I feel like Cal wasted Towns full potential
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Last years team was too stacked for Towns to get huge numbers. If Towns was a lone super star he probably would have averaged 20+ a game but he wasn't going too last year. AD didn't average a bunch of points either.
You are joking right?? I'm a big Kentucky /Cal fan as you can see from post history. Doesn't change the fact that I feel Cal didn't use Towns full potential. I'm not the only thing that is thinking this of people who watch the NBA
We def should have used him in pick and rolls to unclog the paint last year. Having said that, dude was a low post monster the last half of the year.
The offense should have ran through Towns every game. Towns is the Twolves second best passer, best rebounder, best scorer and arguably the best shooter on the team. Even though it's only 39 attempts, which he didn't attempt as much early in the season as he is now, he is shooting almost 40% from 3 and that is just scratching the surface of how good he has been in the NBA
People tend to forget just how Towns was in the post when he came to Kentucky, it seems.
He was tentative, he didn't want to battle down there. He learned to do that, and the fruits of that labor are paying of in an absolutely enormous way.
He was tentative, he didn't want to battle down there. He learned to do that, and the fruits of that labor are paying of in an absolutely enormous way.
It was so weird. I mean, he absolutely saved us against Notre Dame. And yet, he scored two points against West Virginia and look how that game went.
it's impossible to use full potential in college....
SMH, people always use NBA as if NBA is a fair comparison. That dude is working with KG at insane rate of practice time. Way beyond what college can do. Trying to get him to play in all sort of way at collegiate level will make him very inconsistent.
40 minutes a game, 35 seconds per possession, less game... just not enough repetition to mimic what is happening in college.
SMH, people always use NBA as if NBA is a fair comparison. That dude is working with KG at insane rate of practice time. Way beyond what college can do. Trying to get him to play in all sort of way at collegiate level will make him very inconsistent.
40 minutes a game, 35 seconds per possession, less game... just not enough repetition to mimic what is happening in college.
OP. ...Cal has taken UK to 4 FF in 5 yrs. 2 title games. . 1 Championship.......
But as Pete Townshend wrote and Roger Daltrey sang and the Who performed in Baba O' Riley...."Their All Wasted!"....
Troll some more big boy.....
But as Pete Townshend wrote and Roger Daltrey sang and the Who performed in Baba O' Riley...."Their All Wasted!"....
Troll some more big boy.....
What else did you want him to do..run the point? Towns wasn't a back to the basket player when he got here he wasn't as good at alot of things...guess how he got better. Goldfish memories again, where ppl forget early season or only see what is going on now.
Run the point? Are you dumb? He could have shot mid range and 3s which would have opened up the lane for the Harrison twins and would have allowed him to beat bigs off the dribble along with being in the post. All I'm saying is Cal made him a post player when he is so much more dynamic than that. Goldfish memories? So saying he's more dynamic than just a post player is me forgetting how he played at Kentucky?
Cal made him a post player because he knew Towns had the potential to be great there, and it paid off to Towns' benefit. We know what Cal's motives are when it comes to coaching up players individually. He tries to set them up with what they'll have the most future success with.
Now, let's assume that Towns never learns to bang in the post, and he's a 3 point/mid-range shooter. I'm not sure we're talking about how great Towns could be, today, if that happened.
Cal did what was best for Towns. Be satisfied that we have a coach who actually cares about his players.
Post up? Did you even watch a single game?
Um what? I watched every game. Cal stopped letting Karl shoot jumpers after like 5 games in and he was strictly in the post afterwards
Man.... like I said, check my post history. I'm the farthest from a troll. I hate Louisville. But saying that Cal held Towns back is not a troll post and saying that I am a troll is a disservice to real basketball fans. I mean even Cal admits that he holds players back. It's non debatable that Karl is so so much better as a pro than he was at Kentucky even though he was very good at Kentucky.
Also, I love Cal so don't get it twisted.
I can't believe we have to put up with Cal when all this time this guy had all the answers. Damn you Mitch!
Go back and look. Early in the season K
He went number 1 in the draft cause Cal developed his whole game.
