From: gil.levitch@tfd.gwinnett.com (Gil Levitch) 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Re: Kentucky MASH'ed Louisville
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:12:00 GMT
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Organization: The Fifth Dimension - Louisville, KY - 502-423-8654
Reply-To: gil.levitch@tfd.gwinnett.com (Gil Levitch) 


Matt McCoy writes:
MM>Denny Crum is a firm advocate of the 'UCLA' style of offense, which
MM>does not tend to focus around long range shooting.  The offense of
MM>Louisville (or lack thereof) centers around low post play, strong
MM>rebounding, and "street ball' style of play.  This is all fine and
MM>dandy, if you can make it work, but the lack of instilling discipline
MM>in his players hurts Crum, regardless of the offense he runs.

Denny's only fault in the last few years has been his lack of defense
effort, and that's because he didn't have the horses to full court press
the entire game. Against UK he didn't press at all. Watch U of L next
year and the year after. UCLA's style of offense WASN'T only offense,
but defense as well. You can stop a team from hitting 3 pointers if you
defense them, but if you don't have the players to do so then you can
get killed. Louisville for the past 3 years had a lot of things happen
to them, ie. Jerome Harmon (who wouldn't go to class), Alan Houston who
Denny graciously let go to Tenn. with his father, and a bunch of prop
48'ers who made B averages their Freshman year at U of L, NOT taking
crip courses.

MM>My apologies, I forgot about the '86 team, and agree with whoever
MM>commented on the Senior leadership for that team.  That was one of
MM>the rare 'team' efforts from a UofL ballclub.

I guess the other 4 appearances in the final four were without
leadership also.

MM>As for championships, I don't like singling out accomplishments,
MM>however I will add that UK has 5 National Championships in three
MM>different decades, while UofL has had 2 in one decade.  Not that
MM>this has any validity as an argument, just a fact I like to point
MM>out to diehard UofL fans!!   :-)

Those championships were by Adolph Rupp, who was one of the greatest
coaches that ever lived. The one other (against Duke in St.Louis) was
Joe Hall coaching Adolph Rupp style.

MM>People who aren't familiar with basketball in the Commonwealth
MM>might think the Rozier technical was an isolated incident.  I contend
MM>however that it is indicative of the lack of discipline, and style
MM>of play that is encouraged, either directly, or indirectly by the
MM>coaching staff for the Cards.  It is a shame, because it cheapens the
MM>'magic' of the Dream Game, and reflects poorly on the Commonwealth
MM>of Kentucky to boot!

Nonsense. The Rozier technical was uncalled for, and Denny sat him on
the bench immediately. He got caught up in the hype, which shouldn't
have happened, and which was not encouraged by the U of L coaching staff.

MM>And Lord knows we don't need anymore negative press  :-)

Lord knows, Matt, UK doesn't need anymore negative press. U of L has
never had any.

 gil.levitch@tfd.gwinnett.com
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