Who put this team together
Face the facts.
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At the beginning of the season, would you have traded our roster for either Purdue’s or Marquette’s roster?
The class of 2023 was 10 years old during that 2015 team. They were like first graders when we last won it all. That stuff plays in the eyes. Everything is a 'What have you done for me lately?" mindset when it comes to recruiting. We have been nothing special to these kids since they were in elementary school.
Lack of skill on roster is all Cals fault- just horrible talent evaluation
Exactly couldn’t use his burnout excuse he’s used every other damn year “ we’re young” the last 2 years because they’ve been his most experienced ball teams he’s had at UK!
There’s absolutely no way to defend coach clown anymore. Fact is that you could give him an NBA all star team and he couldn’t win the NCAAT.
His coaching is garbage. KY basketball will be irrelevant until he is gone.
His coaching is garbage. KY basketball will be irrelevant until he is gone.
Did the fans run off Hopkins?
3-4 year players Fans definitely want, but there also has to be some improvement each year or it does no good really.
What player on the roster is a 3-4 year guy who has gotten better?
Perfect name for the fraud since he’s milking UK for all he can get.
Agree……look at Cal’s SEC and NCAA tourney record the last 4 years and you see a complacent ineffective motivator and coach! If he doesn’t make a deep run in this year’s NCAA tournament then show him the door!! Hire Buzz Williams, the Baylor coach, Stackhouse or another proven college coach/winner who‘s teams play sound tough defense and execute a good offense!!
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A few months ago I was using talk to text on here and I guess my twang came off as Cow. Seems appropriate to me. So blame goggle.
Say what you want Cal brought this talent in, Cal really has not done much since 2015, he had that one run but lost to UNC. Watch this team, they are poorly coached period.
We are in the cook a pot of soup every year and see how it is. Cal dumps it out and says something is wrong everytime and say I'll cook another one later. 5years later he's still yet to cook up anything other than shit and everyone is tired of smelling it. Win or get the hell out of the way. Quit cooking shit soup every year and making the fanbase eat it.
I’m middle.
Some are ate up with literal hatred of cal that it’s just sad but he also needs to make quick changes or realize he could reinvigorate his career elsewhere. But he’s earned the rope to either hang a banner or hang himself.
Honestly going into the game I thought the two best outcomes for the tournament would be either: winning it - and then gaining some swagger or: losing game one and getting a back against the wall mentality because that’s the only time we’ve looked really pretty good but regardless,
We have no dogs. We have no one that can get a basket to kill a run. Nor anyone who’s smart enough to know to work for an easy basket and not jack up threes or on the line twos when a team is on a run. But we simply have no fricken dogs that can Will their way to a basket. Nor do we have anyone who can control a game with their dribble. Cut the lane and dribble out then circle back in just eating clock and/or letting the offensive motion setup a mismatch.
Also our best player Oscar is just awful sometimes. At one point we missed two front end of one and one and Oscar turnover .. all the while giving up one point to Vandy but not eating into the lead at all because of just stupid basketball.
Cal needs to value toughness and brains in some players THAT GET playing time and give us some kids THAT WILL get some run that can grow for four years and eventually be the guys we can rely on year after year to just simply play good sound fundamental basketball at the most important moments. To step to the line and hit a fackin free throw. It’s ridiculous. If he can’t commit to that I don’t have any interest in anything past next year.
Some are ate up with literal hatred of cal that it’s just sad but he also needs to make quick changes or realize he could reinvigorate his career elsewhere. But he’s earned the rope to either hang a banner or hang himself.
Honestly going into the game I thought the two best outcomes for the tournament would be either: winning it - and then gaining some swagger or: losing game one and getting a back against the wall mentality because that’s the only time we’ve looked really pretty good but regardless,
We have no dogs. We have no one that can get a basket to kill a run. Nor anyone who’s smart enough to know to work for an easy basket and not jack up threes or on the line twos when a team is on a run. But we simply have no fricken dogs that can Will their way to a basket. Nor do we have anyone who can control a game with their dribble. Cut the lane and dribble out then circle back in just eating clock and/or letting the offensive motion setup a mismatch.
