Lone Ranger bro, I'm going on 25 yrs of Marital Bliss and as McCartney so poignantly penned, "I'm not half the man I used to be."
This reply says it about as good as you can say it. Our guys are so good that we have not played our best a few times, and we are still undefeated. It be like this sometimes.
If you watched last nights game we did play good defense in giving Vandy 26 at the half. In the 2nd half LaChance and Fisher-Davis were 7/11 from 3 and Fisher-Davis was 4/7 in the 2nd half and Vandy making those 3's after midway thru 2nd half we would go up 12 and they came back with 2 or 3 threes to cut the lead to 4 to 6 points. If we defend those 3's like we did most of the night and we hit a few more of our FT's 21/32 we could have beaten Vandy by 20-25 points last night. Another problem like Coach Cal said on Post-Game that there was way too many close shots by our bigs that were missed tonight. That is why Cal wanted to keep going inside with the advantage we had on Vandy and either we miss an easy layup or the shot gets blocked. I believe DJ was 3/10 fgs last night and all of those misses were close shots that Cal was talking about. Cal also said on Post-game we missed too many FT's too last night. We hit more FT's and If we hit those easy shots last night that I thought we did much better vs. Mizz and Bama on finishing close in by our bigs then we beat Vandy 20-25 points. It was just one of those games last night. We still get the 'W' and go 18-0 and head to South Carolina & Mizz for two road games and come home for 2 vs. UGA and Bama.
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Re: Why doesn't UK bring its A game every night?[/URL]rhstoess posted on 1/21/2015...
Its mental. The team hasnt developed the instinct of going into every game wanting to beat the living hell out of everyone yet (which the 2012 team more or less did)
Come to think of it, the 2012 team didn't blow out too many teams.
Its mental. The team hasnt developed the instinct of going into every game wanting to beat the living hell out of everyone yet (which the 2012 team more or less did)
Come to think of it, the 2012 team didn't blow out too many teams.