Best team of all time? No but let's not forget the shot clock violation missed call and missed travel call on that 3 by the badgers down the stretch. Should he have stuck with ulis and booker over the twins ? Yes. Cal gave us some great years let's not act like he didn't. Having said that it's Pope's show and I'm all in
There's a lot of facets to being a coach, Cal was not a high-level X's and O's and stats type of guy. Great recruiter and brought us a championship but it is so damn refreshing watching a real coach who actually has an offense and defensive scheme, isn't coaching a team full of 18 year olds and makes great in-game adjustments. I hadn't seen a successful out of bounds play in Cals entire tenure but saw one in Pope's first game. The backdoor cuts, set plays and stuff he runs is beautiful to watch.
I’m a late Kentucky fan because i started watching sports in 2018 around Age 15 but now I’m a true Kentucky fan and after years of no success with calipari I say we made the right choice with pope
@@chays19751 struggled rebounding today and defense needs to be a little better. There will come a night when those 3s aren't falling. Can't rely solely on that
...not that great on defense though, honestly. Welp, Tuesday will tell us all we need to know. If we're able to run our offense, and stifle Duke A BIT on defense, then I will have a tremendous smile on my face. Guess we'll find out here in just a few short days...!
While I love the fact that you are recognizing the importance of preparation and great X’s and O’s, I totally agree that Mark Pope’s coaching style is 100% an improvement over the way Cal coached his talent. I do want to just point out that we had Billy G running this program into the ground and Coach Cal came in and overnight brought this historic program back to immediate prominence and we were the gold standard for his first six or seven years and even a couple of year up to 2020 even we still were putting a good product on the floor. I think his time was over here and I love what Mark Pope has brought to the table. I love that he has proved that he can recruit. I am blown away by how good our offense is running. I am blown away by the zoom action, the reads, the way our bigs are passing, the defense is the best I have seen in a long time. I just don’t want to make light of how big it was to have a coach like Cal come here and breathe life back into the program. He brought us Elite 8’s, Final 4’s and a national Championship banner. He did so at light speed. I got very frustrated with his lack of offensive and defensive coaching ability. I didn’t especially like his demeanor and I thought him to be smug and frankly thought he was condescending a lot of the time in the way he addressed BBN and the media. Sometimes he had good reason to be frustrated with us as well as we are not real patient with down years. I just had to say, let’s not forget what he did for us.
We had to hire Calipari when we did. The problem we made is actually believing he’s trustworthy enough to offer that insane contract. Cal quit. And basketball changed when he quit. In 2012 basketball was played with, really, a shooting guard shoots and everyone else assumes their position. We play a European style now, everyone must be able to shoot
Also Cal was ranking the program on purpose to get back at the men behind the scenes. He goes to war with programs he’s done it everywhere. When they stopped giving him what he wanted, he went to war, and he was essentially throwing games. I’ll believe that no matter because he was.
@brett444 that's silly. He was a decent player, under a coach who didn't teach anything but athleticism. The 3Rs could've run the team, and Wagner would've been solid bench support.
@thebestSteven I'm assuming you're a die hard cats fan like me or else we wouldn't of clicked this video. Can you name a single other top prospect 5 star caliber during cals tenure that was even remotely as bad as dj? He was so scared under the bright lights of rupp. Even at Arkansas vs Baylor it was the same stuff. He can't shoot to save his life and he's weak at the rim
i don't agree, most teams would look good against division 2 teams that kentucky has played. why is kentucky playing division 2 teams to begin with? this will not help them when they face real competition
@@brett444 I don't remember every player's rating, but off the top of my head, Archie Goodwin, and BJ Boston, as well as just about everyone on BJ Boston's year. All were all huge disappointments. Wagner was not that horrible, and under a good coach would've been fine. Under Cal where the strategy is dribble out the clock, drive, get blocked, and give up to shoot a mid-ranged jumper, no he doesn't do well. That team was stacked and even under Cal could beat good teams off sheer talent and force of will.
