Your analysis is tired and terrible. We looked like the more talented team out there hands down aside from Ulis. And funny you keep bringing up the high school star system when we let a two star player like Hawkins light us up from the three everytime we got the score closer in the second half.
Neither did Mangok. Mahmoud has a sore ankle, Deng a bruised knee, and Lee a lingering heel problem. Bangs and bruises are part of the game.
It's nonsense when you can't rationally debate it. homer is not an LPT fan, but he's not me.
UK basically played without two players today with Briscoe being out and Skal didnt even seem like he touched the court today.
Again, it doesn't matter what YOU think things LOOK like. Rivals says LPT is a far more talented team, and it's not even close. Pitino Lite has landed 30+ five-star kids since he's been at LPT. That's rewriting history books.
I'm rationally debating just fine. While I'm pointing out problems with our team, all you are concerned about is throwing jabs at Cal/UK man.
Ok Rivals say UK is the far talented team of the two but that also could be said about ucla and Ohio state also.
And here you are, always out of context.
Because based on your stars and that being the reason we lost today, Hawkins was a lowly two star.
Recruiting-wise, those guys aren't even close to LPT. Check the numbers, and not tell me what you think.
And Mats Stockman logged some stats today. Did Pitino Lite fail to gameplan for him?
You're missing the point. No they aren't five star heavy just like we aren't but they dominated uk, something we never come close to doing.
While matz had a surprising solid game and definitely held his own on defense,rebounding and in the paint..he didn't have nowhere the game Hawkins had. That two star was clutch and played with fire.
Stockman's team lost, or you'd be talking about how important he was. Get a grip.
But you're the one who referenced him. That's why I gave him props on a good game. Actually his play today was a positive moving forward imo.
Where does the NBA say they are (mock draft)? Just curious since I don't track that stuff.
The point is you're just as offbase pointing at an LPT bench warmer and saying "he did it".
What's OSU's and UCLA's record against LPT and Pitino Lite? That's the right comparison.
That LPT benchwarming played way better than two of our starting guards so I'm not nowhere near off base. You're just so blind and consumed with so much hate towards UK that it wears on your knowledge of the game...but hey when it comes to star rankings and useless charts and number crunching you are second to no one and tied in first place with that Jauk11 guy over at Wildcat Lair.
I'm afraid he's not winning another one without a franchise ballplayer like AD. And I don't follow your recruiting enough to know whether one of those guys is in the pipeline. They don't come along very often.
We won't see another once in a lifetime player like Davis for a very long time. Him and LeBron the same type of rare talent and the gap between the two coming along is a decade.
Doesn't matter. In a two-point game, you can point at anyone or anything and say "that did it". That's also flawed analysis.
But you're the one pointing out five stars being the reason they beat us and I simply stated that it was a two star kid who made the difference for uk.
Zipp, your attempt at logic is mind-boggling. You say UK is overseeded because of a weak schedule, but then you sat they "should" beat every team they play on the way to a Final Four as a 1 seed. But if they are not really a 1 seed quality team (as you say), then that means they are playing games on the way to the Final Four that they shouldn't necessarily win based on seeding alone. Moreover, two of UK's Final Fours under Cal were as an 8 seed and 4 seed, so they've had some really good upsets.
Understood, but getting a one-seed also means that legit one-seeds are put OUTSIDE of your bracket. And if you're a high one-seed, like the overall top seed, there's little chance the fifth or sixth best team gets into your bracket--at least when the committee was using the S-curve approach. And then you always have the possibility of legit one-seeds getting upset before they run into you.
For most teams, a Final Four is an accomplishment. If you're a legit four-seed, it certainly is. But it's not as a one-seed. You're simply meeting expectations based on your season's results, and again, you've had really good teams seeded WAY from you in the bracket.
