UK paid the price on Tuesday when he missed two of the easiest shots a player is likely to get in a game. If it is only a confidence matter, he needs to ride the pine until he gains enough confidence to compete. If he didn't come with all the hype, you wouldn't be advocating for him staying on the court. Hype doesn't score points to assist in getting wins. The board has trashed players who have been way more productive than Edwards.
All of the forwards do idnt do much offesively primarily becquse they were zoned all game. I think he just needs to find his niche on this team
he was not the only one who blew opportunities but I prefer to look to the positives instead of living off of the negatives
You don't get victories by playing players who are not ready to play. He was supposed to come with confidence. These players hang around only one season, so we don't have time to wait for them to get confidence especially when there are others who already have confidence and can play.
Unfortunately, he hasn't displayed any positive to look at. He is nearly at the bottom in production. This isn't why he was recruited and signed or why he is probably making nearly a 1 million in NIL money.
A lot of people didn't miss easy shots. There were some who missed easy shots but nothing like the ones Edwards missed. The ones who did missed not so easy shots also made some difficult shots. If you are ok with KY losing while Edwards and Wagner get their confidence, that is your choice. I would like to see them both get fewer minutes until their play justifies more minutes.
GREAT post. I was actually coming to post this.
Mostly I was thinking about the way posters imagine they can evaluate talent and predict the arc of a player's career from a tiny subset of performances. I've referenced it before but Joe B said that players don't really reach their playing potential before the 2nd semester of their sophomore years. Physical and emotional maturity factor prominently in that. But everyone's a Carnac. The seer of seers. The prognosticator of prognosticators.
Saying its jitters is fine, saying they are bad and lazy are 4 games isn’t. Edwards is a good player having to adjust right now, he will be fine so will Wagner
I meant like 14 or 15 points, Reed and dilly aren’t gonna be on every game, but right now minus the Kansas game their production is fine
I would think he looks at this team and knows that style of play just wouldn’t be best for them at all
How are you still allowed to post here?
that's true, but the 2 highest rated kids coming in have struggled mightily & been severly out played by Dilly & Shep
why because he says the truth?
A frosh at hame 4.
Im no t ok with the Cats losing but down the rankings road we will need both of this guys. You seemed to have already given up on them. No one individual lost the game but Reeves going 3/17 on 3s particularly towards the end of the didnt help.
Outside of Leadbelly, he's the biggest troll on the board and has been for years. It's startling that you haven't taken this reality into account.
We need them to be good but will they- we have played 1 really good team and some cupcakes and IMO, they both should have showed more by now
I agree with you that we need them, but we need them to produce. I believe that players get playing time the old fashion way; they earn it with their play and not by their number of stars. If you didn't know about his number of stars, I doubt that you would advocating for his unearned playing time.
They won't be fine because someone says they will be. They will be fine because they demonstrate on the court that they are worthy of all the hype. Until then, next man up!
Yes we’ve had much more than 4 games to watch him - was on numerous times in High School as well as all star games
If either one of them can get 14 points a game and be solid then that’s really good, and I think they will be fine because they have time
I hope you are right because Cal will keep sending DJ out there no matter how poorly he plays.
It’s been 4 games. They certainly should have played better against Kansas, that was a disappointing but other than that they are going to have ups and downs like most freshman
After playing so poorly against KU, I thought they would have used an inferior opponent to show that the KU game was a fluke. They failed!
This is a sports message board. You are going to be greatly disappointed with bar you’ve set, lol.
Maybe? Like I said, I left out a few but after those 18 you’re getting closer to debatable.
No sir, Im not a star kind of guy. But he has skills and potential we will need down the road
Knox? Keldon Johnson? James Young?
Troll
Careful, you will be called a troll because you don't agree with all of the ccc butt kisses, like I was
