Kentucky men\u2019s basketball officially opened fall practice Monday, and Mark Pope wasted no time bringing energy to the court. In a video shared on social media, Pope wrote as the caption, \u201cPractice #1 in the books. Hard work & so much fun. Couple of clips of BG [Brandon Garrison] and MM [Malachi Moreno] making plays and Mountain Mamba [Trent Noah] making shots. Can\u2019t wait \u2018til 2 pm for #2.\u201d<\/p>\n
The clips didn\u2019t disappoint. Jaland Lowe fed Brandon Garrison, who drew a triple team before kicking out to Trent Noah for a wide-open three. In another sequence, Denzel Aberdeen connected with Malachi Moreno, who recovered a near turnover and threw down a powerful dunk over Garrison. Aberdeen later tried to lob an alley-oop to Moreno that missed the mark, but the practice action stayed lively.<\/p>\n
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The final highlight of the first session showed Garrison bringing the ball up the floor and finding Lowe, who quickly dished to Noah in the corner for another smooth three.<\/p>\n
Pope also appeared in a separate post, sprinting into the gym with a grin, yelling, \u201cI love the first day! Let\u2019s go!\u201d before joining his players. Kentucky capped the morning with another clip, this one featuring Mouhamed Dioubate spinning into a thunderous dunk before flexing at the camera.<\/p>\n
With less than three weeks until Big Blue Madness, Pope\u2019s Wildcats are already showing off their firepower and their personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky men\u2019s basketball officially opened fall practice Monday, and Mark Pope wasted no time bringing energy to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,104681,104685,104686,569,96281,104682,22712,104687,104684,398,400,401,99,104683],"class_list":["post-175612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-garrison","tag-denzel-aberdeen","tag-jaland-lowe","tag-kentucky","tag-kentucky-mens-basketball","tag-malachi-moreno","tag-mark-pope","tag-mouhamed-dioubate","tag-mountain-mamba","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports","tag-trent-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}