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Today’s loss is 100% on CCC!

I'm on record stating that I want Cal gone, but I'm not sure you can pin this one on him, for the most part.
At some point each player has to take accountability for their defensive effort, and subsequent lack thereof. With the athleticism and talent we have, guys have to reach down deep and make up their mind they're going to get into a dude's grill, as well as playing with some damn energy and heart on the defensive end. JMHO.
Cal pinned it on himself. Pay attention.
 
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Yes….I think a decent part of coaching is making adjustments when things clearly aren’t working. There is a zone defense called a Triangle And Two where you man to man guard two guys and zone the rest we could have tried. Bill Self loves to use it. But we made zero adjustments to our defense until we trapped Taylor with 1 minute left in the game. Try zones! Try Traps! Try different presses! Simply try doing anything different when your ball screen defense is getting torched and giving up layups the entire game.
No such thing as adjustments from ccc. No need according to the ccc lovers, because he is the greatest.
 
Sure, if this team had been practicing it and good at it. This team can barely plan man to man, they're not wasting practice time on different types of zone defenses.

I'm not sure why people thing it's just as simple as switching to a zone. It's something you have to practice quite a bit. With freshmen who can barely plan normal defense at the college level a zone isn't going to happen.
What do they practice under the 9 million dollar man? They don't watch film. They don't practice defense.
 
Oh look, the miserables are back.

It was nice when they were away binding their time to bray incessantly after the next loss. Hopefully another W streak begins Tuesday.
I've been on this board over 20 years and I've never seen the board do anything but blame the refs, coach and anything they could about every loss. We're Uk, so we have a God given right to win every game. We have thousands of armchair coaches who appear after every loss and tell you, IN HINDSIGHT, how they would have coached us to victory and how awful Cal is. Best advice to myself and other rational UK supporters: never visit this board after a loss
 
There is Always hope by year 2029 he will employ a second defense
Took him 13 years to figure out your allowed to try and score on inbounds plays under your basket
He’s a bad Coach - we are stuck with him unfortunately
A gatherer of great young talent but just a poor teacher of basic fundamentals such as the hard hedge - the block out - rotations on defense - drawing charges

Some truth to this. A+ recruiter, A+ at keeping his teams playing hard, A+ at managing egos. And then just subpar in some areas.
 
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Here we go again! Mid week you all was the best team in America according to this group , now they have the worse coach in the country . Whew… you guys are to much
There are only a small percentage that think this team is the best ever. You are reading posts from the other 90% right now.
 
We didn’t beat anyone good. The last month has been fools gold, we beat a couple teams that have names, but no teams that are any good. We get excited thinking we’re doing something all and then reality hits

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Our offense sucked until he hired a specialist. I guess he needs to hire a defensive specialist now. Not sure what $9M gets us other than highly ranked one and dones.
It gets us snarky and deceptive answers to media questions.... when he even bothers to show up for press conferences or his shows anymore.
 
There is a reason Cal never actually talks basketball during press conferences- he simply doesn’t know it that well.

Texas A&M had 2 players that could beat us and he allowed it. Radford & Taylor scored 59
A good Coach would not allow the constant unobstructed drives these two got all day

A simple Hard Hedge or show by our big would at least slow momentum until our guard could recover - you must make the 3,4 or 5 man beat you

How many years have we struggled with the high pick in roll at top of key? St Peter’s guards Kansas St guard - how many times we let other teams best players go off?

As a recruiter and marketer he is top level but this guy has no business at UK managing that sideline

He needs a defensive coordinator as much as he needs a new practice facility
 
There is a reason Cal never actually talks basketball during press conferences- he simply doesn’t know it that well.

Texas A&M had 2 players that could beat us and he allowed it. Radford & Taylor scored 59
A good Coach would not allow the constant unobstructed drives these two got all day

A simple Hard Hedge or show by our big would at least slow momentum until our guard could recover - you must make the 3,4 or 5 man beat you

How many years have we struggled with the high pick in roll at top of key? St Peter’s guards Kansas St guard - how many times we let other teams best players go off?

As a recruiter and marketer he is top level but this guy has no business at UK managing that sideline

He needs a defensive coordinator as much as he needs a new practice facility
Crazy thing is that Radford kicks our ass every damn time we play them! He’s a good player for sure. However, he never plays as well against anyone else but us. Wish someone had the numbers!
 
There is a reason Cal never actually talks basketball during press conferences- he simply doesn’t know it that well.

Texas A&M had 2 players that could beat us and he allowed it. Radford & Taylor scored 59
A good Coach would not allow the constant unobstructed drives these two got all day

A simple Hard Hedge or show by our big would at least slow momentum until our guard could recover - you must make the 3,4 or 5 man beat you

How many years have we struggled with the high pick in roll at top of key? St Peter’s guards Kansas St guard - how many times we let other teams best players go off?

As a recruiter and marketer he is top level but this guy has no business at UK managing that sideline

He needs a defensive coordinator as much as he needs a new practice facility
I said coming in that we had to make someone outside or Taylor beat us and here we are.
 
Better question, what would Bill Selfs Jr. win percentage be with the same players Cal has had at UK. And how many champships.
Are you for real? The choke artist? He had had more first weekend exits at KU than any other blue blood during his tenure combined.
 
I dont blame cal entirely for the loss. He was a bit hungry to call a timeout towards the end of regulation....

The coach cal we are used to, would just let it play out without calling a timeout.
 
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We didn’t beat anyone good. The last month has been fools gold, we beat a couple teams that have names, but no teams that are any good. We get excited thinking we’re doing something all and then reality hits
North Carolina is one of the best teams in the country and we beat them on a neutral floor.
 
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This. Hard to understand why we don't use it to change the pace/tempo of a game from time to time. There are numerous benefits to using a zone.
Exactly. Nobody is asking Cal to become Boheim at Syracuse. Just try to throw the other team off kilter some or buy a few minutes to protect a player in foul trouble.
 
Mm

Its not your first post…its your first post under this name
Exactly the type of response I expected.
Why is this board just filled with people like you? What does it matter? Are you the gatekeeper of message boards?
This is the only site I’ve ever read post on that has people act this way. Grow up. People don’t always pump out sunshine gatekeeper
 
Haha that end sequence was surreal. Calling an offensive foul on that A&M player (which was horrific) then the defensive on shepperd was straight up bizarre. Then the shadow foul with 8 seconds to go, again a call that should never be made in the last minute of the game. They couldn’t even tell who committed the foul. That was straight up crazy
you listen to bilas too much
 
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