Jayhawks speak their minds following blowout
KENTUCKY 72, KANSAS 40
KEEGAN RATINGS
Indianapolis ? A team meeting involving Kansas University’s basketball players probably is not necessary in the wake of Tuesday’s 32-point loss to Kentucky.
The Jayhawks spoke their minds in the locker room after the game.
“Passionate,” sophomore Landen Lucas said of the locker room scene. “Older, younger, everybody (had something to say). Everybody came here for the same reason. We can’t let anything like that happen again.”
Lucas said the locker room was anything but silent.
“It was not quiet,” he added of KU’s dressing quarters in Bankers Life Fieldhouse. “We understand that’s not acceptable. We won’t sit back and let it continue.”
The Jayhawks were stunned at their inability to give UK a better game.
“I’m personally pretty embarrassed. I mean I don’t know if I understand what happened yet,” Lucas said. “You don’t come to Kansas to play like this. It’s embarrassing to ourselves and our fans. We’ll take this and learn from it and be better for it.
“The best thing we can take from it is there is a long way to go. Everybody has to listen to coach. The last time we played Kentucky we lost and he brought ’em back to the championship (game in 2012),” Lucas added after scoring no points with five boards in eight minutes.
Noted freshman Devonté Graham: “I didn’t think we’d play this bad. It happens. We can still be a good team. We’ll put our heads down and keep working.”
As to far as why it happened … “their height bothered us,” Graham said. “They blocked a lot of shots. It’s good learning experience. We have to get a lot better defensively and offensively.”
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