Kentucky is currently in a strange place without having a lot of time

Kentucky is currently in a strange place without having a lot of time

Several things are currently in Kentucky and why the wildcats have to struggle and two in a row and four of the last five lost. This was mostly a disaster that fell back to 27 points at the beginning of the second half only 14 points of the second worst defeat this season, behind the defeat of 20 points against Ohio State before Christmas and the fourth two-digit defeat this season.

Lamont Butler, who has out Out, derailed the back court, Kentucky fought to bring the ball to the floor and observe the sales while defensive efficiency tanks. Kerr Kriisa’s absence is more energy -oriented because the wildcats miss their change in the second unit and Travis Perry pushed into this role, whether he was ready or not. He had good and bad days – this one positive, which ended in five points, two rebounds, two assists and a block in 14 minutes – but they still want Kriisa in her back pocket.

Jaxson Robinson was okay in the role of Butler, while others have appeared as playmakers-Amari Williams became the fourth player in the history of Kentucky, who ends with a triple double and in 26 minutes a statistics of 12 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists compiled -but that does not replace the brilliance of No. 1. The SDSU transfer has the best season of his career against the best competition in his career, a total game-change defensive, which this team desperately misses.

From there it was a domino effect, Kentucky’s lack of answers that defensively led to poor body language and energy. After taking the first blow early, the fight never followed when Ole Miss Big Shot had to Big Shot to build a massive lead that would take a miracle to overcome it. You saw how players who are disturbed Kentucky About her chest.

Was the defense a chicken or the egg deal? Ask the rebels’ nine 3 pointers in the first half after entering the day only 8.8 per gameends with 13 threes at 30 attempts. The wildcats still met 10 threes, but this did only 21 attempts that have tried to reach the campus since the team has tried 30 to 35 bars- they are overtaken 100. 68 in the last three games from Deep. Regardless of whether Kentucky opened far on the perceived non-shooter or strictly exhausting attempts, Ole Miss continued to hit shots at a speed that exceeded the average of the season by 8.5 percent. Five different players ended two numbers, led by Matthew Murrell with 24 points with 6: 11 out of three. They kept everything, hard buckets fell into key moments to destroy the comeback efforts. It was a combination of poor defense and sensational shot from the rebels.

It does not help to turn Ole Miss exactly once with 24 assists after entering the day with the number 3 sales edge in College basketball and ending with the No. 1 sales rate in the country. In the meantime, Kentucky is 324 at the national level 10.14 per competition with a lead of -0.5 a year, good for No. 239 in total. Eight sales were a victory for the cats, although it was simply not enough to force one.

Nine games are left over the year and the wildcats fell to 112 in defensive efficiency -also with the No. 2 crime in College basketball. Do you accuse Butler’s absence or loan from Ole Miss’ shot? How about the lack of defense pressure and the dissolution of the game before throwing new folds on the rebels? Playing without a heart in the first half didn’t help either.

“It’s just us. We have all tools and weapons to be a great defensive team. We just have to have this urgency, ”Otega Oweh told KSR. “We’ll find out, but we just didn’t have it in the first half.”

Kentucky played like a team that lost hope without his leader and waited until the game was unreachable before he woke up and prayed to put together a comeback effort of all time, provided that Ole Miss would not throw its own daggers out of his own back . Do not accuse the amount in the pavilion – the place was empty when it came to enemy street games on the street. The fans appeared late and never filled the place, students in the building that rose to give a top 25 team the help. Everyone else was out and not bothered to dive on time (if at all) without hardly making a look. That made the slow start for the cats so frustrating. It was the perfect surroundings to steal a street victory and they collapsed.

Ole Miss jumped at 14:33 to a 10-point lead before led at half-time with 23 points and gave his third-party deficit with a 15:3 run Kentucky during the break in the program history. Pope’s group was simply not competitive, and when she decided it was far too late. It should not require this despair to play this team with an advantage and to avoid my type of body language. Other teams shouldn’t want it more than this. But they did it and they do it.

Perhaps the simple answer is to bring Butler and/or Kriisa back to guide the show with some efficiency and keep the ball in motion. Perhaps it can be found out how Ansley Almonor and Trent Noah can avoid 28 minutes with zero points, zero rebounds, zero -assists, zero blocks and zero steals in loss? I would rather avoid these late breakdowns before half, if possible.

In both cases, Kentucky has only five weeks from the start of the SEC tournament game in the last five four losses, with the defense declining at an alarming speed. Clock ticks.

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