Who Thinks We Can Beat Duke In Basketball and Why
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I have to think we have "a chance" because of the extensive amount of college-game experience UK will put on the floor. The Duke game will certainly be a valid test of the hypothesis that "experience matters."
But ... whether or not ... GO 'CATS ! ! !
I'm excited. I don't expect us to look as disjointed as Cal's teams did early in the season. We've got veterans and a coach that cares about winning and the program.
Jon Scheyer is far from the coach that K was. It's an early game in the season, and Duke has a lot of freshmn who will be getting a lot of the minutes. Almost no returning guys other than Proctor and someone else I'm probably forgetting.
Cal did not take games like this seriously - if you win them - bonus to his brilliance. If you lose them - young team needs time. He just rolled the dice and watched/hoped to see if his team's talent level could pull it off.
As previously said - this team will be far better coached and prepared from the jump - not full of excuses until January. New pride in the actual program and UK jersey - so I expect to see a very different approach and a very different UK team and product... and such a different result.
Win? I certainly will be pulling for that and expect experience this early on to pay off some. That said - these games in the past seem to have always had someone "No one saw on the radar/scouting report" have a career game vs UK. I attribute much of that to our previously coach, his lack of preparation, his acceptance of mediocrity and low expectations of winning games like this. I never put a "W" in the win column until the buzzer sounds - but like our chances so much better than in the past seasons... that record vs top 25 teams was embarrassing.
Go CATS - show them a new way!
As previously said - this team will be far better coached and prepared from the jump - not full of excuses until January. New pride in the actual program and UK jersey - so I expect to see a very different approach and a very different UK team and product... and such a different result.
Win? I certainly will be pulling for that and expect experience this early on to pay off some. That said - these games in the past seem to have always had someone "No one saw on the radar/scouting report" have a career game vs UK. I attribute much of that to our previously coach, his lack of preparation, his acceptance of mediocrity and low expectations of winning games like this. I never put a "W" in the win column until the buzzer sounds - but like our chances so much better than in the past seasons... that record vs top 25 teams was embarrassing.
Go CATS - show them a new way!
I’ll admit, I haven’t watched anything from their incoming freshman. But we’ve seen how freshman can struggle in their first game under the bright lights. I also think Pope and the staff will have a gameplan in place to try and disrupt Flagg. I would hope UK makes it a physical game.
Beating duke would be a lovely start to the Pope era.
Beating duke would be a lovely start to the Pope era.
With Pope on the bench coaching i feel good about winning against Duke. Cooper Flagg will not beat UK by himself. I remember when Pistol Pete was playing for LSU he got his points and Rupp just told the UK player he will get his points just hold the rest of LSU player down. I would love to beat Duke !
Duke is going to be good. But I think we are catching them at the right time. We have the experience advantage, and I think the better coach.
Some of you guys are leaving out the part where Duke brought in quite a few quality transfers.
They won't merely be featuring freshmen.
They won't merely be featuring freshmen.
Duke will beat Kentucky, in games like that the team with the best player on the floor wins. Duke will have the best player by far on the floor for that game
