Just want to say how freakin proud I am of our entire team! Admittedly, I’ve been overly critical of our play and singled out some of our guys too often. I’ll say that I’m just too damn fanatical a LOT of times and I’m way too reactionary in the moment. That said, I LOVE the CATS and I couldn’t be more proud and excited that we are winning the big games! 3-0 against top 10 opponents baby!!!! GO BIG BLUE!!!
Huge props to Coach Pope and our guys
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This was a huge resume building win. Helps our confidence and seeding.
When that itching begins to go hypercritical just think of today and remember to trust Mark Pope!
This team is unbelievably likable and it’s obvious they all like each other.
I’m going to be better! I have to be! It’s no fun being a jackass and I’ve done waayyy too much of it lately! This team and Coach Pope deserve better! Also I want to apologize for being way too negative to you guys as well. I will be a better fan and poster moving forward.
Dude, we are all incredibly flawed. Let’s just cheer on the Cats regardless. I expect this isn’t the last big win and we haven’t seen the last big loss. At least in your case, you owned it. Plenty of others been dead silent or make excuses. Good on you, that’s big. GBB!
Fun to have a fun winning team to cheer for … a well coached one too
This team has produced a lot of fun times so far. I think a lot of the credit for it should go to Pope. I think he's at another level on how to coach every aspect of the game. He's low key in the way he approaches it but he's very good at this job.
I just hope fans has this attitude when we eventually drop some games in league play.
and Pope knew what he was doing when he built this roster. His player substitutions are always spot on.
This team seems to get up for the big games and beats the other teams. It is the teams ranked 25 to 50 where I worry most. Like Clemson and Oh St. We just seem to let a team like that get confidence.
If we are to do really good things we need to start out playing 1000% from tip to final buzzer. We seem to have issues with that first 2 to 5 minute part of the game. Get that worked out, get playing better on blocking out, putting a body on a guy, going up and getting rebounds with 2 hands. That is what we are missing. Plus locking in on defense. We have 3 guys that are great defenders and then 2 guys that tend to get lost more on defense. I would like to see some more 1-3-1 zone to see if we can get anything going that will disrupt a team like Florida, Tennessee, Bama or Auburn.
If our guys worked on ball screen defense the whole time we did not have a game (between Oh St and Brown) then we need to continue working hard on defense. Then we need to work on just putting a body on body to make sure we get the rebound. Way too many times today where Florida just cut from the left or right side of the lane to the opposite side and had easy position to grab a board. None of our guys seem to know or want to put in the hard work to finish a defensive possession by grabbing the board.
If we are to do really good things we need to start out playing 1000% from tip to final buzzer. We seem to have issues with that first 2 to 5 minute part of the game. Get that worked out, get playing better on blocking out, putting a body on a guy, going up and getting rebounds with 2 hands. That is what we are missing. Plus locking in on defense. We have 3 guys that are great defenders and then 2 guys that tend to get lost more on defense. I would like to see some more 1-3-1 zone to see if we can get anything going that will disrupt a team like Florida, Tennessee, Bama or Auburn.
If our guys worked on ball screen defense the whole time we did not have a game (between Oh St and Brown) then we need to continue working hard on defense. Then we need to work on just putting a body on body to make sure we get the rebound. Way too many times today where Florida just cut from the left or right side of the lane to the opposite side and had easy position to grab a board. None of our guys seem to know or want to put in the hard work to finish a defensive possession by grabbing the board.
Bid win, great start to a critical 5 game strtch. We could steal both road games and have a huge start to the season.
I’m gonna be much better about it. Coach and the fellas definitely deserve us to be at our best as well!
Get on the bandwagon all the way! I know people are worried about talent but we have coaches now,. This is a team! Some are trapped in the Calipari era still, how we matchup individually.
Since I can’t post with a deleted account, I’d say you nailed that one. Dunk away if you feel the need
being critical sometimes is good, it means you care. but some of the posters on here only come out when its negative - you're not one.
You good now? Need a snickers? I know they made it clear on the football side they didn’t give 2 sh$ts.
Just busting your chops a little bit. You do you I guess.
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Great post
And honestly..I get why being overly critical at times. We spent the last 5+ years with almost no hope or joy in our basketball program
We are all a little afraid to have any optimism
So we’re going to nitpick, especially after the Ohio St game.
We’re all fanatical my friend. It’s why we’re here and it’s why the BBN is the greatest fan base in the country
I think you can do a little better than that. Wanna post an emoji of reproductive parts or something at least? And what were they supposed to say? I had whiny, crybaby posts lol. So I welcome any of the shots you need to make so I can just get it over with and enjoy taking about UK sports again which was kind of why I got upset in the first place. People don’t talk about the games and the threads become hot take threads constantly. As far as the dunks, I deserve them.You good now? Need a snickers? I know they made it clear on the football side they didn’t give 2 sh$ts.
Just busting your chops a little bit. You do you I guess.
This is what you just posted earlier this week:
Came here thinking this would be a haven for fellow Kentucky fans and likeminded individuals to discuss all these Kentucky sports. However, I hate to say that I find a lot of the people on here either completely fake trolls or a lot of irrational crybabies. It sucks all the fun out of just being a fan when you see this toxic waste of space that goes on constantly. I feel like there are about three or four opinions you are allowed to have on this site and that’s all. Mods, you all created a safe space for trolls and brainless sad sacks. Congrats! I’d like to know how to delete my account off this cesspool of a website!
You stereotyped the majority of the posters, made this grand announcement that you leaving, yet here you are a few days later. So yes people will call you out on it. You seem to have good comments to make. Just need to tough that skin up.
As I said before I enjoy your post, just bustin your chops a bit. Nothing more nothing less. We can move on no harm was intended.
Two things: one, I acknowledged it was pathetic. Two: I have the right to change my mind. I dare say if you go read those threads you will see I’m by far not the only immature person around. Lol. You got people so upset about me “announcing” that I’m deleting that they had to “announce” how upset they are by it. You’ve got one account so upset about an obvious joke from three months ago that they are still assembling a mean girls club over it, even though multiple apologies made by myself within the thread. Here’s the short of it, I’ll post here if I want to and if people are that hurt by it, that’s kind of on them frankly
I do have to again say it is refreshing that OP has acknowledged that Pope has earned the trust of at least one more skeptical fan. I think that is absolutely worthy of celebration
I really appreciate the kind post! You are one of the very best posters and fans here and I salute you for being so!!!
Thanks BBH! I truly appreciate everyone that has forgiven my bs.