Game Thread. Cats vs Southern
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Huh? He had 17 pts and 20 rebs against Duke. Bad take, dude.
Cal will dick around the entire pre conference playing every dumb combination of players you can think of, and then play 6 or 7 players until their tongues hang out for the remainder of the year.
It happens. Finals week, haven't played in 8 days, players getting over illnesses, meh opponent on a weeknight, etc.
I'm holding off on making any long-term predictions for this team until after we get through the next few weeks.
Yep. We're certainly not a bad team thank heavens. But are we a good team? I don't know. We are about to find out.
If I'm being honest this feels like the Joe/Ramel Tubby teams/years. Pretty good but not good enough to win the league. Just how I feel right now. A whole lot of ball to go.
Tonight? No.
But this was by far our worst performance against a tough scrappy defense.
We hit our damn FTs and this game doesn’t look near as bad.
It’s next week. Still distracting. Projects due this week I’m sure. The week before and the week of are stressful as hell.
I don't think it was a bad performance. That's what I characterized last years games as. It was just a ho-hum, lazy day sleepwalking rusty one. Hell yeah we can play better, but it never felt like we were bad. Just one of those meh games.
Do you honestly think hardly any of these dudes even give a passing thought to finals week vs. any other week?
I'm in law school currently, it's really not that bad. These guys are taking sports management classes, CRT classes, and keyboarding 101. Not sure what they are stressed about.
You and I are agreeing on something. That’s a sign of the apocalypse.
Anyone seen four horses of different colors?
😂
Maybe to you it’s not. Most students have trouble during those weeks.
Glad to know everyone handles everything the same.
There "tutors" might be stessing a bit, and the walk-ons who are here to bring up the average. I doubt the actual players even know what finals are.
Our student athletes are constantly praised in conference for maintaining good GPAs. Our Athletic Department actually requires our players to go to class unlike another school wearing powder blue.
It was not our best game and nothing to write home about but a win is a WIN. Best to get this bad game out of the way before Saturday.
Yes actually, I think some of them do. We have a lot of upperclassmen that realize that they might not make a career out of basketball and likely care about their grades. As upperclassmen they're also probably taking more difficult classes than the freshmen.
Regardless, my point still remains the same. Finals are just one example of what can contribute to an uneven performance. Forget I said it if it makes it easier for you to understand what I was saying.
Cal has said alot of things while here at UK. A lot.
Not the point. The point is that anyone can be beaten by anyone, we didn't play our best and still won, I'll take it.
Ware's leash shouldn't extend past the bench
Didn't look good tonight. Average margin of victory over the 7 duds scheduled was 27. Combined win loss of teams in 16-43, average of 2.2W - 6.1 L. I would say it was an ok run through the cupcakes....especially considering some of the guys not playing, etc.
We will see where we are over the next 2 weeks.
OK...so what happened tonight? Were they looking ahead to ND? Seriously, UK should have bulldozed that team!
Bad games happen, they aren't machines. Southern played really well
Reality. This is an average team.
Not horrible like last year, but not great.
Without Big O on the floor, we go from average to mediocre, borderline horrible.
Can we improve? Probably.
Will we improve? Unknown at this time.
Unless and until we get an offense that can actually get our shooters open looks against good teams, we have little chance of improving.
Good teams will double Oscar in the post and play off our 1-2 players that are not a threat to score, even when they are left open from the outside.
A zone defense will kill us.
I'm still waiting to see the team everyone keeps saying is a contender
YOu know....Cal will never love you back like you do him....you do know that right?
Which is why I shake my head every year when people have an orgasm about the next great in-coming class.
Sorry CH...I'm not pounding on your post.
Now, these guys may figure it out before the season ends and we all hope they do... but lets be serious...people on this board yank off every year before a single game is even played...then they get all crazy eyed at the next seasons class coming in before this season is half over.
Sorry for the rant...but it happens every year...it's nuts.
Lot of jumpers tonight. You guys need to get off the roof. That was a marginal team. We're not going to brow beat a legacy coach. Win by 15. Win by 50, neither tells you a damn thing about our team against such weak competition. This was essentially a practice scrimmage. SU put some money in their pocket and mission accomplished.
I did see some improvement on foot movement on defense. We are still leaning like crazy.
And somebody put some stick'um on the ball. . . .
I did see some improvement on foot movement on defense. We are still leaning like crazy.
And somebody put some stick'um on the ball. . . .
There are only a couple of guys on this team that could have played on some of Cal's best teams at UK. The rest of this team are role players.
The one thing everyone said this team would be able to do is shoot the ball. Well that aint happening right now.
Nothing has really happened in these games that I have seen that looks like this team is becoming a real contender.
Roles are still not defined. The 3 and 4 spots are stillup in the air. Shooting is getting worse instead of better.
