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Cal hasn't made poor adjustments. He hasn't made any in game adjustments that qualify as tactical manipulation, You know John Wooden won ten titles. Coach K won five titles. Roy Williams won three titles. Bob Knight won three titles. The list goes on. Cal's had more talent than any of those coaches. No one who knows anything about basketball thinks Cal is close to someone like Pitino as an actual coach.

I'd rather have more than one, especially if I've had better players than everyone else for almost twenty years. This is not news. Everyone in basketball has talked about this for years: Cal's a recruiter, not a high-level tactician or actual game coach. He "sells" dreams, and in general delivers on it at an individual level insofar as he does get many guys to the NBA. Differently stated, he "sells" big time more than he wins big time. That's why he's a shyster.

Cal has won one title even though he's had more NBA talent than any coach in history. He's not a good in game coach that knows how to get his players in the best position to win. If you love bragging about guys being drafted, he's your man. If you want to maximize talent and win titles while watching skilled players execute at a high level, you better go with someone like Hurley.

I love playmaking point guards. I'm not sold on the "combo guard" craze. Can it work? Yes, it can work if you have shooting, athletic size and offensive rebounding to make up for the lack PG creation (2025 Florida being a good example). As for Cal, he's repeatedly stated he's more concerned with name on the back of the jersey than the front. Differently stated, he'd rather have big names go high in the draft than win titles. That's indisputable.

Kentucky fans think they are right behind Florida with Texas, Bama, etc. When it's pointed out that they have a combo guard who can't shoot playing PG, and therefore they have the same problem as last season, they simply put their collective head in the sand. They'll go ballistic on Mark Pope quick when they realize their roster doesn't fit well enough to win against good teams. Arkansas actually has the same problem but worse. They don't have a true center. I think they have eight freshmen, no true PG, no shooting to speak of ... Cal is stuck in 2012. He's still more worried about draft picks than winning. He's the biggest shyster in the history of CBB. As I've said before, he needs to be on a used car lot swindling people out of their money.

This season forward there will be no real national champion, just as there wasn't during the poll era. You have the pansies who will insist on letting all the "little guys" in the playoff this year, and with playoff expansion next year it will be a pure crapshoot of mediocrity. Time to move on.

It's here. NBA regular season starts Tuesday. Already shifted my focus to basketball to avoid the toxicity of football fan goofdom.

That's what every SEC fanbase is thinking. If fans don't adjust, they'll drive themselves crazy. Wait, they already are crazy. Glad I live in a rural area.

Watching fan reaction to this volatility is more entertaining than the games now. You literally see the decline of society before your eyes.

Golden is obviously an outstanding coach. It's roster construction that's a problem. Unless Golden can hit threes and defend athletic wings, there's another postseason meltdown coming that these media guys simply refuse to acknowledge. This isn't likely to be a big problem except for a few regular season games and the tournament.

I don't get this Florida is great talk. No team goes far in the tournament without high level guard play. Not only are the Florida guards not high level, but they are also objectively mediocre to bad. Haugh is not some great player. He's a wing that can't shoot consistently and can't defend his position. They can rebound and play good paint defense. They can pressure bad guards into turnovers. That doesn't win titles.

ESPN needs to do a documentary series on Oates and the Bama basketball embrace of criminality to go along with the Saban hagiographical stuff.

I thought Holloway was already back. Has he been suspended for a game or two for trying to distribute two tons of weed?

Another TD for the Broncos. Why does McDonald think he can call plays? Head coaches can't call plays. It's too much. By the way, Jahdae is playing well in coverage against JSN.

Seattle's McDonald needs to stop calling the defense for the Seahawks. They've lost two and the Broncos just scored.