If you watched the Notre Dame/Kentucky game you know it was an instant classic no matter if you liked either team or hated either team. Kentucky has been billed the best team in the country and rightfully so as they haven’t been defeated all season. So after each win the bully grows and is now a monster. Notre Dame wasn’t David in this game, but they came out with the same bully mentality as Kentucky and traded punch for punch with the monster at times looking like they were the hunter besides the haunted.
For the fans watching this game you may remember Karl-Anthony Towns dominating performance (who went for 25, 5 and 4), or Zach Auguste matching the whole UK front line with energy and being effective (20 and 9), or Aaron Harrison and Jerian Grant trading big time threes late in the game. I totally understand why all of these plays or performances would stand out.
You can question why didn’t Bray double Towns late, or why the Irish offense turned stagnate the last two minutes of the game. Those are great questions, but during the last sequence Willie Cauley-Stein made a game saving play. WCS didn’t have a great game 6 points, 4 rebounds and 2 blocks doesn’t light the stat sheet on fire, he didn’t take advantage of the smaller Irish front line because his lack of a post-game, but the way he was able to not only keep up with Grant during the last few seconds was amazing he was moving like a guard and he didn’t allow Grant a driving lane forcing him to shoot a step back three. The whole time I kept saying how did the 7 footer move like that during the sequence? It was amazing.
A lot of people may call out Grant for his last shot selection, running the baseline is never ideal for a last shot, but if you saw how WCS kept him from turning the corner you may change you perception on the last play. Great play WCS you saved your teams season with that last effort.
