No, the better coached more talented team that cost half of the $22million Pope spent for players. That alone is embarrassing
Embarrassing showing
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Actually look at the stats and you'll see that we shot better overall and threes we shot better free throws. They shot 15 more but what killed us was turnovers. Those are facts. Turnover were our downfall and we can fix that.
we out rebounded them and shot better at all levels. The passed better and tirned us over... that was the difference but it doesnt fot your agenda
Man, you just make **** up don't you? You don't know what Team including the cats spent what
Oweh was never AA good. He would be a great complimentary piece on a really good team, but he’s not talented enough to be “the man” to go get you buckets when you’re in a close game. And if he thinks he’s gonna get you those points by jacking up threes, he’s also dumber than I thought he was.
No excuses. You can’t always have a team of new players play lights out in November at an away game like that. Very, very few teams would have had a chance to win that game the way Louisville played. It’s truth, you cannot always come out like you want. Wait until the team drops a lot of games before you take anything from that. My God, it’s barely out of October and they almost won that game. They had a great shot.
I want to win every game and I’m not someone that has ever made excuses. Kentucky needs to uphold our records start to finish. But we have a coach who gets that. But you can’t beat a team every single time. 18-40. The way Louisville wanted that game and played, I can guarantee you the midget noticed exactly what I’m saying. Louisville could not hit harder than that. It’s their max. And they almost lost at home to a team wud never played together at all when they weren’t even 75% of what they will be.
I’ll be concerned when I see them dropping more games than this and after they’re at least fully healthy and at max effort. That wasn’t close to that tonight.
We got punched hard by Mike Tyson tonight, once in the first half and once in the second. We didn’t stay down, we got up and landed a flurry that almost won us the fight. The final round we made poor decisions and ended up losing but both teams had big big runs tonight. It was the 14 TOs the their 6 that cost us. Protect the ball and make better decisions tonight and we win that game by 3-4.
Even as poorly as we played for stretches we were down 4 with 3 minutes left and shooting a one and one with the momentum in our favor. We just didn’t execute down the stretch. We don’t dig that hole though and we win even not playing our A game.
I hate losing to Louisville as much as anyone but hats off, they won one finally. They came prepared and played a better more consistent game. Had we played our A game we would’ve won, our C game was good enough to take it to the final minutes. That’s shows me all I need to know. Time to grind and execute as the season goes on.
Even as poorly as we played for stretches we were down 4 with 3 minutes left and shooting a one and one with the momentum in our favor. We just didn’t execute down the stretch. We don’t dig that hole though and we win even not playing our A game.
I hate losing to Louisville as much as anyone but hats off, they won one finally. They came prepared and played a better more consistent game. Had we played our A game we would’ve won, our C game was good enough to take it to the final minutes. That’s shows me all I need to know. Time to grind and execute as the season goes on.
pope spent 22 mil for these guys because he had to, he cant recruit better players so he has to overpay for average ones
If Anon says something there’s a 80% chance it’s a troll at this point.
And not playing with any FIRE......in our biggest game of the year not called the National Championship Game??? It's an epic coaching failure #2 as a HC if you can't get your team fired up for our biggest rival, if I recall we sucked butt in the Arkansas game last year....epic coaching failure #1, losing to our former HC.....Pope can't win the big games. He's too soft
Listen, just shut the **** up everybody knows you're trolling and that you can't stand Pope
Lol....focused on defense????? They better re-focus cause our defense sucked butt, wide open shots, multiple open shots under the basket and in the paint, just a pathetic defensive performance. Even Jay said horrible defense in so many words.
To be fair, he missed on at least 3 players that would be big impact. So he did try to get them, just couldn’t.
yep theres certain games under pope that i feel we have very low odds of winning, the arkansas game last year i felt we had no chance, and the louisville game this year
When they went on the big first half run, our veteran led team jacked up bad shot after bad shot. It's one thing to miss quality looks, but you can't be a well coached group of veterans and panic shoot 3's early in a game to dig a massive hole.
And we didn't want it bad enough to sell our mother????? Our biggest rival...a huge game for both schools with potential recruits watching...are you insane?? This game means a lot a d it does for we UK fans, go back to your dream world
What are you talking about? They shot 32.5% from 3. Missed 10 FTs. If they actually played "lights out", it'd be an RJ Barret / Zion level beatdown.
Are we ever gonna have a team that doesn’t lose 10 games. I’m so sick of being mediocre. We haven’t been dangerously good since Covid.
It is pretty funny to see who has the most ridiculous post of the night halfway through game #3. Its not even that they are quitting on a winnable game, its that they are ready to quit on the season and the coach LMAO
18-40. Nobody even pays attention to UL. Did you see all that blue in the arena? Lousville is trash we can’t win EVERY single game. lol. Lousville is irrelevant.
They finally have an actual coach so we may start taking more losses. He outcoached Pope tonight.
no, it doesn’t mean as much for UK. I’m a die hard UK fan raised UK but out of state. I’ve never met a losiville fan. Thought nothing of them at all. To everyone outside of losiville it’s just another team in the state. Their own city is half UK. Nobody knows or pays attention to Louisville. So no, lousville thinks about it. UK really doesn’t.
Through most of the game UL played as good as they possibly could. Kentucky played about 30% of potential. Losuville is 18-40 against UK. It’s a blood bath. We can’t win them all. Louisville is trash, no name program who has no following. We’ve won 40 of 58, that’s about as good as it gets. Can’t win them all.
Eh, it’s game 3 barely out of October. Nobody out coached anybody. It’s was an early home game for UL and a superbowl for them. Tough to win it when you come out like we did, and we still almost did.
But that's the same problem we had last season coming out slow and having to turn it on late. Pope has to fix that.
Thanks for the honesty. Although im curious why you singled out that specific post where I said UK had more talent and not any of my other posts where I actually do criticize the team?
The biggest concerns about Pope is he is a career 63.8% winning percentage. Sure he coached at Utah Valley and BYU but he was playing against Utah Valley and BYU competition.
The other concerning thing about the guy who “understands the assignment” is we have had double digit duds of games in his 39 games. Terrible performances against OSU, Clemson, Georgia, Ole Miss, Vandy, Arkansas, Bama, Bama, Tenn, Auburn, UL and even the Georgetown game.
The other concerning thing about the guy who “understands the assignment” is we have had double digit duds of games in his 39 games. Terrible performances against OSU, Clemson, Georgia, Ole Miss, Vandy, Arkansas, Bama, Bama, Tenn, Auburn, UL and even the Georgetown game.
I think there’s a difference in couldn’t and choosing not to outbid the other schools.
We will see if it comes back to bite him by missing the final 4
If Pope blew a 20 point lead down to four point leads with a one on one being taken, you would've lost your ****!
I didn't say that, so don't twist my word like a Democrat. He said he out coach Pope and I don't think he did. I think the issue was executing. They passed better so they had more assist and they took care of the ball better both of those Things are on the players. No I don't think Pope coached his best game, but kelsey didn't either.