"Big Z"

[Deleted11512]

Man, that kid got his *** handed to him last night. Got his *** posterized by both Gray and CMB. Kid had 3 pts and 2 rebs. Our irrelevant guys down low made him....irrelevant.

 

[18IsTheMan]

UK has the top scoring team in the nation, averaging 90+ per game.

Makes me happy that we are winning with defense. I've always been a defensive guy, both basketball and football. One reason I stopped following the NBA long ago was the emphasis on penalizing good defense to generate higher-scoring games. I'd take a 6-3 defensive slugfest any day in football over a 63-56 shootout.

As they say, defense travels.

 

[gamecock stock]

One of the reasons I gave for being enthusiastic about the Paris hire (in addition to the fact that his teams at UTC improved from one year to the next, record-wise each of his 5 years there), was that he was an assistant to and mentored by Bo Ryan at Wisconsin. A couple of posters on another site remarked at how much we looked like a Bo Ryan-coached team last night. Fans, who are not familiar with Bo Ryan need to google him and see what Ryan accomplished during his coaching career.

 

[Tngamecock]

Man, that kid got his *** handed to him last night. Got his *** posterized by both Gray and CMB. Kid had 3 pts and 2 rebs. Our irrelevant guys down low made him....irrelevant.

If you want a 7’2” guy to shoot 3s, he’s your guy. I knew going in Gray would muscle him down low. So did Lamont. Every time Z came in, so did Gray.

 

[Prestonyte]

UK has the top scoring team in the nation, averaging 90+ per game.

Makes me happy that we are winning with defense. I've always been a defensive guy, both basketball and football. One reason I stopped following the NBA long ago was the emphasis on penalizing good defense to generate higher-scoring games. I'd take a 6-3 defensive slugfest any day in football over a 63-56 shootout.

As they say, defense travels.

KY players quoted as saying our defense was in their face the entire night and there were no uncontested 3's.
Offensive minded teams hate defensive minded teams.

 

[18IsTheMan]

KY players quoted as saying our defense was in their face the entire night and there were no uncontested 3's.
Offensive minded teams hate defensive minded teams.

CBS analyst Jon Rothstein said of playing us: it's like getting a root canal without the novocaine

 

[MrCockStrong]

CBS analyst Jon Rothstein said of playing us: it's like getting a root canal with the novocaine

without

 

[18IsTheMan]

without

ha, yes.