IMHO, this is his way of professionally talking about all the dribble driving, especially from Williams/Garrison. When Clemson got up in our stuff, quite a few guys responded by trying to put it on the floor and dribble through the pressure. That's not Pope's system, at all.
The D is really improving. That steal my Oweh and the break away dunk in the Tiger’s face was filthy!
Carr seemed disjointed all night.
If we make any shots at all we win easily- missed a ton of open, really good shots
I read that quote and do not fully-understand it. Does that mean we are not taking enough threes ??
I do not pretend to know, but in your review of BYU games, do you think their opponents typically play the kind of aggressive defense that we can expect to see from SEC opponents, especially on the road ?? I know very little about BYU and realize Houston is a helluva defensive team, but what about their schedule overall ... do they play quick, tough and aggressive defensive teams ??
I wonder if Carr is feeling the pressure of providing more than he may be capable of ?? Just a thought ... as he was perhaps and arguably the fourth best player on Wake Forest last season.
The teams didn’t appear to be as aggressive but i also only watched a couple different games/part of games. Just wanted to see how they played. They played more wreckless with the 3 ball for sure. They would run down and jack one up with no one there to rebound. Our fans, me included, would lose our shit if that’s something a Kentucky team did a few times a game.
Thanks for the reply ... hurried threes and ones with no rebounding are GREAT, when they GO IN !!! Probably not something you want to regularly do against good teams ... recipe for disaster. Also, I think Pope may be seeing and learning that the SEC is much tougher and more balanced than back when he played here. Just like the players, he has a learning curve, too, of course.
This. But it’s also pleasing to have a coach that is actually evaluating and dissecting a loss to use it as a means of improvement.
We know from experience, but it takes a new team awhile to gel. This is an entirely brand new team, it likely won’t be until February (as we’ve seen before), until we see the full version of what this team has to offer.
This is very likely. The team runs the offense he expects against inferior defenses, but when challenged they tend to default back to what they knew before Pope and UK. It will take a few games against teams like last night, but I am confident Pope will get them humming along singing the same system song.
Agreed , believe it or not basketball isn’t rocket science . BYUs offense isn’t quantum physics . We had an off night , we had not experienced a hostile crowd with a terrible whistle … that’s the short version of why we lost .
We won the Duke game because Carr made a couple plays down the stretch and Malauch had to sit a huge portion of the second half.
Clemson won't be a bad loss, but it won't be a good one either. They're a bubble team. I know, I know, they made an E8 run last year. They also caught lightning in a bottle last year. And this isn't last year. There was a reason. We shot poorly. We didn't execute all that well on offense. And we played soft and weak, especially in the first half.
They did, but there's a reason for it. When you stop looking for that reason and stop trying to fix it, you're pretty complacent. I don't think that's Pope at all.
I kind of feel like this is a particular issue in regard to Kriisa and maybe why he seems a little lost. It doesn't appear to me that Kriisa makes cuts with the intent to score at the rim if not followed, and instead he's just perfunctorily going through the lane and on out to the corner. His career has been as a spot up shooter, and it feels like he's struggling not to want to revert to that. I notice he comes down and tries to get rid of the ball as quickly as possible and then heads straight for the 3pt. line on the side. That's not how Butler handles the PG duties. Maybe I'm off base, but I'm thinking Kriisa is one of the guys that has to learn to trust the system better and then his production may improve.
Didn't Carr actually make those plays down the stretch directly against Maluach?
