Kentucky vs Arkansas Game Thread

[truebluewildcat]

hahahahaha...ya boy MJ basically called this one. Cal, whether it's a great season or shit season is always going to sneak one.

It was destiny. That superior athleticism and NBA talent actually played up to its potential for the first time in 5-6 years.

Ivisic looking like Victor Wembanyama...7"4 stroking it

DJ Wagner looking like his pops back in the Cal/Memphis days when they had those teams of freaks that would bully, run around, and jump over what seemed to be kids.

Adoo showing the potential we all knew he had but never saw.

 

[Girthang]

I hope we drop our seeding for the tournament. We need to only play high seeded teams. The idea of us getting a 4/12 matchup is terrifying.

Exactly my thoughts. Exactly

This team may need to be a 6 seed

 

[TheWyldKat]

This sealed the deal.

Cant stand Cal

Hope he never comes back

 

[InAcorner]

When you post responses to me, all I hear is REM singing , "that's me in the corner... That's me in the spotlight..."

Better than the whining I hear from yours!

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

We have no bench help. Those Perry + Garrison + Chandler minutes destroyed us in the +/- I'm guessing

True, Perry just isn't ready for this level yet. All 3 are need a year or 2 before they can really contribute.

 

[Digger-Cat]

Dude, Arkansas had this circled and played the best game they possibly could. We have 2 dudes out and Carr is still not close to 100%

OMG, this is so lame. We just let them score 90. THEY WERE 1-6 IN SEC PLAY. They are an NIT team missing their best player. Holy shit, you guys can't be cool with this.
Who cares that it was circled on their schedule. We literally left them wide open all night long. We gave them this game

 

[NoDef]

Some people really show their lunacy when things don't go well.

Just joking. Just a bad loss. Arkansas is actually better minus an injury. We need to get more consistent .

 

[Digger-Cat]

"real fans" that only show up to complain about loses, ok buddy. We all see you.

Yeah, well, you're an Arkansas fan, we proved that last week. Gfy.

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

Unacceptable

Pope let us down. The team wasn’t prepared.

We can’t stop anyone. Pope made no adjustments.

This is the 1 game he can’t lose.

AND he did.

Total BS such a bad bad loss to a 1-6 team

Drinking will rob your perspective.

 

[Digger-Cat]

LOL

I"m gone! Oh I'll be here!

SMH..drama queens

Damn, I can't believe we have UK fans that are okay with this. Wow.

 

[catsfan325]

Otega Oweh / dawg but needs to fix his shooting form desperately
Brandon Garrison / not a dawg
Collin Chandler / not a dawg
Trent Noah / maybe a dawg? Too small of a sample size
Travis Perry / not a dawg
Acaden Lewis / puppy
Malachi Moreno / not a dawg
Jasper Johnson / not a dawg


Ignore shooting, basketball IQ, analytical data, this isn't the recipe for success. Criteria 1 for player eval this offseason should be - are they a dawg yes or no.

 

[LmdCat]

You're not seeing the bigger picture. Its the consistent issues from this team that has not been fixed. Pope gets a pass this year. The point of my response there, is about consistency. If this year is consistent next year and beyond, it won't look good for Pope.

I am clearly seeing the point. We don't have a single athletic freak on this team. We only have one big who consistently play above the rim and he doesn't start. We don't have a backup point guard and the last two games we have played without a point guard and managed to beat the 8th ranked team. Pope has really worked magic to get us to where we are. If the dog doesn't have any hunt in him, there isn't much you can do. We know we have a team made up of spare parts. This is nothing like losing to the Oaklands of the world while having a roster of 1st round draft picks.

 

[FutureCity]

This team has a wealth of shooters. But its drive game and its post game is iffy. It just seems to me that Kentucky is going to win it's going to do it by shooting and leaving off the post game and the driving game.

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

Damn, I can't believe we have UK fans that are okay with this. Wow.

You act like this is the first game against an unranked team that we lost. I'm not happy but Arkansas played out of their ass and anyone could see this coming a mile away.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Unacceptable

Pope let us down. The team wasn’t prepared.

We can’t stop anyone. Pope made no adjustments.

This is the 1 game he can’t lose.

AND he did.

Total BS such a bad bad loss to a 1-6 team

I don't consider any regular season game as a must-win game.

Now we lose to some unranked team in the tournament, that's another story.

 

[InAcorner]

Yeah, well, you're an Arkansas fan, we proved that last week. Gfy.

Anyone that has been to these boards has seen you only comment when we lose and only have negative shit to say. Goodnight loser!

 

[billoliver40]

Unacceptable

Pope let us down. The team wasn’t prepared.

We can’t stop anyone. Pope made no adjustments.

This is the 1 game he can’t lose.
St turne
AND he did.

Total BS such a bad bad loss to a 1-6 team

Pardon the French but this is horse shit.

So let me get this straight....beat Duke. Gonzaga, Louisville, Tennessee, and Florida and Pope has let us DOWN????

AND ARKANSAS is the most important game of the season????

Go get drunker or higher.

Every home loss us awful.

