OT: March Madness
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
Everyone catch the ass-whooping Kentucky put on West Virginia last night.
Does anyone think any team out there can beat Kentucky?
I always pull for the underdog (unless it’s a fave team playing) but IMO Kentucky just has too much.
As an analogy – if you are in a fight w/ someone bigger than you; then you at least better be able to be faster than them.
But Kentucky is not only bigger than everyone else; but they are also more athletic than everyone else – and to top it off; they also play hard (not to mention that I think they have like 10 H.S. All-Americans on their team).
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Gotta hand it to WVU, they never gave up even though after the first 4 minutes they knew they were screwed.
Huggings in possibly the coolest coach in college basketball right now. Certainly not the classiest, but he did a solid job through the season considering how small and scrappy that team was.
WVU’s best attribute is their trapping defense – but I think the trapping defense works well if you are more athletic than the other team and you can sorta swarm them.
Kentucky is too athletic for the trap to work against them – they can go around it w/ their athleticism or over it w/ their length – I think a better way to play KY is to slow it down and make then execute in the half court (and I’m not saying that would work; just perhaps a better way to play them).
Then you have that fat slob Huggy Bear dressed in a track suit.
Notre Dame and Wisconsin are excellent matchups to challenge KY. Can't wait to see . . .
+ you would def need excellent shooting in particular excellent 3-pt shooting (kinda like the Spurs in the finals where whomever was on the floor seemed to be able to shoot lights out – one or 2 guys shooting well would not do against KY b/c their great defense and athleticism will probably shut down one or 2 great shooters)
+ great passing in order to nullify KY’s athleticism – will be very difficult for any one opposing player to just be able to get their shot against KY’s defense – great passing and floor spacing is needed in order to beat KY’s athleticism and be able to get decent/open shots
I had Baylor in my final 4 after watching them mow down everyone in the big 12 tourney... And look what happened. I think I read 96% of all brackets entered online had Baylor winning first round.
Kentucky and Louisville would be a fun match up
Part of me thinks Kentucky is gonna take it easily but there is still some stiff competition left particularly in Wisconsin and Duke. Notre Dame is capable as well.
Whenever they are talking about Kentucky and another team; it is always about what the other team needs to do – that says something right thur.
When I see Kentucky play; if feel like a varsity team playing against the junior-varsity team or perhaps more precisely a semi-pro team playing against amateurs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAswVl_K…
Oh yeah, Calipari is a douche!
Typically, when UK has been in trouble late in games, they have locked down and prevented the opponent from scoring in crunch-time. See, for example, what UK did at LSU. Or against Notre Dame, keeping the Irish to one made FG in the final 5+ minutes.
Against ND, the Wildcats added another response: they made 9 out of 9 shots to close the game out in the final 12 minutes.
That's not a bunch of scared youngsters. That's "clutch."
Any one of the three other remaining teams could beat Kentucky. Just like several opponents so far could have beaten Kentucky. But so far, the Wildcats have gotten things done.