Cal is miserable lol. Pissed too. Watch post game
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If he had made the Sweet Sixteen, he wouldn't have ridden off anywhere. Cal would have returned to UK.
He had no intention of leaving until he checked the pulse of BBN's passion for him as a coach and realized it had flatlined.
I first heard this on The Sopranos. It was a sign of the fall of Tony's power and ultimate demise.
Now, fittingly, I associate it with the end of Cal's era at Kentucky. There are many parallels. He was once powerful, but lost his hold on the power he had obtained.
Didn't watch it. Has he started with "they're just kids" yet? Like the other teams aren't playing kids.
I think he misplayed his hand as well. He met with Arky thinking he might could leverage something with Mitch. Whelp. That didn’t work.
All that and still had a chance. I don't miss that and all the other crap. Sounds like so many of our press conferences the past years. Thank God it's over.🤡
His job is to change young men lives. So far he has done an excellent job of changing Davis life. He went from being one of the portal's hottest players to one of it's worst.
Because Cal left Pope without any players, Cal can't even say Pope is winning with his players. Lol
This i agree with. I would defend my daddy until hell froze over.
The younger one was fine. The older one was the problem. And for me it wasn't about defending her dad at all. It was about politics and how much more important her opinion was than yours.
The thing that got me was that he made sure to point out that Florida is a top ten team. Lol… AND?? You were allegedly a top ten team as well, preseason. You brought in a ton of talent with your NIL backing. You yourself are compensated like you ought to have a top ten team. So why are you not even ranked, and winless in the league?
Watching Cal's press conference is like watching that ASPCA commercial with Sarah McLachlan singing in the background. Five seconds of cruelty and inhumanity is all I can stand...
This is from CBS Sports
Almonor, who is eighth on Kentucky in minutes, made as many 3-pointers (three) in a period of two minutes as the entire Arkansas team did in its 71-63 loss to No. 8 Florida on Saturday. As the Razorbacks fell to 0-3 in SEC play with another dud offensive showing, the Wildcats turned in an elite offensive performance on the road against a quality opponent.
Almonor, who is eighth on Kentucky in minutes, made as many 3-pointers (three) in a period of two minutes as the entire Arkansas team did in its 71-63 loss to No. 8 Florida on Saturday. As the Razorbacks fell to 0-3 in SEC play with another dud offensive showing, the Wildcats turned in an elite offensive performance on the road against a quality opponent.
Another Cal classic that always went unchecked
This layup stuff…a guy having to drive into endless defenders waiting on you at the rim ain’t your typical thing….he always acted like a shot at the rim was some easy thing even when shooting over defenders
This layup stuff…a guy having to drive into endless defenders waiting on you at the rim ain’t your typical thing….he always acted like a shot at the rim was some easy thing even when shooting over defenders
Just think, we could be dealing with THAT and Mark Stoops.
He and his legacy are slipping beneath the surface of the water and there is nothing he can do about it. He's starting to panic.
I really haven’t thought about it like this before. But I think Cals cognitive abilities might be slipping as he gets older. He was always awkward here doing them but I kind of feel bad after watching that clip. He’s completely toast.
After having seen so many Calipari press conferences, it's interesting to me to watch the same press conference playbook used again at Arkansas. Like Calipari stating some jumbled, broken sentence descriptions of a few plays and then asking "why would you do that?" - like he as coach had no responsibility for why it happened and keeps happening. And Calipari starting a sentence and then leaning in and raising his eyebrows to signal he's expecting the reporters to finish the sentence like they're his students and he's the professor. Then suggesting that he somehow, miraculously got his team to overcome all those mistakes and still be in a position to win if they had only made the shot. He has certainly mastered the art of talking a lot without saying anything substantive or insightful.
We made more 3's last night (16/32) than Arkansas has made in their three combined Conference games thus far (14/68). 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
He doesn’t finish speaking about one point before starting on another.
I was thinking about this yesterday ... if UK beats Arky, the fans should start doing the call the hogs just to rub it in cal's face.
IDK why he picked Arky and even less why Arky picked him.
Cal certainly can’t use the we are young excuse, he starts one Freshman, he has the number one portal player, a former number 1 recruit and at least 5 players that have been projected as first round picks at some point.
The squad when we didn’t have the bigs and ran up and down the floor was absolutely a FF contender. Then the bigs arrived, Cal was able to play his signature play though the center offense, put the plow on, and they were no longer a FF contender. He ruined that squad
In that press conference when talking about missing layups he goes “you know that’s still some AAU/High School stuff”. Ummm what? Johnelle Davis, the 5th year senior and Wagner and Thiero still doing HS stuff? 😂
Cal never talks strategy or breaks down the game analytically.
