I know everyone has someone they want to compare certain players to, but for this old timer, he reminds me alot of Jack Givens. Im sure some of it is because they're both lefties, but Jack was similar in that he could do it all and was really smooth in doing it. I know Edwards is taller, but Jack was an excellent rebounder for his size. Edwards seems to have more range on his shot, but I'm sure if the 3 pt shot had existed in Jack's day, he would have adjusted to it. Just my thoughts.
Edwards reminds me of the Goose.
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UK has had some nice lefties. Grevey, Goose, Bogans and Prince are some of my favorites.
I also liked Cliff Hawkins who had a pretty good career at UK as PG. Still is high on the list in several UK stats categories.
Just thinking more and would say Terrence Jones, Julius Randle and Heshimu Evans would be good additions to that lefty list. We have had some good ones and there are more, I'm sure.
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As far as lefties go, I was a big fan of Heshimu Evans
Me too and I just made an edit and added him and a couple others to my list.
Bogans wasn’t a lefty
I’ve said from the beginning I thought Edwards and Wagner would be special. This roster is loaded with talent. Hopefully the team stays healthy because I think this will be a great season.
Tom Parker was a pretty good lefty back in the day.
Yes... When I was watching him hit those first 2 threes, I thought his form reminded me of Prince
Parker was a terrific open shot and a good, strong rebounder, but was slow as a dog and couldn't play defense to save his life. He also couldn't handle the ball, to the point that if he dribbled more than about 3 or 4 times he was called for palming because the basll got higher with each bdribble. For God's sake, let's not compare him to Edwards or Givens.
Yep. Ole Goose was an unusual player. A 6'4" forward who didn't jump high, was lacking in dribbling/driving skills, and didn't take any long range shots (never took any from what would now be three distance) ...yet still dominated by being the absolute master of coming off screens and curls and drilling those mid-range 8-15 foot type shots.
He's kinda the prototype of the player who would not fit in today's era ...where mid-range is out and it's all about three pointers and drives ...but was a perfect fit for our late 70s style play.
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All basketball players at this level should be, at least, very strong with their opposite hand. It shouldn’t take breaking an arm like David Lee did to be able to compete opposite-handed!
6'7", lanky, silky smooth...The Iceman George Gervin. I'll also offer up Reggie Miller.
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I compared him to a lefty shooter but he was not a bad player don't know about all the crap you threw out.
It's not crap TheoJ. I watched Parker's 3 years at UK and I described him exactly as he was. He wasn't a bad college player by the standards back then, but you can't be a really good college player now if you can only play with one hand and only move to the left as a consequence. And yes, he was horrific on defense because he was very slow. He was a deadly shooter and a solid rebounder, but couldn't create his own shot because of the slowness and lack of a a decent handle.
Tom Parker was a 2 time All SEC player and SEC Player of the Year as a senior. In the 1000 pt club. Averaged about 15 and 8 over his 3 years. Drafted.
I’ll take that. “Wasn’t a bad college player” isn’t a good description.
I know “he wasn’t athletic enough”- just a consistent dependable high iq basketball player.
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My favorite lefty was probably Travis Ford or Kenny Walker.
Much love brother but I don't feel that you went out on much of a limb expecting big things from the number 3 and number 6 players in the country lol
That being said if I had to take a crack at it, I see Edwards as a less athletic/explosive left handed Andrew Wiggins.
In my eyes I didn’t. Many have been and were worried about scouts saying the class was really weak this year.
He reminds me of one of the O'Bannon brothers. Maybe a mixture of both
According to the board Edwards is anything from Gimel Martinez to Goose Givens and Ron Mercer in between lol.
