Louisville This Rick Pitino That
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a clear sign of a delusional fanbase is when you gush and praise a group of players for effectively shooting 13% from the floor in a game where you lost.
Yes he did. Then they beat Louisville![[laughing]](http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/classic/laugh.r191677.gif "Laughing [laughing]")
The Pan Am squad didn't have Harkless or Balkman, 2 NBA guys that played last night. I'm not sure who else did or didn't play a couple weeks ago, but it was hardly the same team.
Playing mid-summer games against older, sometimes better competition isn't an easy go for a college team. Was it last year UK lost to the Dominican squad? These games are good in the long run for a team, but it's hard to really say what the outcomes mean. Win them all or lose them all, it's ridiculous to get too up or down about anything right now.
If you cant look at this Louisville team and see it is well below the past 3-4 seasons in talent you are crazy . Again the front court is a major weakness and MEGA is gone. Depending on Raymond Spaulding to contribute this seasons is not such a good thing.
And UK beat the PR team last year by 40 I think.
.500 in the ACC will probably be a good season.
Kentucky > Louisville everyone knows it including Pitino, just don't tell their delusional fan base that...
I don't know, it's August. Our front court isn't great right now but it's August. I think we have a lot of pieces, but it's hard for me to prove that right now, because it's August.
I was more replying to correct your statement that this was the same team that got killed in the Pan Am games. It wasn't - not really even close. Since most your posts are concerning UL and you cared enough to watch the games last night, I just wanted to make sure you had all the facts.
Louisville gonna be hot garbage this year. 10+ loss team.
I didn't know it was possible for a Louisville fan to come and talk trash after last season. four FF in five seasons speaks for itself. Meanwhile beating you guys seven out of eight.
He's just making sure we have all the facts, even if he can't face them.
Cant see anyone on UL's team scoring on the low block. And noone can replace MEGA's rebounding.
And the game was on at Roosters. You think I paid to watch that mess?
I was scared to death that somehow we would end up with Drexel in our bracket last year. I knew this guy was a stone cold killa.
we should start taking bets...which 2 or 3 players currently on the UL roster will transfer (turns out they werent louisville men) at the end of the season?
side bet....which UL player gets suspended right after the UK game?
side bet....which UL player gets suspended right after the UK game?
Yes. He is tall and skinny and has no business playing the min he will have to play this season for Louisville. Which again goes back to how far their roster has fallen.
For a while, I've tried to go over to the Card boards and have some low-key, semi-rational debates. But the majority of the time it's like banging your head against a wall - a very angry, bitter wall with WWII era propaganda spray-painted on it.
Now, they have some cool fans on the mainboard (not all).
And we have huge homers, too, but most of our regulars are at least willing to discuss stuff and to ridicule things Cal says (pooping ice cream, greatest night in UK history, etc)
We see Cal as a cocky, entertaining, mildly overweight guy who is, at worst, the second best coach in the country with his results on the court. When he says something over the top, most of us just chalk it up to sending recruiting messages and ignore it.
But the guys on the Card home board see Rick as some kind of savior - even when he says the most ridiculous things, they circle the wagons and go into defense mode. Whatever comes from his mouth, they insert into the gospel -They admit to using "L1C4" in normal life and use phrases like "he's not a Louisville man" if they lose a recruit to another school.
I mean, many of us accept certain Cal concepts like the "players first" thing, but we don't go around quoting it like it comes from Psalms. And plenty of UK fans disagree with him on it.
Obviously, no man that silly should be taken so seriously.
So while I never start threads about Louisville, I thought I'd make this one exception.
As many of you know, he just got a transfer from Drexel (team went 11-19 last season, going .500 in the Colonial Athletic Association), and his quote about the kid was "You know, he's a little bit better version of Ron Mercer".
Another legendary quote was when Pitt and Syracuse left the Big East for the ACC, he said "Don't run away with a girl after one date when you've been dating someone else for three or four years. You've been dating this woman for 30 years, show a little respect."
This was 2 years after the Karen Sypher scandal broke, and 3 years before Louisville left for the ACC.
What are some others?
