Mark Pope and Kentucky players discuss loss to Ole Miss
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Kentucky head coach Mark Pope, Otega Oweh, and Amari Williams spoke with the media following the Wildcats' 98-84 loss to the Ole Miss Rebels.
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I really hope we (KY fans) can support Mark Pope through the down times. I'm sure he feels worse than all of us. He's a special coach!
KY can't guard a water cooler they play great offense but they can't guard a water cooler
But we couldn’t do that for a man that won a title, multiple conference titles, final fours etc..
he’s a bad coach who ignores defense
He put this team together in a matter of months. It takes time to build chemistry on defense. I give coach props for what hes done but it may take a few years
There's definitely a scouting problem. For being such a shooting guy he's not good at identifying good shooters. He didn't have a clue brakefield could shoot, they guarded him like he was a non shooter big the whole game, ffs I could've told him that, I've been watching him do it all year. Same thing happened with grant Nelson, grant IS a shooter and has been for years now and first thing Pope said post game was he had no idea he could make shots and the players said the same, and obviously he torched us. How nuts is that, he's the best stretch 4/5 in the sec and our coach and players didn't have a clue?????? And I'm not just assuming that based on how the game went, they all SAID that post game.... I mean, that's not even real scouting, that's just knowing literally anything about who's on the other team....
We must come up with a better defensive scheme. Teams have figured us out. With or without Butler, we cannot give up 80-100 points a game!
Amari and Otegah keep your heads up.
As the old saying goes," you can"t teach old dogs new tricks". Most of these guys are fifth year seniors and should know what it takes to play good defense. It's called effort1 I see alot of guys just standing and watching.
Coach Pitino was 14 and 14 his first season. Let's get realistic about a new coach and not expect the impossible the first season. Support Pope!
lol
Teams regularly disrupt our offense.. we disrupt NOBODY.
Coach Pope is a great leader. As he states, the guys played hard, and I am doing a poor job. Lack of intensity and consistency on the players' part, but Pope is taking the blame. Could not ask for a better coach, and I believe it will be figured out.
I love and have faith in my Cats! And STILL thankful for our coach and our players! Hard period, but #BBN will get healthy and past this.
COACH POPE?
Hang in there!
Correct the weaknesses and use patience until your back court gets healthy!
BBN is with you during this time and you have shown us what you can do under these circumstances!
GO BIG BLUE!
If they miss the tournament we re bringing in Billy Donavon!
@@Bleedsblue lol
Arkansas fan here...Mark Pope is one hell of BB Coach..JS
Middle of the road not an elite coach, Before season all the talk was about experience players.
@@lccampbell7112 lol
@ lol
Pure class Mr. Pope, we are so fortunate to have you.
We will be lucky to make it past the first round of the tournament
Arkansas broke yall 😂
Guarding with your hands up is elementary school level stuff.... we are a long team and we're not using it to our advantage. Not forcing a SINGLE bad pass on defense in a 40 minute game is something I don't think I've ever seen before in my 40+ years of watching basketball, much less KENTUCKY basketball.
Don't give up guys!!!!
Keep your chins up. Rest recharge and play its a game yall. Much respect for the process. Lets GO!
Coach pope is a good guy and good coach 😊 ky fans stop this - comments plz thia his frist year coaching for UK 😊 ..give him time he will get it together soon i bealive in coach pope and this team !! Need bulter hope he come back soon i say if he come back we be better 💙🤍💙🏀🔥🔥. GO CATS 💪😺....
❤❤💯🙏🙏❤❤
Saying “I’m doing a poor job” only goes so far. Eventually you have to figure it out. I know if I was continually doing a poor job I’d eventually get fired.
Arkansas broke this team and the coach. Hope with pope I guess the honeymoon is over.
what’s red on his right hand when he gets up i heard we damaged some stuff in the ole miss locker room
Lord help Mark, his staff and all the players to be at peace with You. Thank You Lord.
And BBN!
