Oscar Tshiebwe was taken advantage of in blowout loss at Alabama

The Kentucky Wildcats have been fully run off the court docket of their blowout loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday.

It was a depressing efficiency from Oscar Tshiebwe, who was struggling on the defensive finish and couldn’t rating over Alabama’s size on offense.

Tshiebwe completed the sport with simply 4 factors on 1/7 taking pictures, 6 rebounds, 4 fouls, and 4 turnovers.

After the sport, John Calipari didn’t maintain again in his criticism of Tshiebwe’s efficiency.

“Oscar performed the start of the sport. He gave up 5 dunks,” Calipari acknowledged in postgame interviews

That defined why Tshiebwe was benched early within the first half and didn’t examine again in till late within the interval, regardless of not being in foul hassle.

On the offensive finish, Tshiebwe couldn’t discover a approach to rating over the size of Charles Bediako.

“He (Tshiebwe) was fading away on some of these items, and that gave Bediako an opportunity to dam photographs as a substitute of going by means of him,” Calipari mentioned. “This child (Bediako) has bothered him previously. He’s 7-foot. He’s lengthy.”

Alabama continued to assault Tshiebwe with ball screens that led to a number of straightforward buckets for them. Alabama coach Nate Oats mentioned that was the plan coming into the sport.

“We determined to assault him early on ball screens. I don’t suppose he’s superb at guarding ball screens,” Oats mentioned of Tshiebwe. “We acquired behind him 3 times proper out of the gate.”

He continued, “We’ve seen him mess up a bunch of ball screens in scouting them.”

Everybody has a nasty sport generally, and that was the case for Tshiebwe on Saturday. Now, now we have to see how he responds and works to be higher the subsequent time he faces a group with size like they confronted in opposition to Alabama.

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