****Game Chat: UK versus Bama****

mash_24

Heisman
Sep 26, 2011
8,467
25,606
108
Just don’t understand how a coach can continue doing the same things game after game that aren’t working. For the love of god try something different. I thought maybe Pope had convinced these guys that defense was how they were gonna win. But the Bellarmine game and now this debacle they’ve reverted back. Popes lost. And I don’t think he commands enough respect from these guys to change things. We’re done.
 

kfwa

Senior
Oct 12, 2014
271
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I don't normally like to make absolute statements at this point in the season but its hard to believe that we will see significant change at this point.

You're asking a team to change their personality 3 months into the season. I'm afraid this is who they are. There will be a handful of games like this along with a few wins.
 

kyjeff1

Heisman
Sep 8, 2012
48,887
67,784
113
You want Lowe just chucking 3s? lol

Dude has a better chance of driving, making the bucket and getting fouled lol.
Where in my post did I single out Lowe for that?

But why not? He's hit 2 and again, we're down by a thousand with 2 minutes left and we had just turned the ball over force feeding it inside.
 

Eagles_Ball_69

All-Conference
Dec 19, 2003
2,868
3,676
82
Another loss that doesn’t count for Pope.
Dude is a total moron. Just unreal. No concept of Popes philosophy of stepping under screens enters his pea sized brain as to why Bama shot “well”. Btw, they’re pretty close to their season averages. They took more because the trash defensive approach from the trash coaching staff allowed it.
 
May 27, 2007
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Where in my post did I single out Lowe for that?

But why not? He's hit 2 and again, we're down by a thousand with 2 minutes left and we had just turned the ball over force feeding it inside.

I mean this just isn't a three point shooting team. There's really no one on this team that can shoot us back into a game.

We got back into the game by driving the ball to the hoop. We just dig ourselves too big of a hole and couldn't get any stops on defense.
 
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bbnkat02

Heisman
Nov 14, 2017
46,033
68,131
113
Getting sung out of the arena.


FIrst time Bama has won four straight.

Time to make a change. Sorry not sorry. If that makes me a bad fan so be it. I'll be the effing villain if it saves our beloved program.
 

Cowtown Cat

Heisman
Aug 23, 2015
23,056
52,143
100
I tried to push for Jasper to play, that dumb pass just ended that campaign.
Down 17 again.
Kam continues to sit though.
Pope is a mid major coach, he can't do this.
I never understood the hype to play JJ more. He just isn’t strong enough. His arms are twigs.
 
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kfwa

Senior
Oct 12, 2014
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Those Bama warm up jerseys looked like they were designed by Hello Kitty
 
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50 year UK basketball fan dating back to growing up in Oldham County. Discounting Gillespie, the last 7 years as a fan have been disturbing and disgusting. The state of the program is in shambles and obviously has fallen under Mitch oversight. Sound like broken record but Mitch needs to be fired now (at minimum). Pope needs to be fired, as I have seen enough. Whether given till end of year that can be argued, but he is wrong for role. When the basketball program and UK loses my interest (I bleed blue), there is a problem. No big check from this booster until this shitshow is addressed.
 

kyjeff1

Heisman
Sep 8, 2012
48,887
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Yeah, but when the kid pulls up from the logo, most coaches would give him that. Bama shot well
He did it one time, we left that dude open all game long, like we didn't know they were going to shoot 3's.

We have a coach that played a guy (Chandler) all game and he gave up wide open 3 after wide open 3 and made 1 himself. Why would you play a guy that continues to get burned like that?
 
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Eagles_Ball_69

All-Conference
Dec 19, 2003
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I mean this just isn't a three point shooting team. There's really no one on this team that can shoot us back into a game.

We got back into the game by driving the ball to the hoop. We just dig ourselves too big of a hole and couldn't get any stops on defense.
We never got back in the game. Stop it. It never got under 9 and only go to 9 about 2-3 possessions. That’s not back in it. Only way that’s back in it is if you’re just a soft a$$ over positive loser looking for something that isn’t there. Don’t be that guy. We already have one. And we’re paying his incompetence a$$ $5.5M.
 
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I feel like he's just trying to do too much.........which......understandable given current circumstances.
He was a bit of the same last year.

I think it's just how he plays. He isn't a natural playmaker for others or a smooth, shifty handler. His handles is the opposite of SGA. SGA is slithery and smooth. Oweh is straight and violent. When he chooses it's time to score, he takes his chances with full intent to get it to the rim even if there is a brick wall in the way.
 

rivercatinfl

All-Conference
Nov 21, 2012
1,686
1,591
97
Will not be accepting this kind of performance at all. Im just angry at this point.
I loved the Pope hire. Now I regret it.

The man is unable to fire up his players for a Nationally broadcasted game and just embarrasses UK's legendary Basketball Program.

I'm tired of paying extreme prices to attend games and getting this as the product.

I'm just pissed off.
 
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