Uk has now lost 4 out of their last 5 games 😢😂😂😂😂
I remember some sports talks saying UK would be 9-9 in conference play. Fans laughed at them because of the teams UK had already beaten.
shhhhhhhhh
Exactly and everyone saying we’re fine we are playing pathetic the last 2 weeks
Kentucky's defensive scheme, leave the other team wide open and hope they miss.
Defensive efforts are a joke besides two kids, and it’s nice to see the coach take up for them but effort from the players would be nice.
Respect for taking responsibility and answering questions. Cal would have snuck out.
Cal would not have an excuse he would have won, but you wouldn’t know that because you’re frustrated with your coach lol
You talking about Oakland or St Peters? @@darienmcgowen1244
@@darienmcgowen1244 No, every time Cal loses he puts it on someone else. Pope is telling us that he takes responsibility. Cal loses with more talent than Pope has with 3 months to make a team and has still won better than Cal has this season. Beating Kentucky was Cals best win so far this year. LEts hope he keeps the momentum.
@@darienmcgowen1244 "He would have won"? 3/2/2021 Kentucky at Mississippi L 62 - 70
@@d.s.7637they going to be a 10 or12 seed
“Triple double is a remarkable achievement at amari’s size”….well thats because other teams dont need/want their 7 footer dribbling the ball up the court and running the offense.
Desperate times call for desperate measures
what happened when the guards tried 2 take the ball up oh thats right a 10 sec never coach a game in ur life avg bbn fan take a piece of humbling not made out of 1st weekend in 5 years trash program trash fanbase and one more thing u get rid of pope after 2 yeats bye bye being a blue blood becuz no coach will wanna come here 2 a ungrateful fb
This was a tough loss to watch
He has no idea what more to do to coach this team and it’s incredibly obvious to see and hear
Exactly plays different rotations every game like he still trying to figure out what to do
@@waltermattingly6169it’s hard when you lose both pgs and ur only subbing options are mid true freshmen
I love Kentucky! I love all the players! I will always rock for them ❤
Pope is being not only mature and respectable but he’s protecting his guys. We all know this is not all on mark pope.
we have to attack, play physical, and guard the ball period when we do that, we will win
Keep grinding! Still time to get things going our way!
😊BBN
Boy, I've never heard that before!! Smh lol
❤❤ love my WILDCAT'S.LETS FACE FACTS U ARE GOING TO WIN EVERY TIME.❤❤🙏🙏👽
They are probably the best Ole Miss team in a long long time, they nearly beat Alabama. Yeah the first half could've gone a lot better but still they're a tough team so can't feel too bad about the loss just hope Cats can win the next one against SC on Saturday and hopefully get things figured out despite the injuries and get the offence rolling again.
Pitino balling while we’re struggling. Smh
He’s in the big east 😂
They just beat a really good Marquette team. Give Pitino and St. John’s credit.
Also, Pitino is probably the best defensive basketball coach ever.
Unfortunately, not sure they can “find” the answers.
But first, they should try finding the attitude and effort needed to win, that is something they do have control over.
This team should have been practicing defense all season this falls on pope for not having this team defensely ready
Agreed, a good coach would have seen a horribly bad defense as UK has. Should’ve been “noticing” this.
Idk man the defensive errors i see (like 90% of them) are just lack of effort. I think our guys just wanna play offense and dont take pride in defense
@@anthonybennett4745 exactly! Pope had to notice a lazy rebounding, defending habits. Everyone we play scores 90-100. That’s INSANE!!!
You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit. Pope had to get who he could get in a short amount of time. I wouldn't want to walk down a dark alley counting on Brea and Robinson to cover my back.
No it doesn’t. I played the game and it’s an effort thing. You can’t teach defense all day but if the guy doesn’t show some grit it doesn’t matter.
Something happened to this team they don’t want play anymore it’s ridiculous
It's like a bicycle when the chain has slipped off the chain ring. You can still pedal just as hard, but it doesn't translate to movement. Our chain slipped off when Butler was hurt.
I agree with the Bike chain analogy. Individual players can as hard as they want but when the tools available to them have limitations you can’t expect them to bust through those limitations. Limitations being injuries and talent (pope had to put this roster together in 2 months with no returns).
