Every game is wide open, his teams don’t win unless they score in the 90s. Can’t win games in the 70s. Pope had never had a defense. He was a bad choice for the SEC. His style gets his teams eaten alive when the offense doesn’t show. I’ve been trying to be positive but pope isn’t gonna have the cats at the top of the SEC. His style works out west. It should have stayed that way.
This is how pope coaches the game
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Dude, let him out a team together when he has more than a month and quit being a baby
It will get better. I think pope is smart enough to know how to win in the SEC. Give him time.
I don’t see evidence in his 9 year coaching career so suggest that he’s gonna have a capable defense in this league. Prove me wrong
Hard truth no one wants to hear. Literally no one was trying to hire Mark Pope until Barnhart came along
UK is down its primary and backup PG. It makes a difference.
It’ll be interesting who we target in the portal. Toughness, defense, and rebounding need to be priority #1.
It would be easy if the issue with our defending was a lack of effort. It goes deeper than that.
At BYU his defensive rankings were 60, 65, 70, and 30 the last four years. Any of those four would have been good enough for this team with how good the offense was at full strength. We're at 89th before tonight and it'll probably drop into the 100s after tonight. That's a huge difference from where his defense was at BYU.
Makes a big difference when the entire team is comprised of mid major players
And they haven't played defense anywhere they have been. They just don't have the athleticism and quite frankly some of them are too dang soft and don't give any effort on defense
We should never play man to man defense again ... Were not stopping anyone from 3, at least stop some of those wide open layups
We'd be 12th on the cusp of 11th in Kenpom if we defended like BYU did last season.
Anyone who’s followed popes coaching career knows what his teams are like. He has a good roster but he’s getting whipped as the season draws along.
This is my stinkin point. He isn’t compatible with the SEC. Zero defense. He’s not gonna get another building season next year he’s gonna need to be much higher than 10th in the sec
We literally just beat Tennessee a week ago. We are embarrassing ourselves on the court and on this message board with **** like this
Yup. At full strength I really believe this team is a 2 or 3 seed. As frustrating as it is at this point, there's not much you can do about the injuries and losing your PG and best on ball defender is just a double whammy that the best coaches would struggle to fix. Add the SEC being an incredibly physical league and the most talented it's ever been and it's just not a recipe for success.
We beat Tennessee because they missed 35 wide open threes
I guarantee when/if Butler comes back it's not going to get much better. The defense was bad with Butler also
Only embarassment right now is the product on the court and losing a must win home game Saturday
Yeah I’m fine if we don’t get an other player like brea ever again. He is useless, the 3s aren’t worth the trade off of how dogshit a defender he is
Your posts say different a month ago
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If I’m going the route Barney did I’m going after pitino for a 3-5 year run THEN bringing in a pope or other after a few years of pitino coach development.
If I’m going for the program and the program only I figure out how to make nate Oates happen even if I have to have a 1 year interim coach. Nate oates and Kentucky were made for each other.
The blue-tinted goggles people are going to burn you for this. But they are the same people that attacked you and I when we told them very early on that Wheeler wasn’t the guy…
Check out the incoming players and put them alongside the guys expected to return and tell me what next year looks like. The roster will potentially have less talent and will definitely have less experience.
This is true. Pitino’s cheerleading seemed to make an impact. Does Pitino REALLY care that much about Kentucky’s basketball fortunes ??
We beat Gonzaga without Butler. Tennessee just smoked Florida without Zeigler.
We are regressing in almost every area. We were still giving up 100 with Butler. The team is imploding. That is on the coach.