Where we are now maybe permanent IU level stuff. That’s what it really feels like.
Uninspired by the talent available
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The only guy worth a smack to Coach Kentucky that loves it as much as us is is Rick Pitino. Everybody knows it. He made the biggest mistake of his life. He said it.. and then Mitch Barnhart made the biggest mistake an A.D. could ever make by not restoring pitino. Whether it was to push tubby out or in 2007 to go full court press to bring them back to Lex. Pitino has always wanted to be back UK so much that he took the freaking city school 60 miles away. Pretty soon that guy‘s gonna be gone. We’ll have 00 zilch of a coach who is elite and loves Kentucky.
Yep. Pope definitely didn’t do himself any favors whiffing on every single bigtime high school player. (Except for Stokes who’s slow-playing his brush off.)
Overpaid jq, I'm saying the portal has barely been open. If we end up getting someone like Kenny payne I'll be mad at fans who I dunno are real or just baiting
Also had more injuries than most teams. Some of its luck some of it maybe pope I'm still waiting.
We will know where we stand after the portal period closes ... we can be concerned, of course, but we still must be patient.
Regarding portal talent, Bidunga is really good both ways. Players of that caliber won't appear in the portal often, and whoever lands him has a monster piece to build a contender around. The rest are Tier 2 (and below) players who have obvious limitations. For example, Blackwell (Tier 2) can score but has suspect defensive metrics; Miles Byrd (Tier 3) can defend but can't score. There are probably only about five players in Tier 2, and they're all considerably below Bidunga in overall production.
Regarding high school talent, many NBA talent evaluators think this is one of the weakest classes in recent memory. Scouting grades also seem to agree since Stokes isn't anywhere near the prospect that Flagg or Dybantsa were, for example, and there's a considerable drop off descending down the top ten.
The apparent bottleneck of talent next year implies that teams should be overpaying the true studs -- which are in low supply -- while saving money everywhere else. Bidunga might even be able to name his price, because there's no way to create a better lineup than the one that begins with the only 10+ RAPM portal guy. One team would basically need to land everyone in Tier 2 (won't happen) to build the kine of roster you could easily make with Bidunga.
Regarding high school talent, many NBA talent evaluators think this is one of the weakest classes in recent memory. Scouting grades also seem to agree since Stokes isn't anywhere near the prospect that Flagg or Dybantsa were, for example, and there's a considerable drop off descending down the top ten.
The apparent bottleneck of talent next year implies that teams should be overpaying the true studs -- which are in low supply -- while saving money everywhere else. Bidunga might even be able to name his price, because there's no way to create a better lineup than the one that begins with the only 10+ RAPM portal guy. One team would basically need to land everyone in Tier 2 (won't happen) to build the kine of roster you could easily make with Bidunga.