It was a bad game. Every team has them. Get over it for f's sake.
Good lord we're an entitled bunch.
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It’s not simply a bad game. It’s a roster full of dudes that won’t even play in the G-League. And our coach was good enough to overcome his roster limitations against Gonzaga and Duke. This team will lose a lot of games in SEC play. Not because they have bad games - but because they’re outmatched.
Yeah, I’m more upset about the effort than the actual loss to be honest. I got bigger things to worry about over the next 4 days like where to hide a bike from a little snooping girl. 😂
It’s not just a bad game. If you’ve been watching the issues are glaring and have been covered up by a lot of luck. This team will have MAJOR issues in SEC play
This place is the sorriest Azz place on the internet.
Kentucky wins the board cries.
Kentucky losses the board says last place in the SEC.
Problem is you can't tell who is actually a fan and who is a troll.
Well some trolls are easy to spot. They know they are free to post here without fear of being banned.
I've never posted a single message on a non UK board. But I hear most UK fans that do are immediately banned.
It's never a meh situation when you get out worked by an inferior team and lose by 20.
They got beat by 20 by a team that may be NIT bound. Shooting has been trending down. The “bigs” are soft and there are some dudes in the SEC that are going to do their best to push them around. Lack of effort in a MSG game is mind blowing.
I’m not saying the sky is falling but there are some definite issues that better get fixed quickly. The issue is, do we have the pieces to fix it?
I hate Tosu more than … ?? Nothing on earth … I’m actually pulling for the SEC in the shit fest of o football game tonight … having said that — damn people , no one goes 36-2 anymore … and we are off to a super solid start ranked 4th in the polls - yeah tonight was a shit show . the played out the ass . We played like shit . But folks seem like we lost to EKU or Evansville or Saint Nick or Mary or something . Chill out . And that’s a lot coming from me .
Yes. It was a bad game and everyone has them. But the issues we saw today will be killing is over the next 18. We have some problems that will not be fixed. I’m all Blue man, love this team and coach. But it’s going to be tough.
It’s definitely not just a bad game. It’s been the same thing every game this month. That’s called a trend.
Ohio St had 2 games far worse than ours and came out and actually played desperate and hungry. If OSU can turn it around and go from not caring to oh damn we have to play 200% level, then we can too. Might take another couple losses to see that desperation and teach the team they cant coast though.
Don’t have the pieces. But have to do something different with the pieces we have. Williams can’t play more than 10mpg. Neither can Garrison. Have to start Carr at 5 and gang rebound.
We looked tired tonight to me. Down 6 and we bobbled a pass for an easy layup that cuts it to 4 with momentum. They grabbed it and scored.
10-2 is a great start. I was hoping for a 500 season when Pope was hired. Kinda like Pitino’s first team.
I’ve seen many teams get humbled early and learn from it. I’m not jumping off the wagon on one game. Refocus. Work on some zone defenses. Understand we’re gonna get bumped and learn to play through it. Get the system down. It’s not going one on one.
10-2 is a great start. I was hoping for a 500 season when Pope was hired. Kinda like Pitino’s first team.
I’ve seen many teams get humbled early and learn from it. I’m not jumping off the wagon on one game. Refocus. Work on some zone defenses. Understand we’re gonna get bumped and learn to play through it. Get the system down. It’s not going one on one.
But that's the thing.
It's not just one game. It's an ongoing trend that has happened against almost every decent team we've faced.
It's not just one game. It's an ongoing trend that has happened against almost every decent team we've faced.
Im gonna go out on a limb and say that Coach Pope, his staff and our team use this game as a catapult to shoot us into the second half of the season. We were exposed/embarassed and I don't think that sits well with this group. Sometimes you need a good mid-season ass kicking to re-focus and realize everything can't be magic wanded at halftime every game. This game will make us significantly better in the long run.
How we beat your Dukies, I’ll never know. 🤣🙌
So is UCONN losing 3 early games, but I wouldn’t bet on that by March
Lol, takes like these are asinine. Just as bad as someone telling everyone to shut the program down. We got beat by 20 to a team that has lost by 40 and 28. If that doesn't piss you off, it's safe to say that nothing UK basketball related ever will.
Last Saturday, we were a 1 seed according to the same bunch of Miserables.
People accuse those who are realists or hyper-negative of being trolls, but it’s the dudes that post junk like OP that I think are most likely trolls. When you’re ho-hum about losses like this, you either aren’t a real fan or you’re really dense.
Meh. This is a forum to discuss UK basketball. There's not a lot of positives to discuss after a 20 point whooping, so of course the board is going to be overwhelmingly negative. Wins help overlook the negatives. There's been signs of weaknesses in the Duke and Gonzaga games as well against some of the lesser opponents, but they get put to the wayside because the outcomes ended up in our favor.
I had higher expectations than .500 but otherwise I agree with this.
