Season is over
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Season is not over until it’s over, crazy stuff can happen in college bball. But the overall enthusiasm of BBN has been completely squeezed out.
I think if Butler don’t comeback 19 wins will be the max for this team. They’ve laid down. I hope I’m wrong because it won’t do any good if they do get in the tournament. If you can’t play D you can’t win.
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Playing with effort and intensity shouldn’t be dependent on if the PG is playing.
We have good enough players to beat Duke, Tennessee, Gonzaga, Florida... Now what
Yeah that kid is awful. Blocked him after about his 10th post.
The past few days have been brutal as a UK fan, but I’m over it. I’ll continue to watch and cheer and let the season play out. When we lost to Oakland I had zero expectations for this year as we were either stuck with an old style that didn’t work here anymore or in a complete rebuild. Pope did a great job of starting the rebuild, but we have kind of derailed in league play for various reasons. My hope got up, but really seems like this team is regressing back to their actual norm.
Get some guys like Oweh and Garrison back next year, hope a couple of the current freshmen take a big step next year, and really hit the portal for toughness and defensive help. I do think Pope can build a core group of guys over the next two years, but we got to see better efforts than we’ve seen lately, going forward.
Get some guys like Oweh and Garrison back next year, hope a couple of the current freshmen take a big step next year, and really hit the portal for toughness and defensive help. I do think Pope can build a core group of guys over the next two years, but we got to see better efforts than we’ve seen lately, going forward.
Despite how bad we are now, our wins stack up against anyone. Making the tournament is not an issue. Anyone can lose (clearly). But who have you beat? That’s what matters most to the committee
Even if we get in, with no PG on the roster that is healthy, I don't see us doing anything. Another wasted year.
We will be better when we get our point guard back, but yes we do have more losses coming than we would like. I kind of expected that this year though.
So go away, and STFU. Those of us with brains knew that this would be a process.
And we told you that when you pushed Cal out the door.
So that means you can’t fight and show some balls in the first half??? Idc if you don’t have a pg or whatever, you can fight and get after people. Never knew the point guard was responsible for making guys want to fight and play hard, but atleast we showed a little in the 2nd half but too big a hole to climb out of.
You know what's funny?
I don't recall you ever starting threads like this when Calipari was the head coach.
Funny how the narrative has turned so easily for some of you now that Cal's gone.
It doesn’t really matter if it comes back or not. Shift your focus. This team is going absolutely nowhere with or without him.
We were pounded in the first half today the same way that Gonzaga pounded us. The difference is that Gonzaga completely collapsed. And we were at full strength against them.
Who cares what he did or didn’t do with the last coach? No one hated the Cal lovers more than I did. But I’ve moved on and so should you. I’m a broken record on this, but I’ll say it again: take off the either/or glasses. This isn’t about preferring CCC or Pope to be the coach. We’re clearly in a situation where both CCC was washed up and Mark Pope was not the best hire. It is what it is and we’re stuck with it for the next few years.
Lamont butler would like to respectfully disagree with your last sentence
I specifically remember starting a thread about how something was wrong that we were starting Wheeler over Ty Ty and and how something in Cal had flipped that we weren't starting/playing the best players.
Somehow we are getting blown out by a bad Arkansas team and then Ole Miss back to back and posters like you are STILL bringing up Cal. Insane.
Yes, we are absolutely sure that Cal was never winning another title here. And most of us wanted him gone and are thrilled that he’s no longer here.
But that doesn’t change the fact that we made the wrong hire. You don’t hire a guy just because he won a title at your university and bleeds blue. You hire the guy who can win the title and we did not.
Pope gets 3 recruiting seasons before we can judge his ability. This years certainly does not count. Starting into Pope's 5th year in Lexington is the earliest he should be judged. He did not have a prayer this year and he does not have anything close to an elite squad. We have two or three shooters but neither of them can guard a fence post set in concrete.
I checked out when Cal won in Rupp. Forgot they played today. I am assuming they lost, from the look of the board
Y'all have got to let the Cal sh*t go, man. It's not healthy. It's the rebuttal to everyone who has any criticism of the current situation.
Butler did not play against Gonzaga.
Yes. Butler did not play against Gonzaga.
Look. Triple C leaving was like making The Final Four. Good riddance. You even correctly stated he was ‘washed up’ in your post. Washed up means FOREVER. But don’t dismiss Mark Pope. College basketball has changed forever in a bad way. NIL is a terrible thing. It makes it hard as hell to win on a consistent basis. Mark Pope would take a bullet for UK and BBN. He’s smarter than 99.9% of BBN and Triple C left him with zero. Give him some time. Look at Hurley and all of the other old guys so many fans wanted … no thanks. Things have changed and if we’re an also ran for a year or two it’s okay. UK will be back but Triple C never will. GBB.
If we look this on defense next year, then there’s a bigger problem than we thought in Lex and it won’t go over well. Also, we’ve had elite talent look like hot dog crap on defense in the past so why do people think getting elite guys is a sure fire way to be better defensively????
Cal has nothing to do with the three recruits we have signed. Of the three, only Johnson will be an impact guy next year. Pope has to get a top PG in the portal, some SEC level bigs, and some guys who can defend. But he'll already have 8 guys on the roster between our returning players and recruits. Screw the 2-3. Let's just give him 2 and see where we are at the end of that.
What makes you so sure that UK will be back? The term "glory days" exists for a reason. And we may be forever looking back on them. I'd bet the house Pope won't win a title here. If he's here 5 years, that drought just gets longer and longer.
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