Tom Hart

As big a leap

playing the point it's still not what you need to be a winning team um otago away is a good guy to lean on but if you're not a 50 40 80 guy in terms of your offensive efficiency and you're taking a lot of shots it's gonna hurt uh what impacted me the most when i first went to a mark pope practice was how relentlessly positive he was and contrasted especially the cow yeah we're we're

every other word out of it.

What?

What?

And he's screaming at everybody the entire practice.

That doesn't mean he doesn't pat him on the back sometimes, but totally different approach.

And Pope would stop practice and put his arm around a guy and say, man, I love that drop step.

I love the way you did that.

Do that again.

That is so good.

And so I think all of us last year were just like, whoa.

We got whiplash for how different the program was year one Cal to Pope.

I don't know.

I think one thing that adds to it is then when your team is losing and you need good cop, bad cop, is that good cop, bad cop coming from two different people or is it the same person?

And I don't think Mark Pope has a lot of bad cop in him, but like when he gets mad.

We see him when he gets mad at the officials, but when he's not getting what he wants, how does he get it out of him?

Calipari would get it out of him just by brutal honesty.

And I think that's a little bit harder.

I also think, I mean, this is a bigger picture, and the Jerome Tang criticism kind of reinforces with me