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| Tuesday, January 3, 2023 8:00 p.m. ET Rupp Arena Lexington, Kentucky
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| Coverage | ||
| TV: ESPN Radio: UK Sports Network |
The Kentucky offense looked much better in Saturday's win over Louisville. And, despite popular sentiment, it might be because the Cats slowed down rather than speeding up.
UK head coach John Calipari used the word deliberate in his postgame press conference on Saturday.
“I'm mad at myself because we needed to be playing more deliberate,” Calipari said. “Playing faster and quicker and doing that, that's all good, and you're scoring 60. We played deliberate, which is what my teams have done historically. Still play fast and shoot threes. We didn't shoot as many today but we scored a lot of points playing deliberate.”
Point guard Sahvir Wheeler, who makes the Cats go as fast as anyone, knows that being deliberate doesn't always mean slowing down.
“Control the pace a little bit more, knowing when to go, when not to go, execution,” Wheeler said. “I think you kind of saw that in the last game. Control the pace the whole game. We weren't playing super fast, we played kind of deliberate sometimes. We could deliberately push or deliberately grind it out. Pass up a good shot for a great shot.”
The Cats hope to carry over the momentum from Saturday's 86-63 win into Tuesday's game against LSU. The Tigers are 12-1 on the season and are coming off an impressive win over Arkansas on Wednesday. LSU's only loss this year was a four-point setback against Kansas State in the Cayman Islands on Nov. 23. Since then, LSU has won seven in a row.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.