Think you have embellished a bit or taken the worst of worst takes you could find to try and prove a point.
This fan base collectively rooted like hell for Edwards to show some signs of life. After 20 games it wasn’t happening. The mantra was he should have to earn his minutes with better play and not just given minutes. He finally did. Was that because cal kept playing him and he finally came around or because the shepherd family offered up their mental health coach to help him? Whichever one it was I am glad it worked as we are a different team with Edwards playing well.
Same for DJ- very few said he should never play, rather not play 30 minutes per game while dilly plays 18. DJ plays his best when on the floor with two other guards yet he still starts the game as one of 2 on the floor but I digress.
We were in jeopardy of playing ourselves out of the tournament or at the very least a horrible seed. To suggest otherwise is hindsight. Team came together and pulled out some wins that there for a bit did not look possible with how we were playing.
One thing has become clear with our bigs and that is by committee. I’m one guilty of thinking Z had seperated himself and should be getting the lions share of the minutes. Wasn’t just me either as many national pundits said the same indicating big Z is a difference maker and takes uk to another level. That is still true but there is a place for Ugo on the team when he is playing his role well. One thing none of of bigs offer is consistency every single game and with that it is a luxury to see which one of them have it for what is needed on that given night.
Again don’t think anyone ever said cal didn’t let Reed shoot it- I mean seriously I’ve never read that and I’m on here daily as well as seeing many comments on other social media sites. Not running plays for him, sure, questioning does he encourage Reed to shoot more or even tell him to shoot more. Some players need to be told to be more selfish than they are without forcing things obviously.
Lastly again this last point is merely the luxury of hindsight. We were literally in 5th place of the conference standings the last half of the SEC regular season. And still easily could have ended up 5th with a loss at UT and other games falling correctly. Fortunately we pulled out the W and that didn’t happen.
Your post really did nothing but try and build division amongst the fans heading into the most exciting part of the season. Maybe that was your intention, who knows!!!!!
I'll try to tackle these point by point, but I'll start out with this: so If I prove to you that posters/twitter takes were saying NOT to play Justin and DJ, then what? You can claim it's embelished, but that's just a claim. One claim vs another. Is what it is. But absolutely it was being said
1. There was a loud part of the fanbase that did NOT "root like hell" for DJ and Justin. My post was about takes that had circulated across BBN, not what the collective fanbase claimed. So think about that for a second: did you ever see posters/twitter calling for the benching of Justin and DJ? Come on, it was everywhere
2. I don't think we were ever in jeopardy of missing the tournament. Sure, dooms-dayers on here and Cal-haters on here wanted you to believe that, but wasn't true. A "bad" seed, yeah I agree with you
3. Ugo is needed. Not every game for 36 mins, and same with Z, but he's needed. My 5-year old goes crazy for Big Z. He came into the game vs Tenn, and I actually thought to myself, when's the last game Z made a 3? Feel like he went crazy vs Georgia, maybe a 3 vs Vandy too, but I feel like he hasn't shot well lately
4. 100% posters said Cal limits Reed and Cal doesn't let him shoot like others. 100%. If you want me to dig it up, I will - but 100% was said on here, and that Reed isn't allowed to because he "Wasn't a 5-star that go promises". Again, 100%
5. You keep mentioning hindsight. Ok sure. But it's much more ignorant to make lazy, hyper-critical claims early in the season or halfway thru the season and think that's just how it is. Lazy, ignorant. I'd actually challenge you to go back and read some of the posts from earlier in the season. Call it hindsight bias, fine - but I'd rather be the guy not looking like a dumba$$ in November and December making dumb post after dumb post, just because I'm too lazy and impatient to see how it's all going to play out.
My OP doesn't have anything to do with division, that's on YOU if that's how you want to interpret it. It has everything to do with slow down, relax, be a fan and then after the season criticize whatever your heart desires. But we got dudes on Instagram hopping on Justin Edwards "live" and telling him to transfer.
