Reminiscing... (#1)

[BrickandMortar]

Cal's quote about Alex Poythress' injury (2014-2015)

"One of the things that happened during our 2014-2015 season is Alex Poythress suffered a devastating injury...I got a call that night that he had torn his ACL...was our 'beast'...an athlete capable of taking over a game with his extreme athleticism...beloved teammate..." ("Success is the Only Option" Calipari and Sokolove 118).

Remember this happening and how sad it was, another Cal Era missed opportunity for sure (even though injuries are part of the game).

 

[NociHTTP]

Sad that happened. He was rarely a 'beast' between the ears. That was talked about more with him than anything else.

 

[Wonky]

The Poythress injury sucked, to be sure, but our inability to guard Wisconsin had more to do with Cal’s insistence on switching. When you are athletically superior at literally every position, you shouldn’t have to switch. It’s a lazy way to play defense. Stay with your man, fight through screens, make the offense beat you off the dribble (spoiler: they can’t. They’re a bunch of slow, plodding, lutefisk-eating cheeseheads.)

 

[cats2010]

If only we had 8 other players on the team that would go on to play in the NBA.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Terrible coaching.

 

[yoshukai]

Y

The Poythress injury sucked, to be sure, but our inability to guard Wisconsin had more to do with Cal’s insistence on switching. When you are athletically superior at literally every position, you shouldn’t have to switch. It’s a lazy way to play defense. Stay with your man, fight through screens, make the offense beat you off the dribble (spoiler: they can’t. They’re a bunch of slow, plodding, lutefisk-eating cheeseheads.)

Yea , the announcers kept bragging on Willies ability to switch on to the point guard, meanwhile Dekker was down low making us his bitch .
And most times we didn’t even switch because of a hard pick, we just did it …because. Cals “switch everything “ basically allowed Bo Ryan to choose whatever matchup he wanted. It was an epic coaching mismatch.

 

[yoshukai]

Cal's quote about Alex Poythress' injury (2014-2015)

"One of the things that happened during our 2014-2015 season is Alex Poythress suffered a devastating injury...I got a call that night that he had torn his ACL...was our 'beast'...an athlete capable of taking over a game with his extreme athleticism...beloved teammate..." ("Success is the Only Option" Calipari and Sokolove 118).

Remember this happening and how sad it was, another Cal Era missed opportunity for sure (even though injuries are part of the game).

Alex’s stats were only slightly worse than Willys in this game however.

 

[RunninRichie]

Cal could've mitigated AP's loss by you know. Playing real man to man.

 

[RonRajon]

That may have hurt. But Willy’s injury in 2014 was actually the life saver that team needed to make the deep run.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

Terrible coaching.

38-1 is terrible coaching?

What was your record that year?

 

[UKBB4Ever]

Y

Yea , the announcers kept bragging on Willies ability to switch on to the point guard, meanwhile Dekker was down low making us his bitch .
And most times we didn’t even switch because of a hard pick, we just did it …because. Cals “switch everything “ basically allowed Bo Ryan to choose whatever matchup he wanted. It was an epic coaching mismatch.

How many FF’s for the whining ass Bo? How many titles?

 

[JonathanW]

That may have hurt. But Willy’s injury in 2014 was actually the life saver that team needed to make the deep run.

I don’t know. I think him in the paint would have made those little 12’ runners/floaters a bit more challenging for UConn

 

[yoshukai]

How many FF’s for the whining ass Bo? How many titles?

Yeah . Because he’s had the same talent to work with as Calipari. lol. Look , I never said I wanted Ryan as my coach or that I even liked his coaching. Honestly, I can’t stand the guy . But he embarrassed Calipari that game . He evidently neutered him too since Cal is 26-33 against ranked teams with zero final fours and losses to a Bruce Weber coached Kstate team, an Auburn team missing one of their best players, and ST PETE ! since that game ,lol.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

This is like Roosevelt saying we lost World War II because a tank got blown up.

 

[bigbluedon]

38-1 is terrible coaching?

What was your record that year?

Stop it Brad. We get you love your dad but he is an awful in game coach. Period.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

38-1 is terrible coaching?

What was your record that year?

Undefeated. Thanks for asking.

 

[Mike-D]

we had too many games in the mid 60's with that team, especially for the sheer amount of talent. you can't win a title playing that way. too much grind it out bs, and then you're relying too heavily on a couple possessions that could go either way.

 

[bthaunert]

Craziest Alex Poythress stat:

4 20 point games in his first 5 games at UK
5 20 point games the rest of his UK career

 

[SosaUK1987]

@BrickandMortar

Why do you put numbers in parentheses in the thread title?

 

[DCFseattle]

@BrickandMortar

Why do you put numbers in parentheses in the thread title?

I was about to ask the same thing. (#1) everything

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

This is like Roosevelt saying we lost World War II because a tank got blown up.

I think we won that one...

 

[BrickandMortar]

I was about to ask the same thing. (#1) everything

Was hoping to make more posts like this. Weekly thing, helps with organization. I'm reading that book currently, interesting stuff for sure.

 

[BrickandMortar]

Was hoping to make more posts like this. Weekly thing, helps with organization. I'm reading that book currently, interesting stuff for sure.

@SosaUK1987

 

[SosaUK1987]

@SosaUK1987

Whatever floats your boat.

 

[RunninRichie]

we had too many games in the mid 60's with that team, especially for the sheer amount of talent. you can't win a title playing that way. too much grind it out bs, and then you're relying too heavily on a couple possessions that could go either way.

Don't forget we went from 88-26 wins to 66-62 wins. Cal slowed that team way down.

 

[Montana81]

Craziest Alex Poythress stat:

4 20 point games in his first 5 games at UK
5 20 point games the rest of his UK career

He looked like Jamal Mashburn part 2 through those first 5 games. There was serious #1 pick talk. I think once teams got scouting footage on him they realized he wasn’t a threat with the ball and that was the end of that.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

I think we won that one...

Only because the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

 

[Benny and the Catsss]

I think we won that one...

 

[the nail at the foul line]

I think we won that one...

Yeah but had Cal been in charge...