Mark Pope Got Bullied By Tyran Stokes On National TV, Embarrassed Kentucky Basketball And We're Talking About Firing Him Right This Moment
You know what sucks? You know what just makes your life miserable no matter how good everything else can be going? When the one thing you care about more than anything in the world is in the middle of a shitshow led by a guy who cares about the program as much as anyone else and gets embarrassed on national TV over and over and over again. That's what happened last night.
Tyran Strokes and Kansas bullied Mark Pope. Look at all these pathetic stats
Mark Pope put together his single-worst coaching night at Kentucky. I want to say it's the worst I've ever seen but I've seen some shit lately with this program. It starts when Malachi Moreno gets 2 early fouls on bullshit calls. No heart from Pope to stand up for his guy and immediately puts in Franck to stay big. Fine. Slight problem when Franck has no touch and can't score and then N'Dyie has 3 fouls in 4 minutes. Awesome.
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Instead of relying on his talent and using this whole offensive scheme that we saw a mere 2 years ago, he tried to make Milan Momcilovic a post up forward. What the fuck was that, Mark? In no world would Milan Momcilovic, the best shooter in the country, go 29 minutes without a look for three. And then it wasn't even a good look! Pope never once designed a set for him until it was too late. He never once tried to adjust the lineup and use the 3 guards together to create more offense. That's how you look like a little pouty bitch in a photo like this
Michael Reaves. Getty Images.Now, it's obviously one loss in November. I'm not sitting here saying the season is over when we got a long way to go. What I don't want is the same bullshit as last year. Embarrassed on TV in big time games all season. You already have fans ready to fire him. People are talking like Final Four or bust for Pope. We'll get to that point when we get to that point, but for me, you can't keep doing shit like this. You can't let Tyran Stokes come in and play you like this in November. You can't get outcoached or anything like that.
Just find a way to be good again.