They’re scared after that whoop ass from Arkansas 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@debsam77 yeah right!!! Your team, ain't shit!!!!
I think they're just out of sync and exhausted, frustrated. Have to remember we have no true point guard
right now.
Everyone thought he was special,his team is the only team ive seen to not improve with time,sounds like a coach problem, these other teams are improving,if he can't get it together,good chance they won't make it to big dance,his competition is the sec
Nana Nana Nana, hey hey hey goodbye
Your guys man Mark Pope 1-4 in his last 5. That’s embarrassing as a Kentucky fan idc if his first or tenth year
If someone posted JUST our box score before the game without the +/-, you would think we won by 20.
It was embarrassing
Whoever is responsible for defensive game planning needs to be fired.
Coach apparently doesn't have any answers..
Defense is effort. Second half showed it vs first and Arkansas game.
We will continue to lose until we come up with more than one offensive set. They man to man our shooters, we dont pass the ball, no rotation... Its OK, its his first year here at UK, this is actually what I expected so getting the wins we got were a bonus.
Pope is to basketball like Sam Pittman is to football! Nice guys finish last. Get mean or it’s all over but the crying
The guys are not playing hard on defense coach. There’s no scheme for that
I’ve only got one question for you……. Can anybody stop the big pig invasion? 😊😂😊
@@darienmcgowen1244 cal will do that his self
Dear god. The issue isn’t the number of threes we are or aren’t shooting. If we played defense, or at least better defense, we scored enough to win this game. We outscored them in the second half. I’m so tired of the “we don’t shoot enough threes” narrative. It’s focusing on a non-problem at the cost of actual problems. Like our Swiss cheese defense.
Keep saying defense but we don't do it cone on guts
Ole Miss took care of the ball while staying aggresive.
Where's the defense ? The guys don't stay between their man and the basket , they can't slide their feet , they lack the basic defensive skills. When you don't force any turnovers , you're not playing any defense.
These guys start these games flat , unmotivated, they're not fired up to play . That's on the coaches and the team. They're just not ever ready to go out and play. On defense they lack that playground mentality, that your not gonna on me attitude. Oweh is the only guy with a real winners mentality , Williams is getting there.
Mark please slow down when your talking after games
Yeah, but what about hamilton?
That team that beat us by 20 had lost 4/5 games. 😂 What a pathetic effort
Lets hope these guys aren’t praying for answers and get to work
Hope with Pope
What could you possibly have to say other than we only play inspired basketball against better teams.
22 is a player.
No tour if u guys don't step it up
Pope needs to sit Jaxson like Buzz and Muss did
I would sit Brea! He can't guard anyone!
Muss wouldn’t even play him 😅
What he refuses to say and what many UK media refuses to say is that 1. Our injuries are killing us. and 2. The last two teams shot percentages that they will never shoot again. Just say it. Our three point defense might be weak, but it looks worse than it is when the other teams are making shots they will not make but maybe one more time the rest of the year. I said it.
our defense is horrible. Anyone watching the games seeing that. It’s a real problem. And no excuses injuries happen.
Might be a trend that teams shoot so well against us, why are they that comfortable?
The reason teams are shooting so well against KY is no defense. Ark and Ole Miss may not shoot that well again in conference because every other team has SOME defense.
Why no matchup zone?
Exactly….with Butler out they need to try something different
Pope can’t COACH lol
@@Rdot3423 your just a troll
Were in trouble but this season was not the end all be all. Its year one. This year was a piece together see what happens year. Pope clearly did himself no favors early beating all those top ranked teams. He got yalls hopes up too high. He doesnt even have a recruiting class in yet and its off with his head for some of yall.
