Pope Turns Down Practice in Bridgestone Arena
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I honestly think he knows this season is more or less over, and doesn't care.
Yes during the season you go hard a lot more. Day before a tourney against a team you have already played you are not going hard. Also where you practice isn’t important because you will shoot in that arena tomorrow. I have played college ball and have friends who coach it. I also have watched every game. Why didn’t shooting in the arenas help us all year?
He's making a mistake here. It shows how wedded he is to analytics and is going, as usual, with what some statistics suggest. With the schedule of all things?!
Maximizing his player's time to familiarize themselves with the environment would seem to be the 'common sense' approach. But common sense and intuition seem to regularly take a backpack seat to statistics with Pope. I want him to succeed but he keeps showing himself to be too inflexible and stubborn to thrive. Or maybe he just doesn't trust his own judgement. That would be a career killer.
Maximizing his player's time to familiarize themselves with the environment would seem to be the 'common sense' approach. But common sense and intuition seem to regularly take a backpack seat to statistics with Pope. I want him to succeed but he keeps showing himself to be too inflexible and stubborn to thrive. Or maybe he just doesn't trust his own judgement. That would be a career killer.
If anyone thought he couldn’t get worse, there it is!!
They’re still practicing Lexington but yeah this beyond stupid to me.
and yet the pumpers are defending him
We thought we got rid of the stubbornness and lack of changing their ways with Cal. Nope, just got a different version of it =\
Then let’s stop paying him.
So why didn’t we shoot good last time in that arena? Y’all really making something out of nothing. Never thought where you conduct a practice would turn people into crazies.
actually no lol but sure, okAnd yet here you are complaining about complainers
sometimes it’s good to go against the grain of what everyone else is doing, other times you’re shooting yourself in the foot for no reason. I don’t think this is a make or break thing, but every move Pope makes right now will be scrutinized
Well, these are the bottom 8 teams. None of them seem to have things figured out.
You people will find anything to ***** about
"Coach would you like to practice with the exact basketball we will use in the NCAA?"
"Na, we like a challenge, give us the women's ball and we will figure it out on the fly."
"Na, we like a challenge, give us the women's ball and we will figure it out on the fly."
Why would we need to practice on that hoop
We shot 16-60 vs Gonzaga lol.
We shot 16-60 vs Gonzaga lol.
Cal could watch Little house dvds in his office at memorial while the team practiced.
What analytics would tell you not to shoot around in an arena where you got blasted by 35 earlier this year?
I can’t believe I miss Cal, but I would gladly take his BS over Pope’s. At least he earned it by winning a title.
It's like he's coaching ten-year-old kids with autism. They need a routine schedule or the change will cause them to melt down.
They also get tired easily.
They also get tired easily.
Reproduce the same schedule??? seems like we need to do something different... the status quo is not working for us.
Pope took them to Malibu Jack's for Pop-a-Shot rather than practice in the gym that the games will be played.
The schedule we've been practices usually entails showing up about 5 to 10 minutes after the game has already started.
This dude is trying to get fired!! Convince me he's not!!
Is dude mental???? lmao......
The stress of this place led Billy to drinking it must be pushing pope tword a straight jacket.
Yep let's go into a gym without even getting any time on the court. It's definitely not like we have offensive issues anyways totally don't need to practice in a unfamiliar arena.
Also why are we trying to recreate the schedule FFS obviously our schedule now isn't a winning one so something needs changed.
The stress of this place led Billy to drinking it must be pushing pope tword a straight jacket.
Yep let's go into a gym without even getting any time on the court. It's definitely not like we have offensive issues anyways totally don't need to practice in a unfamiliar arena.
Also why are we trying to recreate the schedule FFS obviously our schedule now isn't a winning one so something needs changed.
Expect our players to not be prepared to play in a stadium setting. Airballs galore!
In all seriousness why? Pope, there’s no reason not to practice. All of March we will be playing in stadiums.
In all seriousness why? Pope, there’s no reason not to practice. All of March we will be playing in stadiums.
There is no way. They practiced in it before the game and ppl on here say that helps shooting
The longer mediocrity continues the more likely fans simply don’t come back. Older fans giving up on the program that no longer lives up to their expectations while younger fans never get to see Kentucky’s greatness. If Kentucky loses their fans that’s all she wrote for the program.
Cal used to do this crap in his last few years. We're tired of it.
A practice in an arena doesn't guarantee a good shooting night. But it also doesn't help you either. Gives you to get a chance to get a feel for the the floor that week, refamiliarize yourself with the arena, shooting angles, lighting, etc.
It's a bit different from football fields, but even college and pro teams usually get to practice in arenas and stadiums for postseason games.
If you're given the opportunity...YOU TAKE IT.
You're having one of the worst season in UK history in the SEC. You take every opportunity you can get.
RIGHT?! I'd get it if we were undefeated or something and you don't want to buck the trend or routine. But LOL.
I can't hurt that's for sure. If it didn't, let's not even do warmups or shoot arounds. Let's just go out there and do it on the fly.
It's the same reason when bands or other musical groups get to do a rehearsal in the space their gonna play. To get used to the setting. Lighting, spacing, everything can feel different.
The fact some of us are going "Meh. Doesn't matter." shows exactly where we are and why things need to change soon.
You do realize they will shoot in it today before the game correct? They will get plenty of time to shoot before the game. Also they can practice longer if stay at Kentucky oppose to a set time in Nashville.