***** OFFICIAL KU Vs UK Champions Classic Game Thread *****

[LineSkiCat14]

Every game this year the main thing im watching for is "is Pope the right guy for the job".

And tonight, we look like we are a good month behind Kansas. We look like weve barely played together. Sloppy. Lost at times.

And kansas doesnt have their point guard...

 

[Wildcat_in_DC]

ku is so average but our coach is pope so.....

 

[MidseasonTweak]

The only thing that's missing is seeing Pope squint into the void

 

[RunninRichie]

This team is so bad.

 

[fisherscatfan]

I'm ready to punch Bilas already.

I’m gonna stay quiet but I hate Bilas. He is a smug arrogant ahole.

 

[Anon1739778738]

Popes a dumass for not recruiting a true five we will lose by 20 or more talent is not there

 

[coalBucket]

He can’t do it on purpose can he? How do lineups always end up like that. Dude go smaller instead of having Reece in there. Kansas ain’t tall.

 

[JustBlue]

Pope really doesn’t know how to put a roster together. We have 14 players but it feels like we only go 7-8 deep. It’s his biggest weakness.

He has to take anyone just to fill out his roster.

 

[four_every_hour]

How are yall blaming pope right now? Two starters fouled out less than 6 mins into the game.

 

[SECualHealing]

Who would have thought running out our 12th man would result in an instant 9 point swing. Damn that is shocking

 

[kyjeff1]

I thought Mark learned his lesson last year. You can't play lineups like that. So dumb.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

Call a foul if it's a dang foul, but college refs ruin games by calling ridiculous fouls. Both fouls on MM were incredibly soft and totally affected the game.

Didn’t see the first one. I know the second one was BS!

 

[The_Answer1313_rivals]

How are yall blaming pope right now? Two starters fouled out less than 6 mins into the game.

Apparently that's Pope's fault too lol

 

[bbnkat02]

This team is so bad.

Nah, the coach is that bad. We have pieces. He doesn't know how to use them.

 

[sefus12]

Geez Pope. Depth is such an issue that we have Reece Potter taking 3's.

What’s he supposed to do when our top two bigs both have 2 or 3 fouls 5 mins in and our 3rd big is 45 with bad knees?

 

[HolySmokes]

Kansas starting to get loose and playing free while our starters in foul troubke two minutes into the game. Not good.

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

Things I knew 100% would happen before the game started:

- Bilas would be sucking Kansas off
- we’d have serious foul trouble shortly into the game
- Pat Adams would get some quality tv time
- we’d see a good KU run over a suspect lineup in the first half

 

[Cliffhanger82]

Is this another team with poor discipline like last year? Not feeling they are mentally strong

 

[UKSanders]

People will blame the refs but we play dumb.

well, some of it was dumb, but no way Moreno should’ve been called for his 2nd foul. TKR from Kansas set a very physical moving screen just before they called the ticky tack touch on Moreno

 

[OGtruebluewildcat]

Hawthorne gets buckets. Needs to shoot more. Kid has an absolute stroke.

 

[IYAOYAS1]

Pope acting like it’s an exhibition game with these lineups

 

[Henogee1975]

Just a dumb move.

He is a very good 3-point shooter.
That may be what he does best, actually.

Reece Potter College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Reece Potter - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more

www.sports-reference.com

But he missed

 

[UKCowboys]

If Stokes and Kaufman-Wren had five combined fouls four minutes into the game Bilas would call for a congressional hearing

 

[sefus12]

There's that Mark Pope piss away the lead 11-2 run by the opp.

Dude can't help himself.

Did Pope tell the guys to miss shots and play bad D?

 

[RunninRichie]

Worst lineup since the covid team.

 

[kyjeff1]

Comes back out of the timeout with Potter again. So dumb.

 

[OldScratchBlues]

Milan still on the bench.

Pope man

 

[LikeATurdInMyBalls]

Jay Bilas: "Tyran Stokes is one of the smartest players you'll ever see..."

Community note: Tyran Stokes can't spell the word "wagon."

 

[Catastic5]

Gonna be a long game I’m afraid.

 

[coalBucket]

Reece still in there. lol.

 

[bbnkat02]

Oh boy......OH BOY.

Here we go again.

 

[Tri-Countycat]

Our defense is embarrassing

 

[KyLegacyBBN]

And here we go……

 

[RunninRichie]

Hawthorne gets buckets. Needs to shoot more. Kid has an absolute stroke.

LOL

 

[CELTICAT]

Hawthorn, smdh

 

[JakeKx]

Alright we gotta put the starters back in and risk it

 

[darkshadesofblue]

Wow

 

[Kameron50]

Oh well one loss closer to a new coach

 

[kyjeff1]

I guess Hawthorn is going to take all of our shots now while Milan gets none. Awesome.

 

[Anon668007]

ughhhhhhhhhh