Anthony Davis Can Run

I'm not sure what you can say about an exhibition game where the talent gap is wider than the mighty Mississippi, but I will give you one of my more astute observations.

The kid with the unibrow: he can fly.

And I don't mean vertically, although Mr. Davis most certainly can jump. No question he's got some hops. And some really, really long arms. He most definitely flies UP through the air, "with the greatest of ease". But what struck me most about UK's thrashing of a seriously outclassed Morehouse team was just how seriously quick Anthony Davis is from baseline to baseline.

That blocked shot early in the game, where the "blockee" quickly reversed and sprinted downcourt to try to catch AD? I felt sorry for that dude. Davis was already dunking by the time he made it to the top of the key.

What does it take? Two steps for Anthony to get to the other end? Three?

He covers 94 feet like Jesse Owens in Berlin.

I'm an old enough UK fan to remember Dwight Anderson. (Any "Blur" fans out there?) And John Wall isn't a distant memory for anyone. But Anthony Davis is listed at what? 6'11"? And he can flat get up and down the court like nobody's business.

If the Cats play a real running game this season, he's gonna have so many follow-up dunks and trailing jams this year that he could probably average double figures off of those baskets alone.

I understand the Kentucky trainers and coaches have been working to bulk him up, and with good reason. The college schedule will be a grind on the freshman at times, and he will definitely have some tough nights banging in the post with some SEC bigs, but Mr. Davis sure won't have any difficulty playing the press and getting into transition.

As for the rest of the evening, I'll just say that the Morehouse team really had no chance at being competitive, and it was such a huge mismatch that it's hard to fault them for the performance. When you hear that UK's starters didn't even miss a shot in the entire first half, you know something quite bizarre is going on.

So I'm not going to get too crazy with the Cheese Whiz over the final score, or UK's dominance over a vastly inferior opponent, but I did get a kick out of watching #23 zooming all over Rupp.

Wasn't that Dwight Anderson's number?