[Van Hagar]

Well here is one. The CBS announcers said that the zone Oakland played was what they played every second of every game this year. And we looked like we have no clue how to attack it. We had six days to work on it! Because we lost so early in that other meaningless tournament! We had superior athletes, but we looked like we had never had a practice session on attacking this type of zone! That’s what coaches do, they get you prepared. And we just weren’t.

Now I certainly don’t totally exonerate the players either. Sheppard was awful, Dillingham and Edwards looked scared to death, Big Z blew a lot of easy plays, and we got beat on nearly every 50/50 ball. But if we had just had a clue on offense we win this one by a comfortable margin.

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Let me say this also, OSH. I’ve never been a guy that didn’t like Cal from the jump. His early years were Pitino all over again, he turned us around at a low, low point. I appreciate all the excitement he gave us up until the Wisconsin loss. But it hasn’t been the same since. The game has changed and he refuses to. You just aren’t going to win big in the postseason anymore with freshmen dominated teams now that the transfer portal is allowing schools to stock up on rosters with a lot of 22, 23 and 24 year olds. But Cal is too stubborn to change. It is great that he has so many ex-players making millions in the NBA. But that’s not his mission, whether he thinks so or not. His mission is to keep Kentucky basketball relevant at the very highest level, in the mix every year. And right now we just aren’t.

Oh, and he’s a terrible in-game coach. There’s that also.