One thing I noticed is that Pope had an ATO play every single time and on defense they full court pressed. Any team that isn’t solid and diligent defensively is going to get mopped
@@jacksonhiggason6606 appreciate it! I like pope. Think he is what Kentucky needs now. Calipari was for sure the right guy at the time. But all things end
The big difference is that John Calipari was really just a recruiter, who would recruit one-and-done McDonald's All-American all-stars, then let them coach themselves as freshmen players. In the case of Anthony Davis, that worked! But in most practical cases, it doesn't. Mark Pope, although I was skeptical when he was announced, is a real coach, who not only recruits but coaches as well.
@@coachBryceG I have no doubt he'll get better players but it'll be just like his Kentucky teams, where you had a team full of freshmen cheifs with no veterans or "Indians", if you'll pardon the expression and they'll all mostly coach themselves.
@@coachBryceGWhat aggravated me the most was even the most basic working understanding of the game of basketball would cue you in on the simplicity and sloppiness we always had under Cal.
Great Video! First time seeing this channel so definitely Liked and Subscribed! Can’t wait to see more of your content sir. Go Cats! (I died laughing when you said used car salesman John Calipari 😂)
Calipari seems to try and get the best talent he can to cover up his coaching deficiencies. I'm an Auburn fan and Calipari reminds me of our current football coach who is great at recruiting but is subpar in utilizing the talent currently. Thankfully Bruce Pearl has his coaching dialed in.
2012 was a great team ,, But when John Robic retired things went down hill , ROBIC WAS THE X & O GUY, THOSE THAT REALLY KNOW BASKETBALL SHOULD KNOW THIS , BUT ITS NEVER MENTIONED
@johnnycorn7225 thanks nobody ever puts that together Cal is the recruiter he finishes the deal when going into the houses,, But Robic was the Bains behind the in-game success
@@jtp72 yeah I watch the games closely and love the game itself too. Many times I saw the immediate difference when aerobic was put in charge temporarily. I remember down in the Bahamas aerobic had the team looking so much better than cow
When pope was announced as the coach for UK I was pissed. I did not think he was the man for the job. But after seeing how much he still cares for UK I said I’d give it a chance. Now he has 100% proven to be the man for the job.
Understand the trend for Mark Pope is high octane offense early. Then falls off during league play. It happened at BYU last year. Until he plays a team with a pulse or as the general conditioning of teams they are playing is increased.
@@melomanace3415 considering the 30 point difference offensively. The offense did fall off when facing a better team. The defense did enough last night I respect it. Jaxon Robinson being completely shut down was not a great sign tho.
This aged well! Great analysis, I totally agree. How about last night against Duke? Ugly end to the first half, but...something happened in that locker room, something crazy. Maybe even coaching, strategy, adjustments! UK came out in the second half as the aggressor. No more getting pushed around and forced out to the hashmark to run the offense. The Cats were the more physical team, stepped up defensively and got huge stops, played defense and rebounded as a TEAM and did a much better job. Kept fighting and never gave up. Calipari loses that game by 15 plus! Easy. How about the decision to move Carr to the 5 on offense? The big fella, Mr. Foulsalot (seriously went over the back every time) could not guard Carr out on the floor. This led to a couple CRUCIAL scores by Carr and 2 being And 1's. That was COACHING! An in game, on the fly adjustment at a crucial juncture. Wow. Also this was why Foulsalot was ultimately taken out of the game, not "cramps". Also, throwing the long ball to get it in bounds at the end of the game, Coach Cal would never! I would worry about UK even getting the ball in bounds in that position under Cal, let alone getting it to someone who could make a free throw. I am so happy to see it, all the Calipari Kool-aid drinkers eating their crow. I said it for years, no one is better at getting elite talent to play together, but outside of that, his basketball IQ is embarrassing for someone who has been coaching for 4 decades. WE HAVE A COACH! And I could not be more happy.
