KSR postgame
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Yes, we were down 2. I suppose you could have gambled and gone for the win with a 3 pointer, but just trying to force overtime was all that was needed.
Sounds like MJ is of the opinion that Scott Drew gets the first call.
Not terrible but not great..
People like to think UKs "resources" will just add wins. I'm not so sure. His time at Baylor is pretty weak all together.
You want a winning coach? Which one can do it with multiple teams. That's my critique and Scott drew doesn't fit.
Jones and the KSR yes men have done this spill for a while. They criticize cal no inbounds, favor high rated players, man to man only defense, shooting too many long twos, etc. and then state…Cal is rhe man for this job…incredible stuff for sure. And cut off callers that want a new coach.
After that Gonzaga game is the first time he’s ever mentioned “Can’t see Cal back if we don’t make a run” the whole way this season is going
As far as the buyout…face it…Cal will get a buyout of sorts whenever it’s over. So if Cal is gone after this season (which is my prediction)..there will be a buyout and Jones will be wrong as he usually is
They hate him. He knows it. Wasn’t it a game when he was at UMASS where he got called from being out of the coaching box and Cal said “you only called that because I’m John Calipari.”
As a non-partial person:
I think Matt has been pretty objective the last 4 years. He's caught a lot of flack for criticizing Cal. Cal has deserved criticism.
9-16 gets you criticism. Losing to St. Peter's gets you criticism. Getting a returning NPOY in Oscar and having another let down season gets you criticism. 7 losses with a team full of draft picks should get you a lot of criticism.
K was the biggest cry baby and he always got a favorable whistle, but he was a good coach. Ccc is just lousy
What do you think he is going to say? Of course he called it, but said there were options to shift the blame. No way he was going to accept 100% blame
They don't, especially in the age of NIL. I make the same argument when people say Oats would win more here than he does at Bama. He had the #1 overall seed last year and lost in the Sweet 16. Him having that team at UK with our resources doesn't magically make them go further in the tournament.
Recruits don't care about "resources" or program tradition. Kids who would play for Drew at Baylor would play for Drew at UK. Kids that don't want to play for Drew aren't playing for him just because he's at UK. It's the same thing with Cal. Wall, Bledsoe and Cousins didn't come here for UK, they came here for Cal. They were already Memphis bound and would have followed him to Akron if that's where he ended up.
Both can be true. Cal can do a bad job and the refs can screw us.
Name 1 coach that would allow Gonzaga run the same play countless times WITHOUT making some kind of adjustment. You can't because there isn't one. EVERY coach would have tried something.
Look what Bruce Pearl has done with Auburn after Barbee left it a train wreck. . SMH. May not be a popular opinion on here, but that's my first call.
Booker averaged 21 minutes per game that season. Let's not act like he didn't play close to his average. He was also playing atrocious 3 point shooting wise going into that game and couldn't guard air.
That team got to that point on good defense.
Cold non alcoholic beer for you. How many more accounts you gonna make
Blaming refs is for losers.
There’s more than enough opportunities in every game to get the W. Missed opportunities piss me off. I don’t even pay attention to the officials. There are scores of people on here that actually know the refs by name! That’s goofy to me.
You guys slamming Scott Drew do realize he has won exactly the same number of NCAA Titles that Calipari has, right? And he's done it in Waco, TX. That Baylor program was on life support when he got there.
Yeah, Dan Hurley might be the better coach but, I don't think you get him away from UConn. Plus, I think he'd be a bad fit here. Drew would be a far better X's and O's guy plus, he can recruit and more importantly, develop players.
Yeah, Dan Hurley might be the better coach but, I don't think you get him away from UConn. Plus, I think he'd be a bad fit here. Drew would be a far better X's and O's guy plus, he can recruit and more importantly, develop players.
We've had designed lobs in the playbook since season 1 with Cal, they used to run those backdoor lobs to Wall and it was awesome. I think we did it the first play of the game against Louisville that season. And that final play yesterday was definitely designed for a lob (Cal said so in his postgame, but just look at the play). It wasn't executed well at several different points, but the plan was a lob.
To be fair, the people slamming Drew are also slamming Cal, so it's not like there's a disconnect on the number of titles!
I think Drew would be a good, not great hire for UK. But the great hires I can think of (Donovan, Jay Wright, Brad Stevens), I don't think they would realistically come. So if Scott Drew is the next coach, I'll be okay with it.
I do wonder if you give Mark Few a call, and not just because they've beat us back to back seasons. Drew has a title but outside of that Few's overall body of work is better. Maybe after the Zags have taken a step back this season he would consider moving on. He's 61, so not young, but you also probably don't have to worry about him overstaying his welcome. Maybe he only coaches 5 years, and then the coaching landscape has cleared up and the next generation of greats have emerged.
Lol Cal defenders do still exist I guess. And Alabama's ''struggle'' to hire Nick Saban's replacement shows how hard it is for blueblood schools to replace coaches...
Cal got to one national title game at his previous stops in 25 years. He came to UK and instantly got to two title games in 4 years. People want to act like a blueblood schools resources don't matter. Hilarious take.
Yep. Also, when Matt says the utterly ignorant "WhO wE GuNNa GiT tO RepLaCE hIM????"... I want to tell him, about any other capable coach would love to be the coach at KENTUCKY. I think Cal thinks he is untouchable... Thank you Mitch, you utter moron.
So, you don't believe the person you replied to, or feeling like you were pointed out?
Matt is just parroting whatever he read on here that he thinks will rile up the listeners. He doesn't believe most of the BS he spews.
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There's nobody here that puts Cal over the program unless they’re a rival fan that has played you. Little league stuff.
I mean you said you’re an “LOD charter member” and throw out insults here. You can’t be over 12 years old so I’ll take your nonsense with a tiny grain of salt and won’t lift a finger to correspond any further. Adios.
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I know one thing he’s never advertised and that’s a coaching clinic. Not a single soul would sign up.
