Rumor is they’re having to get new basketballs after every practice cause Noah keeps shooting the cover off of emHe may end up starting.
BB Practice updates
- Thread starter Anon668007
- Start date
Practice notes - shooting the ball well, does our defense suck?
Not shooting the ball well? Do we have great defense or do we just suck offensively?
Same way with football practice, if one side does well you fear it's just because the other side is an issue.
I think the best practice reports I heard was the 2012 season, they said these guys are getting after it - a bloodbath.
When I watch any video this year the guys shooting are wide open, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE this open in the sec so please practice them like it will be. Make them play 5v6 and have a guy always around the shooters.
Not shooting the ball well? Do we have great defense or do we just suck offensively?
Same way with football practice, if one side does well you fear it's just because the other side is an issue.
I think the best practice reports I heard was the 2012 season, they said these guys are getting after it - a bloodbath.
When I watch any video this year the guys shooting are wide open, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE this open in the sec so please practice them like it will be. Make them play 5v6 and have a guy always around the shooters.
Thank you for that. Feels like the old RR board where you could ask almost any question imaginable about UK basketball and one of the posters could answer it correctly.
Our defense last year was painful to watch. How many times did our defenders just run away from a three point shooter? It happened every game it seemed and never got corrected. I think Pope's offense can be really good this year but I've seen nothing in two years that says he knows what he's doing on defense.
I am certainly no insider and I'm not as connected as I was when my father was still alive and donating to the athletic program. I still play golf regularly with some of his old buddies that are decently connected and I squeeze them for info whenever I see an opening. Though they are former football players from the 70's and early 80's and getting up there in age, they usually have some pretty good insights mixed in with the regular screaming at the clouds about the men's basketball program. I'm just a fan, alumni, and proud supporter of the program who is willing to answer questions when I have a sliver of info that may help calm the nervousness when news is slow coming out of UK.
At 6-11 (7’ in shoes?), if OND works on strength this summer, “small” ball with a stretch 5 could be something we see against the right opponents. He will have to be tough in the paint on defense for that to happen, no doubt.
Last edited:
Mason better learn to not leave his feet when guarding a guy like Wilkins. A&W is tall and long for a guard and seems to handle the ball better than most of the 2Gs we have had under Pope.
Jerone Morton is guarding him in this clip
Does pope not run a Strength and conditioning in the summer? Our guys under him do not look strong. I haven’t seen it mentioned ever but most of popes players do not look like they hit the weights.
Truly a shame that Wilkins has been on campus for at least a month and doesn’t look like Otega Oweh yet.
We have Strength and Conditioning Coaches on staff who should be handling that for Pope.
ukathletics.com
ukathletics.com
Randy Towner
ukathletics.com
Ryan Berry
ukathletics.com
Just getting ready to say the same thing. Moreno has no muscle on him. Do we have a S&C coach that is worth a darn?
weight training and conditioning is voluntary over the summer. guys need to opt in, do their own work. you are given 8 hours max per week to practice for just 8 weeks so no.....there will be no dedicated or serious S&C happening over the summer.
Hoping Williams can be what Acaden Lewis could’ve/should’ve been for us last year, would be massive!
If Mason Williams can be that solid backup PG and N'Diaye and McBribe can give us more at the 4 than we got from Jelly and Mo last season, this could be a special team. I have a lot of confidence in Zoom, Wilkins, Momcilovic, Moreno and Kam
Hope so too! Think (on paper) McBride fits better with what Pope hopes to run, just gotta hope N’Diaye can adjust quickly. Hoping they do the scrimmage against the La Familia team again this year
its unguarded drill work most likely. its not that surprising. go to any warm up session and it looks like guys never miss.
UK uses the Noah shooting machine which tabulates makes and misses and other metrics like trajectory height and uses facial recognition for each player so they shoot 100 times and the results can be trusted
Wilkins signed with the cats 2 months ago or so what exactly would you expect? Im sorry but the people that attribute a player's strength or lack there of to a coaching staff are just missing the target. Its always on the individual to be accountable for things like that.
When a player is as skilled as Wilkins you dont necessarily have to worry about how thin he is or whatever. He isn't going to be down low banging with the bigs he is going to be slithering through the defense and making plays and shots. How many guys have we seen drafted from this University who went on to have great pro careers that were skinny when they were here. It is a long list.
You are talking as if bench coaching is a strength. True coaches play styles to fit the players
Another wing player that can shoot
Can always play small ball and press
And, yet, Milan said Noah has been the best player for the first three weeks.
Noah is always good till someone guards himAnd, yet, Milan said Noah has been the best player for the first three weeks.
Myth. Weight lifting with movement training and stretching does not impact shooting. I think S Curry is known to lift weights, as an example. Weightlifting is not body building. Every great NBA shooter likely lifts weights.
To me, the most important thing is to not have any injuries.
Pope better get another backup center or potter is gonna be it.pope needs to stop recruiting players with long histories of injuries.
What would be the pitch to said player?
"We want to bring you in as an insurance policy in case of injury to our backup"
No one would consider UK at this point unless a player had the confidence that he could beat out a healthy Keppnag.
Then don't complain when potter gets abused on the defensive end by athletic sec bigs. This is a Pope problem he gambles the season on injury prong players and always winds up losing in the end.
It would be High Hopes killer if Moreno goes down. That's my big worry
As a father of a D1 beach volleyball player, I can confirm this is the case. That being said, my daughter has been doing 3 a days with cardio, weight training, and sand reps all summer, without her coaches. Most of these guys are surely lifting on their own.