If things are looking bleak right now for Kentucky basketball, they’ve looked bleak before
It is ever thus: Losses expose all those weaknesses and deficiencies you had hoped could be masked, overcome or eliminated.
Ben Simmons is clearly a great player. (Not so great, maybe, that the LeBron-Magic comparison on TV was necessary, especially as he was sitting over there on the bench at the time, and for much of the first half.) But LSU’s win over Kentucky was not so much Ben Simmons as it was a bunch of other, less-heralded players who are good, certainly, but didn’t have the multi-star power coming into college of Skal Labissiere, Jamal Murray and Isaiah Briscoe.