Mark Pope is a brilliant basketball mind, a former NBA player, and the head coach of Kentucky. And we all know he almost graduated medical school. He talks about parts of the brain, he waxes philosophically. But in the chess world, he’s getting absolutely humbled by his 6'10 phenom, Jayden Quaintance.
"This JQ is just crushing me"
During his media availability, Pope laughingly admitted his struggles against the 6-foot-9 phenom.
“This JQ is just crushing me in chess,” Pope confessed. “It's like it's I I've just lost all pride.”
The "rivalry" apparently got so one-sided that Pope had to recruit a teammate, Colin Chandler, just to stand a chance—and it still wasn't a fair fight.