Typical Cal ... loses Exhibition to TCU

[Dreklie]

Leaves a TCU shooters wide open for 3 with like 20 seconds to go, bad passes in their final possession leads to an out of bounds play with 2 seconds to go, you already know its over when Cal has to draw up an out of bounds play to win with 2 seconds to go.

Fland gets a HORRIBLE look and it's not close. They lose by 1.

Edit : Arkansas with zero points in the last 3 1/2 minutes and shoots 29% from 3 with 14 turnovers lmao.

 

[Wonky]

Leaves a shooter wide open for 3 while up 2, TCU hits it goes up 1, 2 seconds left and they get an AWFUL look from 3 from Fland at the buzzer and it's not close.

Arky doesn’t score the last 3:30 of the game. Sound familiar?

Shot 29% from 3 for the game. Woof.

 

[J-Ryan]

They were also up 13 at one point

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

Arkansas could somehow get a 24pt lead on us in the 3rd quarter and I'd still be confident we'd be leading when the final buzzer sounds (well in our actual game in the SEC lets say 12 minutes to go in the game since we dont do quarters yet)

 

[Basscat1987]

Cow broke out the stall ball

 

[NociHTTP]

 

[jrpross]

Why are we talking about Cal? He’s not at Kentucky any more?

…

I’m just kidding. That’s freaking hilarious.

 

[J-Ryan]

Arkansas HC John Calipari on TCU:

"Give TCU credit. They fought like crazy. We had every chance to win the game at the end and they made plays."

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

Arky doesn’t score the last 3:30 of the game. Sound familiar?

Shot 29% from 3 for the game. Woof.

well against the big 12 (KU and TCU) thats 25% and 29% . Thank you GOD he's not here anymore,

 

[UKWildcats1987]

I'm not gonna knock them. They played 2 big 12 teams n exhibitions while we play tomato can city.

 

[University-6]

I watched the second half of the game on twitter and puked a little in my mouth. Some of the worst basketball I have ever seen.

 

[Basscat1987]

I watched the second half of the game on twitter and puked a little in my mouth. Some of the worst basketball I have ever seen.

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2nd half of which game?

 

[chroix]

Only took him until the second exhibition game to prove the Bennies were right.

 

[bbncal02]

KenPom

Arkansas is 25
TCU is 58

Not an awful loss, but once again it’s HOW they lost that we saw far too much of here.

 

[Basscat1987]

Arkansas HC John Calipari on TCU:

"Give TCU credit. They fought like crazy. We had every chance to win the game at the end and they made plays."

Holy shit I figured u were just being a smart ass and predicting what he would have said and it sounded accurate but it’s actually exactly how he opened up. Also he got the computers machines and robots back in there.

 

[FutureCity]

Welp!,-- honeymoon's over--just like *that*.

 

[thebluestripes]

Does he yell "run piggies" during games? Asking for a friend

 

[BlueSince92]

Wait. Why was this allowed?

It used to be that you could play two typical Div-2-or-lower teams and sell tickets.

OR, alternatively, you could choose to play ONE div-1 opponent in a “secret scrimmage,” behind closed doors, untelevised, and you couldn’t sell tickets.

Why does Arky get to play KANSAS and TCU BOTH and put both on TV?

If nothing else that’s unfair because think about the revenue. A TCU game or a KU game is going to get way better ratings than a Wesleyan or a Minnesota State Mankato Whatever That Is game. And obviously in the modern era higher TV ratings equals higher value ESPN contract equals more revenue which is surely all going into NIL.

And even if I’m guessing wrong about there being a difference in TV revenue, there’s still unquestionably a difference in ticket sales revenue. We had Rupp “mostly full” for our two exhibition games, is what I heard. Something like 20,000 seats filled. You know as well as I do Rupp would have been bursting at the seams if we’d played Kansas. And can you imagine what UKAthletics would have charged for that seat? Coz darned straight people would pay it.

How is that fair?

And if it is fair why didn’t we do this?

EDIT: Okay. I see the TCU game is a charity game. So that takes care of the revenue problem. Still not sure why they can put Kansas on TV or why we wouldn’t follow suit.

