Marcus Lee transferring from UK
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Why???
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Because we have 2 open scholarships and he would provide immediate help to the front line.
He is not my first choice but if he wanted to come here for a year I would gladly take him
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He has one year left. He's underachieved for 3 years. If you want a 4th year role player, maybe, but Lee wants minutes & to be a featured player to chase his NBA dreams. I don't see that happening here. By the time he's eligible, I think Durham/Diarra & possibly J.Jackson to have the PF position covered. I don't see Lee fitting a need, unless he is ok with being a role player.
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How could he have underachieved? One goes to Kentucky to be coached by the greatest developer of talent the game has ever seen!
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Multi-taletened kid that should have left long ago.
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He's only got 1 year of eligibility left... you kind of yadda-yadda'd the fact that he's been underwhelming for 3 years. All of the UK players entered the draft this year, and he's never going to see much playing time... it'd be weird if he just stayed a bench warmer.
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Immediate help except that he's a transfer so can't play immediately
Welp 5 minutes late saying this
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He's a better player than people in this thread are giving him credit for. Sure, he's under-achieved relative to his high school ranking. Happens. He's still a guy that you can win with at center - virtually all of his offense comes at the rim, but his enormous catch radius contributed a lot to Kentucky's elite offense last season. He's also an elite offensive rebounder.
Defensively, he's a lot like many bigs in that he can be good in some match-ups but not in others. Not the most instinctively sound of defensive players, but in certain match-ups when he can patrol the paint he's a major deterrent at the rim.
I doubt Cal ran him off. Not with Bolden choosing Duke, anyway. Lee will help somebody wherever he goes.
Defensively, he's a lot like many bigs in that he can be good in some match-ups but not in others. Not the most instinctively sound of defensive players, but in certain match-ups when he can patrol the paint he's a major deterrent at the rim.
I doubt Cal ran him off. Not with Bolden choosing Duke, anyway. Lee will help somebody wherever he goes.
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He strikes me as a talented big who will make the other bigs better during his transfer year and will be a solid contributor when he does play. We get a big who did not pick up a basketball late in life. Argue away that he as underwhelming at UK but I did watch a lot of the games and he was not utilized well.
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committed to Cal, no? Would've taken him in a heartbeat though. There is talent there; if nothing more he's a much better Marcus White and those types of guys are very, very useful. Also, would've only used up a schollie for one year and then replace.
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That seems to be the consensus that he'll commit during his visit tomorrow
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