That one hurts. If we don’t spot them a 13 point lead at halftime…if we can shoot better than 65% from the free throw line…if we can have more than one guy off the bench scoring points (note: assuming John Jenkins turns pro, we got exactly zero points from players who will be back next season)…if we can hit a single shot in the last four minutes of the game…
I’m not going to kick about the officiating. This is the SEC. You get the calls if you’re Kentucky in basketball, or Alabama or Florida in football, and you just have to live with it. It’s about what I expect, and I don’t expect it to ever get any better. What’s more troubling to me is the fact that Kentucky will probably send most of the squad to the NBA again, and reload with Alex Poythress, among others – here we are with five seniors and a junior, four years of chemistry and teamwork and trying to make the best unit we can, and Kentucky can just go out and grab the best four or five high school players in the country, milk them for a year before they go to the NBA, and roll all over in the meantime. I’ve said it before but it bears repeating – we’re not playing the same game, and that’s why it always seems like we’ve seen this movie before. Over and over and over.
Five home losses. I can’t remember the last time we lost five games at home. We gave them everything we had, and it’s just not enough. Just like Vandy football against Florida or Tennessee, like Cal against USC, like the Redskins against…well, everyone. I don’t know why I even watch sports anymore…but I’m staring to grasp why there are so many bandwagoning sons of bitches out there.