I have not seen that much space in the lane since Tubby Smith roamed the sideline. If the Tubs could have recruited better he would have lasted 20 years.
I love Pope and was begging to be rid of Cal the last few years, but to act like Pope over 2 games + exhibitions is better than Cal's tenure from 09-10 to 14-15 is literally insane. It's one of the most dominant 5 year runs in college basketball history and includes a title!
Look, I respect it, however Calipari in the last 15 yrs is BOLD. Cal hasn't been the same since the 16/17 season. I don't know what changed or if finally the rest of college basketball figured out how to counter his heavy guard system, but UK basketball was reliant on top recruits to show out for way to long. No decent sets were ever ran and stagnant offense was a staple. His playbook hasn't changed and it's a sad day to be a 4-5 in his system. You can compare just about any Pope game to that baylor/arkansas game and see how much basketball has devloped. There is still flaws in pope heavy shooting offense. 1. Amari Williams being a head taller than his defender catching the ball with his back to the basket and EVERYONE knows he's passing the ball back out. 2. Brandon Garrison getting the ball anywhere outside of the paint is going to continue to hurt the team. Him running DHO's is unacceptable and resulting in bad plays consistently. He needs to be a rim threat and set better screens. 3. Jaxson Robinson's light is to green. Love the tenacity but seeing him hoist up contested threes and the ball getting sticky when it finds him isn't a great game plan when this team is very well rounded.
Told to go and be better than everybody else. That is literally to the letter what coach calipari constantly said. He always blamed the kids for not going enough or being better, he should have blamed himself.
I feel sorry for Arkansas; no wait, I’m very happy they got CCC!!😂. U wanted him , u got him. You I can’t trade him in. He’s fn yours! Pope+BBN are coming for ya!
Love the rivalry and all the trash talk but guys.... Arkansas first loss was against Baylor and they smoked Kansas in an exibition game. Kentucky looks awesome but they haven't played ANY big names yet. Let's see what happens in March.
Basketball has changed since 2012 Calipari has been simply out coached constantly for the last 5-6 years you can’t win with just freshman anymore. This guy said it best you have to recruit to a system not just get the best people available and telling them to go win
Cal lost his assistant John robic who was extremely important in his teams x and o on offense and defense. When he left Cal was exposed. The man once was a good coach, now he is an average coach, who can recruit. I haven't seen his teams play effectively together since 2019, he had a decent team in 2022 but they also lost some games due to the incompetence of their head coach. Love what Cal done at UK, and he should be applauded for it, however it was a good thing he left. Pope is better right now for UK and his teams atleast play cohesively as a team, and I'm sure he is humble enough to make adjustments if he is wrong about something.
For Gods sake can we just move on from Cal. He did a ton a good things for our program. Just appreciate what he did and let’s enjoy this new chapter without having to compare everything to Cal.
Cal hurt ya. I’m sorry. It happened to a lot of us good folk. It’s ok, you don’t have to be scared anymore. Pope is here, he’s gonna take good care of ya.
Pope knows How to make a team! He knows how to improve the group and team fundamentals. Car salesman Cal took the most talent almost annually and got so little from them!! Cal lowest returns from the best talent of any coach I can recall!! Horrible coaching and wrecked so many young players hope of an expected National Championship. Sad,Sad and unfortunately hung around way way too long!!! Fraud Cal reigned far too long at Ky and now takes his carnival Cal ways too Arkansas. Bye Bye😮
this 🤡 made a video talking about Cal, who's not even there!!😂. if Mark Pope say this video and listened to or saw the comments, i wonder what he would think of these types of fans!! Fan is short for FANATIC, and boy UK has a lot of those type of people!! Cal must be laughing his ass off, living Rent-Free all these months later!!
If you know anything about basketball the only reason Cal has a ring is because AD. Mark Pope runs plays not once is there someone over dribbling or just standing there droned out.......