Also our best player Oscar is just awful sometimes. At one point we missed two front end of one and one and Oscar turnover .. all the while giving up one point to Vandy but not eating into the lead at all because of just stupid basketball.
Cal needs to value toughness and brains in some players THAT GET playing time and give us some kids THAT WILL get some run that can grow for four years and eventually be the guys we can rely on year after year to just simply play good sound fundamental basketball at the most important moments. To step to the line and hit a fackin free throw. It’s ridiculous. If he can’t commit to that I don’t have any interest in anything past next year.
Cal is paid the big buck to be responsible for the good or bad. He is in total control. If not enough player he should have filled his roaster and develops bench. If I took a job from someone and the products I use turnout faulty I could not use that as excuse to the person who hired me. It is totally on me. Same with a team of players who doesn't pan out. The coach is totally and only to blame.
Okay let's call him the Exalted Grand Poobah , does that change anything that's going on right now. Talk about grasping at straws
Needs more time the guy has had 14 YEARS.
14 years and no success? Wow
See the ones who’s only meaning or joy is Kentucky basketball are struggling I get it. It’s been a rough 4 or so years. Title contender wiped from Covid. Terrible Covid year. And then another team thought to be a contender getting a two seed and getting knocked out - even though anyone with a brain knew we weren’t going far unless somehow about three players overcame injuries very quickly.
I get it. That’s a long time for someone’s entire method of having joy to be continuously let down.
But, good job. Your reply made it absolutely clear the level of stupidity some have.
I disagree with no one else could do more with this roster. Cal has mismanaged this team all season long.
Nonsense. All excuses for Calipari being terrible at his job and underperforming. Some of you just won’t accept reality. People’s personal lives lol. Good Grief.
He can’t shoot for them. They aren’t talented. He brought them here but he wanted other players (he missed). Not his fault they went elsewhere.
Now it’s our personal lives that are the problem
You know when the excuses are this bad, he sucks.
Amen brother, and our coach is clueless in playing to our strengths and masking our weaknesses. And damn that’s infuriating.
Been saying this for years
Add this to lack of coaching ability and that is why uk is in the situation they are in
Some people like long ass ropes. Not into it personally.
This. Cal has not assembled a good group, not enough depth and at times has been outcoached. I agree with all of that but when I see people saying “sooooo much talent” I am like wtf?
Yes, in the beginning, from August to October of 2022, we all had visions of competing for a national championship. That, despite a quick understanding that no one seemed to have spent much time in a weight room, and we quickly found out that lots of things were lacking despite worlds of hype. As such, this year has been inconsistent and disappointing, much akin to our season and expectations for football that fell well short of our collective desires. Others have lost too, but many exceeded expectations and here we sit again living through yet another set of difficult and at times embarrassing circumstances with a largely underachieving -- and I think, very coddled -- team. We are 21-11, performed poorly against a non-NCAA team Vanderbilt, and have not been able to handle adversity well all year, making it much too easy on ourselves to "let go of the rope."
It’s funny you dog on Tubby so much because starting with the 16-17 team Cal’s numbers mirror Tubby’s.
People are justified in thinking Tubby was a good coach. Because he was. What people mainly criticize about Tubby was his laziness on the recruiting trail. Tubby mainly signed 2-3 star recruits with the occasional 4 star sprinkled in with the only exception being the Rondo, Morris, Crawford, etc recruiting class. But despite being so lazy in recruiting he really did more than what many expected of his rosters.
Cal on the other hand is criticized for the exact opposite. Incredible on the recruiting trail. Certainly the best recruiter I’ve ever seen in college basketball before K came in and beat him at his own game. But even then Cal was still getting top 3 classes of mostly 5 stars with the occasional 4 star sprinkled in. However, despite having 5 stars on the bench he still finds a way to disappoint the fans and perform below expectations set by the fans and national media.
This wasn’t always the case, prior to the disappointment of 2015 Cal appeared to be the best of both worlds: the best recruiter and a capable coach. But since 2015 he has under delivered in the coaching department.
Tubby never missed the NCAA tournament btw. Your boy Cal has missed it twice and one of those times he wasn’t even invited to the NIT.
Your avatar pic is cheesy. Could you be more in the tank, honestly. Off to your bunk with you, erin.
