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thebluestripes said:
Mooney is good, but he'd ride the bench here behind a kid with more stars on his resume
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This is such a lazy tired argument.

Cal has no problem playing 2 point guards together. And yet Quickley/Quade come off the bench while 4-Star Herro starts.

SGA is a 4-Star, Quade 5 star. I forget, who wound up being the star point guard?

Jared Polson has played for Calipari teams. Dom Hawkins, Derek Willis got minutes over Gabriel/SKJ.

But we're still mad when Cal gives Skal a little extra leash hoping he'll figure it out.
 
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LHScat said:
I love how we always want all these players from teams that make a final four once every few decades, if ever. Sounds like a good plan.
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Mooney was all-conference in the Summit League two different seasons. Definitely not an unknown scrub. We missed the Final Four because we lost in OT in an Elite Eight game where our freshman point guard had seven turnovers and his man scored 12 points in the overtime period.
 
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Sawnee Cat said:
When did King Kelly go to UK. Johnny Cox didn't do too bad
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Coleman was a record scorer at Kentucky Wesleyan College and Wayland High School (Kentucky). Coleman was the #11 overall pick of the New York Knicks in the 1960 NBA Draft, after averaging 30.3 points per game as a senior at Kentucky Wesleyan.
 
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ORCAT10 said:
Tough as nails. Kentucky basketball should always have 1 kid from the mountains. Even he he never played I guarantee he would bust his butt in practice.
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It’s not the days of Rupp, they’re not crawling here from the mountains just to sit on the bench for 4 years. Kids today want to play.
 
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This is such a laughable myth. The Eastern Ky mountain region is actually one of the worst spots in the entire nation at producing athletes (and the very few it produces are usually disappointing busts). And public heath statistics show it's also one of the most obese and out of shape spots in the entire nation.

Yet folks from there still cling to this silly myth that they're somehow tougher than most. LOL.
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What's laughable is you. You obviously have absolutely zero idea of what it's like to like in Eastern Kentucky and I"d be willing to bet that you wouldn't last one Winter. As for athletes, not a lot of D-1 players but there were D-1 players like the Tallent brothers, Rudy Thacker, Pelphrey and a few others from the old days that did play in the NBA. Ever hear of Grady Wallace, leading scorer at South Carolina? Played for Betsy Layne back in the day along with Donnis Butcher from Pikeville College who went on the play in the NBA. Yeah, it's a tough place to live and it's depressed but you comment shows how ignorant you are of the region in a whole. And BTW, Johnny Lemaster, graduate of Paintsville High who later played for the Giants and later Indians says hello. How about if you give us a report the next time you spend about a week in a coal mine then tell us that it's not "tough" to live that way.
 
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katwest said:
You can add Jody Thompson and Tim Stephens to that list.
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Played against Stephens in Flag Football and he ended up breaking the nose of a friend of mine. Never a good fit at that level and all he could really do was shoot.
 
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westerncat said:
Did not realize that. Thanks
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Yep. But because he basically sabotaged himself. Apparently he showed up at the Knicks training camp totally out of shape and perpetually hungover from his constant hard-drinking. So the Knicks cut their first round pick.

Coleman was probably the best pure talent the mountains ever produced. But, unfortunately, he was also a drunk with no sense of self-discipline or work ethic (as he himself has since admitted).
 
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In all my years following UK Basketball, the only prospects from the eastern Kentucky mountains that I really wanted to see receive full scholarship offers were John Pelphrey, Richie Farmer and Phil Cox from Cawood HS in Harlan County. Pelphrey and Farmer were major contributors here and Cox scored nearly 2000 points during his career at Vandy.
 
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UK90 said:
Yep. But because he basically sabotaged himself. Apparently he showed up at the Knicks training camp totally out of shape and perpetually hungover from his constant hard-drinking. So the Knicks cut their first round pick.

Coleman was probably the best pure talent the mountains ever produced. But, unfortunately, he was also a drunk with no sense of self-discipline or work ethic (as he himself has since admitted).
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very interesting. Thanks
 
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King Kelly put out a book about his life and I have it somewhere around the house. He told a lot of things that happened in his life.
 
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What's laughable is you. You obviously have absolutely zero idea of what it's like to like in Eastern Kentucky and I"d be willing to bet that you wouldn't last one Winter. As for athletes, not a lot of D-1 players but there were D-1 players like the Tallent brothers, Rudy Thacker, Pelphrey and a few others from the old days that did play in the NBA. Ever hear of Grady Wallace, leading scorer at South Carolina? Played for Betsy Layne back in the day along with Donnis Butcher from Pikeville College who went on the play in the NBA. Yeah, it's a tough place to live and it's depressed but you comment shows how ignorant you are of the region in a whole. And BTW, Johnny Lemaster, graduate of Paintsville High who later played for the Giants and later Indians says hello. How about if you give us a report the next time you spend about a week in a coal mine then tell us that it's not "tough" to live that way.
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They would find him crying somewhere sucking on his thumb..
 
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Catscratch81 said:
What's laughable is you. You obviously have absolutely zero idea of what it's like to like in Eastern Kentucky and I"d be willing to bet that you wouldn't last one Winter. As for athletes, not a lot of D-1 players but there were D-1 players like the Tallent brothers, Rudy Thacker, Pelphrey and a few others from the old days that did play in the NBA. Ever hear of Grady Wallace, leading scorer at South Carolina? Played for Betsy Layne back in the day along with Donnis Butcher from Pikeville College who went on the play in the NBA. Yeah, it's a tough place to live and it's depressed but you comment shows how ignorant you are of the region in a whole. And BTW, Johnny Lemaster, graduate of Paintsville High who later played for the Giants and later Indians says hello. How about if you give us a report the next time you spend about a week in a coal mine then tell us that it's not "tough" to live that way.
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Running down folks from Eastern Kentucky is never a good thing.
 
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