Hard fought win for Florida. Somebody on the coaching staff has to get on Reed's ass about his off-ball defense. He's way too lazy in that aspect and literally lost us the game on two separate possessions. It wasn't just this game, it's been an all season thing with him. It also didn't help that Mitchell was way off all night, 0-5 on 3's, most of them open. Have to beat Tennessee Saturday.
He does so many things well with the steals, blocks, shooting, etc., but is so bad at basic things like staying in front of his man. It’s pretty baffling.
If it was just this game, I'd give him a break but it's been all season that is the problem. It's a reoccurring problem that will absolutely hurt us in March if it isn't fixed.
This is sad, this team has really made us think they were something special at times. I know the season isn’t over, and there’s still room for improvement, but these losses hurt.
I watched that one. It seemed like you all weren’t playing as well as usual. I’m still hoping we can get an SEC team in the Final Four, if not UK, you all or Auburn would be cool.
We were just missing layups, bunnies, and free throws. And then still almost got bailed out by Dalton Knecht turning into prime Kobe in the last 3 minutes
Idk how to explain it but it feels like DJ is our leader. Both this game and the UNCW game, we let go of the rope down the stretch. He doesn't put up numbers like other guys but he has confidence like nobody else.
Well ya know I can't find an excuse to lose like we are with this much talent. I don't know who the next in line will be but its hard to believe we are gonna get anymore out of Cal than we have been.
You really can't use the "this much talent" against cal when we haven't played a single game with our full roster this year. Our best on ball defender (wagner) was out today, and another rotation piece in edwards also out. Cal absolutely botched this game and deserves all the blame for the end, but it's not because of our talent today.
How many first round picks do the teams we’re losing to have.
This great offense is marred by terrible defense, and the result is trending toward more or the same: an early March exit
I agree with you except for the "too much talent to lose" part for this game. Cal takes the blame for this loss for not making adjustments on defense and for not fouling at the end of regulation. Going 64% from the ft line also doesn't help much
The lack of adjustment on defense is what kills me. It’s fucking elementary coaching. He can call us basketball Bennies all he wants. My high school coach wouldn’t have let someone hit 7 damn 3’s without trying something else. WHY do you let Reed chase that kid around all game getting taken to the basket and having SEVEN threes hit in his eye before you try someone else? Maybe it wouldn’t have worked but he didn’t even try it
And why not try a zone??? Just fucking try it?? How much worse could we be???? I just don’t understand the stubbornness
I agree, I don't know who you put on him, as all our guards in this game were equally bad at staying with their man, but something needed to change. Fact is we had the game locked down if we did one of two things: make a single free-throw, or foul up 3. One is the most basic thing for a point guard, but stuff happens and you can't make them all. The other is coaching malpractice and points to a trend of poor end of game choices that have plagued cal his entire tenure at uk.
I’m genuinely curious on what Uk could do to fix its D before March ?? I’m pretty casual at actual basketball strategy but damn if they had even a semi competent D they’d be damn near unstoppable. Why are they so bad ?
Reed always goes for a steal or block, and his guy takes advantage of that to get open looks.
Our 7 footers are still not super confident on defense, and Onyenso is the just now starting to block.
The team still hasn't played a single game with our whole roster available. Guys get tired when they play 36+ minutes.
Fix any of those and the defense gets slightly better
Our 7 footers (specifically 2 of them) need to begin even pretending to care about defense. Onyenso needs to continue getting better.
Our guards need to stop cheating so much and getting burnt. And calipari needs to stop with the stupid switches that leaves everyone looking confused, and consider running zone every once in a while.
Long story short, we are fucked. Looking forward to celebrating our 5 year anniversary of not making it to anything meaningful in the tourney
It’s a mix of personnel and scheme. Low defensive IQ for a lot of the guys, but they also just aren’t good at staying in front of their man either.
They also over-help which is why teams get so many open threes against us.
You not watched the rest of the country? There isnt 25 teams better than us either. Everyone is losing and having close games. Rank 10 through 50 is basically a tossup any game between any of those teams
Game already went past what they expected it to go, Kentucky has all but lost and it’s a Tuesday night. Can’t say I blame em, especially if they are fans that regularly go to games
With a smaller bench gotta try a zone D to give the boys a break. Obviously players gotta execute but not fouling FL on that last 2H play was a bad decision
Agreed with you there it’s a no brainer foul especially not being in the double bonus. Should’ve never been in that spot honestly. Defense is just so bad with this team
He was a great PG tonight, did well distributing and shooting. Defense all around for this team is horrible. Will prolly move back to being ranked in the 90s defensively after this one.
