ESPNU will televise UK’s Draft Combine next Friday

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As if they need any help recruiting basketball players.
Why not have the SEC Network just follow Calipari live all season?

Seriously, the timing of this seems like more of a UK ad than a way to help guys reach the pros. Surely, after the season would be the best time for the scouts to judge their skills, with the draft being in the summer, not December. But, then again, players sign in November, so they're holding the event now.
 
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Or, perhaps they can't do it after the season because of practice rules.
 
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The idea behind it, according to Cal, is to get it out of the way before the season starts so that the players can focus on the season.

Other benefits: Provides a baseline of performance to measure improvements, challenges players to work on personal weaknesses, gives a little exposure to recruits. John Calipari "gets it" as much as Butch.

And yeah, Donnie Tyndall could hold his own preseason combine if he wanted too, also.
 
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Brian McCat said:
The idea behind it, according to Cal, is to get it out of the way before the season starts so that the players can focus on the season.

Other benefits: Provides a baseline of performance to measure improvements, challenges players to work on personal weaknesses, gives a little exposure to recruits. John Calipari "gets it" as much as Butch.

And yeah, Donnie Tyndall could hold his own preseason combine if he wanted too, also.
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-- Would kind of suck if a player tore an acl or etc during this, I wouldnt care to risk it, if an NBA scout cant evaluate talent from the stands,, during a game, he needs another job
 
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No greater risk of injury during this than any other basketball related exhibition of skills/practice.

From what I read this gives Cal the ability to limit NBA access to practice which at some points apparently can be circus-like. In doing so he gives himself the ability to maintain player focus on their more immediate goal.
 
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Cal on ESPNU Podcast: Lyles better than advertised, Towns beat Wiltjer’s shooting drill record three times


John Calipari was a guest on the ESPNU College Basketball podcast with Andy Katz and Seth Greenberg yesterday and two things really stood out to me in the 20-minute segment. (The rest was a lot of what we’ve already heard.)

First, Coach Cal had great things to say about Trey Lyles, who missed the summer with a mysterious leg injury:

“I’m just going to say this: I knew he was good but he is even better than I thought,” Cal said of his freshman forward. “He’s got some dog in him, he shoots the ball, he’s skilled for a guy that’s 6-10. I mean, he has a quiet, assassin kind of deal to him. He’s better than I thought.”

Lyles will not do the agility drills in the combine this weekend but he is participating in five-on-five and running full practices with the team.

Calipari also told a good story about Karl Towns dominating UK’s five-minute shooting drill. He said Kyle Wiltjer is the only player to hit 70 shots in the drill in Cal’s first five seasons at UK, but Karl Towns has already done it three times. Towns surpassed Wiltjer’s record with 73, 74 and 75 makes in five minutes; he hit 68 yesterday.

“That’s a huge number of makes in five minutes.”
 
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“All of you coaches that think you’re going to start doing this, believe me, since I did it first, it’s outlawed.”

“I proudly wear the black hat. Just so you know.”
 
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