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Mark Story: 2012 champs have stiff competition for 'best UK team ever'
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RunItUpTheGut Wrote:Once again.....THE 1996 CATS ARE THE BEST OF ALL TIME.

All you that bring up these UNLV, UCLA, and UNC teams can just keep that to yourself.

There will never be another team like this one, period.

You would be correct sir. 96 UK stands alone atop at least the 64 team era.
The 1990(or 91 that didn't win) Vegas team just coldn't match up to
them on an overall basis. Vegas was too dependent upon its pressure
D and couldn't play halfcourt D as well as the 96 Cats. ANd form an
offensive standpoint, there's just no comparison in team cohesiveness.
Vegas had some very talented players, but they weren't in the same
league when it came to running a halfcourt offense, and the 96 UK
team was every bit as adept as Vegas at scoring off pressure.

As for 1984 Georgetown, they weren't as good as UK that year.
They may, MAY, have been a little better defensively,but don't forget
the Cats shut the Hoyas down in that first half, and only gave up
53 total. And UK was MUCH better on the offensive end, with the actual ability to execute and score. Georgetown was a poor offensive team.
UK just had the sad misfortune to have one of those nights
where they couldn't throw it in the ocean. Casual observers
wanted to attribute that to great Georgetown defense, but
that's kind of hard to do when UK kept getting, but missing,
wide open shots and weren't having them altered by Ewing.
Look at the tape.

As for the UNC teams, any team that had Worthy, Perkins and
Jordan, but only beat that Gtown team because Fred Brown
threw it to the other team, doesn't make the discussion.
They were a team much LESS than the sum of its parts.
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Mark Story: 2012 champs have stiff competition for 'best UK team ever' - by Observing - 04-30-2012, 07:48 PM

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