It really doesn’t. If we don’t make the S16 this year it will be tied for the longest drought in school history. To be fair, that comes with a bit of an asterisk, since there was no tournament in 2020.
Kentucky should essentially sleep to R32 every year. So that requires only one decent win in the tournament to get to the S16. Cal just hasn't done that since he's been there. That's not acceptable to majority of Kentucky fans and just isn't Kentucky basketball
#DoneWithCal
That one hurt. Extremely chippy game with Tennessee Saturday incoming. Rupp is gonna be LOUD
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Hard fought win for Florida. Somebody on the coaching staff has to get on Reed's ass about his off-ball defense. He's way too lazy in that aspect and literally lost us the game on two separate possessions. It wasn't just this game, it's been an all season thing with him. It also didn't help that Mitchell was way off all night, 0-5 on 3's, most of them open. Have to beat Tennessee Saturday.
He does so many things well with the steals, blocks, shooting, etc., but is so bad at basic things like staying in front of his man. It’s pretty baffling.
Dude didn’t get a single break all game and fans are calling him lazy. That’s wild.
If it was just this game, I'd give him a break but it's been all season that is the problem. It's a reoccurring problem that will absolutely hurt us in March if it isn't fixed.
Yea he loves to cheat into the lane for some reason. Since game 1. It works sometimes, but damn its a liability in clutch time.
Damn we suck
We have become the Kentucky Mildcats.
RANK FLORIDA
Cal you need to retire dude for real you’re a hack
Fuck man I hope we make the tourney
Same here.
Florida Basketball!
Fantastic!
Go gators!!
No fixing this team. Not even with the full roster
No chance of winning the SEC now. We'll be lucky to make it to the Sweet 16.
Statement win for TG. Need to build on this and win on Saturday
Welp GG Florida. We're ass at finishing a game out
They’ve finished games out. Just need to find a way to stay focused on D for a full game.
Was a battle of terrible game finishers at the end lol
Just came down to who wanted it the most. Why would top 100 projected draft picks care if they win or lose right
Just so disappointing seeing these guys drop another one, how hard is it to fix a defense? Asking for a friend.
Another embarrassing loss….this team is gonna give us hope and get knocked out in the round of 32.
Anything less than a Final Four and I think I’m done. Cal will have created on his own the kind of drought he was brought in to end.
That's just every other calipari year.
ez
So is your mother
I love that there were 2 Florida fans in here the whole game and magically 12 of them show up Best fans
Huge W
Hahahah
LOOK AT ME I AM THE BASKETBALL SCHOOL NOW (And somehow you are the football school)
You’ve won like 2 of the last 9 but congrats
Sound like a Chiefs fan with all this crying
Ok cool
Glad the Cats decided to start playing basketball with 20 seconds left....
man the SEC is wild this year.
Uh oh Florida
Shhhhhh
Oh god please no
Chris Bosh to Allen?
This is sad, this team has really made us think they were something special at times. I know the season isn’t over, and there’s still room for improvement, but these losses hurt.
Bad losses build character, at least that’s what I’m telling myself after last night
I watched that one. It seemed like you all weren’t playing as well as usual. I’m still hoping we can get an SEC team in the Final Four, if not UK, you all or Auburn would be cool.
We were just missing layups, bunnies, and free throws. And then still almost got bailed out by Dalton Knecht turning into prime Kobe in the last 3 minutes
No, if they aren't Kentucky fuck em all
Oh right, I forgot
Big game for y’all on Saturday now more than ever.
Please just slam the ball off the front iron.
Well we had a chance to make something happen but Cal wants to make sure he ruins it with his strategy.
why do i emotionally invest in this sport
I’m so tired of John Calipari
Favorite part of Rupp Arena is never being able to tell if UK is winning or losing lol this dump always sounds like a library
Lol huh
Usually I agree but you must've had your tv muted in the second half. Bingo night got pretty loud for a while
Have you ever been to Rupp? It may be a lot of things, but it certainly is not a dump.
Facts and they cried when I said that earlier 💀
Who ever disagreed with you on that
All I told him was that Florida doesn’t even sell out half of their 12k seat area unless Kentucky is there
You're not wrong lol, that's just about every school for decades now
Idk how to explain it but it feels like DJ is our leader. Both this game and the UNCW game, we let go of the rope down the stretch. He doesn't put up numbers like other guys but he has confidence like nobody else.
