Oweh really struggling so far
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We gonna put a player in the rafters for being a good player in mediocre season? Js
no offense to Oweh love the kid., he was the heart of that team. but him next to Nash, Wah Wah, Davis, Prince doesn’t make sense.
Kind of tells you the talent gap we've had to deal with over these first few Pope seasons. Oweh was one of our best players in both production and overall talent.. and hes just not gonna have much of an NBA career. It's that simple. You're not gonna win Final4s when your best player is Oweh.
Sad but true. Hate to see him struggling and wish he came back for another season.
We’ll see how this team goes . Good portal class but no hs recruits has me a little worried
Successful Pro players vs successful KENTUCKY teams?
Might make a good thread?
Might make a good thread?
Was never able to dribble with his off hand or create his own shot. Never addressed either deficiency. Depended on Pope's offense to create those downhill drives with his right.
3 and D is his only chance.
3 and D is his only chance.
He will eventually have a good game. Just give him time to find his niche. He is so strong off the bounce
I remain thrilled Oweh is gone from the program. I was never in those practices or locker room, but on the floor Oweh gave off the impression he was a cancer. Reasonable minds can differ.
Year one no. Year two yes. But I feel like year two wasn't just because he was a cancer. I think a couple bad eggs made him become a bad egg himself. Mo and florida boy to be exact. They thought they were better than they were.
They were bench players at their previous school and came here thinking they were top dog. I kind of could relate to Owehs frustrations but that's still no excuse to be a bad leader.
I agree. But I think the age of truly admirable sports heroes is over and has been for quite some time.
This was never once an issue his first year. The whole idea of it is silly to me. He never once did anything to show he was a bad team mate or player. He showed up everyday and produced. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Money changes things/people. I felt that Oweh was a big part of a dysfunctional roster last season. I don’t know if he was the primary malcontent, but our team was a mess.
I think it was a whole team thing honestly. I don’t think Pope is the type of coach who can manage a poor roster fit.
Something definitely was rotten on that 2nd team. You cant even pinpoint to one guy because so many looked checked out at various times. But Oweh was part of that for sure. I wondered if he was miffed that he didnt get to thr NBA after year 1. But besides that, its clear the team chemistry was bad. Much different than the year 1 guys like Amar, Jrob, Butler, Carr.
I mean yeah thats pretty bad, + No I dont enjoy hating on uk players, if Koby, Amari, or Oweh ever have a great game I'll be the first person to post it on here.
I think it's obvious to anyone with a pulse that Kentucky needs a significant talent upgrade in the future.
I think he spent most of the OOC trying to prove he was something he wasn't. Conference play hit and he got back to doing what he was good at and it turned his season and the team's season around. That was my take. More issues than that for sure but for him specifically I think he had agents in his ear trying to get him to prove to the league he was something he was not.
Totally agree. Oweh was great, but in my mind he should have been third best on the team tops. If that's the case, you're a threat. When he's the primary threat a Sweet 16 was always going to be the ceiling. Nothing against him, more about the roster construction and talent around him than any fault of his.
I still have hope that last season was an outlier. Pope did a great job in year 1. He’s a smart guy and learned some hard lessons about roster management.
Pope didnt rly do a good job in year one , won 2 tourney games 12 losses and many blowouts
Year 1 is tough. Because we did lose a lot of games, BUT it was a brand new team, brand new coach, and we played in the hardest conference that I think has ever been recorded. At the end of the day, the metrics did show that we were a 3-seed/top10 kind of team. We won the tournament games we should have, and then our lack-of-focus reared it's ugly head against Tennessee, despite beating them twice already (which one could argue, beating a team 3 times is extremely tough to do in any sport).
Having double digit losses does sting. I guess if we played in the ACC or another conference, we might have been around 7 or 8 losses, or maybe less.
Having double digit losses does sting. I guess if we played in the ACC or another conference, we might have been around 7 or 8 losses, or maybe less.
The team quit in year one too.
The outlier is year 1. That, however flawed, was the best team and finish of Pope’s career.
And what has Pope learned? His teams don’t defend or rebound.
He brings in no defenders or rebounders.
The rafters should be for really outstanding special players so I don't think he should be up there but he did several games saving plays just ask Oklahoma
Having the best 3 point shooter in the nation is a start
The shot against Santa Clara was awesome. But it was Santa Clara! Not Duke, Kansas, UNC, etc. Santa Clara; where we should never have been in a losing position to have a lucky shot get us to overtime.
Man, you were serious piece of work that team did not quit at all in year one if anything they did everything they could fight through the injuries
All of that without your starting PG or SG and your starting PF was hobbled.