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Kentucky vs Tennessee Game Thread

It’s not good knowing that UT shot the ball terribly, we shot the ball well, their PG goes out, we were up by 8, and now are losing at half. That just isn’t good.

Offensive rebounds
Turnovers
Poor shot selection

This is why we lose games. I’ll throw in Marks subbing decisions/patterns. Not sure what the hell he’s doing over there tonight.
 
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We don’t create enough turnovers to lead to easy buckets. We allow too many offensive rebounds. We don’t have a playmaker on the entire roster. Just overall not a good team. Solid, but not good.
 
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Really hope Ziegler is ok (hell of a player and seems like a good dude), but I’m getting annoyed at these announcers continuing to harp on him maybe being out when we’re missing our starting and back-up PG. A bit disrespectful.
Well, he is 5th in the NCAA in assists. But we actually would be better off with him in there as he is 1/8 tonight. The announcers aren’t taking about the awful shooting night he’s having.
 
We are awful in rebounding because we are slow and non athletic. TN and every good team we have played makes this so obvious. We may win because TN can.t throw it the ocean tonight, but the difference is their speed vs our kids. We seem like we are playing in sand.
Such an awful group at rebounding that its tied at 21 rbs. Its obvious the fouls on Williams and our guys wearing down is why late in the half tenn was able to get to the balls and we didnt.
Yeah, but 10 or 12 of their total must be offensive rebounds. Last 6 minutes of 1st half was brutal. At least we’re only down 3 at half.
Off rebounding is 8 them to us 4.
 
Those 2 are scoreless...
So was whatever lineup we had in the last 3+ minutes. I’m not saying they shoudln’t do better. But people are ragging on the subs when some of the other guys who should be relied upon for a lot more than guys who are being forced into minutes didn’t do much better.
 
Popes subs tonight are horrible..Chandler as does Noah.
Chandler played better defense than half the team. Hes offensively challenged but he’s physically able to hang in a game like this.

Brea is a massive liability if he isn’t hitting 5+ 3s.

Garrison is too big and athletic to no rebound and to be this poor defensively.

Statistically, Perry, Brea, Garrison are our only negative +- defensive players over the course of the year
 
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Yeagm the turnovers and fouls are the difference. I don't think UK actually committed more fouls.
Let's not go blaming the refs. If you really watch the replay, we are fouling and grabbing. I know you think we should never get a foul called against us but damn man, our slowness and inability stay in front of a TN kid movig on a drive is our problem tonight and EVERY damn night. If you can't move your damn feet, you commit fouls. The world is not against us nor are the refs. We can't or don't want to play real defense. This is on our coaching staff because it has not improved since first game of season. I thinkall we practice is 3 point shooting. We are damn good on 3 point shots but youdon't see us drawing fouls driving the ball. We will never get fouled as much as we foul if we don't take the ball to the rack, and we don't. We camp on the 3 point line.
 
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This kind of feels like those games where we play a team that comes out hot from the 3.. but kind of cools off as we settle in for the 2nd half. Except, it feels reversed where we're that other team lol. Hope he can stay in it.
 
Spirited start, but not maintaining that energy level really hurt us in the final 3-4 minutes. We’re definitely still in the game, which I would have taken before tip-off, but we just don’t have the level of talent that can afford to take plays off in a game like this. We need to stay focused for a full 20 minutes if we want a shot to actually win this.
 
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They both and can shoot the lights out and Chandler can't shoot at all, IMO. UK needs confident shooters who know how to win ... shooting the ball. That's all these two did they're entire HS careers.
All 3 are useless in big boy basketball. Maybe in 3 years.
 
They have at least 3 three pointers after several offensive rebounds, if we can’t stop that, it’s over. It’s one and out for us, that’s the way it needs to be for them for us to have a chance to win this game. This comes up every game, between turnovers and lack of rebounding, we can’t win close games.
 
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Maybe Dakich and Greenberg are right. I'm tired of sucking. So very tired of it.
If you can’t teach D or inspire guys to play it, you don’t last. Can’t give up so many wide open looks, layups, and offensive rebounds.

Also have huge issues with Pope’s substitutions, and Jaxon being on the bench after a media timeout. Our possessions without him - 2 Oweh turnovers.
 
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TN has gotten up more 3s than us. Little surprised by that stat (is that right?). I know it's much easier to say "shoot more 3s" when a great defense is all keyed to not let that happen, but we need to find a way to get up more.
 
All 3 are useless in big boy basketball. Maybe in 3 years.
Disagree ... in today's game, you have to play skilled players that can shoot. Other aspects of their games will develop over time but both can shoot and if UK has a chance tonight, they need shooters. JMO.
 
We can’t rebound anyways. Feel like a zone against a poor shooting Tenn team could hide Brea from the ball screen action
 
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