I feel like Cal wasted Towns full potential
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I hate stupid posts like this. I haven't hated any coach UK has had. BUT i love UK..Wanting the best for UK and the fans doesn't make you a coach hater or player hater. Coaches and players come and go. Real fans wants best for the team/school. Some cling too tightly to sack hairs. I don't know if it is the younger fans or what. There was two aspects of Towns game. We only saw one of them...
I understand why OP thinks this, but he is wrong.
Cal (and the staff) taught KAT those post moves and toughness. He only really started to get it towards the end of the season. If he made such strides over a few months, imagine the strides he made with a full summer of offseason workouts, unlimited practice, KG's tutelage, summer league, a totally different NBA game that allows space, no zone defense, fairer refs, his readiness from his time at UK (as he's stated), larger coaching staffs, no classes, a NBA preseason, and a boatload of money?
The answer is a lot. The KAT you see now did not exist while he was at UK. We got to see the embryonic stage, as with all OAD. Cousins wasn't a 57 point scoring monster at UK either. He was a guy learning not to foul and to control his emotions.
This is why I desperately wish we could have two and done, though... second year Anthony Davis would have been a terror in college, as if he wasn't already.
Cal (and the staff) taught KAT those post moves and toughness. He only really started to get it towards the end of the season. If he made such strides over a few months, imagine the strides he made with a full summer of offseason workouts, unlimited practice, KG's tutelage, summer league, a totally different NBA game that allows space, no zone defense, fairer refs, his readiness from his time at UK (as he's stated), larger coaching staffs, no classes, a NBA preseason, and a boatload of money?
The answer is a lot. The KAT you see now did not exist while he was at UK. We got to see the embryonic stage, as with all OAD. Cousins wasn't a 57 point scoring monster at UK either. He was a guy learning not to foul and to control his emotions.
This is why I desperately wish we could have two and done, though... second year Anthony Davis would have been a terror in college, as if he wasn't already.
Probably get in trouble for this. Towns was drafted #1 overall. Played on a team that won 38 straight games and got to the FF. This post just shows how unintelligent some folks are. Good grief. The NBA got towns a year after Cal and his staff worked with him. I just can't stand dumb posts like this.
Why do people in this thread keep saying the NBA has "no zone defense"? Just what year do you folks think this is? The NBA got rid of that old no zone rule over decade ago, zones are definitely part of the pro game today.
I wanted cal here about 01'. How about you? Yes our historically good defense and overall team in general that featured 4 current NBA starters and 5 NBA contributors one year later and could not beat Wisconsin. Why? Wisconsin has no business playing with us but did because cal simply did not properly game plan for us. They knew exactly what we were going to do on offense and defense because that is how cal coaches. Here we are stop it if you can and guess what whisky did!!! One hell of a coaching job!!!
The problem for you, and the OP, is your limited understanding of basketball as a game. I'm sure you think you're very knowledgeable, but you're not. Most of the posters here can see it, but you can't. Go back and read some of the excellent posts by others in this thread and think about what they are saying. What Calipari did with Towns was masterful, and absolutely correct for both him personally and the team as a whole. That's not blind Calipari worshipping, it's just fact and it's not really hard to see.
LOL! You are out of your mind. We see a lot of asinine posts here, but this is 1 of the goofiest. When Towns arrived at Kentucky, he wanted to hang on the perimeter and shoot jump shots. Calipari and Payne developed Towns' raw tools into the #1 overall NBA draft choice by teaching him how to play effectively on the low post.
WTH is this nonsense? Towns took jump shots , he just didnt hit them enough to take more. Towns faced up and attacked the basket some as well. Towns was incredible and did it with WCS and his defender clogging up the lane.
I also feel like the poster hasnt watched Towns play much in the NBA because he's had some great games and some games where he just gets 8-10 pts and 10 rbs. You know.... kinda like how his college career went.
I also feel like the poster hasnt watched Towns play much in the NBA because he's had some great games and some games where he just gets 8-10 pts and 10 rbs. You know.... kinda like how his college career went.
This thread is just ignorant. When you have the best post player in college, why in the world would you want him shooting tougher shots outside from 3? We all knew Towns could step out there and hit those shots at a decent % from 3, but why put a beast in the post so much further from the paint? Common sense tells you it's a tougher shot and a lower % to convert. It seems to most of us, if you were a true Kentucky fan, you would know from the start that coming out of highschool the writeup on Towns was a 6'10 big man that liked to stay outside the paint too much and shows lil to no post up game. When Cal got ahold of the kid, what happened? He went from shooting deep 3s to living in the post and i don't know why you don't put this part together. If Cal doesn't develope Cal's post game, Towns doesn't get drafted #1 overall. Sure it's a nice bonus when your center can step out and hit a 3 every once in a while, but if your center stays outside and only shoots 3s, the NBA isn't as interested in you as to a big that can shoot the 3 but is a beast in the post. Of course Towns didn't get to show us all of his talent. None of the greats that have played for us and will play for us in the future won't get to show us their full potential. Just not enough time to do that in college in just one college basketball season. When you are as loaded as we were last year, no one player was going to get to stand out and put up awesome stats. We all know Davis and Towns are two kids that could have easily averaged 20+ppg and 10rpg if giving the minutes and designed the offense built around these two. In case if you haven't noticed, the NBA has an extra 8 minutes per game to college. A lot of stats can happen in 8 minutes, as i'm sure you already know. This post just blows my mind!
Yeah , but it could be argued that the game we lost was because we stopped going INSIDE to Towns . Had nothing to do with his outside game .
Do you realize how foolish and ignorant you look? Your view is not only wrong but really makes you look remarkably mentally challenged.
Anytime you would like to get together for a beer and talk basketball, let me know. I am way more knowledgable about the game than the average fan and more knowledgable than the above average fan. I read most of the quotes on this thread but doesn't mean I agree with them. Not sure in what universe you feel a coach only using a fraction of a players skill set is good for the team. Yes he helped round KAT as a player which I already said as such but KAT's overall skill set could have made us a better offensive team. We scored 64 points in a game that mattered. Gave up 71 against a team that how many players are contributing this year in the NBA?
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