Over the top in game reactions ought to be forgiven. We all get consumed by the emotions of the moment lol.
*UK vs Gonzaga Game Thread*
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I don’t like commenting on game threads, but I will at halftime. This team is allowing every bump to disrupt them on offense and not digging in on defense. It’s visible to the eye, it’s not shots aren’t falling when they’re bad shots. Or shots falling for the Zags. It’s playing soft.
I love this group, I really do. But this is what happens when a bunch of guys from smallet
Schools join together. They simply don’t know how or why.
Learning curve is big.
Somebody hit the top of the damn backboard on a corner 3, I think it was Kerr.
Seriously? How the hell does that happen?
Seriously? How the hell does that happen?
Actually, that's not true, keep playing like this and it will be a very short season.
Well I guess we will hear “I told them I don’t expect them to make them all but I didn’t expect them to miss them all”
This is the week where BBN's collective expectations went back to something close to that 2023 team.
21 to 23 wins. First weekend bow out.
At least we have Pope now. That, at least, is a blessing.
21 to 23 wins. First weekend bow out.
At least we have Pope now. That, at least, is a blessing.
That was…. not good. We’re clearly missing Butler to help contain their guards on defense, but I’m not sure that’s enough to be the entire difference. The interior defense and rebounding have been disappointing, and we may officially have a problem on offense at this point. Teams are starting to get really aggressive at taking away the 3 point line, and we just don’t appear to have a good counter move in our arsenal with this roster. Nobody can reliably score off the dribble or in the post.
unlike many critics here it’s hard for me to be disappointed in this team so far. it was piecemealed together in a very short time over the summer, made up of a group of players who’ve never played together.
i’m still impressed by them at this point. they will get better. jmdo
i’m still impressed by them at this point. they will get better. jmdo
If we could do it over I wish the staff would have gone after somebody more serious instead of Robinson. With each passing game he just looks worse and worse
Unless they grow some nuts, this team is going to get bitch slapped in the SEC. When your 5 won’t even jump for the ball at the tip, gives the least amount of effort of anyone on the court and Pope thinks he’s the guy, UK is in trouble.
Oweh and Butler are the only guys that can penetrate. Cannot get Brea open. Carr is soft. The grown ass men in the SEC are going to feast on these guys if they don’t toughen up.
I’ll give Pope a pass this year, we won’t finish in the top half of the SEC based on what I’m seeing the last two games. I’m not to upset because I know this year is going to be tough, the only time Gonzaga has ever seen a real Kentucky team is when Estill and that team played them. We are either down on talent or had mostly freshman the last two times we’ve met.
Actually that was Brea’s shot.
Exactly this. I'm just venting and expressing the obvious that all of us are seeing these last few games. Now if Pope brings in elite players and they still look like crap in seasons 2 and 3...that will be a different story!
I'm more pissed at the lack of effort and toughness more than the score. How the heck can you not even try to bring it in a game like this?
Pre-existing relationship Pope had with him played a role, I'm sure.
He has been exactly what he was at BYU, a high volume 3 point shooter.
It’s his A. Reeves hair style, when he wore that mess we played like crap back then as well.
This, no reason these top players are going to programs like Alabama to play for a coach and program that has never won jack squat. We need some big back studs, and we have the money.
I think everyone understand this, but we're in the heat of the battle, man.
Let people piss and moan as needed to get through it.
This isn't a ballet recital. It's a massive sporting event between two top 10 teams, and our team is getting absolutely blitzed. You trying to curtail that is a curious thing.
Kentucky loses Tuesday, packers get shafted by the refs Thursday and lose, Kentucky gets dog walked tonight. I’m being punished by the sports gods this week
I'm with you.
Cal left us with no team, Pope pulled this team literally out of thin air. So I'm not going to judge him until he gets his team in here.
That being said, still doesn't make losing easier. Still sucks.
In our two bad games we have simply not been able to match the physicality of the other team. Seems they don't like being the team fans are rooting against.
There isn’t sweet16 basketball anywhere in this team right now. They look like a not even make the tourney team right now
Exactly. No more lip service on what it means to put on the Kentucky jersey.
Kentucky cannot go 5 minutes without scoring. That's Butt State-level basketball for shit's sake.
Lack of skill, athleticism and heart. The last one hurts most. Just don’t see the fight.
I’m not being negative bc we’re missing wide open shots. I being negative because I see a lack of effort and fight. Amari Williams is a complete waste of 7ft. Shagari Alleyene would have more of an impact in this game than he has
Get that to Pope at halftime and maybe that will wake them up like that fight in the Georgia State game did!
Man, they hung 50 on us. That’s a disgrace.
Here’s to hoping we put something together in the second half just to keep it close and respectable…need something to build on for the rest of the season.
Here’s to hoping we put something together in the second half just to keep it close and respectable…need something to build on for the rest of the season.
The thing is even tho Pope pieced this team together with a bunch of mid tier players, the expectation is still there. We are still Kentucky. We still expect the best.
