You know who I'm expecting the most trouble from in the Arky game? Big Z. We've had issues with bigs that can shoot from the outside and also in going to the basket against said bigs.
Having said that, UK 82- Arky 70.
The SEC is shaping up to be a tough Conference
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Having said that, UK 82- Arky 70.
Indifferent. He gave a lot to our program but at the end, it really just soured things. The losing was obviously the worst, but he really built a barrier between himself and Kentucky fans with his words.
“Draft night is the most important night in history”
“We are built for March”
“Basketball Bennie’s”
Just really rubbed BBNs nose in things. I personally wouldn’t clap, and would probably even boo. But I have a hard time with grudges, and it’s hard for me to get over Calipari completely demolishing what Kentucky basketball means to our fans.
They had Florida and Tennessee as 2 seeds, UK a 3.
Tennessee and Florida play this Saturday in Knoxville (Go Big Blue Arena), so that's going to change things, but Tennessee has one hell of a tough schedule coming up, so there is a lot that is going to change.
But if UK takes care of business and only loses to ranked teams on the road, they should get a 2 seed. That would be incredible considering Pope started out with no players when he took the job.
Still think UK is going to finish 13th in the SEC?
I have said it over and over because it's true. His later teams have been better and better, so why would anyone want to fire him? Regarding flaming out the the NCAA, we just came off E8, if you consider that flaming out out, you can count me in. We battled Purdue (a great team) down to the wire. We belonged and played great. Why would we fire someone that has accomplished so much and is only getting better?
You can make the argument about Cal flaming out, but you can't make the same argument about Barnes. However, I do have respect for Cal. CBB is evolving, but Barnes has been able to keep up, Knecht and Lanier are both products of the portal and our front line is much better than last years.
I don’t know, most teams aren’t going to go 9-50 on open threes like Tennessee did. Kentucky played pretty well and hit some shots, but Tennessee was just horrible on offense.
And the majority of their threes were open shots.
It happens. The funny thing is the game was still close.
Always funny to me how certain posters always want to take away from kentuckys big wins.
“Other team missed open threes”
“Kentucky shot lights out”
“UK got lucky”
we have more top 15 and quad one wins than anyone in the country not named Auburn. At some point, these little excuses lose air. Zero substance to them. The better team won.
“Other team missed open threes”
“Kentucky shot lights out”
“UK got lucky”
we have more top 15 and quad one wins than anyone in the country not named Auburn. At some point, these little excuses lose air. Zero substance to them. The better team won.
Teams do that to us all the time, they face guard Brea, Jaxson and Alnonor and leave Butler, Oweh, Garrison, Carr and Williams wide open. It worked a few times this year.
UK left bad shooters open and covered the good ones. It worked.
Yeah, with UK missing 3 starters.
I'm hoping Butler and Carr will be back for the UT game in Rupp, because Barnes will have a better game plan for sure.
I love it. Tennessee missed shots as a bad shooting team, much more of an excuse than us missing Carr and Butler. Love this board.
Yeah, it would be accurate if UK lucked into a couple crazy wins, but this team has proven time and time again that they are very good, a little Jekyll-and-Hyde, but still very very good.
I won't be surprised if Florida uses the same gameplan at UT on Saturday.
Florida is a must win, and I don't think we are as good them. Florida is better and just as athletic as Kentucky, unless we play perfect defensively they beat us by 10-15
You don't know? UK is 4-3 in conference. I don't need to go over all the impressive conference wins they have. They have no bad conference losses. And they haven't even gotten to play the Arkys, LSUs, SCARs yet.
In what world is UK going to finish 13th in the SEC?
As for the open 3s, that was UKs entire gameplan. Pope said it. Barnes said after the game that they knew UK was going to give their guys, specifically the ones who aren't known for being great 3 pt shooters, open look after open look and would pack the lane instead. Sounds like it is UT/Barnes' problem that UT decided to launch 45 threes instead of finding a way to attack UKs intentional sagging defense.
Same ones over and over and I love seeing it! You can tell how much they hate UK while they claim they don’t.😂
Issue with Tennessee is how much they are reliant on Zieglers motor to make things happen. Ya'll need another playmaker to help that man out. Maybe Gainey needs to be more aggressive? I just don't think that's Lanier's game. Any other point guys that can penetrate and get things going?
That usually happens when the other team is missing starters. Can you imagine how bad it would’ve been if we was fully healthy??🤣
Not all of them said they wanted him fired they just said that with the teams he’s had he should have at least made one final four and I agree with that. That’s just another reason people laugh when you start with your “Final Fours don’t mean anything” rambling because final fours are are to get to. Maybe now you see just how hard they are to come by and also understand why teams like UK, Duke, UNc, Ku and others are proud of their past/hostory. If final fours was easy everybody would have one but they ain’t.
Well you didn’t because we put the clamps on y’all and didn’t allow you to do so!!!
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I mean Auburn had our worst shooting outing on Saturday of the season by far. Had we hit our average it wouldnt have been close either
Sure but Tennessee hasnt had near the offense Auburn has had for most of the season. Auburn's defense statistically is closer to where Tennessee's defense is stastically than your offense to our offense. Auburn has had the number 1 offense in the country for the season so far.
I owned the loss unlike UK fans making excuses the day before. Y'all were complaining about the Refs even though they called more fouls on UT. I suppose y'all are preprogrammed to do so regardless of the outcome.
Yes, Auburn's defense is good, but you have a much better defense than you are given credit for.
I didn’t say anything about officiating. Matter of fact, I said the opposite in the first half of the game thread on rafters. Tennessee was being much more physical than we were at first. It showed in the score and stat sheet.
The only thing you and UK hater rocky have owned is that UK lucked into this win along with all our other big wins this year.
You got blown out by a .500 team in Ohio State. You didn’t mention that did you? What did I say that wasn’t true? Tennessee couldn’t hit wide open shots, does that bother you that it’s the truth? Kentucky isn’t a pushover, but definitely not an elite team. Auburn may be the only true elite team.
That was part of Popes master defensive scheme! He knew yall wasn’t a great shooting team so he packed it in and made yall chuck it from deep. Dudes ahead of his time I tell ya!!!
According to you, it’s true for every big game we’ve won. Mental gymnastics are hilarious.
That's not true, I owned the loss as soon as it happened. I stated tat 3 pt shooting by UK and the lack of hitting them for UT was the difference was the game. Which of course is true.
Dude, KSR was talking about you guys making the tournament Monday morning, you upset a horrid shooting Tennessee team that is spiraling, and now you want to be mentioned as elite or something? lol
And you are butthurt about the ACC being down, yet you’ve been in a football conference that has only taken basketball seriously the last couple of years. Last year only 3 out 8 SEC teams made it to the 2nd game in the tournament. I don’t give a **** if UNC is good or not.
Mental Gymnastics is BLOCKHEAD's event in the Special Olympics.
And your team got beat by UK, the team blown out by a .500 team. It’s college basketball it happens.
