It’s safe to say after all that losing and early tournament losses, Kentucky has themselves a ball team! Can’t wait to watch this team in March, buckle up it’s going to be a fun ride!
Been a rough past three years
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They aren't scary good... yet. They can certainly get there. I see no reason they shouldn't be a 2 seed or higher, with a legit chance. Gotta tighten up that Def.
The defense is what it is, I’m sure it’ll improve but not drastically. When you have guys who can just outscore you on a nightly basis then they will be a hard team to beat
Losing as a 2 seed in round 1 to a 15 makes a good year a bad year. That’s the sport.
Really? Last time I checked we lost early in both tournaments with the two years of Oscar. The year before that we had Boston and that group and we seen how that ended
Compared to the rest of college basketball we are the team with the highest ceiling. It's been 9 years since we could say that.
Teams being scary good is a thing of the past IMO. Transfer portal changed the name of the game so the gap has tightened up between good teams and the top teams.
The last 3 years have been pathetic overall.
Haven't won anything that matters, 9 win season, lose to a 15 seed, etc.
This year's team has potential but we will see n March. Do they win anything that matters? Sec regular season, sec tourney, ncaa final four appearance or the national title? We will see
Haven't won anything that matters, 9 win season, lose to a 15 seed, etc.
This year's team has potential but we will see n March. Do they win anything that matters? Sec regular season, sec tourney, ncaa final four appearance or the national title? We will see
I know people may think this^. but I think the last 2 or 3 rounds of the tourney come down to half-court rockfights. But I thought today we were pretty hard-nosed at the end. A positive sign.
9 years? You forgetting fox monk bam? Herro? 2 years ago where we beat 2 ff teams and the champion by 20-30, one being on their home court?
I almost agree. I still think the Fox and Monk team was the best team in the country that season.
It’s actually been a really rough stretch since Covid. There isn’t as much margin for error as their once was. Not as much grace to be given.
Fun season so far though
I think this team will be a decent defensive team by season’s end, not great, though. It might end up being their stumbling block. The most positive thing to me is that this team is talented and fun to watch (first time since 2017 that Cal hasn’t reverted to plow horse offense). I’m a diehard, but there have been times over the past few years that UK has been hard to watch. Not so this year.
Your standards are small.
9-16
First round loss
Second round loss
No wins totals exceeding 26 wins
36 total losses.
A 16 loss season.
A 12 loss season.
By real Kentucky standards - not the pretend ones you've created in your individual mind - that's three bad years.
Not even Tubby Smith was that bad here.
I wasn't disagreeing with you - I was disagreeing with the guy who said "1 year, not 3" ... I think we can all reasonably land on 2 of the last 3 being a failure.
Exactly buddy some people just don’t get it. The person that you’re replying to has to be a Calipari family member.
If they don't tighten up the defense they'll lose a KSU or WVU like game in the tourney like we always do. One where the offense stalls but they can't rely on the defense to bail them out. Thats how they lost to UNC-W a few weeks ago.
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