Kentucky vs. Clemson Game Thread

[megablue]

UK AD and Boosters need to come away with this and think "we HAVE to help get Pope talent".

I thought we spent a bunch to get those we have this year ??

 

[catfan220]

This will be a bad loss in the context of this season, but not a bad loss in the context of Pope's career here. It's a makeshift team with no experience together, we'll take some lumps this year.

 

[UKSouthpaw]

Too soft in a game that was allowed to be rough.

 

[Seth_C]

Are the fans really going to rush the court for this nothing game? My god.

 

[TheWyldKat]

First non cupcake since Duke and struggling to break the 60’s

Zags will blow this team out.

But their fun

 

[sefus12]

Couldn’t match their energy and couldn’t make a shot.

Three games in a row of pretty bad shooting.

We aren’t a good shooting team. We are a team of guys who like to shoot who are streaky as hell. Well, Brea is a good shooter but he can’t get his own shot off so it’s not like he can’t be a game changer.

 

[Mash 2.4]

We had our chances. Still think we’re one of the teams with a chance to win it all.

 

[Lempface]

Oh hey look the 'even' it up FTs at the end...

 

[catsfan325]

Someone was arguing with me in one of the other game threads about not needing a go-to guy because so many guys can score. This game is all the proof you need as to why we (any team) 100% needs a guy who can go get points when you absolutely need it.

We’re probably gonna lose quite a few games when we are shooting poorly, just like tonight. We aren’t good enough in other areas of the game to overcome bad shooting against decent competition. Live by the 3, die by the 3. And we’re lucky we haven’t died by the 3 yet.

its not like clemson has Kobe

 

[The_Answer1313]

now we are down six absolutely need 3s and we drive it LOL.

 

[ChicagoCat1990]

lol now we get a touch foul

 

[Fox2monk]

Notice the game line tonight was 4. Look at the score.

This does not excuse our bad play, but it doesn't help.

Refs are good aren’t they.

 

[megablue]

I think we are now seeing that this team will probably lose about 8 or 9 games and max out at around S16 at best. I was really hoping for more, but I just don’t see it.

Right now … that looks about right.

 

[Someguywhodoesntlikeyou]

So our season’s over, right?

No.

This team should be judged on Feb 1st.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

We’re going to be fine. I still really like this team.

21 to 23 wins seemed realistic the whole time, given the realities of the SEC.

 

[brianpoe]

We have one guy that can hit 3's and he doesnt play in crunch time...? Brea had to be in the game, Pope waits until 21 seconds left to put him in?

 

[CatOfDaVille]

Must suck to have a receding hairline at 20 yrs old (Zackary)

 

[Blue wood]

Enjoy the season guys. But understand that this team with these bigs has zero chance to make any noise. This team has a lot of issues, but these three bigs are just not good.

Good lord it's one game, you people give up like a bunch of p......

 

[Noxium322]

O(WEH)-3 on three's buried any win here.

 

[CatFanInIlliniLand]

Vanilla Pudding Shizzland missed 16 shots and we still lost.

Because he also got 20 Rebs

 

[Edgarman]

This loss stings. Much of it is effort. This Clemson team kinda sucks. And Pope has coached very poorly.

Clemson does not suck and Pope has not coached poorly. We just did not hit our 3 point shots. You live by the three you die bythe threes. Tough road game that will help get us ready for conference play. We got beat, congratulate Clemson and get ready for Zags.

 

[studentcat]

Just looked at the box score…..ouch

 

[UKSanders]

oh... NOW they finally call a foul on Zackery? He's been hanging on the ball handler ALL NIGHT

 

[TankedCat]

Pope needs to answer for this. No, seriously. Guy has some explaining to do and Mitch needs to send a message.

It's not about the loss as much as it is about how we lost. Really being exposed and jacking up threes. Not good. This is not Kentucky basketball.

Pope needs to answer for this? seriously

 

[know1]

I just hope everyone don’t give up we are a fickle board. Everyone knew this game would be tough,

"Everyone" is mostly a bunch of idiots so they will give up for about 24 hours.

 

[Mike-McD]

Gave a career high to a goofy ass white dude- a UK tradition owned by every UK coach, now including Pope.

And he always has some goofy ass last name that you can't pronounce or spell.

 

[LmdCat]

If Williams and Carr don’t man up, this is going to be typical in the SEC.

I have no idea how Williams is considered the best defender in college basketball.

 

[Someguywhodoesntlikeyou]

And they added pieces from the portal. You return everyone but 2 guys and you still have an e8 foundation. There is a reason they are a top 25 KenPom team

All that said, despite the officiating playing into their physical style, we hit open 3/ and we win

Whatever you want to tell yourself.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

Is brea hurt? And also this is very discouraging because Clemson didn’t play good and Kentucky is still gonna lose. Now they have to travel across country to play a team who is 100 times better than Clemson

 

[Blue wood]

There is nothing in these first 8 games that would make me think we won't be "very good in basketball"

It took one game for these wussies to show up. I knew it

 

[megablue]

There is nothing in these first 8 games that would make me think we won't be "very good in basketball"

We are DEFINITELY very good … !!

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Feels like a Billy Clyde Gillispie type loss. All we need is Joe Crawford hitting a few last-minute threes to make it close before the end.

 

[jmmcgr02]

Elite 8 team that returned the majority of the roster

They lost their top 2 scorers, and 6 of their top 9 from last year's team.

 

[Digger-Cat]

This gives me zero confidence in this teams ability to do anything in the SEC, home or away.

Honestly, why even bring Koby Brea in if you aren't going to use him here? He got what, 2 shots? That's just not good.

 

[Bleedthatblue]

Gotta do something about about our 3 point shooting, started off great this season and now in the last 3 games we can’t hit the broad side of a barn.

The most astute comment here. More people complaining about the ideologies about brea not being put in when said people want brea out because he can’t defend. Nevermind the fact the UK 3pt shooting has been regressing the last couple of games since Duke.

 

[kywildcat41035]

39-1

My new tattoo to cover up 40-0

 

[The_Answer1313]

This will be a bad loss in the context of this season, but not a bad loss in the context of Pope's career here. It's a makeshift team with no experience together, we'll take some lumps this year.

It's not even a bad loss in the context of this season.

It's a loss to a fringe top 25 team on the road in a game where we are a slight favorite.

 

[blackcat714]

This teams shoots the 3 worse than last years team

 

[catfan220]

I thought we spent a bunch to get those we have this year ??

We had to buy a whole new roster this year, it will be different when you have a handful of freshman, a handful of returners, and need a 2-3 transfers to fill holes.

 

[know1]

Pope needs to answer for this. No, seriously. Guy has some explaining to do and Mitch needs to send a message.

It's not about the loss as much as it is about how we lost. Really being exposed and jacking up threes. Not good. This is not Kentucky basketball.

I hate this board. And I hate myself for coming back here time after time.