Brooks and Wheeler just so frustrating down the stretch. Wheeler just has to stop shooting so much. Missed a big shot wide open in the last few minutes and then I think got the rebound and just made way too quick of a pass to turn it over (though I'm pretty sure Grady was bumped out of bounds and fouled but of course they just called him out of bounds). And then Brooks with just too many boneheaded decisions.
Ultimately this is what I’m unhappy about.
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Yes. Let me take a guy who nearly got tossed off the team over a hard worker like wheeler who hasn’t caused any chemistry issues.
That s ridiculous and you know it.
I’m responding to your bulldh*t about KU being on a different tier than UK.
It’s ridiculously stupid, but I shouldn’t expect anything different when I see the other threads you’ve started.
Duke has 5 first rounders and are freshman heavy. Idk if you’ve been watching them but they are getting better each game. They will blow their conference away in the reg season and will win their conference tournament. They are in the position we should be in going into March but we are headed the other way
Today Wheeler and TyTy were rusty, let them get the rust off and it will make a difference. Other teams know all they have to do is shut down Grady and Mintz and just let Oscar do his thing and they will have a opportunity to win. Scares me that our inbounds play is a push off to get open, Keon made three bad moves while the game was in balance...Keon needs to man up he is as soft as butter when he needs to be tough, hoped Bryce would come in and be a man today again, Wheeler made some big shots today.
How exactly are we heading the other way? Because we lost road games to top 20 competition? We also beat LSU and Alabama recently who are good teams.
I’ve never wanted to smack a player harder than Brooks today. Gets that huge rebound when we were up two and just gave it up.
What’s dang ne’er unforgivable is him shooting that three. He had no damn business on God’s beautiful green Earth taking that shot.
And you don’t give Shows an excuse t9 call you for a foul like that.
Dude owns a big part of this L.
Do you think the ACC being shit has anything to do with that?Let Duke play at tenn,at Ark and at Auburn and see what happens.
Please go slurp K like everyone else then. Please. You won’t be the last to fall for his incubus charms.
An issue no one is talking about is a defensive stopper. We have no one that can shut down another teams stud.
Exactly.
So we dock Gonzaga for playing in a crappy WCC but Duke looking good in the ACC is supposed to be some sort of indication that they are good or special? lol
Listen Duke is very good. They are in the convo as title contender. But IMO they aren't any more special than we are.
Yes, agreed completely. He was so frustrating. I still think it was a BS call by Shows but you're absolutely right that you don't even give him a CHANCE to make that call. Just no need to push off at all. Wheeler wasn't that far behind in the frustration department.
Hagans is 12x the player wheeler is. Hagans was a headcase and I would have no problems having cut him for his actions and attitude. Wheeler is a wildly inconsistent player who is undersized big time. I’d prop him at the end of the bench in any game we have to run a half court offense. His lone attribute pushing the ball well if we play a team we can push against he play if not let tyty run it.
of course I take hagans. You can try to fix the mindset but you can’t fix height
Yeah, what happened with Toppin today? Even Cal said he had to talk to him about the effort on Notaie.
Idk if they suck so bad two of our losses are to acc teams so what does that say??
You are basing that one what? The fact that 3 guys had been out for week and just returned? I guess you figured that’s like replacing an oil filter. Arky has played some good ball lately. Our 2 returning guys were clearly rusty. Mintz had a rough game probably because they have been riding him hard in the absence of the other 2. Grady was the focus of a Blitzkrieg plus had to transition back to his former position. Brooks had a less than perfect game.
Still, that game was close as hell and we went down guns blazing. Sounds like we are the same team dealing extremely well with adversity. I can only conclude you were eager to piss on the cats. In that respect it is business as usual.
Ulis could shoot and was a very consistent player. You pick out 1 thing and cling to it just like beating Ku head to head instead of looking big picture. If wheeler had been out pg in 2016 we don’t make the tournament.
I don't have to cling to anything.
Our resume speaks for itself.
