Mom= KENTUCKY

[KentuckyWild2020]

Since there at about 10 threads I could post this in, i am going to post what I am about to say in this one.


I don't want to hear all that " I TOLD YOU IT WAS ALL GOING TO WORK OUT BS" because by a Act of God, MOM DAD BROTHER SISTER whatever we going to call him just happened to fall in our lap. in many regards, Pope pulled a rabbit out of his blank. I suspect big money and other influencers became involved behind the scenes.

Pope needs to prove he can win and manage upper tier players and he won't have this problem down the road...

[Helix]

Why he appeared to move away from that formula — pace, space and shooting — last year is the biggest mystery to me. After year one, I thought we could look forward to our pick of great shooters to play in his system. Glad he’s getting back to what he teaches best, and I’m hoping for a dynamic, high scoring offense once again.

[KentuckyWild2020]

Why he appeared to move away from that formula — pace, space and shooting — last year is the biggest mystery to me. After year one, I thought we could look forward to our pick of great shooters to play in his system. Glad he’s getting back to what he teaches best, and I’m hoping for a dynamic, high scoring offense once again.

I can agree with this. I assume he got a dose of physical SEC play his first year and changed it up. I hope he can get back to what he's good at.

As bad as last year was, maybe that needed to happen for Mark Pope. If he ends up being the coach here for a long time, hopefully he learned from all that...

[bucsrule8872]

Why he appeared to move away from that formula — pace, space and shooting — last year is the biggest mystery to me. After year one, I thought we could look forward to our pick of great shooters to play in his system. Glad he’s getting back to what he teaches best, and I’m hoping for a dynamic, high scoring offense once again.

I think he listened too closely to critics. The knock on him after year one was his teams weren’t great defensively and not very tough, so he tried to get some guys that didn’t really fit his style to show everybody his teams could be tough and play defense. I think the roster was put together with that in mind.

I think this past season, without Lowe, the knock was a lack of playmakers, so he went out and got two guards known for playmaking. He went after some other guys we missed on that were known for their passing as well. He also made shooting a priority, obviously with bringing Kam back and adding McBride, Morton, and N’Diaye fairly early on and finishing with Momcilovic.

On paper, this team looks like a high octane team on offense. It looks weak on the boards and mediocre defensively. It’s looking like a “you better outscore us, cause we’re hanging 100 on you” type team. Teams are going to have to put up points to hang with us most nights.

I’m hoping Pope has the formula right this time.

[EKYCat]

I think Pope overcorrected from year 1. Year 1 was exciting in that the team shot a lot of threes, spaced the floor, and ran actual offense. That was something we hadn't seen in a few years. But, that team lacked some physicality. So he went too hard the other way. Hopefully this year he's found a balance.

[Matt Dillon]

Since there at about 10 threads I could post this in, i am going to post what I am about to say in this one.


I don't want to hear all that " I TOLD YOU IT WAS ALL GOING TO WORK OUT BS" because by a Act of God, MOM DAD BROTHER SISTER whatever we going to call him just happened to fall in our lap. in many regards, Pope pulled a rabbit out of his blank. I suspect big money and other influencers became involved behind the scenes.

Pope needs to prove he can win and manage upper tier players and he won't have this problem down the road...

I think it was simply everything falling in place. Mom stayed in the draft until the last minute and by then just about everyone's roster was set or else they couldn't afford him. He even said a couple of weeks ago that he likes coach Pope and thought he would do well in coach's system.