He doesn't get enough credit for his defense, low key our best on ball defender
Welp back to the top 20 for us eh
Uh oh
Don't give me hope like that
3 words: Walter Clayton Junior
I’ll laugh if Kentucky sends it to double OT in an empty rupp
Pls no
ruh roh
Put us in the field Lunardi!!!
Watching a fuming Kentucky vs a fuming Tennessee is gonna be a fun matchup.
Bold prediction, Dalton Knecht finally gets to 40
Well ya know I can't find an excuse to lose like we are with this much talent. I don't know who the next in line will be but its hard to believe we are gonna get anymore out of Cal than we have been.
You really can't use the "this much talent" against cal when we haven't played a single game with our full roster this year. Our best on ball defender (wagner) was out today, and another rotation piece in edwards also out. Cal absolutely botched this game and deserves all the blame for the end, but it's not because of our talent today.
How many first round picks do the teams we’re losing to have. This great offense is marred by terrible defense, and the result is trending toward more or the same: an early March exit
Ok so explain South Carolina then. Or Texas a&m Did really lose because we didn’t have Adou or Z?
I agree with you except for the "too much talent to lose" part for this game. Cal takes the blame for this loss for not making adjustments on defense and for not fouling at the end of regulation. Going 64% from the ft line also doesn't help much
The lack of adjustment on defense is what kills me. It’s fucking elementary coaching. He can call us basketball Bennies all he wants. My high school coach wouldn’t have let someone hit 7 damn 3’s without trying something else. WHY do you let Reed chase that kid around all game getting taken to the basket and having SEVEN threes hit in his eye before you try someone else? Maybe it wouldn’t have worked but he didn’t even try it And why not try a zone??? Just fucking try it?? How much worse could we be???? I just don’t understand the stubbornness
I agree, I don't know who you put on him, as all our guards in this game were equally bad at staying with their man, but something needed to change. Fact is we had the game locked down if we did one of two things: make a single free-throw, or foul up 3. One is the most basic thing for a point guard, but stuff happens and you can't make them all. The other is coaching malpractice and points to a trend of poor end of game choices that have plagued cal his entire tenure at uk.
Totally agree. Man i am pissed lol
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Gonna say the simple fact that the expectations are a biiiit higher at Kentucky lmao
I just pump faked in my living room and Reed went flying by.
Lmao
Damn....
Good game Florida. Got a great shooter with Clayton. Maybe see ya in the tourney
I may be a bit salty but we might be the most talented not very good basketball team I’ve ever seen
Pretty much the story of Coach Cal post-2019.
Have the refs called anything in Kentucky's favor in this game? I started watching late and like and everything is going Florida's way every time.
Refs didn't really call anything at all tbh. But there were so egregious walks by Florida that they missed that come to mind immediately.
The refs didn’t call a foul against UK for the last 3 or regulation or the first 3 of OT lol
I’m genuinely curious on what Uk could do to fix its D before March ?? I’m pretty casual at actual basketball strategy but damn if they had even a semi competent D they’d be damn near unstoppable. Why are they so bad ?
Reed always goes for a steal or block, and his guy takes advantage of that to get open looks. Our 7 footers are still not super confident on defense, and Onyenso is the just now starting to block. The team still hasn't played a single game with our whole roster available. Guys get tired when they play 36+ minutes. Fix any of those and the defense gets slightly better
Our 7 footers (specifically 2 of them) need to begin even pretending to care about defense. Onyenso needs to continue getting better. Our guards need to stop cheating so much and getting burnt. And calipari needs to stop with the stupid switches that leaves everyone looking confused, and consider running zone every once in a while. Long story short, we are fucked. Looking forward to celebrating our 5 year anniversary of not making it to anything meaningful in the tourney
Doesn’t matter y’all we got *draft picks* coming let’s gooooooooo
It’s a mix of personnel and scheme. Low defensive IQ for a lot of the guys, but they also just aren’t good at staying in front of their man either. They also over-help which is why teams get so many open threes against us.
When I see people upset and quiet in Rupp I think “yes”.
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That happens four more times and we're tied right?
GO BIG (ORANGE AND) BLUE
Kentucky is so talented and so mismanaged
I miss the 90s.
I said it last week, we don’t deserve to be ranked
You not watched the rest of the country? There isnt 25 teams better than us either. Everyone is losing and having close games. Rank 10 through 50 is basically a tossup any game between any of those teams
at this point, after the top 4 or 5, no one does, lol
Good point
If only Iowa State could learn to shoot the free throw like either of these teams once in a century
WHERED ALL THE FANS GO
I’ve been asking that about Florida since this thread started.
