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Just accept the fact this team is not good

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HalHR2500

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Bad coaching and roster construction
Pieces don’t fit on either end of court
Lack of physical and mental toughness
Too many forced shots
Poor passing and shooting team

Just accept it, don’t fight it
 
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Cats_2010

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I know I’ve accepted it as sadly the loss tonight didn’t upset me in the slightest. When I don’t have high expectations I can come very apathetic very quickly which I did after the Mich St game.
 
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buc puppet

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I feel like pope just made so many mistakes in the offseason. He tried to do too much. He should have allowed Orlando to stay because he sucks at recruiting. We didn’t need 16 kids who all expect to play 10 plus mins a night. He spent a butt ton of money on backups. He needed fo get better athletes but he overcorrected and took away our shooting. He got careless driving the Ferrari and dinged it up
 
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IL_Wildcat

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Yep, I bleed blue, always will. But there is no question this team is just not good. It's amazing we paid these guys $22 million. They're not even close. I was expecting 2 losses this week and I'm gonna get it. Even when we had a lead near the end, I was still expecting a loss. This team should be unranked, really not even top 50.
 
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Mark freaking Fox! FFS. Pope had resources to go toe to toe with anyone and he assembled a staff with Mark freaking Fox and a team of guys with major flaws. I’m not upset with the players. Pope crapped the bed on landing talent and has nobody lined up for next year.
 
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FitchandMurray29

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gbl97 said:
The 3 hurt guys can't shoot either.
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At least Lowe could’ve in theory scored.

Crazy to think back, outside of Oweh, Lowe is the only player on our roster to ever average double figures in college basketball. Not a shock that these 2-7 PPG type misfits with no PG can’t score.

Pope deserves to be crushed beyond belief for tonight and this roster.
 
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One2Three

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20MRoster said:
Remember the days when we wondered what value Bruiser brought? Didn't realize those were the good days...
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Hiring Fox while letting Antigua go was when I realized Pope wasn’t as serious about assembling an elite coaching staff as much as I thought. He basically hired his friends so if anyone thinks there’ll be any assistant coaching changes going into next year, I wouldn’t count on it.
 
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Artlaibesghost

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Pope is going to have to change his offensive philosophy until and IF he gets all his players healthy. We desperately needed Mo on the boards tonight. With players available right now I have serious doubts we can be a tourney team at all. As UNC teams go this one isn't that good and we simply couldn't score enough points to beat them He might want to go to a 4 guard line up or try playing really big with Moreno , Garrison/and big Serb. Going to have to try something , what he's doing ain't working.
 
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Already have. That’s why I didn’t watch a single second of the game tonight. I’m slowly turning apathetic towards UK basketball and really UK sports in general.
 
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LineSkiCat14

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fisherscatfan said:
Mark freaking Fox! FFS. Pope had resources to go toe to toe with anyone and he assembled a staff with Mark freaking Fox and a team of guys with major flaws. I’m not upset with the players. Pope crapped the bed on landing talent and has nobody lined up for next year.
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I wondered about this... Can head coaches really just go pluck anyone they want as assistants? I guess nothing is stopping them. But I get the sense you take guys with you that you know. Just like Calipari largely did, he got HIS guys in here. Some good, some not so good.. but it worked for a while.

So who is/was Pope bringing with him? What real coaching connections does he have to get assistants on board? Pope doesn't really seem to have the clout or the connections.
 
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