Your coach cheats. Enjoy it till it is taken away
this would be sooooo sweet and would not surprise me at all.
Your coach cheats. Enjoy it till it is taken away
Ya, Jones doesn't talk any trash. He's a soft spoken individual.
One major thing I took away from the past few days is that I am glad we have our players over theirs. Atleast our players have personalities and are not dumb. If you watched their players in interviews expect for miller you would be surprised that they graduated from high school, they are lucky they are so talented.
this would be sooooo sweet and would not surprise me at all.
Nobody is going to stop Kentucky. They'd beat NBA teams, crap they have just as much talent as some NBA teams do.
Yeah, it would be sweet, but tell that to the teams that lost to Memphis and UMass. That's what pisses me off about the way this stuff is handled. Calipari gets to float around from job to job all the while leaving a mess that everyone else has to deal with. The man should have been banned from coaching in College after the Memphis debacle.
That being said, if this one stands, it's a helluva team they have in Kentucky. Sour grapes aside, I've never seen a team shoot like that before. Our best game wouldn't have beaten that team tonight. They didn't miss a shot. It never ceases to amaze me how Cyclone teams always run into these types of teams.
As I said before, as soon as the pairings were announced, I figured it would be UK vs Iowa State in the Round of 32. I'm not just a diehard UK fan, but also an avid follower and student of college basketball in general, so I knew how dangerous your team was. Now that we've played, my opinion hasn't changed.
I'm sure your game plan was to take away our strength -- the paint -- and allow us to shoot threes, which is our perceived weakness. But those who claim we can't shoot threes know nothing about our team. We don't shoot a lot of threes because we typically dominate inside. Why take threes when you can get dunks and layups? So while we didn't take a lot of threes this year, we hit a good percentage of the threes we took. We shoot 38% as a team. We rank around #250 in the country in 3PT attempts, but we're in the top 50 in 3PT percentage. When we take them, we hit a lot of them.
So, while this wasn't a typical game for us style-wise, I give your team credit for it. You did what you had to do to win. We got nothing from a 2nd team all-american (Gilchrist) and our 2nd leading scorer (Lamb) spent much of the game in foul trouble. I thought the refs sucked. Way too many touch fouls called, both ways. That shouldn't happen in the NCAA tourney.
My last point: Royce White. What a player! The only thing he lacks is a shooting stroke. Inside 15 feet he's a monster. We couldn't handle him for awhile, because no one on our team wanted to take a charge from him to stop his drives to the rim. But that changed when he said he was the best player on the floor. I think it was a 42-42 game when he did that, and it lit a fire in our team. That's just not something you do. Our players don't talk trash or hot dog in any way, so when Royce White did that, I think it changed the game. From that moment, we went on something like a 22-2 run. I think he's a great player, but that was a bad decision by him.
Again, thanks for allowing me to post here. This is a great site.
Yeah, it would be sweet, but tell that to the teams that lost to Memphis and UMass. That's what pisses me off about the way this stuff is handled. Calipari gets to float around from job to job all the while leaving a mess that everyone else has to deal with. The man should have been banned from coaching in College after the Memphis debacle.
That being said, if this one stands, it's a helluva team they have in Kentucky. Sour grapes aside, I've never seen a team shoot like that before. Our best game wouldn't have beaten that team tonight. They didn't miss a shot. It never ceases to amaze me how Cyclone teams always run into these types of teams.
Really? The NCAA has never done ISU any favors . . remember playing Michigan State?
Really? The NCAA has never done ISU any favors . . remember playing Michigan State?
I've always wondered why Umass isn't good anymore, and why Memphis is starting to get average recruits lately? Must be some coach. All these studs wanna play for him.