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Kentucky Game Day

Our defense has been terrific. Holding the 10th ranked team to 32 points at half on their home court.

We are OK going into the 2nd half. Golden and Burton should be fresh and at some point our shots will fall. We got a shot at taking UK down.
 
We have taken 10 more shots than Kentucky and made one fewer than them. They’re +10 on the boards. They also have double our turnovers. This team is begging us to take a big lead and Blake Francis says hold my beer
 
That’s about as bad of an offensive first half we could possibly play. But somehow still in it. Let’s see what adjustments our coach for life makes at the half to get some easy looks.
 
We have taken 10 more shots than Kentucky and made one fewer than them. They’re +10 on the boards. They also have double our turnovers. This team is begging us to take a big lead and Blake Francis says hold my beer

I think you’re going to be really frustrated this whole year if you don’t like Blake taking lots of shots...
 
We’d better set up some double screens, or screens off the ball to get Francis or Gilyard some shots. They are going to have to make some 3s. We always struggle with length

also miss Nick’s threes
 
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not our best half for sure. Our guards needs to be much better. Better shot selection and make the good shots. I’d have bet we would be blown out if you told me what Blake and Jacob had done in first half. If they can just settle in and let the game come to them, we should be right there til the end.

I am worried that Cal out-adjusts us at the half!
 
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I think you’re going to be really frustrated this whole year if you don’t like Blake taking lots of shots...

I don’t like anybody taking BAD shots. If you’re wide open 20 times and miss them all, that happens. When you force bad shots, especially early in the shot clock, I’m going to scream at the top of my lungs. I don’t really want to argue since we disagree, but just explain my thought process here. I don’t subscribe to the thought process that every shot Francis takes is good because it’s him shooting. He isn’t some all-world special shooter, he’s good for the A-10, but on a team like Kentucky he’s not sniffing the court with this low of a basketball IQ. You think Cal would let one player single-handedly shoot them out of a game? Hell no
 
And another third foul on us. That’s an ok call but Burton can’t take that foul. Can’t let him go baseline when he had help the other way
 
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it’s one thing for the refs to make bad calls in favor of the home team. But for them to show a misunderstanding of the rules is just the cherry on top
 
Look how much better we look when we are running our offense and not Blake Francis shooting stepback 3’s and wasting a possession. Just beautiful to watch us run the offense
 
Look at that big 3 by Francis. Cmon ply.

That was a WIDE OPEN IN RHYTHM Three. That is a GREAT shot. Do you really see no difference between that and the others? I have no problem with someone taking great shots, even if they’ve been missing. But bad shots when you’re cold is no way for me
 
Did the refs really just say this game is getting out of hand so let’s call another foul on Golden? You gotta be ****ing kidding me with that call
 
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