Comparing Devin Booker and Shaqquan Aaron...

[Cat Ballou]

... Believe it or not, these guys were pretty much equally rated coming into the year - by Rivals at least. Yes, Shaqquan had to sit a couple of games because of some NCAA issue, but he would have/should have been practicing with the team and thus should have been able to fairly smoothly transition into a contributor.

Um - no. As of today, Booker is being talked about as a late lottery/first round pick - whereas Aaron is still struggling to get PT on a team that has absolutely no consistent outside game and he is a complete non-entity on the draft boards.

If any two players more aptly embody the Kentucky effect - I can't think of them -

Oh wait, I forgot about the Davis, Kidd-Gilchrest, Teague class vs. the Blackshear, Banana-hands class.

 

[TheTruCatsFan]

Shaqquan Aaron > Ray Allen
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[Willy4UK]

Siva ----> Wall

 

[BBN3240]

#SivatoNYC

 

[Big Blue 1977]

I'd take a freshman Booker at UK vs. a 5th year Aaron at UL. I have no idea how I'd compare a freshman Booker at UK to a freshman Aaron at UK. I saw Aaron play in May 2013 and thought he looked good (thought also that he was too good of a talent to go to UL), so who knows?

 

[wcc31]

Cal gets more out of his freshmen than anyone. There is no comparison. Hell- look at Justin Jackson. He was Top 10 and Booker has outplayed him, too.

 

[Big Blue 1977]

Saw Jackson play at the same tournament where I saw Aaron. He also looked good there, but looks pretty lost at UNC, or at least nowhere near what most thought he would be. Oh well. Kentucky's not for everyone.

 

[DMILLER1]

The first time I saw Aaron play was the few minutes he played against us. I was shocked at how scrawny he was. Made AD look like a body builder. They better hope he can shoot, cause he won't be contributing anything else for at least a couple years.

This post was edited on 1/22 10:49 PM by DMILLER1

 

[throatpoker]

never heard of this shaqron kid, but i wonder how he'd be doing if he had melvin grooming him since birth for this moment?



give melvin some credit

 

[KMKAT]

SI calling Devin the best shooting freshman at UK.....

Booker leading the pack

 

[throatpoker]

Originally posted by KMKAT:
SI calling Devin the best shooting freshman at UK.....

here's the graphic they use