Nate Ament announces his top 5 and will announce college destination in April 1st
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Paying that kinda $ for a freshman seems like a chemistry killer to me. Maybe I'm wrong but you could use 3 million to keep 4 Jr.'s that are early second round draft picks from going pro. Myself, I'd rather have that as opposed to a 1 and done freshman that may get injured.
I agree
UNC just hired someone to handle this aspect
Isn't this supposed to be part of Fox's job?
how does Duke continually sign kids that play the same position every year
can't those kids see they are going to have limited minutes
We have two players from the portal that are injured and both required a good amount of money to get to UK
Take the advice from Pitino, in the current system he said they are not even looking at high school players.
Money
Brotherhood
Nba prospect
Academy reputation
connections in all areas, not only limit to basketball
Because he will retire soon and does not have patience to teach new players
Lou will be legit next year, like it or not
We may lose @lou next year
Lou will be a good team
April 1st huh, I bet whoever gets chosen won’t feel great.
Even if you pick a pig to coach the duke team with that level of talent, that team will still make success
Duke's advantage in talent is so huge...
They are relevant enough to beat us in Rupp. Also relevant enough to list them as one of his 5 choices. You can pretend all you want, but Cal at Arkansas will remain a must see game v/s UK. Don't look now, but the last 10 or so games even after losing Fland, Arkansas has played very well. If teams overlook them like you are, they will regret it. Myself, I do not want to see them again this year. Very physical and just a bad matchup.
Irrelevant. One national title in over one hundred years of basketball. I could fall asleep while hearing about Arkansas basketball. Call me when they win a national championship while Bill Clinton isn’t still the president. And, no, I’m definitely not afraid to play them again.
So the same guys who help bring Lament to Louisville won't be on the roster. They'll have armed robbery charges.
IDGAF what they did in the past, TODAY is what is important. They are a tough out, not a gimme win no matter how YOU feel about them.
Ok curl up in a ball over the Razorbacks if you want. It’s a free country, buddy. 👍
Curl up in a ball ? Don't think anyone will do that, but also not going to act like they are a push over either. THEY BEAT UK BY DD"S AT RUPP. So,,,, if they are irrelevant, how did they do that ??? It is really simple, you are letting Cal being there cloud your judgement of the team and how good they CAN play on any given night. I simply said they are not a gimme win. Nothing more, nothing less. YOU are the one trying to blow it out of proportion.
No. Boozer is a PF through and through.
Ament is a SF who can stretch the floor. Evans also can play the 2 or 3.
Khamenia I don't think is expected to start as a freshman for Duke, but will be an elite backup.
Bro, you need to relax. It isn’t that important whether or not I fear Arkansas —- I don’t and I sure don’t have to. Have your own opinion and enjoy it. I’m allowed to have my own as well.
I'm not sure. However I was under the impression that Duke's recruiting was going to fall off once K retired.
that's what every one thought, guess maybe K wasn't the reason all the recruits went there
K is still involved with recruiting at Duke from what I’ve heard. Think he’s in one of those brand ambassador roles where he can still influence things like recruiting.
That is simply not true. Wall, Davis, Zion and a few others were no brainers.
Yeah that's the other thing.. how does the rest of the team feel that an unproven freshman is making 5 million, and they.. guys who might have actually won something in college.. are making 20% of that.
Idk, it's just starting to be too risky. A ton of money, for an unproven freshman, undersized in college, who just wants to go to the NBA, and if things don't work for him, he can transfer at will. That is taking on a ton of risk, risk that wouldn't really be as bad for a junior transfer.
You never heard me say that. I’m old enough to remember Duke battling UK for the number 1 ranked recruiting classes before coach K was there. I tried to tell people.
That works if you know your days are numbered far as coaching with retirement coming up.. You lose your footing in the high school ranks that will takes possibly years to recover from or maybe not.. Then what happens if things change with the portal in the future that requires you to jump back in the high school ranks? But see where I'm going? I do but I typed too much to explain it..
Tell the players that life isn’t fair sometimes so suck it up and play ball. They will go through the same thing in the NBA or wherever life leads. You pay what you have to and get the best players from portal or high school.
We have players on this years team that a lot of fans thought would be performing better than what they are and they are not freshmen
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