Does anyone have a scouting report on Louisville?

bbnkat02

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Missing two or three players, one of them being their top center I believe. We SHOULD have no problem in this game. Even UofL fans aren't optimistic.
 
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Bluefaithful

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They have decent guard play. Hepburn leads them in points 14.1 and assists 4.8. Hadley another guard leads them in rebounds 8.0. Smith a 6'2 senior guard you cannot leave open from 3. He can go nuclear on you. Ask Indiana but the only players they have to shoot 3's above 30% is Hepburn at 32.6% and Smith at 37.1%. All the rest under 26.1% and they average 27% as a team.
Pryor, the kid that's out for the season was their only real inside presence and the only one that averaged in double figures.
The inside presence they have now. Scott averages 7 and 5.8. Waterman, the kid from BYU averages 6.2 and 4.1 rebounds and Rooths averages 4.1 and 3.3.
Louisville is 6-4 and currently ranked 59th in Kenpom and 79th in offense and 42nd in defense.

Go Cats
 

Rick Honcho

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I’m likely going to miss the entire UK vs UofL game on Saturday. Will be driving across a couple of states to bring relatives in to visit my mother in the nursing home and then driving them back. Under the circumstances probably won’t listen the game on the radio. Regardless, I’m among those hoping for a legendary showdown (fought tooth and nail down to the final seconds) between the two programs that I can read about in the Sunday paper before hopping on the highway back home🏀
 
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Blueathletics

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They have decent guard play. Hepburn leads them in points 14.1 and assists 4.8. Hadley another guard leads them in rebounds 8.0. Smith a 6'2 senior guard you cannot leave open from 3. He can go nuclear on you. Ask Indiana but the only players they have to shoot 3's above 30% is Hepburn at 32.6% and Smith at 37.1%. All the rest under 26.1% and they average 27% as a team.
Pryor, the kid that's out for the season was their only real inside presence and the only one that averaged in double figures.
The inside presence they have now. Scott averages 7 and 5.8. Waterman, the kid from BYU averages 6.2 and 4.1 rebounds and Rooths averages 4.1 and 3.3.
Louisville is 6-4 and currently ranked 59th in Kenpom and 79th in offense and 42nd in defense.

Go Cats
You absolutely know they'll shoot lights out at Rupp....Never fails....See the Crispin brothers
 

Runnin'Ramel

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A link to a U of L scouting report would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
They're very banged up, missing their energy guy for the season, but the Wisconsin kid (Hepburn) is legit and will probably go off in Rupp. UK should win by 10+ if they play well and hit wide open shots unlike the last few games.
 
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MegaBlue05

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They play hard for 40 minutes
Physical defense, overplay passing lanes
Shoot more 3s than us, don’t make many
Can be streaky
Somewhat turnover prone
7 man rotation
PG best player on the team
They have a shooter named Smith you can’t leave open from the arc. Guy doesn’t shoot twos. Period.

If Butler plays, we bury shots and don’t give up easy buckets, we should win comfortably. If any of those things don’t happen it will be a game.

I do think it will take a better than normal effort from UL and a subpar effort from UK for the Cards to win.
 

revcort

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Patience, grasshopper...
give it a day or so, and I'm sure @IL Wildcat will have something queued up for you.

At least he better b/c he's already set a precedence of doing a really good job on a couple of scrub teams, so he BETTER get it ready for the next scrub team. 😉
Yeah, I haven't had a chance to do my report on them yet, but it's coming. I usually try to post them the day before. :D
 

NociHTTP

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