Quick breakdown on Mark Pope’s deficiencies as a coach

UK4Life#9

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You got me good bro!

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AllBall

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Even worse than I thought.
Not me. Exactly how I remembered it. Threw my hat 3x and everyone of those plays were highlighted here

Finally decided if they don't care, I don't care. Easily top 3 worst performance I've witnessed since watching UK. Atrocious 🤢
 
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Those all help, but meaningless without the first two.
I agree but that’s true for many of those qualities. Take me for example: do you think I can lock down Kevin Durant even with maximum effort and motivation? lol no. People do this with rebounding as well. Everything comes down to effort…lol no it doesn’t. Effort is majorly important, sure, but there’s a whole lot more to it than that.
 

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I agree but that’s true for many of those qualities. Take me for example: do you think I can lock down Kevin Durant even with maximum effort and motivation? lol no. People do this with rebounding as well. Everything comes down to effort…lol no it doesn’t. Effort is majorly important, sure, but there’s a whole lot more to it than that.
This is highly logical - agree with you on all this.
 

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I have no ideas why that was brought up again but I would rather have my eyes doused with acid than to relive that game.
Since it was brought up, scouting the opposition… getting the team to play hard every game… recruiting…being the ambassador of the program in general. That sulking and being short with the media after a loss (which there were many) needs to stop. Grow some balls and get angry, that kill them with kindness is some hippy dippy crap and won’t work here at Kentucky.
 

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That’s why I wasn’t super pumped hearing Moreno was coming back. He played with very little effort all year on defense. The Gonzaga game was really bad, for everyone.
The last position you want low effort is the 5. How does Pope motivate him, but offering him Jolly Ranchers?
 

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I get that there will be people in every fanbase that hate reading negative comments, but in this case, even the Biggest Pope lover, Oweh fan, or Garrison family member can’t possibly be upset at what's being said here.
This is unacceptable. 22 million bucks was spent on this roster, it has top 10 talent, depth and size and we might be the worst power 5 team in the country.
If anyone expects us to sit here, join hands and sing Kumbaya together, that person is in for a massive surprise.
You have to be as blind as Stevie Wonder to not see what's happening. We're not hating on anyone, we're telling it like it is.
22 million. How many of those dollars was hurt and never played? 5-6 million.
 

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22 million. How many of those dollars was hurt and never played? 5-6 million.
That's been my arguement.
I posted those comments right after the Gonzaga game.
When people on here call me a pumper, they need to look at the post you quoted. I have been very critical of Pope and the players, but I also know that this team was broken, injured and divided. That's still not an excuse to play like you don't care and that's exactly how the team played against Gonzaga.
 

BookofMormon

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That's been my arguement.
I posted those comments right after the Gonzaga game.
When people on here call me a pumper, they need to look at the post you quoted. I have been very critical of Pope and the players, but I also know that this team was broken, injured and divided. That's still not an excuse to play like you don't care and that's exactly how the team played against Gonzaga.
Fairly amazing the roster UK could have made this year for that budget.
 

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All Cats haters please exit stage left. Never seen so many "fans" bail on a team so fast. Embarrassing lack of backbone
What do these guys think they are accomplishing with all negative comments.

I could care less what they think but they are annoying because I can't read the comments from decent and knowledge fans.
 
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