There's just something about switching on a smaller defender, usually a guard, and blocking his shot that Kentucky's Willie Cauley-Stein really enjoys. He gets a kick out of seeing the opposition look to the sideline with a sense of helplessness.
“That's what I really take pride in is guys think that because I'm so long and tall that I can't guard them,” Cauley-Stein said. “And when I do guard them it's like, you kind of peep them after a dead ball and they look at their coach like, ‘What do I do?' Like, ‘I can't get past him and I can't shoot over him so what am I supposed to do?' That kind of gets you like, ‘Good, he's probably not going to come back this way.' ”
Cauley-Stein did that on more than once occasion Tuesday night against Ole Miss. In fact, the entire Wildcat cast did it against the trigger-happy Rebels, taking away the Rebels' strengths of shooting and driving the ball with switching defense on pick-and-rolls and off-ball screens.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.