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Chandler Returning to UK

He was a highly rated recruit for a reason. From game 1 until now he has transformed and it shouldn’t have shocked anyone it was going to take a while after not competing for 2 years. Continuity is so big to build a sustainable program and compete year in year out. Noah Perry and Chandler are as close as we are going to get to watching basketball like we did growing up seeing them grow from year to year.
 
That’s part of the reason I cringe when people complained about our 3 freshmen this year saying they weren’t talented enough to play here. They were never supposed to be forced into those roles this early but we had no choice. It’s easy to say you want your8-12 players to score 15 a game but it’s not realistic in this day and age to have really good players sitting at the end of the bench… In two years guess what we will have some down there because they WANT to be here and were given time to develop. No some may not play 25 mpg but having guys that are a + for 10-15 mpg is very valuable with injuries and the SEC grind.
 
BTW, did you see in the Lex H-L that there is a possibility that he will not play on Sunday due to Mormon obligations?
I did not know about such things.

Anyhow, he said he was playing.
 
BTW, did you see in the Lex H-L that there is a possibility that he will not play on Sunday due to Mormon obligations?
I did not know about such things.

Anyhow, he said he was playing.
I would think if Steve Young, great great grandson of Brigham Young, could play in the NFL for over 10 years, surely is ok to play one game on Sunday.
 
That’s part of the reason I cringe when people complained about our 3 freshmen this year saying they weren’t talented enough to play here. They were never supposed to be forced into those roles this early but we had no choice. It’s easy to say you want your8-12 players to score 15 a game but it’s not realistic in this day and age to have really good players sitting at the end of the bench… In two years guess what we will have some down there because they WANT to be here and were given time to develop. No some may not play 25 mpg but having guys that are a + for 10-15 mpg is very valuable with injuries and the SEC grind.
Chandler was always talented enough to play for Kentucky. He was inevitably going to be REALLY rusty after taking two years off though. It kinda cracks me up that people wrote him off after a few games early this year.
 
That may be our backup SF/SG for 2026 providing defense, athleticism and his improving stroke has him as 3pt threat as well.

I think he competes for Noah's minutes as the depth at SF.
 
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That may be our backup SF/SG for 2026 providing defense, athleticism and his improving stroke has him as 3pt threat as well.

I think he competes for Noah's minutes as the depth at SF.
He’s going to fight to start. I know everyone has JJ penciled in, and they might be right. But I expect CC to earn starter level minutes. If he can’t, we are probably really really good.
 
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I thought Mormons celebrated the Sabbath on Saturday? Participation in, or even watching sports on the Sabbath is forbidden in many religious denominations. It is considered unholy to get that excited, and hateful in the case of some people, on the Sabbath.

I am a Christian myself, and I disagree. Sports are one of the few things uniting people instead of dividing right now. I'm more of a Bill Walton type when it comes to athletics. I see all of the beautiful aspects of it, to the extent that the actual winning and losing becomes almost secondary to me. The pain I will feel when we lose will be due to the fact that I will never get to see the particular group of great young men and women play again.

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To mark against your name,
He writes - not that you won or lost -
But HOW you played the Game.

― Grantland Rice
 
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