Alright, UofL lost - you guys are right about that. Surely you can admit they aren't the terrible team that I've read about all summer and fall on this board? Surely you can admit that many posters here simply can't be objective about UofL basketball? One camp,a majority, refuses to give them any credit even when they are obviously good - how many times during the 2013 season did I read they were over-rated and about to be exposed? And another camp lives in fear of a loss to UofL, or of UofL succeeding at all - that crowd takes the slightest glimmer of hope from a UofL team and magnifies it into some unbeatable hydra. Point is, people can't look at them like they do virtually any other team - objectively.
This team is better than people expected. It's OK to say it. Now, two guys did all their scoring last night. If you have good perimeter defenders, and contain those two guys, Louisville is in a world of hurt, because there is no one to pick up the slack. And against this UofL team, like all Pitino teams, multiple ball handlers is a must - which is one reason why Cal routinely beats him. Michigan State doesn't have multiple ball handlers, they don't even have one competent point. So they aren't world beaters, they have obvious weaknesses. But this is a down year, and there probably aren't that many teams capable of exploiting those weaknesses. Ergo, they are going to have a better year than everyone here seems to think.
Upside to that: a voluntary post-season ban this year suddenly looks more painful than it has before.....
