HuskyWarrior611 said:
That's where that keyword future comes in. Come on. I like reading posts here. But you guys have to take off the Husky shades and learn to read every part of a post too. You guys keep coming back to the college game and not understanding that I'm only talking about the nba. Putting great players in the nba because we like to see our kids continue to succeed and play at a high level so we can brag about how we not only win championship but run the nba too. I can't explain this any clearer.
The lady doth protest too much.
No sane UConn fan I know would waste 50 posts arguing and arguing and arguing and arguing to defend Kentucky's greatness, one month after we stepped on their throats and brought home #4. Even throwing out the 8 titles stat (if only CCNY didn't win in 1950, Big Blue would have swept the second Truman administration). Makes me question whether you invented a fake UConn handle to come on here and spew Kentucky propaganda. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1963, we're tied with them 4-4. We don't have to look up at them or envy them, or anyone else - we are on top of the mountain.
Give me the best success story of Calipari developing a guy into an NBA player who wouldn't have gone straight to the pros if he could. Someone who really got better in his college career. Jorts? CDR? Do we have to go all the way back to Camby? Darius Miller maybe, but he's essentially on a Jerome Dyson level right now just trying to stick. Ollie hasn't been coaching long, but was on staff to help develop Kemba, Lamb, Bazz and DD - four guys who pretty much went from non-prospects to players who will or should have nice careers in the league. All of them became immensely better in their time at UConn, but they had to stay a while to develop, meaning we couldn't just bring in more one and dones behind them to add to our NBA litter. Heck, Julius Randle was an unstoppable monster in November and December, putting up 24-15 in his sleep. I watched him back then and thought he would absolutely skin us alive if we had to play them. But by the time we saw him, we reduced him to a face-up passer who took six shots in the biggest game of the year, a couple of which were spoon-fed layups. He got worse this season, but in 3 years he can be another great Kentucky NBA success story, as if those five months in Lexington really made him what he is.
As I said before, we developed Bazz for four years - they sent five one and done PGs to the league in Cal's first four years (until Harrison became the first to stay). Of course they are going to have a better NBA roster than just about everyone - they send more people to the league with their way of doing things. But they're just babysitting for a year. A fictional Kentucky NBA team would probably beat our fictional team in a best of seven, even though their starting five would have a combined five years at Kentucky (Wall-Bledsoe-MKG-Davis-Cousins). But our real team is hanging a real banner. You don't have to imagine that game in your head. That happened.
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