Hmm...maybe that has to do with a specific basketball situation for specific players. And you know what, there's something similar we do with players that don't even come from Kentucky. If a college program happens to play a specific brand of basketball that mutes players performance, we might consider it. Doesn't matter if it's at Kentucky or Arkansas. It's the basketball that matters. If Juwan Howard became the next Kentucky coach and brought his modern system with him, we would have a much different feeling about the Kentucky guard thing.
Like I said, by all means tell me the connection between Frank/Bilal beyond playing in the same league. Is it a basketball related connection? I can see that. Like maybe you're telling me we overvalue guys with long wingspans. There are a lot of guys with long wingspans that are not French. Maybe you want to make the argument that Frank and Bilal are actually very similar prospects. Low usage, low production wings.....ok that is reasonable. Heck, the guy we keep comparing him too is considered a bust by most people. It's not like we're dying on the sword for Bilal, but going back to what was initially said, it's just lazy to encompass everything as "French". If you're telling me he's too raw to succeed in the NBA or "insert basketball reason", that's fair. But just linking players together on the basis of being French is lazy. There are way more reasonable things to be skeptical about.
It's not hard to see why teams were high on him. Also not hard to see what they were overlooking in the process. It's not because of an implicit bias towards French guys.
