Posted on May 31, 2008 by ibleedblue040
#21, Chrisitan Watford - Considering Indiana, Lousiville, Kentucky, Alabama, Memphis, Missouri
Positives
- The biggest positive in Christian Watford’s game has to be his shooting range. Watford has NBA ready range right now and has a surprising consistency in his jumper out to 25 feet. And when Watford is hitting his long range jumpers he can put [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by ibleedblue040
#22, Shawn Williams - Considering Kentucky, Texas, Arkansas, Baylor, UCLA, Florida
Positives
- Shawn Williams’ biggest attribute is his veratility on the offensive end. Williams had been labeled as just a spot up shooter last season and through last summer but really has improved the other parts of his shooting to make him one of the more [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Hey everyone, just thought I would let you all know that I have started up a UKmadness website. You can click here to view it but please do not expect it to be anything good at all for a while. I am not very good at building websites so it does not look professional right [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Recruiting Trail
- There has been a bit of confusion over where UK stands with the #1 player in the nation, John Wall. There have been a couple articles, one of which Wall was interviewed, that have some UK fans thinking they have a good shot to land the #1 prospect in the nation. The first [...]
Filed under: Basketball, Basketball Recruiting, Web Wednesday | Tagged: 2009, 2010, Christian Watford, Hunter McClintock, John Wall, oak hill academy, Tommy Mason-Griffin, Vinny Zollo | No Comments »
Posted on May 26, 2008 by ibleedblue040
The voting has closed on the 1960’s UK poll. The top four vote getters were the 1966 team, 1967 team, 1968 team, and the 1969 team. Those four teams will be added to the bracket and now you can vote on the four best teams of the 1970’s. PLEASE VOTE AND VOTE FOR A MAXIMUM [...]
Filed under: Basketball, Statistics | Tagged: 1970's, Greatest Team, Kentucky Greats | No Comments »
Posted on May 24, 2008 by ibleedblue040
#23, Roberto Nelson - Considering Cal, Nebraska, UC Santa-Barbara, USC
Positives
- Nelson is just a bonifide scorer. Nelson led the Arizona Cactus Classic tournament in scoring with 25.1 points per game, that tournament had some great players in it too like John Wall, Avery Bradley, Abdul Gaddy, and Tony Wroten Jr. Nelson shot 55% from three [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Recruiting Trail
- As many of you know by now, UK is likely to sign 6′8″ PF Mathew Pilgrim, formerly of Hampton University, for next season. Pilgrim would enroll at UK next school year but would have to sit out a year because of a transfer rule. Pilgrim has been compared to Joey Dorsey because of [...]
Filed under: Basketball, Basketball Recruiting | Tagged: 2008, 2009, Curtis Kelley, Deshawn Painter, Eloy Vargas, Florida Gators, Hunter McClintock, Jon Hood, Kenny Kadji, Matthew Pilgrim | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 20, 2008 by ibleedblue040
With yet again another kind of dry period in the UK recruiting world I want to write another game preview for the NBA Playoffs. Like I have said many times before I am a very big Boston Celtics fan so I am going to write a series preview for the Eastern Conference Finals between the [...]
Filed under: Basketball, Game Preview, Game Thoughts, Statistics | Tagged: 2008, Antonio McDyess, Boston Celtics, Chauncey Billups, Detroit Pistons, Eastern Conference Finals, Kendrick Perkins, Kevin Garnett, NBA Playoffs, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Rasheed Wallace, Ray Allen, Richard Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince | No Comments »
Posted on May 20, 2008 by ibleedblue040
#24, Keith Gallon - Considering LSU, Oklahoma, UCLA, Kentucky, USC, Baylor
Positives
- Gallon is very strong, I mean very strong. Gallon is only 6′9″ but weighs an astonishing 290 lbs. Gallon is in the mold of a Glen “Big Baby’ Davis type player, although he does not just look like him, he plays like him. Gallon [...]
Filed under: Basketball, Basketball Recruiting | Tagged: 2009 player rankings, Glen Davis, Keith Gallon, oak hill academy | No Comments »
Posted on May 19, 2008 by ibleedblue040
The voting has closed on the 1950’s UK poll. The top four vote getters were the 1950 team, 1951 team, 1952 team, and the 1958 team. Those four teams will be added to the bracket and now you can vote on the four best teams of the 1960’s. PLEASE VOTE AND VOTE FOR A MAXIMUM [...]
Filed under: Basketball, Statistics | Tagged: 1960's, Greatest Team, Kentucky Greats | No Comments »