*****Game Chat: UK versus St. Johns*****

Noledynasty2490

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7-11 or 8-10 SEC record at best.

With no Lowe I'd be STUNNED if this team wins 8 SEC games. We cannot score.
 

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CrimsonCats_rivals

All-Conference
Mar 22, 2022
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This offense is ugly. The scary thing is that I’m not sure how fixable it is at this point because I don’t see anything we should theoretically do well. Lowe is our only real distributor, and he’s hurt again. We don’t have any great shooters this year, and our big men don’t excel at scoring with their backs to the basket. A lot of that is still on Pope for building the roster, but from an in-game coaching perspective, there’s not many sets you can run that make up for not having any strengths to play to.
 

TheWyldKat_rivals45219

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Mar 13, 2016
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Pope can’t be back next year. The team is fine. His godawful rotations are unacceptable.
Hell I’d fire him now and let Jason Hart coach the rest of the year
Line-ups are a real head scratcher.

I don’t understand why he wants to play 2 big together.

We already have an extremely hard time running a basic offense.

Two bigs that can’t shoot limit that even more
 

FilsonCat

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Apr 5, 2007
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We're bad enough as it is. The refs don't need to stage manage the game on top of it. If the FBI wanted to be useful, I guarantee you they'd find some interesting stuff if they started investigations into some of the officiating crews.
 
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TheBlueMist

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And we're back to the announcers taking pity on us. Bruce has been awfully nice to BBN during this telecast. Maybe he's mending bridges with the fans to get us to support offer to coach the Cats.

Yeah, probably not.
 

Anon1762918729

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Nov 11, 2025
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Garrison is an offensive juggernaut
That. guy has shot 2 left handed airballs ,plus a right handed 1 footer that didnt go in , I like the young man but he's awful at basketball .. AWFUL. He plays a Nigerian that played soccer for 18 years , then. picked up basketball 12 months ago. Hes just always lost. MD
 
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gonefishin

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I am on a flight to Atlanta so I can sneak into post game media.
Pope, is it just me or should Mo and Garrison never dribble and only shoot when getting an offensive rebound?
Pope, in practice do these guys actually pass the ball to each other?
Pope, have you ever worked on an inbounds against full court pressure?
Pope, are your guards trying to break
The stat record for most dribbles in a season?
Pope, do you know it’s ok to get on the officials and show some MFN! Emotion from time to time?
 
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Noledynasty2490

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Line-ups are a real head scratcher.

I don’t understand why he wants to play 2 big together.

We already have an extremely hard time running a basic offense.

Two bigs that can’t shoot limit that even more

For some reason we have a tall dude on the bench who's played pro ball who can pass and shoot and he just cannot play a minute anymore. He's either just quit and told them he doesn't wanna play or he's slept with someone's wife or something.
 

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Kingslayer07

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This offense is ugly. The scary thing is that I’m not sure how fixable it is at this point because I don’t see anything we should theoretically do well. Lowe is our only real distributor, and he’s hurt again. We don’t have any great shooters this year, and our big men don’t excel at scoring with their backs to the basket. A lot of that is still on Pope for building the roster, but from an in-game coaching perspective, there’s not many sets you can run that make up for not having any strengths to play to.
It's not fixable until our "shooters" can make an outside shot.
 

UKCowboys

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Oct 14, 2019
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Nice to know you’d back a coach if he was 0-28. I truly believe some of you hated Cal so bad, you wanted a good ole boy nostalgia hire. Just like Mike Woodson supporters at IU. And Kenny Payne at u6. Embarrassing and sad.
Not true...not true...and not true...
Are we 0-28? Where did I ever post like someone who hated Cal? Good luck finding that. People say Pope made a mistake because we only had one PG, but he did recruit a good starter, plus Jasper is a 5 star combo guard that I think he figured would be better than he has been, plus DA could be #3 in a pinch. He did make a mistake in recruiting, sure, but does that mistake make him a crap coach? No it doesn't. Every coach you slobber over has had tough seasons. Grow a pair dude
 

LineSkiCat14

Heisman
Aug 5, 2015
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Trent Noah with 2 TOs and a foul. And thats it.

This team isnt even worth watching. Checked the game score to see how putrid our offense is, and im not gonna bother to turn it on.

If I was at the game and I saw a JMI exec or Mitch I might actually chuck a beer can at their head. Other schools lose their prominence due to external influences.. we did it to ourselves. Honestly unheard of.
 

TheWyldKat_rivals45219

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Mar 13, 2016
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Pope said we were built for this, so why can’t we score or get the ball in bounds. Pitino making him look bad right now and taking advantage of no point guard. If I were an opposing coach I would press Kentucky the the whole game, we have no answer!
I don’t think it really matters. The fact that we don’t have a point guard is preventing us from even getting an open shot. Zero open looks. Just have to go iso one one and throw it up and hope for the best.
 
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