I think we are one or two pieces away from turning the corner. Get Dioubate and JQ back, that will take the pressure off the perimeter and help our guards thrive.
After sleeping on it, I am still optimistic
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You’re crazier than a JuneBug in August, or you’ve **** yourself and fell backwards into it…
Go ahead, take your jabs! We 100% totally deserve it, because we can dish it out, and we can take it when it’s justified…
And it’s justified right now
And it’s justified right now
This team needs a real PG & back-up PG more than JQ or Mo D back. Neither…JQ nor Mo D is going to help this team offensively…in fact they will probably just clog up the driving lanes…because neither is a real offense threat. JQ would be crazy to jump into this mess and risk injury & draft stock.
This is a poorly constructed team with a major culture problem and no player leadership. This team will be a future “30 for 30” case study on Pope “over-thinking” & “over-paying” a roster build.
This is a poorly constructed team with a major culture problem and no player leadership. This team will be a future “30 for 30” case study on Pope “over-thinking” & “over-paying” a roster build.
I'm more excited about the football team and Coach Stein at this point.
Mark Pope will be our coach for the rest of the year. I'll support him and the team and see how the rest of the season plays out.
Finally someone that is reasonable. For those that have little faith, I think Pope will turn this around during conference play.
Those two (2) might help us with physicality, defense and rebounding, I will grant you, but offensive contributions will not be significant enough.
Pope isn't going anywhere mid season and I'll continue to cheer for him to right this ship while he's here..and hope he stays after doing so. He's a good coach and we have talent. There's something internal going on and I'm sure Pope knows what it is but it might mean some tough choices coming his way ASAP. Yes, their his players but 4 of them were last year too and we didn't have this problem. Somebody has become uncountable and has to go. I don't care who it is but Pope has had to know who is causing the problem for some time now..so they've used up their 2nd chances already. I think hes pissed as well as hurt by the comments and the booing, and knows its time to cut bait with somebody. We'll see very soon how this plays out but I do think we have a very competent coach and group of players.
That doesn't mean perfect, by a long stretch. There's plenty I'd like to have seen him try before now but if a kid or two won't play, it doesn't matter how well they are coached. A bad apple player should never derail a coach's career, here or anywhere.
That doesn't mean perfect, by a long stretch. There's plenty I'd like to have seen him try before now but if a kid or two won't play, it doesn't matter how well they are coached. A bad apple player should never derail a coach's career, here or anywhere.
I thought this exact thing yesterday afternoon. That optimism was GONE 10 minutes into the Gonzaga debacle.
Worse loss for a UK team since 1990. SINCE 1990!!!! That's worse than even the probation years!
Also they had the worst shooting for the start of a half (first 10 minutes) in EIGHT YEARS!!
Mo, Lowe and JQ aren't making this better as I had hoped.
at this point I don't think its about talent, its about chemistry.
Oweh wants to be the leader of the team but when they don't defer to him he just half asses up and down the court. I don't know what is going on with anyone else, there are 3 guys that will shoot without hesitation as if they were Brea or Chandler, and they aren 't bothered going 0-5
I'm all in on Pope, but if he can't instill discipline in these guys in short order then as much as I hate to say it, he isn't a fit here.
Yea, we could write off this season, he recruits a whole new team and next year we have a great year. I'd be willing to accept it, but something on Pope's end is going to have to give. The players aren't responding to him, and you can't have an entire arena booing you.
There needs to be a seismic change in the demeanor of this team - not 7 games from now, but immediately. And if that means Oweh sits and Garrison plays 30 minutes, I won't be happy about it, but at least Pope is making hard decisions that need to be made.
Oweh wants to be the leader of the team but when they don't defer to him he just half asses up and down the court. I don't know what is going on with anyone else, there are 3 guys that will shoot without hesitation as if they were Brea or Chandler, and they aren 't bothered going 0-5
I'm all in on Pope, but if he can't instill discipline in these guys in short order then as much as I hate to say it, he isn't a fit here.
Yea, we could write off this season, he recruits a whole new team and next year we have a great year. I'd be willing to accept it, but something on Pope's end is going to have to give. The players aren't responding to him, and you can't have an entire arena booing you.
There needs to be a seismic change in the demeanor of this team - not 7 games from now, but immediately. And if that means Oweh sits and Garrison plays 30 minutes, I won't be happy about it, but at least Pope is making hard decisions that need to be made.
Which gummies did you take last night to help you sleep and wake up thinking that?