People wrote off this OSU team far too much. While they had some disappointing results in their bigger games, they have enough talent to win games. I think they were top 40 KP even going into the game. If you look at KP, after the top 7 there’s a cluster of about 20-30 teams that are very jumbled and similar. We’re in that group. Going into the game we were near the top of it and after that atrocity we’re closer to the bottom.
I’ll be glad when we get this top 5 ranking off our team. We so obviously aren’t that and that leads to these expectations.
That OSU team had 5 top 50-60 ranked former prospects and a SDSU transfer that averaged like 9PPG there(sounds like someone people say is our best player!). They have enough talent to compete especially when they’re focused after their last performance.
Lack of hustle is the problem. They all were scared of a little bumping. A little pushing and shoving gets the blood pumping.
I only saw 1 of the UCONN games. Did they lose the same way every time?
Losing games, in and of itself, isn’t the problem. Playing with little effort, playing no defense, having no rebounding, and not being able to shoot the ball from the outside are the troubling trends. Those are troubling signs heading into the SEC schedule.
The lack of rebounding effort is the problem, especially from Williams. As big and strong as he is, he should average 10 rebounds a game. The lack of rim protection is a problem. Again Williams should average 2 or 3 blocks a game, yet he doesn't attempt to block shots. Major disappointment.
Dude go back to your board! We don't care what you think
That is so cute. You betcha, you got bigger things to worry about. Hope she likes her bike! Hope your Christmas is great.
This kind of thing will happen to every team once in a while I mean honestly how many people expected to beat Gonzaga and Duke if this team can make the NCAA tournament and win a couple of games it is way more than anyone should’ve expected, considering that Cal raped the program. Cal was losing to St Peters and Oakland. Don’t judge Pope for this year. He had basically 3 week to build a roster. Blame Cal for not resigning and moving on rather than taking every player including recruits with him. He was a classless jerk and I couldn’t be happier he is gone.
I don’t like losing and tonight was a bad loss. Hopefully the men learned a few things
I don’t like losing and tonight was a bad loss. Hopefully the men learned a few things
It's not just one game. Team has been nose diving for a while and has not shown they can change course.
Opponents are scouting us and taking our weapons away.
Ohio state sucks, but they punked us and if they can punk us, just watch what happens in SEC play, especially on the road.
Congrats on remaining positive, but we may be a bit of a fraud and surely you're not good with us getting our asses kicked the next 3 months are you?
Play like this in Rupp against Florida, and we'll get thumped. You're not okay with that, right?
Ohio St lost to Auburn by 40 a week ago.
This isn’t just one game. We are a miracle against Gonzaga away from everyone agreeing this team has major problems. A miracle doesn’t erase the problems, it covers them up until there are no more miracles and we get exposed.
This isn’t just one game. We are a miracle against Gonzaga away from everyone agreeing this team has major problems. A miracle doesn’t erase the problems, it covers them up until there are no more miracles and we get exposed.
You cry more that people on soap operas. Whine and cry in game threads like someone in junior high. My goodness.
I'm okay with losing, but losing by 20 to a bad team, because our guys appeared to just be going through the motions, is a bit more difficult to take.
I know if I was one of these players, there's no way I would let this happen again, but we have a couple guys that don't appear to have that mentality.
And man, wth has happened to our great 3 point shooting? We are getting worse by the game.
I know if I was one of these players, there's no way I would let this happen again, but we have a couple guys that don't appear to have that mentality.
And man, wth has happened to our great 3 point shooting? We are getting worse by the game.
Merry Christmas to you as well. I’m sure I’ll make a post that day, but I really do hope you and everyone has a great Christmas.
Oh, I’m over it, and I’m reserved to the fact that 20 point blowouts are not out of the question!
I would just prefer not to have to see another this season, or any other, for that matter.
I would just prefer not to have to see another this season, or any other, for that matter.
that's what the team played like, an entitled bunch that read their press clippings. Coach is not a junk yard dog, players are not junk yard dogs. no dogs showed up yesterday. except those in red jerseys.
I’m not ready to put a label on Pope. I believe he is extremely competitive. Here’s to hoping he does something to get their attention over Christmas break. Maybe his hell week happens with a little more aggression.
It’s not the loss but how you lose that most are upset with……….no fire, no energy, no one seemed upset other than Oweh, no hustle or swag out there. We gave them confidence early on and they never let up. Defense is an attitude, like we are not going to let them do what they want on offense but Ohio st played like that…..we didn’t so what do you expect on the road in the sec???? If this is the effort they give, expect another 1st rd loss in the ncaa.
Freaks, rivals and pot-stirrers get really active after losses. Grown adults that never matured past 4th grade, basically.
I'm still seeing the 20-10 track I envisioned at the outset. No reason to change that. Losing just 8 in SEC play might be optimistic.
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