Does Pope bring him back to his Old Kentucky Home?

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Just pointing that out. Not making too much of it. Without looking it up, other SEC teams probably did the same by beating Florida and Auburn, though no one else beat Duke and Florida, and no one else who beat Duke beat any of the other 3.

I do think it says that when completely healthy, and even sometimes when not (like the Florida game) Kentucky wasn't that far off where you need to be to reach the Final Four. If Robinson isn't hurt, if Butler isn't hurt, if Carr isn't hurt I think Kentucky likely makes it one more round, to the Elite Eight.

I agree with the consensus that Kentucky needs to be more athletic, taller and quicker on defense to be a Final Four team. I feel pretty good Pope will be able to close that gap in the next couple weeks. I'm not going to wring my hands over every "portal miss." Indiana, Kansas and others had much higher rated "portal gets" than Kentucky overall in 2024...

Got to spend money to make money 💰 8 to 10 million

Awful no call in Duke’s favor. Hook and hold no call!!

Why does it seem their sets get wide open shooters play after play after play . And we struggle to get our best shooters shots ? Brea has guys inside his jersey and Proctor , K nipple , James and others get wide ope J's time after time Is Dukes sets that good ? Do they screen better , pass better ? Do they drive so well defense's collapse and their drive/dish ? If Brea got Proctors looks he might shoot 75 % from the floor . NO I'm not jealous , Duke will come back to earth , but their offense is dang good . and. I hope some SEC team smashes them . Maybe its because every is watching Flagg ?

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I’ve never seen an answer to this. Cal it seemed his was of course OAD top 10 freshmen and let them play. But pucker up in winning time. A guy like nate oats is 3 pointers. Let your opponent get twos and score threes. No defensive philosophy. Then you have sampson who has a defense first philosophy but has had to adapt to play more efficient offense. Just curious about pope? I know he likes the offensive game and the 3 but unless he’s stated it we have to read between the lines. Based on what I’ve seen it’s, get the best players, put a priority on recruits who are Kentucky bred. Curious to what others think or if pope has ever stated his coaching philosophy.

Tough as nails big who competes his butt off and makes three point shots; and he is from Utah so Pope is well aware.

Sorry folks I must have missed this, did he get hurt?

Thanks for your info!

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Don't know much about him. He a fit? Do we reach out?

Could see interest here. Super skilled.

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They haven’t had a Zoom with Kentucky yet, but they expect one here soon. Talked to someone in his inner circle just now that said “Mark Pope is coming in hot.” There’s been over 40 schools reach out and they’re going to narrow it down a lot here soon.

They think Silas is at the top of UK’s PG board out of the current portal guys.

Lamont Paris said an SEC team that made the tournament offered him $2.5 million to play for them next season. I texted my son and told him, he immediately responded, "Arkansas".

Something that I had really never thought of until a friend pointed out to me what he thought was going on . Players in the portal are contacted by the schools that have interest either directly or thru agents . What I never imagined is some schools or coaches can feign interest in order to drive up the price for another school and to make sure they spend a good portion of the budget ? My question is this. Do you think this really goes on and is there a past example of such a case ? I could see certain coaches playing these games ?

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The team is back at practice, yes?

Guess I thought there'd be some news/buzz/rumors coming out of the first practices since the break. Oh well.

@Travis Graf - just a few short days ago it looked like Dent and Wilkerson were the two dudes Pope was zeroing in on. We’ve since heard that UK immediately reached out Wilkerson and set up a zoom. What are you hearing with this situation? Still feels Iike UK has a massive need for a perimeter star (or 2) to pair with Oweh.

Do you think the zoom call is to gauge interest from the player and to get a feel for fit with culture? Seems like they are zooming with a lot of guys. Feels like it may just be a first step for all likely recruits and not a, "we are high on this person" indicator.