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2021 Recruiting: Hunter Salis update

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PChoops said:
Every player is different, but in his defense he did get more mins near the end of the year, also the only one coming back is Keion Brooks and I'm not high on him(he should have chose a different school) can juzang beat out Boston and Clarke and the others, maybe.
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Two things.

1) Juzang played a grand total of two 19+ minute games in 2020.

2) Juzang is now with UCLA.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Fixed it for you. It's 2020. If you have talent every NBA team will see you and scout you. See Morant, Ja.

First sentence is true because of the third sentence.
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Scouting is definitely more thorough and complete than it ever was. No argument from me.

Still think there are inherent biases that creep in and that more scout exposure is only a good thing if you are decent. I'm not sure if Tyrese Maxey is a late lottery/mid first rounder if he plays elsewhere. He lit up the Champions Classic and that carried him through a mediocre rest of season.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Fixed it for you. It's 2020. If you have talent every NBA team will see you and scout you. See Morant, Ja.

First sentence is true because of the third sentence.
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Morant didn't just have talent, he was unbelievably good with beyond-elite athleticism and playmaking skills. Sure, if that's you, then you'll get scouted appropriately. But for other guys with "just" great athleticism and talent, Kentucky is a place where they obviously believe they can have the time of their lives, get tons of national exposure, and play with a bunch of other future lottery picks in front of a crazy fanbase. Calipari is a good salesman, but he's selling a very appealing product. Not a mystery to me why kids go there
 
andy34 said:
Morant didn't just have talent, he was unbelievably good with beyond-elite athleticism and playmaking skills. Sure, if that's you, then you'll get scouted appropriately. But for other guys with "just" great athleticism and talent, Kentucky is a place where they obviously believe they can have the time of their lives, get tons of national exposure, and play with a bunch of other future lottery picks in front of a crazy fanbase. Calipari is a good salesman, but he's selling a very appealing product. Not a mystery to me why kids go there
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Players who have "just" great athleticism and talent are found all over the world. This isn't complicated.

I completely understand and agree with others, if you want to ride out the mandatory one year of college before going pro, practice against high level competition and get plenty of expsosure, Kentucky is tough to beat.

I absolutely do not agree with the perspective that playing at Kentucky will get your talent seen and discovered whereas it goes unnoticed at other schools.
 
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andy34 said:
Morant didn't just have talent, he was unbelievably good with beyond-elite athleticism and playmaking skills. Sure, if that's you, then you'll get scouted appropriately. But for other guys with "just" great athleticism and talent, Kentucky is a place where they obviously believe they can have the time of their lives, get tons of national exposure, and play with a bunch of other future lottery picks in front of a crazy fanbase. Calipari is a good salesman, but he's selling a very appealing product. Not a mystery to me why kids go there
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The problem with the Kentucky model is the team will always be good, but they won’t win NCAA championships. Eventually, the Kentucky fans will become dissatisfied with the model and demand change as the fans want to win championships.
 
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Watchdog said:
So there's the answer as to why their underperforming head coach went after Kenya.............but at least he didn't hire Sallis' father as an assistant.
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did i miss something? UConn didn't make his top 12 after hunter was recruiting him. us getting diggins and hawkins couldnt have eliminated us from consideration since sallis is a CG and wouldve fit perfectly with them. furthermore, i doubt staff wouldve ignored sallis even though we are technically out of schollys after signing hawkins. bouk has made it clear he's leaving (not to mention chief has implied there will be at least one more early exit)
 
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bendm said:
did i miss something? UConn didn't make his top 12 after hunter was recruiting him. us getting diggins and hawkins couldnt have eliminated us from consideration since sallis is a CG and wouldve fit perfectly with them. furthermore, i doubt staff wouldve ignored sallis even though we are technically out of schollys after signing hawkins. bouk has made it clear he's leaving (not to mention chief has implied there will be at least one more early exit)
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Maybe a kid from Nebraska didn’t want to come all the way up north but Indiana is more palatable for his family travel wise. Either way I agree with your general premise
 
Jbirdp5 said:
Maybe a kid from Nebraska didn’t want to come all the way up north but Indiana is more palatable for his family travel wise. Either way I agree with your general premise
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Maybe there was a relationship from when Kenya was@ Nebraska.
 
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Jbirdp5 said:
Maybe a kid from Nebraska didn’t want to come all the way up north but Indiana is more palatable for his family travel wise. Either way I agree with your general premise
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I tend to lean this way too. Especially a kid named "Hunter".

I've got 2 buddies with son's named Hunter. Guess what both Dad's like to do with their son's?
 
dennismenace said:
I get why players want to play for coach K, but i've never understood why they flock to UK to play for a used car salesmen that does nothing in terms of player development and cant win a chip without the best college player of the past 20 years.



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Kentucky has a great fan base maybe the best. To deny that is just naive ..Anyone in that job should be able to recruit. I’m not a Calipiri fan as an on court coach but he is a great salesman. Great Fan Base + Great Salesmen is a pretty good combination. Now if he could only coach they would have double digit NC.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
Kentucky has a great fan base maybe the best. To deny that is just naive ..Anyone in that job should be able to recruit. I’m not a Calipiri fan as an on court coach but he is a great salesman. Great Fan Base + Great Salesmen is a pretty good combination. Now if he could only coach they would have double digit NC.
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Thankfully, he has proven to not be a very good in-game coach... since we did go directly through two of his very talented teams to win our last 2 National Championships, both times having arguably the lesser of the talented team (although both times we had the best lead guard in the game, and that proved to be the difference in combination with superior coaching). Great guard play and great coaching wins in the tournament... as we have proven 4 times already :cool:.

Honestly, I pray Kentucky with Calipari coaching is one of the other Final 4 participants the next time we get there (wishfully under Hurley within the next few years). If he couldn't beat us in the 2014 NC game with the front court talent disparity he had in his favor that night, then we will always have a good shot at beating his teams... particularly with our current and incoming guard talent, let alone our more talented front court now versus 2014.

And I love beating either Kentucky or Duke in the Final 4 when we win it all... as we have done each and every time we have won the title.
 
formerlurker said:
I tend to lean this way too. Especially a kid named "Hunter".

I've got 2 buddies with son's named Hunter. Guess what both Dad's like to do with their son's?
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That's why I named my four kids Hooper, Baller, Cager and Kemba
 
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