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#POSTERIZED: Archie Goodwin doesn’t play by your silly rules

Archie Goodwin, Jack Detmer

Kentucky’s Archie Goodwin (10) dunks over Lafayette’s Jack Detmer (4) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Kentucky won 101-49. (AP Photo/James Crisp)

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We all knew coming in to the season that the Kentucky Wildcats, while sloppy at first, would be fun to watch.

Through the first three games of the season, they’ve put on three highly-entertaining performances and displayed numerous highlight reel plays.

A week ago, walk-on sophomore Jarrod Polson stole the show en route to a razor-close 72--69 win over Maryland. On Monday, Alex Poythress nearly broke the rims at the Georgia Dome against Duke, despite losing to the Blue Devils 75-68.

On Friday, it was time for freshman Archie Goodwin to get in on the action, this time against their first “cupcake” of the season, Lafayette.

The Arkansas-native finished off a sloppy sequence of transition plays with a marvelous and monstrous poster-dunk over Leopard’s back-up guard Greg Detmer. Unfortunately, the referees believe Detmer had set his feet prior to contact, and called Goodwin for the charge.


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I don’t know how anybody can call this a charge:

Archie Goodwin, Jack Detmer

Kentucky’s Archie Goodwin (10) dunks over Lafayette’s Jack Detmer (4) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Kentucky won 101-49. (AP Photo/James Crisp)

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While this may have not counted towards the score of the game, a) The game was out of reach at the half and b) A dunk is still a dunk even if it doesn’t count for two.

The Kentucky Wildcats are still a work in progress. They just so happen to be a very entertaining work in progress.

Troy Machir is also the Managing Editor of Ballin’ is a Habit and can be found on Twitter @TroyMachir