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Topic: UK back-to-back poor second-half performances
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catmandoo
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posted 12-05-2020 06:42 PM
In both of Kentucky’s losses this week, the game has gotten away from them in both second halves after taking a halftime lead into the locker room for both defeats.
During the Richmond loss, the Cats allowed the Spiders to shoot 59.4 percent from the field on 32 total attempts, while missing 25 of their 36 total attempts, including all six 3-pointers they shot.
The defense wasn’t the issue in the second half of the Kansas defeat, as the Cats held the Jayhawks to just 28.1 percent shooting on 32 attempts from the floor. But again, the Cats struggled in the second stanza, shooting just 11-of-36 overall (30.6%) with eight of their 16 turnovers in the final 20 minutes.
With Calipari’s best teams over the years, they’ve been able to hit that gear to go on that run to put most teams away in the second half. It’s early of course, but this team clearly has not developed that important quality.
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m hamilton
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posted 12-05-2020 07:29 PM
We didn't share the ball in the second half and we didn't rebound the ball as well in the second half either!
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PaulCat
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posted 12-06-2020 10:04 AM
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With Calipari’s best teams over the years, they’ve been able to hit that gear to go on that run to put most teams away in the second half.
Maybe my mind is going soft or I'm just reading this the wrong way but this doesn't remind me of Calipari teams. His teams rarely "put teams away" in the second half. If anything Cal's trademark is letting teams back in the game in the second half. Maybe the 2014 Karl Townes team was good at putting teams away, but it seems to me that Calipari's teams get a lead at halftime and then let the other team back in it in the second half before squeaking out a nailbiter.
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Tiptree
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posted 12-06-2020 03:43 PM
Paulcat,
It depends on what you mean by "putting them away". Rarely do we take a lead and build on it, ending up in a blow-out. But, especially with that KAT-led team you mentioned, once we had a lead, we could grind it out and have little fear of losing the game. That was because we were very efficient on both offense and defense.
This year's team may end up very similar to that one, if we can fix our offensive woes. We have the pieces to run a very efficient offense, especially if our perimeter players can hit a respective number of 3-pointers to open up the lane (or, if we actually figure out how to space the court and move without the ball). Sarr promises to be a reliable post scorer, like KAT was, if we give him room to operate and get him the ball at the right time.
[ 12-06-2020, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: Tiptree ]
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