Nerlens Noel is a cheat code

If you watched the Kentucky-Ole Miss game last night, you witnessed two things. You witnessed the death of the Marshall Henderson hype. He was exposed for what he is, just a loud mouth chucker. If you watched him throw up contested threes including a thirty footer that barely hit the backboard, you realized he is just an over hyped punk who is going t end up losing games for his team down the road by taking twenty five shots a game. The media love affair with him is officially over.

The second thing you witnessed was the most dominant defensive performance that I have ever seen in college basketball. Nerlens Noel is simply ridiculous. Noel had a total of twelve blocks last night, which set the Kentucky single game block record. Something that his predecessor Anthony Davis never accomplished. Not only did Noel rack up twelve blocks, he had five of those blocks with four fouls. Yup, four fouls. Two of those being monstrous blocks on dunk attempts in crucial moments of the game. He blocked twelve but also altered about eight or nine shots that caused misses. All of those he either barely missed or caused the opponent to try and shoot over him resulting in a shot careening off of the backboard. Noel was responsible for thirty-five points taken away from Ole Miss. That is insane.

Comparing other players in the country to Noel is no contest. He is ten blocks ahead of anyone else in college basketball. So lets compare him to the one guy media and fans alike want to hold Noel up to for comparison, Anthony Davis. At this time last year Davis had ninety-three blocks through twenty game. Through the same amount of games, Nerlens has ninety-five blocks. He is on pace to break Davis' single season block record at Kentucky, and is possibly an even better defensive player than Davis. That statement is staggering but true. Through twenty games Noel has more than lived up to the comparison of the unibrow that was forced upon him, and for the rest of the year he will prove he is the most dominant defensive player college basketball has ever seen.

Go Cats.