We have 2 on the roster and 2/3 more that can play the 5 in a pinch. We're fine at Center.
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Is Robert Woodard on Carter's AAU team? If so, then cool your jets. He's a take regardless of who his damn AAU or high school coach is. All that matters is who his handler is and that's his pops, who is one of my fav Bulldogs of that time. Man if we land Perry and Woodard, our forward position is set for the '18 season
I still remember his Dad hitting a 10 foot jumper to defeat Kentucky!
As 61 said, Herard and Ado are just fine at the 5, we're in good shape there.
And the bottom line is that in today's game, it's hard to find a true 5 and you don't really need one, either. I mean, Herard was a high 4-star recruit as a 5, and we saw how raw he was.
Geezus the Arkansas fans on Twitter are really butt on this one...and the sad part is they are including Reggie in the tweets. IJ came to the rescue but they ripping him as well. What an sad group of idiots they are.
You got google. Use it.
https://twitter.com/IjReady/status/887075124238852096
I mean, our fans would do the same thing. Imagine if a 5-star kid who had lived in MS and still played on a MS AAU team had been committed for over a year, along with some other kids on the same team...then he decommitted to be closer to his dad and ended up at a place like Arkansas that was still 6 hours away from his dad.
College fans are pretty much all the same at the end of the day.
Btw, I don't always say this but I do love the article the Clarion Ledger did with Al Perry yesterday on why Reggie picked us. Coach Howland really did a great job of telling it to him straight on how he is going to use him. The thing I love the most about this recruitment is it sounds like Reggie really has a great attitude and wants to play where he best helps the team. This tells me he is coachable and will fit in well with who Coach Howland has on the team and who he wants to recruit (instead of Newman and Kegler who had an agenda of where they wanted to play and how they wanted to play).
That is one of the best things the top programs get their players to do. UK, Duke, NC, Kansas all have great players but they also play team basketball. UK has 1 and done guys that are coming off the bench and you never hear about a bunch of drama. Hopefully Howland is getting to the point that he is getting great team players because those make great teams.
Yeah a lot of them took it too far. I can see why some would be annoyed since he said he wanted to be close to his sick dad and then commits to a school 7 hours away though. The timing was also weird, nothing has really changed from when he committed to Arkansas calling it "his Kansas, Duke or Kentucky"
After Malik Monk last year it's kinda like "here we go again"
We get it. We had two transfer after being here one year and one ask out of their NLI this past year so we understand it; however when your fans AND your team tweet at him just to harass him it's gone way too far. It's bad form and oversteps big time boundaries. Bitching on message boards and even bitching on Twitter to other fans I get. Tweeting at recruits and student athletes to bitch at them because they didn't pick your school is Kentucky fan creepy.