Comments on Sea of Blue about Reeves
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Agreed. But every title team has guys who had been in the program for 3-4 years, not just guys who come in from other programs and play. Those guys aren’t much better than the Freshmen, really.
But we.do need some experience.
We need balance. We need 3-4 stud Freshmen, 3-4 returnees (guys who actually played), and fill in the blanks with transfers.
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I should have put something else there to make sure everyone knew that my post was lathered in sarcasm.
We agree with each other.
Every few days there are articles indicating UK has contacted someone from the portal. You guys are so biased against Cal that you make yourselves look foolish. Stop lying!
He’s on username number 3 or 4.
I’d say he’s had more than that. That guys crazy
Simple math says:
Catphight: 2,400 messages per year since 2008
Jload: 2,900 messages per year since 2022
Who spends all their time here??
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They think guys are desperate to give up on their dreams to entertain people who care nothing about them besides their ability to play basketball who shit on them every time they don’t meet their expectations.
Dooks returning first rounders and Jrs/Srs and we can't return a guy who shot us out of the Tourney.🤡
7. 5 Freshman and 2 Sophomores who barely played. With the covid year still looming and the portal most teams will be old vets meanwhile... We are
Cow will say it so many times.
Poor little Kelly, Baller Cal, CardsStink, Dubya C Dubya, Calsthebomb, etc, etc...
Yours is a loathsome, lonesome journey of sockhood - embrace it Baller Karen, it is your destiny...
Here's an avatard for your next account...
I agree with you on the value and need for good retuning players. Ideally I would want a couple of those in every starting lineup at UK.
Where you and I disagree is the value you place on OAD freshmen and the rankings made by recruiting services which have explicitly stated they are ranking players based of future potential (and more specifically where they are likely projected in the following years NBA draft), not their expected college production or how good the freshmen will be in their freshman year of college. Guys like Whitney a few years ago are a glaring example of this, and frankly I think Bradshaw is another lesser extreme example. Now, I’m not saying my opinion is right and yours is wrong, I’m just saying I can tell our opinions on this point are basically exactly opposite, and I’m just discussing why I think the way I do – and because you’re a good poster who can discuss stuff without getting all defensive or hostile.
As a general rule (and exceptions don’t disprove a rule) I believe: (1) upperclassmen are the best players in college at basically every position; and (2) freshmen can’t shoot (which is logical if you think about it) and a certain degree of reliable perimeter shooting is a necessity with the advent of the 3-point shot for multiple reasons. Neither draft position (projected or actual) or what a player eventually becomes in the NBA when they are older and have better developed their skills has any bearing on a player’s impact on winning in his freshman year of college.
My roster building blueprint would be closer to 2-4 top transfers; 3-4 returning players; 4-5 freshmen (no more than 2 being of the expected OAD variety).
The transfer portal is a different thing than the transfer situations in the past. Now some of the best players in college are entering the transfer portal due to NIL and the free pass. I think the transfer portal in its current iteration does produce players that have a bigger impact on winning than freshmen, including 5-star freshman. So, by the way I define best players (i.e., those who have the biggest impact on UK winning games), the best players are in the transfer portal – and it’s not that close.
Calipari has not given the transfer portal a fair attempt. Calipari was/is opposed to the transfer portal. Most of his transfers have been graduate transfers which he didn’t have the same objection to. So, I think you’re wrong to look at Calipari’s transfer recruitment and say transfers won’t work so UK should go back to turning over the roster every year with OADs. Other teams are able to build contenders in one offseason with the new transfer portal. And I would be willing to bet that a starting five built from the best players in the transfer portal would handily beat a starting five built from the incoming freshmen ranks in a college basketball game (maybe the result would be different in a pick-up game, I don’t know).
I'd be totally estatic if UK put out a presser saying "We've decided to not let Calipari come back". What a relief that would be. Would destroy CCC's fragile ego.
I’m telling you, after all the things he’s done on this site , the accounts he’s made, just the numbers you posted right here shows the guy is a dang psycho
Duke has a young and hungry coach. We have an old and busted coach.
Calipari isn't any different than Wright or K (minus multiple titles) in that he isnt equipped for this new era of college basketball. If cal was 10 to 15 years younger I think he would do well but damn, dude is just going through the motions at this point.
They will be until the injuries from no rest start.
I'm starting to think Cal dreams of a roster this small, just because he's too lazy to coach up a full bench. And it makes his line-up combination that he struggles with much easier when there's only 7 players.
I think Cal gravitated toward a brand of basketball that would most protect the draft stock of his guys. If those guys are afraid of being exposed he just hides them. His focus is on June.
Only to the cal hate cult.
I’m very proud of the UK basketball program.
Just made my reservations in Glendale for the FF.
I would say I feel sorry for your sky is falling woe is me attitude but I don’t. It’s self inflicted.
LMFAO...what 4 teams are ya gonna watch in Glendale
No one said that young people always make the best decisions.
Don't think that is a new philosophy of his. Difference is from 2009 to 2015 dude killed it here. A couple balls bounce another way and he makes a final four in 17 and 19 as well. It's like he died after the Wisconsin loss and we haven't been able to win a super big game since ( elite 8 or further game).
Money!!!! It’s a hit…
Pay him 200 grand for an autograph. He’ll be back. That’s on you, not Cal.
Bandaogo is the one I would to see at uk since I first saw some highlights. Much better than ugo, but again ccc must have promised a starting spot to get him to come back.
If Reeves is trying every way possible to avoid returning to uk then ccc should help him out.....recruit someone to take his place. Then if he wants to return after getting a replacement, tell him, sorry no spot for you. But ccc doesn't have the guts to do what should be done.
UT did just what should have been done. They didn't wait around hoping someone would come back.
And, there is no Mike Pratt around to help Barnhart out this time.He'll probably leave us in about the same shape the drunkard (Sutton) did on his way out...
BTW, who trusts brainfart to make the hire?
I really hope he comes back. Him and oscar both
Ain't that the truth...maybe Brainfart retires when Cal packs it in and we can get Peevy back...much more in tune with basketball than track and field and the golf team...
I DO NOT want Barnhart making the next hire. Anyone who hire's Billy Gillispie is disqualified, same with Coach in waiting disaster with Joker. Those both were epic failures. Barnhart needs to convene a selection committee made up of past UK BB players with NBA experience or insights to come up with a viable list of candidates. We don't want some has-been coach with name recognition. JMO.He'll probably leave us in about the same shape the drunkard (Sutton) did on his way out...
BTW, who trusts brainfart to make the hire?
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