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Things I Hate

Here are some things that I hate.  Some of them have to do with college basketball:


  Marquette

   ESPNU announcers who love Marquette

  Rick Pitino's substitution patterns and starting line-up tinkering

  Samardo Samuels's inability to successfully manage a double team.

  Marquette

  Looking forward to a game for two solid days and building it up and getting all excited, and then we come out and play our worst game of the year.

  Long road trips.  The only other time we've played like that this season was on an extended trip to NYC for the SJU game because of the snow.

  Winter. 

  Talk about "the bubble" and "bracketology" even this close to Selection Sunday.  There is lots of basketball left to play.

  Tom Crean. 

  Lack of defense or half-time adjustments

  Chalking up a bad loss to "match-ups" and then getting our hopes up to beat Syracuse

  When college basketball season ends. 

 

Anything you hate?  Feel free to share.

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Brine.

It just makes the snow (and ergo, my car, jeans, and shoes) dirty and keeps classes going. Eff it.

by CARD_G6 on Mar 2, 2010 11:36 PM EST reply actions  

SI Bracket guy's tweet

Louisville is being greatly helped by weak bubble. The Cards’ resume pretty much stinks. Lose to Cuse and don’t get two wins in NY? NIT??

Of course he also said the winner of this game was definitely in, and there’s no way we’re not in if we don’t sweep Syracuse. So basically if we’d won this, solidly in, but now since he has been on us all year (and has LOVED Marquette, for those who read SI), we look shaky again. None of it makes any sense.

by doctorofdunk on Mar 2, 2010 11:36 PM EST reply actions  

Agreed.

I feel like mostly people realize that we CAN be a good team. But SI guy is right: our resume is, overall, crap. Lots of bad losses, only a few good wins, and a terrible out of conference record.

by CARD_G6 on Mar 2, 2010 11:42 PM EST up reply actions  

i still think we're in

out-of-conference isn’t pretty, but when you look at the other teams we’re competing with for the 7th and 8th spots, how do we not get in over ND or UConn? We’re 3-0 against them and have a higher RPI. Case closed

by doctorofdunk on Mar 2, 2010 11:43 PM EST up reply actions  

I think we're in, but I'm not really confident how solid we are.

I don’t think ND is going to make it. UConn is tricky because they beat Texas, Nova, and WVU. Their good wins are better than our good wins, regardless of the fact we swept them and beat Cincy, while they were swept by Cincy. It’s all a bunch of guessing. Seth Davis thinks we’re in though, and if the season ended today, I do too. But it doesn’t

by cardscott5 on Mar 2, 2010 11:47 PM EST up reply actions  

that's fair

but he’s also right that the bubble sucks. our resume isn’t fantastic, but the syracuse win goes a long, long way, and if you’re in a good conference, i think the out of conference can be overrated. i think one more win, either saturday or in the big east tourney, and we have absolutely nothing to worry about. anything less than that and it’s going to be sweaty palm central.

by doctorofdunk on Mar 2, 2010 11:51 PM EST up reply actions  

I also hate that I pretty much agree with SI guy.

Lose to Cuse and I won’t feel comfortable without two NY wins.

by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 2, 2010 11:43 PM EST up reply actions  

Have to say

I we are still in

Maddie in Portland, Oregon

by kentuckybred on Mar 3, 2010 1:40 AM EST up reply actions  

I'm so pissed about tonight..

Seriously, this is what I look like right now.

by Remote Cardinal on Mar 2, 2010 11:44 PM EST reply actions  

I hate our team's moody, roller-coaster mentality

I believe there is an internal problem on the team that hasn’t come out yet. There is just no other excuse for this kind of crap. No Louisville team, and certainly no Rick Pitino team just rolls over and dies like this. Something is up in Cardinal Land.

OR???????

Maybe we’re just hustling Cuse again into thinking it’s gonna be a cake walk. Either way, absolutely deplorable ‘performance’ (using the term reluctantly). That kind of shit will get us KO’d in round 1 of the NIT. What a way to close out Freedom Hall’s legacy if it comes to that.

