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Kustarica to UCLA
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And this is why you should listen only to sources willing to put their name next to a report
Paying a player that much money, you better believe I’d get my moneys worth. I don’t know if they promised him anything with his minutes, but he’d start and play 30 minutes a game this year getting ready for next season. lol.
Ok so this further confirms that NO ONE knows what’s going to happen in his recruitment. His camp has mastered putting out false info
If he did, that’s only your take. NOT your life. People’s circumstances are complicated and people value different things, not just money. Calling people stupid over a decision for their life is very judgmental and would seem to indicate that you don’t appreciate the nuances of life. I’m not attacking you. But stop and think before you judge people so harshly.
Plus iirc California has a special pro athlete type tax. Wonder if nil qualifies as a pro athlete for that rule?
Glad this drama is over. Best of luck to the kid. Would have liked him on the team but I didn’t like the minutes restriction or the 2 year deal with an opener after year one.
Pope is gonna land some good players this year via recruitment and have a chance to get quality guys.
Pope is gonna land some good players this year via recruitment and have a chance to get quality guys.
Hate to tell you but the drama isn’t over
The money is there for Pope. Always has been.
JMI as a problem was a matt jones made up story.
JMI has a Pope problem. Pope doesn’t have a JMI problem.
This has ruined the Son of Saul celebration party
I still contend that it would have been worth getting Caleb Holt for half the price as this kid.
6 million a year and demanding limited playing minutes?
No thanks.
We always think these Euro dudes are the next Dirk Nowalski.(sp?) And they are seldomly good enough to demand that much money.
No thanks.
We always think these Euro dudes are the next Dirk Nowalski.(sp?) And they are seldomly good enough to demand that much money.
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People on this forum are social media illiterate and would literally fall for anything. A new account with zero followers posting the dumbest fake news ever ensnares like 80% of the people in these threads. Demonstrates why fake news is so effective.
Wonder if anyone in accounting compared how much of that 12 million K will get to keep in California versus if he had played here at Kentucky.....surely our staff would have let him know?
Excellent post- I am also curious regarding the $$$ when you include local and county taxes....
Lmao. Golden. Golden. And this sucks as a miss but UCLA will do nothing under the elf.
That is why the NFL Players Association wants to only play the Super Bowl in Non or Law Tax States. Some Seahawks had to pay more in taxes to California than they made playing in the game.
This is what I’ve felt all along. Dude has generally been a mediocre-at-best outside shooter since his growth spurt and shooting guard is literally the only thing we need help with this year. People got high on him hitting “40% of his three point shots at FIBA” but that is a grand total of nine shots going in, all of them against 17-and-under players shoved together three weeks previously and playing who knows how much defense—and four of those nine total perimeter shots that went in were in a single game where he got really hot and shot 50%. For the whole rest of the FIBA tournament and was only shooting 30% from outside. And for the whole time he played professionally since his growth spurt he shot way worse than that.
I’m not saying he’s terrible. And if we do manage to land him with a two-year deal then he will most likely be really, really good for us his second year. He’s projected that high for a reason. I just don’t think there are a whole lot of empirical, non-hot-air reasons to think he will help us a whole lot this year the only way we’d really need him to help us. So if we don’t land him I’m not going to lose any sleep.
And if, as you discussed, we happen to land someone in place of him who is more of what we actually need this year despite maybe being however much less exciting from a projected-lottery-pick angle, I personally will be very happy.
May have skills on the court but is dumb as **** for placing his career in the hands of the angry leprechaun.
So now you've got parents/handlers telling coaches how much playing time their kid is going to get? I'd say "no thanks" to that. This is another reason college basketball almost dead.
He did that against USA Today!? Dang, that’s pretty impressive! I heard the editor is a pretty good defender.
lol, my phone autocorrected it to that too. But the kid is a legit prospect worth every dollar!
I tried to make a funny. Joke didn’t land haha.
And I don’t have my hopes up for the kid, honestly. Mirglip Kcaj seems to think we are dead in the water — heard nothing Kentucky for a long time and all UCLA. If we get him, we get him but I fully plan on him playing for Cronie.
I'm fine with him going to UCLA, in the end. Would still love to have him play here as good as he is tagged to be.
But if you ask me, how great is that going to make next year's UCLA team ? A ten minute restriction per game to play at all this year ?? ok....
How well is that if UCLA loses and the fans are wanting him to play more if he's good, he should make a difference. How well is that if UCLA does well and so does he, but say, averages a 10/5/2 split in thoise ten minutes?
I'd personally find it hilarious at that point. Just to see how Cronin "handles" it. He doesn't handle things well sometimes.....
so how well and big of an impact is he going to be playing ten minutes per game for THAT UCLA roster, and in the Big 10 next year ?
Maybe this is more of a payoff for his year 2.
Whatever. Still overpriced and overvalued until I will see him. Maybemaybe he is worth it, but it still seems like a stretch. Not worth that much money. There are bigger fish to land out there.
But if you ask me, how great is that going to make next year's UCLA team ? A ten minute restriction per game to play at all this year ?? ok....
How well is that if UCLA loses and the fans are wanting him to play more if he's good, he should make a difference. How well is that if UCLA does well and so does he, but say, averages a 10/5/2 split in thoise ten minutes?
I'd personally find it hilarious at that point. Just to see how Cronin "handles" it. He doesn't handle things well sometimes.....
so how well and big of an impact is he going to be playing ten minutes per game for THAT UCLA roster, and in the Big 10 next year ?
Maybe this is more of a payoff for his year 2.
Whatever. Still overpriced and overvalued until I will see him. Maybemaybe he is worth it, but it still seems like a stretch. Not worth that much money. There are bigger fish to land out there.
I heard our contract offer is the highest, it's how the contract is structured that his agent didn't like.