When a team is over matched and they know it...

[bigbluedon]

The coach tells them to hack the shit out of us and hope the refs won't call it. Well Vandy is getting their wish tonight. Have not seen such crap under the basket since a couple of games ago that is not getting called. Then we go down and get called for ricky tack BS. Also I have counted 6 walks and 5 palms on Vandy so far that have not been called.

Officiating has gotten so bad in college ball,it just takes all of the fun out of it. Hope the second half is better and we play better.

 

[FishersBlue]

That's what you have to do. Fight, grab, hold, push...More teams will try it against the Cats.

 

[UKGrad93]

I agree. Vandy has turned this into scrum ball. It is not basketball. It is ugly, but it is their only chance.

 

[ala_kat2]

Our Bigs have to power through the grabbing and get the "And 1".

 

[UKWildcats#8]

Stallings knows he has no chance to win this game in reality. Thus, he is just trying to muck it up to make it a rallying cry going forward for his players and fans. "We went to Rupp and ONLY lost by 12-15." LOL.

I hope we can win this by at least 20, but not holding my breathe the way we have played so far.

 

[KentuckyWildcat4Life]

Then Kentucky needs to return that favor.

 

[BostonCat2001]

and people dont want college basketball to change...lol

this game sucks.

 

[sefus12]

I just don't understand how this team can be so bad at offense in stretches. We should be man-handling Vandy yet only have a 5 point lead. It just makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[Friedas_Boss]

UK has been called for 7 of the 25 or so fouls they have committed so far. OP is not being objective.

These refs are literally sitting on their whistles.

 

[catben]

It's like this nearly every game. Our guys have got to learn how to play through it. You would think as many games as we have seen this type of physical play, our guys would get used to it. They better learn how because it's going to be this way from now on!!

 

[bigbluedon]

Friedas what the hell are you talking about? The refs have basically swallowed their whistles in the first half. Vandy hacked the shit out of us and they hardly called anything. If they would have we would have been up by 20. We didn't commit very many fouls in the first half so me being objective has nothing to do with it. I don't care how many they did call on them, they committed about 10-12 more than they called...Gracious..

 

[deplion]

We don't adjust well to a game where the refs let 'em play.

Down in Bama, it was called tight and we won going away. Tonight it was "anything goes" down low and instead of rising to the challenge, our guys settled.

Too many soft shots and finesse moves in the post. Have to go to the hoop strong and finish through the contact, and we didn't do that this evening.

Against even a slightly better team, it would have lost us the game.

 

[Baldcat1]

Lack of motivation and energy in this game. Played like they lost their best friend or had the flu.

 

[IL Wildcat]

I didn't get to see the entire game but I agree with the OP's assessment. It is clear to me what Vandy's gameplan was. Foul. Foul. Then foul some more, and hope the refs aren't calling them all. That's exactly what I saw. And it worked pretty well, thanks to the officials.

 

[musrat59]

We will see the same tactics on Saturday.

 

[Desperado_1955]

Originally posted by deplion:
We don't adjust well to a game where the refs let 'em play.

Down in Bama, it was called tight and we won going away. Tonight it was "anything goes" down low and instead of rising to the challenge, our guys settled.

Too many soft shots and finesse moves in the post. Have to go to the hoop strong and finish through the contact, and we didn't do that this evening.

Against even a slightly better team, it would have lost us the game.

^^

 

[mj2k10]

Don't act like it's just UK games. It's become the defining style of an incredibly awful era of college basketball. Another poster called it "pigs fighting in the mud", and that sums it up well. And it's only going to get worse until conferences start to threaten officials, and eliminate some of the "good ol' boy" element of officiating grades and assignments, where it's always ex-officials (who are likely to have known veteran refs for years) doing the grading.