First and foremost, don’t read too much into an intrasquad scrimmage. That is especially true when the team is missing three scholarship players. The Kentucky Wildcats were without Oscar Tshiebwe, Sahvir Wheeler, and Lance Ware for Saturday night’s annual Blue-White Scrimmage. Everything else deserves a grain of salt when you don’t have the National Player of the Year and a Bob Cousy Award Finalist. However, because we are a little crazy in Big Blue Nation, we still need to have some takeaways. The level of play was certainly impacted by three walk-ons having to play significant minutes, but there still were some things that stood out on film. Let’s take a look at three primary takeaways after watching the tape from Kentucky’s Blue-White Scrimmage. Elite Shot-Makers Make a Difference Coach John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats have been criticized for a lack of shooting in recent seasons. After finishing 107th in percentage of points coming from three-point range (29.6%) in 2011, a stat tracked by KenPom, the ‘Cats finished higher than 266th in the Calipari era. The 2012 team shot 37.8% from deep, but no team since has eclipsed the Top 100 nationally in three-point percentage. Those stats have a…
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