Like a dirty snowball getting bigger, uglier and nastier, gathering momentum going downhill, demolishing anything in its path, including any hopes of an end to the funk that has enveloped University of Louisville basketball of late.
Nothing working, wheels wobbling, going south.
Started out promising enough with Peyton Siva going the length of the court for a dunk to give his team a 7-4 lead. But after he descends, Siva is wincing, having landed badly on that high ankle sprain, shaking it off, pretending it never happened.
Siva would miss his next four shots, two of them on what should have been easy layups, make only one assist, and foul out of the game with 11 minutes left in the game, an ugly finish in a badly directed performance.
Then there is Kyle Kuric tipping a missed free throw into the opponent’s basket, Gorgui Dieng disappearing, Rakeem Buckles doing whatever, Russ Smith being punished, lacking only a corner in which to stand.
The event resembled an opening day of fall practice on Belknap Campus, the bad habits returning from the off-season. This was the team, remember, that last summer enjoyed 10 more days of practice, a trip to The Bahamas. A boon it was supposed to be, the additional practice sessions, the personal instruction time, and the motivational sessions with the ball coach.
Extra time to get things right but not working, things keep getting worse. Team regressing as the season progresses.
Rick Pitino angry, frustrated and embarrassed at the scene of some of his greatest triumphs. Returning home to celebrate his tenure at Providence only to be administered a 90-59 thrashing, one of the worst losses in his coaching career, possibly one of the lowest points.
Whether this team hit rock bottom against Providence remains to be seen. There won’t a worse loss this season, however. This was about as bad as it gets.
I loved watching this game. Louisville should not have even been ranked better than 20 at season start. My prediction was they would be out of the top 25 before the end of Jan. Pitino stinks and his team could’nt even beat our local high school team. I would rather watch louisville lose than UK win! GO CATS!!
Kinda confused about those priorities are you? Sad when you can’t enjoy your own team.
You wouldn’t have expected an intelligent thought from that “gentleman” would you?
Not really.
Remember last year. Quote Pitino: No one expected us to get this far, as the 1st round of March Madness and bam … Cards lost. Let’s just face the facts. Cards suck. They play teams that play like high school kids … Need some more respectable teams to play
Seems like We’ve heard this before. Rumblings of getting rid of the coach. This is the same garbage that was being tossed around just before Denny was ran off.
Yea now its back to the coach and the injuries next its the strong conference we’re in or the rotten officials.
And the Circus continues. . . .
When did CRP say he was going to retire?
Siva – in 19 minutes: three missed lay-ups, 1-7 shooting, 1 assist, 1 turnover, 1 steal and 2 points. In other words, he sucks.
And I wouldn’t say that there won’t be a worse loss this season – the Cards still have Syracuse twice and the rest of the Big East. It remains to be seen.
Nah, this was the worst. The rest is inevitable … maybe.
We saw the begining of the end of Rick Pitino Era tonight. Its time for Rick to retire, if this continues.
All we can do now is pray. Words can’t describe what we saw tonight. I’m at a loss for words