And I assure you from a friend in Evansville who’s kid went to HS with Kuric, he can take control and be a scorer, but he is playing reserved on offense, like he is going to piss Pitino of shooting at times.

Kuric has GREAT defensive awareness IMO, and we have made the consecutive E8′s with defense, not our offense.

Those varieties of full court presses we run all game, just beats the other teams down usually, and throws teams out of their game, when it is effectively.

I am happy with the kids, and this is about exactly what I expected with all the new key players, and losing TW, E5, Mc3, and Lil’ Doc.

2-0 in the BE, and tied for 2nd with Nova.

Hold your glasses up and celebrate!

Now the scedule after the Jonnies gets a little dicey…..

BTW, reports have it that Mason Jr. will suit up and play some.

Another big factor in Louisville’s win last night was the defense of Preston Knowles in the second half.

Nothing official on Kuric’s failure to hit the court last night. Marra is from Rhode Island, had about 70 family members and friends at the game last night and showed a glimmer of hope for the future. Glad that he got to play in front of the folks back home.

Hell, I want to have Swop’s baby…..:->

This team averaged 44 rpg (us 40), and 83 ppg (us 80), and with a 137 SOS (us 190).

But maybe we will all get a treat, and Goode will be back soon. I really can not wait to get the #20 PF in his class coming out involved. So there is a positive unkonwn variable to plug in, but he has missed a lot of practice, so that is the con of that scenario.

The BE is wide-open right now, and we are 2-0 in the BE in 2nd tied with Nova.

Great shape for now, and the boys look to be coming along nicely, and Pitino is starting to fully see each player’s niche, and matching them up accordingly.

But agreed Swop is reserved, and he sounds like Barry White, as CRP says.

He is a cool customer. He does need to get better position to rebound on the offensive glass though. 10 of 11 boards were on the defensive end, and more second chance points on offense would be nice.