Gators beat Kentucky at Rupp

[Egor's Assistant]

Was White's time out when Kentucky was making a run, timely enough for all those haters? Is he growing as a coach? Are we satisfied with our hire? ... I love this team! Coach White is rocking the game plans and making the adjustments necessary to keep this team in every game even though we have a depleted roster. Amazing Win at Rupture Arena. Hopefully a sign of a long Tournament run.

 

[SwampChomp]

Great win on a really poor shooting night.
TO's played huge roll ---- UF had 7......Ruppsters with 16!
Great job GATORS!

 

[Egor's Assistant]

The only thing that explains this win is.... SwampQueen's Birthday.

 

[Jbossgator8]

nice prediction t-gator, ever so pessimistic as usual. LOL Go Gators!! They STUFFED you hard

 

[Jbossgator8]

Waiting to hear our resident experts analysis on how we WON in spite of the "terrible coaching" by Coach White. Or how we shot poorly so it doesn't actually count as a win. Or we played too tough and that wasn't fair to UK in their house or their fans. Go Gators!!

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Tricky week ahead coming off the big win. Two home games against South Carolina and Baylor, who despite mediocre records, are solid teams who are well-coached. Gotta stay focused and keep the train rolling!

 

[GatorStud]

Holy Moley, some soul searching cardiac kids, lol, Go Gators!

 

[MertzJay26]

Tricky week ahead coming off the big win. Two home games against South Carolina and Baylor, who despite mediocre records, are solid teams who are well-coached. Gotta stay focused and keep the train rolling!

South Carolina sucks. We have no business losing to them.

 

[Jbossgator8]

Gators now 4-1 vs ranked teams so far this season. NONE at home. 3 neutral court and 2 road games. This team is something special. Making our case for the NCAA Tourney. Go Gators!!

 

[rogdochar]

.... one and done, looking for two and done. Go Gators, time to get healthy and stand tall.

 

[stephenPE]

Tricky week ahead coming off the big win. Two home games against South Carolina and Baylor, who despite mediocre records, are solid teams who are well-coached. Gotta stay focused and keep the train rolling!

At least USCe lost that guy they had last year that we could not defend in the dance.

 

[stephenPE]

Ive watched 7 min of the 2nd half. Egor has missed 200 three pt shots so far. Hayes cant make a FT. CHees set him twice and he missed layups. If Egbunu is in there we win by 20. UK is stupid in that dont go inside every time in this game. WE must have missed a record 3pt shots.
Once more. IF Egor was 6 10 he would be an AA and we would win the national title.

 

[FireFoley]

Any road win in conference is a great win, and yes we shot a horrendous %. But I don;t think anyone is surprised bu the low shooting % b/c most of our shots were just awful shot selection. Even a buffoon like Jay Bilas mentioned we had zero player movement on offense and took terrible shots early in the clock. But we know this is strictly a 3 point shooting team, which would not worry me so much if it was not a 1 pass, 3 point shooting team. If we ran better action to create better looks, I think we could be dangerous in the tourney, but hoping some of the tough shots go in is a bad recipe over time. be that as it may, good win, and a bad team coming to our place Wed. nite. But USCe is guranteed to play hard b/c that is the Frank Martin way. Can't afford any mental letdown as we are not good enough to have that. Must win at home!

 

[Frozen Gator]

We sure did not earn this game with good shooting, but some decent makeup no calls at the end made it a win. That touch foul should never been called resulting in a dunk that we did not get. That said a win is way better than a loss, especially in KY.

The refs DID make Stone irrelevant.

 

[78]

Any road win in conference is a great win, and yes we shot a horrendous %. But I don;t think anyone is surprised bu the low shooting % b/c most of our shots were just awful shot selection. Even a buffoon like Jay Bilas mentioned we had zero player movement on offense and took terrible shots early in the clock. But we know this is strictly a 3 point shooting team, which would not worry me so much if it was not a 1 pass, 3 point shooting team. If we ran better action to create better looks, I think we could be dangerous in the tourney, but hoping some of the tough shots go in is a bad recipe over time. be that as it may, good win, and a bad team coming to our place Wed. nite. But USCe is guranteed to play hard b/c that is the Frank Martin way. Can't afford any mental letdown as we are not good enough to have that. Must win at home!

Good post. We have a tendency to launch it up early. I'd like to see more of an effort to set up open looks and get the ball in the paint. Then again, if it were that simple, I suppose we'd already be doing it.

Regardless, we have to shoot better if we want to go deep in the tournament. We clanged the front end of the rim an awful lot last night. It had me wondering if we had tired legs.

 

[Frozen Gator]

Ive watched 7 min of the 2nd half. Egor has missed 200 three pt shots so far. Hayes cant make a FT. CHees set him twice and he missed layups. If Egbunu is in there we win by 20. UK is stupid in that dont go inside every time in this game. WE must have missed a record 3pt shots.
Once more. IF Egor was 6 10 he would be an AA and we would win the national title.

Hayes, I think missed FT's because of fatigue. He was the only inside guy we had.

 

[78]

Hayes, I think missed FT's because of fatigue. He was the only inside guy we had.

He's a .533 shooter at the line.

 

[Frozen Gator]

He's a .533 shooter at the line.

I'm giving him a pass today.

 

[78]

I'm giving him a pass today.

Wasn't Hayes the guy who one-handed the inbounds pass for a slam dunk? He had some key plays down the stretch.

 

[Frozen Gator]

Wasn't Hayes the guy who one-handed the inbounds pass for a slam dunk? He had some key plays down the stretch.

yes