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Turnovers Aren't Trouble In November

Posted: Nov 22, 2011 1:00 PM by Alan Cutler
Updated: Nov 22, 2011 5:18 PM

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True Blue fans are upset over the combination of 18 and 11.

Freshman point guard Marquis Teague has 11 assists and 18 turnovers this season.

After four games last year, Brandon Knight had 18 turnovers.

After his first four games at UK, John Wall had 18 turnovers.

It's a process.

Every season Cal has lived in Lexington, his point guards have gotten so much better by March, it's easy to forget about November.

So, while some True Blue Fans are concerned about Teague's turnovers, at this point it means nothing. UK is 4-0 while he is learning how to be a point guard.

As a team, UK had 21 turnovers against Old Dominion. That's the most since the beginning of the 2009-10 season. UK had at least 21 turnovers three times by Dec. 5 two years ago, but things worked out. UK ended the season at 35-3 and came within one win of the Final Four.

The key for UK is fixing this problem as much as possible by December 3rd when top ranked North Carolina plays at Rupp.

Wednesday night, UK plays Radford who lost to Marist 60-47 on Sunday. UK beat Marist 108-58 on November 11th.

Radford's coach Mike Jones was an assistant at Virginia Commonwealth last season. So it's a matchup of two coaches who made it to the Final Four last year.

Topics: Kentucky Baskeball, John Wall, Brandon Knight, Marquis Teague

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