I swear I think some folks just turned into basketball fans a year ago.

The most important game if the season is the next one you play in the tournament.

 

[LmdCat]

This team has a wealth of shooters. But its drive game and its post game is iffy. It just seems to me that Kentucky is going to win it's going to do it by shooting and leaving off the post game and the driving game.

Its post-game is not existent. The fact that Williams was able to score rather easily under the basket illustrates just how bad Cal's bigs are.

 

[hotelblue]

just a few things.

noah should have played over chandler. was he hurt? not subbing was dumb. we were tired.

williams was a warrior.

oweh had numerous chances to hit the shot to cut it to 4, with plenty of time left. he didn’t finish once.

not zoning played right into their hands. cal told them everything to the basket down the stretch and wagner put it away.

without butler we’re not getting out of the first weekend.

our guys played hard. ark played harder.

cal will use this moment to say “this is how good we should be” and they will go on to underperform as he did at kentucky. that they aren’t a tournament team is a joke.

sad for coach pope and our fans. we’ll probably have to wait a couple years for vindication. we may not beat them any time soon. would love another crack at them in the sect though.

we’re on a new path, no longer “unburdened” by that under preforming coach. we will play in march. they will be watching pre-draft commentaries.

 

[Woodrow_Call_1998]

They were shooting 3s at a 50% clip so that would have been a really smart thing to do. If they continued shooting it well, you would have then complained about that.

One of the reasons why they shot the 3 so well was because of the fact we couldn’t defend them man to man. Getting beat off the dribble and the defense collapsing left guys open way too many times.

 

[JFCats22]

Pardon the French but this is horse shit.

So let me get this straight....beat Duke. Gonzaga, Louisville, Tennessee, and Florida and Pope has let us DOWN????

AND ARKANSAS is the most important game of the season????

Go get drunker or higher.

Every home loss us awful.

I swear I think some folks just turned into basketball fans a year ago.

The most important game if the season is the next one you play in the tournament.

We are 0-5 against unranked power five teams. We are in 9th place in the SEC and are 5-5 in our last 10 games.

WTF are you celebrating for?

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Two in a row at Rupp.

Be nice to have a healthy team.

 

[Digger-Cat]

See ya. Nobody is 'okay with it.' Go take the job or put on a uniform and play.

What magic elixir do you have oh great one that heals up two point guards or gives extra speed and quickness? Put it out there and I bet you would make some big bucks.

It was a team loss...bad coaching moves, bad play, bad execution. Wish it hadn't happened but it did.

For me, I'm 45 years too old to play and not near smart enough to coach.

So I'll just watch.

Pay me 5 million a year and I damn sure would put a better defense out there than this.

Do you guys not understand how bad our defense is? We're the worst power 6 defense.

Do you understand how bad that is? Miami, Fl and South Carolina are better. Do you unserstand that?

That means our guys aren't even being coached.

 

[InAcorner]

just a few things.

noah should have played over chandler. was he hurt? not subbing was dumb. we were tired.

williams was a warrior.

oweh had numerous chances to hit the shot to cut it to 4, with plenty of time left. he didn’t finish once.

not zoning played right into their hands. cal told them everything to the basket down the stretch and wagner put it away.

without butler we’re not getting out of the first weekend.

our guys played hard. ark played harder.

cal will use this moment to say “this is how good we should be” and they will go on to underperform as he did at kentucky. that they aren’t a tournament team is a joke.

sad for coach pope and our fans. we’ll probably have to wait a couple years for vindication. we may not beat them any time soon. would love another crack at them in the sect though.

we’re on a new path, no longer “unburdened” by that under preforming coach. we will play in march. they will be watching pre-draft commentaries.

It is so refreshing to hear someone with common sense after a lose. We are fine. These "fans" are obviously traumatized or loved Cal and want to see us lose.

 

[Girthang]

Looks like we just gave up . Man the arena was rocking and to give this performance is just disappointing.

The arena is never rocking like it was to begin this game . How do you not feed off of that .

We fed off of it, then we quit playing perimeter defense, and passed like shit most of the rest of the game. Missed enough layups and fts, and never went to a zone, got so far behind that the bad calls/noncalls started to make a difference.

Hopefully our coach and team learns from this and plays every team afterward like it's ranked in the top 5.

 

[Digger-Cat]

You all have a miserable night. Won't be hard for this group! You'll be all about this team next win.

You're on the wrong board, head over to your hawg board.

 

[Fox2monk]

Noah is pretty good defensively and can shoot. But, we didn’t have anyone playing defense tonight. We’re too slow to guard fast players like Wagner and Thiero. And our bigs couldn’t guard Z’s 3’s. Just got to forget this game.

Bad game plan, I don’t care how they were shooting you 1-3-1 Cal and you win bottom line. Terrible game plan.

 

[Digger-Cat]

It is so refreshing to hear someone with common sense after a lose. We are fine. These "fans" are obviously traumatized or loved Cal and want to see us lose.

LOL, WE are fine? Says the Arkansas fan.

 

[LmdCat]

Just joking. Just a bad loss. Arkansas is actually better minus an injury. We need to get more consistent .

