ESPNU replaying 2010 Miss St game..

[2Dope15]

Not sure if anyone else noticed but they are replaying the Miss St game 2010 and 2009 UConn game right now.

 

[Cardsstink]

 

[Cantwaitfor8]

I'm watching. That team was so special. They had a great season but more importantly they told the NCAA UK was back!

 

[jrm693]

Not sure if anyone else noticed but they are replaying the Miss St game 2010 and 2009 UConn game right now.

My son and I attended that game the crowd really got ugly at the end, they were throwing coins at the Ky players and threw a water bottle that missed Ramon Harris nose by inches, we the took 3 cussings on the way to our truck. I told him to keep his head down and keep walking. Finally one big man spoke up and said don't judge all our fans by those, I thanked him and kept moving. Calipari looks 20 years younger then.

 

[AllCats22]

The top end talent of Wall, Bledsoe, and Cousins was amazing. Then you have PPat, Liggins, Orton and don't forget about Josh and Darius who don't even see the court.

 

[Opinpi]

I'm nervous....lets go cats!!!!

 

[Mojocat]

I've said here before how much I grew to like Fox this year. Great kid, great player. I've seen some compare him in some ways to John Wall. As much as I like Fox, he's no Wall, and that's no slam. It's easy to forget how special Wall was. In this game, Shulman just said that Roy Williams said Wall was the best point guard to come into the college game since Jason Kidd 15 years earlier. They interviewed Calhoun, who said Wall was ahead of Derrick Rose (and I think this was the year Rose would be MVP of the NBA at 21) as a frost and was as good as anyone entering the college game in some time.

I love Fox. Tyler Ullis is one of my favorite Cats ever. But as far as point guards go, Wall is in a class by himself.

 

[Rupp'sRunt]

Did we win?

 

[2Dope15]

I know a lot of people will always joke around and say we need shooters for next yr. But it is absolutely true. If that team had another really good shooter, we would have easily won a NC. All that talent and our outside shooting killed us in the end.

 

[Rupp'sRunt]

I know a lot of people will always joke around and say we need shooters for next yr. But it is absolutely true. If that team had another really good shooter, we would have easily won a NC. All that talent and our outside shooting killed us in the end.

Baker is a shooter

 

[Cowtown Cat]

I know a lot of people will always joke around and say we need shooters for next yr. But it is absolutely true. If that team had another really good shooter, we would have easily won a NC. All that talent and our outside shooting killed us in the end.

Needed that Jodie guy.

 

[king of cali]

Dodson was supposed to be a shooter.

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

I know a lot of people will always joke around and say we need shooters for next yr. But it is absolutely true. If that team had another really good shooter, we would have easily won a NC. All that talent and our outside shooting killed us in the end.

The problem with this is ppl will always say this unless we win the championship. Or even if we have shooters if they don't shoot 100% or the team has one bad game they'll claim we don't have shooters. It's a dumb stance. That 2010 team won 35 games....35! That team averaged 80+ a game. There were several teams with "snipers" everyone obsessed over that didn't score that much. The reality is you shouldn't have to live and die and bank your entire season on if some guy is hitting or not. It's not like Calipari goes, oh this guy can't shoot, let's get him...or to my original statement he can pick a guy up bc he can shoot, but that doesn't mean he won't have an off game, or can he do anything else that doesn't negate the points he scored like letting his man score at will. But what you can control...your defense and rebounding. If other teams can't score and don't get many second chances..you don't have to pray every shot little Johnny throws up goes in.

That WVU game..yeah UK didn't shoot well, it's easy to say oh man we should have re suited Donny who never misses when he shoots on the side of daddy's barn...but guess what, it wasn't their norm...you also know what wasn't the norm...wvu scoring every point in the first half on 3's. Were they a good three point shooting team...no. They just happened to that night. That's why the best team doesn't always win and why they play a tournament. Sure, it would have been nice to have a doron lamb on the 2010 team, or Jodie meeks,but that alone isn't winning or losing games and it will really blow your minds when you see they could have won in 2010 without him. UNC just won a national championship shooting 14% from 3 in the championship game.

 

[UKCATSFREAK]

I know a lot of people will always joke around and say we need shooters for next yr. But it is absolutely true. If that team had another really good shooter, we would have easily won a NC. All that talent and our outside shooting killed us in the end.

A really cold night ended our season. It wasn't the lack of shooters. We had enough on that team to win the championship easily. For some reason, we decided to jack up a bunch of threes in that game instead of playing to our strengths. I hardly ever criticize Cal, I don't think he's perfect by any means but I think he gets a hellava lot more right than he gets wrong but in this instance, I wish he wouldve demanded we stop shooting the three that game. Call a TO and get them to stop shooting threes! If they didn't, put them on the bench. Hell, our bench players couldve beaten that WVU team. We played right into to Huggins' hands that game. We did exact what he wanted us to do. WVU didn't even score a 2 point shot in the 1st half and we still got beat. That was just a piss poor performance but we had a good enough team to win the tournament for sure.