I think self , pitino and a slew of tge brightest coaches have fell to calamari even my own Roy Williams plus more and you come up with AD. You don't know shit about basketball, because that over dribbling beat those defensive schemes. I hate Kensucky. They suck up to every coach tgat has been there then when they don't perform they throw him away to trash. Pope has two tournament wins and you talking about running sets against low level competition lmaoooo!!!!!!
You, sir, have signed up unknowingly to do this with every UK game! Awesome job, nothing wrong with gushing over preparation.
EVERY UK game? hahah
@coachBryceG Hey, starting will all just leaves room for negotiating. 😁
Calipari choked with the best college team of all time. Harrison twins, KAT, Booker, Ulis, ect. 15 years with 1 championship
100 coaches could win 40 games with that team
I agree. Cal was the greatest underachieving coach of all time. He ruined many more very good players than he ever promoted
The 1996 Kentucky Wildcats would like to have some words with you :D
Hard to go undefeated man
Best team of all time? No but let's not forget the shot clock violation missed call and missed travel call on that 3 by the badgers down the stretch. Should he have stuck with ulis and booker over the twins ? Yes. Cal gave us some great years let's not act like he didn't. Having said that it's Pope's show and I'm all in
We need more of these good sir!
I got you brother!
There's a lot of facets to being a coach, Cal was not a high-level X's and O's and stats type of guy. Great recruiter and brought us a championship but it is so damn refreshing watching a real coach who actually has an offense and defensive scheme, isn't coaching a team full of 18 year olds and makes great in-game adjustments. I hadn't seen a successful out of bounds play in Cals entire tenure but saw one in Pope's first game. The backdoor cuts, set plays and stuff he runs is beautiful to watch.
Only if you can get high profile recruits doing this. You'd be Coach K hahaha
Another big difference is this team actually knows how to play hard. They understand every possession is important. No AAU level effort anymore
totally agree. Effort is everything these days
I’m a late Kentucky fan because i started watching sports in 2018 around Age 15 but now I’m a true Kentucky fan and after years of no success with calipari I say we made the right choice with pope
Anthony Davis one that title a once in a generation player
Everything you said is absolutely correct. We looked amazing tonight as well. They are lethal on offense!
@@chays19751 struggled rebounding today and defense needs to be a little better. There will come a night when those 3s aren't falling. Can't rely solely on that
Look at the rebounding against Bucknell. They can fix problems much faster then any of our Cal coached teams. Loving it! #BIGBLUENATION
...not that great on defense though, honestly. Welp, Tuesday will tell us all we need to know. If we're able to run our offense, and stifle Duke A BIT on defense, then I will have a tremendous smile on my face. Guess we'll find out here in just a few short days...!
You played cup cakes lol
@@BrandonAsbury who do you play in the CHAMPIONS CLASSIC ....oh wait thats right u don't 😂
Great video. Will look forward to catching more UK breakdowns this season with Pope as HC
While I love the fact that you are recognizing the importance of preparation and great X’s and O’s, I totally agree that Mark Pope’s coaching style is 100% an improvement over the way Cal coached his talent. I do want to just point out that we had Billy G running this program into the ground and Coach Cal came in and overnight brought this historic program back to immediate prominence and we were the gold standard for his first six or seven years and even a couple of year up to 2020 even we still were putting a good product on the floor. I think his time was over here and I love what Mark Pope has brought to the table. I love that he has proved that he can recruit. I am blown away by how good our offense is running. I am blown away by the zoom action, the reads, the way our bigs are passing, the defense is the best I have seen in a long time. I just don’t want to make light of how big it was to have a coach like Cal come here and breathe life back into the program. He brought us Elite 8’s, Final 4’s and a national Championship banner. He did so at light speed. I got very frustrated with his lack of offensive and defensive coaching ability. I didn’t especially like his demeanor and I thought him to be smug and frankly thought he was condescending a lot of the time in the way he addressed BBN and the media. Sometimes he had good reason to be frustrated with us as well as we are not real patient with down years. I just had to say, let’s not forget what he did for us.
