Let's just let it die. He wasn't going to help much anyway. Good Luck Shavier...now with Sharpe: be mad!
Wheeler injury seems more suspicious with transfer
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Just glad it's over and he's gone. It's really interesting when someone clamors to come to a place like Kentucky and wants the spotlight. Problem is when in the spotlight you don't just get exposure, you also get exposed. For anyone who wants to whine/complain about how Wheeler was treated, the simple solution for a guy like him, go stay at UGA and rack up stats on awful teams in anonymity. Nobody cares when you turn the ball over, miss FT's, can't shoot, can't stop anyone when you are at UGA. They are still drunk off the high of winning in football. Second you come to play at a school like Kentucky, things get amplified. But he chose this. Fact is he wouldn't embrace or accept his role off the bench and his fake laugh at the presser leading up to the Postseason was all BS. UK got better by his departure.
No good luck either. Hope they get to play him and kick his bloated hobbit ass.
No good luck either. Hope they get to play him and kick his bloated hobbit ass.
So now he doesn't like the spotlight and he doesn't embrace his role and etc...
This drama just keeps building more and more with hardly any evidence that he quit on the team even though there is evidence to the contrary...
He was butthurt once Wallace took his spot and I would bet anything he did quit the team.
Bingo…. Players first just remember…. Players will continue to hold Cal and the program hostage and its only going to get worse but Cal will continue to put lipstick on it to try and hide it!
Because Triple C lied and Wheeler showed his hand by not even giving anyone a clue.
I couldn’t agree more. As an alum I’m absolutely disgusted how Cal allows this crap. He does it bc he fears no one and believes he is above accountability. His absolute malpractice with scholarships has gone unchecked and not a soul at UK holds him responsible. It’s a shame.
I can’t wait until he’s gone and we have coach who won’t be held hostage or cover for someone’s feelings.
Now to really ruffle feathers… there was another player who I felt did the same a few years ago but people stopped talking about it bc of a terrible tragedy. So I’ll say no further.
With that said, it now appears that for 3 straight seasons a player has either refused to play or quit on the team. Feel free to make your own judgments, but this appears to be a trend now.
Anyone who truly loves UK should be bothered by this crap. It sends a terrible message.
Its just Cal lying about it and leaving him on the bench to mess with the team.
Cal acting like this a a recent decision. Please stop.🤬
I'm trying to figure out how him transferring means he wasn't injured.
Honestly
Does it even matter why anymore?
It is what it is y’all. Welcome to your current Kentucky Basketball program
Does it even matter why anymore?
It is what it is y’all. Welcome to your current Kentucky Basketball program
This!!!
What in the world are you talking about? Wheeler was a fairly productive
player for 2 years. He clearly earned his scholarship. He has serious flaws
as a player. I'm sure most fans won't miss him. That doesn't mean that his
time at UK represented malpractice by Cal. If you think you're going to
get rid of Cal with that type of nonsense you are delusional.
And, that is the very definition of a selfish, me-first player, who isn’t willing to do anything/everything for his brothers & the team’s best interest. He pouted when he didn’t get his way & reality set in. Accepting a lesser role is, obviously, beneath him despite every metric in existence showing that the team was better without him playing 30mpg.
He, apparently, was butt-hurt & still expected starter minutes even if it came at the team’s expense. Personally, I’d take the player with lesser stats & greater character over a selfish, delusional cancer with better numbers, every single time. IMO, sitting to preserve his stats is a far worse look than his numbers going down due to less floor time.
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I wish the playing college ball 5 years would go away.
Ridiculous to be 25 and still playing college basketball. Most of UTs team look 30. Time for them to enter the real world and get a job.
Sad but college hoops is a job now , you show up , you get paid ..... your results matter little , what a great world we live in . Maybe the next NIL Wheeler cash's in on will be with the local Fire Dept , he can be the hydrant .. ( yes I'm bitter they are ruining college basketball) and get off my lawn , I mowed it yesterday
I am just happy we gave him 30+ minutes a game to take from other talent that could have been developing during the season! Yay...
Honestly Cal should retire from basketball and go be a politician because he lies better than most of them!
Lets hear your excuses for SW not showing up for senior day.
I can think of very few that would qualify.....
Correct. I have a signed copy I once cherished. Now I wish Cal would be inspired to follow his own catch phrase and "Bounce Back" to form.
at 35 I could have played him even .. no scratch that ish' I could have beat his ass .. my threes to his scoops !
This is how it went:
Wheeler “coach I have to start”
Cal “i have to play Wallace because he’s my only hope of having a first round nba pick”
Wheeler “I quit”
Cal “ok we’ll say ur hurt so u don’t look like a quitter and when we lose, I can say we really miss Wheeler”
Wheeler “coach I have to start”
Cal “i have to play Wallace because he’s my only hope of having a first round nba pick”
Wheeler “I quit”
Cal “ok we’ll say ur hurt so u don’t look like a quitter and when we lose, I can say we really miss Wheeler”
stupidity at its finest
There was “no rush to return” due to him diminished role on the team. About sums it up.
Vanderbilt being hush hush about an injury to not hurt his NBA stock is one thing.
Wheeler a lottery pick? There was no reason to hide the details of an alleged legit injury.
He was still going through treatment after FIVE WEEKS on a sprained ankle??? What is his ankle made of, applesauce?
Personally think he quit the team and Cal just kept it hush hush and let him ride it out.
Told the Folks on HOB weeks ago he Quit on the Team!
They Roasted me. Be interesting if anyone of them Man Up & Apologize!
Our whole program is littered with selfish, me first players. That is the culture that the coach in charge has built. I'll sound like him for a moment, but blame him and not the players. It's the one thing he says that makes sense.
Jack Givens said on a postgame, I think it was senior game, that Wheeler had a back procedure and was getting around better now. I have a hard time believing that Jack was a part of the misinformation, if there was any. Perhaps he was not supposed to mention the surgery, etc, but it came out.
Then why was Wheeler trying to get back to practicing at full speed so that he could play during the tourney? Why was Cal getting feedback from trainers and docs after these practices to determine if Wheeler is good to go? Why was Wheeler receiving treatment after these practices if he was supposedly healthy?
You probably won't return with anything but speculation again but I will wait to hear what evidence you have that he quit...
I think it suggests that he was kidnapped by Q: The Winged Serpent, that the Marie Celeste was manned by vicunas, and that Dr Crippen was framed by Pope Leo XIII. And I have very reasonable reasons.
No. Here’s the truth:
Most of us: Wheeler isn’t the Guy
Also Most of Us: We performed better without him. Wish he would’ve been benched sooner. He did in fact quit on the team. Glad he’s moving on.
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