Fire Tubby?

Today kids, the word of the day is: capability

I purposefully haven’t read any coverage of the game so I don’t know what the general consensus is. Sometimes it’s good to just form your own opinion without knowingly or unwittingly assuming the herd mentality. So what do I think? I think that was some of the funnest Kentucky basketball I have seen in quite some time. Not the whole game of course, that brings us to our firetubby.com awards for the night.

The Acadamy Award for best Vlade Divac-esque performance goes to:
Kevin Bridgewaters
Best Supporting Actor in a Vlade Divac-esque performance:
The Ref

Those three or four horrendous calls including the Jasper technical killed Kentucky’s momentum in it’s tracks. Up to that point we got to see what looked to me like a truly angry Tubby Smith and a team that suddenly “got it”. They didn’t come away with my 30 like I asked them to but at the end of the night I still ended up a satisfied if not temporarily pacified fan.

Something else we did get a glimpse of is maybe what Ramel was talking about (see pregame). The intensity during the spurt was something that hasn’t been seen on the court by the Cats for a while now. Is that what the practices look like? It felt like they were giving it their all. The in-huddle reports by “I’m Rob Bromley”, as forced and somewhat embarrassing as they may be, show that Tubby is telling them to push the ball. I got a taste of something cool last night. It tasted like capability. I want to see more.

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