Biggest Issue with this Team

philstat

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Zero intensity even when they were down double digits most of the night, players laughing and joking and such while getting hammered by an inferior team. I believe Pope will have multiple players sitting out almost every single game for extremely minor issues, this is the new era of sports I guess.
 

Cbbcrazy2

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I agree with a lot of what your saying. However, we have a few players that don't have the talent to play at this level. That became evident on the defensive end tonight. It looked a lot like last year, if we get everyone healthy "IF" we can leave the few on the bench and start to be a competitive team. We will see.
 

philstat

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It’s an exhibition game, a televised practice. If someone had gotten injured, the hot take would have been that we shouldn’t be going so hard in a meaningless scrimmage
I get that, though there has to be some balance, hell elite teams every season beat opponents by 30+ in exhibition, they play with intensity and focus, that was greatly missing tonight.
 

KYFOSSIL

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Biggest issue I see
- can’t shoot the three
- can’t stop dribble penetration
- can’t stay in front of anyone
- no back up point guard
- not as deep as people thought we were
- poor passing, tonignt at least
Yes, we do have a backup point guard. He was out tonight as well.. having capable point guard can actually fix most of thise problems. As far as being deep, we pretty much thought we had two people every position well three of them are out. Did what I was watching tonight as much as anybody else was, but I'll put it in perspective that we have the capability being one of the best teams in college. We just need all of our parts and then I think you'll find much more cohesiveness and team effort. There was way too much of people trying to do it by themselves tonight because of the lack of cohesiveness.
 

UKDC80

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Missing somebody like this
Exactly! This team does not have any elite talent, maybe big Q when he’s back. It’s bad when G-Town’s guards looked better than UK’s by a mile. Just dudes that can come out and pour it on you. UK does not have that. Every offensive possession looks challenged to the max and the defense looks bad when you have mid major players getting a ton of minutes.
 

Phil_The_Music2

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Exactly! This team does not have any elite talent, maybe big Q when he’s back. It’s bad when G-Town’s guards looked better than UK’s by a mile. Just dudes that can come out and pour it on you. UK does not have that. Every offensive possession looks challenged to the max and the defense looks bad when you have mid major players getting a ton of minutes.
With how we hold players out "as a precaution" I'm beginning to doubt if we ever see JQ play or at best get him back in time for it to matter.
 
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storm1507

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The biggest specific issue I saw (missed the first 10 min. of the game) was that none of our guards, Chandler, Johnson, and yes even Oweh, coud not stay in front of their guards. And, we don't have anyone (or a system) that can play help defense at the rim.

Seems familiar. Hopefully the 3 on the bench are the missing pieces for that problem. Some of this teams fan favorites will not get to see much playing time when we're at full strength because they can't stay in front of anyone.
 

cat tat2

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It’s an exhibition game, a televised practice. If someone had gotten injured, the hot take would have been that we shouldn’t be going so hard in a meaningless scrimmage
The effort, focus and intensity was not there. Pope and the staff know it too. I’m thinking the coaches held everyone back, to avoid an injury in a mostly meaningless exhibition game. The season starts in a few days, want to be as healthy as possible. Pope didn’t seem upset with the effort. So, I’m thinking it was by design. We’ll see soon.
 

bnewt

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I agree with a lot of what your saying. However, we have a few players that don't have the talent to play at this level. That became evident on the defensive end tonight. It looked a lot like last year, if we get everyone healthy "IF" we can leave the few on the bench and start to be a competitive team. We will see.
a 20 million $ roster should not have ANYONE that can't play at this level. just as it should not lack athletic ability, which the lack of speed & quickness was obvious
very disappoiniting
 

bnewt

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It’s an exhibition game, a televised practice. If someone had gotten injured, the hot take would have been that we shouldn’t be going so hard in a meaningless scrimmage
true it was an exhibition, but these players are now being paid to perform not joke & cut up on the bench
 
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bnewt

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Biggest issue I see
- can’t shoot the three
- can’t stop dribble penetration
- can’t stay in front of anyone
- no back up point guard
- not as deep as people thought we were
- poor passing, tonignt at least
wow........you mean a duplication of last year........again a 20 million $ roster should not have these empty holes
 

bnewt

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The biggest specific issue I saw (missed the first 10 min. of the game) was that none of our guards, Chandler, Johnson, and yes even Oweh, coud not stay in front of their guards. And, we don't have anyone (or a system) that can play help defense at the rim.

