The negative: Has got to realize that no matter how super fast he is, he cannot run into three players.Its going to get turned over.

The positive: Love his beautiful jump shot! Its perfection(most times anyway)

has shown huge improvement the past few games. His FT shooting is no the best, but his offensive game has been much better. He has gained confidence in his low post moves, and as always, is a force defensively in the middle. Good to see since he will get major minutes next season.

did any of u guys notice cousins yelling at miller at the end of the game? i mean i dont really think it was anything, but still something to look at i guess. maybe its just cousins being frustrated over all the no calls (and there were plenty) that he was on the losing side of.

John Wall was some kind of mad after the game. If looks could kill, someone would be gone!

and Alabama got into the minds of the Cats, fun to watch though as it never felt totally out of control. I am interested to hear more on Boogie yelling at Miller, it is nice to see some passion and concern for responsibility on D.

some days that frustrates me, some days that kills me……and then some days you take the W and go on. I guess we should be thankful the first 6 minutes were not televised, but this team just keeps marching, in spite of Bama playing some really tough defense on Wall especially. That double/triple team at the halfcourt line will have to be worked on and a scheme devised to counter it. Not to mention the fact that Grant was smart enough to use one of his big guys to help with it to create sight problems for Wall. The turnovers were a direct result of that defense, so they do not worry me as much as the fouling that was going on. Bama played it rough, and we felt it, not so much on the inside, because we are used to that, but on the outside where we are not used to it.

After listening to the Stone/J-Will combo last night, all I can say is. . . I miss me some Nessler and Dykes!

and no one got killed. LOL, heh
That was his season high , right?

One of the posse somehow gets it done. When all three of the guys play well, we dominate; when one plays well we win. As long as one of the guys we are platooning at that position has a respectable showing, we win. All are getting their opportunities, but Liggins just seems to want it more. Dodson is appearing to be a situational shooter, like Cameron Mills. Miller will get better as time goes by. At least he will be here long enough to perfect the DDMO.

that 90% of the viewers watching the OT in the VCU-GM game were Kentucky fans. I’m also willing to bet that 90% of those were yelling for ESPNU to switch games. Sorry folks, but you have to allow more than 2 hours for a game, especially when you have officials that call a foul every 6.4 seconds and look at the monitor at least twice per half.

but have to say i thought bledsoe’s defense was poor. For him to get 4 fouls tells me he was guarding with his hands not his feet. also, when espnu finally started showing the game, i saw him let his man go by him a couple of times – really did not think wall did much better but at least he got several steals.

also, cousins looked like he had been through a game day practice rather than walk thru. i know Cal was trying to show support for one of his players by commenting on the no-calls vs cousins, but cousins clearly believes he should be getting calls and seemed to stop playing when he did not get them. he has to play through and let the coach fight that battle.

i thought j-will made a good comment when he said in high school and aau, the way you won was to out score your opponent but these guys needed to learn that at this level you win by playing defense. i do believe we are making progress, but as was said yesterday – i hope we do not run out of season before they get 100% there….

And fell asleep in the second half. Certainly the game I’ve watched the least of this year. Doesn’t sound like I missed much.

I think we are going to start seeing a more offensively minded John Wall. The Cats are still learning how to operate a very powerful race car. I think they will figure it out by March, if not sooner.

I agree on stone, but I enjoyed j wills (blandness). Lol. He seemed to be very knowledgable in his comments, he was a welcome break from the over exzagerated list list of espn announcers. I think wall should listen to his comments I think he could take somthing positive away from him.

Bruce only wears that awful orange blazer when he goes against the ’Dores and the Wildcats. Last night the blazer was cursed, even if he was silly enough to purchase two. ;-)

Oh, and on a side note, Happy Birthday Coach Cal !!

I love that we won this game and that we have won so many games with turnover problems, but it is going to catch up with us REAL soon if our guys don’t start making wiser decisions. But I am still very pleased with our overall level of play…obviously.

There is no doubt that Kentucky is a very talented team and is capable of a deep run in the NCAA tournament. But I want to see how this team does against an experienced Big Ten team or Big East team. Wall and company are sick. There’s a reason Wall is going to be a or the top pick in the draft. But so far we have not seen then tested against a top caliber team. The big wins they’ve had in the beginning are now just ok wins. The SEC is lacking any real competition. I was looking forward to the UK / UT game this weekend but since the Vol’s got waxed last night and the recent departures of key players on their team, that game doesn’t look to be that appealing anymore. I would love to see in the NCAA tournament a matchup between UK and somebody like Purdue, Duke, or West Virginia University. Then we will see if they truly are a great team! Time will tell!!!