Oats saying, “They can’t play with us”

[SophiesDad]

Have you seen Oats’ old lady? I’m not getting worked up or losing a bit of sleep over anything he says.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

He ain’t lying. He’s right. It stings. It hurts. But it’s accurate. That dude is legit. We’ve got a mountain to climb.

We also didn’t have over 30 ppg in guards available. So let’s see if Oates can consistently beat fully healthy Kentucky teams

 

[chevyman 50]

He is completely right he has beat our butts 3 times this year we can't make excuse but just a better coach and players this year. We was not even competitive last night.

 

[CatPatrick13]

Solid response. They’re FEW and FAR between at that level. Especially now. I hated Cal at the end. But that dude could get ELITE talent. Borderline top 40 guys from the Commonwealth ain’t elite talent. If you think it is, keep jonesing over .500ish SEC finishes.

And the elite talent stays a year max before jumping to the NBA..... c'mon buddy, you are smarter than that.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Chest is part of the ball. It is in the rule book.

 

[Deli owl]

This is similar to what Pearl was saying to his team before coming into Rupp and beating us.

He's not wrong.

Perry, Noah and Chandler really don't invoke fear in anyone.

It might change in the coming years but this year Auburn and Alabama knew they were better than us......and acted accordingly.

Almost right. They invoke fear in me when the enter the game.

 

[Edgarman]

We have three top 40 freshman coming in. We don’t have anyone at that talent level on the roster right now, so yeah it’s pretty clear

Not all or many freshmen are game ready for the SEC. I doubt all three will be SEC ready. I hope one can contribute and excel next year.

 

[_ukcat]

Sound not have said IMO but he Right.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

You have a terrible time discerning fact from opinion. I'll give you one to ponder though. Pitino said he WILL NOT recruit 5 stars. Since you're smarter than the rest of us maybe you can explain that for us and at the same time, discredit Pitino who has won 5 different conference titles.

Go ahead, we'll wait.

He’s talking about currently, he won’t recruit 5 stars. That wasn’t always his philosophy, and certainly wasn’t his philosophy at all prior to this year. So you don’t get to use his prior conference titles as some sort of chest thumping evidence. Rick’s philosophy now is he won’t recruit frosh, period. Doesn’t matter their rankings. He wants guys with experience.

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

It was blow by-ish. Don’t think Pope was all that happy about how aggressive bama seemed to be toward the end up big.

Shooting threes up by 27 with one minute to play was definitely why he blew by him.

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

Why not? Bama fans bring up their multiple championships in Football any time they take an L. What ever helps you get by I guess.

 

[rick64]

Oats is a cocky assh0le. But he's not wrong.

 

[EliteBlue]

When u have 3 freshman guards trying to guard All American, what do u expect

This.

Cocky comment when he knows good and well that the last 2 times we’ve played them we’ve had our top 3 guards on the bench with injuries….hard to defend a guard heavy team like Bama when your 2 PGs and starting SG are out.

The closest to healthy (and we weren’t) was the first game…and we played with them just fine. Matter of fact, we led the majority of that game. The last 2 games we’ve been at our weakest and the mismatches w Perry and Noah bd their backcourt is too much

 

[Whoppercat]

We have three top 40 freshman coming in. We don’t have anyone at that talent level on the roster right now, so yeah it’s pretty clear

Three freshmen. That’s going to take us to the next level? Did you learn nothing from the torture of the last few Kal years?