[uknationParticipant]

I recall Bothteamsplayhard and a couple of other people saying Anthony Davis and T.Jones being too light to handle other bigs.  Well so Far Davis is the best defensive big in the country whole still being skinny and try faced a Kansas team with mini Blake Griffin and 7footer 250 Jeff Whitney. They didn’t seem to overpower them did they? Davis has shown you don’t need to be big in college to dominate on defense 

[The8thDeadlySinParticipant]

 I love bias posts.

[JoeWolf1]

First of all, let me go on the record and say I don’t think Kentucky’s front court is too small to play against collegiate opponents. Davis is thin, but Jones is 6’9” 250 lbs.  I’m also not familiar with the original arguement cited.

But Terrance Jones guarded Thomas Robinson and Jeff Withey ( 7 foot 235 ) is more of a defensive presence 4th or 5th option type player (He was 3-4 in that game) it’s not like Davis prevented him from scoring.  citing a game in November doesn’t prove whatever point you’re trying to make.

Why not cite his entire body of work rather than pointed at one game 3 months ago, he played well, but he didn’t dominate that game. Thomas Robinson pushed everyone around in that game including Terrance Jones. 10 rebounds per game and 5 blocks speaks for itself.  He’ll have to address bulk in the NBA, but he’s very effective playing college ball.

 

[omphalosParticipant]

I’d wait and see how their frontline handles the rigours of March Madness before making a judgement about whether size was to blame, but for the majority of their games their size hasn’t been an issue.

Also, Kentucky is able to handle players like Robinson because the rest of their team plays such good pressure D that it’s hard to feed the post effectively. As a team they are capable of handling taller/stronger opponents, but I’m still not sure if I’d trust Jones and Davis individually against longer/stronger opponents on deeper teams.

[B FreeParticipant]

 Davis is the best weakside defender/shot blocker in the country, but I would say Fab Melo is the best post defender, because of his ability to body up.

[B FreeParticipant]

 To be honest I can’t wait to see tonights game and see Davis vs Young. I want to see Davis’ offense against Young, this will be his first real test.

[BothTeamsPlayedHardParticipant]

 I said they were too small to win a title, not beat up overmatched teams at Rupp. Apparently, you don’t see the difference. They have played five top 50 teams and only two away from Rupp. Let me put this in perspective, according the RPI strength of schedule rankings, Kentucky has played an easier schedule than Wisconsin-Green Bay. How they have done to this point really doesn’t matter. Murray State is supposed to beat up bad teams too. It isn’t their fault the SEC schedule padded them with bums early on, but it really doesn’t speak at all to how they will do in March when they face real teams. 

By the way, I wasn’t wrong about them struggling with post players. Thomas Robinson and Cody Zeller were in foul trouble, but were very effective. Louisville’s big men were in foul trouble as well. JaMychal Green had a big game as did Tyler Zeller. Heck, the awful Auburn Tigers were able to hang for a good part of the game because Rob Chubb was doing work inside. 

[B FreeParticipant]

 ^^^Don’t forget the first Tennesee game where Jeronne Maymon dominated down low and Stokes played in his first game with only 2 days of practice and had 9pts 4reb in 16 minutes.

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