Butler not coming back he moreless just moreless said it
Neither is Kerr
yeah lets play trent noah and travis perry over him avg bbn dumbass fan
It's so strange how shit shooting teams play us and hit 13 threes. We need to shoot more, and I still like this team for March when we get Lamont AND Kerr back
Jaxson is soft among brea and Karr not able to guard!! The bigs are soft!!! The team is getting worse instead of better!!! That’s a big problem
Jaxson couldn’t guard when he was at Arkansas either. Muss wouldn’t play him
Carr is obviously still not 100% mobile, probably because he has a brace under his jersey still. But he's doing more than most of the bigs without back injuries.
No, what’s going on is the days of Kentucky dominating every year is over. So get used to it cause other teams want to win championships too 🤷🏾♀️
@@debsam77 nil money you got to pony up
Good gawd some people are blind so Amari is soft?
Go Cats!
Hard to dig out of the massive hole that they dug by halftime.
It is his first year!!!!! God give the guy a chance. Love Pope!
Slow lateral movement & close outs defensively from several players. That’s conditioning & training. Figured some things out offensively in the 2nd half, getting downhill with the ball. Have to get Butler back but there’s a lot that needs to be improved across several positions.
When you're not forcing any turnovers , you're not playing good enough D . They don't stay between their man and the basket or slide their feet on defense , it causes their feet to get crossed up and their man easily blows by.
@ yes, Koby, Jaxson & Travis P have terrible lateral speed. Against a lot of the more athletic players in the SEC (practically all of the SEC guards), they’re a complete step behind as they end up having to gather off the wrong leg to catch up to them. No spring in their step, so to speak. It shouldn’t be that case for either Jaxson or Koby as they should’ve had enough training & time in college to be faster & understand how to move. Pope’s not wrong in saying that he really hasn’t done a good job of getting the players ready defensively. I think he’s learning that lesson with league play. We’ll be fine but it may be just what it is this year.
Hold Your Head Up Keep. On Believing. We will Keep On loving. You. Guys. We. Are. There. For. You. Amen.!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Three young men - is God's answer - to a prayer!
I gave Pope a mulligan and that still stands, I will say it still isn't easy to not have high hopes with the beginning of the season going so well, I still think, if/when he gets Butler and Carr back he'll get things back on track. It's not easy to put together a whole team just coming in, and he did an excellent job, the downside is, he got key players for key roles and when 1 is out it is disruptive, let alone 3 out. Cal is Cal, he won like he always does, pulls out a cinderella every 7 or 8 games and beats a team twice as good, Ole Miss, thats another team you have to play at least as good as them to win, SEC is no joke in NCAAM this year.
This team are winners led by a winner! Goooo Cats!!!
Stop trying to be their best friend Mark, and try being a good coach.
That’s three out of four games this team has laid a turd and looked uninspired and disinterested.
It's not the injuries causing such poor performance. Primarily this is about mentality. Sure they might still lose these games if it wasn't, but not play this poorly. This group, minus their two injured point guards who have attitude, are mentally soft. You can see that the opposing team's stronger will/aggressive play affects them.
And Coach Pope doesn't seem able to find a way to unlock their own willpower to WANT to be just as locked in as their opponent. Adversity has them in their own heads, not in the moment.
They shy away from making contact to draw fouls, have become more stagnant on offense, and more hesitant in their decision making on both ends of the floor. Hesitation, and second guessing is leading to more turnovers on the offensive end, and getting few on defense. Several times last night all 5 players over-passed the ball, missing good shooting opportunities for a bad one. Because they were hesitant to pull the trigger.
Defensively, keeping their hands down or in a neutral position, weak closeouts, weak boxing out, again, shows they are just not locked in.This is all evidence of a chronic lack of mental toughness being the bigger issue, over the injuries IMO.
All that said, I'm pulling for them to figure it out. I like Coach Pope much better than Cal (though he's a little too soft spoken and docile for me sometimes), and want him to be immensely successful.
😂😂😂😂😂😂same old song and dance. Reminds me of someone else always having the answer lol
You my friend are a moron. We don't have a single PG right now which in turn no on ball defender. Our best player was a 6 man last year....what are you expecting?
