Haven't really been following it, but I guess teams can have 15 next season, right? We have 13 if we don't lose any to portal or draft (Oweh). That leave 2 spots. If we use those, does a Perry, Noah, or Garrison leave for more PT/money? 15 is a lot of players to keep happy.
Two more spots, correct?
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Good problem to have
I expect we'll take another 2G (namely Yates or Pierre) and save the final ride for Folgueiras, if he wants to come. Otherwise, we may leave one ride open.
Yates ain’t happening. It’s Pierre or Rylan griffin or maybe sellers
3 more to get to 15.
I hope Garrison doesn't leave. I think I'm one of the few that feels he's going to be really good.
Think we have 3 spots.
5 returning, 3 freshman, 4 portal so far Williams, Lowe, Diuabote, Quiantence. Spelling on last 2.
5 returning, 3 freshman, 4 portal so far Williams, Lowe, Diuabote, Quiantence. Spelling on last 2.
What have you heard? I was still hearing we had the edge just a few hours ago.
I'm convinced we win the natty next year if we get Folgueiras and any of the shooters we're still after.
Would leave us with one spot for a guy like Max Green or whomever (if we're hell-bent on getting the full 15).
Would leave us with one spot for a guy like Max Green or whomever (if we're hell-bent on getting the full 15).
Exceeded my expectations already, anything else coming is just the nail in the coffin. I think we will have some games this year where we just come at teams in waves. So excited when you think our rebuilding year was a sweet 16 and could have been even better
November roster as I see it (assuming another shooter and Alvaro are both here)
Starters:
PG: Lowe
SG: Oweh
SF: Chandler
PF: Dioubate
C: Garrison (at least until JQ gets up to speed)
Backups:
PG: Lewis
SG: Johnson
SF: Transfer
PF: Alvaro
C: JQ
Reserve:
PG: Perry
SG:
SF: Noah
PF: Williams
C: Moreno
Williams being a reserve is just a side-effect of there being so much competition ahead of him, though I'd expect him to get plenty of minutes. I have a hard time seeing Chandler coming off the bench if he improves upon his performance at the end of last season, so I have to toss him in as a starter.
Most of our guys can play 3 different positions, so lists like these are more or less futile. Mine is an attempt to put who I feel will be the best players on the court at the same time. It'll evolve at the season progresses, players will get injured, and all that.
Still.
That's a wild roster.
Starters:
PG: Lowe
SG: Oweh
SF: Chandler
PF: Dioubate
C: Garrison (at least until JQ gets up to speed)
Backups:
PG: Lewis
SG: Johnson
SF: Transfer
PF: Alvaro
C: JQ
Reserve:
PG: Perry
SG:
SF: Noah
PF: Williams
C: Moreno
Williams being a reserve is just a side-effect of there being so much competition ahead of him, though I'd expect him to get plenty of minutes. I have a hard time seeing Chandler coming off the bench if he improves upon his performance at the end of last season, so I have to toss him in as a starter.
Most of our guys can play 3 different positions, so lists like these are more or less futile. Mine is an attempt to put who I feel will be the best players on the court at the same time. It'll evolve at the season progresses, players will get injured, and all that.
Still.
That's a wild roster.
These guys are professional athletes at this point. nba teams have bench warmers and so will we. They still getting paid.
Griffin would seem an odd choice if he's looking for shooting.
We have 12. Might finish with 13. 15 isn’t happening. No one wants to come be the 14th and 15th player on the roster
Where am I going wrong? Garrison, Chandler, Oweh, Perry, Noah, Carr....That's 6, 3 freshmen and 4 transfers. Looks like 13 to me.
Never mind. I thought Carr had another year.
Never mind. I thought Carr had another year.
Griffen has played himself down to the bargain bin so to speak.
Pope may try to snag him on the cheap.
There's a ton of NIL money already dedicated to the 12 we have.
Idk how much is left in the tank.
With all the horse and bourbon money in this state, how do we not have as much NIL money as Puke?
