Kentucky Wildcats (1) 69, Vandrbilt Commodores 63:  Postmortem

Yes.

Now if Teague hadn’t let down on D in the second half…..he would be getting your game ball….

13 points, 4 reb, 8 assists and 1 turnover

Teague showed up really big. My guess is that if this season is #8, this game will be remembered for the arrival of Teague.

Glad to have you with us.

to be able to say that with a W instead of a loss?

I don’t need to mention him.

But I’m glad you did.

So I am a little happy as well. :-)

We always act like we have never seen a zone.

Pisses me off.

That was a sick, saving pass. I think that was the play of the game.

In that Final Four game I seem to recall we didn’t shoot that great against their zone. But we killed them on the boards. That’s another way to beat that zone, offensive rebounding.

regrouped and won with ferocious D. Passed a great test on the road.

Team effort. Great to see them fight and not give up.

They are hoping for something.

It rarely appears.

SEC teams the second time around don’t do it as much. in the tournament, teams won’t know any better

… Syracuse is legitimately a very good team. Let’s not talk this smack shit. They are very, very good.

We’ll worry about them when, and if, it becomes necessary. But trust me, I like UK’s chances in that gome.

… having nothing bad to say.

Teague was a joy to watch. I’ve been critical, but he’s been playing much better. And those one-on-one moves to the basket, those beautiful little floaters hitting nothing but net. Wow. Lambesque. I didn’t know how other teams could defend against 4 offensive threats. Now we have 5. Goosebumps.

This was our biggest test in the SEC…

every team will make some 3’s and have their little runs but to do it against UK’s defense for 40 minutes is almost impossible. As long as UK doesn’t have a terrible shooting night or miss a bunch of FT’s in a tight game (ala WVU game in 2010), they will beat anyone.

How we play the rest of the conference schedule after essentially wrapping up the title? Seems like every victory is followed by another question.

Cal said he wanted nutty..he got nutty. Our boys in blue responded great! I love it!

Even as I saw it coming, I wasn’t quite sure who was on the receiving end of that pass.

UK now has another option on the lob? After the high pickle roll (that’s what my wife calls it), Teague can lob to Davis, keep it or pass to Lamb cutting from the corner. It worked beautifully. Just when the other team thinks they know how to defend that play, Cal throws in a wrinkle. This team is beginning to accumulate as many plays as the 1996-1998 teams had.

even if it is begrudgingly. Because too many people have it out for him and they are finally starting to recognize the man can flat out coach. It seems many are starting to come around but there are those that never will.

Something has to be said about winning with the best talent, getting superstars to buy in and playing team ball. Not many are up to the challenge but he sure is.

UK has seen zone quite a bit this season so its not like its the first time. However, it does seem to be the only real way to slow them down which could be some reason for concern.

Lamb and Miller can get most teams out of that zone real quick if they make 3’s. Syracuse is the one team that will not come out of that zone for any reason.

In the end, our opponents need to worry about our defense too. So it goes both ways

after they lose to UL.

As long as UK is a #1 seed and gets to play the first round in Louisville, UK should be happy. After all, OSU was the #1 overall last year and got a brutal bracket.

that meeting them in the semis would give us a few days to prep for that zone.

I knew Vandy had good shooters, but for the life of me just wasn’t expecting them to start launching from like a whole body length behind the arc and certainly wasn’t expecting some of those shots to go down. Hot handed, they were.

Sheesh! Season has really gone by!

The Swamp for the last game will be the next pain in the butt…….assuming that the guys understand that, we should be ok….but we need to take every game seriously now….that Ole Miss game is a trap…..and Vandy at home is also one.

may be on espn3 so make sure you check and don’t miss it

even if they take that two away we still win the game. So there, critics, hush.

but if the refs didn’t call it, you can be 100% sure that he actually did

under the Vandy basket. He lost the ball out of bounds and no foul was called. The great thing about AD is his no reaction to that other than to go right back to work.

Yes. And that shoulder banging is going on with alarming incidence in BB in general. Some players just keep getting away with it.

There is school just to our SE which has two brothers who play the center position. They are two of the dirtiest BB players I have witnessed this year.

There, I call anybody by name. Hee. OL

Lunardi is only right, like what was it, 78% of the time or something? (seriously, somebody, JLev perhaps told me a couple of years ago what his accuracy rate was, and it wasn’t 100%)

HaHa!

Syracuse has played a tougher schedule than we have…..by virtue of being in the Big East, like it or not, they have seen more thrown at them. Now, they have played most of them at home so far, but they are a good team. Good enough to beat us? We may never know. It will take a few acts of God and some interesting Tourney play to find that out.

My personal opinion is that this team is much better than even the last undefeated team the NCAA ever saw. The pundits have always said that if Indiana had been able to shoot threes, then thwy would have been even better. Well, I will go one further. This Kentucky team could have beaten that team WITHOUT the three. Eamonn Brennan pointed it out this morning on ESPN.com. This team is one 10 second lapse from perfection and a whole other world of discussions.

I have the title of the review of the season in Sports Illustrated…. 2 Points From Perfection……The story of the 2011-2012NCAA Champion Kentucky Wildcats but dont tell anyone I said that.

… Joe Lunardi couldn’t find his azz with both hands and a GPS.

There. I feel better. :-)