Kentucky vs. Clemson Game Thread

[bbncal02]

Holy shit! Clemson just won the title! Wait, they didn't? Oh, they sure are acting like it.

I hope SMU beats the shit out of them in football. Would be delicious karma.

 

[The_Answer1313]

Good thing about the Cal years, these losses aren't devastating anymore

These losses will occur from time to time under any coach.

 

[kywildcat41035]

Ayers probably leading cheers.

The absolute BS foul that was called early on Butler changed this game. G

Dykes and Rauvich with their Pom poms too!!!

 

[LmdCat]

If this team doesn't regain its 3 point shooting, this will be a long season.

 

[shaudyshaud]

Worst thing about this loss is all the other SEC teams won tonight lol

Hopefully another SEC team will lose tomorrow

 

[TriCountyCat]

ESPN got exactly what they wanted.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

Their best 2 player shot 6/28 and Kentucky still lost. That’s not a good sign at all. The season ain’t over but Kentucky got exposed some tonight

 

[catfan220]

This is no dig at Pope because he did the best he could at assembling a team with so little time. However, it is clear that we a lacking in athleticism. We looked like we were playing in mud tonight. The cuts and other player movement is so slow that we could be guarded by tree. We are so concerned with doing slip screens that we are doing a horrible job at screening for open shots.

Yeah I mentioned this earlier in the thread but I watched a lot of BYU games after the Pope hire, and the difference in sharpness how they ran this offense last year and we do this year is pretty stark. We have more talent, but their actions were way crisper than what we've seen from this team.

 

[TankedCat]

can't wait for the call in shows to Pope

"we haven't given up on the team yet"

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Played like dog shizz and still almost beat a top 30 team on the road.

I'm not concerned.

We all knew we were losing 2 in the pre-SEC portion of the schedule.

 

[ChicagoCat1990]

This is about the worst I can see this team play and we lose on the road by 2-3 points. We weren’t going undefeated so.

I can see this kind of game happening a bunch in conference play. We just don't have a bunch of guys that can create their own offense. Teams will be overly physical with us to disrupt our offense and we're going to have to find ways to get baskets.

 

[xtra12]

We lost a road game to a good Kenpom rated team. It happens.

Difference is, this team is going to gel and get better through coaching.

 

[WildcatStu1]

Announcers talk how physical the game was, yet Clemson gets called for 7 fouls over the last 30 minutes of the game. One with 15 seconds left.
However, our interior defense was non existent when Clemson’s guards drove inside.

 

[kywildcat41035]

I still love my team and love Coach Pope . These guys needed to be woke up and realize that lackluster play isn’t going to win you many games!

 

[LmdCat]

Worst thing about this loss is all the other SEC teams won tonight lol

Hopefully another SEC team will lose tomorrow

Why do you want another SEC team to lose. It isn't going to change what happened tonight.

 

[fisherscatfan]

Pope needs to answer for this. No, seriously. Guy has some explaining to do and Mitch needs to send a message. Cal got us in this mess and there's no excuse even with new blood. Seriously.

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.

The reality is we got a bunch of mid major guys that were there for a reason. They are damn good players but not as athletic as the traditional P4 player. With that said Pope did seem to be a little discombobulated tonight.

Rotation was tightened up and fatigue seemed to be in play. Very little changes to offense to run action to get guys open. Minimal changes to defense. Insisting on running offense through Williams who thinks he is a good ball handler. Ball sticking in Carrs and Williams hands.

This is going to be what they see consistently through the SEC and I don’t think Carr and Williams are tough enough to make a deep run.

The guys need to see how even ESPN was giddy over the loss. They better learn pretty damn quick their toughness will be challenged every game from here on out.

 

[Mash 2.4]

Brea -13
Kriisa -21
Garrison -20

We lost because of our bench. That's a massive drop off from the starters.

May be time to see if one of the young kids can be an alternative to Kriisa.

 

[B.B.H.]

I’m feeling that I need to temper my expectations with this team. I just don’t see that we have that one guy that can score one on one to create those gaps and power plays. I thought we played with good defensive effort but poor defensive IQ.

