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Bama Cat
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posted 03-17-2022 10:04 PM      Profile for Bama Cat   Email Bama Cat   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What's to review? We didn't realize how bad our team was until we got into the second half of February. We peak in Jan-Feb. Only this time we were playing badly and winning except for AR and TN (2) times. We found out before that if this team was challenged they would fall apart until Grady would make a few 3's and they would win when they should have lost.

That didn't work late in the season or in the tourneys. Grady became the biggest liability Cal had, and he played him way too much when he wasn't scoring. But he kept him in there hoping he would start scoring. But he didn't and we didn't and that's the end of what was going to be a dream season for UK again. We got no closer to winning #9 and getting 1 game closer to UCLA's win total.

But I am now in agreement with those who shame Cal for playing 10-11 patsies at the beginning of every season so he could build confidence in the players. How about over confidence?? He needs to cut that crap out and start scheduling no more than 3 or 4 of those directional games. If his kids get beat early, so what. It's what counts in the SEC that counts the most.

Oh well, I'll just tear my brackets, 3 of them, up and keep the TV off those 4 channels that are covering the Tourney. I'll not be watching any more BB until this fall. It's a shame we get led down the yellow brick road for 3 or4 4 months and then have a bomb drop right in the middle of it and end everything.

Maybe Skyy will have second thought and come back. We won't be seeing Mintz or Grady again. Wheeler and Washington should return but neither one is good enough to get drafted after their showing at the end of this season. Pretty sure we'll have to endure the unsteady play of Brooks for one more season. Hope Collins improves greatly along with Toppin. Oscar could return for one more year, but why should he? Cal will still be coaching and I don't see any improvement that would get us any closer to #9 than we were this year.

I can remember only 2 other times that were as bad as what happened tonight. #1 was 1984, thye loss to Georgetown in the semis when we went stone cold in the second half. #2 was the game we lost to Duke with 2 seconds left in the game.

[ 03-17-2022, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: Bama Cat ]

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ukman
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posted 03-17-2022 10:32 PM      Profile for ukman        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This was worse than the Duke game to me because this was a complete failure in coaching. As much as that game hurt to lose, I was proud of the whole team, and coach for what they did. Puke was the darling of basketball at the time and we took it right to them with a less talented team. This one is just demoralizing and makes me disgusted. I feel bad for the team because they were not put in the right position to be successful by the coach. They should have won the game, but they had no help from the bench. St. Peters played lights out, but we did not try to make one change to throw them off a little bit. Nothing at all the entire game. But why would we. Cal has never done that and I guess never will.
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