JQ has declared for the draft.
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Patiently waiting for some positive news on next year....Comment
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I did see Matt Jones say the Stokes visit went well and he left Lexington this morningComment
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He also said he is not in a rush to commit. No reason not to commit unless you are leading one team on and trying to sabotage their efforts to field a good team. If a player is down to 2 schools (which most agree) and one team has been in the lead for 5 months (Kansas) and Stokes states, hey I want to go visit UK to see the new staff and what hey have to offer, and you go there, spend a day or 36 hours, leave and state you are not ready to make a commitment yet and it could be 2 weeks then they are playing one side if both continue to wait on said player. Pope did this before and it bit him in the butt. I would have moved on and told the young man we are no longer in play for you. Let him know that I am making that public as his time frame does not realistically fit with what is happening in college basketball. Then no matter what he has to say you are on record and stating we have moved on due to not wanting to wait 2 weeks. Then go get option B or something like that. You will never get option 1 at all positions (typically). So you have to give these (high school kids a shot of reality). This is just money grubbing schemes at this point. Plain and simple. You either hit it off with the new staff or you do not.
Then you have these reports that UK is offering way more than other teams for portal players. Heck Freeman is supposed to be leaning towards 2 other options that cannot match what UK is offering. Again, if I am offering top dollar and a guy cannot make up his mind, call him and remove said offer. Move on. Pope might not be able to get the cream of the crop, so he better start gleaning the fields for the best of the rest.Proverbs 25:24Comment
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We finally got one, Zoom D. has signed with UK.Comment
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Diallo is Aberdeen 2.0 except maybe a little worse.
A PG that can't shoot, doesn't pass well and plays no defense. Way to go Pope!Comment
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If you watch him play, he is very reminiscent of Denzel Aberdeen. From the look, to body physicality, to desire to drive and look for his own shot at the rim, to cute little turnaround fadeaways in the lane....VERY reminiscent. I disagree with JFCats22 in the sense that he CAN pass.... he's actually a decent passer. Problem is, he doesn't look for it enough. He's a bit of a shoot-first Point Guard, only it's more like drive-first. If his 3-point shot was the equivalent of Aberdeen's, I'd call him an upgrade. As it is, it's more like a lateral move: better passer, better ball handler, not as good of a perimeter/3-point shooterComment
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