I hope he comes back. Man do we need him. Whatever his deficiencies may be, whether he’s really too streaky, bad defender, or whatever, seems like those are less deficiencies than you’re going to find in anyone else we could replace him with at this point. Plus, Reeves is a proven commodity at UK. Someone else could come in with similar challenges on the downside and not have the same upside as far as how much he really translates to Cal’s weird playing style and micromanaging coaching style——which seems to be a tough thing for players to do these days. PLUS, at a minimum it’d be nice to have him back, warts and all, because what we really need to add are multiple shooters his value or better. Let’s say Cal goes crazy and actually brings in another shooter to replace Reeves who has higher upside and/or less downside and it all translates without hitches to real performance on the floor this year in Cal’s system without season-dampening injury issues: is Cal really going to do that TWICE starting now? Not something I’m really inclined to hold my breath over.
OTOH…..
What is the scenario where this really works out, given the way it is set up? Is Reeves really going to come out of this saying,:
“Yeah I had my worries but Cal and staff really went to the mat finding me some great guaranteed NIL money”?
“Yeah I had my worries but Cal guaranteed me [x] minutes playing time[shots/touches/starts]”?
What is it that Reeves could really come out of this with, that Cal would really offer, that’s really going to move the needle for Reeves if he came into the conversation already having tried to use the draft not just for feedback but for escape and already opened up his recruiting again?
Hoping the situation is brighter than it’s looking to me from here.