How many 3s did we miss? How many did Florida make? When one aspect of the game is not working you adjust to what is. The 6 assists are really bad but we missed a lot of gimme's and open 3s we usually make. To say this game should never have been close is a super weak response. Florida played above themselves, what we normally do wasn’t working. This game was always going to be close.
Good ole Cal is back…
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Les Miserables strike again. What a bunch of idiots.
Road dogs. Win by 2 after being behind most of the game. Clutch FT shooting (thanks Reed!), massive 3 by AB...that's what wins after being behind by 8 at half. Stop bitchin'...
Three straight possessions ending with Onyenso is not going to otherwise undo the majority of the game that was well coached. Cal drew up some great plays for Bradshaw late in the game. Also did a great job at getting his best free throw shooter the ball over and over to close out the game. In bounds play between Wagner and Reed was good, making sure Reeves was in on offense and out on defense was good.
Other than Reed fouling (and not sure how you can blame that on anyone but him) the end of the game was coached really well.
There’s not a coach in America that won’t have a few moments in a game that can be cherry picked to utilize to say they’re a bad coach. Not sure why we have so many fans jumping at the gun and wanting to focus so much energy on any little bad stretch of play.
6 straight road wins at Florida. Pretty good.
Other than Reed fouling (and not sure how you can blame that on anyone but him) the end of the game was coached really well.
There’s not a coach in America that won’t have a few moments in a game that can be cherry picked to utilize to say they’re a bad coach. Not sure why we have so many fans jumping at the gun and wanting to focus so much energy on any little bad stretch of play.
6 straight road wins at Florida. Pretty good.
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Other than leaving Dillingham in to long 1st half I thought he and entire coaching staff did a great job! And trust me I haven't posted in few years but I've been critical of COACH! But he will be my guy until he leaves our great basketball program!
Cal actually did an EXCELLENT job with his rotations and playing time today. Especially considering how poorly we shot the ball.
Going to Bradshaw at crunch time after how poorly he had played the first 30 minutes was CRAZY, but VERY EFFECTIVE!!!
Hopefully this game will give him the confidence he's been lacking. Edwards even played better in the 2nd half.
Going to Bradshaw at crunch time after how poorly he had played the first 30 minutes was CRAZY, but VERY EFFECTIVE!!!
Hopefully this game will give him the confidence he's been lacking. Edwards even played better in the 2nd half.
Alternatively you could argue the team was ice cold from 3, adjusted to go inside to take advantage of some mismatches, and made good coaching adjustments at the half to eliminate the turnovers.
Silly silly... Calipari coached a very good game today. Nice halftime adjustments. Had the best lineup on the floor under 4-5 minutes. until we needed to make FTs... then he put our best ballhandlers and FT shooters in.
Going inside opened up the outside. Find another sport to watch, you dont understand basketball.
It will age great come tourney time. Check back…
I’m glad we won, but the point still stands and Cal will continue to revert.
I can see a difference between this year and last year.
Were you watching the game? Florida's perimeter defense was good. Their interior and post defense was awful. They couldn't handle Mitchell or our guards when they drove. Pounding it onside is why we won this game.
I agree about Edwards and Sheppard. I don't see how you can justify Sheppard playing the fifth most minutes on the team, as was the case today.
My god, a rational take that acknowledges both sides of an argument. I feel like I’ve just seen a unicorn.
I wish people would go and look at SEC results over Cals tenure. We have so many 2-4 point wins on the road. Even our best teams. Road games are always close and tough, if they weren’t we would be favored by 10.
Yeah but if you’re gonna blame Cal for a loss, you gotta credit him for a win. I’ll be honest, I was about done with Cal before the season and I’m still skeptical but he has the potential to win me back. This season has been his best coaching job in quite a while. He’s got a lot of talent but there’s no AD/John Wall level players here that he usually requires to win big.
And today was a really solid win that I feel like they wouldn’t have pulled off the last few years. Again, I’m trying to keep my expectations in check, but danged if I ain’t starting to get a little excited.
What do you mean "continue" to revert? Nothing about the offense since the bigs started playing has been reverting to anything. Since Bradshaw and Ugo came back we've continued to play mainly a 4 out offense and tempo has gotten even faster. We were in the 60s in tempo before Bradshaw and now we're 20. Only three power conference teams play quicker than we do.
Not every game is going to be a three point shooting clinic. We were cold as hell from three today and came up with a way to win anyway.
People acting like we barely beat a scrub. They’re Top 50 Net and Top 35 Kenpom. That’s a damn good win on the road. I mean they were 10-3 coming to today and those 3 losses were close.
Yeah Florida is a tournament team no doubt. It’s like everyone expects “good” teams to be all ranked top 10, or if you don’t beat a team that is not ranked by 20 that it’s not a good win.
That’s a great sign to me, we have been on from 3 most games this season and usually a team like that won’t win if they go cold. We found a way.
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