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Kenny Walker's Climb Past Kentucky's Elite
Kenny Walker's Climb Past Kentucky's Elite
Kenny Walker's Climb Past Kentucky's Elite
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Coach Bob Boyd's Postgame Comments
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Following are Coach Bob Boyd's comments after his Mississippi State Bulldogs were defeated by Kentucky 88-62 last Saturday evening at Rupp Arena:
Question: Your comments on the game?
Boyd: I thought being in foul trouble hurt early, to whatever chances we had, hurt our chances to say the least. We need to have (Anthony) Blakely and Raymond Brown in the game if we are going to be competitive. The fact that Kentucky shot the field goal percentage that they shot (72.2 percent) was probably the major factor in the lopsidedness of the game. Because of the kind of defense, the position kind of defense, that 1 thought we had to play. . .on many of their perimeter shots our defense was trying to jam the passing lanes.
Question: Any reason for keeping Brown in after he picked up his third foul in the first half?
Boyd: No, because Blakely already had four. We're not very deep at that position and Raymond has to be in the game.
Question: Does Kentucky look like a championship team?
Boyd: They certainly played well tonight. I think Kentucky played as well as any team we've played. The kind of defense that was effective for us against Georgia was not effective against Kentucky, (though) it made no difference what it was. But we thought against Auburn we played a reasonably good game. What we had hoped to do was to mix up our man and zone defenses. That didn't affect Kentucky. Kentucky's attitude towards the game was very good. It could have been less than that because of their recent win at Alabama. They seem to me to have a (certain) degree of intensity that good teams need to have. I point that out because you can never take that for granted. Kentucky should be commended for their approach to this game, which
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I thought was very solid. Their intensity level was good, and as I said it could have been less than that based on what I think that last game (Alabama) meant to them.
Question: It seems that your ballclub is still giving a good effort?
Boyd: They are. People in your business (writers) are looking for, 'How is the losing effecting the team? Or, did the announcement, prior to the season, have a noticable effect on the team? All those things are so subjective, it's difficult for me to sense. I don't think it has (had an affect). We've struggled. For us. our level of intensity is good and we do continue to play.
spect is Owensboro's David Hogg, a 6-3 junior guard who is averaging 14 points per game for Randy Embry's Third Region power.
Hogg edges out Mason County's Deron Feldhaus and Henry Clay's Sean Sutton as the state's No. 1 prep junior. >
Feldhaus is a 6-6 forward who is really tough in the paint and averages 20 points per game for his dad, Allen, a former UK star.
Sutton, son of UK boss Eddie Sutton, has turned Henry Clay from one of the region's better clubs into a state contender. He's averaging 21 points per game for coach Al Prewitt and you can certainly see Eddie Sutton's influence all over him.
Rounding out the top five junior list are 6-5 forward John Pelphrey of Paintsville and 6-3 guard Stan Shelby of North Hardin.
Bolus lists 6-4 sophomore guard-forward Junior Graves of Louisville Seneca as the fourth best underclassman in the state. Son of ex-high school coaching great Bob Graves, Junior has developed into a great swing player and scores 15 points per game for coach Glenn Collie.
Others in the Top 12 Kentucky underclassmen list are Mike Hall of Jeffersontown. Jeff Quarles of Hopkinsville. Prince Stewart of Lafayette, Desmond Porter of Louisville PRP. Kevin Ellery of Washington County and Richie Farmer of Clay County.
HITS AND MISSES . . . While Eddie Sutton's honeymoon continues to blossom in Kentucky, new Arkansas boss Nolan Richardson is feeling the heat likes he's never felt it before. And the letters to the editor in The Arkansas Democrat are taking their shots, often and loudly. In the February 9 edition, the newspaper devoted almost two pages to the tran-sistion from Sutton to Richardson and most of the letters blamed either Richardson or Arkansas athletics director Frank Broyles for the Razorbacks' sudden collapse this season. (The Hogs were 11-13 overall at last glance and in
seventh place in the SWC). One writer said, "...Words can't express the gutwrenching sickness inside of me, but I will try to give my opinion in a nutshell. Hawgball stinks. Nolan needs to step down. Arkansas fans deserve more than this. In such a short time, Richardson has destroyed an entire program that took years to build." Then the writer goes on to say Broyles is the reason for the crisis, causing Eddie Sutton to leave for a better situation. That was one of many letters, mostly critical of both Broyles and Richardson. . . Should Kentucky beat Georgia this Saturday in Athens, it would become the first time since 1978 that the Wildcats have won seven road games in the SEC . . . Prep sports writer Mike Fields of 77te Lexington Herald compiled a great series of articles on father-son basketball situations where
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players' fathers are coaches. Those profiled included Eddie and Sean Sutton, Don and Brian Lane (Transylvania), Allen and Deron Feldhaus (Mason County) and Dave and Shannon Fraley (Pulaski County). Said the younger Sutton to Fields, "I've always thought the two top basketball programs in the country were Kentucky and North Carolina, and now to live here in Lexington and be able to go to the games and sit on the bench and watch UK play, it's great." Reckon father Eddie will recruit son Sean?