When Hamidou Diallo found himself an open lane in transition for a breakaway slam against Missouri on Saturday, the emotion we saw immediately afterward was one of the most underrated components of Kentucky’s blowout victory.
Diallo had failed to cross the double-digit mark in points in 11 of Kentucky’s 16 games in conference play, and his confidence was down the drain.
The Kentucky shooting guard drilled a three-pointer less than four minutes into the game to knock some of that rust off, but his dunk in transition was the turning point in getting some of his confidence back.