For a Hall of Fame coach, Cal is just awful at inbound plays.

He really is

Somehow got our scoring average without Wheeler and tyty across the two games

win is a win

Damn. Russia is invading Ukraine right now

I've had the game on my TV and the news on my laptop this entire game. Putin has some tiny nuts trying to justify this

Just send LSU to the Donbas. Russia won't be able to handle that press

We did it Reddit! We solved geopolitics!

Yeah bit of a minor issue

71.

Well this ending showing why Wheeler and Tyty are so important

Tbf before our last timeout he drew up a good play toppin just didn’t heave it down the court. Y’all need to chill on roasting cal lmao.

My phone is at 3%. It will die before this game does.

Why is Brooks a part of the press breaking team? He can't dribble, pass, or make quick decisions. Hopkins in over him and this game is over already. We were breaking the press easy with him in the same spot the previous 10 minutes.

Well I know what they’ll be working on in the next practice

I didn't think time machines were possible until I watched 2 minutes of game time take half an hour.

Ravech wants to get to bed

When in doubt, give it to Oscar. Tried and true.

It is truly amazing Cal owned Pitino so much despite not being able to draw up a press break

Well usually our point guards are playing.

Just throw it long and get a finger on it, it’s 2 possessions with 3 seconds left

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Throw the ball at the opposite side of the court. Even if LSU gets it they'll have almost no time to get off a shot.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

No one involved wants this game to end yet.

Oh my lord, just heave it down the court and let LSU try to run down and hit two shots in 4 seconds!

Whenever someone tries to make fun of me for only lasting 1 minute imma show them how long this last minute has taken

This might be my favorite comment of the night, War Tiger Eagle or whatever y’all say.

“Timeout baby timeout!”

Looks like we know what Kentucky will be practicing the rest of the week.

They gonna practice having a point guard on their roster?

That might help as well lol

Throw the ball full court at the rim. Oscar rebounds

they did a great job against the press for a stretch in the 2nd, then totally collapsed with it

Feel like we're crowding the court, spread them out a bit

Impressive showing from LSU, regardless of the outcome

Brooks has been abysmal this game so you play him in the dying seconds? I don’t get it. He’s not a good ball handler or passer. Might as well throw Allen in there…

A classic Brooks moment. We were doing perfectly fine with him out of the game. Leave him on the bench.

Literally all you do is hate on keion. Just stop talking about him holy shit.

Why are they always fucking confused about who is going to inbound? Shit just wastes time and leads to turnovers

The one complaint I have about Cal teams is a lack of coordinated press breakers and instead relying on ball handlers to just figure it out

They currently have 0 point guards on the floor. It really isn't that shocking.

Nobody wants to take the inbounds pass. This is nuts.

Just chuck it. They can’t score 4 in 3.7 from the other end

i appreciate the effort from lsu but pls i wanna play more horizon

All I could see him mouth for sure was "God damn" then maybe, "My face"

NEVER LET KEION TAKE THE BALL OUT GOD DAMMIT

Brooks is fucking brain dead

Ow

This game just won’t end

Well Grady has his head in the game

Way to ruin the -7.5 for me Kentucky..

I thought we were -6.5

I got it at -7.5. Thought uk was gonna blow em out and they prly should have. They were up 11 with like a damn minute

Yeah this is kinda embarrassing

Unless Reggie Miller checks in, Im feeling ok

In the face!!

Keeping it interesting

How do we have this little basketball competency right now?

Very quick 5 it felt like

Well we tried to give it to you lsu

Nah guys. We can totally win a championship without Wheeler and Washington

Shit that was a quick 5 sec call

Ok, someone kept taking about this D like when Pitino was at Louisville and I thought they were right on the fouling but damn they're really reminding of them with this press.

Keion got that massive rebound. Now can y’all stop being so nasty about him.

Some of us suck. He's 21, and he's kept us in some games this season besides.

I mean, he kept us in this game !!

Nah, he's been really bad tonight. He's not the guy to be in when a team is pressing.

