Kentucky spanks Tide 70-48
None of that took away from the absolute beauty of watching the single best game performance I've ever seen. If you love basketball like a lot of us, you had to admire the skill, power, and execution of the Kentucky team. They did it on both ends of the floor. I just hated it was against Alabama. Everyone on the TiderInsider forum seems to think that we played poorly and Grant couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. That's not true. The Tide held UK to only 70 points. As long as Jimmy Taylor was in the line up the Tide had some chance to win. It might have been small. Perhaps it was just a theoretical chance. When the Tide cut the Wildcat lead to 9 it seemed that Alabama had found a way to keep the game close. When Taylor got his fourth foul the game was over. The margin of the win was just window dressing. If you love basketball then watching Kentucky play was thrilling. If you love Alabama it was a nightmare of the worst kind. Now the question is whether the nightmare is over, or do others follow. It is going to be very interesting to see where the Tide goes after Saturday. Calipari had lost in his two previous trips to Tuscaloosa. He wasn't going to allow a hat trick to occur.The man coached until the final buzzer sounded. He even made light of the fact that Alabama looked at him wondering why he continued to pile it on. Sorry Bama, if that statement is true you were looking at the wrong bench.
Tide seemed intimidated
I've run my predictions for the remainder of the SEC. Best case outcome might be for us to win 20 games going into the SEC Tournament. That includes 4 maybe games. If we finished at 18-13, I wouldn't be surprised. If we finished at 16-15 I wouldn't be stunned. Let's go over those later. I don't think anyone but the villiage idiot thought be might beat Kentucky. The score of 70-48 was every bit as throrough as the numbers suggest. This was like little children playing with grown men. This was the difference between a University that values basketball, and one that seems to not care. It's about school that loves its tradition, and refuses to take a backseat to anyone. Alabama was a like a gnat to Kentucky's road to further greatness. If I could make a suggestion. Admire the skills and coaching of the University of Kentucky. Kentucky realized a few season's ago that they were slipping and their program wasn't going to become the next UCLA if it could be prevented.
When the Wildcats held UCLA to seven points earlier this season I bet that a lot of influencial Kentucky administrators said, "we told you so". Kentucky decided to hire John Calipari and look the other way about what he did, or what his recruiting methods have done to their institution's reputation. Kentucky did not care about what it might mean to NCAA basketball. The only think that was on the table was winning. There were no methods that the school would not utilize to get back on top. Mission accomplished. You cannot deny the success of the methods or their result. Kentucky decided to play hard ball. The Wildcats were not going to let Alabama or Florida become the new Kentucky. Alabama shot itself in the foot and was out of the way. Florida is still around, and it seems that Billy Donovan is the only thing between Kentucky and what's left of the SEC Conference.
None of that took away from the absolute beauty of watching the single best game performance I've ever seen. If you love basketball like a lot of us, you had to admire the skill, power, and execution of the Kentucky team. They did it on both ends of the floor. I just hated it was against Alabama. Everyone on the TiderInsider forum seems to think that we played poorly and Grant couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. That's not true. The Tide held UK to only 70 points. As long as Jimmy Taylor was in the line up the Tide had some chance to win. It might have been small. Perhaps it was just a theoretical chance. When the Tide cut the Wildcat lead to 9 it seemed that Alabama had found a way to keep the game close. When Taylor got his fourth foul the game was over. The margin of the win was just window dressing. If you love basketball then watching Kentucky play was thrilling. If you love Alabama it was a nightmare of the worst kind. Now the question is whether the nightmare is over, or do others follow. It is going to be very interesting to see where the Tide goes after Saturday. Calipari had lost in his two previous trips to Tuscaloosa. He wasn't going to allow a hat trick to occur.The man coached until the final buzzer sounded. He even made light of the fact that Alabama looked at him wondering why he continued to pile it on. Sorry Bama, if that statement is true you were looking at the wrong bench.
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