What do the two biggest misses of the Mark Pope era think of the Kentucky coach?

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Mark Pope has secured two top-five transfer classes since taking over at Kentucky

Top UK targets Chaz Lanier and Yaxel Lendeborg praised Pope at the NBA Combine

Despite missing out on Lendeborg, Kentucky has put together a deep frontcourt

Mark Pope has obviously done well for himself in the transfer portal since taking over as Kentucky’s basketball coach a little more than a year ago.

The list of high-profile portal additions — Koby Brea, Lamont Butler, Otega Oweh, Jaxson Robinson, Jaland Lowe and Jayden Quaintance, among several others — in such a short amount of time has been impressive.

According to the 247Sports rankings , Pope has put together the No. 5 transfer class nationally in each of his first tw