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by LORD KAYOSS on Mar 2, 2010 11:44 PM EST reply actions  

Samuels has flashes of being a problem.

He’s always fighting with Swop for rebounds and yelling at the other guys. Plus, the way he takes some games (not to mention plays) off.

by CARD_G6 on Mar 2, 2010 11:46 PM EST up reply actions  

rebounds

The last two years teams have done this. I don’t know what’s up in the legendary practice times and workouts of Pitino but he needs to add blocking out 101 and borrow some ball catching drills from NFL wide receivers. The last two years we will either have 4 guys jump for the same rebound and knock it to the other team or no one block out what so ever.

by KyCubsFan on Mar 3, 2010 12:33 PM EST up reply actions  

gee

The coach being involved in an extortion trial after having sex with a stranger in a restaurant and then paying for her abortion?

by davidson07 on Mar 2, 2010 11:49 PM EST up reply actions  

Can't imagine why Rick's offseason problems would affect the players at this point.

The news on that front is pretty much dead. The moodswings of this team are just hard to explain.

by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 2, 2010 11:58 PM EST up reply actions  

My momma always said “If your basketball coach has sex outside of marriage—don’t play hard for more than 20 consecutive minutes.”

by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 3, 2010 2:27 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Ugh..

1.) ESPNU’s ability to not list our win AT SYRACUSE and then compare our resume to Marquette’s and Ok St.‘s and act like we don’t have any really good wins.

2.) ESPNU’s ability to use the shitty baseline camera.

3.) Rock, Reggie, TJ and Sosa playing hard in the 2nd half and then sitting the last 7 minutes while Swop, Samules, Siva and Smith all looked like they would rather be sitting down.

4.) The feeling that I might care more then the players wearing “Louisville” jerseys.

5.) Losing.

by CentreCard86 on Mar 2, 2010 11:46 PM EST reply actions   1 recs

Completely agree on all of the above.

by mp502 on Mar 3, 2010 5:00 PM EST up reply actions  

How about we just sum it up by saying

“I hate ESPNU”? Doesn’t that cover all of the bases?

by tarabelle17 on Mar 3, 2010 5:51 PM EST up reply actions  

I hate...

John Calipari commercials, I live in lexington.

I named my son Brock!!!

by LvillefaninLex on Mar 2, 2010 11:47 PM EST reply actions  

I can only imagine...

The best thing about Lexington is leaving town and seeing that billboard on 64W that says the “Cardinals are miles ahead”

Too bad I feel like we r years behind at this point. It all started with RP’s “Rally’s” commercials.

by tnatburks on Mar 3, 2010 7:37 AM EST via mobile up reply actions  

lets see

Ricks substitution patterns
Ricks lineup tinkering
The timeout rick calls at 17:00 in the second when the opposing coach is coaching circles around him
Ricks refusal to make in game adjustments (ie, playing zone against marquette even tho they’re hitting 60% from three)
The reemergence of samantha samuels and the swostrich at the worst possible time
The way our touted freshman always underperform
Espnu
How angry it makes me when we lose

by davidson07 on Mar 2, 2010 11:47 PM EST reply actions  

Let's see.

Rick takes out all the starters playing for shit and put in the bench players who light a fire and cut the lead by 13 points.
Rick calls a timeout when his team is on the bad end of 8-0 run and hadn’t scored a point by the 17:00 mark.
Rick playing man, which cuts the lead to 10, so then Marquette just drives past everybody and goes to the line 20 times to our 2.

Face it: these players just aren’t all that athletic, especially at the critical 3 and 4 spots. They’re certainly better than whatever happened tonight, but they overachieve as much as they underperform.

by CARD_G6 on Mar 2, 2010 11:52 PM EST up reply actions  

which players

The ones Pitino plays or the one’s on the Bench?

Would you be unathletic if TJ was the four and Kuric/Swop/Delk were the 3?

by KyCubsFan on Mar 3, 2010 12:36 PM EST up reply actions  

Yes.

TJ is athletic, just not at the four. He’s too slow to properly defend driving fours off the perimeter, and his shot is far too weak to be a threat at the four on offense.

