Offense purposely vanilla tonight per Pope

[MidseasonTweak]

Goal was defensive work. Makes more sense why the offense had little to no flow.

We will see how well this holds up.

 

[Eagles_Ball_69]

Goal was defensive work. Makes more sense why the offense had little to no flow.

We will see how well this holds up.

Almost makes you wonder if Pope painted the narrative after the game.

 

[FLBBNFAN]

Almost makes you wonder if Pope painted the narrative after the game.

Yeah 19 turnovers couldn't of been part of the keeping it vanilla plan. That sloppy play looked like last year. Not being able to break the press against a scrub team is not great.

 

[kyjeff1]

Not buying that.

 

[Catastic5]

We’ll see.

 

[Eagles_Ball_69]

Not buying that.

Nobody with a clue and truly gets Pope would. Dude lacks serious leadership qualities.

 

[RunninRichie]

 

[BluWildcatz]

 

[kyjeff1]

Nobody with a clue and truly gets Pope would. Dude lacks serious leadership qualities.

I want to believe him, I just don't. I'm going to continue to ride this 3rd year out, but I know that Pope needs to start being more aware of his flaws than he currently is, because if he doesn't and he does end up getting canned, it's going to destroy him.

 

[sk73]

Pope doesn't want the mighty Manhattan Jaspers seeing our real offense. He wants them to be unsure about us using a left or,right handed offense.

 

[Eagles_Ball_69]

I want to believe him, I just don't. I'm going to continue to ride this 3rd year out, but I know that Pope needs to start being more aware of his flaws than he currently is, because if he doesn't and he does end up getting canned, it's going to destroy him.

Man, that’s the odd thing with him. He’s SUPER hard-headed and unwilling to see or acknowledge his shortcomings. Just like the “my first two years were better than Cals last five” crap. True or not, it’s a really weak-minded narrative to try to push.

My take is he’s got zero confidence in his own ability. The result is posturing. It’s a recurring trait in guys like that.

 

[darkshadesofblue]

Re-tooling to be a better defensive unit. Offense is still learning to be more efficient

 

[yoshukai]

The high pick&roll and Zoom action are staples in a Mark Pope offense. Didn’t see much if any of that tonight. So yeah, I believe him .

 

[Pensacola_Cat_Fan]

Nobody with a clue and truly gets Pope would. Dude lacks serious leadership qualities.

Some of you are just miserable people.

 

[Eagles_Ball_69]

Some of you are just miserable people.

Rather than make a statement that does nothing to prove me wrong, please feel free to ad context as to what you think are his redeeming qualities as a leader of elite college athletes is. That actually takes a little bit of a thought. I could just reply “some of you are weak snowflakes”, but that’s kind of shallow, huh?

 

[AJG-15]

You can’t work at everything. Prioritizing defense is smart. We are out of shape but is early.


spacing and offense would is all about schematics. I would not show everything in the first exhibition game.

i don’t think MP lied. It makes perfectly sense what he said.

 

[NociHTTP]

Turning the ball over 19 times and still winning by 20 is nothing to laugh at.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Pope never lies so this makes me feel better.

 

[TFCat11]

That’s some Calipari level gaslighting

And just like that, he has painted himself into a corner!

 

[DelkBowl]

You know nothing John Snow

 

[ScWildcat3]

When he says vanilla offense he means they just played free flowing. Not many sets. Not many actions to get certain guys looks. Just about every coach in America treats exhibitions the same way. He’s not trying to hide anything. It’s basketball. Everyone runs the same stuff essentially now anyways. But in a real game we are running stuff for Milan more and Moreno and Ousmane to get them looks and to their spots. The times we did slow down and run a set or something particular we got great looks.

 

[Im The Village Idiot]

The high pick&roll and Zoom action are staples in a Mark Pope offense. Didn’t see much if any of that tonight. So yeah, I believe him .

I agree. But I’d still have preferred to see us running more stuff.

 

[ScWildcat3]

I agree. But I’d still have preferred to see us running more stuff.

We will plenty going forward. Just trying to get guys comfortable in the exhibitions. Easy way to see weaknesses as well letting the guys just play unorganized essentially

 

[Bernie4blue]

We needed to attack the basket aggressively, but we didn't. Way too soft in that department. Not even sure if we even dunked the ball in the first half, despite all that size. So many missed baskets due to lack of aggressiveness to the basket. Gotta finish much more strongly, but that seems to reflect Pope's softness in personality. No bite or edge. Too nice. Slightly better in the second half. Didn't see any alley oops by us, which to me indicates lack of confidence in execution. And no one really wants to get to the offensive boards, the guys are too busy looking for their 3 point shot. Fast break? No one wanted to attack the basket on those for sure.

 

[Wildcat_in_DC]

i guess this totally explains all the missed layups, missed free throws, zero transition points, and just 8 offensive rebounds while shooting so poorly.....

 

[MidseasonTweak]

i guess this totally explains all the missed layups, missed free throws, zero transition points, and just 8 offensive rebounds while shooting so poorly.....

43% from 3 though

 

[seccats04]

Aka, we looked like crap again and this is my cover.

That's about as weak of a response as when he said last year's offense failed because we planned it around a left handed PG and then he got injured and we couldn't adjust.

 

[Farsight Clone]

 

[Snarks]

Glad we didn’t take a summer trip to work on these things.