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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 02-22-2014, 08:01 AM:

The Cats are starting to realize just how good they can be and look to be peaking at the right time. I wouldn't be surprised if todays game will be over early.

Julius Randle is not one to watch a lot of college basketball on TV.

“If it’s a game I see — like I watched a little bit of the Duke-North Carolina game (Thursday). I watched a couple minutes of the second half. But I don’t watch too much college basketball or the NBA really,” the Kentucky freshman said.

However, he’s seen enough to “truly believe” that UK can play with anyone in the country even though it has lost six games going into Saturday’s game with LSU.

“I’ve always believed. This is like Coach says: It’s a process. This whole season has just been a process, but I always believed it because I always knew we had the talent. But the chemistry now, it’s getting better,” Randle said. “It’s just us trusting each other more, connection on defense, talking more, encouraging each other more and just the little things that we see is helping us a lot.”

He’s anxious to face LSU, a team that beat UK earlier.

“Looking forward to it, of course. Everybody gives us their biggest shot so it’s another challenge, but we’ll see what happens,” Randle said. “Just the intensity and the fight (from UK) just wasn’t there (the previous game). It was embarrassing, but that’s why we get another chance to play.

“It was a good team. They play hard, they have some pretty good players on their team, but at the end of the day our fight and intensity just wasn’t there that game. But we learned from it.”

Randle says playing a team that beat UK is something he relishes.

“I don’t like losing. If somebody beats us, I want to see if you can beat us again,” Randle said.

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