The Journey - Champion's Classic
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14 mins. Man they cooked with this one
Inject that **** straight into my veins
Pope continues to impress me, he KNEW that it was gonna be Flagg, he was gonna spin into the lane and had our guys ready to strip him
Well done. You see Pope reading the game, knowing the ISO was coming and the spin from Flagg. You see the ability to get the objective out there to a group of vets and those guys going out and doing it. Love this video package.
I eat this stuff up!
Thanks for posting OP!
Thanks for posting OP!
Yes and I absolutely loved Pope's halftime speech! Not yelling at the players or being negative. Just being positive and giving them clear instructions on how they can be better in the second half.
There's nothing I want more than for Mark Pope to be as successful as he could ever be at UK. He has such a calm but passionate approach and showed zero fear, which overflowed into the players’ attitudes.
Pope is coaching and preparing our players for battle....
Sure beats RUN!!!!!
Sure beats RUN!!!!!
What do we do with frustration. We spit it out and turn it into fight. 
. Bars
. BarsIt will never get old watching that !!
The players have to love Coach Pope! Someday there will be a Pope jersey hanging with the championship banners.
Are you kidding me with that halftime talk Pope gave? Absolutely unreal. Dude just walks in and breaks down the minutia of everything and his brain works so fast it’s hard just to keep pace with him.
Then he tells the team EXACTLY what they are going to do to fix it - BUT - the team is so damn well coached THEY ALREADY KNOW.
Just unreal. We ended up with the perfect coach for Kentucky basketball.
Then he tells the team EXACTLY what they are going to do to fix it - BUT - the team is so damn well coached THEY ALREADY KNOW.
Just unreal. We ended up with the perfect coach for Kentucky basketball.
Send this to all recruits. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this?
Whoever made that video did a masterful job.
The soundtrack was perfect. Every part of it. I wonder who makes the music. I was impressed. Made me tear up a little at the end. Our fan base has been forced to eat dog shizz for so long. It's nice to finally start turning the corner with a coach who doesn't take it for granted.
The soundtrack was perfect. Every part of it. I wonder who makes the music. I was impressed. Made me tear up a little at the end. Our fan base has been forced to eat dog shizz for so long. It's nice to finally start turning the corner with a coach who doesn't take it for granted.
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UK does such a great job with these videos.
I mean cmon coach. Are you kidding me?! Paraphrasing but When we get cooper on iso. He starts to work. We need a body right there when he starts to spin. Two hands take the ball.
Dead on. I mean dead freaking on.
Dead on. I mean dead freaking on.
I like that, “gotta use our championship chest!”
Coach Popestradamus. I tried to stop it at the right moment, but it didnt work. Go to 11:20 of the video.
Not even a Final Four chest.
The level that Pope talks and teaches at is so far above Calipari I can’t even believe it. I know Cal’s methods were way different but he pinpoints the problems and shows how to fix the. Quickly where Cal always had 4-5 things he wanted to do whether it cost us the game or not.
Garrison played so amazing second half, Kerr Kriisa brought some crazy energy and that 3 was huge. Otega, Butler, and all of them played some crazy defense. I love how we always break it down into 4 minute sections like we gonna bring it all game baby! Oh and Jaxson Robinson had maybe his worst offensive game he will have here and still found multiple ways to contribute and he was just as happy at the end as anyone. That’s a true team player.
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He is a leader and a teacher, I see nothing about this man that leads me to believe he will fail here. Ever time I see this dude he impresses me more. Get him the resources and the right players and I don’t see how we can’t do huge things. That coaching at the end of the game about Flagg was some of the best coaching work I’ve seen here in 20 years.
The amazing thing is that's a coach's read in advance that is eerily similar to one he described Larry Bird doing way back in April in his first radio show with Tom Leach. Man, the chills this season is giving me.
Words cannot express how grateful I am that Pope said "Number 7" in the halftime talk instead of Ka-nipple.
I loved one other key point he made... "when you go for the strip, go hard or don't go...go with 2 hands because they are less likely to call a foul" than when you swipe with one hand
Now I'm worried b/c the last coach use to always scream "2 hands", too!
Of course, it was lacking the incredible detail and scouting of when/where to go with 2 hands, so maybe there's a slight difference??
Boys and girls, we got ourselves a COACH.
The only time I remember Cal screaming about 2 hands was rebounding but we were the most gambling and swiping defense with him because he didn’t teach them how to properly guard ball screens. Plus he switches everything all game no matter what. Pope is so far above him on a technical level it’s crazy. That’s probably why Cal is always screaming because he doesn’t know how to properly teach kids to do what he wants.I loved one other key point he made... "when you go for the strip, go hard or don't go...go with 2 hands because they are less likely to call a foul" than when you swipe with one hand
Now I'm worried b/c the last coach use to always scream "2 hands", too!
Of course, it was lacking the incredible detail and scouting of when/where to go with 2 hands, so maybe there's a slight difference??
It was an amazing win. So many doubters make it sweeter.
He and the staff are so smart, it’s definitely something I wouldn’t have expected from the last staff. Or atleast the latter part of the his time here, maybe the first part years yes.
The video brings chills! Pope is so detailed and is doing a masterful job! Recruits are gonna want to play here.
Yeah, I know Cal talked about 2 hands on rebounds... I was just having fun with the not-so-similar comparison.
I'm pretty sarcastic by nature, and the drastic difference b/t Cal & Pope has just unleashed it in a major way...just too much low hanging fruit.
Ah ok I didn’t know if he actually said that about steals or not.Yeah, I know Cal talked about 2 hands on rebounds... I was just having fun with the not-so-similar comparison.
I'm pretty sarcastic by nature, and the drastic difference b/t Cal & Pope has just unleashed it in a major way...just too much low hanging fruit.
And that was an awful take attempt by Flagg. He was already losing it before Otega went for the strip. He almost just handed the ball to Otega.
Maybe a product of fatigue?
And: “Everybody is jealous of where you are now, nobody is jealous of how you got there.”What do we do with frustration. We spit it out and turn it into fight.
The other day my girlfriend said to me, “do you ever cry? I’ve never seen you cry.” I told her, “that’s because you don’t watch UK games with me!”