With our scorers, I think that we have the tools to keep Knect under control, perhaps better than most any other team in the country. Dalton is not an exceptional defender, and we should run our offense thru whomever Dalton is assigned to guard in the man to man defense. I was surprised to watch Coach Pearl fail to seize this last night in the AU/Tenn game- Knect fouled early in the game, and had to sit in the first half when he picked up his second. In the second half he noticeably backed off of his man to avoid picking up his fourth foul- UT MUST have his scoring to win. UK playing a scorer at all 5 positions will pay dividends in the game by keeping Knect in foul trouble- or by forcing tennessee (no caps are intentional!) into a zone, which I feel no one can be effective playing against us with our 3 point shooting ability.
Get Knect into foul trouble, and limit his playing time, and we have a good chance to outscore the vols in knoxville.
Get Knect into foul trouble, and limit his playing time, and we have a good chance to outscore the vols in knoxville.