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- Who are we feeding? We don’t have a back to the basket player.
We have:
a soft euro center
jumping jack freshman
jumping jack sophomore
rugged no-offense freshman
Learn your Skal lesson and play to Sarr’s strengths.
- 2018’s roster wouldn’t have been AS FLAWED if the idiot spread the floor by putting Knox at the 4 and Washington at the 5. All the sudden, you have a dangerous team around a star in SGA.
- And don’t even get me started on playing f’ing Trey Lyles at SF.
We have:
a soft euro center
jumping jack freshman
jumping jack sophomore
rugged no-offense freshman
Learn your Skal lesson and play to Sarr’s strengths.
- 2018’s roster wouldn’t have been AS FLAWED if the idiot spread the floor by putting Knox at the 4 and Washington at the 5. All the sudden, you have a dangerous team around a star in SGA.
- And don’t even get me started on playing f’ing Trey Lyles at SF.
I've seen someone describe drinking those seltzer drinks as "Drinking TV static while someone shouts the name of a fruit from another room". That is an apt description.
You all have hit on it, and I’m proud of you. I couldn’t get here in time to post the fundamental flaws in our offense. We can discuss the basic offensive philosophy and its flaws, but that’s been covered.
Let’s just look at the flaws that are easily fixable. First, if we are hell bent on running a back-to-the-basket post up offense, why are we posting mid paint and getting pushed out to 17 feet? Our post touches sometimes occur 15-17 feet from the basket and then we hear, “GOOOOOOO” or “DRIIIIVVVE ITTTT!!!” when the guy catches. It’s a jumbled clown car of a drive into traffic.
Next, the entry passes are awful! How can we be a post oriented team and not make a clean entry pass? The angles are terrible. We have guys standing 4 feet from the guy they’re throwing it too. When the ball is caught, no one relocates. These are things MY TEAM works on in practice everyday. It’s basic stuff.
Finally, through friends of my family, I have become decent acquaintances and buddies with an assistant coach to Cliff Ellis’s Auburn teams. Anyway, he defends Calipari’s simplistic system by stating that when you have that much roster turnover, you can’t get too complicated. Things need to be kept simple for these kids and transfers and he is never able to fully implement a complex system because there is no time to do so. Couple that with the limitations Covid has placed on the learning process of a brand new team and this is what you get.
While I see the logic to much of that, someone please explain to me how complicated Alabama’s offense was last night. If these guys are coming out of AAU with little idea how to run a post up offensive system, why try to implement one? Why not just polish an AAU spread and play style? We’re already an AAU half-way house. Let’s go all the way.
Let’s just look at the flaws that are easily fixable. First, if we are hell bent on running a back-to-the-basket post up offense, why are we posting mid paint and getting pushed out to 17 feet? Our post touches sometimes occur 15-17 feet from the basket and then we hear, “GOOOOOOO” or “DRIIIIVVVE ITTTT!!!” when the guy catches. It’s a jumbled clown car of a drive into traffic.
Next, the entry passes are awful! How can we be a post oriented team and not make a clean entry pass? The angles are terrible. We have guys standing 4 feet from the guy they’re throwing it too. When the ball is caught, no one relocates. These are things MY TEAM works on in practice everyday. It’s basic stuff.
Finally, through friends of my family, I have become decent acquaintances and buddies with an assistant coach to Cliff Ellis’s Auburn teams. Anyway, he defends Calipari’s simplistic system by stating that when you have that much roster turnover, you can’t get too complicated. Things need to be kept simple for these kids and transfers and he is never able to fully implement a complex system because there is no time to do so. Couple that with the limitations Covid has placed on the learning process of a brand new team and this is what you get.
While I see the logic to much of that, someone please explain to me how complicated Alabama’s offense was last night. If these guys are coming out of AAU with little idea how to run a post up offensive system, why try to implement one? Why not just polish an AAU spread and play style? We’re already an AAU half-way house. Let’s go all the way.
I thought Bama's approach looked a hell of a lot more sophisticated than what we ran last night.
I just stopped by to get wcc started on playing effing Trey Lyles at SF because I’m a maverick who plays by his own rules
It really wasn't that complicated and that was because we defend like 3rd graders. If you sag on a team that is going to shoot 30+ 3's, constantly go under poor screens and then still get caught flat footed you make any team look like golden state.
I jokingly posted that we have trouble defending that type of scheme because it's the antithesis of what we run but the quotes from the kids lend credence.
If I'm a top 10 player, I wouldn't want to play in this shit tier system.
I jokingly posted that we have trouble defending that type of scheme because it's the antithesis of what we run but the quotes from the kids lend credence.
If I'm a top 10 player, I wouldn't want to play in this shit tier system.
Remember when Coach K was doing the Cal thing and Jefferson got hurt, he had to go small with 6’6” Justice Winslow at the 4 and it won them our title?
Yeah...neither does our coach.
Yeah...neither does our coach.
Have Askew, Allen, Brooks, and Jackson return, serving as the core of the team next season, and start implementing a modern offensive system. There, that limitation is removed. No more excuses.
Pretty much.
The solutions are so obvious that our dumbasses can diagnose. Calipari doesn't address them and just gives dumbass canned answers that increasingly don't make any sense.
One good Calipari State of the Union address where he says he's changing things but it will take some time would fix most of the smart fan angst. Instead everything he says sounds increasingly tone deaf and lazy. Same with Barnhart.
I'm toying with not watching 9 pm weekday games going forward. They are nothing more than an obligation at this point and it isn't like I'm hearing anything from Calipari that makes me want to give a shit.
