March 12, 201115 yr Author You guys are ridiculous. Go Cats. You don't think it was a poor move and potentially very damaging?
March 12, 201115 yr You don't think it was a poor move and potentially very damaging? I understand your point, but Cal has rarely put the full bench in at the end of games this season. The whole thing seemed kind of fluky; hard to place too much blame.
March 12, 201115 yr Author I understand your point, but Cal has rarely put the full bench in at the end of games this season. The whole thing seemed kind of fluky; hard to place too much blame. Just because something hasn't hurt you before doesn't mean it never will. It's NEVER a good idea to risk something you cannot do without when the result is already determined.
March 12, 201115 yr Great job on the post game show 1530. Way to botch it. Horrible. While I'm at at, let's get the Cats off of Channel 64.
March 12, 201115 yr I tend to agree that you should put subs in but let me play devil's advocate. 16 point lead and you clear the bench. The subs turn it over, Bama hits a three. 13 point lead with 1:10 to go. Do you leave the subs in? 13 point lead with 1:10 to go and Bama fouls one of the subs as soon as you cross half court. Sub misses front end of one and one, Bama comes down and hits another 3. It is now a 10 point game with a minute to go. Leave the subs in? I guess my point is, in today's basketball big leads can get chewed up quickly. Even if Cal went to the bench, there is no way with this team you can get all 5 starters out. Lamb is a ball handler and good free throw shooter so you are leaving him on the floor no matter what. Knight and Lamb are the two guys who stay out there almost for sure. So I am not going to bang on Cal for leaving a good ball handler and free throw shooter on the floor for this short bench team.
March 12, 201115 yr Author I tend to agree that you should put subs in but let me play devil's advocate. 16 point lead and you clear the bench. The subs turn it over, Bama hits a three. 13 point lead with 1:10 to go. Do you leave the subs in? 13 point lead with 1:10 to go and Bama fouls one of the subs as soon as you cross half court. Sub misses front end of one and one, Bama comes down and hits another 3. It is now a 10 point game with a minute to go. Leave the subs in? I guess my point is, in today's basketball big leads can get chewed up quickly. Even if Cal went to the bench, there is no way with this team you can get all 5 starters out. Lamb is a ball handler and good free throw shooter so you are leaving him on the floor no matter what. Knight and Lamb are the two guys who stay out there almost for sure. So I am not going to bang on Cal for leaving a good ball handler and free throw shooter on the floor for this short bench team. To come back from 16 points down with that much time would be borderline historic. There's reasons that games like Duke's comeback from 10 points down to Maryland with under a minute left stand out. It's because they do not happen almost ever.
March 12, 201115 yr To come back from 16 points down with that much time would be borderline historic. There's reasons that games like Duke's comeback from 10 points down to Maryland with under a minute left stand out. It's because they do not happen almost ever. So the 5 UK should have put on the floor are Hood, Poulson, Vargas, Poole and ??? Which brings up another question. Can Poole be redshirted at this point? How much has he played?
March 12, 201115 yr I tend to agree that you should put subs in but let me play devil's advocate. 16 point lead and you clear the bench. The subs turn it over, Bama hits a three. 13 point lead with 1:10 to go. Do you leave the subs in? 13 point lead with 1:10 to go and Bama fouls one of the subs as soon as you cross half court. Sub misses front end of one and one, Bama comes down and hits another 3. It is now a 10 point game with a minute to go. Leave the subs in? I guess my point is, in today's basketball big leads can get chewed up quickly. Even if Cal went to the bench, there is no way with this team you can get all 5 starters out. Lamb is a ball handler and good free throw shooter so you are leaving him on the floor no matter what. Knight and Lamb are the two guys who stay out there almost for sure. So I am not going to bang on Cal for leaving a good ball handler and free throw shooter on the floor for this short bench team. When Liggins went down the game was over. If Liggins being hurt wasn't warning enough what is?
March 12, 201115 yr Author So the 5 UK should have put on the floor are Hood, Poulson, Vargas, Poole and ??? Which brings up another question. Can Poole be redshirted at this point? How much has he played? No, I recognize you cannot get ALL of them off. I think of the top players, Knight was the only one on the bench, correct? The four you named, I don't think any of them were on the floor. I think that's the real problem. He saw Liggins go down, and that's the warning shot. He ignored it.
March 12, 201115 yr I say don't let anybody play tomorrow because they might get hurt. Good grief some of you guys blow my mind. Lamb got hurt on an in bounds pass. Flunk thing.
March 12, 201115 yr To come back from 16 points down with that much time would be borderline historic. There's reasons that games like Duke's comeback from 10 points down to Maryland with under a minute left stand out. It's because they do not happen almost ever. You're right but would there be more if Jon Hood, Vargas and company were out there? Just look again at what Hood did as soon as he was put in the lineup and answer that question honestly.
March 12, 201115 yr No, I recognize you cannot get ALL of them off. I think of the top players, Knight was the only one on the bench, correct? The four you named, I don't think any of them were on the floor. I think that's the real problem. He saw Liggins go down, and that's the warning shot. He ignored it. Hood was.
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