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Trey Ball
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posted 02-04-2025 07:56 PM
“If you stop them in transition they can’t score”. Yep.
Also, UK is so bad on defense. Just awful on defense. Can’t stay in front of anyone and then no one trying to help a teammate out by rotating on defense.
[ 02-04-2025, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Trey Ball ]
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Wife's Mad. Told me we never talk anymore. And just last nite while watching super bowl told her 2 or 3 times to get me a coke and popcorn. Also told her not to forget to take out trash in the morning. Ain't that something. Also told me I was too indecisive. Can't figure out what to do about that. One nice thing I guess. She called me a pro crastinator. Don't know what a crastinator is but I guess I'm a good one for her to call me a pro. Gonna wait til tomorrow to look that up though. I love her but somrtimes can't help but thinking I should have told uncle Junior to keep his coon hound pup and stevens double barrel and also his youngest daughter.
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PaulCat
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posted 02-05-2025 06:58 AM
With the exception of a couple of players, we are a very slow team. I think that's what dooms us on defense. With Butler out and Kriisa out, we're extremely slow.
We did hang 53 on them in the second half. Too bad Ole Miss made more 3-pointers in the first half than their entire per-game average. Never fails.
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Tiptree
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posted 02-05-2025 07:55 AM
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Too bad Ole Miss made more 3-pointers in the first half than their entire per-game average. Never fails.
We like to talk about this as if it is a curse of some kind. But, I see it as having three components:
1. The "UK Effect". Every team in the SEC has been browbeaten by UK for so long, that they mark this game on their calendar every year for revenge. Now that the SEC is so much stronger than before, that revenge can be brutal. This applies to non-conference foes as well, but less for historical revenge, and more for glory.
2. Effectively guarding the 3-point line is, in my opinion, the most difficult task in basketball. Inside-out, ball screens, skip-passes... there are so many ways to create an open shot on the arc. And every team has shooters.
3. UK's defense really is soft. Unusually so. As Trey pointed out, there isn't much rotation, and we just don't have the athleticism to be able to react effectively and stay with our man.
The way to beat UK is to penetrate and get an old-fashioned 3-point play; that is the playbook that most teams are using. But, that penetration also leaves open shooters on the arc every time, and they are capitalizing on that as well.
Not sure if we can fix the defense enough in time, but we MUST stop digging such massive holes in the first half. Our offense is what really let us down, because our defensive liabilities are well known. We need to come out and play loose on offense and just outscore them.
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ukman
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posted 02-05-2025 11:26 AM
This game was all about our defense, or lack of. We shot the ball well, scored 84 points, and we only had 8 to's. We even shot 1 more free throw than them. If you have a team that is not very good defensively, you usually have to mix up the defenses and use man and different zones. This team cannot play man the whole game. We're just not good enough. We have to mix in some 2-3, 1-3-1, match up, and man. That at least gives the other team a number of different things to think about, and might improve our chances of getting just enough stops, or forcing tougher shots. In man, we just give up way too many drives that lead to layups, or open 3's. I think a mix of zones, and even junk defense, could help with that.
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Tiptree
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posted 02-05-2025 01:05 PM
I think you are right. Traditionally, when you don't have the quickness to play man-to-man, you opt for zone.
And, you are right about having to change it up frequently. If we settled on a 2-3 zone, I think the opponents would easily figure out how to beat us. Ditto for a 3-2, 1-3-1, box-and-one, or whatever. Mixing it up (and throw in some man-to-man and full-court press) is the key. Heck, maybe our players could wear wristbands that tell them what defense to play for each possession...
Not sure Pope is all that fond of zones, however. Much like his mentor, Pitino, he plays them very rarely. Maybe Handy can call Pope up and tell him what we are thinking...
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PaulCat
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posted 02-05-2025 04:15 PM
Not having Kriisa hurts. Not having Kriisa and Butler really hurts. I hope we get them both back this year.
I actually enjoyed the second half last night. The Cats didn't quit. They came out fighting and never quit. Cutting the lead to ten was a helluva feat the way Ole Miss was shooting.
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Bama Cat
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posted 02-06-2025 01:31 PM
Yeah, I'm not so worried about our shooting except when the 3's don't fall. We need to make any where between 12 and 15 depending on how good the other team is shooting them. But our defense of the 3 and everything else has really fell off lately. But our lay ups are very bad in the angle we shoot them. 10 or 12 more points on missed lay ups wouldn't hurt a bit.
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