The whole theory was, "we're not worried about what the other team is doing/does well, we're more concerned about what we're doing/what we do well."
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ugh,
first. Ulis did play. He came in around 1:30 left in the game. Played for about 30 seconds game time. He came in again for KATs 1 and 1, but he missed the second one. During this time, he didn't do anything that made any difference to the game, so not sure why people assume that giving him another 20-30 seconds would have been game changing event.
3 Shot clock violation is guilty of many players, not just Andrew. But Andrew is trashed because he is the PG. However, he did get the ball to KAT with a lot of time (on multiple occasion as well). Except KAT got stripped by Kaminsky and then Lyles got the ball only to airball. Also, couple of the Shot clock violation was poor execution by the team, and not able to create offense, so that Andrew had to do iso play on one possession. That was more of an issue with Lyles, KAT, and few others if you ask me.
BTW, there wasn't 3 shot clock violation in the last 5 minutes of the game. Maybe last 7 minutes of the game.
The biggest issue is the refs in the last 5 minutes really ate up against Kentucky. Shot Clock Violation, Questionable call against Aaron Harrison on the defense. Foul on WCS is questionable... there were bunch that was complete shit. What every foul against Wisconsin was ignored.
Finally, Putting Ulis in the game is not that meaningful. One, Wisconsin is disciplined team and two, they have multiple players who can handle the ball. All you have to do is have big bring the ball up to take away Ulis's ball pressure. Then you have mismatch on defensive end with Ulis.
first. Ulis did play. He came in around 1:30 left in the game. Played for about 30 seconds game time. He came in again for KATs 1 and 1, but he missed the second one. During this time, he didn't do anything that made any difference to the game, so not sure why people assume that giving him another 20-30 seconds would have been game changing event.
3 Shot clock violation is guilty of many players, not just Andrew. But Andrew is trashed because he is the PG. However, he did get the ball to KAT with a lot of time (on multiple occasion as well). Except KAT got stripped by Kaminsky and then Lyles got the ball only to airball. Also, couple of the Shot clock violation was poor execution by the team, and not able to create offense, so that Andrew had to do iso play on one possession. That was more of an issue with Lyles, KAT, and few others if you ask me.
BTW, there wasn't 3 shot clock violation in the last 5 minutes of the game. Maybe last 7 minutes of the game.
The biggest issue is the refs in the last 5 minutes really ate up against Kentucky. Shot Clock Violation, Questionable call against Aaron Harrison on the defense. Foul on WCS is questionable... there were bunch that was complete shit. What every foul against Wisconsin was ignored.
Finally, Putting Ulis in the game is not that meaningful. One, Wisconsin is disciplined team and two, they have multiple players who can handle the ball. All you have to do is have big bring the ball up to take away Ulis's ball pressure. Then you have mismatch on defensive end with Ulis.
Also, another BS thing is how Cal doesn't watch the video.
Except, when you ask him before the game he knows everything about other team. You see this with every pre-game even meaningless team Cal has no reason to watch Videos for.
Probably is Cal makes statement that makes people over analyze and over react to shit and...from then on it just gets wayyyyy off reality.
Except, when you ask him before the game he knows everything about other team. You see this with every pre-game even meaningless team Cal has no reason to watch Videos for.
Probably is Cal makes statement that makes people over analyze and over react to shit and...from then on it just gets wayyyyy off reality.
No, they watch small clips that have been previously broken down by the coaching staff, about 15-20 minutes worth. He does that because the attention span of kids that age is limited, and as he says, after about 15 minutes they zone out anyway. They still get scouting reports and things of that nature, it just isn't the 2 hour film session that most coaches use. For this particular game, did there really need to be a lengthy film session? It was the same team they played the year before, and this particular team returned a lot from that match-up. Plus, do you not think these players watch other games during their season? Film study is not what got us beat, we simply didn't make the plays that we had been making the entire year. Film session had nothing to do with it.
Thank you. Jordan's "cut" story is utter bullshit. He started that season for the JV team, as was normal for up and coming 15 year old sophomores. He was never cut from anything, instead what he's actually bitching about is not being prematurely promoted to varsity over the older junior and senior players.
But he and Nike decided the cut claim was a better storyline for marketing, so they've shamelessy sold that false story for all it's worth over the years.
I don't feel like fishing for the quote, but I believe Cal himself admitted this ..and that it was a mistake.
Unfortunately, Wisconsin prepared for us far more diligently than we prepared for them.
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People confuse the incident of "players" not having normal prep for that game with the coaching staff. The staff prepped, the players however did not. Terrible idea and one I hope cal threw in the trash.
No, according to multiple people at the time, including Cal IIRC, stated kentucy players had little prep and no film study on Wisconsin. I dont think Ive ever seen that approach before, and it's a mistake. I remember watching Frank use his little spin move during the game and it seemed not one of our guys guarding him were even looking for it. Too much to go back and show what I'm talking about, but it's there.
Making a claim that lack of prep couldn't have been a huge factor is wrong. You have no idea how much it might have changed the outcome. Our team in a five on five setting was beatable by several teams, yet we went about that final four like we were unbeatable.
I would be any amount if we had it to do over again, Cal would have them prepping more. He wont admit it, but it was a crucial mistake imo.
I had never heard they didn't do any. What I stated is what Cal does with every game, except I guess the Wisconsin game.
I believe this is correct. Staff watched and studied film and the team practiced and ran drills in accordance to the watched and studied film. Yep, that's how it went. I remember that now.
Yeah but Lyles and Willie was responsible for two of those calls.
Shhhh....don't let facts get in the way of the Harrison's hate.
yeah, my point is...its pretty annoying seeing people make up stuff to argue our losses. Its amazing what people fabricate on here to support their argument.
It's hard to really say who were responsible for these play. One was actually KAT who got stripped when he went to make his move. The stripped ball went to Lyles with little time left and he shot a out of control shot, which resulted in shot clock violation.
Other seems like they were trying to get the ball to KAT but couldn't really get him the ball, and in the last minute Andrew had to make a play happen. Which wasn't bad, he just missed the shot to the right. I think he was thinking lob.
I'd have to go back and watch the replay, which I've never done. I just remember being madder than hell at andrew and cal in real time. The way I remember it is they were trying to milk the clock and were taking too long to start looking for a shot each time down, but memory's a tricky thing so I could be wrong. I'd have to rewatch the game to be sure, and just talking about it is almost making me sick at my stomach.
Yeah I agree with you, and I also think you are right about Kat being one, I knew it was one of our bigs who just threw it up there and hit backboard and nothing else.
I thought Andrew milked it too long twice and Cal was screaming from the bench for him to go. In the end, sometimes young players make mistakes no matter how talented they are. When you are in as many big games as we are its going to happen at the worst time in some of them.
I've been following UK Basketball for roughly 30 years and that Wisconsin loss was the hardest loss to take of any I've witnessed. UNCheat from last year ranks right up there as well. The way we got railroaded was just inexplicable. They basically gave the title to those cheating ****s last year. Still pisses me off.
Cal always says he doesn't care about the other team because he is focused on his team.
That being said, there is no way that Cal didn't watch video. Whether it was done as a group during practice, just by himself, or by some other staff members...someone was watching video lol
That being said, there is no way that Cal didn't watch video. Whether it was done as a group during practice, just by himself, or by some other staff members...someone was watching video lol
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