Pope wants the Wildcats to keep working to improve and not stop.
Kentucky scratched and clawed their way to the big win over No. 6 Duke in the Champions Classic after making some really important adjustments at halftime. One thing that Mark Pope has made clear to his players, is if thing's aren't going your way with a particular part of the game, just keep doing it.
Pope has taught his team to keep "coming in waves" and continue to attack. He doesn't want them to stop if it isn't working. Instead, keep going at their opponent. He used offensive rebounding as an example, something he has been challenging his team to keep improving at. "We don't like being rejected. We don't like coming up short. We don't like it. When we're not successful at something, we kind of wanna walk away and do something different. That's what I was talking about postgame, I think our last game, about emotional resilience. This ability to be like, man, I've got on the glass seven times.
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