I agree but I also won’t forget losing 3 straight home games against inferior teams for the first time ever or the worst record ever of 9-22!
We had to hire Calipari when we did. The problem we made is actually believing he’s trustworthy enough to offer that insane contract. Cal quit. And basketball changed when he quit. In 2012 basketball was played with, really, a shooting guard shoots and everyone else assumes their position. We play a European style now, everyone must be able to shoot
Also Cal was ranking the program on purpose to get back at the men behind the scenes. He goes to war with programs he’s done it everywhere. When they stopped giving him what he wanted, he went to war, and he was essentially throwing games. I’ll believe that no matter because he was.
Imagine what Pope could've done with last year's team. Reeves, Reed, and Rob, big Z, Adou, Wagner, etc. That's a championship team for sure.
No team on the planet or throughout history could win a championship if wagner was on the team. He's the most overratted "top prospect" ever
@brett444 that's silly. He was a decent player, under a coach who didn't teach anything but athleticism. The 3Rs could've run the team, and Wagner would've been solid bench support.
@thebestSteven I'm assuming you're a die hard cats fan like me or else we wouldn't of clicked this video. Can you name a single other top prospect 5 star caliber during cals tenure that was even remotely as bad as dj? He was so scared under the bright lights of rupp. Even at Arkansas vs Baylor it was the same stuff. He can't shoot to save his life and he's weak at the rim
i don't agree, most teams would look good against division 2 teams that kentucky has played. why is kentucky playing division 2 teams to begin with? this will not help them when they face real competition
@@brett444 I don't remember every player's rating, but off the top of my head, Archie Goodwin, and BJ Boston, as well as just about everyone on BJ Boston's year. All were all huge disappointments. Wagner was not that horrible, and under a good coach would've been fine. Under Cal where the strategy is dribble out the clock, drive, get blocked, and give up to shoot a mid-ranged jumper, no he doesn't do well. That team was stacked and even under Cal could beat good teams off sheer talent and force of will.
One thing I noticed is that Pope had an ATO play every single time and on defense they full court pressed. Any team that isn’t solid and diligent defensively is going to get mopped
@@QazJer it was nice to watch some actual basketball from Kentucky
Just subscribed. Loved the in depth analysis. Keep the UK vids coming. I’m curious to see what basketball people think about Popes first year
@@jacksonhiggason6606 appreciate it! I like pope. Think he is what Kentucky needs now. Calipari was for sure the right guy at the time. But all things end
The big difference is that John Calipari was really just a recruiter, who would recruit one-and-done McDonald's All-American all-stars, then let them coach themselves as freshmen players. In the case of Anthony Davis, that worked! But in most practical cases, it doesn't. Mark Pope, although I was skeptical when he was announced, is a real coach, who not only recruits but coaches as well.
and he's only gonna get better plaayers as time goes on
@@coachBryceG I have no doubt he'll get better players but it'll be just like his Kentucky teams, where you had a team full of freshmen cheifs with no veterans or "Indians", if you'll pardon the expression and they'll all mostly coach themselves.
Cal was a stepping stone for college kids to the NBA
fact
@@coachBryceGWhat aggravated me the most was even the most basic working understanding of the game of basketball would cue you in on the simplicity and sloppiness we always had under Cal.
Love it!! 1st time ever c-ing ur vids!!!!! New Sub° GO BBN!!!!!
you earned my subscription
@@Nxck47 much appreciate brother 🫡
Great Video! First time seeing this channel so definitely Liked and Subscribed! Can’t wait to see more of your content sir. Go Cats! (I died laughing when you said used car salesman John Calipari 😂)
just don't crucify me because I say Duke is better haha
YOUR CH GONNA BLOW UP. GOOD VID MY MAN
I appreciate the good juju!
