If there are other coaches out there who put less effort into actually coaching their teams then the ranks of coaching have really gone down the tubes. I’ve watched plenty of basketball and I’ve never seen another team run the “throw to the extended arm play” from underneath their own basket 10 times a game as we do. I have seen our opponents score numerous times a game on layups and dunks however. That is just one isolated segment during the course of the game where we are consistently worse than our opponents.
Cal - Once Again, a Hostage!
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I’m going to say that the staff knowing anything is Speculation as well. So looks like we are all circling in the Cal Tidy Bowl Ship.
no way.............
didn't ccc say years ago that he would never be held hostage again, yet it happens every year, Sharpe played him like a fiddle, Wheeler did last year & every spring most other teams have their roster set, yet UK is always in scramble mode and winds up with just bodies
Skills and qualities that will serve him well as a politician someday. Tell people what they want to hear all the while enriching themselves with backroom deals.
I am at the same level of passion for this program.
Someone mentioned we had to wait on Murray to decide, but my thought is, okay, we're waiting on decisions, but what decision still needs to be made that will have an impact on next year like Murray? Had Murray not come, we were in dire straits.
Your head is at least 10' deep in the sand.
Your screenname says CatsfanIL, but it would be more fitting if you replaced the 't' with an 'L'.
I'm dying to know how long it took you to come up with that. I'm guessing around 95 minutes.
Anyhow, other than your aforementioned terrible attempt at humor, do you have anything of substance to add, such as an "insider" irrefutably saying UK backed off HD, or nah?
95 minutes to come up with my reply after reading the most ridiculous crap I have read in weeks??? Yeah, right.
I knew what I was going to tell you as soon as I read your first sentence.
I love how you Cal fans are coming out of the woodwork now that enough time has gone by after his latest coaching failure.
You Cal fanboy's are such a pathetic joke. How a grown ass man can be so obsessed with another individual, is so odd to me.
You mean, like how you're obsessed with criticizing him? Like how you're obsessed with going after "Cal fanboys" on a message board?
I've had numerous posts on here blaming Cal for certain things, discussing his many flaws. But don't let facts get in your way of being a dipshit
One of the reasons I give Kentucky media so little credit/respect is because for years they've stayed away from asking Cal about out-of-bounds plays and scouting. You're right, our OBU sets are non-existent, and we're definitely likely to give up buckets each game to opposing OBU
I don't get why Cal does that. My guess, he thinks it's more important to focus on other aspects of the game - transition D, half-court D, half-court offensive execution, etc.
The NCAA quite literally mandates how many hours you can practice per week during the season, so you can't address EVERYTHING in practice. But clearly a flawed part of Cal's system
Basic fundamentals have cost him dearly, but he's too stubborn to change because his fragile ego would know that would be admitting he was wrong...which is an attribute not found in the Calipari vocabulary.
If that were the only flaw in Cals system I would hardly complain about it. It would still be annoying especially in close games where every possession counts but hardly anything to dwell on. I honestly have no clue what cal spends his practice time on. I would love someone in the media to ask. We know it’s not multiple defensive sets, out of bounds plays (offense or defense), free throw shooting, setting solid screens, scouting reports of opponents (if you believe cal). I mean maybe our game plan on offensive but how many times in recent years do we look totally lost on the offensive end during games. Rebounding (via Oscar) has been the only thing you can count on going into games these past two years. Everything else has been a crap shoot which shouldn’t be the case with solid consistent practices in place.
I've been to at least 1 practice per season for the last 10 years (minus the Covid season). I mean it's pretty standard: quite a bit of individual skill, individual breakdown drills (for their sets/schemes), transition defense quite a bit, then lots of progressive drills: 1 on 1, into 2 on 2, into 3 on 3, then into what most of us know as "shell". Then what he refers to as structured scrimmaging - 5 on 5 live play, but will stop play for teaching moments.
He needs to structure a match up zone for when he's having his ass handed to him on a platter at the rim.
Pick and roll party every night against pretty much any talented team of capable ball handlers. To Cal, pack it in means a fourth trip to the buffet line.
Inbounds plays from the 80's that would barely past muster at the high school level.
He's as modern as a cotton gin.
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