Tuesday, April 3, 2012

One down one to go

Men's college basketball comes to an exciting end. Kentucky defeated Kansas by only 8 points. Anthony Davis Naismith award winner only had 6 points but he had 16 rebounds. At one point Kentucky was winning by 18 points which proved to be too much for Kansas to over come. Kansas never gave up being led by Thomas Robinson who had 18 points and 17 rebounds and Tyshawn Taylor had 19 points. This was Taylor's last game but Robinson is only a junior and I believe he should stay another year but no one turns down money. In the second half Kansas came out riled up. They were playing defense and throwing Kentucky off their game. There was a glimmer of hope for Kansas when they came within five points. They just couldn't get over that 18 point lead. The referees were also making it hard for Kansas to make a full comeback by calling everything on Kansas and letting Kentucky get away with everything. There were some missed fouls but the blame does not fall fully on the refs. Kansas should have been playing with the same defensive intensity in the first half that they were playing with in the second half. If Kansas would have gotten their fast break offense going Kentucky would not have been able to keep up. Kentucky was winded in the second half and couldn't keep up with Kansas that's how they got back in the game. So what has been bothering me this whole time is that everyone has been talking about how Bill Self and John Calipari met in the Championship game before but how can they talk about that game when the wins leading up to that game were taken away from Calipari? Did everyone forget about that? They are talking about Calipari's legacy what legacy? This is his first ever National Championship win. He had to vacate 42 wins from his time at Memphis and Massachusetts. Why hasn't anyone talked about that this whole tournament? I'm not a fan of John Calipari and i feel they need to bring up his vacated wins before they can talk about his legacy. You can't just forget that he had to vacate a good amount of victories in his career. I won't take anything away from the play of Kentucky because they have played really well all season and played as a team. Those players deserve it even though i would have liked to see Thomas Robinson and Tyshawn Taylor win the Championship. Both of these teams had an amazing year and congrats to both of them. Even though if UNC wouldn't have lost Kendall Marshall and would have beat Kansas their would have been a different outcome to this Championship. I'm just saying lol!! Lets watch this girl's game tonight hopefully it will be as exciting and won't be a blow out.

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