[Moderated by Matt Jones]
We probably deserve it, but ESPN’s Eamonn Brennan and Jason King seemed to lack any semblance of confidence in this year’s Kentucky team in their college basketball weekend roundup. Here’s what they had to say following the Cats’ lackluster 75-70 win over LSU.
King wrote that he is shocked that Kentucky isn’t better by now, citing Kentucky’s near-loss to the Tigers as evidence. He added, “I honestly think Kentucky was a better team in November than it is right now. If that’s true, it says more about this team’s mental makeup than it does its talent.” That statement really hit the nail on the head. We all know that there’s not a problem of talent in Lexington this year. For whatever reason we just can’t seem to put it all together.
Brennan wrote, “Kentucky does not look like a tournament team. Unless the tournament in question is the NIT.” His reason? Defense. He writes, “The Wildcats had allowed .97 points per possession in SEC play prior to Saturday, seventh-best in a league that most certainly does not house seven good teams. (Maybe three.) It ranked last in the league in forced-turnover rate, and it had allowed SEC opponents to grab 32.1 percent of available offensive rebounds, 10th-best in the conference.”
You can read the rest of King and Brennan’s thoughts here, if you’d like. I should warn you though, it doesn’t get any better.
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January 28th, 2013 at 11:37 am
I thought our defense was okay and it was our offense that was the main culprit. Shows how much I know.
January 28th, 2013 at 11:40 am
Here are two things that I think I know though. Two things happened in the LSU game that I had never heard or seen before. One was Joe Dean calling the backboard a ‘banking board’. That was a term coined in that game as far as I know. And a silly one too as backboard has done just fine for over about 100 years now.
The second is that Alex Poythress shot a left-handed jump shot. Do you know how many times a right-handed player has shot a left-handed jump shot in the history of organized competition? Here’s a clue – 0. Maybe Kobe did it once but that’s all I’m familiar with. I’m a little surprised there has been no mention of this anywhere. Was I seeing things?