The Official “Regular Posters of the Basketball Forum” Thread

[Buddy’s Bandit]

From the uk site…

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

From the uk site…

There isn’t an officiating crew in college basketball that I like, but this is very preferable to Pat Adams.

 

[IndianapolisVol]

From the uk site…

Kentucky is 18-5 in games reffed by Burdett, but have lost their last 2 games he officiated (Texas A&M and USCe)

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I will gladly eat my crow about tonight.

 

[IndianapolisVol]

Let’s gooooooooooooooooooo

 

[omghulkhands]

Kentucky’s team defense is among the worst I’ve ever seen from an SEC team.

Onyenso is a big reason. He has no idea what’s going on out there.

But their offense is as good as advertised. They are basically the opposite of our team last year.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

@cncchris33 JJJ showed up huge! If he closes the season on a hot streak like tonight we’re dancing for awhile.

ZZ definitely deserved player of the game, huge response by the veteran guys. Hopefully the team ignores the records and plays well in this next 6 game stretch, get to Auburn with no more losses and we’ll still be in the hunt for the regular season title.

 

[cncchris33]

@cncchris33 JJJ showed up huge! If he closes the season on a hot streak like tonight we’re dancing for awhile.

ZZ definitely deserved player of the game, huge response by the veteran guys. Hopefully the team ignores the records and plays well in this next 6 game stretch, get to Auburn with no more losses and we’ll still be in the hunt for the regular season title.

Huge game for him! Huge! Santi, Aidoo, ZZ, they were all great, too. No one played poorly. This is the version of our team that had people thinking F4. This is what it looks like when it all is put together. You can say the defense wasn't there like it is in many games, but UK has a top-10 offense, so that somewhat excusable with that many possessions.

 

[cncchris33]

Our offense made an enormous jump on KenPom from 29th to 15th based on this game at Rupp. A hundo +3 will do that I guess.

 

[The Dog]

How about those mothereffing Vols

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Kentucky’s team defense is among the worst I’ve ever seen from an SEC team.

Onyenso is a big reason. He has no idea what’s going on out there.

But their offense is as good as advertised. They are basically the opposite of our team last year.

It’s selfish basketball. They play incredible offense and have shot makers everywhere, but they do not care about defense. They care about getting their points for draft position. It’s the risk you take when you play mostly 5-star freshmen.

Just watching the effort they exerted on offense compared to the effort they put in on defense, it’s like night and day.

 

[IndianapolisVol]

How about those mothereffing Vols

Hell yeah dog !

 

[Col_Cathcart]

Huge game for him! Huge! Santi, Aidoo, ZZ, they were all great, too. No one played poorly. This is the version of our team that had people thinking F4. This is what it looks like when it all is put together. You can say the defense wasn't there like it is in many games, but UK has a top-10 offense, so that somewhat excusable with that many possessions.

Dillingham was unconscious but it didn’t matter

 

[VolArmy74]

Kentucky’s team defense is among the worst I’ve ever seen from an SEC team.

Onyenso is a big reason. He has no idea what’s going on out there.

But their offense is as good as advertised. They are basically the opposite of our team last year.

It's atrocious. They've been giving up the easy inbounds dunk all season long and still haven't stopped it. ZZ was just driving from 30 feet to the hoop and Cats couldn't even be bothered to swipe at the ball, let alone move their feet. I love it!

 

[VolsSportsFan]

It's hard to believe that in my lifetime before Barnes I saw 2 wins total in Rupp, and now just in his tenure I've seen 4.

 

[omghulkhands]

they do not care about defense. They care about getting their points for draft position.

Even the foul fest at the end felt like it was an attempt to get more possessions for stat padding.

 

[omghulkhands]

It's atrocious. They've been giving up the easy inbounds dunk all season long and still haven't stopped it. ZZ was just driving from 30 feet to the hoop and Cats couldn't even be bothered to swipe at the ball, let alone move their feet. I love it!

Yeah the ZZ drives showed two glaring issues.

One is they can’t guard the ball or navigate a screen cause he’d beat his man.

Second is they wouldn’t play help defense after he beat his man. Just wild. Bearden has a better coached defense.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Even the foul fest at the end felt like it was an attempt to get more possessions for stat padding.

Yep. I mean they were down 11 with 20 seconds left and still fouling. Dillingham is a bucket, and he scored 35, but he probably gave up 30-35 on defense. He just doesn’t care about it.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Yep. I mean they were down 11 with 20 seconds left and still fouling. Dillingham is a bucket, and he scored 35, but he probably gave up 30-35 on defense. He just doesn’t care about it.

The NBA doesn’t care about defense either.

He won’t be at Kentucky next year any way.

 

[berryvol]

Kentucky’s team defense is among the worst I’ve ever seen from an SEC team.

Onyenso is a big reason. He has no idea what’s going on out there.

But their offense is as good as advertised. They are basically the opposite of our team last year.

Getting Dilly and Onyenso in a PNR was an auto bucket all night. They are so bad on D lol

 

[berryvol]

Hell, half the time when we sent the 5 out to screen for ZZ, Dillingham had his back completely turned to ZZ before the screen was even set. Ziegler was at the foul line before Dilly even realized he had rejected the screen. His on ball defense is just hilariously bad.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

If you had told me earlier today that Kentucky was going to shoot 45% from 3, I would have thought we lost by 10-15. Heck of an offensive performance tonight.

 

[omghulkhands]

The NBA doesn’t care about defense either.

He won’t be at Kentucky next year any way.

He was awesome shooting the ball tonight, but he has no shot at the next level playing defense like that. There are only a handful of players in the NBA allowed to get away with defense that bad.

 

[VolArmy74]

I'm pretty sure they were fouling trying to get Dillingham the record for points off the bench in a game. I'm glad we keep going to the hoop in the meanwhile. If we'd made the late free throws we'd have been close to 110.

 

[VolArmy74]

The NBA doesn’t care about defense either.

He won’t be at Kentucky next year any way.

The NBA cares a lot about defending. It's just very hard to play it there because of the rules. That makes people who can defend much more valuable. Marvin Bagley can go 20-10 every game he gets minutes, but his defense is awful so he barely plays if people aren't injured on whatever team he lands on.