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Kentucky eager to silence trash-talking Crimson Tide

Finding motivation to beat a team that embarrassed you on your home floor shouldn’t be difficult, and judging by the comments coming out of Kentucky’s camp, the Cats are more than ready for tomorrow night’s rematch with No. 9 Alabama. This morning, senior forward Olivier Sarr recalled some trash...

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Finding motivation to beat a team that embarrassed you on your home floor shouldn’t be difficult, and judging by the comments coming out of Kentucky’s camp, the Cats are more than ready for tomorrow night’s rematch with No. 9 Alabama. This morning, senior forward Olivier Sarr recalled some trash talk by the Crimson Tide during the 85-65 blowout in Rupp Arena on Jan. 12, which he and his teammates are eager to avenge.

“Good for them,” Sarr said of the Crimson Tide being in first place in the SEC. “It’s helping bring the best out of us. It’s a good challenge. We’re going to war over there and I know the guys are ready. It’s a great challenge for us. They talked a lot during the game so we’ve got good motivation.”

When asked, Sarr did not disclose what Alabama’s players said.

“I mean, you know what’s happening on a basketball court. A lot of guys talk whether it’s trash or whether it’s just to get you out of your game. I’m not going to pinpoint exactly everything they said. We don’t need to do that. But all we know is that they talked a lot. It’s not part of our game. We’re just trying to focus on what we do and we’ll try to do that at the best of our abilities, and that’s what we’re going to try and do on Tuesday.”

John Calipari remembers exactly what one player said, bringing it up during his press conference following Kentucky’s 82-69 win over LSU Saturday night. “One of the players was asking me the score,” Cal said.“He couldn’t see it. You know, they’re good. They’re a top-10 team. They deserve to be. You know what? For us, I told them about this game. These are the games you want to play to where you know you’re not supposed to win the game. Now you go and it gets you going, you play. Instead of playing not to lose you play to win. You don’t look at the scoreboard. ”BJ Boston, coming off back-to-back 18-point games, echoed Calipari’s remarks.

“You know just go out there with the same mindset we did today, just go there to win, not playing to lose. Just play as a team and play defense, just go out there and play ball.”

“Everybody is hunting them right now,” Bruiser Flint said of the Crimson Tide. “They’re in first place. They’re undefeated in the conference. We’ve just got to play better than we did the last time. We’ve got to do some things differently. But they’re the hot team in the league right now, so we’ve got to give them our best.”

You can see Sarr’s comments about Bama’s trash talk below.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

The irony of a UK team being butthurt over trash talking

Cal has been running his mouth since he was nothing but a cheating Memphis ‘ho on the stroll

 

[rick4bama]

What time is the game tonight?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

What time is the game tonight?

6 pm on ESPN.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Bama is chirping a lot this year on the court... I'm fine with it as long as they win.

 

[BamaFan334]

Bama is chirping a lot this year on the court... I'm fine with it as long as they win.

I think it's a few years of frustration coming out now that they are seeing some success from all the hard work they've put in. Have zero doubts the talking was aimed at our guys the last few years as well while we were right on the cusp of being a good/bad team.

 

[TerryP]

I think it's a few years of frustration coming out now that they are seeing some success from all the hard work they've put in.

Primo telling Cal to look at the scoreboard?

 

[BamaFan334]

Primo telling Cal to look at the scoreboard?

I assumed Petty was jawing as I see him do a good bit. he was really letting them have it at LSU, and rightfully so.

 

[mando]

I do not like it personally. Go to work and let what you do on the court speak for itself. I think this is just one of those maturity things in the Oats program right now. He may be allowing it if it helps their confidence but long term I do not think it is what a team should be doing, regardless of the sport or the team...

 

[TerryP]

@mando it's nothing new and for UK or Cal to even talk about it is duplicitous. It wouldn't even be the subject of an article of Kentucky had a better record and didn't get embarrassed in the last game.

 

[Bamaclam]

Talking trash usually isn't part of your game when you have no game.

 

[alabama mike]

I hope our guys just show up and play ball tonight. Let their play on the court do all the talking.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I do not like it personally. Go to work and let what you do on the court speak for itself. I think this is just one of those maturity things in the Oats program right now. He may be allowing it if it helps their confidence but long term I do not think it is what a team should be doing, regardless of the sport or the team...

thats the "old timers" in us @mando
...new and different world out there...that doesnt give crap about us...
Its about them
.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I think it's a few years of frustration coming out now that they are seeing some success from all the hard work they've put in. Have zero doubts the talking was aimed at our guys the last few years as well while we were right on the cusp of being a good/bad team.

No doubt that's some of it. I also think it's a little bit of the mentality that Oats wants the players to have. It's basically a trickle down of the confidence that he shows. His isn't a quiet confidence. It is a non-filtered, into the microphone confidence. Thus far, it has worked out well. Can't say I hate it.

 

[AFF]

No doubt that's some of it. I also think it's a little bit of the mentality that Oats wants the players to have. It's basically a trickle down of the confidence that he shows. His isn't a quiet confidence. It is a non-filtered, into the microphone confidence. Thus far, it has worked out well. Can't say I hate it.

...that sounds about right to me.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Shit talking on the basketball court has been going on since they hung up the first peach basket

 

[BAMAneck]

Wanna hear some shift talk ? Go to the local park where pick up games are at , where you call your own fouls .... Shit talk capitals , when I played in the 80’s there were fights on the regular.......

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Wanna hear some shift talk ? Go to the local park where pick up games are at , where you call your own fouls .... Shit talk capitals , when I played in the 80’s there were fights on the regular.......

Because my younger brother was an exceptionally gifted basketball player I have had the privilege to play pickup ball with some damn good SEC, Big12, OVC, NAIA etc basketball players in the 80s and early 90s. Bobby McWilliams was 5’10” on his tippy toes and white as wonder bread but let him sink a jumper over Gerald Glass, Popeye Jones, Clarence Witherspoon etc and the shit talk would roll