Well he is on a visit there and honestly their insiders are a lot like ours. A little good news or a visit and the prospect is always theirs.
Andrija Jelavic commits to UK!
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I still contend that starting doesn’t matter as much as minutes. If we don’t add another guard, JJ is probably the backup PG and likely comes off the bench, playing some as both 1 & 2. Then you could go Chandler 2, Oweh 3, or Oweh 2, Williams or Dioubate 3.
2nd round projected pick 2025 Draft
1st round projected pick 2026 Draft
Played elite level Euro ball and is 21
1st round projected pick 2026 Draft
Played elite level Euro ball and is 21
Exactly …we’ve seen that a time or 2 here lol
Garrison made the first move by removing UK from his account. Pope made the next move by signing another big. While Garrison is playing checkers, Pope is playing chess. What is Garrison's next move??? I guess he learned nothing from Lewis' experience.
I hope he has a banger season then, I have no worries he will look great in our offense and if he does all the Euros will come here especially the ones concerned about the athletes in the SEC.
If he doesn’t commit tonight then Kentucky has a legit shot, I hope he doesn’t and atleast hears pope out
Call me crazy, but I love those bad guy bad asses--Douglas in Wall Street, Jack in A Few Good Men, Darth Vader, heck even Ledger as Joker.
We were never doomed. Doomed went out the door the minute Cal left and Pope arrived. It has just taken some of our fans a while to realize it.
Read that as 20.8 pts per game 10 assists lmfaoooo
Regardless good pick up! He will be a solid addition
Right he’s not a 17-18 year old coming over he’s 21 if I’m correct been playing pro ball for 2-4 years believe him and Bogoljub Markovic were teams Bogo plays in the summit tonight. The video below is from 2021 he’s in green #7
Develop Chandler into a serviceable PG/CG, definitely find a way to keep BG, snag Wilkerson, and get a multi-year developmental piece or two, and let’s roll to the Final Four in 2026!
No way BG is staying now, lol. This kid is just too fluid, better shooter, has running floater. And will be a better rebounder than BG ever wanted to be.
So we got our stretch four. Great news. Now get him over here so that he can start to adjust to life in the US so that we can get the tummy troubles over before the season starts.
Only question I have is can he defend and rebound at all?
Only question I have is can he defend and rebound at all?
I wonder what the NIL was for the big man because I couldn’t find anything on salary current for ABA. In 2021 it was $3000 a month
A lot more of them recently have played well, Denim for BYU, Kasparas Jakucionis for Illinois, Big Z and his Brother, Max Shulga , Emanuel Sharp, Danny Wolf, Henri Veesaar.
Awesome news guys! Hopefully he can play better defense than big z!
I’m so happy we upgraded the front court.
Thought it was cool of Big Z to be supportive on IG story of Jelavic. Used the 😍 emoji when sharing the DraftExpress tweet. Thought that was neat and showed positive feelings towards UK.
Thought it was cool of Big Z to be supportive on IG story of Jelavic. Used the 😍 emoji when sharing the DraftExpress tweet. Thought that was neat and showed positive feelings towards UK.
I am good with that, bring Moreno along slowly.
I’m not sure Jelavic is going to be starter material right off the bat, though.
Illinois has another international kid coming, David Mirkovic he will be in the Nike game tonight and the German kid Steinbach went to Washington. Just some names to see how they do mainly Steinbach since he was a name thrown around early.
I have said to everyone on here, that Coach knows what he is doing and he and the staff are not going to broadcast to all what is in the works. Go Coach Pope and staff!!!!! Yay!!!💙💙💙💙
Love the pickup but I still want a stud knock down shooter guard. Let's have an embarrassment of riches, Let's get nuts!
Quaintance at the 5. Backed up by Garrison. Moreno brought along slowly.
Garrison and Dioubate split minutes at the 4. Jelavic brought along slowly.
This gives the Freshmen time to adjust.
If one or both turn out to be elite, then they play more.
Or if Quaintance isn’t ready, we have one more body and do not have to use Noah as much at the 4.
This covers all the bases.
Glad to hear BG is sticking around.
Do not know if BG will stick around
Seems BG's role will not be larger than last year
Welcome aboard Andrija Jelavic! Thrilled about this addition to the roster. Pope keeps getting the job done.
Umm …No. This guy is a 21 year old pro. No way he’s coming here for a role limited to just third string 4 being “brought along slowly.”
I like that were making a pipeline in Europe and that were seeing, at least a little bit, euro player interest in Mark Popes system
Give me a few euro players every year and I'd be tickled pink. Tough and proven players who aren't spending their day on TikTok.
An interesting prospect. Runs the court well. Nice touch on the perimeter. I like addition to the team.
That’s how I see it too.
JJ is the backup 1 and 2 while getting starter minutes between the two positions. He and Lowe are the only 2 guys that are suited for the 1 and On our current roster.
Sure, Chandler can play the 1 in a pinch but I don’t think that’s ideal. Without adding another guard, it only makes sense to let Jasper backup the 1/2.
With the current roster I think we go big and Oweh/Williams is your 2/3. It de-clogs the front court that way if Williams is a SF.
I think back in February there was post saying Kentucky was looking at him .
It was a European guy and I think it was him. I could be wrong
