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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 01-16-2020, 01:39 PM:

John Calipari

On the contest on the final shot …

”I don’t know. That’s the least of my thoughts right now. The lack of discipline that we have, especially offensively. Guys breaking off stuff, doing their own thing. We’re up 10, call stuff and they just do—you can’t play that way in a big-time game. We had some guys that the game was a little bit above them. They couldn’t come up with rebounds and balls, which I thought they would. But you gotta give South Carolina credit. They never stopped. I thought we had them when it was 14 and let’s get this to 20 and they didn’t stop. We left No. 10 (Justin Minaya)—for you that know me, ball-side corner, we never leave ball-side corner. We don’t leave ball-side corner. We left ball-side corner twice for him to get two 3s. I don’t understand where that breakdown was, but, again, we’re on the road, it’s a hostile environment. We had some young guys, some inexperienced guys. Everybody on the floor is inexperienced, but we’re trying to figure out a way to just stay in the game and win. And I gotta give them credit, they had free-throw shooters who don’t make free throws made every free throw. Made every free throw. And we had guys that make every free throw missing free throws. But they deserved to win the game. It would have been a shame if we’d somehow thrown one in and won the game. I would have been happy, but it would have been a shame. Frank (Martin) did a great job in this game.”

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Posted by ukman (Member # 3032) on 01-16-2020, 02:32 PM:

Really, everybody's inexperienced. Give me a break. Hagans isn't, Richards isn't, Sestina isn't, Montgomery isn't, and Quickly isn't. This year that should not be the excuse for a loss like this one. Just admit you and the whole team just blew it.