I haven't been able to post because I was traveling back from the game and was busy last night, but it sucked a lot more being in the actual crowd of drunk and demonstrative UK fans than being in a suite (Jason).
My immediate reactions to what happened in the last 5 minutes of the game were that we did look tired. I said in the moment when Sion got hurt, that I hope he can get back in this game because we needed his defense. Sure enough, the Kentucky guards got a couple of key buckets down the stretch that sealed it for them. Losing Khaman's rim protection also a major factor there. And with all the missed 3s, his offensive rebounding would have been nice.
As many have commented, I also did not like the offensive strategy of spamming Cooper isos. We scored 46 in the first half, why didn't we go back to Tyrese Proctor at least a little? He was playing really well and seemed to get iced out of the offense in the 2nd half. Run some off ball action to get him a couple of looks.
Frustrating loss. I obviously still think our team is wayr better than theirs, but we gotta get Sion back. I definitely think he's a guy who will close games for us if Caleb Foster is going to play like this.
