OT: Kentucky “none-and-done” Hamidou Diallo will likely go up against Wednesday’s deadline before dec

[intlzncster]

I've explained why earlier in this thread. At UConn he could have enrolled in September 2016 and gotten on-court playing experience this year, potentially enabling him to be a first round draft choice in 2017. By skipping a year in order to attend Kentucky, he delayed his NBA start to 2018, costing him millions.

100% could have gone to UK in the fall if he wanted to.

No idea their scholarship situation, but room would have been made.

 

[champs99and04]

I don't think pj is arguing that he made the wrong decision to choose Kentucky over UConn in a vacuum, the argument is that - if Hami would have been buried on the depth chart at Kentucky - he would have been better served playing at UConn than sitting out at Kentucky.

That's a lot of conjecture but I think we can acknowledge Kentucky as an appropriately enviable destination without anointing them as invariably better than UConn in every way possible.

 

[FartMan69]

I've explained why earlier in this thread. At UConn he could have enrolled in September 2016 and gotten on-court playing experience this year, potentially enabling him to be a first round draft choice in 2017. By skipping a year in order to attend Kentucky, he delayed his NBA start to 2018, costing him millions.

In another thread months ago, I compared player development histories over Calipari's and KO's entire career. Calipari rates as an average player developer, his players on average get drafted about 1.8x their high school rank (i.e. a player rated #10 out of high school gets drafted around #18), which is what you'd expect for average development. KO has too small a sample size to judge, but including DHam, Shabazz, Deandre, is slightly outperforming high school ranks. Calhoun was far better than either.

We'll just have to see after KO has built up his history. But yes, if KO is just an average developer of guards, then I think Diallo clearly made a faulty choice.

What is your point? Cal gets top players and keeps them top players? Uhhh ya think? Diallo is a top guard so by your logic and numbers he will be drafted in the top of the draft. He'll also be on national TV more, ESPN more and will be complimented by other future top draft picks. There is literally NOTHING UConn or Ollie could have offered him that Cal and Diallo wouldn't have laughed off. Is your argument that he would have been better off playing with that train wreck of a team we had last year? Stop, please.

 

[pj]

I don't think pj is arguing that he made the wrong decision to choose Kentucky over UConn in a vacuum, the argument is that - if Hami would have been buried on the depth chart at Kentucky - he would have been better served playing at UConn than sitting out at Kentucky.

That's a lot of conjecture but I think we can acknowledge Kentucky as an appropriately enviable destination without anointing them as invariably better than UConn in every way possible.

Exactly!

What is your point? Cal gets top players and keeps them top players? Uhhh ya think? Diallo is a top guard so by your logic and numbers he will be drafted in the top of the draft. He'll also be on national TV more, ESPN more and will be complimented by other future top draft picks. There is literally NOTHING UConn or Ollie could have offered him that Cal and Diallo wouldn't have laughed off. Is your argument that he would have been better off playing with that train wreck of a team we had last year? Stop, please.

Yes, UConn offered something Kentucky couldn't in 2016-17: playing time. At Kentucky he would have been squeezed for minutes by Malik Monk, De'Aaron Fox, Isaiah Briscoe, and Mychal Mulder.

You are just wrong when you say that UConn had nothing to offer. You can argue that overall Kentucky was a better spot for him, but you can't argue that UConn was not a superior opportunity in some respects.

 

[The Viking]

Diallo was recruiting Bamba to join him in Kentucky for awhile before he even announced his decision. he was just toying with uconn all along.
I have no problem rooting against him to succeed.