OKC Thunder waive TyTy Washington
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It ain’t over yet for him. He’s still young and will hopefully find a good spot.
Typically, if a kid isn’t used to working out in high school or even earlier, he isn’t gonna start when he’s 20. I hope I’m wrong for TyTy’s sake. I saw where Hagans signed an exhibit 10 contract with Portland. If Hagans and TyTy were combined into one dude, that’d be a hell of a player. Unfortunately I think they both fall short of what the NBA wants.
He has terrible posture, I always wondered when his back would give out. It even affects his gait.
He was still recovering off of a repeated injury.
Everyone forgets we basically had no guards going into the tourney.
Wheeler= Hurt/Ineffective
Grady= playing on two bum feet
Tyty= was still recovering from a reinjured ankle/leg injury.
Still should've won, but let not act like Ty was playing at full capacity.
Exactly. Doesn't excuse the loss but if you look at how st Peter's played that game vs how they did vs murray and Purdue, they played a lot better against UK than the latter 2 games.
Standard for this board- overrating UK guys to the point where no one takes the fan base seriously.
And were still able to be a solid Murray team, and a good Purdue.
We should've won that game, but man, St. Peter's got hot at the right time. Happens. Just shouldn't have happened to us. Especially up 6 with like 4 to go.
Yeah, ok whatever. I don't remember anyone claiming he was going to be elite. But Ty is good. Someone will pick him up.
Wish I got 2 million plus to be dismissed.
I’m a beat a dead horse a little… we did have an NBA ready guard that sat his sorry ass on the bench and sealed our fate.
Again, I reiterate. We had no serviceable guards available to us. lol
Forcing kids out looks good on the Cal resume on draft night.
OKC Thunder waive former Kentucky guard TyTy Washington
Former Kentucky guard TyTy Washington has been a member of three NBA teams in just one season. He'll now search for a fourth.www.on3.com
Bingo. He was overrated and over hyped here bc a lot of ppl hated wheeler. Then his ankle was used as an excuse as to why we didn’t perform on the tournament as a cop out. The reality is that he really wasn’t a star or the type to be a game changer all year other than 1-2 good games. 95% of the season he was simply just a solid college role player that needed more time on college had he played anywhere but here or maybe 1-2 other limelight hype programs
Being good and being an NBA guard are two different things. He was a good college player, that’s doesn’t mean he’s built for the NBA
I'm not going to sit here and say Ty was the best guard at UK, but acting like he wasn't hurt is ridiculous. Kid came back into a couple of games limping. Trying to play.
Meanwhile, Selfish Sharpe sat on his selfish ass. While Ty, Wheeler, and Grady played hurt
So, yes, he was hurt and yes it did hinder his performance.
Just as it did Grady's. And people crapped all over him.
I know it was a weak draft but I have no idea how/why he went as high as he did. And I said so at the time. He doesn't do anything at or near an NBA level. And he's a subpar athlete.
Ty Ty wasn't forced out.
He knew he was going to declare the minute he stepped on campus.
These guys know where they want to be.
It's all about the kid and not the coach or school.
People were upset when Flip and Proctor returned to Duke saying why does that never happen here but yet Jalen Johnson doesn't even finish the season at the same program.
All about the individual.
And Reeves going 1-15 against K State means we didn’t want him back.
😂 love the one bad game so he’s trash mentality around here.
It was our coach. Their pg even said so. I get so tired of the we're everybody's Superbowl, or they played us differently. Excuse after excuse. You okay the hand you're dealt, every team has to.
Or the one where we can't get anyone from the portal, but a guy who pissed down his leg returned because he had no choice, so let's anoint him our savior.
It should have been obvious that Washington wasn't ready for the NBA and wouldn't have even gotten a sniff if not for the Cal hype machine who is only interested in pushing players to the league as quickly as possible.
The kid didn't work on his body which made him way too soft for the NBA.
Grady nor Washington were ever real NBA prospects on their best days. Injured or not, they were not very good. If Washington had stayed for four years and seriously worked on his game, he might have been a serviceable player, but he was never going to get a lot of minutes.
He has been picked up four times in one season. How many more times does he need to be picked up before it is obvious that he isn't NBA caliber?
He was automatic on that mid-range jumper off the dribble for the first 3 or so months of that season. But after that injury, he was never the same player. I'm not sure what all factored into that but he wasn't right. He's not a tremendous athlete and doesn't have as much quickness as other guards in the NBA. He's gonna struggle, I'm afraid.
Dude needs to hit the weights and tone up if he wants to carve out a role in the NBA. His largest strength is his mid range jumper which isn't utilized and honestly is discouraged in today's game.
