Fact is he never had the resources UK has. Cal won 1 in 5 years. Pope has an innovative offense and still plenty to improve on defense, but we’ve had some spectacular wins for a team thrown together in a couple weeks.
I disagree! Wagner played point for us last year!
I thought we came out ready! Go back and watch if you can stomach it! I think you will find with butler out, someone has to sub for Robinson,oweh,Brea. Who???
You only have a few months left to say that. Enjoy it while you can. Next year you’ll need new lines to put UK down with.
Have we seen Noah and Williams together this season? I don't recall, but I do feel Noah is not afraid to get up in guy's grill. IMO Noah could guard Z and let Williams Nellie/Adou. Pope just needs to keep the guys who are helping you win IN THE GAME.
We’re in with amount of ranked teams we’ve beaten combined with a stacked SEC. I just don’t see us doing much if anything when we come limping in
With two defensive players of the year in their conferences (although no Butler for a few games) and still this bad is concerning.
We don’t just have major roster issues right now, but also next year looks bleak.
I thought this too. However, a zone ALWAYS confuses a Cal coached team. ALWAYS! Every damn time.
That’s been my point. You want to make your opponent uncomfortable and when you play man to man on a team with elite athleticism like Arkansas and has a coach that doesn’t teach zone defense, they are going to be a lot more comfortable. Everything was going their way and they were scoring on drives and beating our guys constantly. If anyone thinks that’s not going to help a team shoot better they’re crazy.
Yes
Then why didn’t it give UK good results for the last 4-5 yrs?
It won’t last longer than 3 years in my opinion. He is learning on the job here at UK. We’ve had some good wins but also some terrible losses. The issue for me is the soft approach and the ability to land an elite player. I just don’t see it happening here for Pope.
I know he’s certainly played with great athletes, but has he ever recruited and coached them ?? He’ll need to get better athletes here to be successful. He knows that …
Williams has never played more than 20+ minutes in his entire career. I’ve never understood why, especially playing at Drexel. Does he have a stamina problem ??
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Bingo.
Because that talent rarely made it to Soph year
Was not too happy with all the sloppy turnovers. Teams know we like to do those hand offs out there on the wings and we are just dropping the ball or making lazy passes, back door every once in a while. This game disappointed in so many ways. They let that arrogant SOB walk in here with a 1-6 team and get a win. This was Cal's superbowl, now he will go back to Arkansas an even bigger A hole.
I think the big one was Chandler for Brea much of 2nd half. Maybe he thinks Chanda’s better defender. Brea was not making shots!
Yes, especially on defense. We play defensively without any good on ball defenders. To keep the more athletic teams out of the lane we leave the 3 point shot open. It worked against UT, they would have smoked us if they would have hit a fair percentage of their 3's. A bad 3 point shooting Arkansas team burned us on that. We played the percentages.
Get over it and pray we get healthy. We are trying to win in the SEC without a point guard. Man up and fight
Yeah, I don't think we're going to be okay. If Tennessee didn't miss 35 threes, we're on a 5 game losing streak right now and headed for Ole Miss for #6.
