I don’t care which one is in, just play hard and do the right things.
Official Game Thread: Kentucky vs. Louisville 12-14-24
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UK made 11/21 from three for 52%.
Does it get much better than that?
Big game Butler is my point guard
They play hard as hell. He’s gonna be tough if he gets some players and depth.
Tough game, but we kept pushing it back to 10 every time they cut it down
I hate December.
I hate we have to wait a whole week for another game lol
I hate we have to wait a whole week for another game lol
Well yeah. There's a whole 'nother 48 percentage points it could get better.
Maybe not. It would have forced a different style/line up. Who knows what would’ve happened
But I’m really really glad Lamont is back
Good teams do that, great teams bust the game open. I hope we continue to improve on defense. Our offense is pretty legit.
You've got to like Kentucky's chances at going 12-1 in the pre-conference portion of the schedule.
Ohio State, then Brown.
Pope's done a masterful job.
If Calipari was still coaching, we'd be 8-3 right now.
Very glad we start off the SEC with a home game against Florida.
Ohio State, then Brown.
Pope's done a masterful job.
If Calipari was still coaching, we'd be 8-3 right now.
Very glad we start off the SEC with a home game against Florida.
Officiating had nothing to do with the team's absence of effort. This is the 5th game in a row that we have played with little defensive effort. Our bigs play like they are 6'8".
Garrison is a ball stopper. He just holds it. Early in the year we rarely dribbled.
UL still taking too many threes lol.
Even today making 14 of them.......they were only 36% on them. Better than their season average but still slightly average.
Even today making 14 of them.......they were only 36% on them. Better than their season average but still slightly average.
Agree to a degree but take a look at the fact basically 2 guys did it. Those 2 were 9-18. Outside those two UL was 5-21 from 3.
Our guys would often give them a step. Need to do better taking away their best options.
Which is weird, because Pope was all about that as a player. You would think he would pound that into their heads.
People forget Pope had to put this team together from scratch last summer. Scrambling last minute to assemble a team at Kentucky. Put that into perspective and look at what we’ve accomplished so far. If you ask me that’s as good as we could have hope for and has surpassed all my expectations. Let’s enjoy that this is a new era of UK basketball! Top 5 in the country with wins against Duke and Gonzaga with a team assembled in a month…… enough said! Go Big Blue!
The issue is, our defense gave them wide open 3's off simple action all game long. UofL didn't just get lucky to hit all those 3's, give any decent college shooter wide open looks and he's going to hit a bunch.
We gave up, what, 80 points to a depleted team on our home court? That's bad defense.
I agree too and he’s done a masterful job. But you don’t have to be Michael Jordan to give effort.
Yes, they did. That is exactly what happens when you allow a team to get comfortable shooting wide open 3s. They start believing they can hit almost anything, and they did. We stood around watching them take those shots as if we thought they would soon start missing.
Compare the halves. Definitely still shot well, but it was a struggle for most everyone not named Butler in the second half. Thankfully we were better in the paint scoring. I'm just aggravated how we have been letting other teams dictate our offense while we sit back and give them wide open 3's. We let the game be a lot more challenging than it needed to be. Just like against Colgate.
Whenever Williams touches the ball I am fearful that he going to attempt to back some 5'7" guy under the basket so that he can throw up a brick.
I was at rupp tonight and every time butler shot tonight it looked good off his hands
