Game Tonight

[KYFOSSIL]

I miss the days when we didn’t have to worry about losing to a team that just lost to Texas A&M Commerce.

we don’t have to worry about this team, if people choose to that’s on them, but we will beat them easily

 

[UKBB4Ever]

Expecting a win and strong performance. However, another slow start should demand a change in the starting lineup. Our esteemed coach just can't continue to enable the status quo and expect to win all the games this talented roster deserves. As he has voiced, "the bench is a great motivator", applies to all and not just the pre-chosen ones.

He’s got 840 or so wins.

What’s your resume?

 

[AzubuikeandFitch]

Cat's by 15.

That's the spread.

 

[bbncal02]

we don’t have to worry about this team, if people choose to that’s on them, but we will beat them easily

We SHOULD beat them easily. But it's going to be a miserable wet night against a "subpar" opponent. We better come out ready to play or it could get tricky.

 

[Hoskins21]

UK fans just expecting to UK blowout every team they play not named Kansas, Duke, North Carolina, etc., just crack me up. There are really good mid-majors, especially with the portal now, that are capable of beating good teams. UK is young and still learning to play to their potential, while also not at full-strength. UK should win this game, but it wouldn't shock me if UK only won by single digits.

 

[FinancialPlannerZac]

If and when we do get one or a couple of big men cleared, I'm curious - how will this mess with the current team's style of play? Will Cal return to his garbage post-up 1990s offense? Will the big guy even have the wherewithal to recognize when to kick it out if they have no shot, thereby enabling our 3-point threats to actually shoot three pointers?

And will this finally be the year Calipari's team of stars actually performs consistently well, together? By this I mean all of the kids contribute for every game, not 2 of 5 having a great night with 3 sucking wind, which is usually the case with Cal-coached teams of the past (and already rearing its ugly head this year with DJ and Edwards vanishing).

It's like he can't get all of the kids to play at least to part of their potential - they have an awesome game one night, then completely suck for 2-3 games, then have an average game. But rarely do we see all players having an "on night" together, consistently. I miss the days of "6-7 players in double figures!".

Starting tonight, we need at least B games from everyone - DJ, Edwards, Dillingham, Reeves, Shepherd, Thiero and Mitchell. If we had solid games from all of them every night, this team would be very, very hard to beat.

For what it's worth... All seven of our rotation players, minus Burks, are averaging 9 ppg or better...

 

[AshWilliams]

How are we feeling?

I'm a bit worried this is setup for a letdown game- young team, and St. Joes is a super capable team, despite the uncharacteristic loss to TAMUC.

They are more than capable of beating good teams on any given night.

If Shep plays at least 25 minutes I have no worries.

 

[true blue1]

That's the spread.

I don’t know I haven’t checked it.

 

[KYFOSSIL]

We SHOULD beat them easily. But it's going to be a miserable wet night against a "subpar" opponent. We better come out ready to play or it could get tricky.

I agree but my response was to someone saying the state we are in woring about a team beaten by commerce. I get ptsd but new season and new team

 

[bbncal02]

UK fans just expecting to UK blowout every team they play not named Kansas, Duke, North Carolina, etc., just crack me up. There are really good mid-majors, especially with the portal now, that are capable of beating good teams. UK is young and still learning to play to their potential, while also not at full-strength. UK should win this game, but it wouldn't shock me if UK only won by single digits.

I'm perfectly good with anything from 3-100 point spread lol

 

[RMorris33]

"The Hawk is the mascot of Saint Joseph's University. The Hawk represents the University's motto, "The Hawk Will Never Die", by flapping its wings non-stop (even during halftime) throughout every basketball game"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hawk_(Saint_Joseph's_University_mascot)

Interesting gig

 

[Kentucky fan 1989]

When Phil Martelli was there, they were decent. Especially in 2004.