[Observing]

Then stop the other 4 players on the floor! The game was lost not by what Turner made happen. The game was lost by being so pathetic to stop the other players on the floor!

This years UK squad has one player whose desire is "ON" for 40 minutes, and that is Noel. I have seen more lazy passes resulting in steals, horrendous effort in blocking out when rebounding, and complete failure to hustle on defense to allow uncontested transition baskets.

This team is no longer Freshmen! This has nothing to do with the youth of the team when the team is 7 deep, meaning everyone is playing 25 plus minutes. These guys just fail to have a "Fail to Lose" attitude.

Rarely agree with Dusty, he rarely posts a reasonable thought, but
he's mostly right here. I wouldn't say they "fail to have a fail to lose
attitude". If they didn't have it, they would never have made big comebacks
against Duke and U of L, nor held on at Vandy. But they certainly
fail to have the necessary fight ON in most games, showing little
intensity and heart on too many occasions. That's why as Cal
has said, they're not going to beat anybody badly this season,
and are going to have to struggle in most games. At least until
most of them figure out how to tunr it on on amore consistnet basis.

[Observing]

This team has one glaring problem - ONE & Only ONE! Leadership!

This team has no experience in how to play this system! There is No Patrick Patterson as in year 1; Harrelson, Liggins and Miller in year 2; and Miller, Jones and Lamb in year three! Those guys helped the yournger guys adjust. This group of Freshman (and Sophomore Harrow) are every bit as talented as the first three years of Super Frosh. But you cannot put the inability of leadership on there shoulders. It took someone to teach Wall, Cousins, Teague & Knight and the rest of great players how to play great! Coaches can't teach players maturity! It takes a leader on the practice floor, running the same number of suicides as them, to learn maturity!

I have no doubt that this team can be good in March. However, with no one to lead this team, it's going to be very tough. So stop knocking the players and saying non-sense that they are not as good as other classes! That's BS. These guys are every bit as good, but they only became the great players on the floor because of the Senior leaders who were on the floor with them. Unless some of these guys who are here now, decide to stay like the talented players Jones and Lamb, you guys are all going to be disappointed in your "greatest team ever" thinking.

If next years squad comes in and has no one to look up to but themselves, guess what, you will get the same results as this year. If you have every played team sports before, then you know what I am talking about. If not, you only see it through blue tinted glasses wishing for miracles that are just not existent!

NO, this team does not have as much talent as years 1 and 3. Has more than team 2. And the talent it does have is much less mentally mature than
the talent of any of the 3 years. You are right that they lack a leader.
Whether that's just a permanent shortcoming, or a funciton of that
immaturity remains to be seen.

[Stardust]

Just Observing here, but I see completely uneducated basketball ridiculousness posted on this site that makes me believe they are nothing more than Dumb Stupid Redneck FANS.....

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[Granny Bear]

Hmmmm......DSRF???

[Observing]

Just Observing here, but I see completely uneducated basketball ridiculousness posted on this site that makes me believe they are nothing more than Dumb Stupid Redneck FANS.....

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Then my suggestionwold stop reading your OWN posts over and over
again.