For ESPN analyst Dan Dakich, a telling moment during Kentucky’s trip to the Bahamas came the morning after the Cats defeated the professional team from Serbia called Mega Bemax.
“I think the Serbians thought they were going to be able to, if not intimidate Kentucky, then muck up the game and knock Kentucky back,” Dakich recalled on Thursday. “I thought the exact opposite happened. I thought Kentucky not only stood up to the bully, but knocked the living hell out of the bully.
“The Serbian team wanted nothing to do with those young guys.”
Dakich, who did double duty in the Bahamas by working as a coach in John Calipari’s fantasy camp, remembered the UK coach coming to breakfast the morning after the game against Mega Bemax.