Eric Lindsey of CoachCal.com has a good article about Kentucky sophomore Willie Cauley-Stein on the website. Cauley-Stein talks about deleting his twitter account and talking back to some fans.
Willie Cauley-Stein had a funny way of dealing with the criticism that came along with a 12-loss, NIT-ending season last year.
After deleting his Twitter account to block out the noise, Cauley-Stein decided not only to get back on the social media tool, he decided to embrace the criticism. Instead of ignoring some of the disparaging comments, he started responding.
It seemed like a bizarre way of coping with the struggles of last year, but hear Cauley-Stein out.
“I know a lot of people were asking me why I was talking back to them. It’s because it was fun,” Cauley-Stein said. “It was almost like you got away from basketball by talking about basketball to people that don’t know what they’re talking about.”
The criticism, the expectations, they were new for Cauley-Stein. Really, everything was new for the guy from Kansas.
Cauley-Stein arrived in Lexington unaware of what exactly Kentucky basketball was all about. Admittedly uninformed about UK’s basketball tradition and its fans’ fervor, Cauley-Stein was both drawn to the passion and mystified by the obsession.
When Cauley-Stein told reporters he had no idea about Christian Laettner’s game-winning shot that propelled Duke past Kentucky in the 1992 East regional finals, it wasn’t that he didn’t care about UK’s tradition, he just didn’t know.
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