Kentucky basketball next year

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Next year Kentucky will have a crazy amount of talent. They have talent now but they are bringing in another #1 class with a top 25 player at every position with the PG, SG, and SF all in the top 10.

With the season Kentucky has had this season idk how someone could be drafted off their team. And with noel's injury I think he may try to rehab at kentucky then move on to the pro's. I think coach cal might have his most talented team yet next year.
 
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How does cal make room for next years class?

Prolly gonna gonna be a **** and break promises to some of the kids that are already on the team. He's been throwing around the term "un-coachable" an awful lot. I'll take some of these un-coachable kids in a heart beat.
 
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7thgroupvolfan said:
How does cal make room for next years class?

Prolly gonna gonna be a **** and break promises to some of the kids that are already on the team. He's been throwing around the term "un-coachable" an awful lot. I'll take some of these un-coachable kids in a heart beat.
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you want alex poythress and ryan harrow?

no thanks
 
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It's safe to say the group of white boys sitting on the bench (hood/polson/wiltjer excluded) were told the deal going in. We will keep u on scholly as long as we can n they are prolly fine with that. Those coupled with Mayes and beckham graduated and polson and hood being able to graduate in may n at all pretty much works out
 
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They all better be bonafide pros.... Cal doesn't like developing college players... Not his thing
 
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although there is only one season to compare, both Davis and Nerlens improved their offensive game dramatically over the course of the year.
 
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whocaresgobobcats said:
you want alex poythress and ryan harrow?

no thanks
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They have an extremely high level for potential. It might just be this team that's making them struggle. Like Cal said, they dont play team ball.

white65 said:
Next year Kentucky will have a crazy amount of talent. They have talent now but they are bringing in another #1 class with a top 25 player at every position with the PG, SG, and SF all in the top 10.

With the season Kentucky has had this season idk how someone could be drafted off their team. And with noel's injury I think he may try to rehab at kentucky then move on to the pro's. I think coach cal might have his most talented team yet next year.
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I don't think a player can't get drafted just because the team was average.

Noel played great before he was injured and it's not a career ending injury. I don't see him going any lower than 5th in the draft (there's been a lot of players raising draft stock lately).

Cauley-Stein is feeling more and more like a 2 or 3 year player to me now. He's not extremely talented offensively and needs to work on his o-game a lot. In the league, he's going to get fouled and coaches don't want him shooting 30 something percent. But he's crazy athletic and will get drafted high no matter when he leaves.

Harrow and Poythress are in the same boat. Both are players who need more time to develop skills. But with the class Cal has coming next year, it's putting them in a hard place. They might leave, and not get the time to develop. Or they could stay, and end up doing what Terr.Jones did. He actually lowered his draft stock (but won the championship).

All the kids won't stay. Noel is a lock to leave imo. The rest are up in the air.

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They all better be bonafide pros.... Cal doesn't like developing college players... Not his thing
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He doesn't get the chance to develop pros. With having the players he has and the one and done rule, how can he in the one year he has? And he's said himself he doesn't like the one and done rule.
 
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allvol_12 said:
They all better be bonafide pros.... Cal doesn't like developing college players... Not his thing
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You should stick to what you know.

Josh Harrellson
Deandre Liggins
Darius Miller

This isn't an exhaustive list by any means, just my list from 10 seconds of thinking about it. All three ended up in the pros, and all three were 4-year players at UK.

Terrance Jones played 3 years at UK and ended up in the pros too.
 
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Brian McCat said:
Besides the point. You are wrong about Cal not developing players.

Flat ****ing wrong.
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Its bull**** that these kids will be shown the door, eventhough they aren't ready. They get talked about as not being coachable. Its Calipari's fault. He didn't do a good job coaching this group. They shouldn't be the victim because of that. Even with the talented guys, they still need time to develop. These guys are two to three year college guys that will likely be gone after one. Good luck convincing me with those examples.
 
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allvol_12 said:
Its bull**** that these kids will be shown the door, eventhough they aren't ready. They get talked about as not being coachable. Its Calipari's fault. He didn't do a good job coaching this group. They shouldn't be the victim because of that. Even with the talented guys, they still need time to develop. These guys are two to three year college guys that will likely be gone after one. Good luck convincing me with those examples.
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Since when is college the official D-league for the Nba? It's not.

A scholarship offer is year to year, not a 4-year commitment. It's easy to assume that we know what's going on, when we simply don't.

Some of the posters in this thread are quick to damn Cal before the bridge gets crossed. A lot can happen by the time that May rolls around.

And yet I see many of these same posters claiming that "Quarterbacks were born to transfer." They turn a blind eye to Rick Pitino rushing guys out the door year after year before their eligibility is up, because he is incapable of coaching them up. They also ignore that other football coaches oversign classes or convert recruits to grayshirt status to juggle numbers, often at the student's expense.
 
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Brian McCat said:
Since when is college the official D-league for the Nba? It's not.

A scholarship offer is year to year, not a 4-year commitment. It's easy to assume that we know what's going on, when we simply don't.

Some of the posters in this thread are quick to damn Cal before the bridge gets crossed. A lot can happen by the time that May rolls around.

And yet I see many of these same posters claiming that "Quarterbacks were born to transfer." They turn a blind eye to Rick Pitino rushing guys out the door year after year before their eligibility is up, because he is incapable of coaching them up. They also ignore that other football coaches oversign classes or convert recruits to grayshirt status to juggle numbers, often at the student's expense.
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We "Damn him before he crosses the bridge" because he has done it before already. Remember what happened when he left Memphis? Go look up the ESPN stories about the players who he forced out before even getting there. He's a slime ball, always has been, always will be. Yes, he wins games, but it is not his coaching that does it.
 
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And I guess you know the inside story on every player? Were you at every practice? Do you know how it played out, or are you just believing what the scribes regurgitate?
 
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Wiltjer will be back. His defense and athleticism is too bad for a team to waste a pick (unless they have 4+ picks).

Harrow will be back. He has some potential and skill, but is a head case.

I am not sure what Noel will do. Common sense says go be a top-5 pick and make some big money while rehabbing. That said, he appeared in a rap (some fan/student made it) and indicated that he may come back.

Goodwin goes just because the talent level in this year's draft is way down. Cal will likely encourage him to go if at all possible.

I think Poythress could go either way - he has the upside to warrant a late 1st round pick, but has been so disappointing he may want to come back to improve his draft stock.

Cauley-Stein is has enough potential and size to get picked up in the 1st round, but his decision may depend on Noel's.
 
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Stein/Wiltjer stay

Goodwin/Poythress go.

Harrow is up in the air. He won't transfer. Maybe Cal brings in him and says he can be the backup guard and get 20 minutes a game for the Harrison twins.
 
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Who cares. I'm just ready for "kids" that are apparently mature enough to die for our country in some godforsaken field to be able to go directly to the NBA. Apparently the NBA is serious business. That 19 year old that got shot up in Afghanistan the other week probably doesn't belong. Not mature enough. Give me a break!

And yes, I'm being facetious.
 
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