Bozich: Just Say 'No' to Minniefield's '83 Pot Excuse.

[02Ram54]

Have to agree.

Now, merely 291 months later, former UK guard Dirk Minniefield has suggested there was another important reason for the Wildcats' memorable defeat:

 

Minniefield said that he and some teammates, guys he declined to name, spent the night before the game smoking marijuana in a parking lot near the team hotel.

 

He suggested the drug made him indifferent about the outcome and made him play tentatively at times, leaving him hesitant to try to dunk the ball against UofL center Charles Jones in a decisive play late in regulation.

 

Here's my suggestion for what to do with Minniefield's suggestion:

 

Take it up in smoke.

 

"I had a few guys dunk on me, but nobody his size," Jones said of the 6-foot-3 Minniefield.

 

"C'mon, Dirk," former UofL guard Milt Wagner said. "C'mon. All those dunks in overtime — that's why we won the game."

 

Better team won

 

Case closed. Louisville won for the same reason the Cards won 32of36 games that season: Crum constructed a fabulous team of fearless competitors who were relentless in their pursuit of another Final Four.

 

Wagner also played for UofL's 1986 NCAA champions. "Top to bottom, the 1983 team was better," Wagner said. "That was the best team I played on in Louisville. Dirk doesn't have to make excuses."

[Log Mountain Boy]

Leave it to a guy like Bozich to pile on Minnifield when he is trying to bring something positive out of the horrible mistakes he made before, during, and after playing at Kentucky. The 1 play is being blown out of proportion. The thing is, the point he was making to the young men at that camp was that while he was a very good player, he never was the player he could have been because of drugs.

I honestly do not believe in the article I seen about Minnifield and the game, that he was trying to take anything away from UL. All of us can think back to games we have lost when if we had only been more prepared or made 1 more play things would have been different.

[Booge]

Have to agree.

 

Remember the game well, do you???:lol:

[RockPride]

I don't believe that Minnifield smoked pot before that game.

[Booge]

^Everyone on UK's team knew it, but you know better???

You guys crack me up. Good stuff. :laugh:

 

[UKPat02]

I don't believe that Minnifield smoked pot before that game.

 

So he just made up that story because.........?

[The Scribe]

Didn't Jim Master confirm that he knew Dirk inhaled the night before?

[Booge]

Didn't Jim Master confirm that he knew Dirk inhaled the night before?

 

Yes, in yesterday's Lexington paper. It's a well-known fact.

[RockPride]

^Everyone on UK's team knew it, but you know better???

You guys crack me up. Good stuff. :laugh:

 

Well my father in law ate dinner with a guy on that team this past Tuesday...in Frankfort...it was a dinner for all the people that do work for the state, my father in law does hearings for the KHSAA, the other attorney that does the same mediations was on the same team as Minniefield....he sat right next to my father in law...and said the same scenario that I hinted...therefore your post is in-accurate.

[UKPat02]

Well my father in law ate dinner with a guy on that team this past Tuesday...in Frankfort...it was a dinner for all the people that do work for the state, my father in law does hearings for the KHSAA, the other attorney that does the same mediations was on the same team as Minniefield....he sat right next to my father in law...and said the same scenario that I hinted...therefore your post is in-accurate.

 

So several guys on the team say it happened, one guy said it didn't. Someone is either lying or not getting their story straight.

[Booge]

Well my father in law ate dinner with a guy on that team this past Tuesday...in Frankfort...it was a dinner for all the people that do work for the state, my father in law does hearings for the KHSAA, the other attorney that does the same mediations was on the same team as Minniefield....he sat right next to my father in law...and said the same scenario that I hinted...therefore your post is in-accurate.

 

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Watusi]

You guys are funny, you see what you want to see, or you pretend to at least. Dirk has a lot to gain by making up this story? Jim Master?

 

How do you read that and see it as Minnifield making excuses? It was a lesson shared with young players about huge mistakes made at a critical point in his life/career. Make what you want out of it.

[Booge]

You guys are funny, you see what you want to see, or you pretend to at least. Dirk has a lot to gain by making up this story? Jim Master?

 

How do you read that and see it as Minnifield making excuses? It was a lesson shared with young players about huge mistakes made at a critical point in his life/career. Make what you want out of it.

 

Exactly. And it's not like it was just the Louisville game. He said he did it many times, and did cocaine too...He also stated that it was a tragedy his career average at UK was a little over 9 ppg, due to his drug abuse.

[malachicrunch]

I'm having a serious brain cramp. Who was the guard for Nova that was stoned during the championship game versus the Hoyas?

[Booge]

I'm having a serious brain cramp. Who was the guard for Nova that was stoned during the championship game versus the Hoyas?

 

Gary McLain I believe...