If you would have been a member on this board longer than 2 months you would understand the INSIGNIFICANCE of preseason rankings ....
Again another thread. Pope is dumb, has no idea what that we kentucky fans know more about basketball than some idiot from Nebraska that only played for us for a couple of seasons and yeah your team won a title but you even though you were the big C of the team were just lucky to smell the locker room. Then after you did nothing until for some reason Mitch pulled you out of working the Piggly Wiggly as a bag boy because you were so stupid, that we now are the worst team in the history of college basketball and by the time you leave here in a couple of years we will no longer have a team.
Well, no ****. 7 of the top 125 players in all of CBB would beat the 2015 team.
I’ve been a member here far longer than you. This isn’t about preseason rankings so try to keep up.
How about this. If Pope gets us farther in the sec or NCAA tournament than Cal did last year, you give everyone on this forum a nickel. Willing to make the wager?
Oh, you mean guys that likely didn't have any contact with our staff prior, didn't sign up to play with us in a matter of days from contact to committing? How embarrassing for us.
I have no clue what that incoherent babble about Nebraska is about.
Absolutely anyone can win a single postseason game, so no. But i absolutely would take the bet that Pope won’t finish with a better regular season record than this past year. Unless he pulls a few rabbits out of his hat then UK is looking at a 4th or 5th place finish in the league. That’s even with UT losing most everyone that played last year.
It’s no different for any of the other coaches. That’s no excuse. Kal had no contact with Davis before a week or two ago and he’s probably getting him. Same with Baylor and Roach. It took them like 3 days to get him. I sure as hell doubt Quaintance had contact with ASU and Hurley before the last week or two.
Dalton Knech?wasn't rated in top 30 last year,explain that
Last year Antonio Reeves averaged 20.2 points on 13.9 shots a game.
This !
Lets not forget the 2015 team barely beat Notre Dame. We don't want to admit it, but the SEC was just that atrocious back then.
So you don't think the best returning 3 point shooter in the country is a scoring threat yeah right. You like so many of our fans are still addicted to the Cal speak that you got to have STARS to compete,I got news for you,you don't. We had 2 lottery picks last year and didn't do ****,how do you explain that. Also your analytics don't mean crap because they fail to take into account coaching strategies offensively and defensively as well as the players playing on the team with him. Perhaps a player was instructed to take more shots because nobody else on his team was reliable thus bringing his average down,perhaps a guy was forced to guard the best player on the opposing team every night because nobody else on the team could. Put either player in a different system with better shooters and defenders surrounding him and his " numbers" could be completely different. I was a psychologist by trade and one of the first things I learned I'm grad school was the old adage " There are lies,damn lies and statistics" YOU stat guys are full of it if that is the only measurement you use to determine a players value.
Ignorant AND cannot do math ... none of us are surprised.
If you have followed college basketball in recent years you would find that in many cases it is not about rankings of players as much as it is about experience and coaching. If you have been paying attention then...I don't know what to tell you. This seems like one of those way too early prediction post that screams; "I need attention." Ok, you got it, now what?
You would probably see some of these transfers ranked higher in overall rankings if they were included with the incoming freshman list based solely on more experience and having already played at the college level so...
I get all that. Nebraska babble is that pope is from omaha NE. Just me being goofy. I tend to overstate or get ignorant just to have some fun venting. I am not burying my head either. There are guys I would like to have gotten. Some gone before Cal left, just a timing thing. But I understand maybe Osobor was not a team player. Maybe he asked for 20 shots a game and play through him, maybe he wanted 1.5mil not idea but Pope was not caving. I like him not caving. Also with Williams almost reopening his portal and Pope flying to meet with him shows how much confidence he has in the pieces he currently has.
We've been bullied by lesser players over the years than what Pope's brought in. Anyone who calls themselves a UK fan and are upset with the roster so far has me questioning just what you have been watching for a few years now.
Thanks for the sobering post. It's fun to ride the hype train but folks shouldn't be disappointed when we aren't in the final four next year.... need to temper expectations in year one and allow pope a chance to get his system in place. Year two is a different story. Pressure is on then.
the transfer portal is really deep so I think a lot of the guys we have coming in who might be our 7/8/9 rotational players would start on a lot of other teams
If anyone expected Pope to put together a staff and a final four roster 2 weeks ago when Cal bailed and left the cupboard bare then they are an idiot. It was too late to get in on any incoming freshmen and not likely that the ones who committed to Cal would come either. We were lucky that Cal finally recruited Perry because had he already been signed to someone like Noah we wouldn't have gotten him either.
Wait a minute, if Reeves averaged 1.453 points per shot, and Carr averaged 1.151 points per shot, how was Carr the more efficient scorer? Based on the numbers you posted, Reeves was 26.24% more efficient per shot.
Sorry, I made a typo. You’re right that what I typed is wrong but 13.5 points from 8.9 shots is actually 1.516 efficiency. Carr really is more efficient than Reeves.
And Koby Brea was also more efficient last year than Reeves was, scoring 1.48 points per shot for 11.1 points per game from 7.5 shot attempts. We may have other players worth mentioning in this convo too—these are just the only guys I’ve run the numbers on so far. Pope and company brought in some killers whether or not we’ve got anybody yet who can “go get a bucket.” We’ll be fine.
Can’t be Brad. He’s too busy inventing a new offense for Kal called the Dribble Weave.
