Kentucky’s Blue-White Game on Sunday night suggested that reinforcing the Rupp Arena rims this coming season would be a good idea.
Not that the UK players shot bricks, to use basketball parlance. It was more the many times those players drove, dunked and otherwise showcased a predominance of play in the paint.
Of the game’s 84 baskets, there were six dunks or layups off lobs, nine dunks that did not involve a lob pass, 27 layups and nine putbacks.
That made for 51 baskets from the paint. Of the game’s 200 points (the Blue team won 104-96), 108 points came from the paint.