This is an excerpt from a Sports Illustrated Article by Paul Daughtery and has some funny things about the team. Eric Bledsoe has some very good quotes. Also depicts the Cats as very good kids.
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[LEFT][COLOR=#000000]”Big Foot,” says Bledsoe of Cousins. Cousins is 6-foot-11 and weighs 260 pounds. Some kid.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Cousins, says Bledsoe, likes to dance. “In the weight room,” Bledsoe says. “The Dancing Bear. He can’t dance. He knows it. That’s the bad part. Anything you put on, he dances to. He says, ‘I gotta get my dance on.’ ”[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Cousins is a Bump near the basket. On Monday at South Carolina, he scored 27 points from a variety of spots, including a reverse layup. At one point, he stepped out to guard Downey. Cousins kept the ‘Cats in the game. Kentucky needed more from the kid who’s already got inside position for national Player of the Year — [B]John Wall[/B].[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]”Goofy,” Bledsoe says of Wall. Bledsoe says Wall occasionally speaks a language no one understands. Not long ago, some players paid a visit to a local chicken joint named Indi’s. Wall ordered “oysters.”[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]”You at a chicken spot,” he was told. “Ain’t no oysters here.”[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Wall insisted that any decent chicken place in the South would offer a side of oysters. Turns out, what Wall wanted was okra. Wall plays a better game than he talks. Bledsoe and his teammates found this amusing. “They did have okra,” Bledsoe says, still laughing on Wednesday.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Bledsoe doesn’t laugh about Wall the player. “A good teammate. He ain’t no selfish player,” Bledsoe says. “I knew that (about him) when I signed.”[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]That has been reinforced by another gag Bledsoe and his mates enjoy at Wall’s expense. Occasionally, upon approaching an opponent’s arena, someone will announce, “Here come John Wall and the rest of the Wildcats!”[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]The Kentucky Walls?[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]”Yeah,” Bledsoe says. “(Wall) gets real mad when we do that. That’s how we know he’s a good teammate. He doesn’t throw (his status) in our face. People talk about how arrogant he is. They don’t know John.”[/COLOR][/LEFT]
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