I think its some of both, but I think Kentucky played down tonight. Kentucky was terrible from the 3 point line. Jodie Meeks was terrible from the field, and this team is VERY beatable if he struggles. Pretty bad all around night for Kentucky. They get some decent comments made about them being a probable lock for the NCAA Tourney today and they go and lay an egg against probably the least talented team in the SEC. Not a good night for the entire conference with one of the top tier teams in a conference with not alot of depth losing to the worst team in that conference.
Ole Miss Played Up or Kentucky Played Down?
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I was thinking about that during the game and I had a question that I don't know the answer to. Do the records of all the other West teams and their opponent's records count twice in our RPI formula? For some reason I think I remember someone saying you only count each team you play once even if you were to play them more than that. However, that might be the BCS.
...he was just terrible on all accounts. Maybe AK showed the rest of the conference how to defend Meeks? Frankly, I was impressed by the intensity of the Rebels.
I dont ever like to use the words "impressed" and Ole Miss in the same sentence, but the way the defended Jodie, you do have to be impressed. They looked pretty good tonight. I just hope we can take a page out of AK's playbook and get up in Jodie's face. We have a bag tendency to get crossed up on defense, giving the opposing team quite a few open looks. If we do that to Jodie he will drop as many as Thorton did when we played LSU. Gotta keep the pressure on the shooters and make them hit tough baskets. I hate when we get settled into our 2 3 zone and guys dont run over to cover the pass in time and teams get open 3's. Cant slack off against a team like Kentucky when we play them.
Thats what I couldnt believe. You know it when you see it, and it looks kinda odd at first cuz your like " is that a box and 1?" Then you realize that its working and wonder when you have teams like a Kentucky with 1 major guy like Meeks and a bunch of role players/fairly decent shooters, why teams dont run it more often. I think it would be the perfect defense to run against us. A bunch of shooters like we have, force us to throw it in to Jarvis and make him score contested when people help on the collapse when he gets it, then rotate over to cover the pass back out. Thats one point I wish Stansbury was better at. It looks like he almost says "ok, we are gonna run this defense no matter what cuz I want to." Wish we could adjust better week to week than we do sometimes.
First time I remember a box and 1, Cliff Ellis a new coach at Au coming off probabtion with about 6 or 7 players used it against Double D and beat us. Cliff had Richard's number for several years.
Wouldn't that basically be a 2-3? The box and one is primarily designed to slow down a perimeter player, not a post player. The box, being the shell of a 2-3, is not the appropriate defense to play against a team with a lot of shooters. We would have open looks all night long.
