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Carr

Man what a winner. Dude just makes winning plays and rarely does anything to hurt us. Plays physical but doesn't get in a lot of foul trouble. There's not anything he can't do. Really sucked watching him struggle with his back after seeing what he could do early on. Just a battler down there and this team really needs that with a void of bigs after Amari. We are a different team when the healthy version of Carr shows up. Now I'm just pissed I bet the spread and not the money line.

Basketball ***** Postgame Press Conference Notes - UK vs. Mizzou *****

KENTUCKY HC MARK POPE, F ANDREW CARR, G KOBY BREA OFFICIAL POSTGAME Q&A:

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KENTUCKY HC MARK POPE UK RADIO NETWORK Q&A:

* Really terrific team we beat today. Huge fan of Dennis Gates and his team. We knew we had our hands full. Couldn't be more proud of our guys. They just kept moving on to the next play.

* Defense has improved a lot. Our guys are smart and they care. They've made a commitment to do this for each other. We're not perfect, but we're trending the right way. Otega and Collin did a great job on Grill. It was a two-man play on him.

* Our staff had a tremendous scout on them. Team effort by those guys. Really blessed to be working with this group of coaches.

* Freshmen were brilliant tonight in this environment, against this type of team. Those guys might have executed better than anyone on the team. Played aggressive, gave us a huge lift. My three young guys are not lacking for confidence, boldness.

* This was the Andrew Carr we envisioned when we signed him. He's been unbelievable lately. Was really physical today. A lot of big rebounds today when we needed them. Their big guy is a BIG guy, and Andrew held his own.

* We had a tough time finding our rhythm early, but during the first two media timeouts we leaned into our defense while trying to figure things out offensively. I knew we were OK because we were guarding and had that safety net until we figured things out on offense. Huge progress for our team that we can survive with our defense now.

Titans Off-season and Draft

With the #1 pick in the NFL Draft, then Tennessee Titans should draft...?

I shake my head everytime I see a pundit suggest the Titans should take either Cam Ward or Shedeur Sanders. This is not a good QB class, neither are ready to step right in, and I don't expect either to have the best QB career out of this draft. My money would be on Jaxson Dart or Will Howard to have a better career over Ward or Sanders. Titans need to roll with Levis one more year and hope he turns a corner, draft best available, maybe get a QB in the 3rd/4th, and then see what happens if somebody like Arch Manning is within reach next year.

I personally think they should try to trade down and accumulate more picks. Abdul Carter seems to be a popular choice among draft analysts, but the Titans have to build around so many needs.

What are your thoughts, Titans fans?

  • Poll
The stretch. 5 left, how do we finish?

How do finish in last 5 SEC Regular. Season?

  • 5-0

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 4-1

    Votes: 10 5.4%
  • 3-2

    Votes: 66 35.5%
  • 2-3

    Votes: 94 50.5%
  • 1-4

    Votes: 13 7.0%
  • 0-5

    Votes: 0 0.0%

5 games left down the stretch. 4 of them are Quad 1 games. I feel like to hold our place and feel good we need to take care of business (Ok and LSU) and steal 1. Any of those other 3 would be great. So I'm hoping at least 3-2. What do you guys think?

@Bama
@Ok
AUB
LSU
@ Mizzou

It sucks 2 of the 3 tough ones are on the road and the one that isn't is #1.

Season is over

We will be lucky to make the tournament with the schedule we have coming up. We will be favored in 2 maybe 3 of our up coming 9 games, assuming we lose tonight we are likely looking at finishing 4-6 ish and a 19-12 finish. Likely a bubble team.

Some of you are still stuck on that team you saw when we were 100% healthy, that team is gone.

I Dont Know What Most Of You Expected From This Season

But maybe you should have not raised your expectations so high. I said early on that some of you expected to much and that this isn't a title contending team. Pope put this team together in 2 months. He had no returning players here. Our lineup is filled with mostly former mid major players, freshman that aren't ready for major minutes, and a guy that hasn't played basketball in 2 years.

I believe I heard them say we have only had 7 games where we were healthy. We still have more top 15 wins than most any team out there while dealing with everything we have had to. It's a little early to be talking about if Pope is the right coach for the job. Give him time to build a team up of higher recruits and not judge him by this makeshift team that has exceeded a lot of preseason expectations while dealing with debilitating injuries.

After year 2 or 3 if we are still struggling, then by all means start questioning him as coach. I just think it's way to early for some of you to be so negative. This was the worst possible year to come into this conference and try to be successful. Even with our stumbles, there's still a shot at getting a pretty high seed in the tournament and see what happens. Hopefully this season was a fluke with how ridiculous the SEC was.

All of the constant negativity with what we've had to deal with this year has kept me off of this board a lot the past couple months after spending 20+ years on it religiously. I use to enjoy coming here but even the excitement of finally getting a new coach hasn't changed the environment around here. I think a lot of people need to take a break from this board and I might go back to doing it as well. I might check back in at tournament time.
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