Saturday was the first of many to come when the warm joy of early spring morphs to unbearable humidity.
Really humid. One didn’t need a Temperature Humidity Index to know.
Air that inquires, like what am I doing wandering outside when my shirt feels like dank dishrag?
The calendar said early June.
The weather read mid August.
But, I got out of the house anyway — a man can’t survive by HVAC alone — checking out the Butchertown Fair. A couple of blocks of booths of knick knacks and some real art mixed in.
Accompanied by a C & W cover band.
I ended up buying something that spoke to a fellow for whom eight decades of doubts linger in every nook and cranny of an aging body.
A refrigerator magnet.
“You are Enough.”
So every time I open the icebox — 80% of which moments are to grab a caloric nosh I don’t need — I’m reminded like Stuart Smalley that I’m OK. I’m enough.
Silly as they seem, I’m a believer in affirmations.
But today’s hoops quandary for admitted Cardinal obsessives — like moi and JR at the gym who asked me point blank when we engaged in chat this morning — is U of L’s roster as it stands enough?
There was a time when 12 was the roster limit.
At that number, these days with three more players permitted, it seems slim, even if eminently talented and seemingly well thought out.
Monday mornin’/ You gave me no warnin’ of what was to be
The Louisville basketball PR machinery is humming.
Photos. Practice videos. Guys pushing heavy sleds.
Scrimmage sneak peaks. (Was that Aly Khalifa I saw in one of them?)
My two favorite snippets:
One of Isaac Ellis and London Johnson fighting for a loose ball, neither willing to let go. (More than a few players have acknowledged that a squad’s steel is forged in practice.)
The other of Boyuan Zhang netting about 20 triples in a row before missing.
And, so I fret, if there are no additions to the gang . . .
Are a dozen players enough for legitimate game improving practices and roster cohesion and injury situations?
Will the Cards really have enough outside shooting to be Top Ten?
Are they enough?
— c d kaplan