I am not sure if you are serious, but it is a fact that Arkansas has better talent than we do. They are just missing coaches who know what to do with the talent. I fully expect Arkansas to go back to their losing ways as soon as they face other SEC teams that have the athletes to keep them from driving.

 

[hotelblue]

Pay me 5 million a year and I damn sure would put a better defense out there than this.

Do you guys not understand how bad our defense is? We're the worst power 6 defense.

Do you understand how bad that is? Miami, Fl and South Carolina are better. Do you unserstand that?

That means our guys aren't even being coached.

most of these guys are 4 year players. our lack of defense was known going in.

 

[redbird51]

Tennessee shot horribly and we hit 15 3's at a 50% clip and they still had two possessions to tie the game. Defense has to improve or Pope will not last long here. Hope it improves this year.

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

OMG, this is so lame. We just let them score 90. THEY WERE 1-6 IN SEC PLAY. They are an NIT team missing their best player. Holy shit, you guys can't be cool with this.
Who cares that it was circled on their schedule. We literally left them wide open all night long. We gave them this game

So your game plan for ark would to not slack off? Sometimes a team plays out of their ass. Now I agree we should have never left big Z get a free look(s) but it's hard to stop a 7' 2" dude from getting a shot off. Once again, I'm not happy with any loss, but I'm not sure why this loss is more triggering than any other non ranked team we lossed to. My only real bitch is free throw shooting. That's an issue.

 

[LmdCat]

Oh I'll be here, because I'm a UK fan, but this isn't good enough. You can't allow this to happen.

You act like we would have a much better record if Cal was still here. The last time I looked Cal's team isn't even close to being ranked and won't get ranked because of their win.

 

[TankedCat]

Damn, I can't believe we have UK fans that are okay with this. Wow.

what I'm OK with is Calipari is gone.

I'll take Mark Pope and UK losing to a Cal coached team if it means Cal is not coaching Kentucky every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Take off your superfan cape, no one is OK with this. But I'd bet money today we don't lose the first game of the NCAA tourney with Pope as our coach ( and yes, we're going to make the tourney as if that needed to be said)

Give the man a chance to actually put a team together that he doesn't have to start recruiting in April, then decide what's acceptable

 

[Digger-Cat]

You act like this is the first game against an unranked team that we lost. I'm not happy but Arkansas played out of their ass and anyone could see this coming a mile away.

You don't get it. We let them play out of their mind. Do you not understand that? We let them score 90 points. They haven't scored 80 all year, even with Fland.

You guys will figure it out eventually, but with this defense, we're one and done in the NCAAT and I don't see how it will get any better, Pope is not a good defensive coach. In fact, we are the worst defense in all of the power 6 conferences. That's alarming.

 

[Pygmy Sasquatch]

Dude, Arkansas had this circled and played the best game they possibly could. We have 2 dudes out and Carr is still not close to 100%. Not making excuses, but relax.

Given what we just did to Tennessee, and given the undeniable importance of this game, I'd say Pope shit the bed, and I'm a fan of Pope, but this doesn't cut it and he should get no slack for losing this

 

[Digger-Cat]

You act like we would have a much better record if Cal was still here. The last time I looked Cal's team isn't even close to being ranked and won't get ranked because of their win.

This makes no damn sense. That was an NIT team that just dropped 90 on us. This was the one game we had to win.

Man, I can't believe y'all are making excuses for this shit. Wow.

 

[InAcorner]

See ya. Nobody is 'okay with it.' Go take the job or put on a uniform and play.

What magic elixir do you have oh great one that heals up two point guards or gives extra speed and quickness? Put it out there and I bet you would make some big bucks.

It was a team loss...bad coaching moves, bad play, bad execution. Wish it hadn't happened but it did.

For me, I'm 45 years too old to play and not near smart enough to coach.

So I'll just watch.

He really thinks it to. He's fun to laugh at if nothing else.

I could not agree with that second to last line anymore! We are fans we don't really no a damn thing. These guys think because they recognize what defense a team is running that they could make it to the dance. It is honestly exhausting.

 

[Digger-Cat]

what I'm OK with is Calipari is gone.

I'll take Mark Pope and UK losing to a Cal coached team if it means Cal is not coaching Kentucky every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Take off your superfan cape, no one is OK with this. But I'd bet money today we don't lose the first game of the NCAA tourney with Pope as our coach ( and yes, we're going to make the tourney as if that needed to be said)

Give the man a chance to actually put a team together that he doesn't have to start recruiting in April, then decide what's acceptable

We wanted cal gone because he lost games like this. We just got embarrassed by a bad coach with a flawed team. But hey, I'm glad you're good with it.

Wow.

 

[LmdCat]

This makes no damn sense. That was an NIT team that just dropped 90 on us. This was the one game we had to win.

Man, I can't believe y'all are making excuses for this shit. Wow.

So, Cal was right. This was your Super Bowl. I will gladly take a midseason loss to Arkansas if the coach we have gives us a reasonable chance of not losing in the first round of the SEC and NCAA tourneys.