10 results of Kentucky’s 62-70 defeat at Ole Miss

10 results of Kentucky’s 62-70 defeat at Ole Miss

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When it comes to Kentucky’s defeats this season, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. It is the same film, the same script, almost always. They will get you excited, they will go through a long drought of goals, and when they are close in the final minutes, the other team will find the way to victory.

It happened again in Oxford, Mississippi, in the last game of Super Tuesday and now we are past bedtime to have the same conversations that we have had countless times this season. Kentucky lost again. Kentucky lost in Ole Miss of all places. Sucks. We are not used to it. Seasons like this should never happen in the UK, but it is happening and now a program that cannot tolerate 10 losing seasons will need to win its only two guaranteed games on the schedule for a 10-win season.

The latest version of the 10 topics after a loss of 62-70 …

Conversation with Devin Askew is difficult.

He is not ready, he never was. And that should be fine, but he is being asked to play 30 minutes per game because someone, not him, has failed to recognize the problem in advance. So, instead of being a real freshman playing 10-15 minutes per game behind a capable point guard from which he can learn, he is the point guard and is not working in Year 1 of his time in Kentucky.

In the loss of Ole Miss, Askew scored +/- of -19 in just 17 minutes played with zero kicks made for a second consecutive game. His final line of statistics shows zero points, zero assists, zero steals and zero fouls, just a turnover (there is a positive) and a rebound in his name. The empty scoreboard follows a 0-for-5 game with more turnovers than assists in 30 minutes against Florida.

Fortunately, Calipari made the decision to finally give Askew a break and let Mintz take over. It worked, but it was only a small dressing on general problems. This team is not prepared to be good and starts with a serious lack of shipowners, or even a real shipowner, in the defense zone.

And again, this is not Askew’s fault. The team sniffed the assessments and now they are demanding too much of the talent they have recruited, leaving people like you and me having these difficult conversations about what we are seeing from Kentucky Basketball. I think most, if not all, fans support Askew in his struggles and believe that there will be good days ahead if he continues. But now, he is not ready to be the main role.

Davion Mintz sees Vince Carter in the mirror.

Mintz is six feet tall and is dying to put someone on a poster before his time in Kentucky runs out. On Tuesday night, he was blocked during the audition for the role of Dirk Minniefield, but I love the effort of trying to get a seven-point lead in someone’s head in the second half.

Mintz also drew attention when he gave Kentucky his first advantage in the game with this wild 3-point basket early in the second half.

He’s easily a fan favorite, right?

Kentucky left a lot of points out there.

It’s easy to imagine a different ending if Kentucky makes its free throws. With the game at risk below the dreaded four-minute mark, the United Kingdom missed five free throws, one of them being the first row. There are six points alone, left on the line in the final minutes of an eight-point game.

Kentucky hit 60 percent (15 out of 25) throughout the game, so bad that Calipari broke the character and called his team’s shot at the post-game press conference. “Make a free throw,” he said. “I was angry. Usually I don’t do much about it, but I’ve had enough missed free throws. “

Olivier Sarr and Isaiah Jackson abused the glass.

Calipari pointed to the rebound differential as the # 1 factor in Kentucky’s loss to Ole Miss. The Cats entered the game with an average of +3 per game on the boards, but the Rebels managed another 14 rebounds (42-28), the largest margin in some years for Kentucky.

Olivier Sarr has been pressured all night. Only Keion Brooks contributed eight rebounds to the team and even he was being abused on the inside by the big Ole Miss.

The problem affected Jackson again.

For the fifth time in the last six games, Jackson’s minutes were interrupted due to foul problems. Things were going well and he made two cheap fouls in a matter of seconds at the start of the second half, thus gaining a spot on the bench where his extraordinary length and athleticism are useless.

Of course, Ole Miss turned off the lights.

Kentucky did enough to lose the game alone; it didn’t help that Ole Miss hit twice the number of points with an average of 3 points per game this season. Normally good for about four per game with a 29 percent success rate as a team, Ole Miss hit eight of 13 attempts against Kentucky, one of the unlucky teams in the KenPom luck ranking. Sammy Hunter scored three points out of 3, more than in the 23 other games combined.

ESPN broadcasts are so bad.

I’m sure that Mike Schmitz is a wonderful person. This is not a statement about Mike Schmitz. It’s about ESPN giving in-game podcast interviews with Mike Schmitz about BJ Boston when the game is going on. In addition, Mike Schmitz was talking about BJ Boston’s inability to score, while the graph on the screen gave Boston straight A’s, including scoring. By the way, Boston won 1 out of 9 and their confidence looks pretty depleted.

I would like him to consider another year in Lexington.

A positive observation: the proportion of assistance for turnover was much better.

Kentucky had 16 assists and seven spins, the second smallest in the entire season, against a team known for stealing and creating spins. Kentucky defeated Ole Miss 17 times.

We shouldn’t comment on Coach Cal saying that he can give Dontaie Allen some of Devin Askew’s minutes until we all get a full night’s sleep and calmed down from the loss and ate a hearty breakfast and maybe even after a or two exercises.

In case you missed it, Calipari said Mintz could take over as a point guard, which would open a spot for Dontaie Allen. “With (Mintz) on the spot,” he said, “give Dontaie a chance maybe now to come in and be that other guard too.”

Will Davion Mintz take over as owner? “Maybe”, says Calipari

Moving…

Kentucky is moving towards the 8-seed / 9-seed game at the SEC tournament.

Prepare for a midday report on the Thursday of the SEC Tournament, completely new territory for this fan base. Win that and it’s another midday game on Friday. The opponent? No. 1 Alabama seed.

Good night everyone.

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