John Clay: Crunch time confounds Cats again

NASHVILLE — You can talk all you want about toughness and displaying a will to win.

You can reach all you want into your motivational bag of tricks and pull out the George Jetson treadmills and the heavy boxing bags.

In the end, however, when the basketball game is on the line, it's more about execution than it is elocution.

This year, for whatever reason, this young Kentucky team is learning exactly that.

Oh, after UK dropped an 81-77 decision on Saturday at Memorial Gym to the Vanderbilt Commodores, John Calipari argued that his Cats did in fact execute well late, that it buried a pair of three-pointers in the final 1:17 to cut a six-point Vanderbilt lead to two.

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