* Cats get the win over the Birds in Rupp. Didn’t seem to be much defense in this one, but rivalry games are always difficult they say.
* Cats probably don’t win today without Butler …and it wasn’t so much Butler’s defense as it was his offense … going 10-10 from the field, including 6-6 from 3pt line …and 7-12 from the FT line (Cats have to be better at the FT line) … Carr had 10 & 9, Robinson with 12 & 8, and Oweh with 17. … other than Garrison and Brea, with Kerr out, it’s seems the Cats don’t have anything else on the bench.
* Williams … has got to decide to use that big body and play physical with it, all the time… otherwise we have to play Garrison. If it doesn’t get better, it could cost us in the SEC.
* Cats give up 85 pts to a short-handed, foul-prone Bird team …may be a bit concerning that the Cats struggled to stop one on one play with SEC play coming up and the competition gets a lot better.
* Birds with 15 more shot attempts despite the Cats +10 on the glass. I assume the Cats suspect 18-28 from the FT line helped that in some way, and Cats had 4 more TO’s. Birds +9 from 3pt line (14-39) to the Cats 11-21.
* Did I say Pat Adams is the definition of over-officiating while concurrently missing calls …my goodness they missed a bunch of Bird walks and called a bunch of touch fouls on both teams …
* Up Next: Cats travel to New York next Saturday to take on Ohio State, a team that Auburn just beat by almost 40. … SEC play is coming soon, the Cats are going to have to get better and be prepared for the physicality and athleticism to ramp up a lot …
* Cats probably don’t win today without Butler …and it wasn’t so much Butler’s defense as it was his offense … going 10-10 from the field, including 6-6 from 3pt line …and 7-12 from the FT line (Cats have to be better at the FT line) … Carr had 10 & 9, Robinson with 12 & 8, and Oweh with 17. … other than Garrison and Brea, with Kerr out, it’s seems the Cats don’t have anything else on the bench.
* Williams … has got to decide to use that big body and play physical with it, all the time… otherwise we have to play Garrison. If it doesn’t get better, it could cost us in the SEC.
* Cats give up 85 pts to a short-handed, foul-prone Bird team …may be a bit concerning that the Cats struggled to stop one on one play with SEC play coming up and the competition gets a lot better.
* Birds with 15 more shot attempts despite the Cats +10 on the glass. I assume the Cats suspect 18-28 from the FT line helped that in some way, and Cats had 4 more TO’s. Birds +9 from 3pt line (14-39) to the Cats 11-21.
* Did I say Pat Adams is the definition of over-officiating while concurrently missing calls …my goodness they missed a bunch of Bird walks and called a bunch of touch fouls on both teams …
* Up Next: Cats travel to New York next Saturday to take on Ohio State, a team that Auburn just beat by almost 40. … SEC play is coming soon, the Cats are going to have to get better and be prepared for the physicality and athleticism to ramp up a lot …