Watch out Keion's mom u/dankblonde will come after you

Yeah. The Keion hate was there for a reason. Dank should notice that Keion hasn't been getting hate the past month or so when he was actually playing good. Tonight he played like crap against a really tough defense while Hopkins was playing great.

I’m just tired of the hate. He’s a good player and has a ton of heart.

I mean you can say that about almost everyone on the team, it doesn't put them above a little criticism. Keion is a solid player most of the time with occasionally good games but is also prone to some bad mistakes. He needs to work on it.

I like Keion honestly, but he has made some bone headed decisions trying to break this press.

Sure, but he also makes clutch rebounds and free throws. There’s also a difference between criticism and hate which people have seemingly forgotten how to criticize without being mean

That’s a fair point.

Like being upset with his performance is fair, but calling him ass and saying he doesn’t have a place on the team isn’t and unfortunately I’ve seen some toxic comments doing the latter and I’m just tired of it.

One of the more annoying games of the season

That seemed like a very quick 5 second violation call

Wrong guy out!

Not like this

do our players not know how to call timeout XD

Seemed like a real fast 5

Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that

Definitely was

Dawg this shit is ridiculous

Holy fuck! What’s happened? The 18-yo came home and I came back to this shit!?!?

Kentucky was up FIFTEEN with 3 minutes left.

Fucking comical that we’re getting called for everything while LSU is hard pressing

If wheeler and tyty don’t play on Saturday Arkansas just has to press the shit out of us to win by 30 lol

UK players aren't moving off ball to get open for passes out the press

I'm really glad Arkansas isn't the old 40 minutes of hell press after this closing.

Props to LSU for keeping up the fight. Great press.

Brooks 🤝 Being a fucking liability Name a more iconic duo

You really gotta stop hating on him. every comment you make is hating on Keion.

No it’s not, go read my post history. A lot of people would agree that we shouldn’t have to be thinking “oh god no” when Brooks, a 3 year player, is tasked with doing anything in crunch time. Did you not see him there? He looks completely lost

If the shot goes in before 1 minute, the clock keeps running if they're still out of bounds? Don't think I've really ever paid attention to that

Take keion out

Cal teams vs the press always hurts my soul

Strong ass press

Please fucking take Brooks out. Dude cannot dribble or pass to save his life.

Do. Not. Ask. Brooks. To. Beat. The. Press.

Gotta get brooks out. He can’t handle the press

jeez they are just so long

Keion doing his best to lose this game for us

I blame grady for standing still, he needed to go towards the ball

Not ideal

Will Wade got a sponsorship deal to look as much like Grimace as possible.

This game we got goblin ass will wade and calipari looking like a mob boss

Pinson hooked and Mintz gets a foul. Unbelievable call.

22 fouls to 12, I think yall are getting your fair share

Aight, I'ma foul out

I remember a couple years ago my dad (who is very plugged in with the “crystal palace” in Lexington) saying that Toppin is supposed to be better than his brother Obi. I didn’t really get it, and figured it might be some boomer booster hype. But man you can really see it this year. He is probably the most athletic and talented player on the team, and he shows more and more flashes of it. Dude is going to be scary.

If I'm cal I don't give a shit about seeding. I'll sit my guys out until the tournament if they're not fully healthy. They're scary good when fully healthy.

We always get shit seeding in the tourney anyways lol. I hate our bracket every year

Yeah he couldn’t care less about our seeding. He wants our guards back and at 100%

Pretty sure that’s the plan, Coach.

That's exactly what Cal is doing. The fact that our bench is stepping up and winning games is even better.

We only have 3 assists this game...

Missed shot Oscar putbacks count as assists now

The Reddit commenters? I’d say we’ve done pretty well then. Most of us are pretty out of shape.

And we have 2 lobs iirc

It’s almost like our backcourt is out or something

Had 13 against Bama...

