The House of Blue

Stallings needs to worry as
Much about his team as he does about what goes on in Lexington. He is obsessed with uk

Cal: Know your role, jabroni.

Your move, Dauterive.

There is deep dislike on Stallings' part in regard to Calipari. It really hasn't turned into a story like the Pitino/Cal thing, but it's probably even more deep-seeded. Cal and Stallings are different type of people. The thing with Pitino and Cal is they're too alike.

Stallings would never admit it, but he's spoken about it openly to some in close circles.

A lot of it has to do with Cal signing Poythress after Stallings had recruited him since the 8th grade. Stallings thought he had him locked up

I would just tell Stallings the reason is simple in the eyes of the world......... WE ARE KENTUCKY....

Yep. This one goes back 4-5 years (or more). Something happened along the line between them. Not sure if Memphis got somebody Stallings wanted or what. Or maybe Stallings just sees himself as a beacon of all that is pure and good.

When Stallings wins as many SEC championships as Kentucky then his opinion matters until then he just needs to shut up.

I think Stallings is just "stalling" dealing with the reality that we're gonna kick the crap out of his team. Unfortunately for him, things like this will just give Cal more bulliten board material to pump the guys up to smash Vandy. Unless something crazy happens, I belive we are fixing to be clicking on multiple cylinders by the middle of Feb when we actually play them. Honestly, UK might win by 15 points.

Perhaps considering points allowed, you may have a point because over the last 5 games, Vanderbilt has allowed fewer points than the Cats. However, when you consider that in their last 5 games, Vanderbilt has played at an average pace of only 60.6 possessions per game, the data produces a different conclusion about the relative effectiveness of these two defenses.

Vanderbilt has allowed 55.8 ppg over that 5 game stretch. That is a defensive efficiency of 0.921 points per possession.

Kentucky, in contrast, has played their last 5 games at an average pace of 66 possessions per game, and while Kentucky has allowed more points per game, 58,6 ppg, when the pace is factored in, Kentucky's defense has been more efficient than Vandy's at 0.888 points per possession.

I will take UK's defensive efficiency any season, any day, any game, against any set of opponents. Vanderbilt's "great" defense is illusory given their snail's pace of play.

I read criticisms all the time that numbers don't tell the story, blah, blah, blah.... In engineering school, where analysis using numbers and values is paramount, the old adage applied when I was a student, and as a practitioner, garbage in ... garbage out. If you look at the wrong input numbers, or you analyze the right input numbers with the wrong model, you probably will not get to the right conclusion. This is a good example of that principle.

Tommy, Vandy's complete body of work puts them down the list for sure, but the point I was responding to was that Vandy has revived itself over the last few games, and I agree that Vandy is playing their best basketball of the season right now. However, to use the points per game allowed as a measure to support an assertion that they are playing the best defense in the conference right now simply does not withstand scrutiny. Scoring and defense against scoring is the most important measurement in this game, but efficiencies take those scoring rates and normalize them for the variable tempo of play. In this case, allowing 55 ppg is not better than allowing 57 ppg.

Well....who's not obsessed with the BBN? Stallings may as well get on board.....