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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-20-2017, 02:34 PM:

He doesn't have the brains that God gave a duck.

If you follow college basketball, you probably know who Seth Davis is.

The CBS commentator, who is now a reporter for The Athletic, is also a voter for the weekly AP Top 25 Poll.

If you’ve been following the AP Poll this season, you’ve probably seen a consistent theme of the Kentucky Wildcats getting very little respect.

A lot of it has been Kentucky continuing to drop in the polls, despite their seven-game winning streak. Apparently, Davis is a big culprit of that.

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Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 12-20-2017, 04:42 PM:

The funny thing is that other than maybe Arizona State, there's not one team in college basketball that is turning heads. Dook loses, Kansas has a couple losses, Wichita State gets punked by Oklahoma. And besides all this, Seth Davis is a turd.

Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 12-21-2017, 07:36 AM:

UNC lost last night to wofford. That idiot Davis will probably move them up in the polls.

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 12-21-2017, 08:46 AM:

And that game was in Chapel Hill!

GOTTA LOVE IT!!!

Posted by Cold Spring Cat (Member # 14751) on 12-21-2017, 09:03 AM:

Davis tries to come across smarter than he really is - did it on CBS too. Fact is, he is a Duke blowhard and an average writer at best.

I learned long ago not to take anything he says to heart, even when he occasionally praised the Cats. Normally if he did, it was a curse.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-21-2017, 10:45 AM:

Davis is dumb as a rock, always has been always will be.

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 12-21-2017, 12:00 PM:

He needs to be black balled by all the media outlets and let him see who is #1 then!! [Razz]

I hope we knock the crap out of UCLA and Louisville. Then we'll see how far he can knock us down.

[ 12-21-2017, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: Bama Cat ]

Posted by boomdaddy (Member # 2644) on 12-21-2017, 12:31 PM:

Who wants to talk about Davis? I would rather talk about North Carolina losing at home to Warford and the tarheels had a lopsided advantage in foul shooting opportunities, so it wasn't like the refs took the games from them, they just got beat by a nobody on their home floor.

[ 12-21-2017, 12:32 PM: Message edited by: boomdaddy ]

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-21-2017, 02:03 PM:

The North Carolina loss:

The Tar Heels’ three freshmen centers, Garrison Brooks, Sterling Manley and Brandon Huffman produced a combined 14 points and nine rebounds in 33 minutes.

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 12-21-2017, 03:30 PM:

It wasn't a surprise upset at the end of the game either. UNC trailed by as many as 14 points with over 9 minutes to play in the game. As said above. UNC took almost 4 times as many free throws as Wofford. I guess the refs felt UNC needed a little help!

Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 12-21-2017, 10:28 PM:

I bet ol'roy was brought to tears.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-22-2017, 04:55 PM:

Doesn't take much to get old Roy's tears a flowing.

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 12-23-2017, 02:02 PM:

Roy is going to blame it on the fact that his boys had to take final exams for the 1st time in the past 2 decades!

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 12-23-2017, 06:07 PM:

Looks like Seth knows what he's talking about. This team is terrible.

Posted by ukman (Member # 3032) on 12-23-2017, 06:12 PM:

I wouldn't say we are terrible, but we are not a top 15, maybe not top 20 team. If they can play hard like the last 4 minutes we could be very good. If we are the team that gave up 22 second chance points, then we are very bad.

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 12-23-2017, 06:32 PM:

UCLA were trying to run out the clock the last 4 minutes, that is why our defense looked effective during that period.

Posted by ukman (Member # 3032) on 12-23-2017, 06:37 PM:

Maybe, but we stayed in front better, closed out better, and rebounded better. Once we got it close I didn't see them just running clock. To me it looked more like we disrupted their offense and played better. I will choose to think it was our defense and hang some hope on that.

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 12-23-2017, 07:58 PM:

UCLA almost shot themselves in the foot by trying to stall when they built the double-digit lead. Once we cut the lead to four points, they made us look bad again by getting easy shots and offensive rebounds. No way we should've lost to those chumps.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-24-2017, 10:55 AM:

We have a lot of potential and would bet Cal will get this team playing up to it's full potential in the near future.

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 12-24-2017, 01:37 PM:

I am yet to see that great potential we were supposed to have this year. Cal has recruited the best of what he could get but this appears to be an off season for great freshman talent in the college game. This team just does not seem to possess a high basketball IQ and 11 games into the season are still playing like high school kids rather than college freshmen.

Last year we had three NBA lottery picks, I see none on this year's roster.

Posted by Wildcat Bill (Member # 615) on 12-24-2017, 04:23 PM:

I also do not see a high basketball IQ from this team. Since they have been practicing since October and have played 11 games plus exhibition games, it would seem that some things should have sunk in, but have not.

The root of our problems so far are defensive, as I see it. We can't stay in front of players, and when they get by the initial defender, the go straight to the rim for baskets. No help and little if any rim protection. Covering known good shooters is also an issue. How many times did Welch get open looks? And he is known as a mid range and beyond shooter.

The most disturbing thing, to me, yesterday was getting beat to 50-50 balls and allowing offensive rebounds. Those are effort plays and UCLA simply out efforted us there.

This may be more like the 2013-2014 team, the one that only started to jell at tournament time. I would hope that an earlier epiphany would occur, but it's hard to see one. Also, the SEC may be more of a shock to us than normal, since we have played only 3 power 6 schools so far, and none of them (Kansas, Virginia Tech, UCLA) look to be especially good this year, and some of the SEC schools like Tennessee, Texas A&M, and possibly Alabama and Florida could be as good as any of those.

I'm guardedly optimistic about this years team, but only if they start listening to Cal and quit playing like they're still playing AAU ball.

[ 12-24-2017, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: Wildcat Bill ]

Posted by ukcatfannfl (Member # 1425) on 12-24-2017, 05:49 PM:

the 3 good ones went to duke, texas and okla. imo

[ 12-24-2017, 05:50 PM: Message edited by: ukcatfannfl ]

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 12-25-2017, 12:26 AM:

Again, this year lost the sure thing guard that he recruited all year. We were supposed to have a lock on him until he suddenly decided to stay at home. He could have made a fifference in this team.

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 12-25-2017, 08:05 AM:

Didn't he commit to Oklahoma AFTER Green and Gilgeous-Alexander committed to Kentucky, leaving him no choice?

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 12-25-2017, 10:17 AM:

Yes. But by then it was already a conclusion that Cal didn't need him. So we thought. It's good to have the power of positive thinking but neither one will be the player OK got. He can handle the PG position much better.

Posted by boomdaddy (Member # 2644) on 12-26-2017, 09:56 AM:

I am guessing here, but I think the kid was a strong UK lean, but was holding off an pulling the trigger. I would think UK didn't want to get caught without a PG, so they got Green. Can't be scrambling at the last second.

When Cal won the championship he had a PG that should have stayed another year, all the top guards thought so as well and Cal did not have a top PG coming in. UK ended up short on talent, because the kid went pro. The kid made a mistake, by the way.

Green has had very good games. I am not giving up on him. This is no the same as the year after the UK championship. Green is much better. He has to be more consistent and have a solid effort at the point every game.