I kept arguing with people building up to the draft who seemed to think Kemba didn't play any defense. Long before he broke McGhee's ankles, Kemba switched on to Ashton Gibbs when he was lighting up the freshmen and shut him down to help turn the momentum after we were down 12. He covered Preston Knowles down the stretch in the championship game, on the fifth game in five nights, and forced him into a couple wild shots (the key one with 50 seconds left didn't even draw iron, setting up the winning Lamb lay-up). He took Brandon Knight on the last possession against Kentucky, and denied him the lane, which resulted in a forced three-pointer from Liggins (and then Kemba went in there to deflect the offensive rebound away from the Wildcats and into the hands of Napier). He busted his arse on defense against Butler, hustling back a few times to break up fast breaks, which was key to prevent Butler from snapping out of their shooting funk. Once in a while, he would get beat since he couldn't take a chance on a hand-check foul or bumping a cutter if he was trailing the play, but I always trusted him to defend people and to work hard fighting over screens.
