This Team Is Cooked

[JFCats22]

Dude it's his first year, do you want to fire him?

No, but the celebration of his mediocrity this season has been insane.

 

[IH8BlueDevilsandUNcheat]

We were having a really good season, until a couple guys got a few boo boo's and decided to miss half the season.

 

[65pacecar]

Ummm what? Your argument ends at “they have better wins”. Cal would have lost just about every big game this season, just like he did the last 3.

As brutal as this schedule is, we’d be a sub .500 team with Cal here.

The Cal-first lovers are still around.

 

[jace2012]

Our shooting 30 threes is dependent on having space to run our cuts and motion. We did that pre-sec but once league started these more athletic teams don’t let us move free and extend the defense and we just don’t get the looks in the half court.

The fix for that is to have a couple of guys to break the defense down to create open looks but we only have two and Butler has been hurt and Owen is not a passer.

Well he better recruit SEC caliber players then or it will be much of the same. This isn’t BYU and I hope he understands this

 

[UKWildcats1987]

The Cal-first lovers are still around.

You people can't even read. Uneducated masses.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Some of yall quit easy. Might as well not even watch the last two regular season games and both tournaments since you obviously know the outcome.

 

[jace2012]

The Cal-first lovers are still around.

Because someone doesn’t agree with you is nonsense but you do you. Only Barnhart would go after a coach with no tournament experience at a place like Kentucky instead of going after the best of the best

 

[KA4Prez]

This is Kentucky.

You expect to have a team that contends in EVERY home game. Every. Single. One.

 

[JohnnyGreen1975]

No, but the celebration of his mediocrity this season has been insane.

He is in the toughest conference in America with a new team. There is a reason he could be coach of the year. He is killing it!

 

[BBNinSC]

Because someone doesn’t agree with you is nonsense but you do you. Only Barnhart would go after a coach with no tournament experience at a place like Kentucky instead of going after the best of the best

I wouldn’t trade Mark Pope straight up for any one of the assholes you think is a good coach.

 

[tomrain]

And Ark will prolly win out. Their last few games are very winnable. 🤮

Got ass whipped today by SC 😆 🤣 😂

 

[JFCats22]

He is in the toughest conference in America with a new team. There is a reason he could be coach of the year. He is killing it!

No he’s not and he won’t be in the top 15 of COTY

I like Pope a lot but this is silly

 

[HenryMuto]

No, but the celebration of his mediocrity this season has been insane.

Kentucky has a record number of AP top 10 wins, top 15 wins or something like that and you say it has been mediocre plus the committee gave us a 3 seed just 2 weeks ago on the reveal show. Not sure you noticed but Kentucky has had the #2 SOS in the country and is playing in a historic SEC.

 

[BIG BLUE GURU]

No, but the celebration of his mediocrity this season has been insane.

Celebration of mediocrity? Dude has more big wins this year than anyone outside of Auburn. When you saw Pope had about 3 to 4 weeks to throw together a team from the portal with a bunch of leftovers what did you think our record would be? Then factor in all the injuries and we are still a top 20 team. Probably a 4 or 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. If you expected more than that before the season you are a moron and deserve to wallow in your misery. But I doubt you expected more and probably have just been waiting in the winds to hop on any chance possible to tear Pope down. Good for you dingleberry

 

[jeffky]

You can't allow 40+ per half against everyone and not being able to score.

Pope said he would shoot 30+ threes a night. They have shot eight. I've seen more missed layups and tough two point shots.

It's just BAD offense for a team that only had offense going for them.

Maybe their bracket can avoid every top 25 offensive team. That's probably the only shot.

 

[MegaBlue05]

The Cal-first lovers are still around.

I’ve seen several today.

It’s almost like they want Pope to fail to be able to say we should’ve kept Cal.

 

[Cawood86]

To be honest, this team isn't as good as Cal's last THREE teams. They have better wins. But the end result may not be much different.

