Yea, run your mouth after getting run over by a 1st year coach who wins his 1st tournament game 2 days earlier.
What a loser.
Brad Underwood: UK kept letting us back in. It's what they do.
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What a loser.
Did he say that from his couch, ‘cause that’s where is ass is planted right now!
You knew the Pope haters would crawl out from underneath the rocks and today with their little Jabs like they have done all season against him.
And the refs were calling fouls everytime Illini bullied their way to the basket...and UK got not foul calls doing the same (I think Illini had 3 fouls against with 5 minutes left in game).
UK controlled that game in 2nd half as you mentioned. Our offensive sets from start of 2nd half to 10 minute mark were exceptional display IMO. Pope deserves major props for the offensive acumen of this team.
WTH. Are you just frustrated or what? There wasn’t anything in his post worth getting your panties in a wad over. Some of you guys need to chill a little.
Well, you quoted RalphDaltonFan and then appeared to call him a loser. Quote the guy you are calling a loser, not the guy you agree with.
Yeah in todays game with the 3 pointer EVERY team lets the other guys back in it several times during a game. Teams can just score in bunches anymore with the 3 and once a team relaxes some 7-0 runs are pretty common.
meh. First, we do have kind of a history of giving up leads (Oklahoma anyone?). Second, I listened to most of that press conference, and while Underwood did say that, he was all in all very complimentary of Kentucky.
I felt like the broadcast desperately wanted Illinois back in it. We'd be up 15 and they'd score 4 straight and the announcers would start hyping it up like it was a huge deal. Felt fairly comfortable for a tournament game honestly. I usually assume something will happen and we'll lose in heartbreaking fashion. We were clearly better than that team
Illinois started the half down 5 and they were as close as 6 with 1:36 left in the game.
Our guys had to love actually being able to play a game where they weren't being violently attacked every time they drove to the basket.
It was great having a disruptive point guard back. Butler might have made them look like bad plays.
Considering that we had a double digit lead pretty much the entire 2nd half. After halftime were they ever even in the game
Hadn’t created such a list in my mind yet but Hurley would absolutely be near the top of my list of people not to drink with. He’d probably order a cosmopolitan too.
True. I would bet Mark Pope never does though. I’m curious if any footage exists of him talking shit as a player. I remember him getting pumped up and excited after big plays for sure.
I’d like to thank Mr underwood for having a good enough year to make us an underdog.
That, along with Baka being a 5 point favorite and ole miss being a huge dog made a GREAT 3 leg parlay that wasn’t even a sweat.
That, along with Baka being a 5 point favorite and ole miss being a huge dog made a GREAT 3 leg parlay that wasn’t even a sweat.
I agree- think they got to 6 once or twice but we would push it to 8-12 just as fast
Seems they called a foul on us prob 5-6 straight possessions, so it seemed but didn't call anything on Illinois for most of the 2nd half
They were in it when we went into the half, they had cut our lead to 5, but it took about a minute for us to come out of the gate firing on all cylinders in the second half and erase that doubt.
The truth is hard to hear at times. I posted throughout the game that this team has no situational awareness. They shoot themselves into big leads and with the same running and gunning approach, shoot themselves out of leads.
Pope is going to do the same all game for the most part. We don’t want the same issue Cal’s team’s had play not to lose rather than to win.
yeah, but it's not everyone. Just certain kids who seem to lose track of time and score and situation. I don't want to name names. But I will say by the end I was yelling "Butler and Brea, and everyone else go to the other end of the court!" heh
It isn't about playing not to lose. It is about valuing the ball and taking good shots. I am not suggesting playing some kind of delay game. If you are down 20 points, you need lots of shots to come back. When you are launching and missing lots of quick shots, you are providing the opposing team the number of shots they need to possibly make a comeback.
