Inferior teams? It sounds like you equate superiority with recruiting stars....the great equalizer is experience. It's something UK rarely has enough of.
your longing for the BCG days I guess , do yourself a favor and find another team to cheer for how about that !
I agree.. I am 49 years old been following UK for a long time. Still remember Lattner shot like it was yesterday.
Interesting take. Do you realize Pitino lost to a lower seed 3 out of his last 4 years at UK? Despite having numerous pros who stayed multiple years. Do you realize Pitino only beat an equal or higher seed twice at UK in the NCAA tournament? You are full of shit.
I think what most people are pissed off about is that we haven’t learned from our mistakes. We have a new team every year but end up playing the exact same type of game in the tournament that gets us beat by a team seeded lower than us. That ends up being a disappointment and not meeting expectations. When those two things happen time and time again, it starts to become a trend instead of a coincidence. People want to see some changes made in philosophy, not changes in leadership. A lot of us see that Cal is not willing to adapt to in game adjustments, watch film on the other team, or recruit to fill the needs of a specific system. That is what is aggravating and making a lot of us lose hope for another title in the Cal era.
Of course our season ends on a bad game. That makes sense. I see Cal trying everything to find an advantage. He can’t overcome poor shooting and poor FT shooting at a bad time. It happens. Our weakness this year were experienced, fast guards. It happens a few times wary and we were starting to overcome it. Against AU we couldn’t. Our guys seemed a little tentative while AU was motivated by Chuma. They have been the best team in the tourney so far and we played them closer than anyone else and had a chance to win. I see no shame. Last year Nick and Quade weren’t what we thought so we just weren’t that good. Looking over the last 10, I will take that as the next 10.
And yet we have still outperformed our seed more than any other team in the last decade so your logic is void. Those teams were there because they were playing great vs your opinion of inferior. The only one I will give you is Robert Morris. We just didn’t care. I can go back and argue almost every loss in our tour eh history was to someone we should have and could have beat. But the numbers don’t lie. Cal gets more out of his teams va expectation than anyone else. That is coaching and preparation- period.
Lots of dumbassery in this thread! I am missing Tubby and Billy Clyde too guys.
So has every other coach including Coach K year after year.
I asked you a question. Name a coach that hasn’t done EXACTLY the same things Cal is apparently doing. Just one. The reason you didn’t answer the question is because there isn’t one. Not Coach K. Not Roy. Not Wright. Not Self. Also tell me when Cal has lost to a team like Mercer? Northern Iowa? Etc.?
