The other starting backcourts were good also without a doubt but I would take those two as the best.
Wall & Bledsoe was Cal best starting backcourt at Kentucky.
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Knight Lamb or Teague Lamb was better.
If Wall or Bledsoe could shoot 40% or better from 3 then they would be the best but since they couldn't hit jack squat they didn't go to a FF. Their is more to being a ball player than being athletic, got to make some shots.
It's about results and what Teague and Lamb did was the best of all of em.
Wall, Bledsoe, Liggins, Patterson, Cousins, Orton, Stevenson, Miller, Jorts, Alaskan Assasin, and the smoker.
Look at that roster of what they are now, didn't win a title. Why? Back court couldn't hit nothing and Wall let them drive against him like he was a ghost. Terrible on D
A good back court wouldn't go out like that.
If Wall or Bledsoe could shoot 40% or better from 3 then they would be the best but since they couldn't hit jack squat they didn't go to a FF. Their is more to being a ball player than being athletic, got to make some shots.
It's about results and what Teague and Lamb did was the best of all of em.
Wall, Bledsoe, Liggins, Patterson, Cousins, Orton, Stevenson, Miller, Jorts, Alaskan Assasin, and the smoker.
Look at that roster of what they are now, didn't win a title. Why? Back court couldn't hit nothing and Wall let them drive against him like he was a ghost. Terrible on D
A good back court wouldn't go out like that.
So spoiled UK fans are. Dissing Wall and Bledsoe over shooting. Not remembering that we were a year or two removed from a Michael Porter and Mark Coury starting 5...
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This was a thread on here like literally a month ago with a poll. The best two guards UK has had have been Wall and Knight by far if you combine pure talent and basketball skills. That would have been a great duo in 2010-2011 and UK would have won the national title for sure that year.
I think Wall and Bledsoe was great as an actual duo, but I agree with Jason you need shooters around them or one of the guards to be able to shoot well from 3. Give Wall/Bledsoe a Booker at the 3...that would have helped. That team lacked a shooter. It's sad we did not have a Wall/Meeks backcourt in 2009-2010. That team would have went 40-0 (IMO), but the team we had in reality was still damn good.
I think Wall and Bledsoe was great as an actual duo, but I agree with Jason you need shooters around them or one of the guards to be able to shoot well from 3. Give Wall/Bledsoe a Booker at the 3...that would have helped. That team lacked a shooter. It's sad we did not have a Wall/Meeks backcourt in 2009-2010. That team would have went 40-0 (IMO), but the team we had in reality was still damn good.
Who dissed them? It's okay to talk about your favorite guards on an internet message board, I promise. Even if they aren't named John or Eric. True story. Real life shit.
Here's an interesting comparison.
Wall and Bledsoe, 09-10, 3 point shooting and A/TO ratio.
86/242 (35.5%), 347/260
Knight and Lamb, 10-11
155/371 (41.8%), 221/169
It's actually kind of amazing that these backcourts could play for the same coach in consecutive years, given how completely different they were. You're talking the difference between nearly 2 extra 3 point shots per game, with a significantly better %, and then the difference between 3 extra assists and 2.5 extra TO's. None of those are small differences.
Wall and Bledsoe always win this argument, and always will, because they were so physically gifted, because Wall was easily the best PG UK's ever (at least modern era) had, and because of what they're doing in the NBA. They did, however, have a lot of flaws, and I think UK 09-10 actually would have been far better off pairing Wall with a pure shooter, even if that guy was far less gifted than Bledsoe.
Wall and Bledsoe, 09-10, 3 point shooting and A/TO ratio.
86/242 (35.5%), 347/260
Knight and Lamb, 10-11
155/371 (41.8%), 221/169
It's actually kind of amazing that these backcourts could play for the same coach in consecutive years, given how completely different they were. You're talking the difference between nearly 2 extra 3 point shots per game, with a significantly better %, and then the difference between 3 extra assists and 2.5 extra TO's. None of those are small differences.
Wall and Bledsoe always win this argument, and always will, because they were so physically gifted, because Wall was easily the best PG UK's ever (at least modern era) had, and because of what they're doing in the NBA. They did, however, have a lot of flaws, and I think UK 09-10 actually would have been far better off pairing Wall with a pure shooter, even if that guy was far less gifted than Bledsoe.
Wall and Bledsoe were great, and some of UK's greatest highlights from the last decade come from those 2 putting on a 2 man show. I'm not sure we can blame their streaky shooting for a 0-34(+?) start from behind the line. Something was going on that game, we were in a funk and needed Patterson or Cousins to take over and pound it through the rim. Unfortunately, our bigs acted like WVU's zone was the toughest defense in the world (despite them being undersized, less physically gifted, and under-talented).
Just like our triple shot-clock violation performance against Winsy (blame it on the refs all you want, but I was there and the reasons we lost were because Coach Cal wouldn't pull Andrew out of the game- his mind and body are too slow for such a high stakes situation) it was an anomaly of the season.
All that being said I'd take the Teague-Lamb combo. Talent is great and all but championships last a lifetime. Plus I'd rather be the one winning the championship than the team that "should've won!" (like we have been the past 1-2 seasons).
Just like our triple shot-clock violation performance against Winsy (blame it on the refs all you want, but I was there and the reasons we lost were because Coach Cal wouldn't pull Andrew out of the game- his mind and body are too slow for such a high stakes situation) it was an anomaly of the season.
All that being said I'd take the Teague-Lamb combo. Talent is great and all but championships last a lifetime. Plus I'd rather be the one winning the championship than the team that "should've won!" (like we have been the past 1-2 seasons).
Based on individual talent? Sure, I'd go along with that. Wall's the best guard Cal has had and he's the best pg we've had in the modern era. Bledsoe has turned out to be pretty good as well. We didn't have the roster to compliment their talents that year. People will argue for others because they got farther, but that's not an argument, since it's debatable how responsible they were for that.
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