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What does the basketball team have to do to take down the fightin cals?
2 weeks ago I would've said we had no shot to take down Kentucky. Now I feel as excited as did in 2010 when John wall and cousins came to the Hump. I knew it would tough but that we had a chance.
I think KY's defense is suspect and they are young. If we can get the Hump rocking it could go a long way in rattling them. If we can get hot from 3 all bets are off. What do y'all think our chances are?
< 10% bc they're gonna kill us on the boards. Just hope we don't have a hangover for Tennessee game
Minus 15 percent
Vandy had em on the ropes for a while. I may be overly optomistic, but I think we give em all they want.
I say they Uk wins by 23
We would have to hit about every three we take
Kentucky shot 11.1% from 3 and only outrebounded vandy by 6. If those 2 things happen, we have a shotQuote:
Originally Posted by BayouDawg
1. Weather the storm early
2. Get the crowd engaged early in the game. Can't have another slow start.
3. Schnider/Holman/Datcher/Kegler gotta find a way to crash the boards somehow
4. Q gotta Q for the whole game.
Space aliens invade and intervene on our behalf.***
In all seriousness though we would have to execute perfectly at every position and hope UK has an extremely sloppy game. I just don't see it happening, but "Any given night..."
I'm usually a pretty pessimistic person, but I just have this feeling that it's gonna happen. Maybe it's just gas though
Take a Beano pill and get back to us and let us know how you feel then.Quote:
Originally Posted by BayouDawg
1. They have to play with only 4 players the entire game and cannot sub.Quote:
Originally Posted by BayouDawg
2. We have to shoot about 70%
Do those two things and we'll win by 6 or 7.
Rebounds (sec ranks)...
Kentucky #1
State #14
Assists...
Kentucky #1
State #10
Blocks...
Kentucky #1
State #11
Steals...
State #3
Kentucky #10
Nothing else is really that different than the other
Let's just start with getting an officiating crew in that actually knows it's ok to blow the whistle against the team wearing blue. I know, waaaaaaay too much to ask. We'll never be allowed to make this a competitive game. I'm willing to bet all my V-cash that by the 10:00 mark in the first half we will have 7 team fouls compared to maybe two for UK.
If we hit our threes and run our offense, we can beat them. If we can turn them over, we have a chance as well. We will need to turn them over to negate their rebounding advantage. We will need them to have an off night shooting. It's not as much of a long shot as you think. Vandy played them close with this recipe and Kentucky's shot was off. I think we play them close.
UK 88
State 69
I don't think the stats mean that much unless you really are only going by SEC only stats. Since our new starting five three games ago, we are playing at a completely different level.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
They're #1 in rebounds. We got absolutely pummeled on the boards with our new lineup Saturday. aTm is 5th in rebounding. If we don't rebound better, we have zero shot bc Kentucky has guard play... better than us actuallyQuote:
Originally Posted by MarketingBully
There's absolutely nothing we can do. There is no possibility of State upsetting KY. None at all. KY wins by 20+
We really have to shoot the absolute lights out from 3 and hit about 14-16 of those and they would have to shoot about 10%. Then we need to shoot about 85% from the line and be +8 or so in the turnover department.