How Mark Pope & Kentucky beat Duke with in-game adjustments

[@austinkeith2198]

The otega rebound was just amazing. Rebounding over a much taller player to finish the game. And he had an incredible rebound where he was fighting dukes huge center. All his rebounds and defensive stops were great and he is just tough and energetic. I love everything I see from him.

[@CJ-xl5rh]

Oweh is just a beast

[@johnosborne7031]

Duke, especially Flagg, was spent at the end. Our Cats wore them down and had plenty left in their own tanks. That’s pope knowing how to get a team ready for a full 40-minute game and the team responding with no quit.

[@korykappes]

@@johnosborne7031 Agreed. I was there. Duke was winded most of the game. Became sloppy at the end.

[@johnnycorn7225]

​@@johnosborne7031yup in the Duke fans are still repeating we just shot bad will never shoot that bad again like it's unrelated. They won't admit they got their legs ran out from under them.

[@nunyabidness859]

It does the heart a load of good just to be able to talk about significant in-game adjustments for Kentucky. Definitely a welcome change.

[@suzie9874]

The biggest in game adjustment not mentioned. Putting Carr at the 5. Making the big 7'2 guy have to come out of the paint and guard him.

[@michaelbell5]

I was SO IMPRESSED with our Kentucky Wildcats basketball team. The adjustments in the 2nd half is something I hadn't seen us do in years. They play such a fun style on both ends of the court! Both the offense and defense are enjoyable to watch. I am proud of this team and Coach Pope.

[@Wetrockstah2116]

Not too many people talking about that key rebound and no look pass Kobe Brea made which was a key sequence to help Kentucky get rolling to win the game. It was a total team effort, and that is a good sign. Kobe Brea imo is one of our best players.

[@ericsmith6749]

15:23 I don't think this play goes wonky or gets blown up. It is part of the read. Butler, Jax, and Brea intentionally clear out to set up the iso.

[@aquemeni1979]

5:44 Cooper does his best Grayson Allen impression…

[@indigomarine91]

What I think is amazingIs the fact that duke's game plan was focused on Robinson, unfortunately they were successful locking him down. Is it, but that shows how good of a team we are that we will never know who the best player on this team is this entire season. They're shooting guard had 13 points in the first half and zero in the second half. I think most teams, if you lock down that specific, the game swings the other direction. I still think Ansley Almonor is the dark horse, I'm ready for him to have his jump out night.

[@dwphillips42]

Are we not so blessed to have coach P. i love to here him explain all the intricate details and analytics of the game. poor coach Cal still sounds just like he did here the last few years when talking to the medea. i really dont think he knows how to put together a good team anymore. he did alot for UK so i hope he figures it out for Ark just not agaist us.

[@nunyabidness859]

@@dwphillips42 it's wild to go from a coach that literally said, in MARCH, "we might start talking about zone defense", to a coach whose early November press conferences are so deep and packed with information that I need google to understand half the things he's talking about. I still have love for Cal but Pope is the upgrade we desperately needed.

[@dwphillips42]

@nunyabidness859 agreed.

[@mmartinez8439]

People talk about not winning a tourney game but they don’t look at how quick he moved up. He was at byu for only 5 years and had he stayed he would of built something great there

[@jt1765]

I disagree, I don’t think he would have ever had the tools and resources he needed there. Now that the jazz guy is there you got ainge dumping all that money into the program. Wouldn’t have happened with Pope and he would still have the same handicaps to work with. At UK he has every resource available to him for staff, players, equipment, technology, whatever, and a lot less restrictions. Anything he needs he’s gonna get, especially after last Tuesday. He will definitely build something great here.

[@mmartinez8439]

@@jt1765he wouldn’t have the resources but I still think he would of built a great program there

[@ebnest123]

The Maluach cramps def hurt Duke, was dominating the paint first half

[@alfredguinto1976]

Coach knew where the ball be at! Flagg need some serious coaching,everyone knew Duke games is all about,get the ball to Flagg and get the hell out! 5 ⭐️ team mates should play too,besides it’s 5 on 5 not 1 on 5 lol!wake up Duke!

