What would Calipari have done with the Arkansas roster (plus Quaintance) at UK?

[legalbeagle123]

Minus Travon Brazile, of course. What would Cal have done with an experienced roster at Kentucky?

C - Quaintance - Aidoo
F - Big Z - Thiero
G - Davis - Knox
G - Wagner - Richmond - Perry
G - Fland - Wagner - Perry

That would have likely been the makeup of the Kentucky roster had Cal stayed.

Not gonna lie. That's a ton of talent. All five starters have draft potential, and Fland, Z, and Quaintance will probably be first round picks.

Thoughts?

He would have found a way to screw it up.

 

[bbncal02]

Minus Travon Brazile, of course. What would Cal have done with an experienced roster at Kentucky?

C - Quaintance - Aidoo
F - Big Z - Thiero
G - Davis - Knox
G - Wagner - Richmond - Perry
G - Fland - Wagner - Perry

That would have likely been the makeup of the Kentucky roster had Cal stayed.

Not gonna lie. That's a ton of talent. All five starters have draft potential, and Fland, Z, and Quaintance will probably be first round picks.

Thoughts?

Like every other Cal season. Could be a really damn good team that could get to the FF or it could flame out early.

Also, we saw what Cal would do with an experienced roster when we had the likes of Oscar, Wheeler, Toppin...... we lose to a 15 seed.

 

[BarefootBeach]

We have a long period of years to model what Cal would have done with that roster, and it is not good. Thank God he is gone, so who cares

 

[bucsrule8872]

Davis is a 40+% three point shooter. Fland will probably shoot somewhere North of 35%. He was a good shooter in high school. Knox is decent. Richmond and Wagner, not so much. Z obviously can shoot the ball if Cal utilizes him well.

Also, I think Cyril would have cut bait and run regardless. He wasn't expecting Big Z to come back. Brazile basically replaced Quaintance, not Cyril. Aidoo is probably still on the table if Cal returned to UK.

Thinking back, I doubt we get Davis.

Remember one reason Cal reportedly left was that he couldn’t get the money he needed at UK to pay for NIL because the boosters had basically cut him off from it, trying to force him out.

Davis went to the highest bidder, so he wasn’t coming here, IMHO.

Aidoo over Cyril is still maybe an option.

Maybe Cal gets someone else on the cheap to be his go to guy, but if he was still at UK, he probably rolls with Wagner, Fland, Knox, Richmond, and Perry rotating at the 1-3 with Quaintance, Aidoo (or Cyril), Thiero, and Ivisic at 4-5.

Look at Arkansas’ roster, he is perfectly content with 8-9 guys. He brought in a couple of practice players to fill out his roster. He wasn’t going to add many impact guys. He only wants 8-9 guys to work with.