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  • Joneslab
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2014
    • 39604

    #16
    North Carolina has a really good front line. I think they'd present a tough match-up for us. A team like Texas, with Ibeh and Ridley, would be tough. I think this game Saturday is going to be tough as TAMU has some big dudes.

    But generally there aren't a whole lot of teams out there with stacked front lines. There aren't a whole lot of teams with stacked anything. Which is why Kentucky has a shot.

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    • catfaninin
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2014
      • 2016

      #17
      Originally posted by Downes Van Zandt

      Yeah, but how many of those guys are out there this year?

      We were talking about this exact thing last night. I made the comment that 2 teams I want nothing to do with come tourney time is UNC and Purdue. Those are the two that come to mind quickly for me. In the case of UNC, they go through long stretches where they forget Brice Johnson. That guy might be the best player in the country if they just used him consistently.

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      • Joneslab
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2014
        • 39604

        #18
        Originally posted by catfaninin


        We were talking about this exact thing last night. I made the comment that 2 teams I want nothing to do with come tourney time is UNC and Purdue. Those are the two that come to mind quickly for me. In the case of UNC, they go through long stretches where they forget Brice Johnson. That guy might be the best player in the country if they just used him consistently.
        Yep, Purdue is another one.

        And I think Carolina is going to be susceptible regardless with the way they shoot the ball from outside. They're kind of the polar opposite of Kentucky in a lot of ways.

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        • catfaninin
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2014
          • 2016

          #19
          Originally posted by Will Lavender

          Yep, Purdue is another one.

          And I think Carolina is going to be susceptible regardless with the way they shoot the ball from outside. They're kind of the polar opposite of Kentucky in a lot of ways.

          But you know if they played UK they wouldn't take a shot outside of 10 feet. And UK's team would be fouled out.

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          • KevinHall
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2014
            • 6857

            #20
            Originally posted by catfaninin


            But you know if they played UK they wouldn't take a shot outside of 10 feet. And UK's team would be fouled out.

            You are right about that. If one of these bigger teams, and there are not many of them as you all have pointed out, did concentrate on pounding the ball inside they would foul UK's bigs out in no time. If Tex A&M goes with that strategy tomorrow, Skal and Humpherys won't last five minutes.
            Kentucky fan since 1971.

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            • Pobilly
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2014
              • 4931

              #21
              Seeing the overall product that is NCAA 2016 there are only about 4 to 5 teams that UK does not match up real well with that have a chance to play us come tourney time. Out of those 4 to 5 teams, UK will face possibly only 1 to 2 of those (i would think at most). The rest we match up good and are possibly a bad match up for other teams.

              On a very low key (compared to NBA teams, like the Bulls years back) we have a triangle offense right now. Jordan / Scottie / Kerr with a rodman and a center / power fwd (insert different ones here). Again on a very small scale. Murray Ulis Willis (Briscoe and insert person playing the best that night or the best match up).

              That is how I look at the team.
              Proverbs 25:24

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              • Spiritof96
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2014
                • 13503

                #22
                I would like to see more of the high pick and role with Skal.

                I would love to see the points per possession of that play vs. Brisco drives to the basket. We need him driving but I see a little too much of drive/foul/0 for 2 at the line for my taste.
                Originally posted by John Stuart Mill
                ​He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that... He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
                Originally posted by Robert “Hoot” Gibson
                No matter how bad things may seem, you can always make them worse.
                RIP: Charlie Munger​

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                • Joneslab
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2014
                  • 39604

                  #23
                  Briscoe needs to be engaged in the offense. I tend to think even when he has a couple of those 0/2 games at the line at least he's a cog and is getting the ball. He's such a good passer and is so powerful that he needs to be used. The times he's a detriment aren't really the times when he's coming up 0'fer from the stripe; it's when he's just drifted out of the offense entirely. I like Skal in the pick-and-pop too, but he needs to hit those J's because it's the only game he really has other than a proclivity to block a couple shots per game.

                  But really the offense has been solid going on a month and a half now. As thin as we are in the post this team has put up some startling numbers beginning at the time Willis came into the line-up. I think we're national championship-caliber on that end.

                  Defensively, not so much.

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                  • Pobilly
                    Senior Member
                    • Oct 2014
                    • 4931

                    #24
                    Could we see a Jorts type of roll for SKAL in the Tourney. If I remember correctly around the SEC Tourney Cal changed to the pick and roll with Jorts, maybe he puts in a pick and pop with SKAL and possibly (The Hump). Hump has been able to hit the jumper throughout the year.
                    Proverbs 25:24

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                    • LogyCat
                      Junior Member
                      • Dec 2014
                      • 45

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Blue Cincy
                      Could we see a Jorts type of roll for SKAL in the Tourney. If I remember correctly around the SEC Tourney Cal changed to the pick and roll with Jorts, maybe he puts in a pick and pop with SKAL and possibly (The Hump). Hump has been able to hit the jumper throughout the year.
                      If we are heading into the tournament running pick and pops with Skal and Issac regularly I am very worried. The only pick and pop guy from the outside is Derek Willis. Skal needs to prove he can be consistent over the course of the rest of the season because as of right now I would run no play for him outside of a lob dunk. Issac can hit a Ft line jumper but again can and being able to do it consistently are two very different things.

                      Offense is not our issue, we are scoring plenty of points per game this year.

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                      • Joneslab
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2014
                        • 39604

                        #26
                        I think Skal could be consistent on the pick-and-pop actually. Really he has been this entire year. Last night he wasn't, but usually you can count on him to knock down at least one of those jumpers. And really he only takes two, maybe three a game.

                        The problem with him isn't that. It's that you can't play him extended minutes because he won't get rebounds unless they magically carom right off the rim into his hands, and sometimes he still can't get them.

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                        • Westtncat
                          Senior Member
                          • Oct 2014
                          • 2031

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Will Lavender
                          I think Skal could be consistent on the pick-and-pop actually. Really he has been this entire year. Last night he wasn't, but usually you can count on him to knock down at least one of those jumpers. And really he only takes two, maybe three a game.

                          The problem with him isn't that. It's that you can't play him extended minutes because he won't get rebounds unless they magically carom right off the rim into his hands, and sometimes he still can't get them.
                          This statement is sad and funny at the same time. Also true.

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                          • Blue Heaven
                            Senior Member
                            • Oct 2014
                            • 6283

                            #28
                            The missing ingredient is a dominating post presence. We all thought Skal would be that. It is what it is now and we have to make due. Having the best backcourt in the country is a good place to start.
                            Isaiah 5:20

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                            • Matt Dillon
                              Administrator
                              • Oct 2014
                              • 49618

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Blue Heaven
                              The missing ingredient is a dominating post presence.
                              Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
                              Philippians 4:11-4:13

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                              • Joneslab
                                Senior Member
                                • Oct 2014
                                • 39604

                                #30
                                This team actually reminds me a little bit of the early '90s Pitino teams.

                                I was showing my son highlights from '94-'95 last night. One interesting thing is a lack of a post presence. Mark Pope was about as close as that team came. They actually started Andre Riddick at center, and early in the game his stats flashed up: 4 or 5 points, 3 or 4 boards per night. (Of course the best thing he brought to the table was blocking shots.) The other guys played out on the floor as much as they played inside.

                                Of course when you hit threes like they did then you can get away with no true big man. And that's what this team has done: hit threes at a pretty startling clip. That's negated the post presence. It also helps that we have a point guard who can get anybody the ball anywhere on the court.

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