LOL no just no. Poy is a PF . He will play more at C next year then he does at SF unless we add Maker .
I hate when people say this. Hate. As if Poy has no experience at the 3. If a positive match-up presents itself (i.e., a team has a small 3, or their 3 is too big for anything else we can put out there), Poy will go in there. Whether or not he becomes a small forward, and gets a ton of minutes at the position depends on two things. Has his ball handling improved in the year that he's been off since his injury to that point, and has his jumpshooting improved.
And quite frankly, his jumpshooting doesn't have to improve out of the gate, but it can quite a bit. MKG couldn't shoot his way out of a wet paper bag, and he helped carry UK to a title game, really off of 2 things.
1. Defense (Poythress is already the best defender on the team, and was last year before his injury, imo.)
2. Energy (We've seen energized Poythress, and we all expect energized Poythress now. It's his senior year, minutes are his for the taking, and he came back with something to prove.)
Where Poy and excel over MKG if he makes the positional change:
1. He is much, much more of a physical presence than MKG was, and at the SF position, with his size, speed, and athleticism, he would be the biggest physical presence at the position in all of college basketball)
2. Matches up with bigs better than MKG could.
3. Just a better athlete than MKG. Hard to argue, being that Poythress is the gold standard for an athlete. 6'8, 245#, incredibly fast, powerful, has ridiculous hops.
If he gets his ball handling down, Poy has potential to leap to one of the elites in CBB at SF, where he can really impose his physicality.
