Siap: Stokes NEW tattoo “502 Made”

LineSkiCat14

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I'm not saying I expect it to happen, but I wonder what all these people bashing Stokes will say if he picks us.

If we actually have a team around Stokes, as in we land a starting caliber PF and some other pieces.. sure, ill be happy with the roster (yet Pope still has tons of coaching issues).

But if we just get Stokes, I wont be happy. All that means is we have a player thats gonna help Kentucky win a few meaningless games, while never making us a contender, and potentially saving Pope's job for another year.

Stokes is a life boat for Pope, not for Kentucky. Lets remember that.
 

Kyben23

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Far from naive. Don't take his tattoo personal enough to feel trolled even if he was trying. So if he commits to UK he was trolling by having that in the background? If he goes elsewhere oh well. UK is going to have a terrible season either way. You put prime Jordan on next year's team and it will be bad.
I was with you until the prime Jordan comment. Prime MJ wins NCAA tournament with 4 senior citizen teammates.

Stokes was never playing for Pope. Too much risk; take UKs free press and cash in.
 
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Vek96

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Stokes seems to be getting joy from the drama he’s creating. He better be worth it.
 

anot

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I was with you until the prime Jordan comment. Prime MJ wins NCAA tournament with 4 senior citizen teammates.
Lol I love Jordan. But that's just not true lol but I agree with the sentiment
 

Kyben23

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Lol I love Jordan. But that's just not true lol but I agree with the sentiment
Younger fella; I gotcha. They would be the best prepared, most engaged and just a little scared senior citizen teammates on the planet.
 
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But do they love 502 enough to get a tattoo of it? I’m not saying 502 isn’t a lot of UK fans, but they also aren’t diehard 502 resident enough to get it inked.
The area code tattoo community is both quirky and small sample size.

I can't pretend to have a clue about their thought process not being an ink guy myself but I'm guessing a mountain is being made out of a pebble.

Louisville and the University of Louisville are not the same thing. Hell, even the University of Louisville isn't the University of Louisville Cardinals are not exactly the same. I wore Cats garb all the time right in the campus, Kentucky flag in the dorm window.

I figure if one is inclined to be an home area code tattoo guy, one is good as the other. We all come from somewhere.
 
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I saw an interview with Stokes today. He was asked when he was going to commit to school. He said, "when God tells me to" Also said there is no clear favorite.

I hope God is on our side!!
 
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NociHTTP

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I saw an interview with Stokes today. He was asked when he was going to commit to school. He said, "when God tells me to" Also said there is no clear favorite.

I hope God is on our side!!
He's so full of ****. When he smiles I'm reminded to clean the litter box. By "God" he means his scout telling him that the getting's not getting any higher and he needs to go to the highest bidder.
 

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He will be nowhere even close to what AJ was for BYU, not going to happen.
Stokes isn't the same type of player. I think it depends on who he has around him. Stokes can facilitate at a high level. He can win without high volume scoring. I'm not sure how hard he will dig in on defense, though.
 
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Hopmix

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The boomers out in full force in this thread. My question is why are you old as men following a kid on social media. It’s weird man.