Yeah I take my hat off to Anderson and their team.
I knew there were a few good ones over here. I agree. This was Anderson's best coaching job, by far. He had 7 newcomers this year and it took some time for us to get all on the same page and play with max effort every second of the game, but we really turned it on over the last few weeks.
The one thing that he has finally done with recruiting is to keep the best players in the state.....2017 and 2018 he has the top 6 players staying home....that has been a huge criticism by the fans!!
Describe the term "ugly style of basketball". Any style of basketball that helps you win is pretty to me. Just saying...
I think any style that is overly physical is ugly. It makes a beautiful game a slog by sending players to the FT line so often that it interrupts the flow of the game. This overt use of physicality by teams like SC and Arkansas has been adopted in order to compensate for UK's ridiculous advantage in talent, IMO. But it's ugly ball, effective yes, but ugly.
I have watched them all year and been to numerous games.....they have always played very aggressive and I do agree that it can get real ugly but that is not the norm with this team. They do play that way against a bigger more athletic team because they wont beat them any other way! Very few games this year has Arkansas been out athleticed( is that a word?) They simply did what they had to do to compete....you either do that or accept losing! I commend them for making a game out of it!!!
Anderson's a good coach. That being said, he comes from the Nolan Richardson tree of helter skelter mayhem as frankly a short-cut. When things got tight their buttholes got a little tight as well. I see folks dogging Roy for time-outs, but our guys are coached to be prepared for end-game situations. Anderson had exhausted his time-outs and it was painfully clear that Arky's kids in contrast, were a bit lost in crunch-time.
For all his objectionable qualities, K is a good basketball coach. He knows his Xs-and-Os and is a solid teacher. Still he has incessantly taken shortcuts to win at all costs. And here's the part that is confounding to anyone defending him: It has so obviously caught up with him in how he handles his personnel.
I know, right? I almost fell off my chair laughing... the irony was likely totally lost on him.And his post game drama included these comments, "We need depth", "We need to be as physical as teams like South Carolina".
And his post game drama included these comments, "We need depth", "We need to be as physical as teams like South Carolina".
what he means is "we finally had a game where the refs didn't call our opponents for touch fouls while letting us hack and shove as much as we wanted."