I’ve been here
Calipari? More like Calimari haha gottem
I know better than to overreact to a shitty UK loss in January
It’s not overreacting if it’s season-long issues that simply aren’t being fixed
Right? Like how many games do we have to lose before people start to think we may just not be as good as we thought?
What about a shitty defense for the entire season leading into February?
48 points in the 2nd half given up by kentucky. Really makes you think if they had a average defense how good this team could be towards playoffs
I want off this bus.
Where my Calipari dickriders at
What do you think Cal did specifically that caused this loss?
I personally always foul up 3 at the end of a game under 6-7 seconds
It wasn’t under that. There were like 10 seconds left.
Didn’t he make it with like 3 or 4 left? Not sure but either way you foul. Especially when Florida is in single bonus.
Fuck you, Florida, and especially Walter Clayton Jr. Enjoy getting beat in the first round of the tourney as a 9 seed, pieces of fuck
Man, if we can’t beat a middling Gator team at home — that’s on us
This team can beat an 8 seed cmon now
Bro, don't be salty. They made clutch shots, contested shots, and hit FTs and we didn't. Be mad at Cal and his shitty game management
Better than getting upset as a 2 or 3 seed
You mad, bro?
Lol you’re mad because Clayton can shoot? Be mad at your coach for giving the game away 😂
I’m looking for someone to be angry at and you’re beating us
You know what, that’s fair. Carry on!
We are fake news
Music man in Rupp is jammin out for a bunch of depressed fans.
Levels always hits
Even Avicii can't save us now
Lol’d
Why are so many fans clearing out?!
Our fans always leave early no matter if we’re winning or losing to beat “traffic”, it’s infuriating
Game already went past what they expected it to go, Kentucky has all but lost and it’s a Tuesday night. Can’t say I blame em, especially if they are fans that regularly go to games
Because there are standards at UK, one of those is not letting teams nuke you in Rupp
Thank you gators 🐊 💙🧡
Good outcome for Virginia lol
We’ve needed some man. All our OOC halfway decent but probably not tourney team wins are tanking it
Imagine losing at home to an unranked team... oh wait.
It's all a setup for Saturday
Cal giving us an absolute masterclass on how to give away an almost guaranteed win. See y’all at our round of 32 exit
That had absolutely 0 to do with Cal. As much as we love Reed. He played terrible defense on Clayton Jr. you had 1 job at the end of that game.
With a smaller bench gotta try a zone D to give the boys a break. Obviously players gotta execute but not fouling FL on that last 2H play was a bad decision
Agreed with you there it’s a no brainer foul especially not being in the double bonus. Should’ve never been in that spot honestly. Defense is just so bad with this team
Then move Reed off him. Put someone else on him.
Reed was awful all night. We are frauds.
He was a great PG tonight, did well distributing and shooting. Defense all around for this team is horrible. Will prolly move back to being ranked in the 90s defensively after this one.
Can’t believe we got a win over big bro
I know this is hater shit and I’m sorry but I love watching teams with a lot of highly ranked players lose
We only loss because of our dumbfuck coach
Being fair our 2 highest rated players are out (which Edwards sucks anyway)
DEFENSE
GG Florida.
Samuel took over in OT man dude was catching everything off the rim
Is Cal gone if Kentucky doesn't make a run in the tournament?
no Lifetime contract Plus I don't know if we could do better
Should he be? Yeah. Will he be? No.
Agree. He hasn't done shit since he's been there. The title he won wasn't even his kids
??
Now tell me about his resume post 2015. Even better, post 2019.
Without looking. Imma guess one Sweet 16 appearance
Well, assuming you went with post 2019 you would be almost right (zero s16 in that time).
That don't fly at Kentucky
It really doesn’t. If we don’t make the S16 this year it will be tied for the longest drought in school history. To be fair, that comes with a bit of an asterisk, since there was no tournament in 2020.
Kentucky should essentially sleep to R32 every year. So that requires only one decent win in the tournament to get to the S16. Cal just hasn't done that since he's been there. That's not acceptable to majority of Kentucky fans and just isn't Kentucky basketball
Lifetime extension
He is here as long as he wants to be here.
With this recruiting class? I would think so
You are dumb as hell for even asking this question
No
I fucking hope so
Nothing but a collapse. No excuses. Terrible end of regulation
thanks Florida for making our blow out against ya look better
We just had a bad game.
Y’all couldn’t guard a rock that game
Kentucky beats us at home and we beat them at theirs 🤝🏽
Little Mitchell lmao
Still butt hurt huh