Kuric is athletic, and can rebound, but he’s undersized for a three. He’s honestly the best guy that we play at the three in terms of size and ability, despite the fact that he’s really a two for most teams. Delk isn’t nearly as athletic, and is also more of a two due to size and (more importantly), rebounding ability. Swop is the best fit at the three of all the players, but his height means we have to play him at the four since we don’t really have anybody there with enough experience or ability. Rock will be good, but right now he’s a freshman, and who’s going to back him up?

Seriously, those two spots are liabilities for us. Hopefully some of our recruits in the upcoming years will address that.

by CARD_G6 on Mar 3, 2010 3:20 PM EST up reply actions  

Post good game sosa

Every time he does something good or has a decent game he thinks he is a superstar and can score at will. He has had a baffling career at UofL

by cards4life1 on Mar 2, 2010 11:48 PM EST reply actions  

Carefree Rick

He seemed to not care that we were down 23, now is not the time to teach your players a lesson

by cards4life1 on Mar 2, 2010 11:48 PM EST reply actions  

How every announcer seems to be against us

even at UConn, they wanted Walker to hit that shot so bad, it was the same way last year, when they announced we were the overall number one seed in the tournament, it was like somebody had shot their grandma

by cards4life1 on Mar 2, 2010 11:50 PM EST reply actions  

Oh yea, can't forget

I HATE THE DAMN 2-3 ZONE!

Our opponent shoots one of the best 3-point percentages in the nation. A 2-3 zone is daring them to kill us (and they did, like so many before…Villanova, Seton Hall, West Virginia, Notre Dame although we managed to pull it out, etc).

Rick went MAN for the final defensive play of the 1st half and AMAZE!!!! We stopped them and got a shot off. Our mini-spark in the 2nd half – MAN. Ah, the horror. We still might’ve lost, but certainly wouldn’t been so lop-sided. Rick……..this isn’t 1996 anymore.

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by LORD KAYOSS on Mar 2, 2010 11:54 PM EST reply actions  

But, I love Charlie Strong :)

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by LORD KAYOSS on Mar 3, 2010 12:00 AM EST up reply actions  

Why is

everyone kissing Charley Strong’s ass already? He hasn’t won a single game as a head coach

by LouisvilleBalla on Mar 3, 2010 6:55 PM EST up reply actions  

im pretty sure

the no 1 team in the nation plays a 2-3 zone to amazing success, i mean it still works, but with the RIGHT players. Our guys just are not athletic enough to hang with quick guys. We can play good man for a few minutes, but they will soon realize they can blow by our guys and get easy buckets. i dont like it, but rick is pretty much forced to play zone

by itsALLintheCARDS on Mar 3, 2010 12:19 AM EST up reply actions  

Yea, and I believe that's why

Rick has such success against Boeheim. Cuse has only beaten us once since we’ve been in the Big East (our first year there when we were horrible, even worse than now).

But, IMO when a team is draining 3’s AND your players aren’t stopping the drive, might as well pick your poison and attempt to stop the perimeter shots from falling. Go man, or at least show them a 3-2.

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by LORD KAYOSS on Mar 3, 2010 12:25 AM EST up reply actions  

i completely agree

something needs to be switched up to give them a different look and get out of a rythm. I just dont know how long our guys can play man to man with getting beat because of the lack of athleticism. I will say one thing, when marq plays higher ranked opponents im sure their guys our outmatched athletically as well, but you hustle and play hard like they did tonight you go along way. Giving your absolute best effort is not something you can teach, its up to the player to realize it

by itsALLintheCARDS on Mar 3, 2010 12:29 AM EST up reply actions  

Definitely

Marquette played like they wanted to win the game. That alone speaks volumes about their team’s character. We played like we just wanted to go home. Not the kind of mentality you want to see when the post season is approaching. Even if we do land in the NIT, I would want to see them play like they want to win it (especially when realizing how great of a shot they would have to do so).

