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#3 high school recruit chooses Kentucky
« on: March 20, 2013, 01:36:46 PM »

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This next Kentucky team is LOADED. If Andrew Wiggins commits to Kentucky, that may be the best college team of all time, with a potential future NBA all-star (the top 11 in this class are elite) starting at each position.

They have the best pg, best sg, 2nd best sf, best pf, and best center in this class which is considered a very strong class. And they STILL are in the running for the best player since lebron and anthony davis, andrew wiggins.



http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/order/true

Re: #3 high school recruit chooses Kentucky
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 02:10:57 PM »

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This next Kentucky team is LOADED. If Andrew Wiggins commits to Kentucky, that may be the best college team of all time, with a potential future NBA all-star (the top 11 in this class are elite) starting at each position.

They have the best pg, best sg, 2nd best sf, best pf, and best center in this class which is considered a very strong class. And they STILL are in the running for the best player since lebron and anthony davis, andrew wiggins.



http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/order/true
If the NBA was a league where rookies had to be out of high school two years before entering, Kentucky probably would have won the title this year(imagine Anthony Davis returning and playing next to Noel), and every year for the next two or three years. Their last three recruiting classes have been that extraordinary.

Re: #3 high school recruit chooses Kentucky
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2013, 02:26:25 PM »

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Wasnt Kentucky loaded this year and missed the tourney completely?

Kentucky always seems to be loaded, dont know how they didnt make the dance this year.

Re: #3 high school recruit chooses Kentucky
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2013, 02:29:43 PM »

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Im sooooo excited about the 2013-14 UK Cats!!  ;D

C--Dakari Johnson
PF-Julius Randle
PF-Marcus Lee
SF-James Young
SG-Aaron Harrison
PG-Andrew Harrison
Plus returning players
C--Willie Cauley-Stein
PF-Alex Poythress
SG-Archie Goodwin
PG-Jarrod Polson
PG-Ryan Harrow
SF-Kyle Witjer

Now Stein may leave and rumors has it around Lex. is that Noel may come back but in any case this team will be hard to beat!!
C/PF-Horford, Baynes, Noel, Theis, Morris,
SF/SG- Tatum, Brown, Hayward, Smart, Semi, Clark
PG- Irving, Rozier, Larkin

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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2013, 02:31:10 PM »

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Wasnt Kentucky loaded this year and missed the tourney completely?

Kentucky always seems to be loaded, dont know how they didnt make the dance this year.
No they werent loaded this year. They only had 1 high profile player, Nerlens Noel, and he tore his ACL.

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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2013, 02:56:33 PM »

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Wasnt Kentucky loaded this year and missed the tourney completely?

Kentucky always seems to be loaded, dont know how they didnt make the dance this year.
No they werent loaded this year. They only had 1 high profile player, Nerlens Noel, and he tore his ACL.

Alex Poythress-ESPN Top 100, 8th nationally on Rivals.com
Archie Goodwin-ESPN Top 100, 14th nationally on Rivals.com
Willie Cauley-ESPN Top 100, 40th nationally on Rivals.com

And obviously as you said Noel was ranked 2nd nationally according to Rivals.

So compare that to the class before then according to Rivals...(Davis 2nd, Gilchrist 3rd, Teague 5th, Wiltjer 22) You'd be correct, they were nowhere near as talented as that class, but still having #2, #8, and #14 isn't exactly a bad haul either.

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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2013, 03:11:05 PM »

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Wasnt Kentucky loaded this year and missed the tourney completely?

Kentucky always seems to be loaded, dont know how they didnt make the dance this year.
No they werent loaded this year. They only had 1 high profile player, Nerlens Noel, and he tore his ACL.

Alex Poythress-ESPN Top 100, 8th nationally on Rivals.com
Archie Goodwin-ESPN Top 100, 14th nationally on Rivals.com
Willie Cauley-ESPN Top 100, 40th nationally on Rivals.com

And obviously as you said Noel was ranked 2nd nationally according to Rivals.

So compare that to the class before then according to Rivals...(Davis 2nd, Gilchrist 3rd, Teague 5th, Wiltjer 22) You'd be correct, they were nowhere near as talented as that class, but still having #2, #8, and #14 isn't exactly a bad haul either.

They were loaded.  Remember they still had Wiltjer and they had a former 5 star recruit in Ryan Harrow.  They should have made the tourny with or without Noel.  Calipari isn't a very good coach, he's just a great recruiter. 
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2013, 02:34:29 PM »

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Wasnt Kentucky loaded this year and missed the tourney completely?

Kentucky always seems to be loaded, dont know how they didnt make the dance this year.
No they werent loaded this year. They only had 1 high profile player, Nerlens Noel, and he tore his ACL.

Alex Poythress-ESPN Top 100, 8th nationally on Rivals.com
Archie Goodwin-ESPN Top 100, 14th nationally on Rivals.com
Willie Cauley-ESPN Top 100, 40th nationally on Rivals.com

And obviously as you said Noel was ranked 2nd nationally according to Rivals.

So compare that to the class before then according to Rivals...(Davis 2nd, Gilchrist 3rd, Teague 5th, Wiltjer 22) You'd be correct, they were nowhere near as talented as that class, but still having #2, #8, and #14 isn't exactly a bad haul either.
the difference is that this class is much stronger overall than any of those classes.

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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2013, 02:44:55 PM »

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Kentucky will still have probably three first round draft picks this year. They were still loaded but the whole team were freshmen. If Noel didn't get hurt they would have made the tourney and be ready to make some major noise.

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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2013, 03:20:09 PM »

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This next Kentucky team is LOADED. If Andrew Wiggins commits to Kentucky, that may be the best college team of all time, with a potential future NBA all-star (the top 11 in this class are elite) starting at each position.

They have the best pg, best sg, 2nd best sf, best pf, and best center in this class which is considered a very strong class. And they STILL are in the running for the best player since lebron and anthony davis, andrew wiggins.



http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/order/true

  I think the chances of them being the best college team of all time is practically nil, players don't stay in school long enough.

Re: #3 high school recruit chooses Kentucky
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2013, 03:44:27 PM »

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Wasnt Kentucky loaded this year and missed the tourney completely?

Kentucky always seems to be loaded, dont know how they didnt make the dance this year.
No they werent loaded this year. They only had 1 high profile player, Nerlens Noel, and he tore his ACL.

Alex Poythress-ESPN Top 100, 8th nationally on Rivals.com
Archie Goodwin-ESPN Top 100, 14th nationally on Rivals.com
Willie Cauley-ESPN Top 100, 40th nationally on Rivals.com

And obviously as you said Noel was ranked 2nd nationally according to Rivals.

So compare that to the class before then according to Rivals...(Davis 2nd, Gilchrist 3rd, Teague 5th, Wiltjer 22) You'd be correct, they were nowhere near as talented as that class, but still having #2, #8, and #14 isn't exactly a bad haul either.

They were loaded.  Remember they still had Wiltjer and they had a former 5 star recruit in Ryan Harrow.  They should have made the tourny with or without Noel.  Calipari isn't a very good coach, he's just a great recruiter.

Exactly.