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Kentucky’s performance against the 7th ranked Florida Gators last night put the entire nation on notice. No one more so than UF guard, Bradley Beal. In an article for CBS sports, Gary Parrish recounts what Beal, Gators Coach Billy Donovan, and even ex-Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl had to say about the Cats murderous rampage. Here’s a couple of excerpts:
[I]The Wildcats have handled their past four opponents by 24, 25, 34 and 20 points en route to building a 2½-game lead in the SEC standings. They’ve been a blast to watch and a nightmare to play against. “They murdered us,” Florida’s Bradley Beal said. But that quote could’ve just as easily come from LSU’s Justin Hamilton. Or Tennessee’s Trae Golden. Or South Carolina’s Malik Cooke. Because UK has murdered all of those teams over the past few weeks, impressively and convincingly.
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[COLOR=#333333][FONT=arial][I]”Kentucky has six guys who are gonna be first-round draft picks,” said Donovan, the Florida coach who knows a thing or two about first-round draft picks. “I don’t know if [anybody else] has six first-round draft picks.”
…The former Tennessee coach (Pearl) stood on the baseline at halftime genuinely impressed by what he was watching and engaged in a conversation about it. He talked about individual players and the way he might try to guard them, and he pointed out that Calipari’s famous dribble-drive offense doesn’t really show itself too much anymore. Pearl suggested that’s a good thing for Kentucky, given the personnel.[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=arial][I]Then he thought for a moment longer and tried to come up with a school that might prevent Calipari from winning his first national title and the Wildcats from winning their eighth.[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=arial][I]”Maybe Syracuse with that zone in a dome?” Pearl said. “I don’t know.[/I]
So now the tides of public opinion will change (as much they can with Kentucky) and all of the second guessers will start to become ‘I told you so’-ers. It looks like Kentucky is going to stomp its way to New Orleans, the title being their’s to lose. That is almost a scary proposition itself except that, Kentucky is still getting better….yikes.
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