He was also selfish. And he's been doing this for awhile now, driving into sometimes three defenders and not making any effort to distribute the ball. For whatever reason he's not buying into the whole team concept. And he needs to lose the attitude.
I think you can only really do something like that if you didn't suck and played well enough to win, if you're planning on not getting ridiculed by the media.
I actually agree. Implying it is due to officials is not what I prefer to hear from my coach. I think some of the calls were very bad but Oweh had some ridiculously stupid fouls that are on him. Pope doesn’t control what the officials call — he controls what his players do that can result in fouls. Enabling a player’s bad decision-making by implying it is on the officials doesn’t really correct the behavior and results in a self-fulfilling prophecy, all the while creating antagonistic hostility with the stripes that only exacerbates the very issue to start with.
What’s he supposed to do chase him down and foul again?
Nah, was still an easy question and could be answered without being a weenie. Example, “they did a good job of providing help on drives and were able to key in on his paint scoring by walling up on the interior.”
Sure and act like there wasn't an obvious reason why they did such a good job of providing help on drives and were able to key in on his paint scoring by walking up on the interior. I guess that would have been a valid answer but I like Pope's answer better because it was more manly. That was definitely a dumb question.
Implying your player got screwed by the refs isn’t manly in my view, even if there were bad calls against Oweh. I’m a 100% Pope guy but if that was any other coach who did that I wouldn’t approve of it. Oweh played bad, had some egregious fouls that there was no good reason for. Did you think Hurley’s officiating meltdowns were manly and awesome this year?
He let him go bc he already had 4 fouls and a chase down frustration swipe w 10 minutes left would have been a dumb way to pick up the 5th.
Man I totally disagree , you might not come close to fouling but you don’t half ass job back .. I’d rather he knocked the guy 6 rows up .
If a coach publicly bashes an official, he will be fined, he will also get reprimanded by UK for embarrassing the University, and he then will be targeted by every official in the SEC games and the NCAA Tournament. It would be extremely foolish if Pope were to do this and he is very aware that he should not. The dollar fine has little if any influense why Coach Pope does not bash the officials. We are not the only team on Saturday that got a horrible whistle. I watched parts of a couple of other SEC games and the officiating was off the chart bad and the visiting teams were hosed. If a visiting team wins it seems they will beat 8 guys with 5 players. That is just how it is in the SEC. Sad but true.
He was half ass chasing him because he had four fouls at that point and didn't want his fifth.
