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LineSkiCat14 said:

No, the question was a general ask of why posters were saying, and I quote "why the team stinks, the coach stinks, etc".. its an entire tone for some of you.

And I'll ask this a 2nd time.. if Texas gets a pass to "suck" without ONE of their best players, do we get the same treatment when we're without THREE of our top players? How come you discredit Texas ability when they're injured but not us? It's hypocritical. Every team is going to take a big step back for every rotational player they lose.. and we lost 3.

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You're not understanding. We lost the game in the last 3 minutes because guys got lazy and careless.

Texas sucks and we gave them the game. We are a shell of ourselves without Butler and Robinson and that's understandable, but it doesn't mean it's okay to play lazy and careless.

OP, you need to post about this dude on the Arkansas board...

CHAMPCAT11 said:

No one respects an idiot like you. Go slurp your daddy Cal.

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You don’t know very much
because all you do is name call!

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Oates will be UNC next coach

MbergCat said:

Shh, you'll get crucified like I did for daring to question Pope.

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Noah was missing a layup and then getting the ball stolen in crunch time. Played like a Morehead freshman.

BlueBomb said:

The three point shot revolutionized the game in the 80s. And now it’s ruining it.

Move it further away. Anything to bring back the low post, mid-range play that made the sport so popular.

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Leave it as is.

But if you do anything, you change the point values. Make 3s worth 4 and 2s worth 3. Freethrows stay 1 and for non shooting fouls you only get 2 FT but for shooting fouls you get the correct number based on what the shot is worth.

Changing the math is how you fix it. As it is now you only have to shoot 33% from 3 to equal 50% from 2. With the math change you’d have to shoot 38% from 3 as a team to make it worth gunning 3s all day

Eagles_Ball said:

Yes, I’m sure the entire field of 67 teams will be scared to play mid major all star team coached by a super nice dude that has never won a NCAAT game.

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Well when they have the 2 guards they have beaten some of the best teams in the sport

rolaid said:

I have several gripes - defensive rotations we give very little to zero help - our bigs after getting rebounds not throwing the ball to a guard or wing immediately they hold and hope they can bring it up them selves.

Blocking out on free throws lazy effort

Throwing the ball inbounds lots of times Willians acts like the ball is 400lb just rolls it at our guards feet

The hero passes from Garrison & Williams just make fundamental passes

Just frustrating because little things help win games like tonight

We are not a attention to detail team

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There are some issues that stand out. Amari was playing a great game until the last several minutes. Amari absolutely will not block out at the free throw lane. Watch the last several sets of FTs Texas took. He walks forward into the restricted arc like he’s just going to catch the ball out of the net. Assumes the free throw will be made with his hands way down.

The passing by the team can be so frustrating. Almost everyone at some point will just flip the ball lazily or hit their teammate below the waist.

If I were a guard and Amari threw me in bounds pass that made me pick it up off the floor it would piss me off. He does it a lot.

On offense our guys rarely run tight off of a screen.

For Pope to be such a numbers guy who gets deep into the weeds on certain aspects, his team sure seems to accept several things that could be cleaned up.

UK was in that game and could have easily won it despite all of the adversity but that is when 1-2 possessions can make the difference in stealing a win and getting a loss. With this many guys down, UK cannot afford to have frequent fundamental breakdowns. Shots are going to be missed. Guys are going to get taken off the bounce but damn block out on FTs.

WayneDougan said:

Not nearly as bad as losing to f'ing Oakland with two lottery picks.

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Not nearly as bad as losing to an apostle.

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BlueWorldOrder74 said:

Man, don’t act like you’ve never been the victim of emotion in a game thread.

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I have many times, I will not deny that for sure. But I’m not gonna act like the suck

My favorite Garrison play last night is when Alamar got beat baseline, and Garrison just stood and watched the Texas player lay it in off the glass and never attempted to challenge the shot

UKBB4Ever said:

Going from Fred Flintstone to Buzz Lightyear at Mich St?

