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2014 NCAA Tournament March Madness |OT|
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Dr_LawyerCop
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Man! That was great.
Elfforkusu
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Holy shit
perfectchaos007
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AND 1
slightconfuse
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no one is as bad as catspause
perfectchaos007
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Kentucky only down by 6...thats a good result for them
Elfforkusu
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Great possession at the end by UK to cut it to 6. Still anybody's game.
Hasphat'sAnts
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This goes out to all them guys who thought Wichita State isn't legit.
You know who you are! (*cough. Grover. *cough)
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You know who you are! (*cough. Grover. *cough)
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Pollux
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:jnc true
Refs aside, as stupid as we've played I'm surprised we're only down 6. Huge 3 at the end there.
sooperkool
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This is a Coach Cal problem, He's not a guy that can develop talent.
We are absolutely not going to win this game. Wichita State is better than we are. Either they win or they lose it for themselves but unless they falter we aren't beating them.
Josh Harrellson
You can't teach intelligence, unfortunately.
Huh? That's simply not true.
sooperkool
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OK, I'll bite show me someone that improved beyond the talent they went to UK with. I'll wait.
Pollux
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Josh Harrelson says hi
sooperkool
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You've got a stat somewhere to back this up? I really want to be wrong.
Ok so he went from 1.3 points and 1.2 rebounds a game to 6.4 and 8.8... I guess that counts,
Avon Barksdale
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To be fair, "legitimacy" isn't beating an 8 seed. It comes later.
You're kinda tossin' me a softball here. Calipari made Josh Harrellson an NBA player. There have been numerous players to improve a great deal at UK (especially his guards outside of John Wall) but I'd say Harrellson is the biggest turnaround. Dude was overweight and pretty bad his first few years.
Grover Cleveland
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I've always said they could get to a FF.
I just don't think they are as good as their scoring margin against weaker opposition might suggest. I just said they are beatable.
Also Miller, and Liggins. And unlike some other coaches he doesn't take guaranteed #1 draft picks and coach them down into the teens on the draft board. I won't name names.
Pollux
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He got the JUCO who could barely play under Gillespie drafted.
He's on an NBA roster for crying out loud. And yes, 5x his points and 7x his rebounds count. Don't be a fuckwit just because you were wrong, please. Take it and walk away.
sooperkool
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You know, I'll take this I guess. I'll just go with this. If I had a kid with potential to be great, I would choose a bunch of other coaches to teach him than Cal.
Harrellson didn't even play at first. He went from playing 2-3 minutes a game because he was fat to leading us to a Final Four and battling good college big guys like Jared Sullinger.
I'm not going to pretend like Cal made guys like Anthony Davis and John Wall, but players like Nerlens Noel, Terrence Jones and Brandon Knight all improved dramatically at UK after shaky starts and games that were filled with garbage habits. I think he deserves some credit for that.
That's not really true. He certainly can develop point guards and bigs anyway, wing players less so.
I'll give you that he isn't a 'start from scratch and rebuild your game from the fundamentals' type coach, which is maybe what a player like Poythress needs, but if you say players don't improve under him, you are either blind or a liar.
sooperkool
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Like I said, I'll take it I guess but no Josh is not on any NBA roster. Ahh I forgot the Pistons picked him back up.
Elfforkusu
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Eh, I think Cal is actually pretty good at developing individual talent.
He's not extremely good at developing a team, but that's different.
He's not extremely good at developing a team, but that's different.
And he makes up for it by paying for better talent than anyone else!
Because he's done such a terrible job with "project" Willie Cauley-Stein. Also, people forget that Eric Bledsoe was not a blue chip coming out of high school and was not expected to be a one and done player.
What's your list of coaches? If you can name one that's better at getting players to the NBA, well, I'll be blown away.
Don't remind me. He doesn't do much as far as developing a team. Sigh.
Dear god.
LOL
rocketskates
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oh my god that gif
Elfforkusu
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Oh god, his look at the camera at the end completely destroyed me
LOL
sooperkool
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Because he's done such a terrible job with "project" Willie Cauley-Stein. Also, people forget that Eric Bledsoe was not a blue chip coming out of high school and was not expected to be a one and done player.
What's your list of coaches? If you can name one that's better at getting players to the NBA, well, I'll be blown away.
Don't remind me. He doesn't do much as far as developing a team. Sigh.
I was always a big Bobby Knight and Dean Smith guy, but isn't this conversation over? Didn't you already "win"? Or do you want me to agree with you?
hahaha oh lord
LOL
Now this needs to be merged somehow with Will Ferrel and the "more cowbell" SNL skit. I feel like this can be done, it just needs the right talent behind it.
And both products are at their lowest in terms of quality, so not something I'd shout from the rooftops (not that its Cal's fault either).
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