****** OFFICIAL NCAAT Troy Vs Kentucky Game Thread *****

[the nail at the foul line]

Charles just said Xavier wins tonight and beats the winner of this game.

 

[wldktz8]

We should be up 15

UK is shooting 50%. I’ll take that right now up 8 at
The half.

 

[rolaid]

no, he probably shouldn’t. but try to keep him off with his career ending and perry being in over his head.

it’s actually a tough choice, perry or injured butler. and butler wants to go. you make the call. what’s it gonna be?

Neither Oweh & Williams bring it up
Look at lineup we went 8-0 with

 

[FiveStarCat]

It literally drives me to INSANITY

I really wish someone would ask him or Pope about this. It is so maddening.
He even clears out a little path for the driving player to score and bends down. If it wasn’t a ridiculous thought, I’d say he is intentionally letting them score. It’s that bad

 

[UKBB4Ever]

no, he probably shouldn’t. but try to keep him off with his career ending and perry being in over his head.

it’s actually a tough choice, perry or injured butler. and butler wants to go. you make the call. what’s it gonna be?

Perry

 

[bbncal02]

Troy is a lot like A&M. They are both undersized. Despite that, both are great at getting offensive rebounds.

We did a fantastic job on the defensive glass. For the season, Troy gets a little over 38% of their misses. They got an offensive rebound on 13.6% of their chances in the first.

The offensive glass is definitely an area we haven't exploited. Troy is terrible on the defensive glass. While we are below average, getting 0 is far below what we should expect. It's hard to not get 1 or 2 just from a lucky bounce.

It's infuriating. It's that damn "tip" bound philosophy. I freaking hate it. The ONLY thing I miss from Cal. GRAB THE BALL WITH BOTH FREAKING HANDS

 

[Eagles_Ball]

tell this to the “play the best players” crowd. there’s only one reason he can’t be strong with the ball, and only one reason he doesn’t play much. he’s frickin injured.

And he’s still a shit ton better than the other options, unfortunately.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

Perry

That’ll get your ass beat in this game.

 

[FirewithFire]

Charles just said Xavier wins tonight and beats the winner of this game.

I hope he is half right like usual.

 

[catlogic15]

Butler giving us nothing so far. When are these guys going to wake up?

Butler is hurt. It’s so obvious.

 

[Seth_C]

Isn't it amazing watching college basketball without SEC refs?

Sort of. It wouldn’t hurt for these refs to call obvious fouls like moving screens and holding.

 

[hotelblue]

Neither Oweh & Williams bring it up
Look at lineup we went 8-0 with

sounds great, now who guards the other team’s quick guards?

they can’t go the whole game anyway.

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

Butler has to be hurting more than I thought. He’s not doing shit. That gonna make it really tough to win after this game (if we win this game).

 

[ManitouDan]

Ball handling

But Troy isnt Bama or some tough SEC team on the road , Chandler can handle mid major Troy . Quit screwing around with the lineups and go with starters more than 3.5 minutes , heck that isnt even sweat breaking time .

 

[FiveStarCat]

I agree with him. We ain’t winning shit if this first half is any indication.

 

[BCD]

I feel like I’m wasting some Blantons. I should have gone cheaper and stronger.

 

[Chief Paducah]

There is zero chance I bag on Butler this game. He’s giving it his all and if it’s nothing but protecting that ball from dumb turnovers, so be it. We need him out there for defense and ball protection.

 

[ImTheVillageIdiot]

Butler is hurt. It’s so obvious.

Butler clearly playing “not to get hurt” is very obvious too. It’s hard to say what to do there in a 3v14 first round game. I certainly don’t like him taking a charge given the circumstances but I get it

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

need to be acting like this after the 5min mark

"Hey, you forgot your briefcase!"

 

[TriCountyCat]

Even if we win, we will not make it out of the weekend playing tight and scared.

 

[CondorCat]

35 freaking points. Let's go guys! We're better than this.

 

[Zuma75]

Look better, clean up the self inflicted errors and we win going away

First half was nerves … they’ve got it out of their system. I’m going with that

 

[DraftCat]

I think we should of rolled the dice and let Butler heal this weekend a bit more. But can't blame a senior for wanting to play.

 

[Rideordiewildcat]

UK is shooting 50%. I’ll take that right now up 8 at
The half.

Carr and Noah only ones with a 3 is a bit scary.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Charles just said Xavier wins tonight and beats the winner of this game.

I can't take a man seriously who eats more than 35,000 carbs a week.

Sorry, Charles.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

I still think we pull away and win by a comfortable margin.

But we can’t play a first half like this Sunday.

This looks like the Missouri game. We didn’t even show up then we did and ran them out.

This team is nowhere near as good as Missouri.

 

[hotelblue]

Perry

fine, but you got to live with the results. most here can’t.

 

[LmdCat]

Amari's hoops IQ goes high-low-high-low-high-low and it never evens out . Maddening .. I like the young man , but he drives you crazy .. but less than Brea offering very little effort on the defensive end . Simply doesnt fight . But he's good to work hard on O .

At least his go high which I can't say the same for Garrison.

 

[FiveStarCat]

If Butler was hurt enough he sat out that Bama game, he’s going thru a lot right now. I mean just look at the size of that wrap. I don’t know the solution but a 60% Butler is better than Perry and Chandler sadly

 

[catfan220]

They are doing it with all teams

They've been doing it for every game this tourney.

They have been doing it all tournament

Good to know. Guess I've been skipping between games when the action stops

 

[wldktz8]

Only reason we have the lead at half against TROY - the champions of the mighty Sun Belt - is a 30 second burst of 2 threes and a miracle full court Amari dunk.
Other than that 30 seconds we played, scared, tense and nervous. Very haphazard and not at all prepared. Pope has got to throw the stupid analytics out the window on these constant lineup switches. Players going in and out so much it’s hard for the guys on the floor to even know who they’re playing with. Just nonsense subbing this many players this often. Compete nonsense

All this and still shooting 50% from the field.

 

[bbncal02]

20 minutes to see if we go on or fade away. My stomach hurts.

 

[catfan220]

I'm surprised how little Chandler we've seen, I thought he moved ahead of Perry in the PG pecking order.

 

[fatguy87]

It's infuriating. It's that damn "tip" bound philosophy. I freaking hate it. The ONLY thing I miss from Cal. GRAB THE BALL WITH BOTH FREAKING HANDS

I don't think we have the philosophy that amplifies offensive rebound ability nor do we have any with player the skill. Amari is ok at it. Carr, Garrison, and Almonor are quite bad on the offensive glass. They have been for their whole careers.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

Halftime for the tourney is so damn long

 

[BassProCat]

Butler is a turnover waiting to happen.

He has 1 turnover in 13 min.

 

[hotelblue]

my bracket says the same thing, but illinois/xavier is at best a toss up.

 

[crawfords corner]

I can't take a man seriously who eats more than 35,000 carbs a week.

Sorry, Charles.

Barkley is easily an 8k carb a day kind of guy

 

[fatguy87]

He has 1 turnover in 13 min.

His missed layup in transition and terrible runner from 5 feet feel like turnovers lol

 

[onearmedjesus]

Take...care...of...the ...ball!!!