Gameday thread

[kyjeff1]

Wife's family is all Michigan state fans. I absolutely hate losing to them. They're always the underdog, so when they lose, they were supposed to lose, but when they win, we look even worse than we should.

This is Billy Clyde bad right here. Pope needs to fix everything. He was better than this last year.

The lineups suck, our offense is a$$, our defense is terrible, our effort is awful. You can't just give every player free reign to shoot 3's. That's pretty stupid.

This is a loss, you can't spot Izzo this many points. 3-2 with many more losses coming. Holy crap.

 

[blackcat714]

Yeah we need Oweh chucking threes lol

Agreed him and Mo should be shooting more 3’s

 

[huntsvillecat2]

Really says everything that Mo has 4 three point attempts and 0 rebounds. Not a recipe for success at all.

 

[CUJO_1970]

This team stinks. Easily another 10-loss team, at best.

I simply don’t understand what happened to our program. This is how programs die.

 

[Monday Nitro]

You sound like a broken record, one titled "can't defend the product on the court."

Keep it up. It's amusing.

Your posting history this year is a broken record. It's like a baby lying on the ground with Milk all over the floor.

 

[rivercatinfl]

Pope looks silly now for hyping this team up in the off season like it was the second coming of the 96 wildcats.

We have a lot of players, but I wouldn't call this quality depth at all.

I agree. He kept saying this team will be Elite! Maybe he said they will have slow feet!

 

[YankeeCpt_rivals378522]

 

[Anon1751335390]

MSU is shooting 12-20 on jumpers

We are shooting 5-22 on jumpers

 

[One2Three]

time to turn this crap off. College sports all together suck. I hate NIL

We have a $20 million NIL. It’s not the NIL’s fault we suck.

 

[Hopmix]

I’m so confused how much regression our coach is showing. The defense sucked last year as well. But the offense has regressed so much that it’s mind boggling.

 

[Bill_the_cat]

YOU CANNOT PLAY MO AND GARRISON TOGETHER POPE!!!!!

The problem being Those and OO are not good outside shooters. It allows defenses to stay focused on Chandler and Aberdeen.

 

[Catsfanjim]

Yeah, because that's what he did last year against Duke and Gonzage......smh at your

This isn’t last year. We’re getting drilled and I guess that’s ok.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

We just look like we don’t want to be out there.

I saw this look in Nashville against Alabama.

We didn’t even come out of the locker room there for the second half.

Maybe we just go ahead and get on the bus now too?

 

[Kywildcat_nation28]

This team stinks. Easily another 10-loss team, at best.

I simply don’t understand what happened to our program. This is how programs die.

15 loss

 

[kybassfan]

Somebody remind me again how the game has passed Izzo by and they can’t shoot threes. I know I read that here somewhere.

 

[One2Three]

Here's something we can change immediately in the off-season. Go hire this type of position.

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This won’t solve Pope’s inefficiencies as a coach and recruiter.

 

[Yardeth]

Glad we are getting spanked, hopefully this wakes them up and stop playing hero ball. Without Aberdeen we might not have scored. Oweh a smooth-13 in the first half, sat his azz on the bench.

 

[bbnkat02]

"Sense of Urgency"

aka

LAZY

 

[chattanogawildcat]

28% FG's
27% 3's

 

[RobEStacy]

Just don't really have words... I do. But I would get banned

 

[Kingslayer07]

Our offense just doesnt work. We dont have a big that can hit a shot. This is going to be like this ALL SEASON.

 

[Seth_C]

Oweh is like 80% or even more of the reason we've struggled against UL and MSU. The drop-off from preseason expectations of his ability to what we've seen is immense.

I’m just trying to figure out where the expectations came from. The Oklahoma game last season? He was always inconsistent. Now that the pressure is on him to be the star he is absolutely wilting.

 

[KentuckyFlyer]

My whole winter just got completely fvcted. basketball is the only thing that keeps me from slitting my throat during winter. Might pull for ST Johns just so my wife wont have to wake and see me in the recliner with a slit fvckin throat.

