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[QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2950499, member: 6927"]
Kentucky is clearly improved over last year, but just how good they are is still a big question in my mind. All of the quasi-big-name teams they've played so far are significantly flawed.

At the Paradise Jam, they dominated a South Florida team, sans Laksa, that simply couldn't handle the full-court pressure. Laksa is no point guard, but she could have certainly helped in bringing the ball up the floor, and teams that can break a full court press can often find open 3's on the back end of a spread-out floor. USF doesn't really have any 3-point shooters without Laksa.

In the next game against a way-down UCLA, Kentucky needed a buzzer-beater by Howard just to tie the game in regulation and ended up winning by 1 in OT. And in the 3rd game against North Carolina, they trailed by 9 at the half before storming back to win by 10.

Kentucky's game at Louisville tomorrow will be much more revealing than any of their results so far.

No doubt, though, that Rhyne Howard has to be on everyone's early shortlist for NFOY.
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