Is it possible to like a video twice?
Appreciate you man
Excellent! Excellent analysis and delivery. Definitely had me engaged and learning about sets and terminology. Keep it up my man! David in Kentucky
Thanks David! More to come
I just love this offense
Great insight. Well done.
Thank you!
This team reminds me so much of college teams in the 90s and early 2000's. They're balanced.
So much Sports Bro energy making soooo much in depth accurate analysis. I've officially subbed and I'm still confused about it 😂
Good stuff Coach
haha I appreciate you man!
This is an amazing commentary. Subbed.
Much appreciated brother!
Calipari seems to try and get the best talent he can to cover up his coaching deficiencies. I'm an Auburn fan and Calipari reminds me of our current football coach who is great at recruiting but is subpar in utilizing the talent currently. Thankfully Bruce Pearl has his coaching dialed in.
2012 was a great team ,, But when John Robic retired things went down hill , ROBIC WAS THE X & O GUY, THOSE THAT REALLY KNOW BASKETBALL SHOULD KNOW THIS , BUT ITS NEVER MENTIONED
Your statement is 100% true after aerobic left you can see the numbers it's not a coincidence
@johnnycorn7225 thanks nobody ever puts that together Cal is the recruiter he finishes the deal when going into the houses,, But Robic was the Bains behind the in-game success
@@jtp72 yeah I watch the games closely and love the game itself too. Many times I saw the immediate difference when aerobic was put in charge temporarily. I remember down in the Bahamas aerobic had the team looking so much better than cow
@johnnycorn7225 I loved Cal but it was just time for both sides
Yeah robic was for sure Cal's hidden secret, he wass over it though ahah
The title alone had me laughing
When pope was announced as the coach for UK I was pissed. I did not think he was the man for the job. But after seeing how much he still cares for UK I said I’d give it a chance. Now he has 100% proven to be the man for the job.
Understand the trend for Mark Pope is high octane offense early. Then falls off during league play. It happened at BYU last year. Until he plays a team with a pulse or as the general conditioning of teams they are playing is increased.
100% accurate!
BBN going crazy because their offense looked great against High School teams!🤣
Does Duke qualify?
@@melomanace3415 considering the 30 point difference offensively. The offense did fall off when facing a better team. The defense did enough last night I respect it. Jaxon Robinson being completely shut down was not a great sign tho.
Great commentary. Please do more video analysis. Subscribed.
@@JasonParker-of3vv you got it brother
I just subscribed, dude. Great analysis and delivery. (I hope you have enough voice for the entire season!)
I got enough voice for a lifetime man
Subbed. Looking forward to more content
more coming!
I agree One hundred thousand percent! Pope is a legit coach. Cal was a used car salesman/recruiter.
Couldnt agree more with all of this.
Many people are making us look ignorant with the constant talk about Cal. He's gone, get over it and try to enjoy our new team and coach.
GO CATS! And you are correct with Call 100%
Please do a video on Duke and Scheyer
I got you brother
This aged well! Great analysis, I totally agree. How about last night against Duke? Ugly end to the first half, but...something happened in that locker room, something crazy. Maybe even coaching, strategy, adjustments! UK came out in the second half as the aggressor. No more getting pushed around and forced out to the hashmark to run the offense. The Cats were the more physical team, stepped up defensively and got huge stops, played defense and rebounded as a TEAM and did a much better job. Kept fighting and never gave up. Calipari loses that game by 15 plus! Easy. How about the decision to move Carr to the 5 on offense? The big fella, Mr. Foulsalot (seriously went over the back every time) could not guard Carr out on the floor. This led to a couple CRUCIAL scores by Carr and 2 being And 1's. That was COACHING! An in game, on the fly adjustment at a crucial juncture. Wow. Also this was why Foulsalot was ultimately taken out of the game, not "cramps". Also, throwing the long ball to get it in bounds at the end of the game, Coach Cal would never! I would worry about UK even getting the ball in bounds in that position under Cal, let alone getting it to someone who could make a free throw. I am so happy to see it, all the Calipari Kool-aid drinkers eating their crow. I said it for years, no one is better at getting elite talent to play together, but outside of that, his basketball IQ is embarrassing for someone who has been coaching for 4 decades. WE HAVE A COACH! And I could not be more happy.
