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Interview would be pretty awesome.



Kansas
UNC
UofL
Texas
Providence

I guess that's how I'd rate our top 5 opponents this season. Plug Arkansas in there somewhere, we'll see after Saturday.


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This post was edited on 2/27 2:25 PM by B.B.d.K.
 
Kyle Tucker þ@KyleTucker_CJ 2m2 minutes ago

Payne: "Every game we play, we're telling them we're playing a good team. When we win the say, 'I thought you said they were good.' "
 
I know Texas is a 'football' school, but really they are a SPORTS school, or should be.. No reason they shouldn't be a power in damn near everything with that recruiting base & resources.

Will Barnes' seat ever get even warm or does nobody care?
 
Originally posted by GonzoCat90:

Kyle Tucker þ@KyleTucker_CJ 2m2 minutes ago

Payne: "Every game we play, we're telling them we're playing a good team. When we win the say, 'I thought you said they were good.' "
This attitude is definitely one of the ingredients it will take for us to beat ourselves. Straighten that shit out, as I'm sure Cal will.
 
Originally posted by UnfrozenCatfanLawyer:
I'm not much of a "Star Trek" guy, but "The Wrath of Khan" is pretty damn awesome.
Rack.

Loved that movie as a kid. The new Star Trek's with Chris Pine have been pretty bad ass too.
 
Of the opponents on the schedule, the ones whose performance against Kentucky I was most impressed with:

1. Ole Miss
2. LSU
3. TEXAS
4. Florida
5. Texas A&M
 
I actually thought North Carolina played pretty well against us- have watched them a bunch and that was the second best game they've played all year (behind only @ Cameron). We were just THAT good.
 
Originally posted by Wildcat Willy:
We will find Tom Crean stuffed in a Safe Haven Baby Box somewhere in Indiana during the next 10 months.

I'll probably get blasted for saying that, but I am way out in front of it.
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Actually thought that Vandy team wasn't half-bad all things considered. Definitely talented.

-Checking out MESH tomorrow night, Louisville foodies. I mean, we'll see. Looks cheesy to me. Plan is to get a rolling start with booze during the game and then really show out at, and after dinner. Richie style.
 
No the pace did not pick up. Auburn started to hit shots, and UK played street ball for a while as they finally got a chance to "have fun." And still lost by 35. Running with this team, our depth factor kicks in. Unless you go 8-10 deep, running is stupid. They ran and also hit 11/19 from 3, and still got their ass kicked. Just like UNC, they hit some shots and cut the lead in the second half under dd's, but could not do it for 40 minutes, bad idea.
 
Originally posted by B.B.d.K.:

I know Texas is a 'football' school, but really they are a SPORTS school, or should be.. No reason they shouldn't be a power in damn near everything with that recruiting base & resources.

Will Barnes' seat ever get even warm or does nobody care?
Seems the consensus down here is that he is done.

One interesting name I've heard thrown around aside from the Smart and Marshall types - Jay Wright.
 
Originally posted by anthonys735:

I honestly have no idea what it's going to take to beat us other than a helluva game and some real luck.
plus bad shooting night for us. A 2-22 or 1-19 from 3 game like what doomed the 09-10 team. If Booker & Aaron are ice cold, and others start chucking them up in the panic of a close game....
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Originally posted by UK_Memphis:

Originally posted by B.B.d.K.:

I know Texas is a 'football' school, but really they are a SPORTS school, or should be.. No reason they shouldn't be a power in damn near everything with that recruiting base & resources.

Will Barnes' seat ever get even warm or does nobody care?
Seems the consensus down here is that he is done.

One interesting name I've heard thrown around aside from the Smart and Marshall types - Jay Wright.
Dude.
 
Originally posted by JHB4UK:
Originally posted by anthonys735:

I honestly have no idea what it's going to take to beat us other than a helluva game and some real luck.
plus bad shooting night for us. A 2-22 or 1-19 from 3 game like what doomed the 09-10 team. If Booker & Aaron are ice cold, and others start chucking them up in the panic of a close game....
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I'm tired of hearing this shit, too. 2010 was a BAD outside shooting team. That WV game was a fluke, but not a REAL fluke. Bledsoe was probably our best outside shooter. Patterson was just starting to add that to his repertoire. Miller was still a wallflower. Dodson sucked.

This team has FOUR good-to-great THREE-POINT marksmen and that's not even counting Lyles who can open up the side by hitting that 15-17 footer.
 
Originally posted by KingLlama:
Originally posted by UK_Memphis:

Seems the consensus down here is that he is done.

