Personnel/ Coaching

[JonathanW]

Don’t think this will happen. But unless this team finds Defense fast, I see only 3 ways to play this group.

1) continue the mis-matching of lineups, which I think most of us agree Cal is not good at

2) narrow down to your best 7 and just go with them. But only the 3 R’s are obvious choices. Maybe Theiro too.

3) go to a platoon, but not 20/20, something like 28/12, taking the thinking out of the equation for Cal on who to play when. Just have to decide what 2 play with the 3 R’s , probably Theiro and “?”

 

[the nail at the foul line]

A couple of guys that were top rated coming out of high school need to be very situational and only get less than 5 minutes most games.

 

[JonathanW]

A couple of guys that were top rated coming out of high school need to be very situational and only get less than 5 minutes most games.

In a 28/12 platoon, I see those 2 battling it out with Burks and Hart for the last 2 spots in the 12min group.

 

[UKortho]

I’ll add that I believe Cal does zero advance scouting of other teams. We seem unprepared to put it mildly. Mark Few probably knew us better than Cal does.

 

[The_Answer1313]

We should just run it back to how we played at the beginning of the season and go small.

I mean if our bigs are incapable of rebounding what use are they anyways. We'll get murdered on the boards but we have 3 seven footers and gave up 18 offensive rebounds anyways.

Any lineup where I don't have to watch Bradshaw try to defend or watch Ugo try and secure a rebound I'm good with.

 

[CatPhight]

It's been said John Robic was the brains behind Slouch Cal's success...notice when he was unceremoniously exiled from the program, we slid straight into a pit toilet.

Robic was the guy who scouted teams and came up with strategy and game plans...and now we have none.

Apparent karma for Cal shitting on a distraught man after losing his daughter.

 

[ukfan1622]

2) narrow down to your best 7 and just go with them. But only the 3 R’s are obvious choices. Maybe Theiro too.

That is so obviously our 4 best players and everybody at all familiar with UK basketball knows it. Yet they probably didn't share the floor a second last night. I know the 3 Rs played together only 1.5 minutes in the first half. And Edwards played 29 minutes with his normal production or slightly better(7 pts 5 boards). No other coach would choose to play their 10th or 11th best player 29 minutes and his at worst 3rd best 18 minutes in a close game where foul trouble or injury was not a factor. Our coach has lost his mind; I no longer have any doubts.

 

[crawfords corner]

Get Mitchell rested.

Stop playing Ivisic, Onyenso, Edwards and Bradshaw except to steal rest for Mitchell and Thiero around television time outs. Heck, I would probably even sub-in Burks before any of those 4. I like his energy and athletic ability.

Start Dillingham, Sheppard, Reeves, Thiero, Mitchell

Bring DJ and Burks off the bench.

Dilly can be a bit of a wildcard, but overall I like the between the ears ability of those 5 players to make up for some shortcomings.

 

[The_Answer1313]

The biggest problem is I've yet to see any lineup that is capable of holding their own defensively.

 

[ukfan1622]

The only thing about your post I'd do different would be to give Ivisic some of the backup minutes. I know he hasn't been good on defense but on offense he's been one of our best players and he probably leads the team in rebounds per minute. Of the 3 seven footers he's the one who still might get a little better this year with more playing time, since he's played so little and not been healthy long.

 

[Aike]

In a 28/12 platoon, I see those 2 battling it out with Burks and Hart for the last 2 spots in the 12min group.

You think Hart might compete for 12 minutes a night?

 

[The_Answer1313]

I almost forgot that Hart was even on this team lol