Skyy Clark
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They are throwing everything at everyone possible. So you always have a chance, but I'd place their chances as very unlikely. Hope that they breakthrough and a miracle takes place. But I'd not put $ down on it happening.
Skyy Clark is very impressive. Think Sharife Cooper but a better shooter. That guy can start eventually. Way better than Askew. Askew was meant to be a 4 year guy. He was the obvious backup to Cade. Cal wanting him to reclass, and knowing how the Askew reclass went tells me he is confident he can come in and Produce.
Age doesn't matter for a reclass. Not sure why people put so much stock in that. Skill development and actual time at honing skill development is what matters. Some of these guys could use that extra year of high school basketball.
Exactly. A reclass means you missed a year in high school. He's now only effectively played two years of high school ball. He didn't play the last season.
Oh great, another should be high school senior coming in to start against d-1 competition.
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Age usually determines if you're physically ready to play at the next level. There are outliers when it comes to this obviously.
Clark said that during games the competitor in him doesn’t allow for him to concentrate on anything but dominating, but afterward he often questioned whether him playing was putting his family in danger.
“The gyms are packed and out here it’s kinda like living normal life,” Clark said. “There are not a lot of restrictions. It was really tough, and we went back and forth with it, trust me. I just want to do my part in the pandemic. The sooner we can get out of this, the sooner it’s better and back to normal living.”
“The gyms are packed and out here it’s kinda like living normal life,” Clark said. “There are not a lot of restrictions. It was really tough, and we went back and forth with it, trust me. I just want to do my part in the pandemic. The sooner we can get out of this, the sooner it’s better and back to normal living.”
Not gonna blame a kid for not wanting to be in packed gyms with strangers and risk family members’ lives. Re the CA vacation.... You can take a vacation with family and implement precautions to ensure you still social distance. Actually not particularly difficult. Much less control over who gets allowed in gyms, who you come into contact with on the court, etc.
His California vacation was him going back to where he lived previously...
I am from Mayfield. My great-grandparents were married in Possum Trot. Small world
You are right that Askew wasnt ready for big time basketball. Hardy will be 19 years old when classes start, if he goes to college. His age may be one reason why he is more than likely going the G league route.
You seem to know a bit about the situation. You are saying that Cal is actually pushing Clark to reclass to 2021?
As I stated he and family can do what they choose to do. But if you are going to talk of fear of Covid and effect it's had on family in fear of playing HS basketball, cross country travel isn't necessarily the #1 thing advised--not as much for your family's safety as it is on it's effect possibly on other people who they came across. You deal with people on any trip no matter what mode of transportation you take.
As for basketball angle, players find ways to play, quitters find reasons to make quitting sound like it's reasonable. Doesn't make anyone bad, but this kid hasn't played a lot of basketball in the last year. So in relation to this topic, I'm not excited about the prospect of a guy who has not played a lot of ball, coming a year early to run the show at UK when the only competition against players he'd face at the level he'd be playing he laid an egg with deck stacked in his favor and UK is coming off the worst season in school history. That's pressure that isn't needed to be added for a player, let alone a guy who could be staying in HS with original class.
It's not hating anyone or being unreasonable to say I'd like to see him play against good HS competition this Spring/Summer and stay in the class he was supposed to graduate in. It's just making sure about an investment, specifically when you have some other options available who are having big seasons in '22 class at the guard position.
@ralphdaltonfan Any insight on Tyty Washington? Assuming Boston is gone, I'd love to wrap up the backcourt with a transfer PG, Washington and Powell. Washington and Hickman both shoot well enough to play off the ball a little and we need all the ball-handlers and creators we can get.
Washington is getting a ton of offers now and will probably get a guaranteed starting PG position from someone but he'd be a great fit as a combo guard here.
Washington is getting a ton of offers now and will probably get a guaranteed starting PG position from someone but he'd be a great fit as a combo guard here.
Correct, like that KY kid (don't remember his name, but at one point he transfered to Bowling Green, I think he will be freakin 20 when he walks onto campus in the fall as a FR.
Very well said. High school juniors aren't going to come in and run this the way Cal needs it to be run and if he was that good, he wouldn't be going to college.
Didn't we lose in the 2nd round with Murray and Ulis?
Good take. There are certainly a lot of red flags with Skyy.
I absolutely hate having a reclass kid come in and be a main piece of the starting lineup, especially after the season UK just had.
We say this every year after the season over. It's turned into the boy that cried WOLF.
That team was a big man from being unstoppable, we had that horrible matchup with Indiana who did have a big man and just ripped us inside.
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I got it from a Credible AAU coach. Things
May have changed but dad is a real issue
That team was carried by only 2 guys, Murray one of them, and we could only win big games if both of them scored 20+. Terrible argument.
I agree that Murray was good enough even as a freshman. Probably the most ready freshman 2G UK has had (of course, he still wasn't near what he has become now). But that's pretty rare, and more an exception to the rule. Monk is another one that I think was good enough offensively to man the 2G spot on a college contender even as a freshman. Monk was a beautiful scorer, but deficient in most every other way (by choice, not ability).