 

[truckbrandon]

We played bad everywhere, but the game was mostly lost on the glass. Our bigs are doing way too much ball watching

 

[StubbornPenny]

bad on threes, bad on rebounds, Carr sucked, Kerr sucked, is what it is, learn from it

 

[shaudyshaud]

Why do you want another SEC team to lose. It is going to change what happened tonight.

Obviously I don’t want be the only SEC team to lose in this challenge

 

[Kentucky2022]

Only sec team to lose lol for a blue blood we get the worst whistles I ever seen

 

[blackcat714]

Welll lol that was one of the best shooting teams we’ve ever had lol

Sure was i was hoping this years team could shoot as good

 

[BradleyCrawford08]

I feel like we might be saying that a bit this season.

There's too many guys on this team that are just shaky free throw shooters unfortunately.

I hope we get that fixed. How many times in the Cal era did bad FT shooting bite us like it did tonight.

 

[The_Answer1313]

We are going to be in a TON of close games in SEC play.

We'll loss some of those and we'll win some of those. We happened to be on the wrong side today but we'll be good.

 

[bbncal02]

And the slurping begins; interviewing Clemson coach like they just won it all. ESPN aka ACC Hype Channel.

 

[megablue]

I am not sure why we didn't fight back. Hell, we allow G-St to do the same thing to us. The simple fact is this team is soft.

You may be right and we may be soft as a team overall, but I think we’re just not that athletic and quick enough to be effectively aggressive on both offense and defense. We are a finesse team.

 

[Kamuka]

Worst thing about this loss is all the other SEC teams won tonight lol

Hopefully another SEC team will lose tomorrow

Tbf we had the hardest game of the first night by far. Not sure how UT got matched up with Syracuse.

 

[Mash 2.4]

Not sure they will shoot that poorly the rest of the season. Use it and learn from it.

 

[catfan220]

Brea -13
Kriisa -21
Garrison -20

We lost because of our bench. That's a massive drop off from the starters.

Wow, worse than I thought!

 

[bbncal02]

I hope we get that fixed. How many times in the Cal era did bad FT shooting bite us like it did tonight.

Not gonna lie. Felt like a Cal Era loss. And that's what sucks the most about this.

 

[Saven]

Clemson has been underrated this year so far IMO and have been hanging outside on the bubble for awhile. I wish we played better tonight, but these types of nights can happen. That was a real good first test for the Cats this year and I'm glad we played as close as we did. Hope we can learn from these mistakes as the season continues and I hope we can sneak out a win on Saturday night!

 

[Blue wood]

Just tired of f-cking losing. So dam tired of it.

Did you think we were going 40-0 crybaby?

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Good thing about the Cal years, these losses aren't devastating anymore

I still prefer Pope.. but my problem with THIS years team as opposed to Cal teams.. is that Cal teams still have the talent that can beat any team, as evidenced by beating Alabama last year.

Yes we beat Duke, but that's looking more like a 2nd half collapse By duke after watching these last few games.

It's Pope's first year, so we can't expect much, but this just isn't a very talented team. I know I keep saying it, but it's just glaringly obvious. They struggle with better teams DESPITE Pope's coaching and scheme.

 

[permdaddy]

Just tired of f-cking losing. So dam tired of it.

You get tired easy. It's only been a few minutes.

 

[catsfan325]

May be time to see if one of the young kids can be an alternative to Kriisa.

I don't think Perry is near ready to compete at an SEC level, but I'm not sure he'd be worse than Kerr

 

[jr40831]

We could be worse off:

 

[LmdCat]

I still love my team and love Coach Pope . These guys needed to be woke up and realize that lackluster play isn’t going to win you many games!

You are correct. We did the same thing against G-St. We didn't wake up until Williams was damn near given whiplash.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

These losses will occur from time to time under any coach.

If this Pope thing doesn't work out and we finally land coach Tom Crean, You will eat those words.

 

[Noxium322]

This team needs to toughen the hell up. Padded practices Need to commence.