I think Alabama and Florida could score 100. Auburn maybe. High scoring OT games are possible. I will go with both score and give up 100.
Will UK score 100 or give up 100 between now and selection Sunday?
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We looked awful against brown and almost scored 90. We're scoring 100 again but not confident we won't give up 100 also.
It was pretty bad in my estimation. You expect the team to look more like they know the offense and for things to look smoother as the year goes on a familiarity with the plays and players grow. We look like we’re regressing.
Struggling to understand this take. I thought we looked pretty good yesterday.
88pts, 50%/36%/78%, 18asst/5to (60% asst rate and 3/1+ asst/to, 14 steals on defense may have been season high
Not sure what you and others saw, but I didn't feel like we looked bad after first 3-5 minutes of game.
Everything you said.
Our internet genius coaches would nitpick the 27 Yankees.
This is supposed to be fun, but the misery runs deep on here.
GBB!
I don’t think you could be much more wrong. Outside of rebounding, we basically put on a clinic yesterday. 18/5 assist/turnover doesn’t happen to a team that’s “regressing.”
Just what I said in my previous post. Brown is obviously a pretty bad team, and after struggling in recent games I hoped to see a more fluid and connected offense and while we ended up with 18 assists, most of those came down the back stretch of the game.
Because much of the 1st half scoring was from turnovers. You confuse lack of perfection with poor play.
To each their own. All of the stats point to it being a solid performance, including beating spread by 8ish points.
There is no way UK is going to give up 100 points.
Not sure why everyone is on me for this take. Based on what we saw from the offense earlier in the year, that got us so excited, I just expected to see us be able to run our stuff against the better teams on the schedule too.
I mean if you’re happy with that performance yesterday and have no concerns where the offense is, then we simply have a different opinion.
I don't think anyone with a straight face can say UK's offensive performance against Brown was anywhere close to where it was when the season started.
6 SEC teams are currently in the top 12 in the country in scoring, including us. Have to think there will be at least a couple games where both teams cut loose and run, kind of like our game with Bama last year.
Credit where it’s deserved.
Brown played defense out their butts and it took a while to wear them down a little while knocking off a little 10 day rust. We did fine.
Brown played defense out their butts and it took a while to wear them down a little while knocking off a little 10 day rust. We did fine.
Yeah, some of us are pretty dumb. We should be bothered that we scored 88 instead of 100. I mean, why didn’t we shoot 60% instead of 50%?
Nice to see that there’s still lots to complain about as we flip the calendar into 2025.
Scores outside of major conference play are commonly higher than in-conference play. I don't see any of the SEC teams maintaining their out of conference scoring performances.
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Maybe try not to be so thin skinned in 2025. This is a message board, and it is the wrong place to be if you can't handle disagreement. We are simply posting opinions, and it shouldn't be taken personally if others don't agree with the opinions.
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It has nothing to do with being disappointed in a 30 pt win, it’s just disappointing to see us still struggling in half court offense against inferior teams. We saw how bad the offense looked against OSU with better athletes. The SEC is going to be a walk across the coals.
Again I give Pope a full pass for this season without much expectation at all, but when you see the team running the exciting and promised offense and then struggle to replicate that same early success, it is a bit disappointing.
That’s not what you do. “I don’t think anyone with a straight face” is you preemptively saying that contrary opinions to yours are stupid.
Just agreeing with you man! You’re smart and we’re stupid. Nothing to get excited about. Let’s see how much complaining we can do between now and March. I’m trying to help you rally the troops.
Haha ok. Thanks for the honest and totally “I’m a huge uk fan and only want the best” assessment of our pedestrian 88 point performance.
Pope doesn’t need a pass from you and nothing was disappointing.
We average 89 points (3rd in the country) and scored 88. Oh my! How could things possibly go so wrong!?!?!?
Unless your username is "we" instead of Aike, there is no "we" involved. Love how you are trying to pull others into this. My response is to you and not to the "we" you mentioned.
The way you process what you read is the way you process it. I am not going to spend a minute worrying about how you might interpret something that I post. You are free to draw whatever conclusions you draw to what I post. However, in the future if your interpretation isn't what I literally posted, I am not responding to it and certainly not going to defend it.
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Awesome. Thanks for your permission. I always knew you were one of the more magnanimous message board posters.
Scoring 100 (and giving up 100) is more about pace of the games vs actually doing well.
The Citadel under that one coach posted a bunch of scores in the upper 90s and 100s but no one would have mistaken them for a good offensive team.
I'd say it's probably unlikely to be honest. On both accounts.
There's only 5 teams in the SEC that play at a relatively fast pace. We are one of them. The other four are Alabama, UF, Arkansas and Vandy. However, outside of Vandy those other 3 teams are also pretty good on defense.
I would say given the pace the other teams play, it would be unlikely in those games.
The Citadel under that one coach posted a bunch of scores in the upper 90s and 100s but no one would have mistaken them for a good offensive team.
I'd say it's probably unlikely to be honest. On both accounts.
There's only 5 teams in the SEC that play at a relatively fast pace. We are one of them. The other four are Alabama, UF, Arkansas and Vandy. However, outside of Vandy those other 3 teams are also pretty good on defense.
I would say given the pace the other teams play, it would be unlikely in those games.
We did it 4 times last year. Gave up 100 twice.
I’d say we are more likely to score 100 than give up 100, but I’m kind of expecting both.
I think so too. Missouri and Vandy games could be like that too.
I’m sure we’ll see some games in the 70s that we thought would be shootouts, But I’ll be shocked if the dogs aren’t let loose a time or two.
Good point. Certainly possible I would say but I just think given the strength of the SEC this season compared to last, it might be a little bit tougher.
Who knows tho.
As long as we win I don't care if it's 100 or 60 we score IMO LOL.
At the beginning. I had to watch the game after it was over and this board was becoming kamikaze pilots so I just left the board alone until I could watch for myself. We didn't play bad but this board was acting like we didn't even deserve to be on the court which is ridiculous
You seem pretty offended there sir. Just looking at things like a coach would. Not satisfied just because we won big and did some good things. The components of the game that I’ve wanted to see run smoothly and machine like haven’t shown that level of precision and I’m disappointed in that, sorry to ruffle any feathers.
I just want to win, but I’d rather avoid the 60s. Much more likely to get into a rock fight coin flip in the 60s.
I do think it’s interesting philosophically when a coach decides to let it run vs. grind it out. I think teams like Missouri and Vandy might not think they can really stop us, and will opt to make offense their best defense.
Maybe teams like Florida and Bama will just feel like they are as good or better than us, and that running up and down the court is the way they want to play regardless of opponent.
Always makes me think back to the 2012 tournament, when Crean decided to run and we beat them 102-90 I think? Probably a dumb decision by him, but it made for a fun game.
You might be right but I just don't see that type of scoring occurring against in-conference teams. There are a lot of twinkie wrappers left in the wake of the SEC teams' scoring binges. I just don't see that type of freestyle scoring occurring in the conference considering conference wins are at a premium this year. There will be more of a judicious approach to scoring by all teams moving forward. It will be similar to what you see during sweet sixteen play.
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We could possibly score 100+ and give up 100+ in the same game.
Yeah, if both teams are hot, Bama could torch us but we can torch them. Both teams struggle on the defensive ends at times.
Damn bro, are you ******* stupid? He’s not throwing jabs lol.. You tha Nostradamus of this board? You’d argue with a tree lmao
I predicted that for Saturday. So bet the under.