Dent to ucla
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And he won't have the talent that can overcome a lack of gameplan.
Kam williams is a good player but yes we need get several better players in portal
And they'll probably pull the DPOY from the Little Sunshine Conference or something and convince us he's a defensive stud capable of locking down SEC athletes.
Please get some good, athletic transfers, lol.
We might as well get ready and embrace ourselves for missing out on Nate Ament, too. There's no way we get a top 5 recruit in the nation. This is a very troubling sign that Kentucky can't recruit suddenly.
KSR propagated rumors that one had already “silently” committed. They better pray the Smith rumors are true or wrath is going to rain down on them. And I don’t mind to lead the mob.
Don't give me that excuse because we supposedly had record funds coming in. This is Kentucky, who has one of the most NIL funds at their disposal in all of college basketball.
I don’t think that’s necessarily an “excuse.” The fact of the matter is these days the main driver for decisions by the top available players is money, end of story.
Yes, UK has substantial NIL money. But other teams have lots of money too.
It would appear we are approaching things with the mindset that we will make VERY competitive offers to good players, but at some point a limit will be reached. If another team outbids us, players may go elsewhere.
So, if anything, we can debate whether we should or shouldn’t have paid whatever it took to land Dent instead of UCLA. That is the $3+ million dollar question.
This is the tricky part about constructing a roster these days with no salary caps in place. I know little to nothing about Dent. I have no idea if he was worth that kind of money, or if we come out ahead overall with other options available to us. We won’t know that until we see how things turn out on the floor next season.
You have to put a number on players and not overpay to get them.
The reporting yesterday that we still had left over money from last year upset me if I’m honest. Pope has this entire offseason but he HAS to win one of these bidding wars for a truly ELITE player.
A LA kid took a huge bag to go home in sunny So Cal for what projects to be a good UCLA team.
I never got into the excitement yesterday so guess it doesn’t hurt as bad.
Very good player. This team needs a lot of them.
I never got into the excitement yesterday so guess it doesn’t hurt as bad.
Very good player. This team needs a lot of them.
And he makes them arguably a national championship contender with what they have returning.
But they’re still coached by Mick Cronin
What a dumb dumb post. Pope had No relationship with any of the portal guys. Other coaches had previous time to have contact with them. If that is your opinion, it’s uneducated.
Pope has a level playing field this year for portal players. If he ends up with mids again, we’ll know Sweet 16 is his ceiling.
I agree. There will be times you have to go all in on a player you believe is an absolute must have type of talent. The trick is identifying those situations and picking your spots.
I have no idea if Dent is such a player. If he dominates college basketball and leads UCLA to a title next year, then we will be left wondering “what if?” next year. If we find another highly talented player in that position that leads us to great success, no one will remember losing Dent.
Jacob polachek was acting as if Dent to UK was DONE. SMDH. Just another big time miss.
Really hard to fathom how immensely stupid some of you all are
I think KSR pretends to know things. I’ve never heard, on any player, unequivocal confirmation of what ANY player was paid. What was Brea paid, what was Williams paid, etc. Maybe it’s all true to your point, but seems whispers is all we have for sure.
Ah, the “stupid” word. Famous from you. Guess Nostradamus was your uncle.
Show me the Tweet where he said that.
He Tweeted saying a package was being put together.
Another where he said Duke couldn't spend with us.
The last one said if it didn't happen soon, it wouldn't happen at all. UK had made a good offer and basically said take it or leave it.
I've turned on notifications for the Tweets. There is no Tweet saying Dent is committed or "Kentucky has Dent."
How do you know uk has such a large nil fund? Do you see the numbers?
If that is the case, I applaud him. Hate this free agency crap. Duke is the only team left with so called super stars. The rest have just a group of good players.