One interesting name I've heard thrown around aside from the Smart and Marshall types - Jay Wright.
Dude.
What? I've heard a few people say his name but he doesn't seem like a Texas guy. That is why I find it interesting.
 
- For the last time, MFers- STOP quoting Chief.
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- What kind of sicko enjoys female MMA fights? I know everyone likes a good cat fight, but that's only because they last 5 seconds and aren't "real" fights. It would make me sick to my stomach seeing a woman get the shit kicked out of her.
 
Originally posted by wcc31:
I'm tired of hearing this shit, too. 2010 was a BAD outside shooting team. That WV game was a fluke, but not a REAL fluke. Bledsoe was probably our best outside shooter. Patterson was just starting to add that to his repertoire. Miller was still a wallflower. Dodson sucked.

This team has FOUR good-to-great THREE-POINT marksmen and that's not even counting Lyles who can open up the side by hitting that 15-17 footer.
There was a fella in USA Today's weekly "How do you beat UK?/Who can beat UK?" column who, in talking up Virginia as the team's biggest threat, mentioned that they would pack the paint and dare shooters like Booker, Ulis and the Harrisons to beat them from the outside.

Guess somebody wanted to be out in front on the "make Devin Booker make threes" strategy.
 
WVU did not hit a single two-point shot in the first half of that game ... and still led at halftime. You will never see that again in your lifetimes.
 
Originally posted by wcc31:

- What kind of sicko enjoys female MMA fights? I know everyone likes a good cat fight, but that's only because they last 5 seconds and aren't "real" fights. It would make me sick to my stomach seeing a woman get the shit kicked out of her.
Not sure where you went to high school, but the girl fights in the Blue hall were 10x better than any guy fight. Bitches be slapping, ripping clothes, pulling hair, scratching the hell out of each other.

Wasn't so much I enjoyed it, but couldn't look away.
 
Originally posted by Blind Karl Hess:

Originally posted by wcc31:
I'm tired of hearing this shit, too. 2010 was a BAD outside shooting team. That WV game was a fluke, but not a REAL fluke. Bledsoe was probably our best outside shooter. Patterson was just starting to add that to his repertoire. Miller was still a wallflower. Dodson sucked.

This team has FOUR good-to-great THREE-POINT marksmen and that's not even counting Lyles who can open up the side by hitting that 15-17 footer.
There was a fella in USA Today's weekly "How do you beat UK?/Who can beat UK?" column who, in talking up Virginia as the team's biggest threat, mentioned that they would pack the paint and dare shooters like Booker, Ulis and the Harrisons to beat them from the outside.

Guess somebody wanted to be out in front on the "make Devin Booker make threes" strategy.
Kinda like in 1996 when some people were all like "how will UK match up with Syracuse's zone" and Tony Delk showed up to the Meadowlands just completely engorged. Only like times 4.
 
Originally posted by drxman1:

Not sure where you went to high school, but the girl fights in the Blue hall were 10x better than any guy fight. Bitches be slapping, ripping clothes, pulling hair, scratching the hell out of each other.

Wasn't so much I enjoyed it, but couldn't look away.
Yeah, Chad's off on this one. When dudes fight in high school, it's 90% posturing b/c no one wants to look bad. With girls, it's 100% "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU BITCH."
 
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Even the Rolling Stone getting into the act on UK. I won't link it because it was a pretty lousy, cliched article, but I do love how the Wall Street Journal, NYT, Rolling Stone, everyone is on our jock.

- Another Wiltjer piece, this one by King. Good for the quotes about Cal and UK. This is what other fans just don't get about Calipari's recruiting. Dude walks the walk with this players first thing. It's not lip service.



Halfway across the country, the Wildcats couldn't be happier for Wiltjer.
Payne says he communicates with Wiltjer regularly, while Calipari calls Few, his close friend, nearly every week to check in on his former player.
"Situations like this can be so difficult," Few says, "but the way John has handled this has been unbelievable. It's a side of him people don't see. The first thing he asks me every time we talk is, 'How's Kyle? How's Kyle doing?' His main concern is that he succeeds."
 
Originally posted by UnfrozenCatfanLawyer:

Originally posted by drxman1:

Not sure where you went to high school, but the girl fights in the Blue hall were 10x better than any guy fight. Bitches be slapping, ripping clothes, pulling hair, scratching the hell out of each other.

