Tennessee vs. Kentucky: Game Thread

[Joneslab]

I think I said Kentucky could have 8 or 9 losses in this SEC before this all started and everybody laughed at me.

These guys aren't very good AND the teams we're playing are better. That rarely happens with Kentucky. It's not a fun and merry place to be.

[BobS]

Next 4 out of 5 on the road. Plenty of opportunities to prove themselves.

Cal said tonight after this fiasco that "they are on the right track." Sometimes I wonder if he is just trolling the fans.

[Ratt]

Criticize me all you want. I’m a big boy, I can take it.

This team is awful, Cal has done an awful job with them and it’s embarassing. If that makes me a bad fan, fine, I’m good with that.

I don't think it makes you a bad fan... I think you can be a fan of a team and understand that when a team is bad, it's bad... This team is bad. This team has been embarrassing often this season. It happens, we as UK fans and especially since Cal got in town believe that every single season we're competing for the title. That's simply not going to happen. Not at UK, not at Duke, not at Kansas, not at UNC... It's just impossible.

[J.Jennings]

Let's call it for what is, the sky is falling and this team literally sucks. It's also clear if Cal doesn't recruit the best of the best, we lose. I have been keeping my mouth shut all year long about SGA but if anyone thinks he good enough to go pro even before this game, pass that thing your smoking over this way, it must be good...

Anyways, tired of watching this junk basketball, i watch we lose so im done, wont waste another second of my valuable time this regular season watching this garbage and a coach who refuses to make adjustments. Call it what you want but im done until the Sec tournament, my nerves are shot and i need a break before i blow a freaking gasket....

Sanford and son straight garbage

[thughes]

Well Cal admitted that he should have called a timeout. He said that he doesn't like to call TO's late in the game but this time he admitted that he should have taken a TO.

[KCKUKFan]

Criticize me all you want. I’m a big boy, I can take it.

This team is awful, Cal has done an awful job with them and it’s embarassing. If that makes me a bad fan, fine, I’m good with that.

I'd be more willing to accept your criticisms if you hadn't of pulled the same sort of pessimistic nonsense in every game thread in the 38-1 year.

It's just in your DNA. It's cool, dude. Just know that you might not be a bad fan, but you are an annoying fan. Have a nice day.

[Joneslab]

Well Cal admitted that he should have called a timeout. He said that he doesn't like to call TO's late in the game but this time he admitted that he should have taken a TO.

Yeah, after the first panic-induced turnover you probably need to draw something up there.

In Cal's defense Shai is usually money. I still thought he was going to make a play for us on the second possession.

[Joneslab]

How bad is Auburn going to beat us and how much is Bruce Pearl going to love it?

I may try to go to another father/daughter dance that night.

[J.Jennings]

Anyways, it is what it is...

[KCKUKFan]

How bad is Auburn going to beat us and how much is Bruce Pearl going to love it?

I may try to go to another father/daughter dance that night.

I wouldn't be surprised if we went down there and beat Auburn, because that's the sort of nonsense that this Kentucky team excels in.

And then turn around and lose at home to Alabama, because 2018 Kentucky.

[thughes]

Yeah, after the first panic-induced turnover you probably need to draw something up there.

In Cal's defense Shai is usually money. I still thought he was going to make a play for us on the second possession.

I am giving Tenn some credit because on those two final drives they crashed the paint when he started his drive. They forced him to make a decision, do you try to make the basket or pass the ball out to an open shooter. Problem is who do you throw the ball to for that open shoot if you are SGA? Knox? But he was just standing around watching, not even trying to get to an open spot. Without a shooter this is KY's major offensive weakness which Tenn played into.

[teamchemistry15]

I think I said Kentucky could have 8 or 9 losses in this SEC before this all started and everybody laughed at me.

These guys aren't very good AND the teams we're playing are better. That rarely happens with Kentucky. It's not a fun and merry place to be.

The funny thing is at the beginning of the year we all predicted 7-10 losses. It isn't like we were all saying 37-3 with a title.

"They are who we thought they were!"

When you bring that up people say "It's HOW they lose not THAT they lose."

Uhm, we've had a chance at virtually every game we've lost. I'll take a bunch of close losses over a bunch of blowouts all day. I know we have a lack of effort and Will (did it again) to win, but that doesn't mean the kids don't want to win. It just means they don't know how to. Will they figure it out in the next few weeks? Probably not, but when there's a Will there's a way, and we literally have a Will.

The fact of the matter is Cal is recruiting 17 year olds. There's no way of knowing how they're going to mesh, gel, perform on the big stage, or handle getting bullied by an upperclassman. We've been lucky so far. This year the teamchemistry(15) just isn't there. Everyone is playing for themselves. I think a lot of that might be because of all of their draft stocks sinking and, as Dickie V stated, they're probably listening to the wrong people. It is what it is. On to the next game. We still have some big opportunities to solidify a decent seed in the tournament. Go big blue!

[teamchemistry15]

How bad is Auburn going to beat us and how much is Bruce Pearl going to love it?

I may try to go to another father/daughter dance that night.

I might throw a BBQ in my back yard.

[teamchemistry15]

I am giving Tenn some credit because on those two final drives they crashed the paint when he started his drive. They forced him to make a decision, do you try to make the basket or pass the ball out to an open shooter. Problem is who do you throw the ball to for that open shoot if you are SGA? Knox? But he was just standing around watching, not even trying to get to an open spot. Without a shooter this is KY's major offensive weakness which Tenn played into.

If I coach against this team I run a box and one defense. Four guys with one foot in the paint at all times and the one on our best shooter on the floor.

[teamchemistry15]

I wouldn't be surprised if we went down there and beat Auburn, because that's the sort of nonsense that this Kentucky team excels in.

And then turn around and lose at home to Alabama, because 2018 Kentucky.

You're absolutely right. I bet we go down, beat Auburn by near double digits, then lose to LSU by double digits first round of the SEC tourney.