This is going to be a HUGE off-season for Pope.

Cal's last 3 teams didn't do diddly squat.

 

[hotelblue]

To be honest, this team isn't as good as Cal's last THREE teams. They have better wins. But the end result may not be much different.

This is going to be a HUGE off-season for Pope.

depends on how you rate “good” as a team. in terms of potential, yeah he had better teams. in terms of playing to potential, and AS a team, this team surpasses them easily. if the results are the same, given the talent discrepancy, i’d say there’s no comparison. we are way undermanned with players playing hurt.

 

[bbncal02]

I’ve seen several today.

It’s almost like they want Pope to fail to be able to say we should’ve kept Cal.

Meanwhile Cal got his ass handed to him by South Carolina AGAIN. At least it wasn't in his home arena this time.

 

[wildcat_nation28]

depends on how you rate “good” as a team. in terms of potential, yeah he had better teams. in terms of playing to potential, and AS a team, this team surpasses them easily. if the results are the same, given the talent discrepancy, i’d say there’s no comparison. we are way undermanned with players playing hurt.

but if this team doesn't win any tournament games same results

 

[westerncat]

Some of you realize this is the #1 team in the country right? If we lose first round like we have recently then yeah some of these comments are warranted. But not now.

This ^^ This Auburn team is really good and has a good chance to win it all this year. We just played very bad today (turnovers killed us ) . I know it is hard to lose but I did not think we could beat this team today with our best shooter out hurt. Just get ready for the next game.

 

[GoAndRunIsGoneAndDone]

A few things..
1, We didn't put a good product on the floor today..no question
2,Auburn is elite
3,Only blue tinted glasses would expect this team to predictably beat the best team in several years, at least
4,This team has far exceeded most people's pre season expectations
5,The future is much brighter than today. I love what this team has done. If you thought we'd be fine with a team put together in weeks that has fought injuries all season long, you simply aren't a realist.
6,We're not done winning games! The sky is NOT falling and Pope has done an unreal coaching job. Stop with the Pope crap! It just makes ya look..."uninformed"

 

[ImTheVillageIdiot]

Some of you realize this is the #1 team in the country right? If we lose first round like we have recently then yeah some of these comments are warranted. But not now.

That’s because some people are overreacting. Others were wanting this to say “told ya so”. Best feeling in the world for some people.

 

[megablue]

The offensive efficiency has slipped big time the last month. They are playing slower and playing worse. The three point shot can make up for a lot of this, but they aren't shooting enough of them.

Our offensive execution and efficiency has been affected by playing against tougher SEC competition, especially on the road.
Defenses are simply more athletic and aggressive. Plus, the injuries.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

You can't allow 40+ per half against everyone and not being able to score.

Pope said he would shoot 30+ threes a night. They have shot eight. I've seen more missed layups and tough two point shots.

It's just BAD offense for a team that only had offense going for them.

Maybe their bracket can avoid every top 25 offensive team. That's probably the only shot.

Pearl designed his defense to take away the 3.

He was willing to give up 2’s. He even told his team that UK wouldn’t beat them shooting 2’s.

He didn’t even guard Williams.

They wanted him to pass to drivers.

And we kept trying to do just that.

And had some success against it. Only to miss the layup.

Make a few of those and maybe Pearl changes his plan?

We never countered their plan.

We made the game easy for Auburn.

Turnover after turnover didn’t help.

 

[wildcat_nation28]

Pearl designed his defense to take away the 3.

He was willing to give up 2’s. He even told his team that UK wouldn’t beat them shooting 2’s.

He didn’t even guard Williams.

They wanted him to pass to drivers.

And we kept trying to do just that.

And had some success against it. Only to miss the layup.

Make a few of those and maybe Pearl changes his plan?

We never countered their plan.

We made the game easy for Auburn.

Turnover after turnover did

only athletic teams can do this to kentucky

n’t help.