Reeves committing today?

[BMo643]

No disrespect but that is just not true.

How so?

I'm not arguing that decent "replacement level" depth isn't needed. I mean you need bodies both for providing rest in games and competition in practice. My argument was that when injuries happen to any of your top 5-7 players - your team is going to take a big dip and there's nobody on your roster that's going to save it. When you have multiple injuries to your top 7 - you're just trying to survive. If Braun for KU went down last year or was hobbled - no amount of depth in Self's arsenal would probably have saved that season.

My argument was that people seem to want these coaches to go out and get starter level players and expect them to sit and wait for their chance to play bigger minutes. There's nobody that UK could have realistically gotten last year from a "depth" perspective that would have made up for the injuries to Grady, Ty and Wheeler...The level of player that would be coming to UK with those guys in place would be committing to UK to basically play 7-10 mins a game and maybe not play every game. What good - "season stabilizing" player is going to do that? The level of kid that you're going to get for roles like that are the Lance Ware's, Dontae Allen's, and the likes. Guys that are bodies,

Sure ideally you'd love to have starter level talent on your entire roster but thats not how it works out. Teams are lucky to have 7-8 legit, high level D1 guys on their roster at any given time. You can't build a roster with depth as your primary concern.

 

[phyrekat]

Right but those injuries are going to kill EVERY team. Citing those injuries as the need for depth presupposes that the guys that would replace them wouldn't be a significant drop off anyway. What player was UK going to have sitting on the back end of their roster that was going to come in and pick up the slack for either of those kids? People cite injuries as a need for depth but you're always going to lose something when an injury occurs. You're never, ever going to bring in someone off the bench anywhere near what you're replacing.

Shai Gilgeous Alexander says hi.

 

[BMo643]

Shai Gilgeous Alexander says hi.

I mean....of course there's caveats to the rule. SGA was a rare breed for Cal - one that wasn't a super elite kid coming out of high school and actually developed a little under him.

I would point you to the thousands of instances over the history of both professional and collegiate athletics of injuries totally derailing seasons.

 

[phyrekat]

I mean....of course there's caveats to the rule. SGA was a rare breed for Cal - one that wasn't a super elite kid coming out of high school and actually developed a little under him.

I would point you to the thousands of instances over the history of both professional and collegiate athletics of injuries totally derailing seasons.

And I would point to Cal's historic stubborn tendency to play "his guys" regardless of production/ability as an example of how injuries CAN benefit a team (if they happen to the right player). I can think of multiple instances where Cal has sat more productive players in favor of "his guy." SGA is just the most egregious example.

 

[BMo643]

And I would point to Cal's historic stubborn tendency to play "his guys" regardless of production/ability as an example of how injuries CAN benefit a team (if they happen to the right player). I can think of multiple instances where Cal has sat more productive players in favor of "his guy." SGA is just the most egregious example.

Now thats a different argument.

Cal might be the worst coach in the country of showing favoritism to "his" guys or playing the kids with more NBA potential over kids that would probably help his team win more games. I won't argue with you there. He mismanages rosters/lineups about as bad as anyone I can think of.

 

[kl40504_rivals]

And I would point to Cal's historic stubborn tendency to play "his guys" regardless of production/ability as an example of how injuries CAN benefit a team (if they happen to the right player). I can think of multiple instances where Cal has sat more productive players in favor of "his guy." SGA is just the most egregious example.

Not

 

[Cats192]

bUt sHaRpE dOeSn'T cOsT uS aNyThInG

Seeing as Reeves just committed...

 

[Cats192]

Didnt know the NBAPA had commented on the SS situation.
The 19 yr/ 1 year removed is not something they bargained for..
The PA favors the straighr out of hs route.

Everything I heard about it was from the Sources Say guys. And it's certainly the kind of thing you take with a grain of salt.

But then Reeves went from 100% lock, he's going to commit this weekend to--well now it looks like Oregon because he has a role there. It certainly implies that the kid is being told Sharpe's status is in question.

Then today, Sharpe is included on the draft early entrant list and Reeves commits shortly thereafter. And the only thing that changed in the last 24 hours is Sharpe's name on that list.

 

[kl40504_rivals]

Everything I heard about it was from the Sources Say guys. And it's certainly the kind of thing you take with a grain of salt.

But then Reeves went from 100% lock, he's going to commit this weekend to--well now it looks like Oregon because he has a role there. It certainly implies that the kid is being told Sharpe's status is in question.

Then today, Sharpe is included on the draft early entrant list and Reeves commits shortly thereafter. And the only thing that changed in the last 24 hours is Sharpe's name on that list.

Real Sharpe comments

 

[HerrosHeroes]

6’6 is a tall guard. We got a good one folks 20 ppg shoots nearly 40% from 3.
Cal’s gonna mess around and win another title next year.