[@michaeljennings8381]

Love the jab at Jay Will

[@UKFan1996]

I think it would be fun to do some sort of "pick apart" episode, where we take a deep look at stats and talk about where individuals and the team could make small improvements. For example, should Butler take less threes? He's 1/6 on the season and averages like 30% in his prior seasons. Would Robinson do better off the bench, where he thrived last year? Just thoughts.

[@christopherchilders1049]

You had never heard of the UKIT? It has been around for a long time and if I’m not mistaken in the 80s, it was played like a regular tournament

[@homerward8203]

Garrison is going to be huge for us next year if he don't jump to the NBA.

[@brianprather6743]

Duke defense was very good …. But we needed the right guys shooting 3’s and others shooting less 3’s

[@GetNGhost]

The flops were awful. Great win for the Cats! I thought the NCAA was going to stop all the flops? Didn't see not one call against a flop, the no calls are not the answer.

[@davidenix3039]

Not to bust a bubble, I live in KY. Love this team, but let’s not forget last year. We beat TX and it was hoopla everywhere how good UK was. Then the title hopes faded quickly. I’ll stay even kill Until it’s time not too. Go CATS.

[@nunyabidness859]

@@davidenix3039 I can't speak for all Kentuckians but I'm not necessarily thinking about title. We don't know enough about the team for that. We'll have to see them endure some brutal sec play to really know what we've got. But what we've seen so far is enough to get excited. Excited because we see what looks like a winning formula. IE: great ball movement, good OFF the ball movement, not relying on one or two guys to play great every game, intense defense capable of implementing complicated schemes, disciplined play on offense and defense, actually being prepared for a specific opponent, high IQ X's and O's on offense, and on and on... And it's knowing that these things are a priority to our coach. We haven't been able to even say that for a while.

[@nickperkins8477]

I am not thinking about a national championship. That is completely pie in the sky. But, this program has a vitality on both ends of the court I have seen here since Mark Pope was wearing a Kentucky basketball uniform.

[@nickperkins8477]

@@nunyabidness859exactly!!!

[@homerward8203]

Carr being smaller than flagg could out position himself and get his shots

[@robertmarcum3917]

OH GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another You Tuber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AustinFarrell1012]

I was told we only won cause Duke missed shots

[@heathbaker1138]

There are two types of people who say that. First you have the group that only simplifies basketball down to scoring more than the other team. Second you have the group who understand nothing about basketball other than scoring more points means you win. The first only focuses on offense. The second knows little to nothing about how you actually play the game.

[@natet5959]

You mean, they actually drew up plays and executed them? And they made half time adjustments?

[@traviscarpenter6216]

Garrison is kind like Chuck Hayes

[@rogermoore2661]

Honestly if duke played the way they did the first 2 games of the year Ky didnt stand a chance they needed a very poor shooting night and cramps to bairly beat Duke. 8 times out of 10 Duke would win

[@homerward8203]

GM of Lakers not Lowe lol

[@cato12]

Great defense!? lol that’s a foul. Gotta let him land. They didn’t call it and Kentucky got an easy bucket. Refs really helped yall a lot. They called a block on proctor. Clearly a charge. Refs were terrible. Duke easily handled an old ass Kentucky team to me Duke won that game.

[@kenfoster1508]

Actually two mistakes were made on that long runout! One was it should of been a better freethrow shooter should of taken the runout and the other is Butler should of shot the ball when he got fouled to secure a two-shot foul attempt but hay the end result was awesome

[@rowdyceo]

Kentucky really didnt beat Duke, Duke beat Duke with all them wide open missed threes. If Duke makes 2 or 3 more threes and they win. If they make 11 then they blow Kentucky out. If they make over 11 threes and Kentucky looks like a D3 program. Its really BAD defense on Kentucky really bc Duke had so many wide open threes that wouldnt fall

[@jasonenglemon1128]

You sound ridiculous as hell 😂😂😂 kentucky put the clamps on that ass in the second half 40-26

[@jacelowe7529]

Best thing about the if game is you can play it a million different ways. Kentucky missed a handful of wide open 3s too. What’s if they hit those? Kentucky blows them out. At end of the day it doesn’t matter because it didn’t happen. Gotta hit open shots in big games.