Quick Game Analysis: The Cats played like crap. They have yet to show they can handle the hostile SEC crowds (see loss at Georgia). They can't win with only three players playing at a high level (and Brandon Knight didn't start playing that way until midway through the second half). Alabama was pulling shots out of their a--es. Vargas is so terrible that he just needs to be cut immediately. Wait, I'm jumping the gun. The kid is trying. Be positive Boogiewoogie, be positive.
Onto the real reason for this post. There was a moment in the game where John Calipari gave Terrence Jones an absolute lashing. I replayed the scene on my DVR and saw that Cal actually called Jones a selfish Mother Bleeper and had a few other words thrown in there. The cause of this tirade was Jones' lack of passing to his teammates and a culmination of Cal's building rage with the up and down nature in Jones' play. It's frustrating because the kid could be dominant if he wanted to and he is at times. The abuse was so bad that it made the scourging scene in The Passion of the Christ look gentle and loving.
As the verbal assault was happening I texted Monster Mash saying, "That altercation between Jones and Cal was ugly." It was ugly and I have never seen Calipari act like that before. The frustration of Jones' play combined with the annoying techno music pumping out every time there was a stoppage of play, on top of being embarrassed by an inferior team on national TV caused John to blow a gasket. Jones just happened to be the unlucky target.
Calipari has already apologized and regrets the incident. Jones has already accepted the apology in this tweet, saying he is blessed to play for coach Cal, is happy and likened it to being scolded by your parents. And afterwards your parents give you a big fat hug.
This team needs to find out who they are and quick. Are they the team that routed a talented UofL team in their house, the team that blew out a ranked Notre Dame team, the team that beat a physically talented Washington team, or are they the team that got out muscled by UConn, out hustled by North Carolina, and out everythinged by Georgia and Alabama?
The team is at a crossroads now and they need to get sh-t right (thanks Eric Bledsoe) before they walk into South Carolina. A place where a Sandstorm is brewing and the Cats have not won there much recently.
In closing: John Wall ain't walking through that door! Boogie ain't walking through that door! And by Golly, 2 Pat ain't walking through that door! (thanks Rick Pitino) And if you want my opinion, the reason that young team last year was so successful, besides their talent, was the maturity, example and leadership of Patrick Patterson. I am looking at you Darius Miller. Too bad you are invisible.
Damn it! BE POSITIVE!
You have never seen Cal act like that before? Do you not remember:
ReplyDelete"kick your *** after the game. You're going for the wrong guy."
Is that not what Cal yelled at an opposing player just last season? The guy has some issues. Success will make you look past a lot of flaws. Had Clyde have done that, he would have had his resignation presser by now.
Being scolded by your parents? I don't know about Terrence Jones's home situation, but my parents have never called me a mother*****r.
"Issues"? The guy yelled at one of his players and the camera happened to be on him when he cursed. Coach K was caught doing the same thing to his entire team on the bench and they even showed that on Sportscenter. Does he have "issues"?
ReplyDeleteWe have all seen Pitino do the same thing as well. He isn't singing Jennings nursery rhymes when he is scolding him on the sidelines.
Besides, Bob Knight and John Cheney did and said a lot worse than Cal ever has.
As for being called a mother ****** by one of my parents? I got called a lot worse by my dad and i turned out just fine.
I will never defend Pitino's character. He's as shady as the next guy. With that being said, I've never seen him curse a player on his team or another team...not to say it doesn't happen, but it hasn't happened on tv in front of a national audience (probably including that players parents). Cal has done it twice now in a years time. Again, I know that Rick is shady and I won't defend some of his actions. Most Kentucky fans refuse to believe Cal is shady and defend him when he is dead wrong. When Cal was at Memphis, you guys hated him like the rest of the country. Your argument is Bob Knight said worse. Seriously, Bob "I choke players" Knight. Bob Knight is as far from normal as any coach out there. Bob Knight was fired for his actions. Chaney was also forced out the door for the accumulation of his actions...and I think Chaney would take Cal in a fight.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it was ugly and I am not apologizing for Cal. Did Jones deserve to get chewed out? Absolutely. But he didn't need to call him what he did. And all of the media attention about is ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteAs for Cal being shady: show me a college coach that isn't. None of them are clean and there was a survey done by Dana O'neil that was complete by anonymous college coaches that tells us as much.
And I would be scared if Cheney and I were alone in a dark alley.