It's weird. Maybe I'm just biased or something, but it seemed like the media couldn't stand him while he was here, but now they suddenly love him.
Negatives from tonight's game; I'll go first
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I felt like our bigs got pushed around a bit. A few too many fade aways instead of beating their man with post moves. Also, a few too many miscommunications when a player thought his teammate was gonna zig when he zagged causing a pass to nobody or out of bounds. All things that are fixable and I’m not worried. I loved that I went into this game thinking we were gonna bomb threes but ended up picking apart the defense and taking what they gave us. Beautiful basketball.
Playing this well will never prepare us for a close game.
The negatives I saw will be turned into positives tomorrow. Pope had a 41point blowout for game 1 (#41 Pope). He has a bunch of film to show, Chandler, playing through contact instead of getting knocked off his path, losing his man and so forth, same for Brea on defense, Garrison has good film work. even Williams and Butler had some film stuff as well. All can be turned into a positive.
Right now when we go against a team that has the height we have and the shooters, (only a few teams like that this year and we play 3 I think), anyway if we get in foul trouble what does Pope do? I am sure we will see some zone and such. But that is the only concern I see right now. Butler, Oweh, Brea, Krissa, Chandler, Perry, Noah, Robinson we have the 1-3 covered with foul trouble.
Right now when we go against a team that has the height we have and the shooters, (only a few teams like that this year and we play 3 I think), anyway if we get in foul trouble what does Pope do? I am sure we will see some zone and such. But that is the only concern I see right now. Butler, Oweh, Brea, Krissa, Chandler, Perry, Noah, Robinson we have the 1-3 covered with foul trouble.
Not trying to get too excited until we play a real team, but we looked really good tonight. That said, Wright St. did have a good amount of wide open 3s they just missed. Tons of time to work on every aspect of this team's game, but giving up looks like that isn't going to fly against the likes of Bama.
Their defense actually looks ahead of their offense, and their offense is very good. They have a nice pinch move on defense to narrow the opponent's goal to the rim. Just shading a little, but it makes the path to the rim harder. Because they do it in a timely way and almost every time. So, nobody is on a defensive island by himself. It's the college game rather than the pro game.
An you imagine the pace of play when we play Alabama. It’ll be like watching a ping pong match.
Obviously feels like KY should have let Cal just continue sucking at the tournament without saying a word. This makes me want Pope to succeed even more, and that is saying something. 40-0, let’s go🤣🤣
I think they scouted the shooters and left the non-shooters open. That big dude who banked one in had to be 1-10. He just kept shooting.
Yeah I’m used to looking at my phone and glancing up when we get below 15 on the shot clock.😂
Hopefully as the season goes the fans will want to see this exciting team.
However, if you’re not going give the tickets away.
