Defend The Big Blue Nation!!!!

Does the diabolical Bruce Pearl have John Calipari's number? Will the evil forces of the world of college basketball join to try and prevent our heroes from saving the Big Blue Nation from the mediocrity of being an also-ran?? Do we have an answer for all those critics out there who claim we should learn how to shoot first and ask questions later?

Can our heroes rise and overcome all of the obstacles which lie before them as well as the traps and pitfalls our archenemies have surely hidden in our path? What villainy awaits??

OK, maybe I spent too much time reading comic books as a kid. Maybe not. So, we are concerned that the Cats got their camouflage hats handed to them at Thompson-Boling yesterday. We should be, but not necessarily so. We have got to start learning how to take our second and third options when it comes to shooting. Every time Demarcus struggles this team gets that "deer in the headlights" look.

First I will say this, John Wall played great yesterday. Yes, he had a couple of turnovers, but he had to singlehandedly, (because no one else could hit water yesterday if they fell out of a boat), take on Tennessee. The team finally decided to get into the game about 30 minutes after it started. Wall should have had a triple double yesterday, because about 15 passes he made should have been assists, but they only ended up as either turnovers or missed shots. Now, like Tru, I couldn't stand the officiating yesterday, but it did go both ways, so that gets thrown out the window.

We are going to get fouled people. It is not always going to get called. This is no longer about Cousins and his "Rep". It is about the fact that we play a very physical, up tempo game and the referees cannot handle it. And neither can our opponents, so they resort to fouling and shoving and then it gets mouthy, and technicals get called and the next thing we know it is 15 rounds with Mike Tyson instead of a basketball game. That having been said, it is time to get past all of that and be ready for whatever happens.We almost won yesterday in spite of ourselves and our shortcomings, and that was great to see. But if everyone will buckle down, take the shots the defense gives them, and actually PLAY defense every possession, we will be fine. The defense let us down yesterday folks. Not the 3, not John Wall, and not Demarcus Cousins, it was the defense. Defense wins championships, but more importantly it wins games you should otherwise lose. We stumbled yesterday, we will recover.......and maybe we have learned something else about what we will have to do to win it all.

Stay tuned Big Blue Nation, we will be back next week........same Cat-time, same Cat-channel!!!!!