Thursday, November 16, 2006

Cats 57 Miami University 46. UK is 1-0 (that's the important thing).

Sure, it wasn't the prettiest thing in the whole entire world, but that doesn't matter on paper. It matters when we analyze it, but years down the line when we look back at it, a win is a win is a win.

On our post game show, Jim Tirey, Ryan Lemond, and I, went in to depth about the game (by the way you can listen to us an hour before the game and an hour after the game). Here's what we came up with:

1. Stevenson is amazing. He had 7 blocks! Tubby has no choice but to play Stevenson because of his defense. Woo only had 8 minutes in this game because of the way Stevenson played.

2. Morris needs to be worked into the game more. He only had 7 shots the whole game. Stevenson maybe had 1 shot the whole first half. Where's the inside game? When Morris touches the ball at least once a possession, the offense runs much more smoothly.

3. Cut back on the turnovers

4. What happened to the uptempo game?

5. Jodie Meeks is going to be amazing.

Personally, I tend to side on the belief that this was the first real game. The freshmen were probably a little nervous. Rupp Arena has a different feeling from exhibition to regular season game... Wait until they've played a little bit before we jump all over them. Like I said before, a win is a win is a win.

1 comment:

J-Delicious said...

How about Joe Crawford's shot selection? This kid will shoot the ball whenever he touches it regardless of the situation.

Example: Last night's game, 1 minute and 45 seconds on the clock, Cats up 7. My buddy bet the Cats and is sweating the 13 1/2 point spread. I told him he is probably busted on it because no one will shoot unless there is less than 10 seconds on the clock. Correction. Joe Crawford fires it up with 25 seconds left on the shot clock. Only Joe.

Tubby needs to get in his ear about stuff like that. I hate to make this comment, but it is necessary. Last year, Rick Pitino showed his Louisville team footage of one of their games and calculated their field goal percentage of contested shots versus uncontested shots. The numbers were astonishing. Contested shots was a whopping 7% while uncontested shots were around 55%.

Shot selection will play a major role in KY's wins and losses this year. Mark it down.