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by LORD KAYOSS on Mar 3, 2010 2:46 AM EST up reply actions  

I hate the Granville

Ok, not really. But both times I’ve gone now (St. Johns and Marquette) we’ve lost ugly.

by SpeedStudent on Mar 3, 2010 12:02 AM EST reply actions  

defense

This was the worst defense I have seen Louisville(.) We were over committing more than I thought was possible. It seemed like 5 on 3 the whole game because we would take two defenders and try to strip the ball from a guard and end up in the back court, leaving them to make a obvious pass to an open player. Samardo has no clue how to establish his own presence when double teamed, but he did get hacked a couple times that wasn’t called. Did he go to the FT line once? Ridiculous. I hate how Marquette looked so good because we looked so bad. I hate how we shoot threes with 29 seconds on the shot clock and miss with none of our players under the basket to rebound. I hate how our second half was worse than the one against GTown. I hate Gtown.

CLM RED 9

by Redtilldead on Mar 3, 2010 12:04 AM EST reply actions  

!

We suck at rebounding too, which I hate

CLM RED 9

by Redtilldead on Mar 3, 2010 12:05 AM EST reply actions  

they are like a box of chocolate's

How this team is skitso. I cant believe it is March and they are still doing this shit. I just hope they give a lot better performance in the finale of Freedom Hall. What the hell is going on at halftime? UCONN, message received. The other games is Rick breaking out the whiskey and bringing the strippers in or what? Samardo better get his shit straight real quick, Rick might want to put some game film of Derrick Caracter in, no joke.

by ville 606 on Mar 3, 2010 12:17 AM EST via mobile reply actions  

i hate that

Marq totally did their homework for this game and we took the night off from studying

The fact that no matter who had the ball they had a guy in his face and hustling their ass off and i didnt feel comfortable once with any of our ballhanders

they, sure, yeah they might have over reacted to beating us, but to make a good arguement these teams were playing for a automatic spot in the field of 64. Tonight was a time for getting pumped and fighting for everything, every possession

by itsALLintheCARDS on Mar 3, 2010 12:25 AM EST reply actions  

That was horrible

Talking about how winning this will really make a difference, and believing it.

What a joke of a game – Why keep playing zone and get drilled with 3’s? I know I’m not a better coach than Pitino, but 3 separate times I mentioned “uhh ohh, we’re playing a weak zone, watch for the 3” and like clockwork they sink it.

Just felt like the players didn’t want to care, till I felt like I don’t want to care either.

Here’s hoping we can beat the Orange.

by Louevil on Mar 3, 2010 1:16 AM EST reply actions  

I hate inconsistency

I just want to know what we have with this team. I mean my expectations are up, down, up again, then down again, I feel like I’m getting yanked around.

by Chris Redman is my hero on Mar 3, 2010 1:41 AM EST reply actions  

I hate

the way every player on our team just looked at the loose balls after a deflection as if to say “I’ll just put my hands out and it will fall in my hands” while every Marquette players is clawing and scratching for the ball. Nice dedication guys, nice.

I also hate teams like Marquette who can never ever seem to fill a place like the Bradley Center no matter what the game is. Has that place ever been sold out? It was Al McGuire day people of Milwaukee (OK just need to say something about opposition).

First game all season that I DVRed and fast forwarded through parts. I suffered through W. Carolina and St. John’s, but this was just ridiculous. Plus Lost was also recorded and I knew that wasn’t going to disappoint.

I hate Samuels not being able to hold onto anything, flip out at every double team, and be flat on his ass after every freaking attempted shot or rebound. Please stay on your feet. You are not a toddler.

Can we string consecutive games of good play together?

Maddie in Portland, Oregon

by kentuckybred on Mar 3, 2010 1:54 AM EST reply actions  

Wrong

The game was a sellout.

by Mutaman on Mar 3, 2010 1:04 PM EST up reply actions  

maybe, but it was only 80% full

at least from sec 412 it looked that way

by irish2705 on Mar 3, 2010 1:07 PM EST up reply actions  

No you are wrong

a sellout is different than having all the seat full. That kind of logic only work in MLB and NBA. Just look at the game again when they pan the upper arena. You sir are wrong.

Maddie in Portland, Oregon

by kentuckybred on Mar 3, 2010 1:56 PM EST up reply actions  

"That kind of logic only work in MLB and NBA."

