SEC Season Thread
- Thread starter Demarcus Kidd-Miller
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Yeah, I don't get it, we're playing one on one iso and getting stuffed at the rim every time.
Paris essentially made Calipari give him a blumpkin on live TV tonight.
Keeeeeyyyyy-rist what a pitiful display of no defense and bad shooting by UK. SC has a really good team. Those dudes in the paint look like they came from the football team. Good lord.
UK didn't seem to have a plan of attack for SCAR's slow deliberate attack. Did you see it that way too?
UK got cocky with thinking they're going to put up 90 and half ass defense and hold them to 89.
No answer for a slugfest.
I'm still curious to see if anyone wants to run with the horses.
Are teams willing to slow down like USC and change philosophies in order to win a game.
USC's game plan was to be physical and slow the pace to a crawl. A lot of teams don't practice for that. They're trying to get better at what they do best.
Thought our team had some dawg in them but after last night, no so sure. Showed fight at A&M. Showed fight at Florida. Last night, we bent over and took it.
Frustrating team. Can be so fun to watch, but not sure they're tough enough to make it all the way this season.
Frustrating team. Can be so fun to watch, but not sure they're tough enough to make it all the way this season.
The pace being slow didn't help, but they have to know as a team (and Cal as well), that when the shots aren't falling, you simply gotta defend. They didn't and SC had the bulls inside to limit attacking the basket. Not to mention that they hit 11 threes. Everything went their way... they earned it.
The object of the game is to win. You try to check your opponents strengths and exploit their weaknesses. You try to move the game into the type of game you have the best chance of winning.
"Top scoring team" is too arbitrary. It can't be fairly measure because not everyone has played the same schedule.
It seemed to me that UK dengerated to playing backyard ball instead of a planned attack. UK also collapsed inside leaving wide open 3 looks. I don't think SCAR is a very good team. However, sometimes it is just not your night and that happens to everyone.
I'm surprised you don't think USC is a very good team. I guess "very" gives the out.
I'm assuming you mean against y'all. I think UT is a much better team than SCAR both offensively and defensively. I think UT will try to frustrate UK with tight defense shutting off 3 pt shots and then staying in front of dribble penetrations. Tennessee will try to frustrate UK defensively.
So slow it down and muck it up. Not running with them. I understand. USC just gave everyone the blueprint.
They are not very talented compared to UK, UT Aubie and bama. They do not shoot particularly well. They are gritty though.
You don't think they'll purposely run down the shot clock?
I don't blame y'all if you do. Again, USC exposed the way to beat UK and wouldn't be surprised if you adapt what you normally do to copy them.
I don't understand how Cal can be so bad at this. Every team is doing the exact same things. They drive the ball, we collapse and leave shooters wide open, they throw the ball to one of 3 wide open shooters and get wide open 3's. Rinse and repeat on the next possession.
Then there's the inbounds plays. We are unbelievably bad and he's doing nothing about it.
Then, the cherry on top last night was him resorting to his old 'my turn' iso offense where there's no passing, we just pick a guy to drive and try to score. No passing, just me-ball.
What's worse is, we were down 20 with 10 minutes left and he still stuck with iso ball, which took up most of the shot clock. Took 13 total 3's for the entire game and played Edwards 23 minutes and he only took 1 shot. I'm trying to fugure out if Cal was drunk, or just screwing with us.
That wasn’t just a plan for KY. That’s the Cock basketball philosophy under Paris. They play offense like that in every game.
Dumber than a bag of hammers.
Noted.
Tennessee needs to do what we do best and stop or slow UK from what they do best. I was surprised that UK didn't make a lot of adjustments at half. Y'all still had much better athletes and they should have been employed to attack the SCAR defense. However, UK just kinda went about the 2nd half the same as the first, which was individual play.
Oh, I'm doing good. Shook off whatever it was that I saw on the SECN last night and I'm right back at it. Let's roll.
Part 1 of The iron bowl of basketball tonight In Tuscaloosa. bama will probably hit 20 Threes judging by my luck today
Tell us about your luck today. Most of here suffer from the daily grind.
Anything to share?
Started out my morning with not just 1 tire with a nail in it. But two tires. Both in sidewalls. Couldnt be patched.
also have an issue with my washer not wanting to drain
Your game was in Knoxville though. They are at home tonight
I think the courts are the same size all over. So, shouldn't make any difference.
So you would expect your same poor performance at starkville to also occur in knoxville verses miss st.?
Are you really trying to say winning at home is just as easy as winning on the road? Why has Tennessee lost its last 5 games at Auburn. Yet won its last two at Knoxville verses Auburn? Both your wins occured in years you lost on the road in Auburn.
