Kentucky now leads the nation in scoring at 95.3 points per game.

[Son_Of_Saul]

Utah State was the only team ahead of them, and they only scored 72 points tonight.

UK firmly in the lead now by 1.1 points per game.

#1. Kentucky - 95.3 ppg
#2. Utah State - 94.2 ppg
#3. Samford - 93.8 ppg

I'm expecting this lead to expand Friday as Georgia State is giving up 74 points per game to mostly garbage-level teams.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

I’d like to see us keep this- it means we’re playing wide open as God intended!

Go Big Blue

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

I’d like to see us keep this- it means we’re playing wide open as God intended!

Go Big Blue

What I love about Pope is that he's forcing tempo. Calipari, and even Tubby, often allowed their opponents to dictate the pace of the game.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

What I love about Pope is that he's forcing tempo. Calipari, and even Tubby, often allowed their opponents to dictate the pace of the game.

Cal forced tempo too!

GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

RUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!

MAKE A PLAY!!!!!!!

 

[HerrosHeroes]

But, but Cal left and so did all the players…
We were preseason #23.
Wa huh huh happened?

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

What’s crazy is our best potential player hasn’t even got going yet and Kentucky is still this efficient and good offensively

 

[Digger-Cat]

What’s crazy is our best potential player hasn’t even got going yet and Kentucky is still this efficient and good offensively

The way I look at it, we don't have a best player, we have a cohesive team.
Jaxson Robinson will have his good games, but he's not an Antonio Reeves like we hoped he would be.
He's a nice piece of the puzzle, but Oweh, Butler, Brea and Carr seem to be the ones we can truly count on each game.

 

[know1]

If we don't play another game, we'll stay on top.

 

[king of cali]

The way I look at it, we don't have a best player, we have a cohesive team.
Jaxson Robinson will have his good games, but he's not an Antonio Reeves like we hoped he would be.
He's a nice piece of the puzzle, but Oweh, Butler, Brea and Carr seem to be the ones we can truly count on each game.

That’s about it right there. Those 4 have stepped forward in the two competitive games that IK has played. Robinson was nowhere to be found in either.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

The way I look at it, we don't have a best player, we have a cohesive team.
Jaxson Robinson will have his good games, but he's not an Antonio Reeves like we hoped he would be.
He's a nice piece of the puzzle, but Oweh, Butler, Brea and Carr seem to be the ones we can truly count on each game.

Fair, but Robinson can certainly provide more than catch and shoot 3s.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Robinson needs to slash to the rim more and absorb contact and get to the line. Plus, he's been forcing the corner three.

On a positive note, I love how his defense has improved this season, but I hope he just lets the game come to him a bit more. He seems like he's in a hurry this season.

 

[jeffky]

I want the record 128 pts at rupp this year

 

[Digger-Cat]

Fair, but Robinson can certainly provide more than catch and shoot 3s.

He has shown the ability to slash, but only against Jackson state type teams. Against duke and WKU, he was very subdued.

He's a very good defender and if he can continue to scorch the nets from the outside, he has great value to this team. That shooting ability spreads the court and allows Oweh, Butler and Carr to create off the bounce.

I'm definitely not cutting him down, I love what he brings and it's early, hopefully he adjusts to SEC physicality and rises above it.

 

[WallMashKyBall]

All the other blue blood and good teams have played multiple good teams by now, we've only played Duke and cupcakes so that helps our average some. Lets see where we are after the next ten games. BUT love love love Kentucky leading the nation.

 

[CRZ4UK]

The way I look at it, we don't have a best player, we have a cohesive team.
Jaxson Robinson will have his good games, but he's not an Antonio Reeves like we hoped he would be.
He's a nice piece of the puzzle, but Oweh, Butler, Brea and Carr seem to be the ones we can truly count on each game.

You just made me visualize Reeves on this team….. damn it.

 

[CRZ4UK]

All the other blue blood and good teams have played multiple good teams by now, we've only played Duke and cupcakes so that helps our average some. Lets see where we are after the next ten games. BUT love love love Kentucky leading the nation.

Schedules are done years in advance. Cal wanted an easy early schedule for 5 new freshman every year.

 

[G-PIP]

Fair, but Robinson can certainly provide more than catch and shoot 3s.

Agree. I think Robinson's on the court nature is a little timid (probably a better descriptive word exists, but best I can think of now). But I also think that's ok with this team. I think it would actually hurt the team to have a guy dancing around, etc. trying to get his shot - you know, cross-over a couple of times, between the legs, stutter step up then back for a fade away 15-footer (Wow! What talent, right?).

 

[Digger-Cat]

You just made me visualize Reeves on this team….. damn it.

I've been doing that since the season started. I really wanted Jaxson to be Antonio, but he's just not going to fill those shoes.

