Louisville game

OK, I know we have a few days to go before UK and U of L get down to business in the hardcourt version of the "Bluegrass Brawl". Heck U of L still has to play their conference opener against South Florida before they can start planning for the Cats. At 9-3 and 0-1 on the road the Cards are not the team that was expected going into the '09-'10 season. But after an early season loss to UNLV on the road, and back-to-back home losses to Charlotte and Western Carolina the Cards have dropped out of the top 25 and has shown that they have along way to go to meet their pre season expectations. Now in my opinion the Cards have plenty of talent to make a run at a Big East title and a Final Four, but they need to get more production from their Freshman Siva and Buckles. After watching Siva play last year in the High School All-Star games I could not wait to see him go up against John Wall in the upcoming game, But with Siva only getting around 13 minutes a game it doesn't look like he is adapting to Pitino's system. If Peyton can step up and be productive he would offer some much needed help at the guard position to releave some of the pressure off Sosa. And Buckles needs to step up on the inside to another long lean player that can be productive on the inside. Right now this years cards have the make-up of last years Cats with Sosa playing the role of Meeks and Samuels playing the role of Patterson, but I see Pitino developing his team into a much better finishing product then last year's version of the Cats.
The Calipari Cats are in my opinion (not Coach Cal's) right on pace development wise with where I thought they should be at this point in the season. No, I did not think they would be undefeated, but I also though Stanford and UConn would have been playing better going into those games and UNC is not last year's version by any stretch of your imagination. But I also never expected John Wall to be the closer as a Freshman that he has been all season. As I have mentioned before UK fans need to just sit back and enjoy the time we have with Wall, and hopefully we will get to witness a triple-double as that is one of his goals.
I want to also congratulate and thank Patrick Patterson for all his hard work as he climbs up the all-time scoring rankings here at UK. Patrick is now 33rd and will most likely jump up to 31st Saturday since he only needs 9 points to pass John Pelphry. If he continues at this pace he will easy break the top 15 at UK in scoring in only two and a half years! Then if he can match his 316 rebounds from last year he will break into the top 10 in that category surely solidifing his spot as one of the greatest players to ever put on the real blue and white.
Again UK fans jus sit back and enjoy!