 

[Big BlueBeard]

Shooting 28% from the field, 27% from 3 while giving up 52%/54% is not a good combo. UK is overrated, people. They may improve, but this is who they are right now.

 

[phyrekat01]

Again, you haven't posted a thing this year other than "Pope sucks". Your posting history doesn't lie but you apparently do.

Not sure if you've been paying attention, but Pope DOES suck so far

 

[Kingslayer07]

The well coached and well prepared ladies are balling on SECN!

Good call. Watching that now.

 

[Anon1628387640]

Up 17-14 to down 44-27.

 

[FireWentOut]

I spent enough years at the end of the Cal era posting about how bad things were. I'm not doing this **** anymore. If things don't look better in the first five minutes of the second half I'm out for the night. If Pope flames out then fans need to start a no BS campaign to get Barnhart out. Enough is enough.

Good luck all.

 

[The_Answer1313_rivals]

28% FG's
27% 3's

Well.......at least we are consistent lol

 

[I’m The Village Idiot]

Don’t worry, now we will throw a bunch of money at Stokes so we can suck at defense again.

I don’t want it. If the guy can’t coach defense, cut your losses and find a coach who’s up for the challenge

 

[bbnkat02]

I'm calling it a night. I'm too tired for this. Long bad day and this isn't helping.

See y'all Friday.

 

[BMR1987]

I hate this as a UK fan. I hate this for Pope. He's a nice man and I love his love for the program. I truly wanted this to work, but unless something DRASTICALLY changes he just isn't going to cut it here. IDGAF about OAD recruiting, it's everything else. Other coaches make it work without teams of OAD's and burger boys. This stage is too big for him and he's way too relaxed, period. Too soft. Lineups make no sense. Getting down big against good teams in big games is becoming far too common. Year one and that happens, fine. Year two, not so much. I could even chalk last week up to being early, against a in-state rival that's good, and on their home court. Tonight is inexcusable. You simply can't run a system built on 3's without guys that can make 3's while also giving up a gazillion points.

 

[TheBlueMist]

Poor shot selection. Poor switch outs. Poor rebounding. Poor scouting. Poor adjustments. Piss poor movement.

I don't see this team beating UNC, Indiana, St. Johns, or any upper tier SEC team (at least on the road) with the play I've seen this season so far.

We're back to the Randolph Morris days of hoping JQ can come in and save the day. SMH!

 

[Big BlueBeard]

This team stinks. Easily another 10-loss team, at best.

I simply don’t understand what happened to our program. This is how programs die.

10? This may be a 17-18 loss team.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

At least Mitch's seat is gonna really start to warm up. Pope and Cal couldn't be further apart in terms of coaching and demeanor and here we are, running into issues. That points to their boss.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

Update:

Can't score
Can't defend
Can't rebound

And no desire

that’s the real problem.

People bust on BCG. You never saw one of his teams throw in the towel.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

What's the over-under for how many times Pope bites his lip and nervously looks at the scoreboard in the second half?

 

[Broker]

Nate Oats was the obvious hire for UK. Only Mitch could flub that up.

Pope will never get us #9. All National Championship winners can play defense.

I will take Sean Miller

I think all the top end coaches had no desire to jump into the pressure cooker of KY basketball. All schools pay millions in salary and why would Oates or Miller come here and live under the microscope of our fan base? Pope is just not our answer to maintain the level of winning that our fans demand. College basketball is much like the stock market, past performance has no bearing on future performance.

 

[One2Three]

This team stinks. Easily another 10-loss team, at best.

I simply don’t understand what happened to our program. This is how programs die.

Two words: Mitch Barnhart

 

[Monday Nitro]

Not sure if you've been paying attention, but Pope DOES suck so far

Say it 100 more times tonight and you'll be on par with him. LOL at the "I only come out and bow up when we lose" crowd.