Even the announcers noticed this. Why weren’t we playing to our strength which was the inside game. Didn’t quite understand our strategy there.
I couldn’t agree more. Free throw shooting is in my opinion the one area where we’re really lacking this season. And that’s something that I believe should be able to be overcome at practice. You can’t teach size, speed or athletic ability, but free-throw shooting is simply repetition.
IMO: Clayton Jr, Pullin, Condon are alphas. If the latter sticks around, he will be a great alpha Gator.
in the first half a lot of those were falling though. I would like to have seen a change at halftime, though where we started to go more inside because you know Kentucky was going to change up their defense.
Aside from the free throw shooting, I like this team. We lost to the number 6 team in the country, who is playing really good ball. The thing we need to show is how to win the close game, and who is going to be the alpha to count on when the game is on the line.
of all the assistant coaches we have in addition to golden you would think one of them would be an expert and teaching free throw technique. Simply fundamental.
I agree, we lost to a good team. But we have it within our grasp to win that game. We had a few more of the front end of those one and ones and we win the game flat out.
I agree that the free throw shooting lost it, but I was encouraged by what I saw offensively. We seem to have the players to fit a more complimentary style than the last 5 years. People are moving the ball and moving without the ball.
Lol..Clayton, Pullin and even Kugel are about as Alpha as they came and this is coming from the Alpha Gator himself.
We finally ran a nice high-low late in the second half. Kentucky has no defense for it, but to hold Samuel (no call). I thought, for sure, we’d go back to it.
If you look at the Pick'em contest I predicted a close game in the mid-80s. The team that got a few breaks would win. UK got the breaks. UK's D was set up to take away our inside game and dared us to shot the three. And the way the game was called played right into their game plan. UK was allowed to be VERY physical inside. A lot of grabbing and holding in the paint was allowed. We also got away with some physical play in the paint. It just helped UK more that the game was called this way. We did great in the first half because we hit a fair number of threes. We didn't shoot the three as well in the second half. Talking about FT shooting is beating a dead horse. We suck at that and not just today. You have to figure that into your game planning.
physicality inside should’ve been to our advantage. I think we kinda conceded to how Kentucky wanted to play, which had us shooting thirty 3’s.
Agree with both points. Another big factor was rebounding. Gators have overcome free throw and 3-point shooting deficiencies by dominating the boards. Today, rebounding was pretty even so the poor shooting stood out more.
You would think so but when UK was allowed to grab and hold in the paint without fouls being called it is hard to do. Nearly every foul on an interior UK player was a mugging of one of our guards driving to the rim. Our players just don't have that "skill set".
i just don’t think we put enough front court pressure on UK… or the officials… to draw fouls. We probably had less than 10 offensive shots in the paint. Handlogten/Condon/Samuel combined for 16 total… many of those were put backs, and a few were from the perimeter.
Total bs stats. Let’s see what happens when the better guard, Aberdeen gets minutes like Richard, then lay the “stats are for losers” S. Spurrier numbers on me. I think Aberdeen will be better than Richard by tourney time if he starts getting playing time. My opinion: as someone who played and coached the game and has been attending Gator hoops games (drove 5 1/2 hrs from Pensacola today) annually since 1968. Later
