Texas A&M Game Thread (Sponsored by Matt Colvin)

[justafan]

#4 Alabama and #5 Florida both lose at home….

[justford]

Florida loses at home to Missouri. Tough league for sure.

[Catsrock]

I liked Big Z, could have been a fan favorite but he did us fans wrong after what UK did for him. Z seems like a normal goofy good natured young man, too bad Cal has already tossed him to the side .

Oh don’t get me wrong—I like Z just fine. Just meant I don’t feel bad for him. He hitched his wagon to Cal twice. He knew what he was getting. Very little coaching.

[KentuckyWild2020]

Oh don’t get me wrong—I like Z just fine. Just meant I don’t feel bad for him. He hitched his wagon to Cal twice. He knew what he was getting. Very little coaching.

Yeah he's enemy now,no love at all.

To me it's mind blowing how horrible Johnel Davis is playing for Calipari, he's taken 50 steps backwards.

[Joneslab]

Corey Price pointed out that Amari Williams is the first UK player to have 12 or more rebounds against back to back top 15 teams since 1958.

[DA#23]

Corey Price pointed out that Amari Williams is the first UK player to have 12 or more rebounds against back to back top 15 teams since 1958.

Someone off of the Fiddlin’ Five then. Cox or was it Ed Beck?

[Joneslab]

Someone off of the Fiddlin’ Five then. Cox or was it Ed Beck?

The pride of Hazard Johnny Cox.

[DA#23]

The pride of Hazard Johnny Cox.

Johnny Cox Bypassed Hazard…..

He made the AA list, he won the title. But he was one of three huge stars in my area at the time. The other two were Kelly Coleman of Wayland High School who was KY HS basketball’s scoring leader until Travis Perry broke the mark, and Donnis Butcher who played at Pikeville College to be drafted by the New York Knickerbockers. He would go on to coach Detroit for 2-3 years.

[Joneslab]

Johnny Cox Bypassed Hazard…..

He made the AA list, he won the title. But he was one of three huge stars in my area at the time. The other two were Kelly Coleman of Wayland High School who was KY HS basketball’s scoring leader until Travis Perry broke the mark, and Donnis Butcher who played at Pikeville College to be drafted by the New York Knickerbockers. He would go on to coach Detroit for 2-3 years.

Donnis Butcher's son, Donnie, coached Cumberland College for years.

My friend always had a grudge against Donnie Butcher because Donnie refused to recruit him at Cumberland. Friend went on to Berea and had an unbelievable career, and he pretty much loathed Cumberland for that.

Donnie Butcher played a couple of seasons with Charles Barkley at Auburn, IIRC. Auburn's coach was Sonny Smith, who also has a connection to my hometown as the former coach of Pine Knot High School back in the day.

Kentucky has so many historical basketball connections that it's crazy.

[Catsrock]

“Some guys drive it to score and some guys drive it to hurt your feelings.”
—best quote of Jimmy Dykes’ career —after Otega’s angry slam

[DA#23]

Pretty decent commentary here

[Los Gatos]

Back to the aTm game, specifically the last play of the first half. i found the moves by the coaches very interesting, Dykes commented on it ever before the play. aTm went into some kind of zone, think a 1-2-2. UK recognized this quickly and made the pass to an open Robinson.

I was surprised they could recognize the zone so fast. i suspect we had seen it on firm before. What do you think?

In any case this is a far cry from Cal's end of half plays.

[Joneslab]

TAMU had been in zone for a good deal of first half. Buzz jumps in and out of zone like crazy.

But our big men are GREAT passers. Garrison is well above average but Williams might be one of the best we’ve ever had here.

[Joneslab]

Oweh.

[Catsrock]

Back to the aTm game, specifically the last play of the first half. i found the moves by the coaches very interesting, Dykes commented on it ever before the play. aTm went into some kind of zone, think a 1-2-2. UK recognized this quickly and made the pass to an open Robinson.

I was surprised they could recognize the zone so fast. i suspect we had seen it on firm before. What do you think?

In any case this is a far cry from Cal's end of half plays.

It worked out for the best—obviously we got 3 instead of 2– but I don’t think Garrison had any idea he was wide open to turn around and dunk. It was a well designed play but he passed so quickly he couldn’t have known how wide open he was.

Agreed—so much smoother than 90% of Cal’s timeout calls. He’d draw one up occasionally.