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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 01-07-2021, 01:03 PM:

Maybe Dontaie Allen did break down a “ton defensively” as Kentucky coach John Calipari said after Tuesday’s 77-74 win over Vanderbilt. But Allen also did one other thing that Kentucky has been missing — he made shots and scored.

In the last two games, he’s played 64 minutes and scored 37 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, blocked two shots and made just one turnover. Against Vanderbilt, he was 4-for-10 from the field (2-for-5 on 3’s) and 4-for-4 at the foul line to get his 14 points. He had five rebounds and one block. The previous game against Mississippi State, Allen was 8-for-14 from the field (7-for-11 from 3) and had 23 points, five rebounds and one block.

“He made baskets and free throws when we needed it, but he may have given up as many as he scored. And I told him, I said, ‘Look, if that’s the case and it’s even-steven, I’m probably good with you,'” Calipari said he told Allen after the game.

“But I’m telling you, he deserves to be on that court and you know what he does to the defense? He spreads out the defense. I ran a play for him, banged a three. Right to the top. Boom. That may have been out of a timeout.”

Yes he does deserve to be on the court even if he took Calipari seven games to realize it or took Allen seven games to do what his coach wanted to see to get on the court. Either way, the bottom line is UK was 1-6 when Allen played 20 minutes in seven games and 2-0 the last two games when Allen has had a chance to play significant minutes.

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Posted by ukman (Member # 3032) on 01-07-2021, 07:15 PM:

Are you kidding me. It just kills Cal to have everyone see he made a big mistake not playing Allen this season. His defense is not great, but he didn't give up as many points as he scored. That annoys me from Cal. Just compliment the kid instead of publicly saying "oh but he gave up as many points as he scored on defense." That's ridiculous.

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 01-07-2021, 11:16 PM:

Allen is no worse defensively than any other guard we have. Talking about his defense is just absurd. Cal was hoping Boston was better than he is and thought he'd eventually turn it around. That's why it took 8 games for Allen to see the floor. Allen is the reason we're not 1-9 with an 8-game losing streak.

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 01-07-2021, 11:35 PM:

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Originally posted by PaulCat:
Allen is no worse defensively than any other guard we have. Talking about his defense is just absurd. Cal was hoping Boston was better than he is and thought he'd eventually turn it around. That's why it took 8 games for Allen to see the floor. Allen is the reason we're not 1-9 with an 8-game losing streak.

PC,

I think Allen needs to be on the floor for UK to win because you have to the put the ball in the basket to win, but I'm not sure that I have seen a worse defensive performance from a player in the last 25 years. I think Allen gave up 30 of Vandy's 74 points. It was bad, but Allen was able to put up 14 points and probably accounted for another 14 to 18 points for UK by being on the floor as well. Allen had just as much to do with Mintz' winning shot as Askew/Toppin/Mintz did because Vandy thought the play was going to Allen, which made it easy to set the back screen and make the pass.

But man he was bad on defense.