Kentucky's Two-Headed Monster Is the Future of the NBA

[kybobcat]

Full title: Karl-Anthony and Cauley-Stein: Kentucky's Two-Headed Monster Is the Future of the NBA

On Tuesday night, a senior forward for Georgia named Nemanja Djurisic was playing the biggest game of his career, carving up an undefeated Kentucky team. He was scoring inside, he was scoring outside, and the toughest frontline in the country had no real answer. He had 18 points after a layup with 6:04 left. Then Willie Cauley-Stein switched onto him for the final six minutes.

Djurisic didn't score again. A four-point Georgia lead turned into an eight-point win for a Kentucky team that looks as unbeatable as ever.

Of course, while Cauley-Stein was erasing Georgia's star on one end, Karl-Anthony Towns was doing whatever he wanted on the other. That helped. He was almost a one-man offense down the stretch - 11 points in the final eight minutes - and the Georgia frontline was as helpless as everyone else has been all year. Towns is Godzilla and college basketball is Tokyo.

 

[Big Blue 1977]

Thanks for the link. I've been thinking this for a month or more: if you're a GM, and you're building your club for the next ten years, you can have a very good and capable throwback center who will get you 15 and 10 most nights or you can have someone in the "freak" tier, a guy who's just too damn big to do what he does, but yet he does it--AD and Lebron are the best examples of this. So, it's picking between a very reliable Okafor and a potentially MVP Towns. As good as Okafor is in college, he's never going to be a top-5 NBA player. Karl, on the other hand, might be. He's potentially unguardable.

I won't be at all surprised to see Karl as the #1 pick, especially after workouts.