Third Coast
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04/02/12 09:43 PM
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Outstanding effort by Kansas, but it appears to be too little, too late.
One of those thrill of victory, agony of defeat moments coming up.
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Vol Horn 4 Life
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04/02/12 09:48 PM
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Great job by KU to come back but couldn't get it done. Congrats to a strong effort Jayhawks! 
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biganakhanhda
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04/02/12 09:48 PM
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over or under 3 years before the NCAA vacates Calipari's win?
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Statalyzer
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04/02/12 09:51 PM
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In reply to:
I give Jeff Withey credit for the defense on Davis. He is the primary reason for the lack of offensive post production, not some imagined deficiency on Davis' part.
Withey's post moves have been pretty bad too. He played great D, but he wasn't playing D against a set of good moves, rather an athletic guy who doens't really know how to play low post. Davis would just dribble in one direction and then throw up a shot and didn't know what to do when he couldn't just outjump Withey. Granted, in fairness to him, he was playing guard for most of his HS career until he had a big growth spurt.
We're Texas
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Horns11
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04/02/12 10:05 PM
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If you told me that UK would be held to 7 baskets in the 2nd half, I would have thought that KU had another one of their "runs" and pulled out the win. They just choked on every big possession.
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orangecat1
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04/02/12 11:47 PM
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what a strange game. Kansas still had a chance if they had any basketball brains, to get really close. The screw-up that bothered me was the player driving the baseline and jumping for no particular reason and throwing the ball away. The birds were down 7, and had a serious chance to put a scare into Kentucky.
I don't think the NCAA will touch Calipari, now that he's at Kentucky. Anybody think they will? Put it like this, has the NCAA ever vacated a championship win before?
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Hu_Fan
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04/03/12 09:53 AM
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If you told me that UK would be held to 7 baskets in the 2nd half, I would have thought that KU had another one of their "runs" and pulled out the win. They just choked on every big possession.
I thought all night they were too uptight on put-backs, in particular right at the rim trying to dunk (but way too hard) and missed countless opportunities for those 2's that when they come, you just have to make them. So they never had that right touch on the ball. Kentucky played far more relaxed, you could see it in the longer shots even. Easy soft shots all night from whatever distance.
I've always maintained that games in big arenas presents a harder basket to deal with. It just seems things clang a lot and you never get the bounce. So you have to go at the basket with a precise touch all night, and Kentucky did, while Kansas never did.
I would have thought Self would coach his team into an exact opposite of the way they played all night, and that Kentucky would play the way Kansas played. The Wildcats always moved the ball to the basket as if they were putting Jedi controls on the ball, willing it to fly directly and smoothly into the netting without touching the metal. Some of Kentucky's outside shots flew to the basket on trajectories I could not imagine -- some with almost no arch at all and still hit nothing but net and not with a strong force. More like you had walked up and just hand-dropped it right into the net.
Jayhawks clanged, Wildcats did-unt. (that new teen thing where you say did-unt... for didn't)
Give Callipari credit. The fact his Memphis team dropped one to a Kansas team in OT several years ago, I'd have thought he'd pass on to his squad his anxiety to not miss out this time, but he had them playing like it was a scrimmage.
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