 

[cathouse]

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked at this!!
Arkansas fans better get used to THIS. Cal already in March/late season form. No lead is safe when he is coaching.

DJ and Z both came back down to earth, as expected.

I wish we could have kept Thiero Adou. Probably Arkansas's best player.

 

[Titpwhami2014]

 

[J-Ryan]

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked at this!!
Arkansas fans better get used to THIS. Cal already in March/late season form. No lead is safe when he is coaching.

DJ and Z both came back down to earth, as expected.

I wish we could have kept Thiero Adou. Probably Arkansas's best player.

lol..Arkansas is already built for March..

 

[Skyguyb27]

Where are all my Arkansas fans at? I wanna have a quick laugh at your expense.

 

[yoshukai]

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked at this!!
Arkansas fans better get used to THIS. Cal already in March/late season form. No lead is safe when he is coaching.

DJ and Z both came back down to earth, as expected.

I wish we could have kept Thiero Adou. Probably Arkansas's best player.

I’ll take Robinson and Carr for my forwards 7 days a week over Adou . Big Z is the one that was a perfect fit for Popes system. But the decision was made for him before Pope could even speak with him.

 

[Blue wood]

I'm not gonna knock them. They played 2 big 12 teams n exhibitions while we play tomato can city.

Didn't take long for you to post something negative and Bookerfan 66 to like it. You guys are gonna be fun this year

 

[NociHTTP]

Welp!,-- honeymoon's over--just like *that*.

The next morning an Arkansas fan sees the article on the front of the newspaper.

 

[kywildcatsfannumber1]

Plenty of tired ass old Cal-isms in this one. Give the other team credit, needed a game like this, they're not machines and robots.

 

[dmacforheisman]

Where are all my Arkansas fans at? I wanna have a quick laugh at your expense.

Present. Lol gotta own up to it and acknowledge a bad loss in a scrimmage if we’re going to act like a Kansas scrimmage win has meaning too.

 

[crawfords corner]

Some free advice for Arkansas fans.

Expect 10 losses that way you won't be disappointed if it happens and youll be super exuberant if Cal surpasses his covid capabilities.

16
8
12
10

 

[The Grubbsfather]

“They’re not machines and they’re not robots” Good to know the Cal bag of excuses hasn’t changed a bit!!!

 

[yoshukai]

Both Wagner and Fland played 30 plus minutes and went a combined 1-8 from 3. Davis played 22 minutes.

 

[BlueSince92]

Question:

Did flogging “#1” KU so hard have anything to do with Cal losing to TCU the next game?

Cal himself is kind of a mixed bag imo as far as coaching. Some of his success was Worldwide Wes and good assistants. But some of it was good coaching like I saw versus Wichita State and Ohio State before that, if I’m honest. And then there’s a whole laundry list of bad attributes he has as a coach BUT

None of those compare to his ego in my opinion. Cal’s ego is a huge monster that outcoaches him every single time he faces it in any environment.

Did the KU win puff up his head so big he couldn’t see out of it? If he’d lost to Self or won by five would he have taken down TCU by carrying ahead with that same drive to recreate (and validate) himself that he took down to Arkansas when he left here?

 

[Mike-D]

Like I said when I watched a depleted Kansas team get beat the other night. That Kansas team was nowhere near a top 25 team, and Arkansas looked like a lesser version of the team we had last year. Arkansas is shooting under 30% from 3 in two exhibition games. Enjoy your rock fights.

 

[ukfan1622]

I've said it before and I'm saying now and I'll no doubt say it again but Arky will disappoint this year. They don't have enough shooting and with so many new players they're not going to be very good on defense and some of the transfers won't look as good in Cal's offense.

 

[bbncal02]

I've said it before and I'm saying now and I'll no doubt say it again but Arky will disappoint this year. They don't have enough shooting and with so many new players they're not going to be very good on defense and some of the transfers won't look as good in Cal's offense.

They will have games where we go, "Maybe Cal is back...." but they will also have games like this where we go, "Yeah, we were right."