I don't disagree with any of this
Yeah Wright St is a great team to compare coaches on.
So glad he's gone. I might start following again. Loved it with Pitino. Love it so far this season
It's definitely got more of a communal feel to it this year
GO BIG BLUE. WHAT A SATURDAY. POPE WON AND OUR B TEAM LOST TO BAYLOR
6:38🤣🤣
I’m excited about coach pope and I feel we will beat Arkansas by double digits
@@christophercasey3433 pope is good. The Arkansas game sure is gonna be interesting
@ I just think our experience will take them and coach pope is a better X’s and O’s coach than cal
Keep up with the coaching like you're doing, because I have a ton of questions for you. I just hope we beat Duke.
Please ask away. Duke is really good. Like really good. I don't think UK will win, but will be interesting
Everyone looks good playing high school teams
It's the way they won. It was clean... cal has a history being in games with teams like this
I have not seen that much space in the lane since Tubby Smith roamed the sideline. If the Tubs could have recruited better he would have lasted 20 years.
Ansley Almonor. lol It's really not a weird or hard name to say. Did enjoy the video though, look forward to more.
I love Pope and was begging to be rid of Cal the last few years, but to act like Pope over 2 games + exhibitions is better than Cal's tenure from 09-10 to 14-15 is literally insane. It's one of the most dominant 5 year runs in college basketball history and includes a title!
Times have changed. .I'll give you his first 6 years. After 2015... nothing nada, same story second page
@@coachBryceG he did okay until covid, but yeah it was the same shit. 2015 wisky loss broke his brain apparently.. :\
Coach Bryce is why is the reason why I'll never have children. We live in North Korea.
I see UConn, U northern Iowa offense in these plays
But but but..muh dribble drive!!!
😂
hahahah
Cal relied on talent, Pope coaches. It's that simple and we will be better for it.
Look, I respect it, however Calipari in the last 15 yrs is BOLD. Cal hasn't been the same since the 16/17 season. I don't know what changed or if finally the rest of college basketball figured out how to counter his heavy guard system, but UK basketball was reliant on top recruits to show out for way to long. No decent sets were ever ran and stagnant offense was a staple. His playbook hasn't changed and it's a sad day to be a 4-5 in his system. You can compare just about any Pope game to that baylor/arkansas game and see how much basketball has devloped. There is still flaws in pope heavy shooting offense. 1. Amari Williams being a head taller than his defender catching the ball with his back to the basket and EVERYONE knows he's passing the ball back out. 2. Brandon Garrison getting the ball anywhere outside of the paint is going to continue to hurt the team. Him running DHO's is unacceptable and resulting in bad plays consistently. He needs to be a rim threat and set better screens. 3. Jaxson Robinson's light is to green. Love the tenacity but seeing him hoist up contested threes and the ball getting sticky when it finds him isn't a great game plan when this team is very well rounded.
Do UConn vs Memphis
Great can run plays vs wright st! Major win 🤣🤣 oh yeah elite 8
Wright state has nothing to do with it. Just watch
Told to go and be better than everybody else. That is literally to the letter what coach calipari constantly said. He always blamed the kids for not going enough or being better, he should have blamed himself.
Can't believe yelling go wasn't working
Beat a good opponent too 😂
@@Kairn3 totally irrelevant
I feel sorry for Arkansas; no wait, I’m very happy they got CCC!!😂. U wanted him , u got him. You I can’t trade him in. He’s fn yours! Pope+BBN are coming for ya!
