We just beat a better team than UL will ever be. No afraid of UL.
Plus, their coach could die any moment, unless he's already undead. Sypher looks a little undead. Heavy makeup?Louisville is not that good, they do not have the athletes we do, their front line sucks, and, we are quicker in the back court. Only one real advantage for them is, we play in the Bucket of Chum.
And TJ and Benedict will whine and ***** about so much BLUE being in the lower arena!After this game, things I expect to see...
1. U of L will take away Monk. He may get his points, but he won't get 47 points on 28 shots.
2. Pitino will do everything he can to get Fox in foul trouble.
3. Humphries, Willis, Gabriel and Hawkins won't look so lost out there against U of L's athleticism. But we need two of those four to bring their A game. Won't win without it.
4. The crowd will be on the refs from the get go.
Do you think Roy might have adjusted at halftime to slow down Monk who had 27 points. Well if you consider holding him to 20 in 2nd half then yeah. They may slow Monk down but they wont stop himLouisville has better defenders than UNC. And it will be on their floor and you're talking about a proud program that has had its lunch handed to it eight of nine times. Pitino will have all those guards coming at Monk hard. Monk might just score 15 points from the line.
Well, they are better than the '96 Cats. Scary.After this game, things I expect to see...
1. U of L will take away Monk. He may get his points, but he won't get 47 points on 28 shots.
2. Pitino will do everything he can to get Fox in foul trouble.
3. Humphries, Willis, Gabriel and Hawkins won't look so lost out there against U of L's athleticism. But we need two of those four to bring their A game. Won't win without it.
4. The crowd will be on the refs from the get go.
And TJ and Benedict will whine and ***** about so much BLUE being in the lower arena!
If we can beat U of L, we have a very good chance of entering the Kansas game at 19-1.
Uavel sux their guards are slow U.K. will humiliate them and SEXtino will fluff the presser becauseCal owns himLouisville has better defenders than UNC. And it will be on their floor and you're talking about a proud program that has had its lunch handed to it eight of nine times. Pitino will have all those guards coming at Monk hard. Monk might just score 15 points from the line.
Only one real advantage for them is, we play in the Bucket of Chum.
I'm not worried that louisville has better players....at all. I'm worried about louisville playing above the level they have shown so far this year. I cannot see the UL guards stacking up to our guards. But I don't think that is how Pitino will play it. They won't play Monk with a guard. It will be a 3 or they will zone.
U of L simply doesn't match up well with UK.
They are down talent wise, Pitino is a shell of his former self and UK is top five.
The only thing U of L has going for them is that this will be UKs first true road gm but they won't have to fly and will be able to sleep at the lodge and drive over in the morning or noon time.
UK wins this one by anywhere from 5-15 pts.
If you are 55 years of age or older and do not or never have lived in Jefferson County, then yesterday's game against North Carolina means and meant far more than playing Louisville. Louisville will never be a blue blood. The law of averages plays out that they beat UK every once in a while. A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. What really matters is beating North Carolina, Kansas, Duke and winning a national championship period.
This is the game where Briscoe will shine.
He has been in hostile environments, he doesn't shy away from physical play, and he'll be in the middle against the zone.
Briscoe will foul out half of their team driving to the basket!
I think they double team Monk and just dare someone else to beat them.well here is my take..i believe the tards will play zone most if not all the time. a 2-3 or 3-2. the later is more like a matchup zone. they will not press, if so I will be suicide for them. we have 3 guards who will eat up any press they think of trying. their guards are to slow to try to keep up with any of the 3 starters and i'll also throw domique in there as well. their front line... although they have plenty of bigs is no danger of scoring. and I believe they will be in foul trouble a lot. we are to quick for them and you will see us get to them rim by driving on them with fox and Briscoe leading the way. when they they try to clog it up. then monk, Briscoe, willis, mulder and Gabriel will step up and bombs away. I honestly believe the tards can't score enough to beat these cats. it just isn't there. the cats will win and I say anywhere from 8 to 15 points. just because it is on the tards home floor.
[laughing] I remember that, couldn't believe it!he will do what Derrick Character did once, just stay back and wait till they come back down to the other end.
I say Ky's bench is better .Here is Louisville's rotation, with player (minutes) and scoring average
Mitchell (28), 11.7
Snider (28), 11.0
Adel (28), 9.7
Johnson (21), 9.5
King (14), 7.9
Spalding (18), 7.3
Mathiang (19), 6.8
Mahmoud (17), 5.5
Hicks (12), 3.9
They have a lot of really good but not great players. They're deep, and Pitino can use this to his advantage if he gets the right whistle.
Maybe this is the game Bam asserts himself?
We got the someone else let Briscoe take it to the rack and let Willis shoot the trey should win by a hunnert to 24 .I think they double team Monk and just dare someone else to beat them.
Monk will be the key .The real key to the game, I forgot to add, will be Bam.
As much as I dislike Slick Rick, he can coach and given a few days to prepare, he usually comes up with something.
In this case, I feel he will try and find a way to get Bam in foul trouble. We are a different team without Bam.
They can't stop Fox and Monk. Slow them down, maybe, but those two will make UL pay if they get double teamed by going to the basket either scoring or passing to an open 3 point shooter.
Its Bam they must deal with. Keep him on the bench and then they sag, play zone and hack.
Derrick has to play tough as well as Gabriel.
Agreed! We should beat Louisville, and we owe Kansas payback from that BS game last year, but I still think we might drop 2-3 SEC games. Even if that happens we'll finish 27-4 at worst and should be a 1 seed.