Somehow out of all the freshman that comitted to us, the best one isnt even on our team bc pope wanted to pay 3 mil for aberdeen
Acaden lewis with 20 and 8
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Those guys are struggling too and it’s not like Lowe hasn't had those numbers.
Lewis isn’t the answer to our problems, he would just be another guy on this team that is struggling.
This team has enough talent, it's just broken and the coach doesn't know what to do to fix it.
Lewis isn’t the answer to our problems, he would just be another guy on this team that is struggling.
This team has enough talent, it's just broken and the coach doesn't know what to do to fix it.
Jasper could possibly be thriving under another coach, I suspect we'll find out next year as I don't personally see him sticking around Kentucky another year with Pope
yes but i feel like its
1. this team is more talented than our record, which is called underachieving which is on POPE
2. i do think the EASY (maybe not under cmp) solution is to pump in talent to cover up for coaching mistakes, but at that point then its back to cal ball
That’s not what happened, man. You have to use chronological logic here. First, Pope told Lewis he was going to be the backup and learn from an upperclassman PG. we went all-in on Donovan Dent and he wanted to stay home. Pope pivoted to Lowe. Lewis didn’t like it because Lowe had more than one year of eligibility remaining. Rather than competing and earning the spot, the COWARD went to Villanova. Aberdeen came after and had nothing to do with it.
It would be nice to have another PG.
No. He was always planned to be backup in year 1 and be prepped to run the show in year 2. Kid is weak as hell and I wouldn’t care what stat line someone posted — someone afraid to compete can’t handle running the show at this school. It’s a down year but it’d have to be a lot worse than this for me to want that coward representing my school.
i mean hindsight we shoukdve kept him, unless it was a situation where he was gomna leave if he didnt start
We tried to keep him. He didn’t want to compete for minutes.
thats a hard spot for a recruit tho to be fair, i mean if he was really confident he wouldve tried to fight for a spot
Don’t know exactly why he left .
but watching Lowe is frustrating so far
but watching Lowe is frustrating so far
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Therein lies the issue. How’s someone that mentally fragile gonna be the solution to a mentally fragile team?
Lmao maybe if he had gained some weight and added some muscle. Isn’t gonna do jack until he does that. He is NOT strong enough.
well thats like saying adding tyran stokes TODAY to this team wouldnt help
it obviously would but hes just a nutcase
Stokes would help some, but even he needs spacing to drive. We have catastrophic issues as a whole offensively
There's always non-talent & skill issues involving character that a coach has to figure out that fans can't see, but as far as impact on UK winning, from a skill and a multi-year standpoint, Lewis was my favorite high school PG recruit last year. I wouldn't mind UK plucking him out of the portal.
You are just blatantly making up a fake timeline to push a lie here.
We didn’t recruit Aberdeen until weeks after Lewis had already decommitted. So it obviously was not the cause of it.
KY till I die unless Coach doesn’t play me at all even during a historically bad start.
Lewis would be the best basketball player on this team from a basketball skills point. By far. He was arguably the best pg in that class it’s a reason all the blue bloods wanted him.
Basketball helps to have muscle and all that but you can get away with being really skinny and weak if you are super talented. Gotta be good and have some aggression about your game. JJ just isn’t comfortable or aggressive enough.
I just don’t think he’s that good. Sorry, never saw it.
That was my point he isn’t that good. A good indication why Pope was able to sign him.
I mean all I’ve really ever saw him do is the new fangled cross over step back 3, which looks a whole lot like a travel. Lmao
IMO, Aberdeen is MUCH more efficient playing the 2. He just is NOT a 1. Can’t beat his man off the bounce and isn’t a good passer.
Should have kept Perry
Never thought that would be something I would say. We could use him tho.
He’s not a 2 either. He can’t shoot.
He’s not big enough to play the 3 either.
He doesn’t have a position. He’s a less strong Oweh.
How anyone thought having 2 guys like that for a spread offense was a good idea is beyond comprehension.
I agree with both points, but Acaden Lewis isn’t it. Yeah, he had a good game against an awful Marquette tean, but has he done that against good competition?
He's be parked on the bench next to JJ. This team is broken. It’s so bad, only Oweh and occasionally Lowe, are able to overcome it.
He’s a career 35% 3 point shooter. Not great but not bad either.
He’s not shooting 35% here.
Are you saying he’s been coached down?
I’m messing with you there. He’s 34% here.
But he’s not a good shooter. Oweh is at 36%. He can’t shoot either.
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He’s shooting 34.5% here. So what are you talking about?! You’re one contrarian ***. I’ll give you that.
Jasper is clearly talented. Pope hates guys with real talent.
I told you I was messing with you.
you are one tight ***.
But whatever the stats he is not a good shooter.
Mashburn shot 36.7% from a closer (19'9") 3 pt line his junior year. Did you think he couldn't shoot?