I love UK fans- their passion for their team, their drive to win, their life and death approach to UK basketball. But we are bad about something that is very obvious in this thread. We make judgments on players and that becomes their permanent scouting report for us. But we've seen on this team that players (especially young players) can improve over the course of a season. That's what we've seen with Edwards. I don't know if I would give Wagner the green light just yet, but he's moving in that direction. We don't win that Arkansas game without Wagner's shooting. If Calipari took our approach and told Wagner he had to stop shooting threes based on poor shooting this season, we lose that game. These guys are obviously working on their games. Calipari said as much in a recent interview, talking about how that this team is always in the gym, getting up shots and working on their games. He even said he can't remember ever being around a group of players who were bigger gym rats than this group. We've got to allow for these guys to improve.
Edit: by the way, I didn't even address SonofSaul's original post here. It's a great sign to see those 3pt numbers improving. We've seen it many times- when teams are really good defensively, they can limit or even shut down a shooter or two. They develop a plan to shut down those shooters. But when you've got 10 guys who have shown they can make them, and you've got 5 on the floor at a time who can shoot it, how do you defend that? If you can cheat off a guy or two, it makes defense much simpler, but when you can't leave anyone, well, you end up giving up 100 points. So, bottom line: what we're seeing from this team right now is a great sign for the post-season. They're becoming nearly impossible to defend.
