and like only 7 fouls called in a game of MMA muggings by both teams on every posession
Tennessee and Auburn will absolutely punk us
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And a nearly silent whistle. The SEC = the Big East of 15 years ago..... and those Big East teams usually flamed out early in the tournament
They shot that low percentage due to having a body bump and a hand in their face on nearly every 3 point attempt....we will give each team a 5' cushion on defense on 3 point attempts, as we have given teams all season.
Yeah, there was so much contact in that game with no foul calls. Must be nice.
I agree 100%. That was the jist of my post. The way the game is officiated today doesn't really resemble basketball. And we don't have a team that is real physical or real athletic.
You think that we'll have to wait till year four?
With the portal, I'm expecting big things by year three. At that point, you have some retention and development with guys like Noah and Lewis. Why would it take longer?
We can have pride in the team and still recognize there are issues, that doesn't make you a bad fan.
I think Amari has a fragile personality and Mark is trying to be careful, but my goodness, it's game 19 and he's still defending the rim with his hands down and at his size, he should be ripping the rim down on offense, but he won't do it, he's too soft.
Yeah, I'm thinking Pope doesn't agree with the approach RP takes and he has his own way of doing it, but MP came from the mid major ranks as a coach and things are different there. You can put your arm around the players and sing kumbaya and everything is cool.
But that won't work in this league. You have to play with a bigtime edge and toughness and we just don't have that.
We have lost 2 straight. The first to a red hot ubber talented Alabama( who IMO will go farther in the big tourney than any other SEC team). Next we lose at Memorial to Vandy,who beat UT there last week. I've seen some awfully good UK teams lose in that place over the years. Why that equates to future losses is unclear to me. Why it should make so many of our fans quake at the knees about playing Auburn and UT is also unclear to me. Tenn is offensively challenged , stop Ziegler penetration and force someone else to score and they can be had. Auburn is good but officiating ( so far) has allowed them to hold,push and grab on EVERY defensive possession. I suspect when tournament play begins that will change and someone will upset them. Also that are just average on offense with Brooke hurt, he looked hobbled and struggled offensively Saturday. I knew when we lost a couple all the trolls, faux fans and chicken little would begin equalling just as I knew all the " we will cut Pope some slack this season" talk I heard this summer was pure bullshit. Those of you " dreading" these games DONT Watch them. What a bunch of limp existed shills on here.
I'm not sure Auburn ot Alabama will end up with five or six league losses, It's possible of course,
Kentucky will leave Lanier wide open, same with the other guys, because they don’t guard anybody. And then the same ones on here will wonder why people are concerned about this team
Kentucky does not play good defense that’s why. Ziegler will be able to do what he wants because Kentucky doesn’t guard anybody. Lanier will go off because again Kentucky doesn’t guard anybody. The ones who acted shocked when the other teams hit 3s against us and funny to me, 90 percent of the time they’re wide ass open. And it doesn’t help that our dang 7 footer won’t contest shots at the rim and has his hands down all the time.
Hate to agree with you, but it's true. It appears Lanier is their only true shooter, but if you leave Gainey, Mashack, or Ziegler open, they will hit them and for wharever reason, we sag off shooters and if there's any kind of pick-n-roll action, somewhere a shooter will be wide open and at this level, that shooter is going to hit that shot.
You can't leave shooters open and it burned our asses again yesterday.
But we will both get called miserable for being honest. Kentucky can’t guard ball screen actions at all. We let the opposing teams beat player shoot wide open shots every time, every game. And then the kicker for me is when people act shocked when a D1 level player hits wide open shots against us. Yeah a guy will hit shots if he is wide ass open every time. Lanier will get his wide open shots Tuesday, so will Gainey, and so will the white guy.
Yeah, they can call me a bad fan, or fair weather fan, I really don't care.
I think Mark Pope is amazing, but he's allowing piss poor effort and bad habbits to continue.
19 games in and we're still leaving shooters wide open and we have a trazan at center that plays as soft as Skal. The dude still won't put his hands up. Guards are laying the ball up right in his face and by not putting his hands up, Amari is actually screening for the other team. That's ridiculous.
Even without Carr, we had a 7 point lead, but then, we relaxed and didn't put our foot on their throat. We took bad shots and left their shooters open. We also turned the ball over more than we had all year.
This was after a week off to prepare for this 1 game.
And I'm sorry, I'm a fan of CMP, but those lineups in the first half made absolutely zero sense. If you are going to play Chandler, Perry and Noah, you stagger them, you absolutely do not pull Butler and Oweh and play those 3 together.
But the bottom line is, calling these things out does not make me a bad fan and it doesn't make me a fair wether fan, those things happened and they are a concern, ignoring them is just you pretending everything is fine because this is year 1. No, the players are better than what they are showing. This is a lack of effort, not a lack of talent.
Cal was able to get close to entire roster to follow him to arkansas....
Don't be surprised if Arkansas punks us...
My hope is the conf tourney will lead us to a good seed in the ncaa tourney.
This year should matter to the experts, though prior years reg season wins meant more.
Don't be surprised if Arkansas punks us...
My hope is the conf tourney will lead us to a good seed in the ncaa tourney.
This year should matter to the experts, though prior years reg season wins meant more.
If you really look at this year's team, we got one guy who went to final four last year.......the rest of the team is new as can be.
Pope has done wonder's with a team, arguably young and not top tier talented, make some noise and win some crucial games.
For example, we beat Duke.
Pope has done wonder's with a team, arguably young and not top tier talented, make some noise and win some crucial games.
For example, we beat Duke.
I am a HARD CORE supporter of Coach Mark Pope. I completely agree that Coach Pope put together the best team he could with the time he had. But with that said ... I regret that it appears that the only real "tough guy" that we have is Otega Oweh. Amari would like to be perceived as a "tough guy", but his frequent lack of effort belies any toughness, IMHO. I particularly regret that Robinson is the antithesis of a "tough guy." I've never "seen or heard tell of" a player who on the one hand has significant athleticism, but on the other hand has such a completely passive temperament. For next season, Coach Pope does indeed need to find, or cultivate, some "tough" type guys and some guys with more athleticism.
But nevertheless ... Go 'Cats ! ! !
Oweh and Butler have really good fundamentals and toughness, but the guys that came from mid major teams and weaker conferences, have some really bad habits and a lack of toughness and I'm not sure if they will ever get it.
We're just going to have to try to put up 100 points each game and hope that's enough.
I agree, Pope put together the best team he could, with the time he had. He has this ship headed in the right direction. The shoulder problem that Butler is dealing with right now is really hurting this team. Long term prognosis is good in my opinion at this point.
100% agree, but there are a few things happening that Pope should really have fixed by now. Amari is a problem, our energy in a lot of games is down in the first half and those first have substitutions yesterday were pretty bad
We all love Pope and I'm not seeing any UK fans that are even close to hinting that they don't want Pope here, but I think we can admit there are some things he could be doing better at.