Bring up examples where Rick faced the toughest opponent of all time, recruited the greatest shooter since (insert NBA legend), scolded reporters for lying about his 700th player getting the boot - right before it turns out to be true, etc.
Now, they have some cool fans on the mainboard (not all).
And we have huge homers, too, but most of our regulars are at least willing to discuss stuff and to ridicule things Cal says (pooping ice cream, greatest night in UK history, etc)
We see Cal as a cocky, entertaining, mildly overweight guy who is, at worst, the second best coach in the country with his results on the court. When he says something over the top, most of us just chalk it up to sending recruiting messages and ignore it.
But the guys on the Card home board see Rick as some kind of savior - even when he says the most ridiculous things, they circle the wagons and go into defense mode. Whatever comes from his mouth, they insert into the gospel -They admit to using "L1C4" in normal life and use phrases like "he's not a Louisville man" if they lose a recruit to another school.
I mean, many of us accept certain Cal concepts like the "players first" thing, but we don't go around quoting it like it comes from Psalms. And plenty of UK fans disagree with him on it.
Obviously, no man that silly should be taken so seriously.
So while I never start threads about Louisville, I thought I'd make this one exception.
As many of you know, he just got a transfer from Drexel (team went 11-19 last season, going .500 in the Colonial Athletic Association), and his quote about the kid was "You know, he's a little bit better version of Ron Mercer".
Another legendary quote was when Pitt and Syracuse left the Big East for the ACC, he said "Don't run away with a girl after one date when you've been dating someone else for three or four years. You've been dating this woman for 30 years, show a little respect."
This was 2 years after the Karen Sypher scandal broke, and 3 years before Louisville left for the ACC.
What are some others?
Bring up examples where Rick faced the toughest opponent of all time, recruited the greatest shooter since (insert NBA legend), scolded reporters for lying about his 700th player getting the boot - right before it turns out to be true, etc.
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samuels -> “He’s maybe the best freshman I’ve ever coached, but he doesn’t rebound, he doesn’t play defense,” Coach Rick Pitino said
behanan -> "He's as good as any freshman I've coached since (Jamal) Mashburn,"
behanan -> "He's as good as any freshman I've coached since (Jamal) Mashburn,"
That's funny, but there's an even more ridiculous thread on their board right now titled "Get ready for a national championship run…you saw it here first." We can all thank "No. 1Cardfan" for that extra dose of hilarity.
We can all thank "No. 1Cardfan" for that extra dose of hilarity.
Fans think after loss they will make a championship run.
http://louisville.forums.rivals.com...-championship-run-you-saw-it-here-first.8649/
also read this one while you are at it.
http://louisville.forums.rivals.com/threads/puerto-rico-post-game.9861/
No. It's not that at all. International ball is just much more physical and they get away with a lot more than here in the states. Trust me, UofL looks nothing like what we saw last night. It was atrocious. I am not one to typically blame refs to today I am blaming refs.
When your best player by FAR is a 5th year "no-NBA-possibility" transfer from the hoops powerhouse DREXEL......then you are reaaaaaaally in for a tough season.
I just don't see how Damion Lee is better than Ron Mercer. Mercer played in the NBA for 8 seasons. Lee will be lucky to play even a single D-League game. Lee is a streaky, high volume shooter. He can score but shot only 43% for his career at Drexel. That's not a bad shooting percentage, but its not great either, 5% below what Mercer shot for his career at UK. 43% shooting against "low major" competition more than likely translates to sub 40% against high major competition. This is probably in the top 5 dumbest statements Pitino has ever made and that's saying something.
"He's as good as any freshman I've coached since (Jamal) Mashburn,"
- on Chane Behanan
"I've got a lot of guys right now, seven or eight guys on the team, who aren't one-and-dones but will play in the NBA someday."
- on this year's team
“He's the best high school shooter I have seen in my life,”
- on Mike Marra
- on Chane Behanan
"I've got a lot of guys right now, seven or eight guys on the team, who aren't one-and-dones but will play in the NBA someday."
- on this year's team
“He's the best high school shooter I have seen in my life,”
- on Mike Marra
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