Griffin was a knockdown shooter at bama for 2 years. Kansas was just a bad situation
True. Wonder what's going on with Pierre? Haven't heard much since UK had the zoom.
Pierre to me fells like one Kentucky can get anytime they want. Give him the 1-1.5 mill and let’s go
I really wanna keep Garrison but anybody else that wants to leave you can use my Lyft account to take them to the airport.
Not real thrilled about Griffin unless it was just the system at Kansas and Sellers is headed to Providence.
Wonder if they look at Alex Chaikin from Lafayette 6'5 170 Freshman 47.90% from 3 - 80 3fgm - 167 3fga
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| GP | MIN | FG% | 3P% | FT% | REB | AST | BLK | STL | PF | TO | PTS |
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| 32 | 26.5 | 49.8 | 47.9 | 84.0 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 13.9 |
he turns in to Terrance Jones Part 2 next season and we win a title. book it!
I just don't see Williams starting over either Oweh or Chandler – two guys who have a year in the system – this November. I also don't see Dioubate transferring to come off the bench.
Williams had a better freshman year than Chandler. Chandler could compete with him for starting minutes, but nod would go to Williams as of now (imo).
PG - Lowe
SG - Oweh
SF - Williams
PF - Dioubate
C - Garrison or Quaintance or Moreno
You think bourbon and horses make more than corporate lawyers and bankers. Ok.
Have you ever seen the Saudis land their giant planes filled with hundreds of millions of dollars of merch and horses at BG Airport and just nonchalantly pay the fine that would bury 99.5% of Americans?
Horses is munny.
Bourbon will take a hit with the tariff war though, so that one may be fair for the foreseeable future.
Your point is good, though. I'm just playing devil's advocate. It's not like we're bereft.
We'll see! They're both great defenders that can shoot extremely well.
Kam has 41% from three to hang his hat on and Chandler was better than 50% from three in our final seven games this season. Both athletic.
Will be fun to watch this one play out.
Chandler is good... but IMO a little smallish at the SF position during "crunch" time... shooting guard, point guard... sure... backup SF... sure....but as far as a rebounder/banger that can shoot...Hmmmm....
How many Saudi Oil men are UK fans tho? lol
Owning horses / donating money to UK NIL? I’m not seeing the connection.
The point isn't that the Saudis are paying into NIL – just that horses are an insanely lucrative business. Woodford and Fayette are the main counties in this state IIRC, but even some smaller farms in Jessamine, Scott, and around the state are worth 3-5 years of NIL.
I think we add one more wing and call it a day.
I figure we may have to go small a bit until Quaintance is ready to go. They are saying he will be ready for contact by September. But December or January sounds more realistic. For the first month or so, it’s probably Dioubate at the 4 and Garrison at the 5 with Moreno as the backup 5 and Williams and Noah backing up the 4.
Once JQ gets back in the swing of things, I think he starts at the 5 and Garrison starts at the 4 with Dioubate backing up the 4 and Moreno backing up the 5.
Lowe is the starter at PG. Lewis is his primary backup.
Oweh starts at one wing spot and whoever else we sign (Yates or Pierre or ?) starts at the other. Johnson, Chandler, and Williams fight for the backup minutes on the wing.
Perry sees mainly mop up time, and Noah will also once we get JQ going.
I figure we may have to go small a bit until Quaintance is ready to go. They are saying he will be ready for contact by September. But December or January sounds more realistic. For the first month or so, it’s probably Dioubate at the 4 and Garrison at the 5 with Moreno as the backup 5 and Williams and Noah backing up the 4.
Once JQ gets back in the swing of things, I think he starts at the 5 and Garrison starts at the 4 with Dioubate backing up the 4 and Moreno backing up the 5.
Lowe is the starter at PG. Lewis is his primary backup.
Oweh starts at one wing spot and whoever else we sign (Yates or Pierre or ?) starts at the other. Johnson, Chandler, and Williams fight for the backup minutes on the wing.
Perry sees mainly mop up time, and Noah will also once we get JQ going.
I think he will be too
I’m with you.