Went to my Grandsons basketball game and taped the game . Looking at the score box. Bradshaw must have had a terrible game . Looks like Reed was the only player with a positive (+4 ) +/- , besides Burkes who only played 1 minute . Gave up a lot of rebounds and allowed a mediocre offensive team to score 97 points. Looks like we crapped the bed in the overtime . Am I missing anything?
As we age, having to decide between our grandkids activities and UK basketball can be tough; I am glad my grandson's game was for today.
There are so many posts about the game; pretty much everyone's option of it is correct but overall, the things that caused UK to lose are things that can be corrected where as Texas AM may just well played their best game of the year and may not be able to duplicate it down the road.
Defense...yes, UK needs to get better. At times I think we are like that old Long Beach St team where who ever had the ball last won the game; often the score would be 100+ on both sides.
Rebounding...I thought we did a good job for the most part but when we did have a lapse, it killed us.
Shooting...For a road game, it wasn't that bad. An area that was a concern was around the basket. We had several close in shots that AM affected us had we went up a little stronger, we might had scored a few of these. I would like to see Sheppard get more shots; DJ drive more to the basket and the bigs follow; go to a press of some kind when Dilly is in the game.
What I saw that I was concerned about was how many rebounds that were tipped out for anyone to grab and many of these bounced around for a second or two before AM grabbed it. I remember two for sure that I was screaming "grab the damn ball" as it was just bouncing right by a UK player.
I still do not understand how they called a goal tending only 4-5 minutes after it happened and even then when it happened, UK had the rebound. That was a 4 point turnaround.
If anyone thought any team would go through the SEC without a few loses is kidding themselves.
Losing sucks no matter what. Question is, do we learn from it and get better going forward?