GU beats Kentucky then grabs a top 20 recruit
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Except for a generational freshman like Wall, Anthony Davis, Zion etc, I wouldn't care if we ever recruited another one
It's kind of hard sometimes to know who those guys are...except that they're generally ranked the #1 recruit, like Stokes.
Well since they had 0 recruits last year I doubt UK had anything to do with it. These I need attention posts are kid like.
Thought it interesting. Was talking to a guy who’s a Kansas fan. He said in 2023 Kansas lost an exhibition to team Bahamas. Went on to talk about how meaningless the exhibitions are. I said well UK just lost to Georgetown in an exhibition, and he was like oh well. It happens. Good thing it’s not real.
When a Kansas fan understands it better……
When a Kansas fan understands it better……
I have a good feeling if Cal was still the coach , this game would have mattered to you a lil bit.
Pope and his staff can use that game film to help get this team better prepared for the season. They definitely learned more from that loss than they would have playing a small school and winning by 40 points.
Nah I never cared about any of our exhibitions. It might have been more of the same, so I might have thought here we go. But It’s all relative to how Pope does what he does, Calipari is relative to his own patterns. There’s no pattern here. Calipari was completely checked out and trying to battle behind the court. He was detrimental and we still have yet to fully recover from his last 5+ years. None of which has anything to do with Pope beating Purdue and losing to Georgetown during fake games.
I don’t blindly support coaches. We had about 25% of this fanbase supporting calipari over this program. I won’t do that for Pope, and I won’t do that for a guy like Calipari who’s cared zero about our programs legacy btw. Pope actually cares about this place so he deserves far more respect based on that and what he’s already done here.
I just don’t believe a lot of people understand what goes on during exhibitions. I’ve played in many so I know. On top of that, we were down 3 future starters, 2 of which are supposed to be playing now. The best thing to do is weigh the situation without bias on its own. I do think Pope needs a little more time to get everything right given the importance he could bring here, but he’s got to perform. But there’s no evidence to support Mark should be under fire at all here. Calipari was giving mountains of evidence he was detrimental to this program, while probably 25% of this base (maybe a little less) was so bought by his cheap charisma they didn’t care and didn’t see it. Calipari I gave until around 2019 because of his first 5 years and the fact we needed that modern goat. We still don’t have it. If Mark can get that then it’s better anyway, so I will give a longer rope to see if it clicks. Exhibitions are not games they’re glorified practice. I never watch exhibitions except for rare occasions. I rarely watched Calipari’s exhibitions either.
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Right and that’s exactly what these are for. There’s no guarantee pope had any desire to win that game. Coaches will utilize these to work on things to see how it works. The loss doesn’t mean anything so that’s a good time to see. And they’re good learning curves, right.
If a pattern presents itself then okay, but what we have is Pope having a crazy good year after Calipari left the program gutted. Couldn’t even tell you the last time Calipari got close to beating Duke. Mark has done a crazy good job maintaining the program during this transition. Have no idea why anyone would use a scrimmage game to make judgements.
Guys that don’t know much about sports or didn’t play sports growing up are the ones that are freaking out.
not gonna lie, I’ve seen quite a few comments that appear to show some don’t quite understand what scrimmages are for. Hey maybe we suck this year. I don’t buy it but if it happens it happens. We’ll have those discussions then. But these scrimmages were not a glimpse into that.
Everyone will calm down when our season starts and we actually have a point guard running the offense. We are going to be really good this season
True, but if it did count there one of the few teams to hold us winless in Rupp and winless overall. I never shy away from playing anyone, but we seemingly are cursed to shoot like igloos against them.Checks notes, sees no losses to Georgetown for 25/26 season.
It was in Rupp. It matters. Does it matter in the W-L column? No. But it sure has put a bit of a damper to start the season.
It also matter we got waxed. Wasn't like we gutted it out and lost by a couple. THAT would've been a bit better.
Again, what matters is what we were working on. What matters is we were down 3 starters 2 of which are part of our immediate rotation. Scrimmages are used to do different things. The point is NOT to win, the point is to work on things you want to observe. I don’t know what Mark was doing, he’s not saying. I don’t know if winning was even something he was interested in. I’ve played ball all through I’ve coached I’ve done it. I’ve thrown pitches in scrimmages I wouldn’t dare throw in games. I’ve seen it, It’s a scrimmage to have a real game feel but to try and work on things you need to work on without losing games. The clue is we waxed Purdue just before. Obviously Georgetown was interested for whatever reason, maybe Cooley wanted to build confidence and Pope was working on situational things. I have no idea. But I do know these scrimmages don’t tell you anything necessarily. It depends on what we’re working on.
There was NO loss. It was a PRACTICE. That’s not a loss in Rupp.
I think Pope and company feel very about that. And so do the fans.
I'm not mailing anything in, but we saw a lot of similar issues to last year at times that I hope get fixed ASAP.
And last year Kansas was the pre season number 1 team and got walloped by Arkansas in an exhibition game and look how their season turned out. Sometimes they matter sometimes they don’t.
I was extremely impressed with how well coached Georgetown was. Cooley seemed to know exactly how we were running our sets, He‘s a good coach. I think they can make some noise this year.
That being said, I think Mark was just experimenting with numerous combinations, and wasn’t hellbent on winning the game. At least that’s what I‘ve convinced myself of.
That being said, I think Mark was just experimenting with numerous combinations, and wasn’t hellbent on winning the game. At least that’s what I‘ve convinced myself of.
And that’s really my only point. I don’t know what Pope had planned for that game. I don’t know if he ever cared about the score. Sometimes you do sometimes you don’t. It depends on what you’re working on. I cannot know what he was doing so I write it off. If it happens in real time action then okay but there’s no way I’m going hard up over a fake game that I have no idea what the purpose was.
Let’s not forget 3 future starters and 2 current starters (and our PG) did not play lol. Not sure why so many are up in arms but that’s how we roll. I sill love it in ways.
I always watch. I remember almost getting beat by Athletes In Action years ago lol
For some reason the blue white game and exhibitions never interested me. I’m not sure why as I watch pretty much anything UK related across a lot of sports. I guess it’s just knowing it’s fake makes me meh. But if I don’t go to Midnight Madness I don’t watch that either.
Probably just stale to me after all these years. I’m exiting my 30’s soon, I dun growed up.
I’m sure I’ll be ready to run Pope outa here by end of the year. I’m trying to think long term on this one. We need a former champion player to put in the legacy line as a modern goat coach. I’m seeing something that makes me think it’s coming, not sure what it is. One aspect is I think the brass has no choice, football is so bad might as well dump the money into basketball to keep the base stable. Well we need final fours and titles for that, and I think a lot of guys want it for Mark that contribute.