O'Connor: How Duke & Coach K have become Kentucky--and are better at it

[USNNFOCAT]

I am curious what Mr O'Connor thinks now. That network's love affair with xUKx blinds them. Count Murray and UK has the number 1 class this year and will next year, after Monk joins the party, too. That ass whipping they just took is the exclamation point!

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...ewski-beating-kentucky-john-calipari-own-game

 

[Re2126]

They even plugged the story during the broadcast saying how great it was.

 

[EnglandWildcat]

I saw that story the other day and didn't even read it. It was so obvious how biased it was from just the headline. If I was being completely objective, I would say that both coaches are doing equally well with the OAD system. You can make arguments either way. But given UK and Duke were he two best teams in college bball last year and both lost a ton, Cal certainly bested K last night. And that certainly does not help his argument.

 

[Cats_Tops]

Saw that headline yeaterday and refused to read the article. Still refuse to. It makes me sick how Calipari got trashed for starting the one and done system but coach K is praised for using it. The pro Duke bias is just too much. Bet it broke a lot of people's hearts watching UK throttle Duke last night and I love it.

 

[USNNFOCAT]

I didn't read it either, the headline alone made me sick. xUKx goes down, UNC possibly in big trouble, not holding my breath, both darlings of that network which itself is struggling. They'll never give Cal or UK their due so hopefully he surpasses UCLA in NC and sets all kinds of other records that speak for themselves.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

If you really want stories like this to stop - DONT CLICK THE LINK.

 

[LordEgg]

I sure hope this isn't about one and dones. Because Duke is so much bigger than that.

 

[USNNFOCAT]

If you really want stories like this to stop - DONT CLICK THE LINK.

I wish that were true but that network has so much invested in promoting said institution and coach that it will go on regardless. Don't click it, put it there for those that always seem to want a link.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

I wish that were true but that network has so much invested in promoting said institution and coach that it will go on regardless. Don't click it, put it there for those that always seem to want a link.

ESPN will always promote Duke. Nothing we can do to stop that. But we certainly dont have to help it by giving hits to an obviously garbage story that was written for no other reason than to generate hits by enraged UK fans.

 

[WeWant9]

I'm actually glad all this stuff about K and Duke being OND gods is coming out. I think it's giving Cal some added mojo. He seemed like one cool cat last night, and he has already locked up a stellar 16 class with more to possibly come.

Duke will always get slurped up, but we have yet to see how good K really is at the OND game. How will the turnover and possible log jams be dealt with in the coming years? Yes, Duke won it all last year but that holds no merit on moving forward. The OND game can be tricky, and frankly I don't think K and Duke has done enough to say they've passed Cal and UK in it.

 

[gracetoyou]

Truth is..take away Dukes tourney run last season & we're not even having this discussion .

 

[SmyrnaCatFan]

Truth is..take away Dukes tourney run last season & we're not even having this discussion .

Which was just another gift-wrapped package.

 

[wildcatglenn]

Dude is a troll

 

[TheDude1]

Uhmmm... just to point out... the LINK title is misleading.

At no point in the article or the actual article title does the author say that K is better than Cal at anything at all. He doesn't say Duke is better than Kentucky at anything. He doesn't say that K is a better recruiter than Cal.

In fact, the author is VERY complimentary of Cal. He basically calls him the best in the game at recruiting, a titan, that K is emulating Cal, and that Cal cares primarily about his players more than success.

Don't let a "let's generate hits" link blind you to what the actual article says. The actual article (and the title of the article) doesn't actually pass any negative judgement on Cal or Kentucky.

Just mentioning, since so many people seem so angry and yet also said they didn't read the article.

 

[USNNFOCAT]

Didn't read it, won't read it but the implication is clear, that network put it there to pump up xUKx and to give the impression that Cal just rolls out the balls for NBA players to be. All hail K, got to hell Cal seems to sum it up in a nutshell.

 

[Cawood86]

Ain't reading that. Obvious uninformed hack.

 

[TheDude1]

I can't help but frown when someone passes such scathing judgment on an article when they say they didn't actually read it. That seems a bit nutty.

Here; let me give you some quotes from the article:

"Krzyzewski has one last titan of the game to conquer...Calipari."

'If today's recruiting race could be held at Churchill Downs or Pimlico or Belmont Park, Duke and Kentucky would be Secretariat and American Pharoah...'

'Calipari has long established himself as the Mariano Rivera of Division I pitchmen -- the best closer of all time...'

'In other news, Calipari knows how to counter with the best of 'em. '

' The same Towns who was selected No. 1 overall by Minnesota in last year's draft, extending Calipari's staggering run of top overall picks to four in eight years, along with Anthony Davis in 2012, John Wall in 2010 and Derrick Rose (of Memphis) in 2008.'

'He (Calipari) says he wants to win, but never at the expense of his players and their hoop dreams and the chance to make those dreams worth a combined billion dollars in guaranteed NBA deals.'

This all seems pretty complimentary of Cal... and it never really goes negative against him or Kentucky either.

Again... I would read the article (with the understanding it is an article praising K, which is NOT the same as an article bashing Cal) and see for yourself.

I just can't get behind tons of people screaming "The article is trash! How DARE the author say something that he didn't actually say! Oh, and I didn't read it!". It just seems like the height of ignorance.

 

[USNNFOCAT]

You just don't get it. IF I wanted that info I would've read the article. The TITLE is what that network thinks and wants to convey. The author may not have even chosen the title but the editors surely blessed whoever did. E**N has history of praising K for his innovative adaptation of the one and done culture, read Dana O'Neil, among others, while lamenting Cal's destruction of college hoops. Nutty is when you don't know the history of the website/channel and commenting as such is the pinnacle of ignorance.