... and then we beat Duke. 😎
Love the rivalry and all the trash talk but guys.... Arkansas first loss was against Baylor and they smoked Kansas in an exibition game. Kentucky looks awesome but they haven't played ANY big names yet. Let's see what happens in March.
Beat kansas without Hunter Dickinson and then lost to TCU right after, classic Cal
NIL exposed Calipari as a C-tier coach. Not really. He was always pretty damn basic in terms of x's and o's.
Brother he won you guys a title.
Basketball has changed since 2012 Calipari has been simply out coached constantly for the last 5-6 years you can’t win with just freshman anymore. This guy said it best you have to recruit to a system not just get the best people available and telling them to go win
Yes and he would still be winning chips if it was 2012, but he style doesn’t work any more
@@sharkbait9922 I'm not a Kentucky fan dawg. Simple observation from watching basketball over the years. Pope is better for KY
“a”
Cal lost his assistant John robic who was extremely important in his teams x and o on offense and defense. When he left Cal was exposed. The man once was a good coach, now he is an average coach, who can recruit. I haven't seen his teams play effectively together since 2019, he had a decent team in 2022 but they also lost some games due to the incompetence of their head coach. Love what Cal done at UK, and he should be applauded for it, however it was a good thing he left. Pope is better right now for UK and his teams atleast play cohesively as a team, and I'm sure he is humble enough to make adjustments if he is wrong about something.
Cal didn't do sets...realizing slowly how lazy a coach he was...
nice breakdown, but it would be cool if you would show some emotion. I can't tell if you care or not
I def don't care hahah
For Gods sake can we just move on from Cal. He did a ton a good things for our program. Just appreciate what he did and let’s enjoy this new chapter without having to compare everything to Cal.
THANK YOU
Cal hurt ya. I’m sorry. It happened to a lot of us good folk. It’s ok, you don’t have to be scared anymore. Pope is here, he’s gonna take good care of ya.
@ let’s hope your right
he did a ton of good things for himself, not our program.
@ you sound like an ex wife. He brought us a natty. Joe B won us one natty, Rick won us one, Tubby won us one, Cal won us one, like I said, ex wife..
He got Kentucky a championship. Pope will never do that at Kentucky. He can't recruit like calipari can.
He got out couched almost every game
He's just tired man it's evident
The opposite of the Awful Coaching channel. I see you.
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Funniest UK video i’ve ever watched
Guaranteed elite 8???wanna make a wager??32 at best..bbn always but there really soft and lack rebounding size
Pope knows How to make a team! He knows how to improve the group and team fundamentals. Car salesman Cal took the most talent almost annually and got so little from them!! Cal lowest returns from the best talent of any coach I can recall!! Horrible coaching and wrecked so many young players hope of an expected National Championship. Sad,Sad and unfortunately hung around way way too long!!! Fraud Cal reigned far too long at Ky and now takes his carnival Cal ways too Arkansas. Bye Bye😮
this 🤡 made a video talking about Cal, who's not even there!!😂. if Mark Pope say this video and listened to or saw the comments, i wonder what he would think of these types of fans!! Fan is short for FANATIC, and boy UK has a lot of those type of people!! Cal must be laughing his ass off, living Rent-Free all these months later!!
@@michaelkepesky5635 I'm not a Kentucky fan jokes on you
These kensucky fans are wild. One game and the delusional takes are coming lmaoooo. Has pope won a chip? But you are saying he's a better coach!
I'm not a Kentucky fan. Basketball observer
If you know anything about basketball the only reason Cal has a ring is because AD. Mark Pope runs plays not once is there someone over dribbling or just standing there droned out.......
I think self , pitino and a slew of tge brightest coaches have fell to calamari even my own Roy Williams plus more and you come up with AD. You don't know shit about basketball, because that over dribbling beat those defensive schemes. I hate Kensucky. They suck up to every coach tgat has been there then when they don't perform they throw him away to trash. Pope has two tournament wins and you talking about running sets against low level competition lmaoooo!!!!!!