According to Georgetown College head coach Chris Briggs, the 2014-15 Kentucky Wildcats could win in the NBA.
Briggs even took it a step farther following last night’s game when he said the Wildcats are “an NBA playoff team.”
Here is an excerpt of Briggs’ statements following his team’s 121-52 loss in Rupp Arena:
“Obviously, a long night for us. I’m super proud of my guys, I thought we came out ready to play. I’m just really pleased with, this is going to sound silly, the first three minutes of the game, the way we played and came out ready. We had the same problems that the rest of the country probably will have the rest of this year. Those guys are unreal. I told the guys in the locker room, they could have beaten some NBA teams tonight, there’s no question in my mind. It’s going to make us better. Our guys know that we have things to work on. Offensively, execution-wise. We struggled early to make shots, we missed layups, we missed some open looks and missed some free throws, and it just snowballed and got out of control quick. For the most part, I’m proud of our guys, they kept fighting, kept competing. I’m pleased with our effort. It was a great experience. We had a great week preparing for them. We had a great week of practice and enjoyed that. But now we have to move on, because we have conference games Thursday and Saturday on the road. That’s over for us, tomorrow we have a new day and have to get ready for games that mean something for our season.”
He later added that Kentucky is “an NBA playoff team”:
“You better recruit better first. I don’t know what to tell you, we did everything we could, we went zone, we tried man, we tried trapping the post, we tried it all. It’s going to take an extremely off night and an extremely great night out of somebody who has big-time NBA talent as well to get those guys. I knew they were good coming into this game, but sitting out there watching it in front of their eyes, on the sideline, honestly I don’t see how they’re going to get beat this year. I don’t like to say that, because I know people have off nights, and things can happen and this-and-that, and injuries and things like that, but if they play like they did tonight, they’re an NBA playoff team.”
Here is video of Briggs talking to the media (video by Kentucky.com on YouTube):
I don’t think Kentucky is beating any NBA teams but they are REALLY, REALLY good.
