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2015 NBA Draft Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Big Circus, Apr 9, 2015.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    He doesn't seem to be going after a lot of "Wiltjer-type guys" lately, wink-win.
     
  2. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    He seems to be going after Stephen Zimmerman pretty hard.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    A scrappy, heady player, no doubt, in the mold of a Grayson Allen. The "Rudy" sequel will be set in Lexington.
     
  4. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Beyond not helping, it can certainly be argued that Calipari HURT some of these guys. Coming out of high school the Harrison twins and Dakari Johnson were the No. 1 rated players in the nation at their positions and were being widely projected as future lottery picks. But now they're no better than second round prospects, and run the risk of not getting drafted at all. Similar story with others on that roster like Marcus Lee and Alex Poythress--came out of high school as 5 Star McDonald's All Americans with projected NBA futures, but now have essentially fallen off the map.

    The whole notion of Calipari "developing" all these NBA players is largely hogwash. Nearly all his high draft picks were already projected to go high before arriving at Kentucky, and he's seen a lot of guys actually see their draft stock take a big fall during their time under him (yet those guys don't seem to get as much attention).
     
  5. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Does going to Kentucky or Duke make you a 5 Star recruit? Are the recruiting services self fulfilling prophecies?

    Calipari is successful at his job. Win college basketball games, get deep into the tourney, be in the FInal Four 50% of the time and win national chmapionships.

    Kentucky may be sold as an NBA prep school and Calipari may sell that, but thats not what it is.
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    All the slurping of Calipari by his media butt-buddies over his allegedly revolutionary platoon system was even dumber because UK didn't play a style/system that used this platooning to any advantage.
    UK under Cal played a slowdown /sludgeball grind-it-out NBA-oriented system designed to maximize the head coach's apparent strategic genius to potential NBA employers.

    As a result rotating players in and out in wholesale units made no difference whatsoever in stamina/endurance / fatigue -- it's only purpose was to equalize PT as you might do coaching a 9-year-old girls rec league team worried about parents bitching. For the allegedly brilliant platooning/rotation plan to really make any sense or produce any advantage for UK, Calipari would have had to play a balls-out full-court running/pressing game plan. But all his media slurpers were too stupid to figure that out.
     
  7. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Not in this case. All those guys I mentioned already had their 5 star rankings before they committed to Kentucky. Indeed, that's why Calipari recruited them--the guy targets whoever's top ranked at each position on the Rivals lists--and quite often jumping in late on a guy whose ranking recently rose.
     
    Last edited: Apr 10, 2015
  8. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Should Calipari start turning down the best players so he can help their pro careers?
     
  9. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Nobody suggested any such thing. Any other dumb questions?
     
  10. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The top players should start turning HIM down because he isn't doing shit to help anybody's career besides his own.

    And if the NBA people have any brains, he isn't doing that either.
     
  11. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    But what if he has a bunch of recruits that all want to play for him? What would you suggest he do then?
     
  12. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Trade them for some "program guys."
     
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