catmandoo
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posted 01-06-2020 07:09 PM
Tomorrow night, Kentucky will face Georgia in its first SEC road test, and to beat the Bulldogs in Athens, the Cats are going to have to stop Anthony Edwards. The freshman guard has been phenomenal for Tom Crean’s squad so far, averaging 18.5 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game. At 6’5″ 225 lbs., the former No. 1 recruit in the 2019 class is a scoring machine, capable of driving to the basket, hitting a pull-up jumper, and burning you from the outside; in fact, the more you watch Edwards, the more he looks like the prototypical John Calipari guard, which is why it really sucked when he picked his home-state Georgia Bulldogs over the Cats in February 2019.
With Ashton Hagans’ status uncertain due to a lower left ankle sprain, Kentucky’s backcourt will have to step up to contain Edwards, who would love nothing more than to beat the Cats in his home gym on ESPN. Luckily, several of the players on this year’s team know Edwards from the travel and all-star circuits, specifically Keion Brooks.
“I’ve been playing against Anthony since about third or fourth grade, so I’m very familiar with him,” Brooks told reporters today. “Great player. We’ve just got to do everything we can to make it hard on him and limit his open looks. He’s just a great all-around player. He can score on all three levels of the floor, very good with the ball, a good shooter, so we’ve just got to make sure we’re making it tough on him, limit his open looks and when he does get one, just make sure we’re there contesting.”
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