It's not over

[Bluegrass79]

We will see you again Arkansas. You got our attention now. The next time you won't be so damn lucky with injuries. You'll never shoot the ball like that again the rest of the ****ing year and you know it.

But it's all right. Take a bath in that Victory cuz it'll be the last one you take for a while you stinking ass Hogs.

Time is ticking
We'll be waiting.


Glad you won. Maybe it'll work this fan base up a little bit. The one that I knew in the 1990s loved some hog meat.
Reminds me of the good old days boys!

 

[blackcat714]

Out played and out coached time to move on try our luck with Ole Miss.

 

[Bluegrass79]

Out played and out coached time to move on try our luck with Ole Miss.

Injured. I'm definitely moving on but I'm waiting on them Hogs son

 

[Bluesnky]

We have some really stupid fans who are baffled by the loss on Saturday. What was baffling was the win on Tuesday. That gave people a false sense of what our team is like with no point guard.

 

[Bluegrass79]

We have some really stupid fans who are baffled by the loss on Saturday. What was baffling was the win on Tuesday. That gave people a false sense of what our team is like with no point guard.

Hopefully Pope realizes that he needs to be in a zone especially early in the shot clock until he gets point guard back or somebody magically knows how to play defense on a point guard.

Now if he don't know coach pope the kind of guy you can tell him. And somebody needs to get in his ear and tell him what he needs to do.

I'm tired of these coaches not knowing when to play a damn zone. We lose games because people don't realize how to actually coach they're getting paid all this damn money but they don't know what to do.
Am I right?

If they can't figure out how to stop certain teams with the zone then fire them and hire me or somebody off this board because we know what the hell to do.
/Rant

 

[wardlow]

Hard to win without your starting Pg and backup Pg.

 

[Bluegrass79]

Hard to win without your starting Pg and backup Pg.

That's why I said for them to go ahead and take them a nice victory bath because it's the last damn time they going to get to take that bath on Kentucky.

 

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We have some really stupid fans who are baffled by the loss on Saturday. What was baffling was the win on Tuesday. That gave people a false sense of what our team is like with no point guard.

UK is damaged goods right now. They do not have a PG that can play. You won't consistently win without one.

 

[TFCats11]

Bottom line, Calipari instructed his players to play as if their lives were on the line, and Pope didn’t, or the players didn’t want to.

So far, Pope has shown a lack of having a “killer instinct”, that ALL successful sports coaches have had in common, and if he doesn’t change that, and soon, he’s not going anywhere, especially in the new NIL/ portal era!

 

[Bluesnky]

Bottom line, Calipari instructed his players to play as if their lives were on the line, and Pope didn’t, or the players didn’t want to.

So far, Pope has shown a lack of having a “killer instinct”, that ALL successful sports coaches have had in common, and if he doesn’t change that, and soon, he’s not going anywhere, especially in the new NIL/ portal era!

No, this is not the bottom line. It’s the most shallow analysis possible.

 

[chroix]

Bottom line, Calipari instructed his players to play as if their lives were on the line, and Pope didn’t, or the players didn’t want to.

So far, Pope has shown a lack of having a “killer instinct”, that ALL successful sports coaches have had in common, and if he doesn’t change that, and soon, he’s not going anywhere, especially in the new NIL/ portal era!

Did he lack a killer instinct against Duke? Zags? UT? Did the coaches he beat show less “killer instinct”?

Your statement is ridiculous.

 

[YardCat]

First year and with a carload of hitchhiker players he picked up on the way to Lexington. I think we will be alright. I would play Arkansas the same way again and make them prove that they can make shots.

 

[CatFanInIlliniLand]

First year and with a carload of hitchhiker players he picked up on the way to Lexington. I think we will be alright. I would play Arkansas the same way again and make them prove that they can make shots.

Bingo.

If you think letting Arkansas shoot 3’s isn’t every coaches game plan, then you don’t know basketball. DJ was shooting something like 24%? Nelly isn’t a sniper.

Now, when they get hot….. you have to make adjustments. That was my main gripe with Pope, especially for a coach who does make adjustments. I didn’t see them Saturday.

 

[TheDude73]

Will we? It's one thing for the fans to be burned up and on fire, but I don't see "on fire" from Pope's style, nor anyone on the team except Kerr and Oweh. There's been a little more fire from Amari, but I am convinced a lot of our issues stem from Pope's more mellow demeanor. Not wanting him to berate the players, but this positive Woodstock-like kill 'em with kindness approach isn't going to instill the "fire" we as fans like to think we have.

 

[UKwootwoot]

Out played and out coached time to move on try our luck with Ole Miss.

This. Significantly more concerned about playing @OM in a very quick turnaround compared to Ark in the future

 

[TheDude73]

Bottom line, Calipari instructed his players to play as if their lives were on the line, and Pope didn’t, or the players didn’t want to.

So far, Pope has shown a lack of having a “killer instinct”, that ALL successful sports coaches have had in common, and if he doesn’t change that, and soon, he’s not going anywhere, especially in the new NIL/ portal era!

And definitely not in the SEC. These coaches are all killers in some form or fashion.

 

[TheDude73]

Bingo.

If you think letting Arkansas shoot 3’s isn’t every coaches game plan, then you don’t know basketball. DJ was shooting something like 24%? Nelly isn’t a sniper.

Now, when they get hot….. you have to make adjustments. That was my main gripe with Pope, especially for a coach who does make adjustments. I didn’t see them Saturday.

Pope plays the statistics. My guess is he likely figured they'd not keep hitting threes.

HOWEVER, they really didn't take many more in the 2nd half. They got 9 in the first half and 3 in the second (maybe 4), but most of their 2nd half was driving. That's when Pope should have immediately gone to zone.

If he thought the numbers would even out on three % from Arkansas, he should have tested that theory and gone to zone. Let them launch threes and try to bust the zone and drive.

One other thing - overall the refs were "decent", but too much they fell for Thiero's fish-flailing on every shot/drive. Only one of the fouls called against us on his shots was an actual foul - the rest were flopping/flailing/faking.