Antonio would average 23-25ppg in this offense. His floater was incredibly accurate and he would get into the lane at will under Pope.

 

[Bluegrass79]

All the other blue blood and good teams have played multiple good teams by now, we've only played Duke and cupcakes so that helps our average some. Lets see where we are after the next ten games. BUT love love love Kentucky leading the nation

Our schedule is perfect against those teams schedules.
Why Bluegrass79?

We started ranked in the 18-23 range. You gotta rise to top 5 to get your number #1 seed strategy set. One top 5 win and a bunch of cupcakes gets you there because everybody around u is losing taking losses.

The name of the game is to stay around the top 10 all year. Get that #1 seed.

We setting pretty after November. Top 20 to Top 5. Most teams aint sitting pretty cuz they played tournaments. Screw that noise. To win what? a tournament that doesn't matter?

Stay away from non-conference tournaments early. It can go UCONN, UNC bad to start.

Let those teams make their road harder while we slide right past em!

 

[CRZ4UK]

I've been doing that since the season started. I really wanted Jaxson to be Antonio, but he's just not going to fill those shoes.

Antonio would average 23-25ppg in this offense. His floater was incredibly accurate and he would get into the lane at will under Pope.

Now I’m visualizing the floater…. Stop it!!!

 

[B.B.H.]

Our schedule is perfect against those teams schedules.
Why Bluegrass79?

We started ranked in the 18-23 range. You gotta rise to top 5 to get your number #1 seed strategy set. One top 5 win and a bunch of cupcakes gets you there because everybody around u is losing taking losses.

The name of the game is to stay around the top 10 all year. Get that #1 seed.

We setting pretty after November. Top 20 to Top 5. Most teams aint sitting pretty cuz they played tournaments. Screw that noise. To win what? a tournament that doesn't matter?

Stay away from non-conference tournaments early. It can go UCONN, UNC bad to start.

Let those teams make their road harder while we slide right past em!

I think you can upgrade some of those tune-up games from a Georgia State and Jackson State to an Ohio and a Notre Dame. That gives you competition that can beat you, but you still have the advantage. I can’t see you learning as much about your team when you have the size, skill and speed advantage at virtually every position by such a margin. I’m not in favor of going a Michigan State level schedule where year in and year out they get multiple out of conference losses before they begin Big 10 play, but I also think more than two or three purely tune up games against significantly inferior competition is unnecessary and/or redundant. At least that’s my take on it.

 

[bluefaithful]

There are a many a Kentucky Wildcats that would come up short comparing theirselves to Antonio as a player. Look at Johnell Davis who was considered by many to be the top transfer who has been put in the exact same spot as Antonio was in last year. Through 7 games, Davis is averaging 8.4 points a game.
We have 2 players that take place of Antonio. They are Robinson and Oweh.

Go Cats!!

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

Agree. I think Robinson's on the court nature is a little timid (probably a better descriptive word exists, but best I can think of now). But I also think that's ok with this team. I think it would actually hurt the team to have a guy dancing around, etc. trying to get his shot - you know, cross-over a couple of times, between the legs, stutter step up then back for a fade away 15-footer (Wow! What talent, right?).

To me I want to see Robinson in that 5-8 floater range more often. He makes them almost every time the 2 games they got him those type of shots.

 

[G-PIP]

To me I want to see get Robinson in that 5-8 floater range more often. He makes them almost every time the 2 games they got him those type of shots.

That should give him more space on the 3pt. shot too.

 

[twwilliams9]

 

[AuburnMike86]

All the other blue blood and good teams have played multiple good teams by now, we've only played Duke and cupcakes so that helps our average some. Lets see where we are after the next ten games. BUT love love love Kentucky leading the nation.

You still have Clemson, Gonzaga, Louisville and Ohio State

WKU and Lipscomb were good early season opponents. There is nothing wrong with a tune up game or two to start the season and Bucknell generally is an ok team.

I'd say to this point you didn't need the Jackson state game and could have gotten a better opponent but who? Alot of the better opponents willing to to play UK @ Rupp were in tournies or booked.

It is what it is.

The only downside is you don't really what you got. UK hasn't played on the road and only have 1 road game until January 7th.

Normally that'd impact a team early in conference play, but i don't think it'd be a huge issue with the experience and age UK has this season.

The SoS is floating between 18-20.

Is it ideal? No, but it's not bad either. It'll improve soon. Louisville will be ranked. Clemson could be ranked. Ohio State is on the cusp of a top 25 team. Gonzaga will be top 10.

Is things play out right UK would be around 10-11 OOC SoS. That's fine.

The other thing too, unlike 15 years ago when the SEC as a whole wasn't great, that's not the case now. We have 7-10 ranked teams commonly throughout the season so it'll balance out.