*****Game Chat: UK versus St. Johns*****

[FreedomWallace]

Division 2 Noah turns it over

 

[BlueBlood96Cat]

Nothing but foul every possession

 

[STL_Cat]

Oweh has not been good. This is our preseason All-American

 

[RunninRichie]

I turned it off. Sorry. I can accept shots not going in. I will not tolerate guys not playing for each other. That's not a Pope issue. It's a player character issue. I'll check the boxscore.

Good god. Stop with the Pope shielding. It is on him. HE IS THE COACH.

 

[Runt#1969]

Mark Pope is NICE you fake fans! We should be happy with 16 points in almost 15 minutes. Wins and losses don’t matter. Wait until JQ comes back! I mean uh wait until Lowe comes back!

i saw whut u did there

 

[LexingtonThoroughblade]

This team plays like when you are in year 1 of a legacy in College Hoops 2k8 and you have to take over a god awful team like Morehead State that has no scoring options so you just get clubbed in most games.

 

[Jamal Mercerr]

BJ Boston and JP Blevins are hall of famers compared to our guards.

 

[ComebackCats98]

I turned it off. Sorry. I can accept shots not going in. I will not tolerate guys not playing for each other. That's not a Pope issue. It's a player character issue. I'll check the boxscore.

Who took these players with this character and continues to allow it?

 

[ala_kat2]

We are playing with more energy than earlier in the year, but we still have no clue what we are doing .

We have guys who can’t create their own shot and no decent point guard.

 

[kyjeff1]

No clue wtf we're trying to do on offense that is different than pick up ball at the Y.

 

[fisherscatfan]

This team is simply a collection from the island of misfit toys. Dribble in to trouble and look to chuck it to anyone who can bail them out. Problem is, nobody can.

How did Pope think this Pinto he assembled was a Ferrari is quite damning on his ability to evaluate talent.

 

[rick64]

8 turnovers, 0-4 3pt, 0 FTA.

 

[Drogon]

JQ is gonna need rest. Have to do a better job of doing it a minute before every under-4 time out

 

[bbnkat02]

Yes DOWN BY DOUBLE DIGITS AGAIN!!!!!!!!

So sick of this ****!

 

[Farsight Clone]

We are not playing team ball on offense. Not willing to pass, hesitate to pass. This needs to be fixed if we want to have a sliver of improvement on offense.

 

[TheWyldKat_rivals45219]

Why is Garrison playing? Nice recognition of incompetence Pope…

He keeps playing him along with another Big. Dumb. So dumb.

we can’t even get the ball up the floor. At this point, we won’t break 40 points in the game.

 

[HappyBlue]

I'd argue we're not a defensive team. We're a team that can't score that does well against other struggling offensive teams.

I'd argue that we didn't start playing tough defense until just recently. IU is a top 30 ranked offense and averaging 85 points a game. How did they do against UK's defense?

 

[Runt#1969]

This team plays like when you are in year 1 of a legacy in College Hoops 2k8 and you have to take over a god awful team like Morehead State that has no scoring options so you just get clubbed in most games.

makes sense to me

 

[Kantucke_rivals]

Hate it for the fans and the players, this coaching staff seems incompetent

 

[RunninRichie]

So soft dude. Be nice if a higher percentage of our fanbase had some stones

Nice to know you’d back a coach if he was 0-28. I truly believe some of you hated Cal so bad, you wanted a good ole boy nostalgia hire. Just like Mike Woodson supporters at IU. And Kenny Payne at u6. Embarrassing and sad.

 

[ukwildcat2004]

Whistle is completely different for us.

 

[OleTiredBum]

pope getting smoked by his old coach. you know pitino is eating this up in his mind.

 

[HappyBlue]

Holy **** these refs are crooked

 

[NociHTTP]

Mark Pope is NICE you fake fans! We should be happy with 16 points in almost 15 minutes. Wins and losses don’t matter. Wait until JQ comes back! I mean uh wait until Lowe comes back!

Go away with your "fake fans" nonsense. It has nothing to do with fandom.

 

[Drogon]

They're literally grabbing our ******* jerseys and getting away with it

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

@Monday Nitro, said he’s just enjoying this for entertainment. And enjoying the process. Uconn will pass us in titles thanks to these types. UKcowboys is another. So sick of coach cultists.

They are allowing the program to be displayed handsomely in it's slow death. There's a certain irony there considering the fact that they are blindly supporting a man who dresses and looks like a mortician.

 

[TheWyldKat_rivals45219]

This not scoring is hard to take, BS!

At this point, I think I would be happy if we could just get some open looks. No cuts to the basket, no movement without the ball. Just one on one ISO.

 

[TheBlueMist]

All of these players look worse because we have no PG and no offensive sets. I really miss Butler running the team.

 

[Jamal Mercerr]

Love Oweh slowing it down. We are much better in the half court

 

[wccat]

Kentucky offense dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble shoot

 

[Kingslayer07]

Wtf are you doing Noah

 

[bigblueinsanity (the real)]

Why isn’t Pope screening on the throw in?

We're literally doing nothing except asking guys to get themselves open or just lobbing it in.

Its pathetic.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

They unfortunately are built like a late era Calipari team. And Pope doesn’t coach a defense first rock fight, style either. Baffling he recruited for a system he doenst even coach.

You know, we are running a Cal type offense where you take your man off the dribble and the others crash the offensive board.

Except we have no one that can take his man off the dribble and we don’t crash the offensive board.

 

[Wildcat_in_DC]

good defense to get a stop after uk manages to get a bucket....but since noah is completely useless he can box out, fouls and st johns gets 2 FTs.

 

[Big BlueBeard]

Once again, negative play from Noah. Get him OUT!

 

[bbnkat02]

They're literally grabbing our ******* jerseys and getting away with it

Guess what's gonna happen for the next two months?

 

[NociHTTP]

Good god. Stop with the Pope shielding. It is on him. HE IS THE COACH.

And it's the players. He can't shoot for them. He can't run screens they refuse to run. No one is cutting. What do you think he should do about that?

 

[ToniTonyToneDelkDelkDelk]

Noah stinks. Any mins they think about giving him should go to Kam and probably Hawthorne too.

 

[Pensacola_Cat_Fan]

This was always going to be a terrible matchup. We have no offense flow to begin with, and Pitino is a master of blowing up an offensive.

 

[ukfan042]

This team is an absolute disaster and so is the guy who put this group together!