Now what would anybody from Kentucky know about MLB or the NBA?

by Mutaman on Mar 4, 2010 12:20 AM EST up reply actions  

Grew up with Reds up in Cincy

went to graduate school in Boston (Red Sox and Celtics) and have live in Portland with Trail Blazers for 10 years. Anything else?

Maddie in Portland, Oregon

by kentuckybred on Mar 4, 2010 2:16 AM EST up reply actions  

Irony

My point being that its ironic that one from a state that can’t support a professional team would complain about the attendence of a blue collar city like Milwaukee which averages 37,000 per Brewer game in a down economy (how’d the Reds draw last year) and can support an NBA franchice.

Bottom line , the little Catholic school from Milwaukee got enough support from its town to be good enough to put a major drubbing on the mighty Cards.

by Mutaman on Mar 4, 2010 1:07 PM EST up reply actions  

Refs

Was Marquette not tall enough to foul any of our playerS?

by CardinalDude on Mar 3, 2010 7:48 AM EST reply actions  

ok I'll take a shot

1) coaches the bounce around on the sidelines . . . like a fool (i.e. buzz, pearl)

2) ridiculous team colors, and coaches that sport those ridiculous colors as their blazer (i.e. buzz, pearl). There’s only one guy I know that can pull off a light blazer before Easter.

3) the u. I would take WDRB and our local announcers over the chances of national TV six times out of 10 (apologies for those that live outside of the broadcasting area – I’m sure DRB could work out some kind of internet broadcast for those who don’t get the channel). I don’t care if we don’t get Jay Bilas or Len Elmore. I put them on mute anyway. Paul Rogers and Bob Valvano are the only voices I need to hear.

4) games where we get out scrapped. We are the kings of scrap. If Div 1 NCAA was the Mystery Bus, I hate to admit it, but we would be Scrappy, . . . but only if pajama girl is Daphene.

5) this cloud of uncertainty around the program. Why are we not gel-ing? Is it something internal? (of course) Is it something fixable? (well, Coach P has been able to wave his magic wand in past years)

by dr_hz on Mar 3, 2010 8:26 AM EST reply actions  

Who doesn't love powder blue?

Maybe not a good choice for a blazer, but don’t hate on the whole color…

by Chris Redman is my hero on Mar 3, 2010 11:49 AM EST up reply actions  

Powder blue

is like walking on a cloud of titties

(don’t ask, I don’t know what it means, either)

ThreadKiller

by mclade01 on Mar 3, 2010 6:16 PM EST up reply actions  

i hate

how happy i was Sunday and how mad i am today and how i still think we will beat Syracuse and then talk about winning the big east tournament only to get beat in the first round which gives us a 9 seed where we will win that game, think we can beat Kansas only to get beat by 40. I’ll then kick my dog.

by Cambroni Cardinals on Mar 3, 2010 8:55 AM EST reply actions  

Leave Rover out of it....

other than that, you’re prediction sadly sounds about right. Except I am not at all sure we will beat Syracuse. And we may not make out of the first round of the big dance, if we even make it. Man I hate how pissed I am.

Go Cards!

by Red Rage on Mar 3, 2010 8:59 AM EST up reply actions  

I hate the fact that I expected it...

…from this team. They have not played with the desire that a Cardinal team should have. They let the other team dictate the course of the game. We don’t step up as much as step aside.

I also hate the Black Uniforms. We used to play in red on the road and white at home. Since when did black become the new red? Cincinnati plays in black uniforms…ugh.

by JustCards on Mar 3, 2010 9:32 AM EST reply actions  

We're not in. And we may not get in.

If we lose to Syracuse and then win just one game in the Big East tournament, we’ll be one of the last teams out. We’ll be screaming and crying about it, but there was a Syracuse team that went 21 and 10 recently and didn’t make the tournament and everybody said it was a shame and it was. But that team had better quality wins and fewer bad losses than we did.

I just don’t think this team is very good at the mental aspects of the game. Marquette played us the way everybody should — really tight man to man and double Samardo every time he touches it. We never adjust. We just fumble the ball away and then look confused. Last night’s effort was a major, major disappointment, obviously.

