Once again, this Kentucky team brought the game right down to the wire. And once again, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander helped provide that extra spark needed for a victory. He came out firing, scoring the game’s first basket – a layup after less than 20 seconds of action – and didn’t stop there. He saw just a minute of bench-time in the first half; he never left the game in the second half. Not only did the point guard come up huge in the final minutes – grabbing the steal that led to Kevin Knox’s layup with 2:28 remaining, securing four rebounds in the final five minutes – but he did so with “noodle legs.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander played a nearly-complete 39 minutes of basketball, even when his legs “felt like noodles”