Talk about a culture change!😆

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More like the football coach to the math teacher

Last night sucked, too many mistakes the last 4 minutes, Texas could have been called for more fouls than they were but that was actually the friendliest whistle we've gotten home or away in SEC play. At one point late we had been to the free throw line 10 more times but I stopped watching with a minute left so I'm not sure what the total ended up being.

Can't say enough how happy I am that Mark Pope is our coach this year. Not the coach a lot of us wanted but the one we needed. If it was still Cal, our schedule, both non conference and conference, is a lot tougher than Arkansas's. We'd be something like 10-14 now.

If it had been Hurley or Drew, I don't know what they could have put together on the fly. What Pope has done with a completely bare cupboard except for Perry coming in ranks up there with Jesus feeding the masses from five loaves and two fish. His love and enthusiasm just like we have for this program is something we really needed and wouldn't have gotten anywhere else. I also don't know being so well established and insulated at their current schools that they (and their spouses too) would handle push back from BBN if things didn't go well.

vhcat70 said:

People make mistakes & he's attempting to correct this one. What's your f-ing problem?

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It's not just mistakes. It's people's lives being ruined. It's people dying from lack of food or medicine from USAID. It's endangered lives because the people that protect us with nuclear weapons are fired.
It's veterans who have worked at the VA and then are fired because they happen to have switched positions in the last year.
It is asshole rich billionaires blowing up people's lives because they can.
All for a total of 1 day's worth of debt. 🤡
But guarantee you....tax cuts for Trump and Musk are coming that will blow the roof off our debt.

Medicare and SS are the root of our debt...not government workers.

The NBA powers that be got too obsessed with total points over the actual product about 10-20 years ago.

The game would be significantly better if they went back to a 30-35 sec shot clock

The 24 sec clock encourages pickup ball, jogging up and down the floor, one or 2 pass make a 1v1 move, 2 man game, or best case triangle offensive set due to limited time to run through a more complete offensive set where the ball rotates sides of the floor and there are series of screens and cutters that cycle until someone is open. They basically have 15-18 sec to run offense and usually try to get a shot before under 5 on the shot clock….so they essentially have 10 sec to find a shot. It’s all 1v1 and boring.

College beat the idea of shrinking the shot clock again a few years ago…I pray they never do as it emphasizes defense other than rim protection and on ball/ball screen. And it de-emphasizes running high quality offense while encouraging “make a play”

Not nearly as bad as losing to f'ing Oakland with two lottery picks.

I have no problems with Chandler because he gives effort at least.

I can’t say the same for Brea.

Eagles_Ball said:

He played 5 mins. Go back and find the score when he entered and the score when he left. And he was directly responsible for 2-3 lost possessions. Just because he wasn’t out there to shut the bed with the other guys in the last 5 mins doesn’t matter. Texas went on a run, in large part, because he wasn’t on the court. And it happens damned near every single time he steps on the court.

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Double down if you wish. Still an ignorant take to say he cost us that game, Maybe you should watch it again.
We were up 41-37 at the half but somehow, he cost us the game.

TTTblue24 said:

Basic passes and of course not blocking out on the ft line, injuries or not this is unacceptable. If you’re a D1 player, these type mistakes can’t happen. If we lose this game, this would be a terrible loss regardless of injuries. We’ve had control of this game on several occasions & made some real stupid plays.

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Not one single post from you after the Tennessee game regarding Pope or the team.
Get lost troll.

BlueBomb said:

The three point shot revolutionized the game in the 80s. And now it’s ruining it.

Move it further away. Anything to bring back the low post, mid-range play that made the sport so popular.

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Bring back fullbacks and the I. That’s what made the sport popular

Times change.

I'd call them average and unfortunately for them they joined the sec n a mega difficult season. They are a ncaa tournament team but probably 1 and done there.