Same here, I absolutely dread it now. This month used to be my favorite of the year by far!!!!!! After being burned so many times and watching so much talent come thru, only to be mismanaged, I don't look forward to March anymore. 2015 broke me, and I lost most of my faith in Cal. If you can't win a title with that roster, then you're not winning another. That's when I knew he was a sham for a coach and simply a recruiter.
2017 came along, and I had hope that the talent would outweighCal's ineptness. Then the rooferie happened........ that's literally the last time I felt we had a chance at winning it all.
Then this year happened. And once again I felt we had more than enough talent and depth to win despite Cal. Early in the year he stayed out of the way and let them play, it was absolutely electric. Although not strong defensively there wasn't a team in the country that could keep up with them, hell even then they were more aggressive on defense by playing the passing lanes for steals. Once the 7 footers came back it all fell apart, we stopped playing the passing lane except Reed. It's like Cal told them to stay in front and rely on the bigs to block shots don't gamble now look at our defense it's just that. The offense bogged down a bit the bigs clogged the lane and the ball movement we once had stopped. We went to floppy action, throwing to the post and iso plays. We stopped sharing the ball and running the offense at a higher pace like earlier in the year. Go back and watch it's night and day despite still putting up good numbers. This team had an identity earlier this year and embraced it, not so much now.
With Cals totally f*cked up line ups, starting line ups that dig us holes nearly every game, and continuing to give minutes to guys struggling he's put his agenda over the betterment of the team. He's gonna play his guys no matter how it hurts the team, he's gonna run his style of play to detriment of the team. He's going to refuse to switch defenses despite watching teams get layup after layup, open 3 after open 3. His stubbornness and coaching killed 2015 and it'll kill 2024. I could go on but I won't......not that much more anyways.
I said in December if he stays out of the way we win it all, if we don't we'll struggle in conference then in the tournament. We've seen it happen too many times whether the pumpers want to admit it or not he's derailed some great rosters. Yet here we are again.... I've lost my short lived excitement, I've lost the rare moment of hope for the season we hardly get anymore. This team was fun, the season was fun. The man I despise, John Vincent Calipari decided to foul it all up. He burnt us again, he stole our joy, he stole our excitement, he stole our hope.....he stole our March.
