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trigg3r said:
He is pretty slimy IMO. The premier coach for "one and dones."
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How does that make him slimy? Isn't that being a great recruiter.

Here we go with facts again, I know I'll be sorry;
- John Wall, Brandon Knight, Anthony Davis, Doron Lamb, Enes Kanter ............ etc, ect. are high integrity guys, go to class, get the grades, work hard, represent their school very well. He's not recruiting the prima donna trouble makers .. he passes on those. This is the wrong forum though, so I'll stop there.
 
There have been NCAA investigations that have followed him throughout his career in different programs. Where there is smoke, there is usually fire. Being a fan of UK, you might be biased on this issue.
 
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These are the latest games he has played. I do not have individual game stats for the games he played prior to this in High School, in the 2008 European U16 championships (66 FG% avg [62-94]), and in the 2008 European U18 championships (65.4 FG% avg [70-107]).
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By my count, that's 18 games over 3 years, and 0 since April 2010.
 
trigg3r said:
There have been NCAA investigations that have followed him throughout his career in different programs. Where there is smoke, there is usually fire. Being a fan of UK, you might be biased on this issue.
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I am biased, I admit that. Hell, I'll even admit that I hated him and called him a cheater before he came to UK. All I have seen since he's been here for two years, however, is being the best recruiter of all time, fantastic charity work, recruiting the high character kids, being a great role model for them, working their asses off, preparing them for life in the NBA, and winning.

The two 'charges against him' are really silly. Rose was in Michigan taking an SAT (or was he??), hadn't even stepped foot on the Memphis campus, was cleared to play by the NCAA clearinghouse, was never proven to had done anything wrong, and Calipari somehow arranged for him to cheat on his SAT? Biased or not, I don't buy that.

Camby took money and after major investigations, Cal was FORMALLY cleared by the NCAA. Did he know about it? Who knows? NCAA says no, but ..

Now, in the past couple years Jim Calhoun has been slapped, Pearl fired .. Tressel .. I can tell you that Calipari is every reporters HOMERUN. He's under the microscope every minute of every day. Sorry, I said I was done. I REALLY don't want to talk UK here.
 
You forgot to mention the Bledsoe saga. Cal is as slimy as Calhoun or even Peal. Why is it that these situations happen under him yet other good coaches don't have a similar history? Like I said, when there is smoke, there is usually fire.
 
One last time because I can't help myself.

Bledsoe 'saga' ended up being nothing more than, while in HIGH SCHOOL (well before he was even RECRUITED by UK), his mom took around $1,000 to move into an apartment (her and Eric were living in her car). That has nothing to do with Cal, but I don't blame Eric's mom one bit under those circumstances. The double-standard is of epic proportions.

The golden boy, coach krzweiskyihsky played Corey Magette, Magette was found/proven to had taken money, yet K is an angel. I could cite many more, but .. I shouldn't.
 
I know, I agree. I tend to only bring it up under two cicumstances;

1) Someone asks my opinion of a UK player
2) Someone bashes the players, coach, team, with bad info.

I find it hard to just sit back and listen to things thrown around as facts .. when they're simply and entirely wrong. I need to work on just letting it go ... just hard-headed.
 
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underKANTER said:
can someone with the insider post this? thanks...

https://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/blo...pn.go.com/ncb/blog?name=ncbexperts&id=6651654
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Derrick Williams: Williams is the classic tweener who keeps telling people he is a 3, when all he has ever played is the 4. If we are going to judge Williams as a 3, then his ballhandling is suspect, most of his jumpers came on spot-ups while being guarded by college big men, and he has never guarded on the perimeter.

One high-level NBA team executive told me after reading my Big Board that Williams "might not even really be a starter in the league, because he has no position and no real low-post game." All reports are that he is a fantastic person with a solid work ethic, but unless his team is committed to playing fast and playing with a pass-first point guard (as Cleveland and Minnesota likely would), Williams might get lost in half-court sets where his lack of defined skill becomes apparent.

Enes Kanter: Frankly, it is not even close. Kanter has not played competitively in a year, but when he has played, he looks like arguably the best prospect in this draft. Kanter is 6-foot-10 in bare feet, can play either inside position and is an animal on the boards. Whether it is Minnesota or Cleveland or even Utah, it seems foolish to pass on his combination of size, skill and youth.
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