KENTUCKY motivation tonight

I love the fact that people are dismissing this Kentucky team stating that they don't care. Just because a high profiled team like Kentucky doesn't make the tourney, who is deciding if they care or not? Calipari is from Moon, Pa and grew up in a house 1 mile from the Robert Morris campus. He will have former coaches, friends, and family at the game tonight.  They may not have enough focus for the entire tourney, but no way Calapari let's his team embarrass him tonight in his hometown. 

This is a completely different class level tonight for Robert Morris; they will compete and the place will be buzzing.  Although Kentucky may not play it's A game, they still win by DD. 

LOL  - who cares about that.  Coaches don't play the game - even the coach is lost for words. He has never had a team who hasn't responded by this time.

Midway through the season, as the calendar turned from 2012 to 2013, John Calipari spoke of his ongoing efforts to change his young team and said that this season had the potential to be the most satisfying of his coaching career.

It turned out to be one of his hardest coaching jobs in his 21-year head-coaching career.

Despite Coach Cal’s best efforts – everything from heart monitors to books to dodgeball – his team never quite turned the corner like he wished and experienced in his first three years at Kentucky.

“Humbling because it’s probably the first group in a long time that wouldn’t respond and change,” Calipari said Monday, a day after his team learned it fell short of the NCAA Tournament and accepted an invitation to play in the National Invitation Tournament.

Right.  They love playing ball so much they got demolished vs Vandy - a game Calipari admitted they needed to get into the NCAA tournament.

So instead, these guys will suddenly be motivated to play in some tiny 3,500 capacity gym in Pittsburgh?

My only fear is whether Robt Morris just doesn't have the talent to stay with even a sleepwalking Kentucky team.

In this game, all Calipari has to do is get his team ready to play tonight.  Coach's don't play the game, but don't think for a second he won't unload his bench and let the player's who are chomping at the bit to prove themselves into action.  Hell Kentucky's bench can cover this spread by themselves.  I'm telling you, Calipari wants to put on a show tonight and he will do it with backups if he has to. 

The key to this game is that Kentucky has a huge advantage in athleticism and size.  Around 56% of the Wildcat points come in the paint and RMU does not have the size to contend with them down low.  I actually eXpect Robert Morris to switch to a zone or play most of the game this way as Kentucky does not shoot the 3 well.  This goes both ways on offense and defense.  Robert Morris loves the 3 ball and they should be firing them all night due to the size disparity.  It is as simple as this; they need to shoot in the mid 40% or above from 3 to stay in this game.  If you are on the dog here, I would be nervous as hell as the Colonials could stay in this game with some clutch 3's until the last 5 mins and end up down 15...GL

Quote Originally Posted by Vapor9:

UK really not motivated after all  

thinking about nba paychecks.