Sorry if someone has already addressed this, but will Jamarl Baker be here for us next year? Would love to see his shooting ability as I have heard he can light it up.
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I have a buddy that is an ISU grad. Sorry, I don’t have a link. Hope he stays.
So people think he came to UK and sat out an entire year, now he's gonna transfer, sit out another year, and lose a year of eligibility? In what world is that a reasonable scenario?
Pretty bad that it’s gotten to the point where you have to wonder if a guy who didn’t see 1 minute court time is gonna be around next year.
This sounds like he will be back, idk why it'd be any different.
https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...baker-injury-rehab-ncaa-tournament/415865002/
https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...baker-injury-rehab-ncaa-tournament/415865002/
I heard he had planned to transfer to Duke but for some reason yesterday evening changed his mind.
Since he didn't play,none and done.If that should be the case we will have had OAD's,NAD's(Baker) and HAD's(half and done-Vanderbilt
Charles Matthews.
Insert "played very little" in-place of "sat out an entire year" and it's the same thing.
Matthews is in the Final Four next weekend.
Matthews played in all 36 games, averaging just over 10min/gm.
That is NOT "played very little".
He played more than both Humphries & Hawkins.
And Matthews wasn't contributing and was gonna have another year behind Monk/Fox
I dare to say Baker's shooting would have made him a contributor this year due to need. But Baker did not even play at all, I don't think he'd be mad enough to leave for any reason.
Down the stretch, he was not really part of the post-season rotation. Played under 4 MPG in March, including the SEC-T and NCAA-T. Matthews played EARLY, but quickly lost minutes as the year went on.
Also, Baker missed the season due to injury. It's fair to say if he was healthy, his PT may have been comparable to Matthews. Him transferring would also involve other reasons besides minutes.
My point was that there is very comparable example of a player we lost due to transfer in Matthews, who has found greener pastures.
My point was that there is very comparable example of a player we lost due to transfer in Matthews, who has found greener pastures.
I hope, but how does anyone know this? Would it shock anyone if a player who wasn't a very high recruit who didn't play yet might leave via transfer? It has happened under Calipari before.
If we have learned anything under Calipari its that there could always be players we don't expect who leave early and not with the intent of going to the NBA. It has happened a few times. Kyle Wiltjer, Ryan Harrow, Marcus Lee, Charles Matthews, Isaac Humphries
Or he goes to a lower tier power 5 school where he's much more likely to start? Iowa State isn't exactly a nobody and players can actually make the NBA from there as well, if that's his ultimate goal.
I get that but he was INJURED. Not like he just sat the bench in street clothes all year, got treatment, medical help, trained, traveled, learned, and now is transferring. Anything can happen but he will be back. Just like Vanderbilt will
Huh, he played then transferred, huge difference from redshirting, transferring, and losing a year of eligibility. I can't even think of a player who redshirted as a freshman then transferred.
i would not give him that high of a rating
it does make you wonder about the maturity and intelligence level of someone that starts a troll thread like this one
OR, because he didn't get to play, and show anything, and sees that maybe 5-6 players from this team return and 3-4 more top 50 recruits come in, he's going to battle for at least 2 more years to see significant minutes. If he's good enough to do that, he's good enough to go to a mid-tier power 5 school (like Iowa State) and probably start as soon as he's eligible.
Personally, I think it's big for a player who isn't an elite, sure-fire OAD recruit, to see early minutes at UK, KU, Duke, etc...otherwise, they get lost in the shuffle. It has happened numerous times at all 3 programs in the OAD era. Baker fits the exact mold of someone who may consider leaving.
LOL at people . He ain't going anywhere. One guys jokes and some actually think he is being serious. Why you can't joke on here about that stuff. Tai won't be back and we will lose Knox , Diallo and SGA and possibly JV.
All I'm saying is with the limited information known, people act like it's a shock that he could leave. It's not. I just listed numerous players under Cal who have surprisingly left when everyone was already checking them into the depth chart for the next year.
Yeah, it would. What player is gonna sit out 2 years in a row. What are you even basing him transferring on?
Like I said, I don't know if there is any truth to it. But Iowa St. likes to shoot the 3. I think Baker is a guy that could fit Prohm's system. He sees other guys coming in here and knows that Cal likes to have a short rotation. Why not go and play somewhere else.
I also wonder if he could get around the thing of having to sit out a year, since he just sat out a year here? Maybe the NCAA doesn't care at a lower profile school?
Right, and his team is in the Final Four, some posters here need to quite acting like he single-handedly carried Michigan there.
I never said he would. I'm responding to the thread topic. People saying "you're crazy, why would he leave, etc..." are presuming as much as the people speculating that he could leave. Face it, Calipari has had more than half a dozen players leave out of nowhere, and not for the NBA. The reasons came out later. Attack the person who started the "rumor", I'm just making conversation. It's not that far-fetched if he left...
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