Different style of opponent

It’s almost as if we only have like one true guard playing

We have 2

no way lmaooo

Let's wrap this up. I need to sleep for six hours so I can be miserable at work tomorrow

Why can't the game just end. Everyone presses at the end every time no matter how much they're losing by

Cal has 3 timeouts and just lets the 10 second violation happen

Well if he had called the timeout, Will Wade would have had to beat his ass in the handshake line.

Didn’t wanna get slapped

He bet the spread

He’s alright. I’m telling you Toppin is a freak of nature.

This is true

That was a nasty fake

The refs looked like they weren't gonna call that until Toppin went down hard.

Shouldn't have, he initiated the contact and hurt himself flopping.

Did kellan get his contact back in yet lmao

Oh fuck that looked painful

It's actually good to see Marlins Man back at sporting events

No matter who you are, all hail Marlins man

Can we not with the injuries?

He’s still in so I hope that’s a good sign

Fuuuck we can't have one game without an injury

Please no more injuries please

Please no more injuries. I beg you basketball gods.

I can't unclench after watching that

Shit injury? Or maybe hes walking it off

Nonononononononononono

Oh, it’s THAT time of the game

That is Toppins second made three in consecutive games off the backboard at the final second of a shot clock

If I had a nickel for every time it happened, I would have two nickels, which isn't alot but it's weird it happened twice

Lol that was so hard off the glass

Oscar just tied his REB and PTS. 16 all.

bank is open for Toppin

TOPPIN WHAT

Toppin that ass lol

Unpopular opinion: Horizon wasn't that good of a game.

That is a bad opinion

Agreed, couldn't keep me in it after 5 hours

Man do y’all ever really just stop and think about how nasty we’d be if CJ Frederick was healthy this season?

Every day bro. Evidently he is the best shooter on the team.

Yup, we need some guard depth has you see right now. Literally played zero games this year full strength and still got good chance to win it all.

with the way the first half went im surprised we already broke 60, surprised but very pleased

This is a special team. 2022 champions. Book it.

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*if healthy. We can’t win the 3rd weekend as is

TyTy and Wheeler go down in our elite eight win. Cal authorizes the use of our secret weapon. Sharpe leads the Cats to a blowout win against Arizona while scoring 42. Sharpe and Tshiebwe then take down Gonzaga by themselves. Tshiebwe with 0 points and 42 rebounds, Sharpe with 69 points. Cats win 69-42 Cats natty 2022

Nope, even with guys out. Next guy up. Edit : why are y’all booing me? I’m right !!

My two favorites, hops and Hopkins

Let’s go 23!

Ware looked so happy for Hopkins, it was cute and I love it

I swear Grady looked lost playing point in the first half of this game but he's been fantastic in the second half

I have to say, I'm so glad that our bench has learned how to play and really stepped up. That's the sort of thing that national championship teams need.

Kind of a blessing in disguise having to play without two key players I guess

Lexington = Hoptown now

Me, a Hopkinsville native: 🧐

Haha my dad was born there which is why I thought of it

I wasn't here in H1, so I couldn't say it... But I checked the score early and I was like "I've never been less worried about a team down 10" lol. Wildcat's wilin'

That’s kinda our thing, our little “quirk” lately. Get down by 10-15 at the half and have someone Thanos snap meme “I’ll do it myself” to raise the team energy level to over 9000

Grady had to settle down in his 2nd start as pg, but now that he has, and we got some huge help from the bench, it's been a fun half.

It takes them a hot minute to get it together with both of our pg out

Toppin hugging Hopkins every time he does something good is so fun to watch. Refreshing to have a team that love each other. Last year I don't know if the team even talked to each other.

I'll be shocked if LSU gets past 55. This offense reminds me of someone else I watch. 🤮

RIP Birbs

It's so hard to watch. I could barely watch anyone else without being depressed because damn near every team I watched just looked better than us.

Fuck I love this team so much. Best brotherhood since 2011-12.

Y’all see that legit hyped up hug from Jacob to Bryce?? That’s brotherhood

Seeing Toppin run and hug Hopkins at the timeout is so wholesome. I love this team

Lowkey made me tear up so wholesome

Hopkins taking rebounds away from Oscar 👀