As someone said earlier, I hate watching games where my team appears less concerned about the outcome than I do.

theoldman

by theoldman on Mar 3, 2010 9:39 AM EST reply actions  

As others have said, though, we're helped by a weak bubble.

Weaker than most years. Our RPI and strenght of schedule are such that with the conference record and wins that we have, we’re still mostly in.

Look at the teams we’re competing with: UConn, Marquette, Cincy… we swept Uconn, beat Cincy, and yeah, we lost badly to Marquette, but our RPI and SOS are way higher. Not to mention the fact that Marquette still doesn’t have a quality win like Syracuse… Georgetown is as close as they’ve gotten.

Are we better than those teams? Maybe not. Will we go farther in the tournament than UConn or Marquette? Doubtful. But luckily for us, that’s all just conjecture, and bubble teams aren’t in or out based purely on conjecture.

by CARD_G6 on Mar 3, 2010 10:42 AM EST via mobile up reply actions  

Cincy's done now that they lost 7 of 10 or whatever

Notre Dame is closer. They play UConn and Marquette, which can be good wins, and if they make the semifinals of the BET, maybe

by cardscott5 on Mar 3, 2010 1:24 PM EST up reply actions  

Things I hate

1) ESPNU
2) 9:30 Games, I felt as out of it by game time as this team looked
3) Why nobody gets a damn rebound
4) Fans leaving early
5) My dog who barks everytime I scream R U F’ing serious at our team.

by jayhova22 on Mar 3, 2010 9:51 AM EST reply actions  

Potholes hate me

and Monday mornings,
and poor shooting,
and that new Disney Alice in Wonderland, damn you Burton and Depp, you’re going to give kids nightmares with that stuff,
and ESPNU and Insight cable
and (black, red, white, pink) out games.

by Rick_J on Mar 3, 2010 9:56 AM EST reply actions  

dude

I had nightmares about the original when I was <12

by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 3, 2010 11:02 AM EST up reply actions  

This loss was preordained by the schedule

It’s a Saturday – Monday game masquerading as Sunday -Tuesday, with both games on the road. Classic trap, fell right into it, and this year’s Cards don’t have the emotional and mental maturity to be able to prep and take care of business in that short a time.

Given the roller coaster, who here would be surprised if they regroup and beat Syracuse? Me neither.

by cardsrock on Mar 3, 2010 11:05 AM EST reply actions  

Well, the trip to Milwaukee wasn’t awesome

Let me preface this rant with a few good things:

-I drove from Chicago, not Louisville, so the travel was manageable; but I guess that still means I put in more effort than Samuels
-I was able to share a beer with Quinn1979

The things that baffle me:

-Can we defend a player driving to the basket without fouling him? For a team that shot nearly half of its shots from outside the arc, to beat us with FT attempts 22-2 is trifling
-Their guards would drive the lane, and drive back out to the 3pt line; why would we sag off our defenders from the outside?
-Inability to hit close shots. Whether it’s a driving Swop, a putback attempt by Rock, a dunk by TJ, or baby hook from SS, they just weren’t dropping last night, and haven’t really dropped this season with the consistency you’d expect

Things that straight piss me off:

-A lot of loose balls didn’t really go our way (i.e. deflections, long rebounds, etc), but we simply lacked a desire to go after the basketball, especially rebounding. I thought at one point this season we were one of the better offensive rebounding teams in the league, that certainly hasn’t been the case the second half of the season
-We followed up what I thought was one of our worst halves of ball with an even more pathetic display the second half
-Maybe I’m wrong, but did we have three (3?!?!) separate scoring droughts of 5 minutes or more? Sure seemed like it
-How Marquette effectively shut down what was supposed to be our biggest asset. We without a doubt should have been able to play a high-low game against them.

