The Pembroke Postgame Report.

#26
#26
Can we just play everybody on the bench and get it over with. The starting five are the most inconsistent players ever. Our lineup is killing us, we put in the wrong offensive and defensive players at the same time. This is TJ's responsibility but his first game back at it. We need help on both sides of the ball.
 
#27
#27
hatvol96 said:
1. That's a thoroughly underwhelming effort in a big game. There's no excuse for a lack of energy playing that opponent.
2. Tennessee certainly didn't appear to get any lift from Bruce Pearl's return. They better find some answers by Saturday.
3. Scotty Hopson showed some fight tonight. He was certainly better than most of his teammates.
4. Tobias Harris played as poorly as he has all season. The game was just plain to big for him tonight.
5. ESPN has gone around the bend in their coverage of the Heat. I'm pretty sure we can survive without pass by pass updates on the Bottom Line.
6. There's no excuse for a guy as limited as Josh Harrellson coming from 20 feet out to get an offensive rebound. That's just ridiculous.
7. It's a good thing Darius Miller didn't shoot it as he normally does against Tennessee. Had he done that, the margin would have been around 30.
8. DeAndre Liggins is the most underrated player in the SEC. He's going to make a very nice living playing professionally.
9. Josh Bone took advantage of his minutes. Here's hoping he gets more.
10. John Calipari's NBA experience showed through tonight. UK didn't guard Tennessee's offensive stiffs and that put them in position to strangle off UT's attack.
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For those of you that don't like me quoting all ten, you can suck it. For hat, excellent post once again. Numbers one and six is what has me a little angry. I can handle being outsmarted or the other team being better. However, getting outhustled and looking lazy, to say the least, is inexcusable.
 
#28
#28
hardwood_fanatic said:
we have agreed before about liggins, worth saying again. He is worthy of 15mpg in the league as a role player.

Harrellson works as hard as he possibly can pretty much every game and every possession. He is never the most talented on the floor, but if teams bigs do not match his getting lucky because he is no more talented than a hippopotamus in a footrace he will continue to do that to opponents and lead the sec in boards.

I seen little to no fire or effort from ut tonight in this game. It was as if they knew the outcome when they stepped off the bus. I'm not convinced bruces return wasn't more of a hinderance than help.
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#29
#29
JTrainDavis said:
Is Pearl under "Do Not Shoot" orders?

Not a basketball strategist by any means, but if he pulls the trigger and knocks down a few wide open uncovered looks, would that not adjust the UK defense a little bit?
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He doesn't even hit those in warmups.
 
#30
#30
Besides for foul trouble, I would really like to see the bench get less work and quit rotating so much so deep so often. Only bench I want to see more of is Bone.
 
#31
#31
JTrainDavis said:
Is Pearl under "Do Not Shoot" orders?

Not a basketball strategist by any means, but if he pulls the trigger and knocks down a few wide open uncovered looks, would that not adjust the UK defense a little bit?
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UK, and USC before them, were begging Steve Pearl to take shots. That's one of the oldest tenets of NBA defense: Let the stiffs take all the shots they want.

Kentucky would have never guarded Pearl. They want him shooting.
 
#32
#32
Mullet Vol said:
That would be a great idea if Pearl was capable of hitting a wide open 12-15 footer. It's just not in his game.
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If the rest of the team can't hit layups than I have no faith in Pearl. The most frustrating thing is watching these talented players(Hopson,Harris,) play like high school ball. Pearl on offense is like playing five on four. He is a good defensive player though, we just don't have that many time outs.
 
#34
#34
A few observations: Jimmy Dykes is a joke -how many times tonight did he talk about driving it to the "nail". He always picks some stupid motif and just wears it out. Remember "shadow defender" a few years ago? Tatum was just terrible and so soft tonight. Since when did grabbing the rim when shot is on the backboard stop being goaltending - no team in America, maybe with the exception of UNC or Duke, gets more calls. Refs were a joke, not that it mattered.
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#37
#37
hatvol96 said:
UK, and USC before them, were begging Steve Pearl to take shots. That's one of the oldest tenets of NBA defense: Let the stiffs take all the shots they want.

Kentucky would have never guarded Pearl. They want him shooting.
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Then why play him? Why not let our starters play more minutes? UK seems to do just fine physically and they have players going 37 minutes.
 
#38
#38
Hardwood_fanatic said:
Poke fun all you like, but its the truth. The hippo is doing something right while leading the league in boards. I would worry more about the two soft bigs you have rather than coming up with witty barbs for someone elses. Just saying.
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Harrelson is a joke, which tells you how bad our bigs are!
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#39
#39
TooLegit2Quit said:
No reason for Mcbee to ever be on the court.
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Yes there is. When we are up 30 on Vidal Sassoon's Beauty College he can enter the game with T. Summit with a minute left and the old people can cheer for one of them to shoot as soon as one gets the ball. It doesn't matter where they are on the court. It's the only time that the blue hairs stand up.
 
#40
#40
We got our fair share of calls as well. I had no complaints about the refs, beyond standard error. It was not egregious or one-sided. We were just not aggressive enough.
 
#43
#43
bnhunt said:
A few observations: Jimmy Dykes is a joke -how many times tonight did he talk about driving it to the "nail". He always picks some stupid motif and just wears it out. Remember "shadow defender" a few years ago? Tatum was just terrible and so soft tonight. Since when did grabbing the rim when shot is on the backboard stop being goaltending - no team in America, maybe with the exception of UNC or Duke, gets more calls. Refs were a joke, not that it mattered.
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Jimmy Dykes is by far the most fair and one of the most knowledgeable commentators ESPN has. And about the nail thing, he was completely right. UK did just that numerous times in the game. I really like Dykes. He's one of the only guys on ESPN you'll find who compliments Bruce Pearl and gives us any credit.

And lol @ complaining about the refs. They were a total non-factor. We got owned. Plain and simple.
 
#45
#45
hatvol96 said:
UK, and USC before them, were begging Steve Pearl to take shots. That's one of the oldest tenets of NBA defense: Let the stiffs take all the shots they want.

Kentucky would have never guarded Pearl. They want him shooting.
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I'd rather have him shot.
 
#46
#46
hatvol96 said:
UK, and USC before them, were begging Steve Pearl to take shots. That's one of the oldest tenets of NBA defense: Let the stiffs take all the shots they want.

Kentucky would have never guarded Pearl. They want him shooting.
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Hell, John Bagley threw down 40 something one night.
 
#47
#47
Incipient said:
We got our fair share of calls as well. I had no complaints about the refs, beyond standard error. It was not egregious or one-sided. We were just not aggressive enough.
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I would say grabbing the rim on a layup and not having goaltending called is about as "egregious" as it gets. Even Dykes said we got 2 stolen from us.
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#48
#48
bnhunt said:
Harrelson is a joke, which tells you how bad our bigs are!
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He's one of the SEC leaders in rebounds. He is most definitely not a joke. He's what you call a solid and tough player. Something we don't have.
 
#50
#50
This team is ridiculously selfish....we still don't pass the ball on fast breaks. Also, the play where the Uk player took the ball from 3 of ours about summed up our effort tonight. It was pathetic....
 
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