Wasn't so much I enjoyed it, but couldn't look away.
Yeah, Chad's off on this one. When dudes fight in high school, it's 90% posturing b/c no one wants to look bad. With girls, it's 100% "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU BITCH."
BIG difference between a school yard girl fight and seeing a woman literally get the shit kicked out of her.
 
Originally posted by wcc31:
Cats -17? Damn, Vegas.
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There have been 5 or 6 times this year that they posted the line of the UK game and I've been like holy shit that can't be right. That may be the most ridiculous.
 
- Heartbroken 48 hours later. We lost in the first round of the district tournament in unbelieveable fashion.

Down 7 with 2:30 left. Get a stop and a score. Another stop then a missed FT by us. Missed 1-and-1 by them. Missed 1-and-1 by us, we get the offensive rebound and score. Down 3, we get another stop. We're selling out on D every trip, really working our tails off.

Then we almost turn the ball over after a deflection. The ball is loose, my PG dives to the floor to grab the ball, and calls timeout. False! Foul on him. The whole gym is going bonkers and I'm trying not to get a T. Their best player goes to the line and misses the front end. We rebound and head down the floor down 3 with about 35 seconds left.

We're looking to get a quick 2 from our post guy they've been surrounding all night. The skip pass to our best 3 point shooter has been open, but he's tiny so they had been able to really close out him. We skip it to him, he ball fakes, defender goes flying by, and he drains a 3. Tie game. Timeout by them. Our crowd is wild.

They come down and force something to the rim off the dribble, and we come up with a steal. After we have nothing in transition, I call time with 12 seconds left. Tie game.

We run our bread and butter play for our best player, our post player who has 19 and 15 at this point. It's a straight post up with a double screen away from the ball. He gets the ball, but he's been pushed off the block to about 14 feet. He turns and drives instead of taking the midrange jumper that he is capable of making. The defense sets up shop, flop, charge.

2.8 seconds left (at least that's what I'm told because this scoreboard has no tenths of a second on it - it's my old high school gym and the scoreboard is still the same as I played - more on this in a minute). They call timeout to run their end of game hail mary. They line up in a 1-3-1, the old Valpo/Homer Drew play. I put my 6'6 post on the ball because of You Know Why.

They rear back to throw it. My 6'6 guy deflects it/blocks it back out of bounds on the baseline (Thanks Rick!) Now there is 2.2 seconds left - uh oh - and they get in the same alignment. This time my 6'6 guy mis-times the jump for the pass deflection, the ball must have been an inch from the rafters, they run a backpick for the middle guy in the 1-3-1, we switch that well, the pass is on it's way down, and I have a guy in great position to at least knock it out of bounds.

The ball hung in the air for as long as a Reggie Roby punt. I thought for a fleeting moment he may have thrown this thing out of bounds the entire length of the floor and we would get it back under our basket. But it fell. It fell out of the heavens and right on the right block. But still, I had a guy RIGHT THERE to make a play so it's cool.

However, the offensive player waits for my guy to leave his feet, gives him a little nudge that of course wasn't called, and the ball falls right into his hands. I immediately fall to the floor as if someone kicked me right in the gut as he lays it in as the red light on the backboard goes off.

_______ this gay earth.

Imagine a 7 year old UK fan learning the truth about Santa Claus 10 seconds after the '92 Duke game. Then mulitply that heart break 100 times over. Absolutely soul crushing, life questioning shit, boys. We lost to a 20+ win team. We are .500. They were probably 'favored" by 5-7 points, but we always play classics with them. Felt so bad for my kids. First time ever as a coach I had to wait to compse myself before addressing the team after a season ending loss. They deserved better than that.

- I've written this thing out more as therapy rather than have anyone read it. It's honestly the first time I've played it back out like that since Wednesday night. Not sure why I feel the need to put it here. Whatever.

- The gym we played in was my old high school - a county over from where I am now. 4 years ago when the Dist. Tourney was there, we lost in 5 OTs in the opening round game. In November of '13, my mother's funeral was in there - ironically her casket was placed under the basket where that ol' boy made that play Wednesday night - and earlier this year we lost a 1 point game to the old home team.

So, yeah . . . this is why I don't have a gambling problem. When you're snakebit, there's no need to tempt fate.
 
Originally posted by wcc31:


BIG difference between a school yard girl fight and seeing a woman literally get the shit kicked out of her.
Have you seen some of these "women?" They'd kick the hell out of most of you.
 
Pope - have no doubt you've tried it, but given your affinity for German beer (my favorite as well) you should hit up Blue Stallion if you haven't yet. I picked up a couple of growlers on the way home today (Helles and Hefeweizen)
 
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