UK Basketball: Time To Turn Up The Heat

Source: www.wildcatbluenation.com --- Sunday, February 20, 2011OK Guys, that was better, now let's go to work. Guys, I am going to do my best John Calipari impersonation here when I say this, we have got to go to work. I hope all of you are listening when I coach this week, because I am going to be telling you several things. First and foremost, good job Saturday. You played a lot better than you have been playing. I am proud of you. Now get over it. So you beat up South Carolina at home, great, but it is just a start. The roughest time that most of you have ever seen is about to start and will last for the next 6 weeks. From here on out, the expectations ramp up, the competition gets tougher, and the whole world starts looking in your window to see if you have what it takes or not. The media is going to scrutinize everything you do even more than usual, the "experts" are going to tell everyone if you are for real or not, and the fans are going to be on pins and needles watching your every move and trying to decipher if you are going to make a run. For the next two weeks, you have got to put everything you have ever learned out on the court, and cannot hold anything back. You have to hit the other guy first, hit him hard, hit him a lot and cannot let him get back up. Your opponents know all of your weaknesses, and they know how to exploit them. You are not only going to be facing good competition the next few weeks, you are going to be facing championship competition, most of which is not only ...

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