Up 20 against Miss St. Hold on to win. Up 12 against Auburn and lose. Up 9 against Kansas and lose. Up 21 against Tenn and lose. That is a lot of leads to lose. It is as if Cal is not making adjustments when the other coach does.
Pattern with this team that needs to stop
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Yea it looks like no lead is safe, they need to learn how to keep the lead when they get up that big on a team, The losing team always makes a run but the good teams always hang on to win.
Reason is because we aren't deep. So beginning of games we have our entire team and look just fine.
Then guys start getting into foul trouble and all hell breaks lose.
Alex needs to stay on the court. He picks up two in the first half and a quick 3rd to start the 2nd half. He's out. And then we are screwed
Then guys start getting into foul trouble and all hell breaks lose.
Alex needs to stay on the court. He picks up two in the first half and a quick 3rd to start the 2nd half. He's out. And then we are screwed
We get a big lead and just quit playing,it is not that the other team really does anything different.We go away from what got us there in the first place.
It is us slowing the game down when a higher pace is what gets us the 21 point lead. Cal is notorious for this and will lose more games that we should win than he will win because of it. Many of our wins have been in spite of this dumbass offensive philosophy and many of our most painful losses have been because of it.
This.
Seriously, it's not too complicated. We aren't quitting. We aren't losing focus. Inferior players get more minutes than they should because our best players can't stay on the court due to foul trouble. The high foul rates also then lead to efficient offensive possessions by the opposition.
We aren't getting any deeper so the only way to fix this is to figure out how to defend without fouling.
Look at our losses
In the UCLA game Lee got injured and played 4 mins. Alex only played 17.
Against LSU Lee played a grand total of 5 mins. 5 fouls in that game in 5 mins of action
Again last night Alex only plays 17 due to foul trouble
Kansas Lee fouls out.........only 12 mins. 5 fouls in 12 mins of action
We just do not run deep enough for guys to be in foul trouble.
In the UCLA game Lee got injured and played 4 mins. Alex only played 17.
Against LSU Lee played a grand total of 5 mins. 5 fouls in that game in 5 mins of action
Again last night Alex only plays 17 due to foul trouble
Kansas Lee fouls out.........only 12 mins. 5 fouls in 12 mins of action
We just do not run deep enough for guys to be in foul trouble.
He really struggled last night. Not sure if he still isn't feeling 100% after the cold/flu at KU. But his defense was really bad, he had only 1 assist in the last 26 minutes of the game, missed at least 3 or 4 rebound opportunities, and missed 7 of the 10 shots he took.
I think the thing that shows how much he was struggling was the fouls he committed. He had only had more then 3 fouls in a game once this season and he had 5 last night. He was a step slow nearly all night.
Will be interesting to see how he and the team move on from last night. Florida is a WAY better team than UT. Of the 9 remaining games there are only 2 easy ones (Georgia, Alabama). Play like last night and UK could easily lose 5-6 more games going into SEC tourney.
The tougher part of our schedule is coming up.
That definitely makes losses to UT and Auburn even worse.
Thing is.........for the majority of that first half, we are up 21 and playing like a team that turned the corner and could make another final four run. Same way we played first half vs Kansas and the three games before that. That's what makes this so frustrating. Because you can see this team doing damage and making a deep run.
If they could only stay on the court.
If they could only stay on the court.
