LEXINGTON – If Oscar Tshiebwe’s reach exceeds his grasp, it must be by about the length of a fingernail.
He rebounds as if basketballs were drawn to him by magnetic force, without benefit of supernatural size or exceptional leaping ability. He has a knack that provides Kentucky an enormous edge in a critical category and leaves awestruck teammates struggling for new superlatives.
“It’s hard to put into words, frankly,” UK guard Kellan Grady said Wednesday night. “That’s the honest truth. C.J. (Fredrick) and I were sitting on the bench towards the end of the game and we were just both like, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this.