Biorhythms for @Kentucky: 9:30 Start

finesse said:
Yeah. It's almost like the programs that have the longest traditions and most success by doing things the old ways are making slower changes than those with less to lose. Kansas is having some similar issues. Those sorts of legacies have their own responsibilities about what you keep and what you let go. That seems especially true when it's hard to imagine this sort of chaotic situation not being reined in a bit.
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UK hasn’t been doing things the old way for a good 15 years.
 
Calheel said:
Kentucky scored plenty during that 12 minute stretch. It was just all from the line.
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They scored 9 points on FTs (on 12 FTAs) in a little over 10 minutes.

That’s roughly a 35 points per game pace.

That is not “scored plenty”.
 
SnoopRob said:
They scored 9 points on FTs (on 12 FTAs) in a little over 10 minutes.

That’s roughly a 35 points per game pace.

That is not “scored plenty”.
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Well compared to BattBoy saying they were scoreless, it is plenty. I didn’t mean to imply that Kentucky was on a blistering pace. Just that there is a big difference between a FG drought and a scoring drought.
 
Calheel said:
Kentucky scored plenty during that 12 minute stretch. It was just all from the line.
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There was a stretch during the second half where I wondered if the refs were confused and thought they were reffing a UNC-Villanova national championship game while confusing Kentucky for Villanova.
 
I’m not ready to swap out Evans for Dixon just yet. When Seth was playing and Evans Running point we had our best ball movement, and more importantly off the ball movement, in years. Evans gets in the lane better than Dixon and despite the fouling is a better defender as much faster feet and side to side. I’m impressed with Dixon’s poise for a freshman point but he is slow and court vision not as good as Evans. We had a TO last night where Caleb ran into the lane, was open, and Dixon hesitated with the pass and got picked off. Should have been an easy feed and slam. But Dixon’s 3 and layup were massive to the win, no doubt, and his steady play throughout.

Others have mentioned it but I love Stevenson’s work rate. The kid is really getting after it on D and playing without ego. Love it.

Caleb is just a freak. His quickness is insane, he did a double spin last night that was jaw dropping, even though he missed the finish. Very complete player apart from the 3-ball and (argh!) free throws.

Henri was also clutch last night, esp. when Caleb was off the floor.

Hubert… needs to stop trying to joystick the damn game from the sidelines. Obviously this is a much better season already and all credit to him for the way the kids are playing, and for assembling this team. But how many times is Dixon dribbling at the top staring over at Hubert trying to understand whatever he’s yelling. Only a matter of time until he gets his pocket picked trying follow Hubert’s “coaching”.
 
That Chandler guy with the dipped tips was hard to watch. I kept waiting for him to sweep the leg. Bet his dorm room is a revolving door of hotties though.
 
Geisterfahrer said:
I’m impressed with Dixon’s poise for a freshman point but he is slow and court vision not as good as Evans.
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Not sure I agree but even if so, that is just barely an advantage for Evans

Dixon's floor vision and ability to make reads can come a long way with regular minutes

Evans isn't elite at either of those and should be playing off the ball more than Dixon imo
 
uncjhodges said:
I thought he called some nice sets with new wrinkles yesterday out of timeouts, primarily the veesaar/wilson ball screen for the dunk and a back screen for a dunk for stevenson in the first half, but i hate our over reliance on sets. for the most part Kentucky completely choked those off and we looked incredibly stagnant on O but we rebounded almost half our misses. I’m glad to see a renewed emphasis on offensive rebounding as it’s a great inefficiency that the Stat/analaysis 3 and layup teams often ignored/de-emphasized.
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I am with you. I think he's calling way too many sets. I think it doesn't help the players learn to play "free lance" offense, and this results in situations like last year and in the past where the players just dribble around and jack up a shot after the set breaks down because they're not comfortable/whatever you want to call it running free-lance. I understand that you need talented players to be effective at that style of play and that it also takes time to become good at that style of play, but it's something that you need for an effective offense, and so you need to be (somewhat) good at it. Hopefully HD will start running more free-lance offense against weaker teams so that the players get better at it. Otherwise, I think we're going to see the offense agains MSU and UK become the norm when playing more talented teams.
 
Regarding Evans, most analysts questioned why he'd be coming in to run point, so I'm not too surprised to see him struggling mightily. Hopefully HD will move him off the ball, into a spot that suits his abilities - a spot-up shooter.
 
I was team "too many sets" last year with a roster full of skilled guards and good athletes

The current roster is a turnover waiting to happen so I sort of get the over reliance on set offense

They can probably ease out of it some when Trimble gets back and start playing more transition/secondary break
 
superrific said:
It seems Hubert can't win. Prior to this year, it was "we don't run any offense." Now it's "we run too many sets." ??
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He ran sets last year too. He's always run sets. It's been that he didn't develop their free-lance ability enough to run it well, which is why we've seen so many shots chucked up at the end of the clock after very little other than dribbling around. Hopefully he's figured out how he's going to correct that this year.

When folks pointed out bad offense, it wasn't "run more sets."
 
Heelsandeers said:
I was team "too many sets" last year with a roster full of skilled guards and good athletes

The current roster is a turnover waiting to happen so I sort of get the over reliance on set offense

They can probably ease out of it some when Trimble gets back and start playing more transition/secondary break
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I think this current squad has looked its best offensively when it plays more of the Roy style of uptempo transition/secondary break focused offense. Obviously not having Trimble makes it harder to play that way so I give the team a pass for struggling on that end of the court recently as it adjusts to playing without him.

Whether we blame it on too many sets, too few, whatever, Hubert’s offenses have a tendency to look clunky and stagnant.
 
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