Shorts:- Will you sportswriters stop saying “give then their flowers”?
Preach. Sportswriters consistently try to be cool. Sportswriters will never, ever, ever be cool. It is antithetical to the profession.
That's why the
Sportswriters on TV show was the best. Just old newspaper guys who may or may not be drunk giving their unfiltered opinions without trying to get ratings.
* Feels like Christmas Eve. Gonna be a long day of waiting. I have visions of sugar plums and a weeping Zakai Zeigler dancing through my head.
You gotta beat somebody. I like this matchup as much as any realistically possible. I don't care what the stats and Vegas say, if we play a Rick Barnes coached Tennessee team in the Sweet Sixteen, I like our chances. I also love my coach, my point guard, my best player, and my bigs. Oh yeah, we got the best shooter on the court tonight, too. 7:30 can't get here soon enough.
* I know some don't want to hear about the portal but I'm eat up. The tea leaves sound like Donovan Dent will be a Cat sooner rather than later and Reed Bailey of Davidson is our likeliest Carr replacement, imo. This Magoon Gwath kid out of SDSU is something else. He's a 7 foot redshirt freshman who looks like African Big Z. A center rotation of Garrison, Gwart, and Moreno would be mind-bending. There's a 6'8 wing from Tulane (Kam Williams) whose mixtape is him hitting Tayshaun Prince distance
bombs constantly and his stroke is beautiful. Those mixtapes are nice way to spend a few minutes thinking about the possible future of Kentucky basketball, imo.
Sounds like we are willing to spend as much money as anyone. We ought to be thanking our lucky stars for the portal. Without it, the transition away from Calipari would have been much harder.
* And this is why you don't talk shit before things are settled, as we well learned against Arkansas this year.