There's no point in him even having a press conference. He just says the same old tired lines over and over.
There's no point in him even having a press conference. He just says the same old tired lines over and over.
Personally, I pointed this out constantly the past 2-3 years.
I genuinely believe he’s not mentally competent anymore.
We were playing Welch's game and we were rolling. Then it seemed Cal had to make it about his style and it was curtains after that.
Calipari without John Robic at his side coaching his team for him, might be THE WORST coach in the SEC.
That’s exactly what happened. Calipari got a competent offensive guy in there and then quit listening to him
Kinda like Stoops and his OCs
Im not on twitter so I’ll take your word for it. As far as defending family, I am ok with it. Politics are the bane of our existence
Cal's not toast. He is just lost on who to blame for HIS failures as a coach.
Can't blame the fans. Bennies are still over here.
Can't blame the media. They are still kissing his @$$.
Can't blame NIL. Tyson fully funded HIS players.
Can't blame the AD. That dude was dumb enough to hire him.
Can't blame his assistants. He hand picked them.
Can't blame the "facilities". Arkansas has top notch facilities.
Can't blame the football coach. Pittman has stayed out of his way.
Arkansas has exposed Cal and he has no one to blame but himself. That will make you look sick, because he is sick.
Sick from making such a dumb decision to fire himself from the greatest basketball job on earth.
He is probably o k mentally, he is doing the same thing at Ark that he did here for the last several years. He is just going thru the motions and not coaching, he is coasting
Agree to disagree. He’s a public figure. It comes with the territory that you’ll be criticized and polarizing….and they are of the generation that understands internet comment sections aren’t for the faint of heart. It’s why 99% of celebrities don’t engage w comment sections bc you can’t police the internet. Even “non public spotlight” ppl get wrecked in comments if they start picking fights with a collective on the internet. They knew what they were doing. It wasn’t innocent “defending dad”
They were essentially just being trolls for engagement and the early “defenses” weren’t personal attacks but just stating the coaching shortcomings and his daughters began taking personal shots at the state, University, and fanbase. The reality is we saw the same attitude start coming out of Cal in the last 5-7 years which implies they were reiterating his behind closed doors feelings about the state, fanbase, university that he later started showing himself. Once that happened then they started getting tagged in any future debates and comments.
Ellen was always generous and classy. But the rest of that family are ego maniacs that have an elitist attitude towards anyone from a culture that isn’t their own
His pitch on the recruiting trail and style are not relevant anymore.
Times change.
Can’t pitch “feed the family…big NBA bucks anymore”
Everyone is going to make a little something. Especially at P2 level. Kids never were starving…that was all hyperbole. Best life you can live is a D1 P5 athlete. But I digress that’s a long winded rant for another thread and time.
His style is on the outs. Superior athlete run n gun ball was hot and worked for a bit, but it wore itself and the players that could do it out.
You need skill and position ball. In college especially. High school/AAU elite ranks can still do the athlete run n gun. NBA if you have a top 10-15 player/scorer…you can do it to a certain extent.
Overall most of college and even starting to creep into league it’s skilled, team, euro style ball.
Can’t win with young kids playing blacktop ball. League has been trending that way for a while just by nature of drafting global and expanding popularity footprint overseas.
Big skilled over seas players who’ve been playing with and against grown professionals in a pro team/pipe line since they were 12 are taking over and so is their style.
Cal’s pitch and style was applicable to only a very niche group to begin with and then the game evolved away from that even more.
Times change.
Can’t pitch “feed the family…big NBA bucks anymore”
Everyone is going to make a little something. Especially at P2 level. Kids never were starving…that was all hyperbole. Best life you can live is a D1 P5 athlete. But I digress that’s a long winded rant for another thread and time.
His style is on the outs. Superior athlete run n gun ball was hot and worked for a bit, but it wore itself and the players that could do it out.
You need skill and position ball. In college especially. High school/AAU elite ranks can still do the athlete run n gun. NBA if you have a top 10-15 player/scorer…you can do it to a certain extent.
Overall most of college and even starting to creep into league it’s skilled, team, euro style ball.
Can’t win with young kids playing blacktop ball. League has been trending that way for a while just by nature of drafting global and expanding popularity footprint overseas.
Big skilled over seas players who’ve been playing with and against grown professionals in a pro team/pipe line since they were 12 are taking over and so is their style.
Cal’s pitch and style was applicable to only a very niche group to begin with and then the game evolved away from that even more.
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