This Kentucky basketball team is proving to have a huge problem on their hands, and it’s more than just not winning against quality teams. They have an effort problem, and after getting punched in the mouth in multiple games already and not responding, it was more of the same in Nashville on Friday. It took Kentucky nearly nine minutes to score its first field goal of the game, taking a 17-point lead into the under-12 media timeout. Kentucky never responded after going down early, and that’s why fans were booing.
Kentucky has an identity crisis, which is nothing new after suffering with this problem over the last three weeks. They are searching for answers themselves on the court, but they have found none. Fans gave this team a clear home court advantage, cheering their butts off for their team, even throughout the game, but the Wildcats never showed fight or pride, or even effort. Kentucky is now 5-4 on the season after all four of their power conference games so far have left an embarrassing product on the floor.
Following Gonzaga’s absolute beatdown of Kentucky, leaving Nashville with a 35-point win, national media from around the country began flaming the issues that are wrong with this Kentucky team. They gave Kentucky fans hard truths, but it’s still true. One media member who knows Pope as well as anyone in the business, Jeff Goodman, spoke very in-depth about what is wrong with this Kentucky squad right now…