Once you're done watching that game, flip over to UofL's home loss to duke, a team we beat.
Going further back, since the start of SEC play last year UK is 15-11
The Coach "everyone" had #1 in their list of replacements was 24-11 last season, with both a second round big east exit and a second round NCAA exit. So your comment is worthless.
Brown is a great player, but there is no difference. If neither one had "gone nuclear" then the other team would have won.
See how you just spend that? I made 101 or a couple made rebounds. That's the difference you and some others thrive on reasons to go after Pope or dis the team.
You obviously haven't read your own comments in the game thread, or you already went through it and deleted all your trashing comments.
If Hepburn doesn't go nuclear, is Louisville in any position to keep last year's game close at all? Butler's performance is remembered because we won. Aberdeen had comparable stats to Brown, but Brown's performance will be remembered because they won. Is Pope a lesser coach because their nuclear out-nucleared ours this year?
Just for perspective...
No Robinson no Kerr A hurt butler and hurt Carr and still made the first sweet 16 in 5 years not toention prior to that wins over Ug, Duke, UT twice and the Zags. But that doesnt meet your agenda
If you think that Mark Pope is anywhere close to the tier that Hurley is on you are clueless.
I was just pointing out that using YOUR example, you said flunking. I just used the person that was supposedly number 1 on that list to debunk your assessment. That other coach also supposedly turned us down.
This is all accurate. My concerns the day we hired Pope still exist. Can he get elite players? Can his teams play tough enough to win big games? A little over a year in, those concerns still exist. The day we hired him I was "cautiously optimistic". I'm still there. And that's okay. If we are still doing the 10 loss Tubby thing in a couple yrs without elite players and playing soft, then you can start those other arguments. They are premature now.
Brown went 8-16 from the floor and 3-10 from 3. Butler was 10-10 from the floor and 6-6 from 3. Big difference
I agree with all that, I have the same concerns.
Absent that last sentence, and I'm convinced he will do huge things at UK. The inconsistencies bothered me. More than that, the reasons for the inconsistencies seriously bothered me. But cobbling the roster the way he did and the injuries gave it all a pass. If those same inconsistencies exist at the end of this season, I might be more cautious than optimistic. He needs to land a dude that's going to be a bonafide NPOY candidate and T5 NBA draftee. That would go a long way for me.
16-12 seems like a very odd number to cherry pick. Is there a reason you only included only part of the season?
33 pts versus 29 is a big difference? who cares about the percentage. It all ended up on the scoreboard and it all happened in a 40 min game.
So true. Offensive efficiency has no effect on the outcome or the result of a game. Goodness.
Like I told him, why does the percentage matter? It all ended up on scoreboard. both went for about 30 in a 40 min game.
Instead of being snarky, let me try to explain. The amount of turnovers UK had allowed about 10 extra Louisville possessions. Absent of that, Brown wouldn't have been able to do what he did. Butler didn't need extra possessions? Why? Because he freaking scored every single time the possession ended with him taking a shot. Surely you can understand that difference.
Nobody is downplaying anything. UK won last year because Butler basically had a Christian Laettner (only better) performance. Louisville won this year, in large part, because UK handed them about 10 extra possessions which allowed Brown to take that many shots.
It might surprise you to know that any posts not mashing Pope’s guts in the street are not sunshine pumping.
If we lose more than 10 games this year, would it be fair to start criticizing the coach? When will critical analysis be allowed? I’m just curious when it’s ok to voice concern since last year he rightfully got a free pass? Are we back to Kentucky standards this year or not?
The person who made the original post that I responded to is eluding to the fact that he thinks Kelsey is the better coach and in order to prop up that opinion made the point that UK would not have won last year had Butler not had the game he had. Thus downplaying Pope and his teams performance against Kelsey. So yes. He was downplaying last years win. I said big whup, if their guy doesn't go off then maybe don't win last night. To quote you.....Surely you can understand.
Yeah, I'm not sure I do. UK definitely won that game last year because Butler went Laettner. They also lost this one because they turned it over like crazy.
This board is full of irrational dumbasses, it's like we moved this board to here and all the dumbasses came back out. I only check in to call these guys idiots and then I leave. I think Pope still needs to figure out lineups that work and JQ if he's healthy by St John's I'll feel good he'll be our defensive anchor.
Does it really matter? 16-12 is a huge sample size and it is not very good. It could also have been 11-9 which is even worse.
Depends on how we lose them. If we have 8 season ending injuries, likely not. If everything is perfect and we stand on the court picking our nose, maybe. Depends on the criticism. "Dat coach don't shot dem 3's much as I lik". isn't a valid critic.
Tell it like it is!!! Not to mention this is the highest paid college basketball team in the world.
Expecting 40-0 and being upset our guys were down 20 and playing like crap is very different.
