Cal put him in a no win situation. He wasn’t good enough or mature enough to be our PG this year.
Askew leaving UK
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Cal should’ve set the tone early and moved mintz to pg after the Richmond game and let askew know he’s a role player.
cals stubbornness led to a bad situation for devin. With that said you just can’t have the yips at Kentucky like askew did. Where the hell have all the Eric Bledsoe’s gone?
cals stubbornness led to a bad situation for devin. With that said you just can’t have the yips at Kentucky like askew did. Where the hell have all the Eric Bledsoe’s gone?
Well technically he was a one and done.
Look, I'm not devastated this happened. I'm just saying it doesn't ALWAYS have to be about next year. There was a time college lasted 4 years. Some guys stayed those years and didn't contribute until their junior or senior years. We could use some of those guys.
I've been on Cal for his system. But if there isn't going to be any penalty for transferring, this will no longer be singularly a Cal system failure. I don't think I'd ever bother to spend time recruiting a high schooler again, unless it's an AD talent, and they aren't coming to college anymore.
Means Cal is going to add a top notch point guard. People on this board have complained all year about Askew. You should be happy but I am sure you will find some reason to complain. Go Cal and get the players we need.
What's the over under on our new PG being announced? 24 hours? Tonight? Have to believe it's coming soon.
We just need to stop looking at California players. I mean Askew couldn’t have asked for more minutes than he played. Don’t know what you can do about that but many will be happy to see him go.
LOL at the people in this thread who spent six months wishing Askew were not on Kentucky's roster, but are now inconsolable that he is leaving.
I trust Cal and that is probably why Askew is leaving. Cal will upgrade at point guard and then what will you say.
Read my posts. All I've said is I would have liked him to have stayed, could really be a contributor by his junior or senior years. If that's complaining, then, well, okay then.
If you aren’t excited about Mintz returning, you are ignorant in regards to basketball.
That’s how I see it. That means one of the “up in the air” guys just made it official to the staff. Maybe it’s just Mintz, but my bet is it’s a transfer or Sky Clark reclass.
You don’t beg a kid to reclassify, then discard him the next year if he doesn’t meet expectations as a freshman.
Well...
I did want him to stick around, thought by years 3 and 4 he could be a very nice player, but I'd also hoped we brought in another PG and that he played seriously reduced minutes next year. Might be hard to ask that of a guy who just started and played major minutes.
I did want him to stick around, thought by years 3 and 4 he could be a very nice player, but I'd also hoped we brought in another PG and that he played seriously reduced minutes next year. Might be hard to ask that of a guy who just started and played major minutes.
Just a joke, brother. We had people in an Askew thread that got bumped the other day calling him a "taller Ulis." We've also had people referring to Hickman as the same thing recently. It's a popular go to for the rah rahs.
Why stick it out when all you hear is negative talk on this board? Cal has decided to hit the transfer portal and upgrade. You should be happy.
They are not sad but the next time he scores double figure wherever he ends up people will make a thread and blame cal for running him off.
He will never play over Tyger Campbell, maybe Loyola Marymount has a need for a backup PG.
Tell that to Quade Green was only brought it to get Mo Bamba. Same way for DJ Jeffries, who was only brought in to help get Wiseman.
FIFY. Like I've said, some here playing contrarian out of spite. Excited to stick it to fans they don't agree with and Cal, at expense of the team.
Marcus Carr is going to look wonderful in Kentucky blue.
I do wish Askew would have stayed.. but in reality he played SO bad, that I'm not sure if we can risk him being our sophomore PG. Maybe he steps it up? I think it's possible.. but he could totally derail what appears to be a solid 2-5 roster. We REALLLY need a competent PG next year, not a project.
Those two would be at the top of my list if I was a west coast kid looking for a better system fit closer to home. Maybe add USC to that but they tend to lean more to the “athlete” side as well from what I recall. Maybe Arizona.
is this happening in a different thread?
Askew was terrible this year.
That doesn’t mean I didn’t want to see what he’d be like as a junior or a senior.
Hopefully this means we are getting Carr.
That doesn’t mean I didn’t want to see what he’d be like as a junior or a senior.
Hopefully this means we are getting Carr.
You can have all the shooters in the world, but if you don't have a guy who can create for himself and others it's not going to matter. Kentucky still needs that.
Watch it be Hardy, Cal delivers the bag, and tells Askew "Sorry bud, you're gonna have to wait a year".