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North Carolina vs Kentucky

Yeah, UMBC was efficient against us that night. That's why I give them props. They scored 74 points on 62 possessions. Impressive against our defense.

P.S. I know I've triggered you once you have to bring up UMBC. Still love you Lurk.
love you too boo. I'm pretty excited about our win tonight, so I guess that would translate to triggered defending the win.
 
love you too boo. I'm pretty excited about our win tonight, so I guess that would translate to triggered defending the win.

I didn't say it wasn't a good win. It was a big win for you guys. I was just offering my 2 cents saying why I didn't think it was a "great game" like @RR30 suggested. UVA wins plenty of games against good teams where we don't play great. Doesn't mean it's not a good win.
 
I didn't say it wasn't a good win. It was a big win for you guys. I was just offering my 2 cents saying why I didn't think it was a "great game".
I understand. I do. I find "great game" funny though coming from a UVA fan. A sloppy 80-72 game is better than a 52-42 game IMO. I get what you're saying though.
 
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I understand. I do. I find "great game" funny though coming from a UVA fan. A sloppy 80-72 game is better than a 52-42 game IMO.

When did I say a 52-42 game is a great game? But a 52-42 game can be just as great as a 80-72 game imo. If you score 80 points on 90 possessions, is that really great compared to scoring 52 points on 40 possessions? Great execution and efficient play can be just as great as faster paced games. You can disagree if you want but that's just personal preference, not an objective truth.
 
When did I say a 52-42 game is a great game? But a 52-42 game can be just as great as a 80-72 game imo. If you score 80 points on 90 possessions, is that really great compared to scoring 52 points on 40 possessions? Great execution and efficient play can be just as great as faster paced games. You can disagree if you want but that's just personal preference, not an objective truth.
Agree. Some like slow and low and some like uptempo.

 
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Just wanted to drop in and say good game UNC. I saw a lot of improvement from my cats today but I thought UNC did some good things. Haven’t watched UNC enough this year to know if our defense really effected them as much as I Hope it did or why, to me, it seemed UNCs offense struggled. I felt like Kentucky was just more consistent today.
 
No doubt being he won't have to play against Hagans during the ACC.
Tre Jones must be salivating.
My bad, but don't you root for low scoring games?

Doesn't matter. We just scored 80 in a game against a top 10 team, held one of the best scoring teams to 72. Well below their average.
UK scored over 80 points against another top 10 team earlier this year as well...
 
It's amazing to me what passes for "great games" these days. Both teams scored fewer than 1 point per possession. The teams combined for 35 TOs, shot 35% from 3 and 68% from the line. The bar for great basketball is just so low these days.

not every team can be a UMBC :p
 
Kentucky looked top 5

That is one reason I'm always nervous playing UK. There are tons of reasons I love this game and always want it played. However, even if UK is struggling there is enough talent (and will be with Cal there) that they could look incredible on any given night.
 
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That is one reason I'm always nervous playing UK. There are tons of reasons I love this game and always want it played. However, even if UK is struggling there is enough talent (and will be with Cal there) that they could look incredible on any given night.
Same playing UNC. It's never an easy game.
 
Always one I look forward to though. A lot of it for me is being a UNC fan living where I live with so many friends who are UK fans. Always someone to talk to about the game.
Well the one thing you can look forward to is at least your co-workers will still talk to you Monday morning, rather than several weeks/months of silent treatment. Laughing
 
That is one reason I'm always nervous playing UK. There are tons of reasons I love this game and always want it played. However, even if UK is struggling there is enough talent (and will be with Cal there) that they could look incredible on any given night.

Hard to win when you lose on turnovers and rebounds then the other team scores. Weird thing is that UK didn’t even shoot that great from 3.
 
Well the one thing you can look forward to is at least your co-workers will still talk to you Monday morning, rather than several weeks/months of silent treatment. Laughing

At work there is only one person who is a big UK fan and she is a Physical Therapist so is only there a few times a week.

That one guy that wouldn't talk to me if UK lost to UNC is long gone now, haha.
 
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Glad to see some improvement from this UK team. UNC is a legit team, they manhandled a good Gonzaga team and UK neutralized them
I like where they are at right now and I feel a lot better about the season outcome now.
Give UNC a little more time and they'll be a legit threat too.
UK needed this one badly, glad they got it.
 
That is one reason I'm always nervous playing UK. There are tons of reasons I love this game and always want it played. However, even if UK is struggling there is enough talent (and will be with Cal there) that they could look incredible on any given night.
win or lose this is always one of my favorite games of the year
i wish we would play every year
 
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Glad to see some improvement from this UK team. UNC is a legit team, they manhandled a good Gonzaga team and UK neutralized them
I like where they are at right now and I feel a lot better about the season outcome now.
Give UNC a little more time and they'll be a legit threat too.
UK needed this one badly, glad they got it.
Gonzaga has been struggling since they went nuts on Duke and UNC is Jekyll and Hyde this year. When they're on they look great, when they're not Texas beats them to death. I don't think UNC is a championship caliber team this year but they will have games where they look like it and games where they really don't.
 
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I didn't say it wasn't a good win. It was a big win for you guys. I was just offering my 2 cents saying why I didn't think it was a "great game" like @RR30 suggested. UVA wins plenty of games against good teams where we don't play great. Doesn't mean it's not a good win.
At least it was not losing to a 16 seed in the NCAA tourney.
 
Gonzaga has been struggling since they went nuts on Duke and UNC is Jekyll and Hyde this year. When they're on they look great, when they're not Texas beats them to death. I don't think UNC is a championship caliber team this year but they will have games where they look like it and games where they really don't.
If you defend UNC's break properly and beat them on the glass, you can beat them and make them look average.
Let them run and rebound (Gonzaga game) and they'll slap you silly.
 
Kentucky fans: EJ Montgomery. Did he play yesterday? If not, is he injured? I don’t remember seeing him on the court.
 
Kentucky fans: EJ Montgomery. Did he play yesterday? If not, is he injured? I don’t remember seeing him on the court.
He didn’t come wrapped in NBA ready paper, Cal doesn’t know what to do with those types.
 
Kentucky fans: EJ Montgomery. Did he play yesterday? If not, is he injured? I don’t remember seeing him on the court.
He played a few minutes. Had a tip in layup I believe. Travis and Washington were just beasting yesterday.
 
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