***** Kentucky vs Iowa State Game Thread *****

[Shaudylo]

We are supposed to be up double digits at the half . Instead we are down 1.

They haven’t even began hitting wtf that was solid defense shots that you see in the tournament .

 

[Ukwazoo3]

If you aren’t getting calls when you are hammered it just results in a TO.

That's where your coach needs to speak up. Loudly. With naughty words.

 

[Farsight Clone]

Why not call a time out when Chandler was stuck with the ball? Nope just wait for him to turn the ball over.

Chat GPT didn't tell him too.

But seriously, he didn't call the first time out until Jason Hart screamed in his face to tell him to. Sad.

 

[ChiefPaducah]

We shot 48% from field they shot 29% and we are down 1 let that sink in.

Yeah that gives me little confidence in the rest of the game.

 

[wccat]

Anyone else think Moreno has gotten worse?

Low energy, slow, and weak. Will definitely get better but bad when you say you would rather have BG in there.

 

[loublue22_rivals308424]

even when Cal was here, we would end up in these bizarre situations lately where we can't dribble against pressure. constantly picking up our dribble, playing on our heels, our best hope to do something is the defense making a mistake. its truly mindboggling, there needs to be a wholesale change in our talent evaluation to secure guys who are skilled at all levels, quickness, dribbling, shooting, finishing at the rim. I watch other games and teams have it in spades, look at ******* High Point. It is insane the product we put on the floor at times, Iowa St saw all these deficiencies on film and are exploiting it every possession.

 

[kyjeff1]

Pope should be fired simply for the crap he’s putting on the court. I’m sorry, Lowe doesn’t fix the problem that Kentucky looks scared as crap to handle the ball. Flat out embarrassing product. Dudes look like a jv team out there trying to dribble and pass the ball.

Lowe absolutely fixes the issues we're having right now. St Johns learned the hard way, you can't press and trap JL, he will make you pay. DA doesn’t. He holds the ball and lets the defense get set and collapse on him

 

[NociHTTP]

We shot 48% from field they shot 29% and we are down 1 let that sink in.

Free throws. Hope we don't foul out our best shooters.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

and just like that we're losing at HT because literally nobody on this team can handle the damn ball.

We ArE bEtTeR wItHoUt LoWe!

 

[four_every_hour]

Now, figure out how you could avoid turnovers if I could hammer your arms and not get called for a foul. You couldn't. It isn't possible.

I just have a feeling they'll call it more in second half. They usually do

 

[simnalecho]

We played so poorly. Still only down 1. Not to mention 15 FTs to 3. We clean up the turnovers and we win this

Put Mo at the 5 and Kam at the 4 and play that way the entire 2ndhalf

 

[BigBlue1992]

And if they get rollin, we gonna get tricked as I said last night.
ISU early on looked like a jv squad fo start then Pope and his brilliant coaching stopped it with subs.
Since then... we just suck.

Wow, pitiful!

 

[19CatOfBlueBlood96]

Our only hope is to goooo!

 

[SBKY]

If we were up 30 the halftime panel would still talk about Iowa State. There would be zero praise for Kentucky

What praise would you have liked them to have said? Iowa St is shooting the worst they have all season, without their starter and are winning.

 

[Farsight Clone]

"downhill" "downhill" "downhill"

What will be the buzzword for these mouthpieces five years from now? "across the lake"?

On the other side of the pond.

 

[Seth_C]

I just have a feeling they'll call it more in second half. They usually do

They will call whatever fouls keep the game close till the end of the game, because all that matters to the refs is the point spread. They will not start calling Iowa St. for their obvious fouls unless they pull 8+ points ahead of us.

 

[megablue]

ISU has best defense I've seen, besides Houston.
We have 12 turnovers and they have 7 steals.
Pope needs to recruit legit ball-handlers !!

 

[pattyice270]

iowa st been at the line 15 times to our 3 going to make me explode!

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Put Mo at the 5 and Kam at the 4 and play that way the entire 2ndhalf

Can't do it. Pope is committed to his NBA-style rotation without a legit bench.

 

[King1959]

I’m screaming for somebody to come to meet the ball.

 

[wccat]

Pope's not built for this. It's as simple as that.

Even Pitino had to chastize Pope because Mark was crying to the media about his mental issues earlier this year.

It's pathetic to watch what a soft head coach Kentucky has now.

But unfortunately we will have to endure a third year. That is if anyone wants to come and play for him.

 

[Anon1628387640]

They were 3/16 from three which means they'll shoot 10/13 in the 2nd half.

