And most of the SEC are in the same boat.
I think Auburn is the only team that has a chance at a winning record on the road in SEC play.
I don’t understand….
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I think Auburn is the only team that has a chance at a winning record on the road in SEC play.
100%. Look at how UT lost yesterday lol poor things. Glad we don't play at Florida.
Years ago when we lost to UNC in the tournament, easily one of the poorest officiated games of all time, I stopped watching 95% of sports after that. There's VAST corruption in all levels of officiating these days!
I think Jaxson is so desperate to impress Pope, the fans or whatever that it's taking away his focus. He looks afraid to take any risks. How else do you God-awful airballs one after another? Something isn't right, and then his body language. It's not about you, Jaxson.
Our guys are playing hard. This is not an effort problem. They might not play well, they might not play smart, but they give effort. You can't guard a guy you just can't guard. I could go out there again MJ and play like my hair is on fire and he will still kill me.
We have to play as unit because the overall talent is not there individually. Sometimes the line ups are a bit puzzling but Pope is still learning this team too. These guys are finished products for the most part individually. But we are far from a finished product as a team.
We have to improve our team defense and we have to improve our defensive rebounding. This a zone team. It's just not built to guard man to man. But I would guess Pope is using zone in practice and maybe we aren't good at that either?
We have to learn to backdoor these teams that overplay the perimeter. We did against Fl so Pope knows this. Last night we couldn't make a layup either. Or we turned it over on the entry pass. Williams has some skills but no upside. Maybe just let Garrison grow into it? He does have an upside.
We have issues. But it's not effort.
We have to play as unit because the overall talent is not there individually. Sometimes the line ups are a bit puzzling but Pope is still learning this team too. These guys are finished products for the most part individually. But we are far from a finished product as a team.
We have to improve our team defense and we have to improve our defensive rebounding. This a zone team. It's just not built to guard man to man. But I would guess Pope is using zone in practice and maybe we aren't good at that either?
We have to learn to backdoor these teams that overplay the perimeter. We did against Fl so Pope knows this. Last night we couldn't make a layup either. Or we turned it over on the entry pass. Williams has some skills but no upside. Maybe just let Garrison grow into it? He does have an upside.
We have issues. But it's not effort.
Manhandled is the perfect word to use. I know the refs were very poor but we definitely need a big man who won't get pushed around so easily. I thought Garrision and Williams were gonna be fairly stout but they don't seem to be able to hold their own.
I like someone who has a mean streak that just won't be shoved around. Maybe we can get someone out of the portal. Moreno ain't it. Garrison may develop?
Right now the bigs in the SEC will have their way with us.
Not always, but often, players who are not quick and athletic get easily out-quicked and it appears to be lack of effort. I cannot decide if that’s the case with Carr, Brea, Robinson and Williams, or not, but it might be. I don’t know.
Agreed. I thought we were done with beanpole freshmen being pushed around in the SEC rasslin matches. We are done with freshmen but these guys are being pushed around too.
No he's an outright troll. Never has anything good to say. Can always count on that purple T being followed by garbage takes.
Effort is an issue with only a couple players that I see. If you watch Robinson for example, he is a major head case. Seems like a good dude but when things aren’t going his way, we got issues. He starts to pout and move around like he just ate too many edibles and aged 60 years.
The same can be said for guys who aren’t good ball handlers. You see a guy with an opportunity to attack a close out instead turn and look for someone to pass it to on the perimeter, that looks passive but often the player lacks confidence in his ability to make the play.
I don't think that someone who is constantly negative is a "troll". We're all human here, some of us have a lot of things going on personally that others are unaware, and we channel things differently. I could be wrong.
Who are you and why do you feel responsible for being his mom? I don't need a moral high ground speech. Some people are just asshats and deserve to be treated as such. I see his comments and make my own opinion. He hates everything about this team and probably UK as a whole. Thanks though.
Who am I? What is this, your second or third account? I'm not his "mom", nor your's, but I do think you're going after others to try and lift yourself up. Try and raise one another up. Try being civil, and you're welcome.
When we play to our potential, we are a top 10 team, when we play like we have in our 3 losses, we aren't top 25.
We can't just look at how bad we played in 3 games and say we aren't top 10, everyone else has warts too and we have wins over Duke, Gonzaga and Florida. 2 of those teams are legit FF contenders and one of them just smoked UT by 30.
It comes down to, where do we go from here? Do we improve? Do we fix our mistakes? Do we level off?
We might be top 10 right now, but the teams with more talent (except Arkansas) are going to get better and most SEC teams are going to be seriously battle tested.
I really think the SEC is going to make us stronger this year. We're probably going to take one on the chin this Saturday, which will drop us well out of the top 10, but we're still a top 10 team IMO.
I think he's frustrated. He thinks he's got NBA potential and things aren't going well for him, so he pouts instead of digging in.
I dont see it. He's a massive drop off from any of our 3 nba guards from last season.
That's the problem with stealing guys from mid-major programs, those guys usually don't have a very good weightroom program, because they are traditionally finesse style teams and even though BYU was in the BIG12 last year, it was their first year there from the WCC. Jaxson doesn't have an ounce of muscle on him, he's going to struggle against SEC wings.
Right, I think reality is setting in. He's not an NBA talent, not even close.
Pope needs to fix that kids attitude issues, once he starts pouting, might as well get him out and leave him out.
He acted like a child Tuesday night.
Very surprised CMP has not used more multiple defenses like he did against Gonzaga or pressed in spots to change tempo
We put absolutely no pressure on ball allowing easy ball reversal and basically allowing the ball to get anywhere the opponent wants it to go - I know we are not that athletic but we are a veteran team and should be crafty and able to block out and limit foul attempts by the other team
We put absolutely no pressure on ball allowing easy ball reversal and basically allowing the ball to get anywhere the opponent wants it to go - I know we are not that athletic but we are a veteran team and should be crafty and able to block out and limit foul attempts by the other team