Pitino, Mashburn, Walker, Mercer, Rhodes, Yarbrough, T-Mac and Cal's inability to land playmaking forwards.

[kyjeff1]

Tell me you’re clueless about the game without telling me you’re clueless about the game.

You make about as much sense as a rock.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Tell me you’re clueless about the game without telling me you’re clueless about the game.

Bottom line is we're all UK fans and we want UK to win, and win big. I'm sure you're in agreement. If we disagree about some things here or there, it's all good. You're still a member of BBN, same as us.

Sir, I don't see the need for hostility and insults. We all want the same things at the end of the day.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

Bottom line is we're all UK fans and we want UK to win, and win big. I'm sure you're in agreement. If we disagree about some things here or there, it's all good. You're still a member of BBN, same as us.

Sir, I don't see the need for hostility and insults. We all want the same things at the end of the day.

I can agree with that! I’m passionate about UK athletics, same as you and my apologies for anything I said!

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Lol, here we go again. I said I agreed with Jeff. Slow your roll. Always pointing fingers.

It is always hard to win championships. Cal had more chances at titles in his time here than any coach not named Rupp. I am not going to gripe and moan over his way. Guess what, the old way netted us 3 titles over a 40 year stretch between '59-'99. It isn't harder, you just don't like it. Cal had guys choke, he even did. There have been plenty of experienced teams and coaches choke.

Anyhow, off the soap box ..I then said back in the day a guy like Delk wouldn't have been a 4 year player...and yeah I do know that.

Next you are going to tell me Mashburn would have stayed 3 years nowadays. Those guys couldn't even leave as Freshmen back then if I'm not mistaken...weren't allowed. Pure and simple...Delk, McCarty, Mercer, Anderson Walker...none of them would have played past their Freshman or Sophomore year...heck Mercer and Walker didn't and that was 25 years ago!

There's a lot of truth in your last paragraph.


Mashburn was on the Quentin Richardson/Darius Miles podcast and said he almost bolted after his sophomore year but Pitino told him he was a top 5 pick if he came back. Delk almost left after his junior year, according to what he told Wayne Turner on his podcast.

UK came very close to having no Delk senior season or Mashburn junior season. There's no way they'd make it that long in the modern era unless the NIL paid them big time.

 

[Gromcat]

So you feel like him saying he cares “more about changing lives than winning championships” means THE SAME as “couldn’t give less of a crap about winning championships?”

I personally believe that sentiment is more coach speak and recruiting tactic but we’ll never really know what’s actually in his head. But that argument notwithstanding, you realize what he said and what you’re claiming are 2 TOTALLY different things. It’s like someone saying “I care more about my family than i do my friends” and you quoting them as saying “he doesn’t give a crap about his friends.”

Cal is a salesman, and for most of his career he’d say anything. When I was a student at Memphis I knew Cal was just full of hot air intended to recruit.

Since being at Kentucky, I think he genuinely began to care more about things outside of basketball.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

I proved you wrong on multiple occasions and you can’t reply with facts. Instead, you reply with oh hey lead belly. Cue, I’m wrong and can’t back it up. Its ok little one, you took it like a champ! 😜

And nope, you said yourself Cal can’t land top notch wings anymore so you forfeited any excitement you may have for UK until Cal is gone. It’s ok, you can bandwagon the Zags or something like you did UK! 😁

You might want to go back and read the transcript, dipstick. I didn’t write those things. ANY OF THEM . You’re way worse at this trolling thing than I gave you credit for. I laugh at your ineptitude.

 

[KyFaninNC]

He didn't expect Booker, SGA and Teague to leave? If not, he's not smart. Players far worse than those guys leave every year and yes, it's because the culture Cal created.

Also, nothing is being overlooked, the things you said have been beat to death on here for years.

Juzang and Baker left because they knew Cal was going to sit their asses, they saw what was coming and did the right thing. If you were Baker, would you come back to UK after the way he was treated in that E8 game against Auburn? Hell no.

Your #1 point above has been talked about a ton on here. If you're going to roll with the one-and-done method, you better get AD/Wall/Fox/Knight/MKG/Zion/Barrett/Townes every year, you can't bring in a bunch of 2nd tier kids and think they're going to win something.

Cal has stuck with this too long and looking at who he is recruiting gor 22/23 tells me he ain't changing.

Cal is NOT going to change. Only the truly gullible believes he will change.

 

[Sparky285]

Cal has never been great at landing small forwards, and he doesn’t really use them correctly when he does, they end up playing inside way too much or outside way too much, he doesn’t find a good balance with how to use those guys.

I think our team is best when a small forward is so small they play the 2 as a secondary position instead of the 4. Basically just the more skilled perimeter players on the 4 the better IMO, IQ showed he could guard the 3 as a 6’3” guard, and I think we were one of the teams with a real chance to win it all that year before it got cancelled.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Jaylen Brown was the miss of all misses, more than Wiggins.

Put him with Ulis and Murray and that's the best trio in the country. They'd probably be good enough to make up for what we lacked on the interior that season.