Seems familiar. Hopefully the 3 on the bench are the missing pieces for that problem. Some of this teams fan favorites will not get to see much playing time when we're at full strength because they can't stay in front of anyone.
I don't think there is a player on the Georgetown team that is a "name" player. Most of them, have never been heard of by the typical fan. Their point guard is a division II transfer I thought that I read & he completely ATE the guards lunch
 

philstat

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sorry, just can't see the benefit of this guy
he may be a little more physical, but he is no scorer and is just a foul waiting to happen
He actually had the best game of any UK player last night:
13 points (4-6 FG, 1-2 3PT, 4-5 FT), seven rebounds, three steals and an assist.
 

storm1507

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I don't think there is a player on the Georgetown team that is a "name" player. Most of them, have never been heard of by the typical fan. Their point guard is a division II transfer I thought that I read & he completely ATE the guards lunch
I'm hoping that Lowe, Aberdeen and JQ will be the answers to that problem. My biggest question regarding those 3 is Lowe's defense. Could he have stayed in front of that no-name guard (Monk??? or something)? Edit: It was Mack and the other guard was Little. They both played good enough to know their names.
 

AJBlue

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Biggest issue I see
- can’t shoot the three
- can’t stop dribble penetration
- can’t stay in front of anyone
- no back up point guard
- not as deep as people thought we were
- poor passing, tonignt at least
Naw, most all of that was fine last game. Got to keep in mind that the number one factor in any sport in any game is simply energy level. All that you listed gets fixed when teams are focused an locked in and playing with energy LIKE LAST TIME when everyone proclaimed them national champs. Its why upsets happen and why low level teams play us close one week then go get beat by a D2 school the next. It's 90% energy level.

I watched the Tulane/UTSA football game last night and UTSA was 3-4 coming in against heavily favored 6-1 Tulane. UTSA SMOKED THEM and I'm watching then thinking . . . I've never seen an offense that good all year, fast, efficient, play calling maybe the best ever . . . yet they got beat 4 other times this year in a midlevel conferernce. Crazy, but its about the energy level.
 
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kybassfan

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After Purdue we weregoing to be 12 deep when healthy, superior talent, athletic, blah blah blah. Within a few days after Georgetown we have players unqualified to play at this level, don’t care, limited talent, bad recruiting, blah blah blah.

We’re 0 - 0. Neither game mattered. It was practice. We have not seen them in a true competition. We basically don’t know anything of substance.
 

Catsfan2025

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sorry, just can't see the benefit of this guy
he may be a little more physical, but he is no scorer and is just a foul waiting to happen
Really now ? What game did you watch ? He had 13 points (4/6, 1/1 3FG, 4/5 FT's), 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 steals. He is the ONLY one who played hard. You are clueless or just have a dislike for Mo. Or both.
 

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Zero intensity even when they were down double digits most of the night, players laughing and joking and such while getting hammered by an inferior team. I believe Pope will have multiple players sitting out almost every single game for extremely minor issues, this is the new era of sports I guess.
After one exhibition game…. But every single thread you start is to say something sarcastic or outrageous to get a reaction so oh well.
 

megablue

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I think it's fair to say that we probably learned more from losing last night than if we had won.
After all, that is what exhibition games are all about.
Because of key injuries, CMP was forced to play second tier players a lot more.
It gave him a good chance to deeply-evaluate who is capable of helping us against high-level competition.
 
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storm1507

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I think it's fair to say that we probably learned more from losing last night than if we had won.
After all, that is what exhibition games are all about.
Because of key injuries, CMP was forced to play second tier players a lot more. It gave him a good chance to deeply-evaluate who is capable of helping us against high-level competition.
I think we learned that Aberdeen is definitely the #2 PG. Johnson and Chandler will need to find PT somewhere else.
 

UKAlum84

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I thought this was obvious, we lack depth against Georgetown.

The guard "Mack" scored many times and we could not stop him....he'd go up for layup with left hand on the right side of the goal....shoulda been blocked a bunch of times.
 
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UKBB4Ever

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I said all last season and thru the summer that it didn’t appear that Pope puts a premium on conditioning.

But I thought it might just have been that rag tag roster that he had a month to throw together.

It still appears that conditioning is not a focus.

We will most certainly platoon. These guys can’t play more than 5-6 minutes at a time.
 

Eagles_Ball_69

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We should be able to win with our third string Quarterback? Sports rarely works that way.
It isn’t football. The PG, especially in this offense, isn’t that vital. What is vital, is putting your best players on the court. Playing Chandler that much isnt doing that. Not concerned with it in that particular game, but would be moving forward when games count. Chandler is no way possible suited to play mins at PG.
 
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