Yates is perfect for our offense. Would be a star at UK, imo.
USC's Yates Enters Portal Officially
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Yates would be “The Stud” we so desperately need.
if we get one, that probably means Garrison will play a lot at the 4, which is fine.
Right now, I see a rotation at the 4 and 5 of Garrison, Moreno, and Folgueiras with Williams getting some minutes at the 4.
Folgueiras replacing Carr, Garrison replacing Amari Williams, and Moreno replacing Garrison, with Kam Williams replacing Almonor.
KSR has about 0% batting average in portal season (same was true last year). Wake me up when there is a visit, phone call, offer or commitment. Otherwise, it’s clickbait
I swear it seems like Washington always spends the most on their basketball team but has the least to show for it of any program.
Well it’s been 2 hours. I can promise you Kentucky will be one of the teams trying to get him
Lived 40+ years in Kentucky. 1.5 in the west + lifetime travels. The west is FAR SUPERIOR.
Yes, now I’m not saying they get him, because it’s most likely Washington but I can say that Kentucky will be interested
Pope is going to have to start winning some of these battles for high profile guys.
We’ve already established there hasn’t been a single confirmed piece of information linking him to Kentucky. He has a do not contact tag. That means he has to reach out to Kentucky.
Could there be contact? Sure. But my point is that it’s all based on rumors and heresy. If you want to run with that as fact, cool, but how many times we going to get burned making these assumptions?
If he wants to compete for a championship he definitely has to start getting players like Yates.
You can't lump Chandler in with Perry and Noah just because they're all White either. Chandler was nearly a 5-star talent in his class. He didn't play organized basketball for over 2 years. The form was coming back as the season progressed.
If he transferred to a place where he was given 30+ minutes to play on a mediocre team next season, then he would probably average at least 14 ppg with a good 3PT% too.
Yup and when Yates goes elsewhere, there will be a lot of hate thrown at pope, especially by the dude you quoted. There will be lots of really bad assumptions too.
Yeah, I'm really anxious to see how much Chandler improves over the summer. He really started coming on late.
It wouldn't surprise me to see him shoot 40%, or better, from the outside next year.
Lol ok, maybe if you want to identify as a cat
To clarify, it has been established that there is a link between him and Brooks. Whether that link has led to contact from the player yet is the unknown.
I mean if we are looking at it that way there is already a link between Kentucky and Yates. Calipari recruited him in 2022
Kentucky is recruiting basketball players not new permanent residents. A young man can have a pretty nice lifestyle as a Kentucky basketball player.
They say the same thing about other SEC schools. The west is FAR SUPERIOR but this year's Final Four has the states of Alabama, Texas, North Carolina and Florida still standing. You don't go to a school in the Pacific West to play basketball. That ended with John Wooden.
We're not looking at that way though because Calipari is no longer with the program, but Brooks currently is.
I wasn’t trying to be obtuse. Of course there are relationship links. That doesn’t confirm anything though.
And that's why I said, "to clarify." There are links but you said that there are no links. That was untrue, but it is true that there is no confirmation on contact.
Maybe but we also can’t hold recruitments like these where a school comes out very early as the favorite over him and label them as misses
I don't disagree, but if a guy enters and has a "do not contact" tag and already knows where he's going, then there's nothing Pope can do when it comes to that particular recruitment unless that place he wants to go is UK.
I agree. I didn't know he had one when I commented n this thread. Disappointing but not much we can do.
Seems strange if all the bigtime guys do. Why is UK never the landing ground for the studs now is my question.
Washington potentially hiring his cousin is something Kentucky can do absolutely nothing about
So just hire his cousin for one season
100% ready to wake up to a “Star USC player Wesley Bates has committed to Washington” tweet tomorrow based on how terribly this portal season has gone
The Crown in like the NIT tournament but less well known. Matt had said we were in on a kid who was still playing in one of the “other” tournaments. This was the kid he was referring to.
Disagree whole heartedly. I’ve lived all over this country to include coastal SC and Coastal NC, Panhandle of Florida, Coastal south Texas and Dallas, and San Diego for 3 years with a little Palm Springs mixed in….traveled throughout Colorado, Utah and Arizona. Kentucky for the first 20 years of my life.
Nothing superior about the western states, or any states…just finding the vibe you like best. Most places you vacation too seem fun until you live there for multiple years and get the downside as well. Plenty of beautiful east coast cities and towns as well.