Juzang on fire
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If he did this at Kentucky, he’d declare for the NBA draft as soon as we blew it in the elite eight.
I just hope Cal is watching this and realize how he let this kid get away. SAD !
He's a shooting robot. Didn't fit in at UK.
We prefer malfunctioning robots.
We prefer malfunctioning robots.
Plus UCLA knows how to sit picks something UK did not how to do this year.
I don't blame Cal for Juzang leaving. If he left because of PT, I'm not really sure what he expected. He got decent run for a freshman on a team with Hagans, Maxey, and IQ. Had he come back he'd have gotten 25-30 mins on this team.
That said, he made the right decision. UCLA is a better situation for him, and I wish him the best.
That said, he made the right decision. UCLA is a better situation for him, and I wish him the best.
'Kentucky isn't for everyone.' LOL!
Juzang will be fine but I hope Pope wins
Who would have thought before the season that if we traded Boston, Clarke and Askew for Juzang we would be a better team.
He would've played less than Terrence Clarke did this year. Good for him I hope he lights it up every game.
He would have to declare for the NBA.
Cal would tear up his scholarship and make him go pro.
Would have to make room and playing time for his next batch of 5 stars.
This is so laughable watching this kid kill it with UCLA but supposedly he wasn't good enough to get off of our bench for a few minutes a game with us... Hey we will have 6-8 leave for the NBA, G- League or Over Seas best day in UK basketball ever!
Glad to see a level-headed, rational take on this board. Cheers to you, pal!
While he then hides him most of the game on the bench letting Boston throw up enough bricks to build a house.
Mintz, Juzang, and Allen playing the 1-3 would have been a nice combo. Just mix in some zone on defense to make up for any defensive issues.
Sports center just now throwing shade at BBN. Guy said i bet KY wishes he would have stayed now.
9-16 worst record in over 100 years at a prestige University like ours, all our players still leaving even though Cal talks about wanting to keep players for multiple years, Johnny going off in the NCAA tournament making Cal look like a total dumba%$ for not getting this kid more time here, and everyone taking jabs about UK not being in the tournament.
If none of the above will change Cal then that man is never ever going to change!
If none of the above will change Cal then that man is never ever going to change!
By light years. They should not be in the same discusssion
Juzang got some quality minutes as a freshman on a top 1 or 2 seed team last year and Cal did everything to keep him here. Happy players almost always play better and he is obviously happy to be back home and it shows up in his play. It's happens a lot with transfers but it just adds to this years misery for me as a UKBB fan watching him go off doing what we so sorely lacked. Putting the ball in the basket.
Kid went from benchwarmer at UK to leading scorer averaging 15 ppg for a UCLA team advancing in the tournament. Transferring clearly was a very smart move for him.
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This is what happens when you recruit over guys every year. Juzang was a normal freshman who just needed to get comfortable and confident. He adjusted. Now he’s going to be a pro. Meanwhile, Cal gave up on him and wanted a shiny new toy - two - neither of which panned out.
Had Terrance Clarke not gotten hurt I highly doubt that would be true. I’m sure JJ didn’t believe that or he’d still be playing here. He knew he was going to be behind Clarke and Boston.
You sound like Cal's recruiting talent evaluator.
Any Basketball Bennie could watch JJ shoot the basketball for 5 minutes and see that he has a natural shooting stroke.
Pure shooters are mostly born with that talent, and very few people possess it.
DA has a pure stroke also. If you were to superimpose JJ and DA shooting the basketball, their images and follow through would almost be identical.
You have to have pure shooters to win in today's game. I hope Cal figures this out sooner rather than later.
Scorers are not necessarily pure shooters. Pure shooters can always score, if you can get them an open look at the basket.
That's why coaches have to actually design their offense to get shooters in open space.
Fair statement but I'd argue a few points left out.
1. Juzang avg 12 minutes a game for UK. Which was basically he got 1 run of sub minutes in first half and comes out and then again in 2nd half..and comes back out. On last year's team Cal basically played Hagans, Maxey, Quickley all 35+ minutes a game...or as long as they could stay on the floor.
2. Juzang did miss a ton of time early in season when Cal was doing with Khalil Whitney what he did with Boston...which was playing and starting them no matter how bad they stunk (remember Quickley was coming off the bench earlier in season).
3. We'll never know if this was about playing closer to home or Juzang saw how every mistake he made was a reason he was pulled where as higher rated players play thru tons of their mistakes and looking at Boston and Clarke coming in only left him not wanting to go thru that kind of stuff again.
No matter how the narratives play out...it's Cal's job to put talent on the floor that can play together and watching Juzang at UCLA and before he got hurt Baker at Arizona play good ball while watching young Fr struggle so badly is a black eye for Cal's roster management.
There is not a player in the country with the talent of JJ that would stay at any school and put up with how Cal treated JJ while he was here.
Cal's system of playing favorites has caught up with him. I am sure other coaches are using this to recruit against Cal and what player would want to come to UK and run the risk of being Cal's next whipping boy.
Absolutely no way to get out of Cal's doghouse once you get in unless you are a 5 star recruit.
Social justice doesn't exist in Cal's system. As he says often, this isn’t communism.
K_TIME I agree with every word you said except this. We do know because Villanova was one of the schools that JJ was considering transferring to. Philadelphia is farther from his home than Lexington so geography could not have been his motivation, at least not primarily.