Forward looking

-I guess this team really is what I thought it was back in November: a pure bubble team. As much as I want to think this team is actually better than that, performances like this one and SJU prove me otherwise. Bubble teams normally beat a good team or two, hang in with some other teams and win some of those games, and get blown out by some teams. That’s been our season in a nutshell.
-We can still make the tournament. Granted, if you’re going to lose to a fellow bubble team, at least stay within 10 pts. But I still think we’re on the right side of the bubble. A Cuse win would secure it, as would 2 BET wins. Lose to Cuse and win only one BET game? Yikes, we’ll see. Lose our next two games? NIT
-If ND finishes 10-8 in conference, does a 2pt win in 2OT over them at home really make us a better pick than them? That said, I think we’re rooting for UConn to finish 9-9 (beating ND and USF)
-I actually like our chances better against Cuse now. Had we beat MU, I think the last game would have been too fairy-tale for us to win: #1 team, last Freedom Hall game, NCAA seeding on the line, etc. We should come in much more focused

by irish2705 on Mar 3, 2010 11:22 AM EST reply actions  

I hate...

1) When coaches lose all sense of decorum and act like Buzz did after they got the “and one”. Sure, I’m glad you got the head coaching position, you looked awfully spiffy in your powder blue jacket, and I like you spades better than your predecessor, but my God man, have some sense about you. You don’t see the upper echelon of this conference doing that… Can you imagine John Thompson III doing that? Gonzo, absolutely. I wouldn’t expect anything less.

Rick has only over-reacted like that once this season and that was after a no-call goaltending shot. I don’t compare the two because he doesn’t cheer the team on by acting like a drunk frat boy. No offense to the drunken frat boys of the world.

2) The last game in Freedom Hall is Saturday.

3) Most importantly… I really hate that I’m just over it. This team has too many personalities that I just can’t keep straight. We have the potential to beat any team in the country… it just depends on which team is going to show up.

by tarabelle17 on Mar 3, 2010 11:45 AM EST reply actions  

“I don’t compare the two because Pitino doesn’t cheer the team on by acting like a drunk frat boy.”

    Maybe he should start, I haven’t seen the cards look so unmotivated in any game this season,
    including St. Johns.

by Louevil on Mar 3, 2010 12:05 PM EST up reply actions  

If a Louisville basketball team needs to be motivated to play

against Marquette on March 2nd in a game that the players knew would lock down an NCAA tournament bid and a 5th seed in the BET…that’s not on the coach. That’s on the players, especially the upperclassmen.

If a seasoned soldier goes to battle, his commanding officer shouldn’t have to motivate the young man to defend himself when bullets are zinging past his head. Yesterday, Louisville was in a battle for their postseason fate and our team fell asleep at their posts. Inexcusable effort that cannot be placed solely on the shoulders of the coaching staff.

by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 3, 2010 1:55 PM EST up reply actions  

Absolutely agree.

If your senior captains can’t get the team fired up for what is their (Sosa, Smith) last few games, that’s not on the coaching staff.

These guys should be motivated to win based solely by the jersey they represent. Period. Anything else is secondary motivation. (If I were on the team, I’d have to pull Coach Buzz off to the side and ask him NOT to do that again. But, maybe I just embarrass easily.)

Maybe I wasn’t clear on my post… I do not want Rick acting like a fool when it comes to celebrating made baskets or good plays. That’s not UofL basketball. Nor do I want it to be UofL basketball.

by tarabelle17 on Mar 3, 2010 5:47 PM EST up reply actions  

I hate

1) When we play great defense for 31 seconds and then push off
2) that there are other zones like a 1-2-2 that we could play and maybe not look like grade schoolers
3) When one good player looks like the League MVP because we can’t rotate. When it was Walls or Scottie Reynolds you shake your head and say lottery, when its Johnson-Odom or Freeman or Stephenson or Mason Jr. you say WTF why can’t they get to that guy!
4) Whoever took the soul out of Samuels, I hate to use this term but he almost looks overcoached he’s so timid.

by KyCubsFan on Mar 3, 2010 1:02 PM EST reply actions  

I hate mayonnaise...

I also hate Syracuse, and the fact that we were on the verge of landing Fab Melody until they snatched him from under us. I hate that we are struggling to make the tournament while they fly high. But I’d really hate to see these bastards come come into the Hall and get a W. I think we’ll play good.

by bjack357 on Mar 3, 2010 10:39 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

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