Thecycle27 said:

I agree but not sure any of them really change the season. I am not a big guy on post play in this modern era of basketball. The college game is a guards game. Bottom line their guards-slash wings torched our guards and wings. With that said there aren’t many bigs that can legit shoot it, drive it, pass it and play down low. There are lot more big uglies that set screens and do the ugly work.

When you play 5 out offensively your bigs better force the traditional big to come out or your guards better be able to put the big on skates. Then your wings have to be able to slash and force rotations. Louisville did none of that. Again they had 2 -3legit perimeter defenders.

We will see.

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Cardiac Red said:

I'm right here. We got out played by a better team. Their defense was on another level and they made a lot of contested 3 pointers. It happens. If I could predict the winner of every game I wouldn't be working, I'd be sitting on a yacht in Marina del Rey counting my winnings.

I want us to be good and I want us to win. I'm not getting all negative like you after one loss. You'll get to eat some heavy doses of crow before the season is over..

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glassmanJ said:

to me, they had a punchers chance but got punched as soon as the bell rang and they didn't have the confidence to overcome as they've never been in that situation as a group. it reminded me of several past bball and football blowout losses where the opponent got us from the start, we didn't score or execute as we should, and it snowballed. honestly, i believe they've had it too easy with ball movement, dunks, steals, defense, etc that they were way overconfident, and maybe rightly so. but when TN came out and took it straight to them, combined with no shots falling, they got steamrolled both physically and mentally. we'll see what type of coach PK is based on what types of adjustments are made for the next game. either way, rough start, but let's hope a motivator.

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AnotherCFD said:

Where you at?

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RonsanJK said:

It means something because top 25 teams get more coverage than those outside of the top 25... generally speaking.

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Cardiac Red said:

Kenny Payne is gone man, let's lose all the negative vibes. This team is going to go tooth and nail with every team they play. We're probably not going to win them all but some teams are just flat out going to be better than us.. The only concern I have at all is free throw shooting.

Cards win this game by 6 - 10 points and the YUM will be lit !!

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UofLouisville said:

With the number of shots they throw up it is irrelevant whether they shoot better in a certain time frame. A stretch of 30% doesn't mean squat if they shoot 70% 5 minutes later while throwing up 25 shots and 12 are 3's. Recognize they have 12 shooters and 11 have experience. Not all of them will have a bad night and any of them can lay the wood on any given evening.

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