By LARRY VAUGHT
If John Calipari is right, Florida should have showed Kentucky’s players where he wants them to be with the way they handled UK Tuesday night.
“That’s where we’re trying to get this group, that every guy will be aggressive, got to be tough play through bumps, understand if the game is going to be a rough game you’ve got to play it (that way), you can’t just give up on the game. If they’re jerking balls out of your hands, jerk balls out of their hands. If they’re being physical in the post you be physical in the post. It’s something we’re just learning,” Calipari said.
The UK coach was not buying it was a case of seniors beating freshmen, either.
“That’s some (of it) but I had freshmen last year and we did okay,” Calipari said.
OK? UK won the national title. Of course, many think Florida can this year.
“When you play a talented team that is very physical and plays aggressive and plays tough and plays off one another you have to focus for 40 minutes. You can’t give up on plays,” Calipari said. “We learned all that tonight, but we’ve learned it in other games where we’ve had 12-point leads, 16-point leads and you turn around and it’s a two-point game. We’ve just got to regroup. They’ve lost a bunch of games in the building, right? Five or six? Oh, they haven’t lost any? That means whoever comes in here is getting dinged.”
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I hope Calipari can learn from that game. Sometimes you have to draw up some offense for your team. They can’t always do it on their own. We don’t have the players for that this year. Maybe he should call some other coach and ask them what to do. The loving and touching thing isn’t working out.
Nor is communicating on the floor.It seems this team needs to learn and concentrate on playing more than the nuances that Cal is striving for.
I think Cal has tried every thing he knows to motivate these young men and light a fire under them. Some guys are just more hard headed then others, something goes in one ear and out the other. Some guys might have other priorities and think their talent alone will get them to the next level. I don’t think they realize if they don’t put the work and effort in at this level the next level is not going to be easy and it is not a guaranteed stay for more then one year. D-league or European play might be more suited to them.
It’s time to quit moddley coddling these guys, hey they were recruited because of their so called talent, if they cant or wont use it to make the team better, call them out on it…not playing hard is nothing but laziness and lack of committment, and nothing anyone can do will change that, only they can make that change, committ to team ball not me ball and play ball, give 110% every time you are on the floor. If Goodwin, Harrow and Poythress had the grit Polson and Mays had, they could be undefeated now….
We lost our 110% guy last night. Maybe some others will step up now. I’m not worried about Kyle, not worried about Polson. Just seems like there has to be someone or more then one someone on that team to step up.
Last night watching the boys carry Noel off the court showed a lot of what it means to be a team, they need to show that on the court.
I’m more then willing to go talk to the guys, not sure if they would pay attention, might not even know I am in the room since I am so short, but I’ll tell you one thing for certain, they will hear my voice. That is guaranteed! Go Cats, come on guys, you can do it.
SHOUT OUT TO MARSHALL HENDERSON FOR HIS CLASS IN TWEETING ABOUT NN’S INJURY. WATCHING SOME OF THESE GUYS PLAY IS PAINFUL. I QUESTION THEIR HIGH SCHOOL COACHING. JUST BASIC THINGS THEY DON’T SEEM TO GRASP. DO THEY REALLY NOT KNOW HOW TO ROTATE AND HELP ON DEFENSE? TIME FOR SOMEBODY TO MAN-UP NOW. I THINK WCS CAN HELP BUT HE CAN’T DO IT ALONE. COME ON. I WANTED TO SEE SOMEBODY SLAP THE SMILE OFF YOUNG’S FACE LAST NIGHT. HE WASN’T SMILING LIKE THAT LAST YEAR. AD AND TJ WERE ALL OVER HIS BUTT.