Mitch Barnhart sucks ass. The fact that we even have to debate this issue is sad. Mitch is terrible and should have been fired a long time ago. He had zero to do with hiring cal. I can't believe some of this board still believes he did. Ridiculous.
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I dont disagree with the post. Allowing him to shoot jumpers sometimes probably would have made the offense more versitile, but he belonged on the post at least 90% of the game because thats every centers bread and butter. Towns has a great post game because of Cal and that will make him 1000x better in the NBA than he would have been. It would have been nice to spread the floor w him sometimes but with the season we had clearly the offense was fine without him floating around the perimeter. I think the way we used him was undeniably great but I understand the OP logic.
You........The Point........And never the twain shall meet.
I mean if people want to hate on my opinion they can, doesn't change the fact that this is the opinion of the majority of NBA fans
it is very obvious those NBA fans never watched enough UK games to see how much Cal developed a passive player into a beast
as a matter of fact, Cal developed him to the point he was the #1 draft pick that most of those "NBA fans" had Okafor going #1
OP, everyone has an opinion, yours seems to be based from ignorance (lack of knowledge of the situation)
So Calipari held Towns back, even though Calipari developed his total game, which allowed him to be the #1 overall draft pick. Seems like Calipari did what was right by the player in stood allowed him to do what he was most comfortable with.
Wow.. Towns and company led us to 38 straight wins,, and you're bit**ing about how Cal played him.. We were pretty damn dynamic as was last year.. There's truly no pleasing your kind with this basketball team we have at UK..
?? This is the same silliness that people are saying about Skal.
Do you honestly think that he's equally valuable long term in the NBA with or without a post game? Adding that to his mid range and 3 game has turned him into a historically good rookie.
What don't people get about this?
So CAl held two players back, AD and Towns and despite that, they were the top players drafted.
Op's name is fitting. Epic fail post. NBA and college WAY to different to compare. Karl won every game he played except one, went to a Final Four and was the number one pick. Had he picked Kansas he'd be sitting the bench counting Big 12 title banners with your boy Cheick Diallo.
I'm sorry, but this thread up is terrible. The OP may be a troll, I'm not sure, but sometimes even trolls can say things that are true ( if he is a troll ), he has a point that I thought also. What Cal did with Towns was amazing, he was timid and needed to become a post player, because he allready had the shooting skills coming in. When he was young and on the Dominican team, he was known as a young big, who could shoot.
What he couldn't do was post up, he played too timid as was mentioned ealier, and because Cal did that he became the number 1 pick!
That being said, even though he needed to be in the post most of the time, he shot well in HS, and in the NBA, whywouldnt he have shot it well in college also?
Maybe he wouldn't have shot it as well as he does now, we'll never know. He never got the chance to find out.
I'm not blaming Cal, I love him, but to say he shouldn't have gotten a chance to find out weather his skill of shooting while at UK is disapointing IMO. Any time a big can hit it from outside it adds a whole demention to their game, so how anyone can argue that anyone with the reputation to be able to hit outside shots at both HS, and went on to prove it in the NBA shouldn't even be given a chance to try and hit some shots in college is foolish?!
You can say whatever you want about the OP, but look it up, he was known to be able to shoot lights out for a big, but just because he needed to expand his game, doesn't mean you shouldn't use all the skills he had when he came into the program.
What he couldn't do was post up, he played too timid as was mentioned ealier, and because Cal did that he became the number 1 pick!
That being said, even though he needed to be in the post most of the time, he shot well in HS, and in the NBA, whywouldnt he have shot it well in college also?
Maybe he wouldn't have shot it as well as he does now, we'll never know. He never got the chance to find out.
I'm not blaming Cal, I love him, but to say he shouldn't have gotten a chance to find out weather his skill of shooting while at UK is disapointing IMO. Any time a big can hit it from outside it adds a whole demention to their game, so how anyone can argue that anyone with the reputation to be able to hit outside shots at both HS, and went on to prove it in the NBA shouldn't even be given a chance to try and hit some shots in college is foolish?!
You can say whatever you want about the OP, but look it up, he was known to be able to shoot lights out for a big, but just because he needed to expand his game, doesn't mean you shouldn't use all the skills he had when he came into the program.
