Kaluma visit
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Best thing I've heard in weeks.
That's good news that he's visiting. But we're 0'fer in the portal so I'm not getting my hopes up.
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Someone must be ponying up some NIL money!
Just looked at ON3 transfer rankings and they have him ranked #70! Guys like Wheeler, Dontrez Styles, and Jaden Bradley ranked ahead of him. I would peg Kaluma at at least top 15, his game is very very unique for one his size.
Let’s get this guy. Need some experience and defense. Then get Somto. Get a shooter. Get another shooter.
If there was a Goldstar to give out for posts this would get one
That’s absurd!
Get Kaluma and maybe reeves changes his mind since he wouldn’t be the only returner. I know I know reeves is gone let me dream for a minute
Anybody who has wheeler ranked ahead of Kaluma shouldn’t have basketball opinions
His options aren’t great but who knows with Kentucky this offseason
With Reeves leaving, I think there's room for both IMO.
Burks might not feel like that obviously, but we wanted Kaluma even when the staff assumed Reeves was coming back.
So we still want Kaluma, and now Reeves leaving opens up that other spot.
About as good a outcome as there could be with everything that’s happened this offseason
The fact that we got Kaluma's first visit says something IMO.
With Bama and Arkansas duking it out over Nelson, might be the perfect storm for us getting Kaluma's first visit and locking him up.
Kaluma + Somto and I am 100% back on board.
You're looking at it the wrong way.
Hear me out. Say you flip a coin. The coin is weighted perfectly. You'd expect it to land 50% of the time on one side and 50% the time on the other. Now if we know anything about statistics we know that this doesn't mean if the first flip is heads, the 2nd flip will be tails.
What I'm trying to say is, if every coin you've flipped so far is coming up tails and you're really wanting a heads, the more times you flip it tails, the better chance the next one is heads! So striking out on all the early portal-goers we offered means we have a better chance at the tail end!
So if we truly were after 5 targets, for example, and we missed on them all. (Which, shucks that's some bad luck as theirs only a 3% chance of that happening) Then we're really likely to get our next one! It's only a ~1% chance you'd flip tails 6 times in a row.
Like I said, hear me out, think about it, it's not that crazy!
Exactly you either want the first visit or the last visit, I would still want burks, I really like his upside and a shooter but that would be a good save from the staff
I think the big question is would kaluma come here to come off the bench? If the lineup most of us are projecting holds true then he would probably be backing up Edwards or Bradshaw. For him to start, we probably have to play a big lineup and move Edwards to the 2 which would mean Dillingham would probably come off the bench. Just my 2 cents
They shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. Burks is a developmental piece who should be in college for 2-3 years & won’t be much of a factor next year with, or, without more additions. Kaluma is a one year rental who would be long gone by the time Burks sees any significant floor time.
Burks will, at best, get backup minutes at the 4 next season whether we get Kaluma, or, not. We have zero depth there & don’t even have an actual PF on the roster. If he’s good enough to contribute, the minutes are there & Kaluma won’t stand in the way of that. I don’t doubt that Kaluma’s visit is the reason for Burks delaying his decision. But, it makes no sense, IMO.
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He shouldn't be guaranteed to start either. Compete.
That will happen Monday, at least we will have a good weekend thinking about adding a Veteran. But, we all know what will happen. He is using UK to build up his NIL deal at Bama or Arky
If you’re going to dream, I wish you would dream of a better player then Reeves.