 

[YaySports]

To me, as a Freshman at UK during that time, that may be the most devastating loss I've watched as a UK fan. Watching the WVU player (Butler maybe?) do the John Wall after they beat us was nauseating. We were far and away the best team that year and its hard to watch the team miss open shots most of us would make. Still remember that loss like it was yesterday.

 

[Cardsstink]

My son and I attended that game the crowd really got ugly at the end, they were throwing coins at the Ky players and threw a water bottle that missed Ramon Harris nose by inches, we the took 3 cussings on the way to our truck. I told him to keep his head down and keep walking. Finally one big man spoke up and said don't judge all our fans by those, I thanked him and kept moving. Calipari looks 20 years younger then.

Belly/Body fat will age you quickly as you get older.

 

[The_Godfather]

A really cold night ended our season. It wasn't the lack of shooters. We had enough on that team to win the championship easily. For some reason, we decided to jack up a bunch of threes in that game instead of playing to our strengths. I hardly ever criticize Cal, I don't think he's perfect by any means but I think he gets a hellava lot more right than he gets wrong but in this instance, I wish he wouldve demanded we stop shooting the three that game. Call a TO and get them to stop shooting threes! If they didn't, put them on the bench. Hell, our bench players couldve beaten that WVU team. We played right into to Huggins' hands that game. We did exact what he wanted us to do. WVU didn't even score a 2 point shot in the 1st half and we still got beat. That was just a piss poor performance but we had a good enough team to win the tournament for sure.

Exactly true.

WVU was not a good perimeter shooting team and somehow managed to make like 6 threes in a row and UK started to panic.

I have little doubt that the coaches told the team to dare WVU to shoot and they lost composure when WVU started making a ton of them.

And it didn't help that Wall and Bledsoe combined to miss 9 free throws.

 

[YourPublicEnemy]

Well, in Cal's second book (at UK) he acknowledged that the 2009-2010 team was missing an outside shooter and that ended up costing them. Then he mentioned that one nobody going off on us.

 

[Ron Mehico]

Man Cal literally looked and sounded 20 years younger. God what have we done to that poor guy, he looks like he's been the president of the US the last 8 years.

Also, holy cow I forgot how good that team was. Wall was a blur - a literal blur, good lord I forgot how ridiculously fast he was.

 

[HoptownCat93]

I still watch and imagine "what if" Jodie would have stayed...

 

[BostonCat2001]

watching this game is precisely whats wrong with college basketball.

• vernardo/stansbury acting like fools during the game and never get a T. yet cal has been tossed for less
• the amount of terrible fouls called against uk, cousins on the bench because of it, just because he is bigger is a joke.
• just another sec team that makes tons of junk shots.

 

[Mojocat]

A really cold night ended our season. It wasn't the lack of shooters. We had enough on that team to win the championship easily. For some reason, we decided to jack up a bunch of threes in that game instead of playing to our strengths. I hardly ever criticize Cal, I don't think he's perfect by any means but I think he gets a hellava lot more right than he gets wrong but in this instance, I wish he wouldve demanded we stop shooting the three that game. Call a TO and get them to stop shooting threes! If they didn't, put them on the bench. Hell, our bench players couldve beaten that WVU team. We played right into to Huggins' hands that game. We did exact what he wanted us to do. WVU didn't even score a 2 point shot in the 1st half and we still got beat. That was just a piss poor performance but we had a good enough team to win the tournament for sure.

I get that, and part of me agrees. But part of me wants to point out they had a pretty good coach, too, a guy who's won 700+ games. And he had a pretty good team, and he realized the way to contend with our size and athleticism was to get us to shoot 3s and so he devised a game plan to bait us into doing that. Had we faced a 1-3-1 all year? I doubt it. It's kind of a disappearing zone. So he baits us, and we don't have the experience to not fall for it. It's not, I don't think, simply a matter of calling a TO and saying "no more 3s!!!" - because that's all that was there to be had, at least on the surface. Just inexperience and not being patient enough to work the ball until something else was open - and if WVa had much experience running that particular D, maybe nothing does. I also recall Cal saying the team had a particularly bad practice the day before, its first bad practice of the season, and recall Jones saying something wasn't right, that they were openly bickering in warmups and at the half - first time he'd seen that all year. So, to me, the summary of that sad ending isn't "This is what can happen if you don't have enough shooters!" Instead it's "This is what can happen if you rely on freshmen!"