Wasn't worried at all about Chris Rodriguez going pro, but that's cool.
The most disconcerting thing of last night’s postgame was hearing three different times that the Cats just need to “fight” more. Billy Clyde stuff. That tells me nothing is going to change anytime soon.
And, just for the sake of argument, let’s assume lack of fight is somehow the issue. Your player who has fought more than anyone on the roster spent the whole game on the bench.
And, just for the sake of argument, let’s assume lack of fight is somehow the issue. Your player who has fought more than anyone on the roster spent the whole game on the bench.
tbh me either but I'm desperate for anything positive about anything Kentucky athletics at the moment.
Really good college back. I wonder what his pro feedback has been. It’s been a difficult transition for Benny Snell. Most would probably agree that CR is not quite on his level.
I know we love "our" backs, but there's like what, 8-12 spots a year that open up for RB's in the NFL, and I don't think I'd consider CR in the top 10-12 of college backs.
Always a bad sign. And when assistant coaches start catching blame from fans.
“One of their players asked me at the end, what’s the score? I said, ‘You know what it is, 85-65. You killed us,'” Calipari said.
The king of Camelot being punked by a 3 star SEC west dude AND telling us about it. Safe to say we wont be burning villages any time soon.
The king of Camelot being punked by a 3 star SEC west dude AND telling us about it. Safe to say we wont be burning villages any time soon.
I'm sure he thanked Cal for making it that much easier, too.
Our defense last night was basically 5 chairs on a court with Jackson occasionally being the one that moved on it's own.
Our defense last night was basically 5 chairs on a court with Jackson occasionally being the one that moved on it's own.
Someone going to post a pic of Cal with a heater in his mouth or nah?
We've fallen a long way from Cal telling some UL player that E-Bled was gonna whip his ass after the game.
A decision that apparently escaped Cal’s mind until after the game. Sometimes I wonder if he is operating on the sidelines while using “tunnel vision”. It’s as if he has a single focus during games and can’t see what could be done differently. How many times have we heard some lame bs excuse like the one last night with Ware, not that I think he would have made a difference.
Had heard something that one of our offensive players could take transfer route. Was worried it was CROD but now with him and our TE’s Ali coming back that’s pretty much it.
Brad could probably sell his "In memory of when I cared" t-shirt to a bunch of fans right now.
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buddy, I have some #thoughts about the state of our current strength and conditioning program that I am DYING to unleash
Cal always reverts back to fight. He’s done that for years, it’s very Billy G and frankly it’s getting extremely old and tired.
There’s more to this game than just my guys want it more . There’s a lot to be said for execution, employing a system or sets that put certain players in the best possible spot on the floor to succeed and proper distribution of minutes. See how successful NBA coaches accomplish this and rely on advanced metrics for efficiency.
I thought Dipshit Justus was the metrics guy or that was the excuse on why someone who’s coaching chops include being the head man at Woodberry Forest and in reality he’s nothing but a yes man and an above mediocre recruiter by Calipari era standard. Touch him and touch you too, Calipari.
There’s more to this game than just my guys want it more . There’s a lot to be said for execution, employing a system or sets that put certain players in the best possible spot on the floor to succeed and proper distribution of minutes. See how successful NBA coaches accomplish this and rely on advanced metrics for efficiency.
I thought Dipshit Justus was the metrics guy or that was the excuse on why someone who’s coaching chops include being the head man at Woodberry Forest and in reality he’s nothing but a yes man and an above mediocre recruiter by Calipari era standard. Touch him and touch you too, Calipari.
Concerning "complex" offensive system (and I'm sure I'll get blasted for this), I'm sure some are harder to learn than others, but at the end of the day, it's 5 guys and a ball, not differential equations.
John Calipari or Billy Gillespie?
"Now we have time to reflect back. How motivating is this experience? Will it make you motivated or will it make you complacent? If you're complacent, then we'll be right back where we were. If the deal is you enjoyed the experience so much it motivates you, then the sky's the limit."
"I don't study that stuff as much as everybody else does. I know that we have to really play well. Just a win on Wednesday probably wouldn't do it."
"Joe shouldn't have shot it. He knows that. It was my fault. I probably should have either called another timeout right there and told them exactly what we wanted to do or just reminded Joe that we didn't really need to have a 3-point shot at that point."
"We were afraid to shoot the ball. You can't shoot shots as a second thought."
"Now we have time to reflect back. How motivating is this experience? Will it make you motivated or will it make you complacent? If you're complacent, then we'll be right back where we were. If the deal is you enjoyed the experience so much it motivates you, then the sky's the limit."
"I don't study that stuff as much as everybody else does. I know that we have to really play well. Just a win on Wednesday probably wouldn't do it."
"Joe shouldn't have shot it. He knows that. It was my fault. I probably should have either called another timeout right there and told them exactly what we wanted to do or just reminded Joe that we didn't really need to have a 3-point shot at that point."
"We were afraid to shoot the ball. You can't shoot shots as a second thought."
Rockets just became 1000* more watchable
I didn't feel like we weren't playing hard last night. We did the equivalent of running the play clock down to 5 and then running the ball up the middle over and over. The guys tried to get the yards, they just weren't fooling anybody.
How long until the Calipari girls are tweeting about the smoking cigs photoshops?
36 hours?
36 hours?
Well- not always. That one year we were so bad he just quit and let them play kick ball.
The NBA needs to fix the so-called player empowerment movement with a quickness. I say "so-called", cause it's really the super-star empowerment movement. But I don't think it's a good thing if one of your marquee players - who the franchise had done whatever he has ever asked of them - shows up fat to camp and forces his way out.
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