That we don't have a game this weekend.
I'm Just So Damnn Mad.
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Just rewatch the Duke game.
Its worth 2 or 3 watches.
As Ali once said “”I (We) shook up the World!!”
Its worth 2 or 3 watches.
As Ali once said “”I (We) shook up the World!!”
Heck I am glad they have a week to work on stuff. There was a lot of bad in the first half and mostly was our own fault. Duke took away what we wanted to do, UK had worked with the guys on what to do and they did not for the most part follow through. Pope has to be excited to pick up the W, have a week to work on stuff while it is fresh in their memory. The teaching this week in not just for Lipscomb but for the rest of the season. SEC teams will try junk defenses, thug ball, all kinds of tactics to try to pull out a W. This is the perfect time to reflect, look in the mirror and understand a possession or two a game is not bad to stall, but you have to figure things out quickly, implement plan B, follow it hard, play harder than the other guys and get the game back under control early.
Gives them a week to practice how to beat a defense that extends past the three point line.
Kentucky still has things to work on.
Kentucky still has things to work on.
Hopefully no more Amari Williams at the top of the key leading the offense.
Williams will be at the top of the key leading the offense all year. Go look at Pope Teams. That is how it works.
So the 3-6 Cats taking on 1-9 Murray State on the football field doesn’t get your juices flowing?
Stoops is hoping if he beats murray and Charlie browns UL again all will be forgotten.
Barnhardt looks like he hit a home run with Pope. But those long term contracts he did for Stoops and Cal, at least Cal did a good thing and switched schools, looks like Stoops is gonna drink and play golf and sub perform here for years.
He just needs to develop his reads and make the efficient play! It also requires the entire team making the same play/reads. It'll come with practice. Also if he could develop his low post going to his right hand, it will be a game changer!
Instead of top of the key, Williams is better when he can get the ball in the lane, pivot, and find an open shooter among the 4 guys screening and cutting to get open. Zac Edey was great at this.
Lmao I know it's not the correct thing to say but would absolutely love if the Racers beat UK just to put the final nail in Stoops coffin.
But yes should be an easy W for our bottom of the barrel football club.
Oh stop it's okay to be realistic once in a while. UK is doomed under Stoops.
The easiest path for him being gone is giving Mitch and the boosters no option but to let him go.
If your okay with 5-6 wins moving forward than maybe you should turn your fan card in
Why?
That's one of the many things that makes Pope's offense so hard to guard. Amari is a very good passer and him being up top drags his defender away from the basket. We got some back-cut baskets by doing that.
When Pope is due for a contract extension, someone needs to take the pen and keyboard away from MB.
College basketball is odd.......like it starts but then there's always this period right after the start usually in like Dec where we only have like one game a week.
It's brutal lol.
It's brutal lol.
Basketball only fans suck. I’ll never understand those who revel in trashing the football program.
Human nature for folks is to love winners and hate losers. The only winner we have REALLY EVER had is our basketball program. It is easy to say, "I don't care about the losing football team, but love me some winning basketball." Most of our basketball only fans would love to have a winning football program. Problem is, our University leaders don't seem to care as much about football either. As good as our basketball history is, it still does not pay the athletic department bills. Football does and always will. If we ever had a basketball coach with a losing rcord over any three year timeframe, they would be fired. Why not the same rules for football, especially how important football is for the entire sports budget. Am I wrong in this line of thinking?
Does not matter. The offense is what it is. It is a 5 out offense. Cutting and such to create open shots or layups.
Maybe Duke's defense was just that good but our offense seemed stagnant with a big guy running our offense.
When Amari is top of the key, there is less room for 3 point shooters and bad passing angles. He needs to step in 6 feet.
It gives him 360 degrees of options instead of 180 degrees (only what's in front of him).
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I think we have to be fair here and give Pope some time to develop the action.
Heck, this team is WAY ahead of where everyone expected them to be.
Totally fair. I’m as impressed with Pope as anyone so far. Guy is batting a .1000.
Oh man, I've about thrown my arm out from all the fist pumps I've been doing since the win over duke.
I'm stoked because I feel like UK is back and we no longer have to put up with a narcissistig mental case.
We have us a coach that is extremely intelligent, knows the BBN and has UK basketball way ahead of schedule.
I love this team and I love this coach.
You need to watch BYU film from last year. The center is often the initiator of the offense. UK is not yet running the offense as efficiently as BYU but you should see much improvement each game.
Admittedly, I only watched about ten minutes of BYU’s game in the NCAAT when Pope was hired so I was not aware of that. But it didn’t seem like we played the offense through Williams the first two games and it seemed to flow better. But it’s early and Pope is batting .1000 so I will defer to him lol.
I think we should give a lot of credit to duke's defense. That team is massive and ultra athletic. They defended beyond the 3 point line and took our potent 3 point shooting game away.
Sheyer had a great gameplan and he has the horses to pull it off, but Pope still found a way to win the game through unorthodox methods. Seemed like he did something different on each offensive possession.
I won't argue there are some things to improve from that game, but I think you may not be giving Duke enough credit. I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time, but I think Duke is legit, and their defense is very good. They will take things away from every team they play this season, and their talent is also better than ours.
But I do agree, and I'm certain Pope agrees as well and will use the time wisely, we should watch that video and study what we did poorly and learn from our mistakes.
But I must add- winning that game, against a team I think is legitimately a top 5 team, on our 3rd game as a unit, is very impressive and I couldn't be happier about where this team is right now.
I agree, Dook is really good, and by end of year could be heading towards great team this year. Thing is in the first half we decided to take it. I think Pope tried to get them to understand but decided to keep it as close as possible to get with them at half. That is what Pope will work on. Dook will do the same but with the 2nd half. Jon will show them the 2nd half for a while to get his points drilled into their heads.
Dook reminds me a little (not tons but enough) of 2012 team. AD was heads above everyone on dooks team MKG was a great freshman forward/guard. They have a lot of those pieces.
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