 

[Pygmy Sasquatch]

"downhill" "downhill" "downhill"

What will be the buzzword for these mouthpieces five years from now? "across the lake"?

maybe "all in yer bum"

 

[Anon1762656614]

That's where your coach needs to speak up. Loudly. With naughty words.

If the ref aren’t going to call a T when a player blatantly kicks a ball in front of them, I don’t know what a coach can even do.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

ISU has best defense I've seen, besides Houston.
We have 12 turnovers and they have 7 steals.
Pope needs to recruit legit ball-handlers !!

Didn't we all say the same thing when Tennessee took us in the prison showers in the Sweet Sixteen?

 

[Tri-Countycat]

We played like crap, hit several 3s, turned the ball over 12 times, got a terrible whistle. Pope made no adjustments. We have a chance but this reminds me of the Texas AM pressure and we didn’t do well with it. That rebound missed by MM changed the entire half

 

[katwest]

We can’t throw the ball to Moreno or Garrison unless they have a dunk or they will throw it away or lose it. If the refs are going to let them play that way we need to go inside every time down. Pope needs to let the refs know if it’s not going to be called both ways he needs to go ballistic on then if it’s not the second half. They are getting away with slapping and grabbing every time we have the ball. You can’t play like that without fouling.

 

[rick64]

 

[FitchandMurray29]

You could call Iowa St on a foul about every trip. Constantly into our bodies and reaching.

Turnovers and fouls will determine the outcome

 

[Eight_Banners]

Since the 18-6 start, we've been outscored 25-12. What's really disappointing is we have way more experience than they do. Aberdeen is a National Title winner, Oweh/Chandler/Garrison were all in the Sweet 16 last year. Just a complete disappointment from this team this year.

We were up 18-6 at the 12:48 mark with zero team fouls. ISU finished the last 12:48 on a 25-12 run, playing high intensity defense in order to create turnovers, and somehow they finished the half shooting 15 free throws, while we shot only 3.

 

[cornbreadnmilk]

People already blaming Lowe being out if we lose this game while Iowa State's all american is out. LMAO

 

[JwUKFan11]

There are a few posters in this thread who watched that first half and are STILL bringing up injuries.

 

[KyKevin]

What a disaster to end the half you are up 7 pts with a couple mins left and you go into the half down 1

You play great D for most of the half but you make some dumb turnovers over and over and over

12 freaking turnovers

Then at the end you make like 3 straight turnovers to end the half and instead of getting a 2 for 1 with 59 secs left you turn it over twice and get a 0 for 2.

Iowa State without their best player and it don't matter.

This team should be up 10 pts not down 1

I don't see how Kentucky wins this game.

Were not, we pissed our pants and are going home, what a bunch of unfocused fkn players.

 

[MarkPftw]

We have got to stop giving the ball to our bigs at the top of the key. These guys are not Andrew Carr or Amari Williams. Put it in Aberdeen and Owehs hands and live and die with it. I cringe every time I see Garrison get the ball 30 feet away from the basket.

Can't give the ball to our bigs at all. Every time they get the ball down low, they are double and triple teamed. They did a great job at scouting our bigs and how terrible they handle the ball.

 

[Seth_C]

We were up 18-6 at the 12:48 mark with zero team fouls. ISU finished the last 12:48 on a 25-12 run, playing high intensity defense in order to create turnovers, and somehow they finished the half shooting 15 free throws, while we shot only 3.

It's almost like these games are fixed. Almost.

 

[OldScratchBlues]

I hope this is the last game Mark Pope coaches at Kentucky

Sadly it won't be. He'll get to display this garbage again next year too.

 

[bbnkat02]

They were 3/16 from three which means they'll shoot 10/13 in the 2nd half.

They were 3/16 from three which means they'll shoot 10/13 in the 2nd half.

They were 3/16 from three which means they'll shoot 10/13 in the 2nd half.

Probably

Season over

Questions about Pope and recruiting. Infighting. Meanwhile Cal smirks his way to a FF and Duke/UConn wins the title.

 

[wccat]

They were 3/16 from three which means they'll shoot 10/13 in the 2nd half.

You have to believe their shots will fall in the second half.

 

[CATALCOHOLIC]

Down one to the number 2 seed. Usually we are better in the second half. We touch them it’s a foul not so much for us!!

 

[CUJO_1970]

We bounced it off the guy's foot and he got pissy and then kicked it. Right in front of a ref. Crickets.

Kentucky gets the technical 100% of the time that happens.