Calipari seems to have Kentucky in hunt almost every year. Love his system - ball movement offense based on penetration and D emphasis.
Now that's more than a mouthful. I am all about the D, but craving Double D borders on excess. You know what they say, waste not want not.
Calipari gets the absolute best players in the country. Kentucky is in a tier all by themselves in terms of the talent they get. They have the #1 recruiting class almost every year. Duke is usually in the top 10, but sometimes they can be #15. Sometimes they are #3. It varies from year to year. But Kentucky is almost always either the #1 or #2 class year after year. In the past 5 years (the years Calipari has been the coach at Kentucky): Kentucky: Elite 8 Final Four National Champions Did not make tournament Runner up Duke: National Champions Sweet 16 First round Elite 8 First round You see Kentucky didn't make the tournament the year before last. The last time Duke didn't make the tournament was 1994. Mike Krzyewski has won 4 national championships and has been to 7 national championships, and 10 Final Fours. He's been coaching at Duke for about 30 years. So that means his teams have been to the Final Four 10 out of 30 years. A third of the time he's got a team in the Final Four. That's impressive. Especially to have that kind of sustained success over such a long period of time.
unless the rockets deal for a rookie contract (e.g, rubio) they don't have the salaries to match up until when those unguaranteed contracts can be packaged. so nothing major is going to happen until sep 15 at the earliest.
If a credible report came out within 3 days, saying the trade was in place and would be done in Sept, would you consider that nothing major?
Now that our love making Session with Ramona has commenced, we will try to find a little butterball boy to be a third party. Although neither I or the butterball boy are or will be gay. Colors are blue, blue, black, red. Maybe Roger RabbiT has come to dinner. Maybe he is dinner.
People need to acclimate to the fact that Plowman is completely honest but his timeline just may not hold true. So many deals in the NBA come close and fail that you just can't bank on much. I wonder about the meltdown in a few days.....
Or his source can be credible and things just shift. I just don't personally want to get my hopes up too much again after Bosh.
Personally I don't think a deal with Suns to get Dragic/Bledsoe was ever close. That's just common sense. Suns have to secure one of them before they can think about dealing the other one. So how could a deal be close 1.5 months ago?
I don't think even the Suns thought the Bledsoe process would drag out so long. Who'd have thought a player who never had a fully healthy season would actually risk playing for QO instead of $48mil guaranteed? No one sane, really.
