Who Stays Who Goes?

[Lighthouse]

Seems like I mentioned us beating Ul, UnC , Kansas in my post and about this year being an exception People see what they want to I suppose

A lot of us have said that all season.

[Joneslab]

[Joneslab]

^ That's the full combine invite list. No Richards or Montgomery.

[Joneslab]

Montgomery and Richards also left off the G-League Elite Camp invite list.

Basically: they aren't getting drafted and need to come back.

https://www.zagsblog.com/2019/05/06/80-players-invited-to-nba-g-league-elite-camp/

[J.Jennings]

Montgomery and Richards also left off the G-League Elite Camp invite list.

Basically: they aren't getting drafted and need to come back.

https://www.zagsblog.com/2019/05/06/...ue-elite-camp/

Yep and that's a good thing. We get our guys back and add two more, i think we good and i can relax this summer. I expect Richards to finally break out and be a beast this year, same with EJ...

[GOCAT15]

Blackshear not invited either, so it looks like he'll be playing college ball next year....hopefully at UK!

[SCBlu]

Blackshear not invited either, so it looks like he'll be playing college ball next year....hopefully at UK!

I don't get Blackshear not being invited. I would have thought he'd be a shoe-in.

[Matt Dillon]

I don't get Blackshear not being invited. I would have thought he'd be a shoe-in.

Same here. If he's such a desirable commodity, I can't understand the lack of interest by the NBA.

[GOCAT15]

Same here. If he's such a desirable commodity, I can't understand the lack of interest by the NBA.

Definitely a head scratcher, I don't think he even got invited to G-league thing either. But that is like saying we wouldnt love to have Reid back next year, some of these guys are just not going to fit in the NBA these days but are still very good college players.

[40bill]

I am really not up on basketball outside of Kentucky and a little more. I had not heard of Blackshear before the possibility of him coming to UK came up. To get all the hype and not be on ANY of the invites kind of makes me wonder if we might not have loftier expectations than we should be having. I'd sure take him though.

[Joneslab]

I am really not up on basketball outside of Kentucky and a little more. I had not heard of Blackshear before the possibility of him coming to UK came up. To get all the hype and not be on ANY of the invites kind of makes me wonder if we might not have loftier expectations than we should be having. I'd sure take him though.

I think he plays a game that's sort of out of favor in the NBA. He's a traditional, fairly immobile big and you don't see that a lot in the NBA with as much as these guys are playing on the perimeter.

Similar to Reid Travis probably. These are guys who can really help college teams but probably don't have much of an NBA future.

He averaged 15 and 8 in the ACC last year. At 23 years old, if he were able to stay healthy (which has also been an issue with him), I have to think he'd be one of the best big men in the country.

[Joneslab]

Oddly the first really traditional big man taken in the draft might be Western Kentucky's Charles Bassey. (I don't count Rui Hachimura of Gonzaga here because he plays facing up as much as he does back-to-basket.)

Bassey probably won't go until late first round. These kinds of guys just don't register much in the NBA these days. They want skill and downhill speed from their bigs.

[J.Jennings]

Looking at alot of mock drafts this morning, have a feeling Herro and Johnson are going to be dissapointed on draft night. A few don't even have Keldon in the first round and Herro late first round on some not even listed 1st or second on others. Alot of things can happen but let's call it for what it is, these kids should have stayed.

On a side note, PJ Washington made a good move coming back to college and proving he could shoot the ball, PJ is a solid 1st rounder on every mock draft you look at...

[Matt Dillon]

Most of these players aren't going to stay, whether they should or not.

[Joneslab]

Tyler Herro measured with a "negative wingspan" in the combine, which rarely ever happens. Height 76.5 inches, wingspan 75.25 inches.

Might not be a deal-breaker for the first round but it ain't great.