Also, I get this doesn’t mean anything in the modern college sports landscape, but he’s 25 years old. I graduated from UK two and a half years ago and he’s a year older than me!
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Unfortunately, the way Jasper plays, with his natural game, him playing the 1 would not help him or the team. He's a natural 2 who can create his own shot. Could he be the 1? Sure. Based off what I have seen, not a good position. He could do it yes, but his mental has to change and when you've been a natural 2 you're whole life, that may be challenging. He would "want" to do it in order to make a quicker develop of a 1-2 combo guard.
Agreed. Playing Jasper at the 1 won’t help us or him. Give him time. He’ll be a good shoot-first guard next year imo
Coach said on his show not going to happen
When Lowe inevitably injures his shoulder again in the SEC, it will be interesting to see Mark Pope biting his lip and looking at the scoreboard, wondering why he didn't get a mid-season addition.
This is a bone headed move. Not even trying to get a mid season pg. I bet this will hurt us
Gratitude is our backup point guard. Remember that, and everything will turn out fine.
Bring back Oscar and Hagens. Redshirt Jelly and Noah. Oscar and JQ would dominate the boards for sure.
If the staff just can’t find a good fit, then I'm okay with that. I really hope they at least tried though. You have to do everything possible to win.
Seems like a mistake to not at least keep an eye out for someone. Lowe has had three shoulder injuries/scares and our non-conference schedule hasn't even wrapped up yet.
Having faith in your players is fine, but realistically we've looked completely lost on offense with anyone else on the team running the point.
Having faith in your players is fine, but realistically we've looked completely lost on offense with anyone else on the team running the point.
Even when he wins a good game the only thing I think is that he’ll do or say something next that’ll make me say: “This isn’t the guy.”
Like he says he gets us and Kentucky, but he really doesn’t.
It will be a miracle if he makes it through the season.
I've never watched him play. But just going off of stats and what evaluators have said, Aberdeen looks substantially superior to Forrest at the PG spot.
If Forrest is a willing passer then he’s an upgrade to Aberdeen playing the PG position.
Aberdeen could play PG if he wasn’t constantly looking for his shot only.
I still hope we add a PG mid-season but realistically that’s going to mean likely having to expand the rotation and it could be a challenge to find someone willing to accept the role. There’s a reason Acaden dipped —- most guys don’t want to be set in as a backup, especially since Lowe has another year of eligibility after this one.
I can't argue with that. Aberdeen is frustrating me more as the season has progressed. But again - just off of what I've read - Forrest is about scoring not assists.
If a player played 1st semester last year and didn’t play the 2nd semester. They could have sit out thru the end of this first semester and be eligible this 2nd semester.
I don’t know if they have to withdraw from school after 1st semester or if they could just decide to sit out.
Pope can sell a g-leaguer on the idea of point guard being completely open, because it basically is with Lowe being game to game. Then you put Aberdeen at shooting guard full time. Chandler backs up Oweh and Aberdeen. JJ falls out of the rotation until he's ready to play defense. Noah falls out of the rotation. Jelavic stays out of the rotation as well.
Garrison out of the rotation as well.
C-JQ
F-Mo
F-Oweh
G-Aberdeen
G- Lowe or G-League guy
Moreno
Williams
Lowe or G-League
Chandler
JJ
Out: Garrison, Jelly, Noah, maybe JJ
100%
WAG: Pope overestimated his backup point guard by committee: Johnson, Chandler, Aberdeen. On paper you’d think they could get it done, much like last year, but just not enough ball handling or floor command among them.
I’m good with it if they find the right guy. I wouldn’t read too much into Pope downplaying it on the radio. There’s probably a little movement there, but he may prefer it hush-hush.
I think this could be a scary team on defense.
Already is. National championship level defense and Round of 64 offense.
They’re the 15th rated defense on kenpom. Let’s get crazy here.
I’m not. That’s 15th without JQ shutting half the floor out. I meant what I said.
Ok. I’m not going to debate you if you don’t agree on the defense being elite with JQ and Mo healthy in the frontcourt. Neither of us know for sure yet, but I’ll bet you we finish top 10 in KP defensively.
I won’t agree until I at least see a few games. If the statistics agree, then fine. But as it stands, we’re a little more than above average on defense… statistically, at least.
I mostly agree with this, but I bet if we developed an inside game, Noah could be freed up for some timely catch-and-shoots.
This. Noah is shooting 42% from three, on a squad that shoots only 31% as a team. You can’t just give up on the guy. And that 42% mostly came without a point guard who can create quality looks for others. Hell, Chandler is shooting like 40% from three and you have people on Twitter calling for him to be benched as well. It’s lunacy. We NEED both of those guys if we’re going to have a chance this year.
The issue with Noah is that he's basically a taller Cameron Mills. He offers very little outside of shooting. Chandler at least can play defense and can handle the ball. Noah has to play better defense. The identity of this team is leaving his skill set behind.
No, I get it. But Kyle Wiltjer was equally horrid defensively in 2012, and yet still contributed. I know Wiltjer had a little more size, but I firmly believe the presence of JQ and Lowe together will make Noah’s time on the floor a net positive. Just not a big enough sample size to accurately judge him yet, IMO.
Only slightly off topic I’ve had that dream like 40 times where one of our main guys goes down in the Final Four and Pitino is able to work a deal where he is able to start ME. Weirdest thing about it is every single time I am gullible enough in my sleep to believe wow, all those other times I was dreaming but now it’s really happening!