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Seems like it's been obvious from Day 1 at Kentucky that Wagner isn't NBA material. DJ is to Wagner as Cooper is to Manning.
Better than that, Arkansas came to the top of the driveway, and Calipari jumped in to the trash can. We didn't have to pay a dime or lift a finger.
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Cooper Manning, according to his brothers and dad, was the most athletic out of the group and had the potential to be the best Manning athlete but suffered from debilitating back issues that forced him to quit football.
DJ Wagner is talented and capable of making it to the league, but he isn't a top 5 prospect that he was billed to be initially and was largely a legacy prospect.
DJ's problem is that he plays for John Calipari.
DJ played 37!!!! minutes last night and scored 0 points.
Cue Baby Billy Voice: Zee-roww. Zilch.
Cue Baby Billy Voice: Zee-roww. Zilch.
Remember the flashes we got of Z during his first game and then *makes wet fart noises* after?
Looking forward to watching Amari back Z down into the 10th row.
I started school early so I was always a year younger than everybody in my grade when I was growing up. In 8th grade I didn't make the middle school basketball team.
I thought that I needed to get better with my left hand, so I spent the winter in my driveway working on going left. By the end of the year I was as good going right as I was going left - especially on making left handed layups off a cross-over. By 9th grade I was the starting PG on the freshman team, and we finished first in the league.
My point of this is "what the F is Wagner's goddamn problem with going right and why hasn't he addressed it?"
I thought that I needed to get better with my left hand, so I spent the winter in my driveway working on going left. By the end of the year I was as good going right as I was going left - especially on making left handed layups off a cross-over. By 9th grade I was the starting PG on the freshman team, and we finished first in the league.
My point of this is "what the F is Wagner's goddamn problem with going right and why hasn't he addressed it?"
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Wagner starts and plays most of the game while Nellie Davis is a bucket and he barely sniffs the floor.
Sounds about right.
Sounds about right.
Brandon Garrison is going to hit a 3 over Z and also dunk on his head. Mark it down.
…and Cal knows it’s going to happen. Rupp will be a snake pit that night. Ready for the “don’t boo DJ, Thiero and Z, Boo me” a week before the game. Loser.
Meh, Cal will rally for that one and it'll be a war. He still has some left in the tank when he needs it, which makes everything even more infuriating.
That game will be a war. Cal always has usually two wins a year like last year against Tennessee and Alabama or at Kansas a couple of years ago where you think he's turned a corner and then follow it up with some BS like losing to a 9-9 LSU team, always, without fail.
I do believe in "Kentucky Magic" though where this is who we are, this is what we do in big moments and this new group of kids have it now when they put that jersey on. Arkansas doesn't have that, never will.
I do believe in "Kentucky Magic" though where this is who we are, this is what we do in big moments and this new group of kids have it now when they put that jersey on. Arkansas doesn't have that, never will.
Pope will 100% employ a 1-3-1 at some point during that game.
Nova ? You serious Clark ? The team that went 17-17 in 22/23 and 18-16 last year ? The team who is 2-2 this year with losses to Columbia and St. Josephs ? The team that the two wins are against Lafayette and NJIT ? Ohio State is ranked 21st, and have already beat Texas.
Cayts are 3-0. Murk the next 4 teams (Lipscomb, Jackson State, WKU, Georgia State) and will be headed to Clempson 7-0, then Gonzaga. The next 4 after that are Colgate, Louisville, tOSU, Brown. Legit chance to be 13-0 starting SEC play. Do that, and Cats are top 4 ranked.
I like my team.
I mentioned to people while watching the game, "poor Flagg will have to get some ointment on his dick at halftime, he will be raw from all the dickriding Bilas and the other dude is doing."
Even if Cal asks him not to?
The point about Cal still having some big wins in the tank for each season is certainly valid; we’ve seen it every year sans 2021.
But I think Pope has this one circled, and he is going to be surgical in exploiting Calipari’s many weaknesses. I really think we embarrass them.
But I think Pope has this one circled, and he is going to be surgical in exploiting Calipari’s many weaknesses. I really think we embarrass them.
My freshman year at UK in 99 was when I started following UK basketball. I lived out of state and like 99% of the rest of the country I was primarily a college football fan and didn’t really pay attention to bball until March. By sophomore year 00 I was hooked with big blue and was a rabid basketball fan. We lost to USC in the sweet sixteen that year like a-holes. Outside of 03 and 04 (which ended awful) I never really saw UK dominating or killing it until Cal, and unfortunately Tubby had the charisma of a sweet potato. All of Cals great moments and memories for me typically involved us overwhelming another team with talent (all of ‘12, UCLA and Kansas in 15, etc) or someone making a play (Knight and OSU in 11, Harrison in 14 tournament, etc).
Tuesday night was different. I thought and still do that Duke is much more talented, but we fought and were together and had great plays drew up and won. Won with pure heart and phenomenal X and O coaching. And then Popes analysis and strategy and passion. The whole thing is a completely different and new vibe for me after being a fan for 25 years. If this is what the Pitino years were like I can see why everyone was obsessed with his time here (I thought it was weird when I was at UK) but now I think I get it. I mean what a time to be a UK bball fam right now. What a home run Pope was.
Tuesday night was different. I thought and still do that Duke is much more talented, but we fought and were together and had great plays drew up and won. Won with pure heart and phenomenal X and O coaching. And then Popes analysis and strategy and passion. The whole thing is a completely different and new vibe for me after being a fan for 25 years. If this is what the Pitino years were like I can see why everyone was obsessed with his time here (I thought it was weird when I was at UK) but now I think I get it. I mean what a time to be a UK bball fam right now. What a home run Pope was.
Basketball Bennies just want to do basketball better than anyone else...not recruiting or the draft, basketball. Our best coaches were innovators, from Rupp's fastbreak to Rick's press and 3 ball.
Davis starts but he is used to playing in an actual offense. As opposed to one that turns it over to a freshman (Fland) to do whatever he wants. I love Nelly - I live close to FAU and knew that Final Four team and coaches well. Nelly's getting paid a ton of money to play there but would have been better off somewhere else.
When playing Cal there is no reason at all to ever play man to man defense. It’s why Cal’s big games came against UT mostly because Rick Barnes will sit in man to man.
It’s also funny to see Cal against a zone because his whole scheme is to get it to the left or right elbow and lob it up to guy that sneaks behind the zone. Meanwhile every other school shoots you out of it.
By the time that game gets here our team will have plenty of time to figure itself out to the point I’m not sure there will be anything in Cal’s bag that can get him that win.
But I’d be shocked if we didn’t zone a lot in the 1st half and press/run as much as possible in the 2nd half to wear that 6 man roster out.
It’s also funny to see Cal against a zone because his whole scheme is to get it to the left or right elbow and lob it up to guy that sneaks behind the zone. Meanwhile every other school shoots you out of it.
By the time that game gets here our team will have plenty of time to figure itself out to the point I’m not sure there will be anything in Cal’s bag that can get him that win.
But I’d be shocked if we didn’t zone a lot in the 1st half and press/run as much as possible in the 2nd half to wear that 6 man roster out.
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