Which is why we were an overall 6 in the bracket reveal.
Our resume speaks for itself.
Which is why we were an overall 6 in the bracket reveal.
That’s nonsense. UK is better than everyone in your second tier
It would come down to the team that has players that understand what winning basketball is and that's where we are going to lose.
Seen it for a while now, but we were so good in other areas that it covered the issues up, well, when Tyty gets shut down, we have guys that do incredibly stupid things.
If UK was in the ACC they’d have 1 loss. I grant you that Duke is good and will win out for a 1 seed because the ACC sux.
Add UCLA to this. We are much better than the Bruins.
What’s going to get this team beat is Shooting. Like so many other years, we have one guy who can hit an outside shot,1. I remember everyone crowing about how we would play 4 guards and shoot teams out of the gym before the season started . Well here we are near game 30 playing exactly the kind of offensive sets Cal has always played. Wheeler is below average , although he did hit 2 three pointers today, half of our total. Mintz is streaky and unreliable, Washington hasn’t shot well from outside since well before his ankle injury, he managed to bank one in today. Grady our only real shooter is not exsplosive and struggles to create his own shot. We do very little to get him open looks. Brooks can’t hit from outside and Toppin is wildly inconsistent. Oscar might put us on his back and win a couple of games in the tourney, but he will not win 6 in a row. Good coaches watch us and scheme a defensive game plan that makes us struggle. We will struggle mightily to win the SEC tournament. All that said I have enjoyed watching this team and like all the players, they have represented the University well, but anyone who believes this is a championship team is living in LaLa land.
How’s that when we are 1-2 against the acc??
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You’re not elite if your not a 1 seed or make the final four. UK hasn’t been elite since 2015. That’s not good enough:
What I don’t like:
1-wont adjust defensively
2-no follow through for Hopkins. No run
3-where was Collins, Ware? 15 sec. Haha
4-Oscar gonna be worn by tourney time
5-Please get Grady some shots. Damn!!!
6-Cal
I agree with about everything OP had to say and maybe a level beyond. This is gonna end just like we’ve seen before and I hate it. The real UK wins these type games. Cal UK don’t. AT LEAST 3 titles for any other coach with a pulse given the talent we’ve had for the past 10 years.
1-wont adjust defensively
2-no follow through for Hopkins. No run
3-where was Collins, Ware? 15 sec. Haha
4-Oscar gonna be worn by tourney time
5-Please get Grady some shots. Damn!!!
6-Cal
I agree with about everything OP had to say and maybe a level beyond. This is gonna end just like we’ve seen before and I hate it. The real UK wins these type games. Cal UK don’t. AT LEAST 3 titles for any other coach with a pulse given the talent we’ve had for the past 10 years.
Wheeler isn’t in the same stratosphere as Ulis.
They are the only team in their conference projected to be better than a 9 seed. Their competition lately has been hot garbage.
Are we discussing who’s better or who will be a better team in the dance? UCLa returns everyone and was a ff team. I fully expect them to be a very difficult out in March I wouldn’t want to play them
It's not to say he is.
Just that if Ulis could play undersized, Wheeler can also do some things as an undersized guard as well.
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I can't disagree with anything you said here.
I have also enjoyed watching this team, but they aren't winning it all this year, nope, I've seen this movie too many times. We have a deadly weapon that Cal doesn't utilize, we have a pg that can’t shoot and we have an extremely selfish 4 that doesn't know what winning basketball is and Cal refuses to bench his ass.
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Just because Ulis can do it, doesn’t mean Wheeler can. Not by a long shot.
In fact, there are very few 5'9" guys on the planet that can play as well as Ulis. Wheeler isn’t one of them.
The ACC is the consensus worst conference in basketball and the SEC is the consensus #1 conference….
If you're going to post stupid takes, at least get your facts right. Kentucky did beat North Carolina.
Because we had a craptatic game against ND. In DECEMBER.
Come on. You act like we too on Duke three times.
