Diallo Entering Draft... Not hiring agent
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I, too, hate having great players and winning lots of games.
For those who care enough to whine and complain, you should have known enough to know this was the plan all along. Either keep up or go away.
For those who care enough to whine and complain, you should have known enough to know this was the plan all along. Either keep up or go away.
Coach cal tweeting he has gotten so much better in the four months he has been with us. Then why the hell did you not play him? We needed that type of player all year. If he goes pro for good, this will be Coach Cals biggest mess up as a coach.
Boy, these threads always bring out the trolls.
I don't know what to say at this moment. I need to digest this more. My initial opinion is beyond frustrated
Only a dumbass would think Cal looks bad for this.
EVERY team would have taken him.
It is absolutely STUPID to tell the #1 SG and your top guard recruit -
"No we won't accept your commitment and allow you to come early because you might enter the draft without ever playing a game"
If I'm not mistaken, I seem to recall that the coaches approached Diallo during the season once about playing.
He declined.
What else could Cal do?
Not ready to suit up for college basketball games but ready enough to test the waters in the NBA Draft and play with the big boys...OK Like already mentioned, shocked he didn't declare sooner. No surprise he's not hiring an agent at this moment. If his game has improved like many say it has, he could wow scouts enough to stay in because potential is what the draft is all about.
If that was the case then play him!! What good does this do with recruiting? We accept players to come in and go to school for half a semester and leave. Come to uk. We will prepare you for the NBA without any games.
Exactly. And his commitment didn't cost UK any top 2017 guards. I'm sorry, it just didn't. UK was gonna have the two frosh they have coming in now (and the new kid Baker) regardless.
I think people are overreacting. People trying to "decipher" that he is "probably" gone due to the wording of a tweet lack basic common sense and intelligence. I have no idea what he will do, but he probably won't look good enough to get anywhere near a first round draft grade from a NBA team.
I agree that every other team would have taken him, but not every other team has the annual roster turnover and reliance on freshmen that we do. The risk/reward is different for us than it is for just about any other team out there in a situation like this.
It is frustrating, but the kid wanted to come and practice, most likely not expose himself to the pros after what his HS coach said.
He and Cal had an agreement, can't change and force the kid to play.
I guess he realized he is better than Briscoe and others and thinks if they can do it he has a shot.
The elite guys leaving early doesn't bother me. It's the mid-level guys like Teague, Lamb, Humphries, Briscoe, etc. I don't know what category Diallo falls into but it would be a bummer to not even have him for a season. But hey, draft picks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's actually a smart thing to do because he can work out and get some valuable advice on his game and what to work on. If he sees he's going to be picked in lottery then he's already accomplished his goal. For the most part I just see it as an instructional thing to learn from.
Well if he comes back that's great and if he doesn't why did he come here and leave before he played one season. It's bad enough to see several leave every year but I don't want anybody to come here and leave before they play one minute. If it's true it could have knocked Kentucky out of getting somebody who wanted to play here that would at least stayed one year.
Interesting to me that he even put out a statement. Bam didn't. Considering I suspect these statements are often written by UK for these kids, I'm wondering if this is targeted at Knox as much as anything. Giving him something to think about - they were pitching him as a 2 believe it or not in the home visit.
No of course not, but it's short-sighted not to expect a little backlash when it doesn't pan out. Happy for the kid, but as I said before, "players first" implies that they ACTUALLY played.
Is anyone surprised? Why wouldn't he test the waters?
He's going pro after next season, so he may as well go through the process figure out what he needs to work on next season. Wish everyone would calm down.
He's going pro after next season, so he may as well go through the process figure out what he needs to work on next season. Wish everyone would calm down.
Jesus Christ dude don't talk **** about me. Anyway this has zero impact on my life, but I'm still a UK fan and sports are one of the things I look forward to and it helps relieve stress to follow sports. My only other teams are UK football and the Cincinnati pro teams so yeah I would like for at least one of my teams to be good to help me escape the stress in my life from time to time. Again sports aren't the only thing I use to relieve stress but still.
Like who? I need names.
I will say the one thing on this whole situation that I do find minorly frustrating is I was always of the thought if you bring in a 5 star stud in mid-season, he can probably help the team. Diallo could have been the missing piece that helps UK win it all this past season. Hell if not for poor officiating and a bad stretch at the wrong time at the end of the UNC game (until our frantic comeback the last 45 seconds) UK still almost wins and probably wins the title if they beat UNC IMO. He could have helped. That said, if he didn't want to play, you can't force a guy to play.
I was under the impression he was on scholarship to play basketball.
You mean after our third Final Four in four years and our second title game in three.
Yeah that was ***.
Oh good, our fans will now call him a pre-Madonna and overreact, even though him testing the waters always made sense.
I'm not talking smack, I'm just saying sports shouldn't stress people out. I wasn't meaning to single you out, just UK fans in general. And if your life is stressful by all means you shouldn't be stressing over this in the least bit as you have more important things to worry about as do we all.
And UK basketball is good almost every freaking year since Cal has been here. The Bengals have made the playoffs a ton of late. I guess it is just what you define as good.
I'm not necessarily happy for the kid.
I was never attached.
But we had no choice other than to take him.
The kid said he wasn't ready. His HS coach said he wasnt ready.
For all we know he is just testing the waters for next year like others have said.
But he is very athletic and talented, so who knows.
If we took him over another star we could have had then we all would have a case to make.
But we didn't. so it's just a bunch of whining.
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