While you haven't fixed your babbling nonsense, you at least did fix the all caps issue...
If Kentucky misses on Kusturica.
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He was a guard who kept his entire skillset as he gained a lot of height, is the analogy I am saying doesn’t seem to apply here
I’d kill to live n LA with 14 mil. The kicker is you really can’t live in LA without that kind of money. It’s just not much of a place for the working man these days.
I've heard the timeline is Friday. Not sure if thats an NCAA thing or timing on his visa.
Good news, if we miss, there is still time to get players for the season after next. There are high school prospects to pursue and whatever portal sensation that pops up out of nowhere.
My question would be if it's true that he wants a cap at 15mpg then how big of an impact will he really make ? In addition who gets their playing time shortened?
I just dont have a lot of confidence in the so called experts projecting him as a top draft pick. I really like Kam but he was being touted as a potential first round pick when he signed here and he's not close in my opinion.
I hope Kam crushes it but he has a long way to go. Add that with all the recruiting/portal expert projections that have been wrong and it seems they just spout things for clicks.
If he does a 2 year deal it makes a little more sense but I thought his camp wanted a 1 year
deal.
I just dont have a lot of confidence in the so called experts projecting him as a top draft pick. I really like Kam but he was being touted as a potential first round pick when he signed here and he's not close in my opinion.
I hope Kam crushes it but he has a long way to go. Add that with all the recruiting/portal expert projections that have been wrong and it seems they just spout things for clicks.
If he does a 2 year deal it makes a little more sense but I thought his camp wanted a 1 year
deal.
Location is always an overrated topic. There's positives and negatives for both LA and Lexington but if he chooses UCLA it won't be because he thinks he'll be bored to tears in Lexington and/or hates horse farms and if he chooses UK it won't be because he's suddenly developed a hatred or disgust with Los Angeles.
My brother lived in La for 10 years. I visited often but when it took me 1.5 hours to go to Pinks hotdog stand that was 8 miles away I had to pause. The congestion is serious and that ain’t my bag.
many parts of California are gorgeous, drove the A1A highway to San Francisco and that was spectacular but LA is a mess.
Anyway as someone else said, he won’t be picking the school based on the scenery unless his agent is a goober.
I also remember reading that K. Williams was projected as a 3 & D draft pick before last season due to his AGE, length, and shooting ability. His slower start and then injury this season seems to have nixed that; but I believe that his biggest obstacle to overcome in regard to being an NBA draft pick going forward might end up being his age.
The NBA is like a pedophile: the younger they are the better they like them. Each year a player stays in college they lose more of the element of projection – which is a huge part, if not the overwhelmingly most important aspect for drafting purposes.
So an adolescent (whether high school or Europe) being projected as a 1st round draft pick doesn’t really correlate much at all with the production or impact on winning anyone should expect them to provide to their college team as a freshman. Because the projection doesn’t have anything to do with the expectation for college production.
So, whenever someone says they want some 17 or 18 yr. old because he’s a projected “top __ draft Pick” I always think “you need to tell me a whole lot more because neither that nor a recruiting ranking is a valid reason for taking a kid you know is going to be OAD.” There may reasons why an expected OAD freshman is the best fit to help a team win, but it isn’t because he’s a projected draft pick. It would be because his play and production is expected to have a bigger impact on winning RIGHT NOW than say Player X would. At a top program like UK, which can select from all pools, I think that’s often not the case.
I don't know about that. I spent six days in LA last January. It was beautiful out there. Guys hooping on the beach courts, walking the piers in short sleeves, maybe a light jacket at night.
Came home to KY to 2 feet of snow and cold as hell. I love this state, but there is a reason a lot of folks head to warmer climates in the Winter. Which, by the way, covers basketball season.
I do the same thing. I come across as a jerk sometimes but actually I didn’t mean it the way it sounded. Im a work in progress I guess.
Damn.. 2 year for 14mil? As much as I like locking down talent for multiple years.. what if he's just mediocre?
Its still unreal how player-friendly these deals are. A guy like Kusturica, if he winds up being just decent, will not only have burned someone for $14mil, but youre stuck with him for a 2nd year.
Its still unreal how player-friendly these deals are. A guy like Kusturica, if he winds up being just decent, will not only have burned someone for $14mil, but youre stuck with him for a 2nd year.
Unless this kid is the second coming of another Cooper Flagg type phenom and I haven't heard anyone say he's THAT talented ... the 14$ mill figure makes me balk ... but then again, it's not my money to spend.
If he is legit top 5 NBA draft projectiong two years out, which I am continuing to hear, like everyone else, I'll say at least this :
It's a better prospect to spend money on him than, say spending money on a player you HOPE comes back from major injury status to be healthy enough to actually make an impact.
At least the kid isn't injured to begin with.
Just saying.
Shows how little he knows about America specifically wanting to go to California. After his two years there instead of the NBA he could be a homeless, gay fentanyl addict that still gets taxed half of what he begs for at the corner.
Brea and Amari Williams was on no one’s draft radar. Both are now in the league. Carr was better here than he was in the terrible ACC. Aberdeen struggled at point early but was way better than he was at Florida late. No one expected much from Moreno. He almost kept his name in the draft. Chandler was unplayable when he got here. BYU just invested 2 million to take him.
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What if we are n the sweet and there's 5 mins to go and its tied and dude and his agent say sorry good luck we are past 15 mins of playing time?
I mean the money idc but the minutes restriction is bizarre to me. Like ur getting bank, u play as much as we need u.
I mean the money idc but the minutes restriction is bizarre to me. Like ur getting bank, u play as much as we need u.
Damn. The moment Trilly said he thought UK led, I knew it was over. These guys know VERY little.
I have no idea, and I'm not even sure about this UCLA page, it has 25k followers but I don't think that means anything. Everybody is just guessing at this point.
We have a good team as is
Branham with the confidence level 6 pick to UCLA. he will remove this one too if he thinks it’s wrong. What a joke
Hearing more and more Pros in all sports belly aching about having to pay out huge tax $$$$ in California and New York. Could really be a factor.....
Barstool UCLA posted it too. It’s over.
Also, hence the “secret” La Familia player reveal today.
Yea it’s easy when you can change picks to make sure you are always correct.
I don’t know what you do for a living. You’re probably very good at whatever it is. Hopefully your job is not just one thing but has different aspects. Crystal ball picks are a small part of what he does and it’s only because we want them, I suspect. He is actually very good at that but his job is much more and he brings a lot of info to the fans in what appears to be a very sincere way. He probably would have made a great GM for UK.
Haha that’s about the funniest thing I have read in a while on here. What in the world would make you think he can negotiate with agents and all the other stuff it takes to be a GM? He can’t even read the room when he was lied to supposedly to make that UK pick for kusturica but you would trust him to negotiate huge million dollar deals for Uk?
Creative response. It never gets old. So kee0 ‘em coming sport.
Had you made a point it may have required a “rebuttal,” but your response demonstrated you don’t know much. And, I am not here to teach you.
