For 2024-25, Pope has constructed the Kentucky men’s basketball roster “to look like the teams that have been beating the Cats in March Madness.”
I agree to a point, I think a lot has to do with coaching and preparation for your opponent. Our last coaching staff lacked a few small details when it came to how to prepare for the other team.If you can’t beat them…
I agree to a point, I think a lot has to do with coaching and preparation for your opponent. Our last coaching staff lacked a few small details when it came to how to prepare for the other team.
Our last coaching staff lacked a few small details when it came to how to prepare for the other team.
I was giving them the benefit of the doubt on saying All Details, but the last few years has been rough.LOL. Drop the SM so it reads ALL DETAILS and I’m on board.
Brevity is the soul of wit, well done sir.A few small details??? You mean like knowing that Jack Golke only attempted EIGHT field goals inside the arc for the entire season? Or failing to watch any film of Wisconsin whatsoever?
Cal blew, and Cal blows. So does his coattail riding staff, minus Ulis, who won’t be enough to overcome the ineptitude and laziness of the others.
Since there's a paywall, any chance you could post the transcript?For 2024-25, Pope has constructed the Kentucky men’s basketball roster “to look like the teams that have been beating the Cats in March Madness.”
Since there's a paywall, any chance you could post the transcript?
I think they lacked a lot of details. They never scouted for defense and nobody was ever on the same page. They didn’t know how to guard a dribble hand off or ball screen either. They were never taught proper angles to cut ball handlers off and many other things that are basic college things to stop offenses at this level. I honestly believe most practice time was spent on how we wanted to play and we played the same way against everyone no matter how they adjusted. We were easy to prepare for because nothing ever changed.I agree to a point, I think a lot has to do with coaching and preparation for your opponent. Our last coaching staff lacked a few small details when it came to how to prepare for the other team.
Cal got beat by a one dimensional player. There were so many strategies to shut that guy down and he relied on guys standing 4 feet behind him on defense one on one. Shows how bad of a game coach he is. We got beat by a future 9-5 insurance salesman or something.▪ 2024: No. 14 seed Oakland bounced Kentucky, 80-76, from the round of 64. In doing so, the Grizzlies started a super-senior, two seniors, a junior and a sophomore. Jack Gohlke, who came off the Oakland bench to torment Cal’s Cats by draining 10 three-pointers and scoring 32 points, was also a super-senior.
Cal is the only coach that allows teams to do what they do best, and then tries to get us to beat them. I’m surprised after the game he didn’t say “The game plan was to let Jack take 20 3’s in man coverage and see where the chips fell.”A few small details??? You mean like knowing that Jack Golke only attempted EIGHT field goals inside the arc for the entire season? Or failing to watch any film of Wisconsin whatsoever?
Cal blew, and Cal blows. So does his coattail riding staff, minus Ulis, who won’t be enough to overcome the ineptitude and laziness of the others.
Didn't work.Open it in incognito mode and you should be good to go. If not I’ll try to post the text later today.
We should destroy Arky then. LOLI said back in the summer that this roster looks like the teams that routinely beat Cal, especially in the tourney.
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Lacked? He didn't CARE. It wasn't his priority. He was more concerned with his guy's poise and individual performances for the scouts than he was teamwork.I agree to a point, I think a lot has to do with coaching and preparation for your opponent. Our last coaching staff lacked a few small details when it came to how to prepare for the other team.
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you again… POISE COUNTS!Lacked? He didn't CARE. It wasn't his priority. He was more concerned with his guy's poise and individual performances for the scouts than he was teamwork.
and it was telling that both the Oakland coach and the Kansas St coach were very confident going into those games as underdogs. They can’t beat Kentucky, but they can beat CalCal is the only coach that allows teams to do what they do best, and then tries to get us to beat them. I’m surprised after the game he didn’t say “The game plan was to let Jack take 20 3’s in man coverage and see where the chips fell.”
