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bbnkat02

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Anyone heard any chatter on our next person we land? I doubt we're done right?

Just seems like it's been really silent the last couple of days. I'm sure the holiday plays in, but it seems like it's been a couple of days since we got a boom.
 
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Tampa_cat54_rivals112262

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This is the type of quiet that we usually get right before something big.

Usually, when chatter gets loud, it doesn't bode as well for us.

Hoping the staff is doing some under the radar stuff right now.

Pope flew to NYC/NJ and then California in back to back days on Thursday/Friday and nobody knows exactly why.

Fingers are crossed!

My wishlist, in order:

1. Chad Baker-Mazara
2. Dame Sarr
3. Jamir Watkins
4. Baby Peja
5. Rylen Griffen
6. One of those other Euro guards we heard about last week
 
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TheBlueMist

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It's probably a beehive closer to the heart of UKMBB decision-making, however.
 
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Tampa_cat54_rivals112262

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MachineHead1 said:
I think Pope is taking his time and being very careful. I think the Wilkerson thing burned him a little bit, to be used like that. Just making sure he doesn’t miss again.
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Don't think we got used.

Think he was genuinely ours until Indiana upped the offer to nearly $3 Million and offered his AAU coach a spot on the staff.

Obviously we aren't desperate enough to do that type of nonsense.

Feels like IU went all in just for the optics and headlines of beating Kentucky for a recruit.

Think we'll end up with a better player in that spot now anyways.
 
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Tampa_cat54 said:
This is the type of quiet that we usually get right before something big.

Usually, when chatter gets loud, it doesn't bode as well for us.

Hoping the staff is doing some under the radar stuff right now.

Pope flew to NYC/NJ and then California in back to back days on Thursday/Friday and nobody knows exactly why.

Fingers are crossed!

My wishlist, in order:

1. Chad Baker-Mazara
2. Dame Sarr
3. Jamir Watkins
4. Baby Peja
5. Rylen Griffen
6. One of those other Euro guards we heard about last week
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To each his own but if we get Chad Baker-Mazara I’ll just pull for the rifle team. He’s about 30 years old and acts like a spoiled toddler. I honestly don’t think Mark Pope would touch that lunatic with a ten foot pole.
 
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I really hope we get Mazara for 2 reasons.
1) He's a star player and is capable of taking over games against anyone.
2) I don't want Louisville to add him to what is a very good roster already.

None of the other players still available can hurt us as much as CBM can if he goes to a competitor.
 
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bucsrule8872

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With Pope, quiet is good.

He’ll probably get someone really good just out of nowhere. Someone we haven’t even been mentioned with.

Or maybe not.

Since this board has probably mentioned every single wing in the portal as a potential “last piece” that no matter who Pope gets, someone will resurrect a thread from a few weeks back and say, “see how smart I am, I said this was a possibility last month” or “I told y’all he was the guy.”

When every SG/SF in the portal is discussed, someone is guaranteed to be right about the one we get. LOL!
 
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katwest

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I feel like the Utah Jazz owner Frank Layden did about Dennis Rodman when talking about CBM. I’d rather lose than have him on my team, his antics are to watch and they take away from what you are trying to accomplish. He is good but he doesn’t seem like a player Pope would want.JMHO.
 
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TFCat11

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Pope knows what he’s doing, or he wouldn’t have initiated contact! And that’s, you take a CBM every day of the week, and twice on Sunday, and not blink an eye!
 
TheDude73

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Tampa_cat54 said:
Don't think we got used.

Think he was genuinely ours until Indiana upped the offer to nearly $3 Million and offered his AAU coach a spot on the staff.

Obviously we aren't desperate enough to do that type of nonsense.

Feels like IU went all in just for the optics and headlines of beating Kentucky for a recruit.

Think we'll end up with a better player in that spot now anyways.
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And somewhere in an IU dorm room there is a banner hanging for the Wilkerson “coup”.
 
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cornbreadnmilk said:
Not last season. I know the team was a mess but still the guy couldn't even hit a free throw.. It's hard to know what version we would get.
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I’m not gonna hold being in a hunter Dickinson offense with Kansas that had horrible floor spacing.
 
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Wildcats1st

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Ella Delby said:
Portal closes in 3 or 4 days. I would expect the roster to be set shortly after unless we go the freshman or European route for a last piece.
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Gotta wait for Oweh to return and there may be someone else in the draft pope is after
 
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mash_24

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Digger-Cat said:
I really hope we get Mazara for 2 reasons.
1) He's a star player and is capable of taking over games against anyone.
2) I don't want Louisville to add him to what is a very good roster already.

None of the other players still available can hurt us as much as CBM can if he goes to a competitor.
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He’s a mediocre player who thinks he’s a star. He averaged 12 pts a game at 25 years old. If UL wants him more power to em. Don’t want him anywhere near this program.
 
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*Fox2Monk*

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bbncal02 said:
Anyone heard any chatter on our next person we land? I doubt we're done right?

Just seems like it's been really silent the last couple of days. I'm sure the holiday plays in, but it seems like it's been a couple of days since we got a boom.
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I hoping that’s good, usually when recruitments are quite the staff pulls one off out of nowhere. I hope out of nowhere we wake up like Tuesday or Wednesday to a Boom that nobody expects, Ian Jackson, Haggerty, or Watkins commits to UK!
 
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MachineHead1 said:
I think Pope is taking his time and being very careful. I think the Wilkerson thing burned him a little bit, to be used like that. Just making sure he doesn’t miss again.
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We lost our very first target, the sdsu big man, the same way. So getting outbid wasnt something new.

Jmo but we are still searching for value, which means it wont be a big name unless they're giving us a discount.
 
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bbncal02 said:
Anyone heard any chatter on our next person we land? I doubt we're done right?

Just seems like it's been really silent the last couple of days. I'm sure the holiday plays in, but it seems like it's been a couple of days since we got a boom.
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Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.
 
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