Never has there been a 2 game stretch

[Destroyou]

Where we played well enough to win both times and lost due to refs. Soo mad at the refs and not upset with UK at all. Like not one iota.

If you are one of those staunch "it wasn't the refs" guys, please, learn some basketball. I counted 4 fouls on straight up big men that led to foul trouble (about 10 against kansas). This foul trouble sat poythress (and Willis against Kansas), leading to their huge run. That foul trouble made them play O-lay defense to not get called for fouls, because they repetitively get called for fouls on legal guarding defense (straight up, feet planted, hands not coming down late). That foul garbage led to early bonus FTs. There are numerous other "fouls", such as not touching a shooter who nearly airballs it and then the official calls for the breathing foul, that are too crazy to go into on an individual basis. This game, it resulted in at least 25 points advantage for them, who knows how many more we would have scored with even officiating. With Kansas it was about 45 points, so there's that (Trending up!)

You can't adjust to officiating that literally prevents you from playing defense. You play hard defense, fouls. You play defense as prescribed by the rule book, fouls (straight up). You play Olay defense but challenge late, if he misses it, foul. He pushes off with a full arm extension and you grab his arm, foul. You don't touch him at all and don't challenge, he extends his forearm back into you and grunts, foul.

I don't care how poor or great we played. If we lose, I want to lose with officiating done by the FREAKING RULEBOOK. Which apparently no NBA, NCAA, or NFL official bothers to read. Such as the pump fake, dive into defender that is CLEARLY DEFINED as an OFFENSIVE foul. Or the KICK OUT on threes that is CLEARLY DEFINED as an OFFENSIVE foul (got screwed on one of those today at the top of the key!). Even if they don't know the rules, the least they could do is be consistent for both teams.

Saying poor, one sided, non-rule abiding officiating doesn't affect the game is ridiculous. This is the worst officiating season I've ever seen. It is like Cody Zeller diving into Anthony Davis on repeat. There was a game against miss state awhile back and that was the last game I recall UK getting a significant favorable whistle that affected the outcome of the game. I am not blindly for UK on officiating, it goes both ways. Very rarely do we get game-trending biased officiating for us, there might be a few calls or a run of calls, but almost never a significant differnece.

 

[Destroyou]

There are other gems such as Briscoe's fourth or the Ulis defending the post-up.

 

[Mime-Is-Money]

out rebounded in 5 of 6 losses? that's neat. says a lot about willis and poythress' toughness. especially since we're a top 25 rebounding team in the country.

We're actually #31 in rebounding margin and #54 for RPG as of this morning. Will drop because of tonight.

Outside of UCLA, we were bigger than the other 5 teams we lost to, with 4 of those teams outrebounding us.

The bulk of the minutes tonight from UT was taken by guys 6'5" or smaller.....and they outrebounded us.

We have a decent rebounding margin because we killed the likes of EKU, USF, NJIT, and Missourah.

Compared to decent teams, we are soft, especially in the interior, which includes Willis and Poythress. Like I said, they play hard, just like Lee, but are not getting it done and are, on the whole, soft.

 

[Schwagg]

The horrendous officiating makes these games unwatchable. Murray going 1 on 5 is horrible. Skal is weak & horrible @ everything. Lee is invisible. Briscoe's inability to shoot unless it is a reverse layup is horrible plus it limits what u can do offensively & severely impacts spacing. The defense in the last 2/3 of the game was horrible. The coaches adjustments were horrible. The silver lining is that it is 1 game, but not developing Mulder or/and Matthews is gonna bite this team in the a$$.

 

[rockfly]

Blaming the refs is for losers

 

[ymmot31]

Have to expect it on the road. This one is on us. Team and coaches. Very poor effort

I wish that you, and everyone else that reads your ignorant words, would understand what you just said. You use the "the road" as an excuse, and then blame it on us. Is it because we were dumb enough to play on the road?

 

[BleedBluNAZ]

We shot 23 FT, they shot 34. I've seen much more lopsided numbers in favor of the home team. To suggest we lost because of the refs is a joke.

 

[OldEvilleCat]

Up 8 at Kansas....lose
Up 12 at Auburn...lose
Up 21 at Tennessee...lose
Damn refs!, always waiting until we get a lead before they stick it to us...

As a player and as a team, you don't give the officials the chance to dictate the outcome. Take care of business...and you aint gotta worry about that crap. They're not curb stompin' em when they have the opportunity, period. ...or maybe the refs huddled up at the under 8 TO and said "Hey Kentucky is winning, we need to put a stop to this..."

Blaming refs is for pansies....unless you were on the 1972 Olympic Team (SaG)

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

Where we played well enough to win both times and lost due to refs. Soo mad at the refs and not upset with UK at all. Like not one iota.

I'll agree with you on KU but not UT.

 

[Brooklyncats]

Briscoe had to run away from a guy driving to the basket on a fast break one time because prior to that the ref gave him his 4th foul for standing there doing nothing.

 

[UK90]

The bulk of the minutes tonight from UT was taken by guys 6'5" or smaller.....and they outrebounded us.
.

Bullseye. Stop blaming the refs. The heart of the problem with this team is our four bigs are WAY too damn soft. Period. Last night they got outrebounded and out-insided by a team essentially playing a FIVE GUARD LINEUP. Could you imagine what would happen if UT tried playing that all little guy lineup against last year's team?

And, fwiw, our bigs are also the heart of our foul problems. The bigs on this team have no clue about proper positioning and anticipation, or how to defend without fouling, or how to use their feet instead of their hands. They get called for a lot of fouls because they do, in fact, foul a lot.

 

[GLR5555]

Refs are far from our problem. Bigs who play tough and smart are. They make it easy for the refs.

 

[taydaddy]

I wish that you, and everyone else that reads your ignorant words, would understand what you just said. You use the "the road" as an excuse, and then blame it on us. Is it because we were dumb enough to play on the road?

Hasty and poor response. You must expect the "officiating" on the road is what I meant. Maybe if you would relax a little and stop attacking me with the name calling and judge a little less, you wouldn't look so foolish and ignorant yourself.