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Pope”s chess game

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Apr 8, 2024
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I love the Coach is playing the mind strategy game with his players. Nice way to relate to them and also to test each other intellect.

By the way today, the former math professors was better at chess than the former Columbia med student. We played into Bama’ s game high scoring game , fast pace. Typically, we outscore and outpace most teams if it a scoring open contest. See for referee Duke, UL, Florida ,Gonzaga games…..there is one team in the country that is better at offense than we are : Bama.

This not a dissatisfaction with our coach, which I love, but sometimes you need to know the limits of your strength and also of the opponent and adjust the game strategy accordingly. I think if we would have tried to show press to Bama would have slow them down a bit and increased our chances to win. In a contest who gets first to 100 wins, with the current squads Bama wiould win 7 out of 10 games.

Still love my coach and team!
 
It's wild how many excuses most of you make to avoid admitting we just do not have the players.
Not an excuse We have the players for a certain type of game . This team was build in 3 weeks with the mind set to outscore the opponents. Today we played a better team at out scoring the opponents. All I am saying perhaps we should look at the numbers matrix and have had a different game strategy .
 
You can't press the entire game.... maybe a few possessions here and there would of worked.

I'm not one to really complain about adjustments... Pope makes more adjustments in 1 game usually than I've seen in a decade.
 
It's wild how many excuses most of you make to avoid admitting we just do not have the players.
5 pt margin against a Final 4 team that shot 14 MORE FT's than we did and you think we don't have the players????!!!!! Especially after BEATING the previous 5 ranked opponents we've played.

Bama is a GREAT team!!! we just gave them too many good looks and didn't make enough of ours. Learn from this loss and continue to get better. The SEC is LOADED this season. Just have to improve on a few more things(defense, rebounding, getting the best scorers more shots). I have FULL confidence Coach Pope can get us there.
 
I love the Coach is playing the mind strategy game with his players. Nice way to relate to them and also to test each other intellect.

By the way today, the former math professors was better at chess than the former Columbia med student. We played into Bama’ s game high scoring game , fast pace. Typically, we outscore and outpace most teams if it a scoring open contest. See for referee Duke, UL, Florida ,Gonzaga games…..there is one team in the country that is better at offense than we are : Bama.

This not a dissatisfaction with our coach, which I love, but sometimes you need to know the limits of your strength and also of the opponent and adjust the game strategy accordingly. I think if we would have tried to show press to Bama would have slow them down a bit and increased our chances to win. In a contest who gets first to 100 wins, with the current squads Bama wiould win 7 out of 10 games.

Still love my coach and team!
That’s the only way we can win .
 
I love the Coach is playing the mind strategy game with his players. Nice way to relate to them and also to test each other intellect.

By the way today, the former math professors was better at chess than the former Columbia med student. We played into Bama’ s game high scoring game , fast pace. Typically, we outscore and outpace most teams if it a scoring open contest. See for referee Duke, UL, Florida ,Gonzaga games…..there is one team in the country that is better at offense than we are : Bama.

This not a dissatisfaction with our coach, which I love, but sometimes you need to know the limits of your strength and also of the opponent and adjust the game strategy accordingly. I think if we would have tried to show press to Bama would have slow them down a bit and increased our chances to win. In a contest who gets first to 100 wins, with the current squads Bama wiould win 7 out of 10 games.

Still love my coach and team!
We lost a tight game that was nip & tuck the entire game. Could have gone either way. You’re acting like it was a blowout.
 
We lost a tight game that was nip & tuck the entire game. Could have gone either way. You’re acting like it was a blowout.
I not at all. Pope is a numbers guy and very analytical. Bama is just better in the offense department. Not by much . They also have multiple players that played a final 4 … our team is experienced but new.
 
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