Mo Dioubate rings the alarm bells as Kentucky stumbles again

Kentucky basketball has been filled with odd stories this whole season. It all started back in the Georgetown exhibition. Kentucky had just knocked off number 1 Purdue and looked like the team that everyone thought they would be: fast, fun, hard to play against. The next 40 minutes of basketball were anything but those 3 things. Georgetown sliced and diced Kentucky on both ends. But that wasn't the worst part; the worst was Otega Oweh admitting that he and his teammates needed to be more "locked in," and they would be when the games counted. Something he repeated later after the Louisville loss.

Then came Mark Pope, saying something happened before the Louisville game, something that was totally not who they are. He gave Taylor Swift references and played it off a few days later, but the damage was done. Rumors spread like wildfire on social media, rumors of player rifts, fights, jealousy, and infidelity. None of it was true, but it took a life of its own. And now you have Mo Dioubate coming out and just declaring the Alabama prep was not good enough.

That is incredible, when the team had lost 3 straight to the Tide, and 2 of them were embarrassing. When they need a win to validate the belief they had generated with a 4-game winning streak. A shot at redemption, and they just shrug.

Mo Dioubate says Kentucky basketball was not "serious" enough in their gamp preparation for Alabama

Talking with the media today, Dioubate was asked what he thought was the most frustrating part of the 89-74 loss on Saturday. His answer is unfortunately par for the course this season.

"The most frustrating part was seeing that we could have did better at the scouting report. It felt like they was doing the same thing over and over...Just thinking we could have did a lot better on the defensive side, with the attention to detail and personnel(s), we should have took it more seriously."

Excuse me? Take it more seriously? Kentucky had already lost 4 games to Power 5 schools, several of which were just blowouts. Fans were questioning your effort, and you didn't take it seriously? This is a massive red flag for a team that has talent; it makes you question the mentality of the group. And it makes you question the coaching staff's ability to reach them.

This is a guy who was in the Final Four; he has seen how great teams prepare. For him to come out and just freely admit that the Cats were just lackadaisical is something that can't make anyone in BBN too happy.