The BIAH Quotables

This a new feature we are trying out here at BIAH this season. Throughout the week, we are going to post some notable quotes or excerpts that show up in our google reader. Stupid people say stupid things 24 hours a day, and being somehow associated with the college hoops landscape does not preclude that fact. That said, we will not limit our quotables to the simple and idiotic, as the insightful and intelligent will also be highlighted. Feel free to pass along any quotables you stumble across to contactbiah@gmail.com or @ballinisahabit.

Kentucky held off UNC for a 68-66 win at Rupp Arena. Coach Calipari had a field day during the post-game interview and press conference. First up, his intial response during the post-game interview:

...Once Seth Davis picked us to lose, I knew we would win. That guy picked the Germans to win World War II.

This isn't the first time Coach Cal has used this reference in regard to Seth Davis. I wonder if he realizes Davis is Jewish, and that this could be construed as just a tad offensive. You know, considering the whole Holocaust issue.

During the post-game press conference he explained John Wall's injury during the second half:

He was cramping up and they brought him in and put the IV in because John doesn't like needles. So they had to go to the crowd to get his mom so that she could talk to him and rub his head a little bit and they could put the IV in. That is why it took so long.

He then discussed the developement of his young team:

...John (Wall) turned it over and did some crazy stuff, but that is what a freshman does. We called a play and he drove in and ran a guy over. 'What are you doing?' 'I don't know.' 'I know you don't know, but we are trying to win this game what are you doing?' I thought that Eric (Bledsoe) struggled. But let me tell you what is great about Eric. I walk down the bench and he says, 'Coach, put me in.' I look at him and go, 'For who?' He says, 'Darnell.' I said, 'Go ahead.' He went back in and basically won the game making the free throws down the stretch. It doesn't matter how you play, I am trying to teach the whole team that. Right now it is hard, because you have guys who are so into how they play that they cannot get by it and change. That is OK, we are learning.

A lot of players played well for Kentucky, but coach Cal thought one player played particularly well:

I will tell you who else played well, how about Daniel Orton? The game changed in the first half because of Daniel's intensity. No one else, you put him in and he went crazy and everybody picked it up and we go on a run and before you know it we are up 12, 14 points. It was Daniel Orton.

One last non-UK-UNC quote to finish our quotables, this one courtesy of Larry Eustachy, who blasts Rick Stansbury for non playing his Southern Miss team after a loss to Ole Miss:

"If we could get Mississippi State to do it in basketball then that would be great," Eustachy said in a report by The Clarion-Ledger. "But Andy (Kennedy, Ole Miss coach) seems to be a little more comfortable in himself than ol' what's-his-name."