Exactly, it made me sick.and it was telling that both the Oakland coach and the Kansas St coach were very confident going into those games as underdogs. They can’t beat Kentucky, the they can beat Cal
Not only that, even though those coaches said straight to the media that UK was easy to prepare for, Cal never once owned up to it. He just doubled down on looking for another job, and trying to strong-arm UK when things fell through for him.Exactly, it made me sick.
For a coach that makes what Cal does that post should be ridiculous but every word is pretty much undeniable truth. The last two sentences that I highlighted are what drove me crazy for years. Every game we played against teams that prepared for UK and UK had not one time prepared for them. It was and is beyond stupid!I think they lacked a lot of details. They never scouted for defense and nobody was ever on the same page. They didn’t know how to guard a dribble hand off or ball screen either. They were never taught proper angles to cut ball handlers off and many other things that are basic college things to stop offenses at this level. I honestly believe most practice time was spent on how we wanted to play and we played the same way against everyone no matter how they adjusted. We were easy to prepare for because nothing ever changed.
Exactly. Almost every coach would have told his players that Golke's defender doesn't help and stays with him outside the 3 point line. That's all it would have taken for UK to win that game.A few small details??? You mean like knowing that Jack Golke only attempted EIGHT field goals inside the arc for the entire season? Or failing to watch any film of Wisconsin whatsoever?
Cal blew, and Cal blows. So does his coattail riding staff, minus Ulis, who won’t be enough to overcome the ineptitude and laziness of the others.
I think folks started to realize over the last season or two how much Robic meant to CCC and the teams. He was the one who dug into the details for the game prep.I agree to a point, I think a lot has to do with coaching and preparation for your opponent. Our last coaching staff lacked a few small details when it came to how to prepare for the other team.
Looks like the kind of roster that will beat Calipari & his Arkansas team in March.For 2024-25, Pope has constructed the Kentucky men’s basketball roster “to look like the teams that have been beating the Cats in March Madness.”
This didn’t occur to me at the time.:Exactly. Almost every coach would have told his players that Golke's defender doesn't help and stays with him outside the 3 point line. That's all it would have taken for UK to win that game.
Simple. Cal interviewed with Arky unbeknownst to UK which was in violation of his contract. Fireable offense. That was the arrow Mitch had in his quill.This didn’t occur to me at the time.:
But looking back on it all, I wonder if Cal wasn’t actively trying to get himself fired for financial reasons. Take the total sum of money Cal could expect to make at Arkansas, or Southern Methodist, or wherever. Now take that same sum, and add all or half or even a quarter of his Kentucky contract buyout. What he might have thought or hoped he could get if he managed to force the University or donors to pay him something to skedaddle, feeling their hands were tied by their fear of the fans if Cal kept on doing literally as bad as he could do without technically going far enough to free the university from their half of the contract.
To me, all signs point to Cal being a cool enough fish to want to play things just that way. At least by the end. To me at the time, that deal where a press conference between Cal and Mitch was announced in advance, but then nothing came of it besides they said Cal was going to stay——that looked like next-level wimpiness on Mitch’s part.
But with the way everything actually played out after that, that may actually be the moment Mitch finally beat Cal. Told him some way they had actually figured out how to push back if Cal kept on his current extortionist tack or something. A Sicilian promise? Maybe a video tape or something they’d managed to make of one of Cal’s conversations. Something the many, many enemies Cal has made along the way would have just loved to have.
All that is only speculation, of course. However, I’m a writer so I tend to be very sensitive to human motives. To me, those particular motives on both sides would explain what actually happened much better than anything else I’ve heard or considered.
We've replaced the other writer, and would love to have you on our team.Simple. Cal interviewed with Arky unbeknownst to UK which was in violation of his contract. Fireable offense. That was the arrow Mitch had in his quill.
Ha. Not sure how to decipher the code.We've replaced the other writer, and would love to have you on our team.
Re-read the post that you replied to, just above yours (the one I replied to).Ha. Not sure how to decipher the code.
Other writer? What team?
I’m 110% Kentucky Wildcat