2025-26 Roster Chatter (UPDATE: Oweh Returns, Roster Complete)

[teamchemistry15]

Explain it to me.

Oweh come back, Chandler, the whole crew and we add Wilkerson.

For sake of the argument, let's assume that OWEH and Williams ( DON'T FORGET KAM CAN PLAY THE 2 and 3 and 4) and Noah is your 3 in Mark Pope's 3 guard offense but whatever, if it makes you feel good so be it.

If Wilkerson is your 2, then that means Chandler, Johnson, and Lowe are getting the minutes for the 1-2 spots and Perry is just there to hang out give out high fives and play the role right? Perry doesn't care if plays or not right, I mean the leading scorer in Kentucky basketball history just there to sit on the bench right??Same with NOAH, he's just there to ride the bench and watch, this aint the 1980's even the 90's or 2000 era.

You may be right you may be wrong but If Pope isn't 1000% sure that OWEH or even Chandler is coming back, he knows he needs another guard maybe two..

I'll try. Again.

Players who will get minutes at:

PG: Lowe, Johnson, Chandler, Perry

SG: Wilkerson (if added) and Johnson

SF: Oweh, Williams, Dioubate, Chandler, Noah

PF: AJ, Dioubate, Garrison, Noah

C: Garrison, JQ, Moreno

This is not in order of who will start or play the most. If we don't get Wilkerson we will keep searching for a SG. Just because Chandler played a little PG last year doesn't mean he's getting a bunch of time there this season. It's not his natural position.

You are literally the only person saying Williams can play the 2.

[teamchemistry15]

I can name 25 6'10 players who are not white that is similar to our new recruit AJ not named Grant Nelson. Beside, Nelson is a bad comparion anyways, he's 6'9 with a 7'0 wingspan, not 6"10 with a 7'5.

Please do so without naming anyone who has been an NBA all-star. I'll wait.

[KentuckyWild2020]

You are literally the only person saying Williams can play the 2.

Did you not read the scouting report??

So you are saying Brea and Robinson are two's but Williams can't be a two?

Did you see what his 3 point % is?

[KentuckyWild2020]

Please do so without naming anyone who has been an NBA all-star. I'll wait.

Orlando Robinson, Jamereo Davidson, Ulrich Chomche, Lee Scruggs, Nfaly Dante, Patrick Obryant, Jesse Edward (6'11), Festus Ezeli, Jarett Allen, Jameel Watkins, Marcus Douthitt,


Just to name a few...

[DA#23]

Geez............

[teamchemistry15]

Orlando Robinson, Jamereo Davidson, Ulrich Chomche, Lee Scruggs, Nfaly Dante, Patrick Obryant, Jesse Edward (6'11), Festus Ezeli, Jarett Allen, Jameel Watkins, Marcus Douthitt,


Just to name a few...

More proof that you don't look at playing style or statistics when you compare players. Please look at the 3 point % for Dante, Ezeli, and Allen and tell me how they compare to AJ. And, all of those guys have similar differences in size from AJ as Grant Nelson, so you can't say Nelson doesn't compare because of a one inch height difference.

[KentuckyWild2020]

Malachi Smith Dayton 6'0 PG

[teamchemistry15]

Did you not read the scouting report??

So you are saying Brea and Robinson are two's but Williams can't be a two?

Did you see what his 3 point % is?

Can you provide a scouting report that shows Williams will play the 2?

Does 3 point % determine your position? If so, I guess Rondo and Isaiah Briscoe were centers.

[KentuckyWild2020]

More proof that you don't look at playing style or statistics when you compare players. Please look at the 3 point % for Dante, Ezeli, and Allen and tell me how they compare to AJ. And, all of those guys have similar differences in size from AJ as Grant Nelson, so you can't say Nelson doesn't compare because of a one inch height difference.

If we are disregarding height and wingspan and looking at 3 point %, Dunleavy Jr. the list goes on.

With that being said , you are right in regards to a player who's 6'10 with a 7'5 wingspan who can put the ball on floor drive and shoot, it's rare company,most are big time player's. Doesn't mean AJ gets there (age) but for college, he could be a man amongst boys..

[teamchemistry15]

If we are disregarding height and wingspan and looking at 3 point %, Dunleavy Jr. the list goes on.

With that being said , you are right in regards to a player who's 6'10 with a 7'5 wingspan who can put the ball on floor drive and shoot, it's rare company,most are big time player's. Doesn't mean AJ gets there (age) but for college, he could be a man amongst boys..

When you're trying to get the closest comparison to a player, you don't disregard anything. You don't find a player with the same statistics but a six inch height difference at a different position. You don't find a player the same height and position but drastically different numbers and styles. You find guys that resemble them as an entire package, which is why Grant Nelson is a good comparison. From what I've seen, I don't think we've had a player like him at UK. He's a projected second round pick this year and first round next year.

[KCKUKFan]

Jon Hood was hurt.

And I assume you know more than Meeks Patterson and others during that time right?

I would advise you to go watch a podcast of Ramon Harris and Jon Hood.

Do you know what Billy Gillispie instructed them to do to Hood over the summer prior to him coming to Kentucky before Gillispie was fired and Cal was hired??

They ran that kid through the ringer just to make sure he would fit in and pass the test.

Guess what,,he did!!!!

Watch him cook Bledsoe in high school before his injury, he was far from hot garbage.

And btw when Cal finally played him towards the end, it was clear he was better than Mays...

Jon Hood was never better than Julius Mays, and even if he was, that team was DOA as soon as Noel blew his knee out.

I'm sure he was a nice guy and props to him for sticking it out four years in his bench role, but there was a reason why he didn't play major minutes at Kentucky.

[KCKUKFan]

Did you not read the scouting report??

So you are saying Brea and Robinson are two's but Williams can't be a two?

Did you see what his 3 point % is?

Oh my God, man.

Kam Williams is a small forward, and will back up Oweh in that role here. It doesn't mean he can't hit a high three point percentage.

[KentuckyWild2020]

Can you provide a scouting report that shows Williams will play the 2?

Does 3 point % determine your position? If so, I guess Rondo and Isaiah Briscoe were centers.

Rondo is the purest PG you will ever see and steadily raised his 3pt game as time went on.

Lots of places list Kam as guard/sf.

Think of him as a Cam Reddish type player.

Positionless basketball ,lot of these guys can play 2-4 or 1-3, just depends on the system these days.

[teamchemistry15]

Jon Hood was never better than Julius Mays, and even if he was, that team was DOA as soon as Noel blew his knee out.

I'm sure he was a nice guy and props to him for sticking it out four years in his bench role, but there was a reason why he didn't play major minutes at Kentucky.

No. You're wrong. JWorld knows better than anyone and everyone and, if given the opportunity, he would've been the next Scottie Pippen.

[DA#23]

Paging chrishill for starting lineup projections!!!