Coachin' & Guard Play (How Notre Dame pulled a Clubber Lang but just couldn't knock a boy out)

"You already know bruh!"

Jamais Cascio, the famous writer, once said, “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” Sheri L. Drew, the author and publisher, gave it to us like this, “Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.” Then the big homie Joshua Waitzkin, the famous chess player, shut the buildin’ down with, “The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”

Well playas…if the Kentucky Wildcats were thinkin’ that success was determined by an ingrained level of ability before Saturday night they aren’t thinkin’ that anymore, I can tell you that bruh! They’ve been bullyin’ boyz since the start of the tournament and they completely carjacked ole dull ish-talkin’ West Virginia on Thursday night. Well…Notre Dame showed up in Cleveland on Saturday evenin’ and made a boy earn his paycheck and his stripes before goin’ down 68-66 at the buzzer.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! I told boyz in my Hot Joint entitled “Hidden Targets” on Saturday mornin’ that now Calipari was gonna have to show up and coach. The NCAA Tournament is about coachin’ and guard play and those are two things that Kentucky didn’t have up to this point! I told you boyz that the game plan for any coach worth his weight in his salary would be to spread the floor, make the UK bigs come out of the water and back door them.

Ole Notre Dame’s Mike Brey was definitely worth his weight in his salary pimpin’! He spread those duns out and went to work! Even though ND was out manned they weren’t out matched because they had coachin’ and guard play! They controlled the second half of that ball game but had no answer for Karl-Anthony Towns (KAT.)

They simply had no answer for that dun and Calipari knew it. So he put his coachin’ hat and waders on and fed the monster. Ole boy put up 25 points and popped off 17 of them in the second half in foul trouble bruh. ND couldn’t do nothin’ with him! He was pushin’ Zach Auguste around like he was in a stroller at the mall. The Fightin’ Irish played darn near the perfect game to beat these boyz but KAT put the Cats on his back and road out. The only other playa in double figures for Kentucky was Devin Cook with 10 points but that’s all they needed to get to Indy.

They shot 52 percent from the field and 50 percent from downtown. Those numbers were inflated by the production of two cats literally! KAT shot 76 percent and Booker popped them for 66 percent! They did what they needed to do to win the game playa! That’s all that counts. It wasn’t pretty but they won and are headin’ to Indy for the Final Four!

"Daaayyyyymmmm!"

What can you say bruh? Mike Brey had his boyz “ret-ta-go” and the game plan was solid. Let’s spread these boyz out and attack the rack from the back door! In hood terms “We gone ring the doe-bell and then kick in the back doe!” Coachin’ and guard play had Kentucky on the ropes like Clubber Lang had Rocky for most of the ball game. But in the end it was coachin’ and guard play that saved UK’s magical run for now because Cal took advantage of the ND’s weakness on defense and that was Auguste. Now don’t get it twisted, he was a beast on the other end doppin’ 20 and 9 but he couldn’t defend his girlfriend in a pillow fight last night bruh. 

Both teams were horrible from the foul line with ND shootin’ 76 percent and UK shootin’ a mere 70 percent. But down the stretch the guard play of Andrew Harrison knockin' down two clutch free throws to put the Cats up 2 to stay with 6 seconds remainin’ as ND’s Jerian Grant put up the air ball as time expired.

Talk about a great ball game that was worth every second! I’m not gonna lie playboy, I gained a little respect for Calipari’s ability to coach in a hostile environment and the Young Thunder Cats he’s rollin’ with. However, I still say they he’s the worst coach left standin’ and one of these duns is gonna get him. I picked the Arizona Wildcats to get him but I guess Bo Ryan and Co. is up next. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ with it! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:   1) Ish: noun – human feces
2) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.
3) Ret-ta-go: verb – country south hood for “Ready to go!”
4) Doe: noun – door
5) Young Thunder Cats: noun – the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team.
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