Our defense plays with no energy ever forced 1 turnover all game
I'm not upset with my cats I'm just facing the facts Kentucky just needs to give up the rest of the season they will not win the rest of the season playing the way they are and they can forget about playoffs better luck next year it didn't help that coach calipari left at the last minute took three of the good ball players with him coach Pope got offered the job man really didn't have time to put a team together and I'll say this you can't be soft on defense and the cats have been pretty soft they proven without a doubt they can shoot the ball I believe this if these boys will stay with Pope and not leave at the end of the season and they recruit some other good players and practice their butts off this summer they will be unstoppable and I hope this might reach some people in the college administration when a young man is offered a scholarship to play basketball for a team in college they should have to stay two years before they are eligible for the NBA draft and after a year of playing if they want to transfer to another school they can and when a coach leaves like John calipari did they shouldn't be allowed to take the roster with them just a reminder to folks this is just my opinion don't let it offend you
True leader, he owns it.
@Brokenvessel: If you're out there I'm curious if you still think this team is a national title contender. My belief that they lose in the first 2 rounds is even stronger after the losses to Ark and Ole Miss.
Don’t hang your heads! We was written off from the beginning and even tho we are in a slump & injuries are hurting us WE ARE STILL UK! Give us a little credit guys. This team was thrown together in a month with a brand new coach. I think we will work some things out and ( hopefully ) fix the defensive issues before March. Hopefully we get our players healthy as well. It’s not over yet. 😊
Pelphrey should try growing his hair back out. It might change the momentum
Pelphrey?
@@jeffclark4008 I bleed blue. I think I know the Unforgettable John Pelphrey when I see him
We'll grow??? Dude March is three weeks away!!!
Think people forget Uk is without its starting and back up point guard that’s huge how other teams would fair without its top 2 points
This isn’t over . Sec play is Tough . Go Big Blue .!!!
Amari defense closing out at the 3 point line was terrible I don’t care about his points until they learn how to play defense this team is the bottom of the pack
Amari is the last guy that should be getting called out. Brea and Jaxson should be the ones getting called out.
@ they were all weak but that first half he just never closed out on his guy n that was a big part why they were down by 21 at half but yeas there all pansies except for oweh
@ These guys will be going home 1st game in the tournament unless they get that Tennessee game mentality n fight
Oweh
Classy guy. Patience BBN
Quit talking it freaking do it dang.. our defense is just horrible
Team isn't athletic, Pope can't lie to himself about that. More zone going forward or continue to struggle
You need Kerr Kriisa asap
I'm so sick of hearing about the second half the second half. When you allow 54 points and 0 turnovers in the first half, the second half DOESN'T MATTER MARK POPE! This season has turned into a shitshow and Kansas will soon pass us for most wins all time. Great job showing effort Wildcats you really now know how to fight through adversity 🙄
Mark saying that he's coaching bad right now is not lip service, he means it, he holds himself accountable, remember who coached him, he's not trying to just take the pressure off of the players like Cal would, and I loved Cal, I'm just calling out some truth. Coach, a lot of us fans are behind you and understand that this happens in sports period. Our injuries aren't an excuse, our better players are hurt, and not to sound like a broken record, when healthy we have beat really good teams and can beat anyone. You must have your key players but our defense for sure has to get dramatically better, no excuses there. Love my Cats through think and thin, 40 year fan so Go Big Blue ✌️💙 #BBN
Hang in there Coach Pope!
We are BBN!
25% fanatics and
75% fanatics with intelligence who KNOW BASKETBALL!
BBN is with this entire team all year long… and proud of you as these health issues resolve themselves!
COACH POPE?
I would LOVE to see Kentucky get their two guards healthy by SEC Tournament time… and THEN play Arkansas!
OH BABY!
Regardless! BBN knows you understand the mission and are going to make Kentucky Proud…. Even when it can seem like MISSION IMPOSSIBLE !
See Ya at the Tennessee Game!
GO BIG BLUE
Don't forget we're playing in the toughest league in the nation without a point guard. That's obviously not the whole issue, but it is a factor.
We need Butler ASAP and kerr krisa for sec tournament. The first half of this game was disastrous,2nd half some better still bad.
Gotta play some defense