NBA debuts, scouting Mizzou and Halloween (Thursday Show Thread)
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Is Anthony Davis the best player that ever played at UK? I think he might be.
He’d have to be. Oscar says so. Glad he’s back to full strength again.
For now, until KAT challenges him for that title…. 🙂
That’s okay to me, I like Karl better as a person.
They’re both good dudes who do a lot of charity work. You can’t go wrong with AD or KAT.
Karl has an easy going personality and is extremely intelligent, so it’s hard not to like him, but AD is a good dude too. He obviously does not take himself too seriously, as evidenced by him embracing the whole unibrow thing.
Yeah I just associate him with standing in line to pay 50 bucks for his autograph to complete our championship poster and him not once looking at us or saying hello. Too busy talking to his people to even acknowledge us standing in front of him.
Pretty much all of them charge for autographs. We were running late and my daughter literally sprinted into the store where AD was signing autographs. They were closing up and AD had actually walked away from the table, and the people working there told my kid sorry, too late. But AD stepped back to the table and said no problem and signed her poster and posed for a picture when he could have just walked away, so I guess he is OK in my book.
We paid for five guys and Darius Miller was free because Kroger paid him. AD was by far the highest $ and I feel like paying for an autograph and waiting in line for an hour or two entitles one to eye contact or a hello or something. The other guys were great, I feel like I actually met them. Although Doron seemed half asleep of course.
That show he’s talking about was really dramatic with the narration and slow-mo, but the sideline and locker room stuff was great. Seeing Stoops interact with his guys could probably help Darryl decide to like him again.
It also got to the point where we’re down one and about to make the last drive, and the narrator said something like “Has Ky finally started to earn the respect they deserve?” and showed a montage of Dorian Baker dropping balls in the endzone. Then you know it was a happy ending.
I believe Stoops is the man, we may not win Sat. but i think this team is so young and anything can happen on the road. Two years from now we will be saying i hope Stoops doesn’t go to that school and stays with us and Chester will be Darryls daddy.
Missouri gave up 51 points to MTSU, and lost 2 of their best defenders in the process. Even if our offenses are relatively evenly matched, I think our defense is better and will make the difference.
exactly, as good as missouri’s offense is, my grandma could score on their defense. Our runningbacks will have a field day this weekend. it will make no difference this game is on the road. think their fans are going to show up to a noon game against kentucky ?
Every time I expect a high scoring affair, it ends up being a defensive battle. I’ll bet neither team breaks 20 Saturday.
Our offensive line has been pretty darned good lately too.
Also the game is at noon our time, Missouri is an hour behind us and the game starts at 11:00am central. Combine that with their abysmal loss to MTSU last weekend, and their 2-5 record, and no I don’t think their fans will show up much this weekend.
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Out of the 10 NBA games last night, former UK guys were labeled as “top performers” in 5 of them. That’s pretty cool.
http://www.espn.com/nba/scoreboard
If there is any coach in college BB that I am ready to see move on down the road, it is Coach Buy-A-Vowel. He annoys me to no end.
Get out your wooden stakes and holy water and we can make it happen. (j/k) 😉
you say you’re j/k… but are you really ?
I wouldn’t murder someone, just making a Coach K is a vampire joke. 🙂
Do you mean best player while at UK, or best player from UK to ever play in NBA? I’ve watched every UK star since Cotton Nash, and Issel (imho) has to still be considered the best player while at UK. His stats speak for themselves.
AD may very well turn out to be the best pro from UK, but don’t forget the 15 yr career Issel had (5 ABA, 10 NBA) with career averages of 22.6 its, 9.1 rebounds, and career shooting averages of 50% fg and 79% ft. One plus for Issel is that he was extremely durable and missed very few games, something AD has yet to prove he can do.
Gotta say you make an excellent point. Unfortunately few of the folks posting on here were lucky enough to see him play.
Oh yes i agree with you , i was just saying if AD had stayed for all 4 years i believe he would have been the best, but he didn’t.
I’m still going with Oscar. It’s a different game now, how would Issel fare if dropped into 2016?
I wish you could see when you get any likes on your own comment. I like tons of you guys’ comments, and you never know unless it gets 5 and goes bold.
I do the same. 🙂
If you log out, you can see. then log back in. i only know because whenever i log into a different computer or my phone, it logs me out of the other.
I’ll be honest, there are times I see comments with 4 likes I don’t even agree with, but I like it anyway just to see it go bold. If you get 4, you deserve 5 in my opinion.
We should all pick one really dumb comment a day and just like the heck out of it.
I do the same
Bobby Knight is human garbage.
I think Petty is foolish to not at least take an official visit to UK. Know what you’re getting into/passing up. Also, do you really want to be Avery Johnson’s guinea pig? Johnson is unproven at the college level. If it was me, I would go with a guy with a very proven track record (Cal). You’re setting up your entire future after all.
Did he not see how a few other elite players’ college year went when they chose to be the only really good player on a lesser SEC team? I do want the rest of the teams in the conference to recruit better though.
i hear stories where a lot of times the other coach (johnson in this case) says look, if you don’t visit school X (uk in this case) and commit to us right now, we can give you this this and that (whether that is more playing time, guaranteed starting position, a few perks on the side, or whatever else).
and then they just take the offer. for one, it still makes me laugh that people think cal cheats because if so, he is the worst cheater in all of sports. that being said, realme is right, how often does it work out for good/great players to stay in their home schools?
See Newman, Malik.
Or Ben Simmons. Yeah, he was drafted first, but LSU lost a bunch of games, didn’t make the NCAA tournament, and he didn’t really develop at all during his one year in college.
It’s not just that Cal puts guys in the NBA, it’s that they’re ready to go when they get there. Duke and Kansas get the same level of talent over the last several years that we get, but their players don’t do as well in the league overall. There is a reason for this.
Results show four distinct tiers of success at getting kids ready to succeed in the NBA: UK, then Duke, then Kansas, then everyone else. To be honest, I wince when a kid like Newman or Simmons goes to school that cannot prepare them. I would almost rather them go to Duke or Kansas instead, even though it creates a tougher rival for us in the tourney. I just hate to see talented kids shoot themselves in the foot like that.
to the only 3 people who type on here: Quit crying about someone who doesnt want to go to UK. Who gives a rats ass? Its their life, would hate to be your kids. Also sounds like some awesome “kentucky” fans calling in lolololol
No one is crying about anything. We’re simply having a discussion. Perhaps you’ll try it sometime when you grow up.
i have no problem with the kid going where he wants to go. in fact i encourage it. i am just saying (and many people agree) that it isn’t the best career choice based on the same decisions many people before have made.
But your just an idiot troll, why do i even bother?
Kiss my ass KENTUCKYBOBBY. quit crying about us crying cause your crying on as KY site but with the slim you have coaching your team i don’t blame you. Glad to have you with us.
If we annoy you, there’s no reason to read our comments. Or even show up here.
No crying here; but Bama doesn’t care about basketball. Does he know he’ll be playing in half empty arena?
What’s more shocking?
Davis’s line or Andrew Harrison playing 38 minutes?