Actually Kentucky could beat the Bobcats/Raptors in a close game... if they're playing 5 on 2 respectively. With no subs.
I said UPSET. As in the USA team losing to: Serbia, Puerto Rico, Greece and Lithuania. Was that Puerto Rico team amazing? It was led by rookie Carlos Arroyo who had been undrafted and barely played any minutes for 1/2 a season. Puerto Rico won by 20. The USA team had in their prime: Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury, and Tim Duncan, and young players like Richard Jefferson, Dwyane Wade, Carlos Boozer, Carmelo Anthony, Lebron James, Amare Stoudemire who dominated in college and high school. That team lost to Puerto Rico & Lithuania. The great Greece team led by the great V-Span beat that team too a few years later. Crazy upsets happen. They just do. The stars have to align sometimes and things have to work out, but there is reason you play the games. All I am saying is that is not a foregone as everyone thinks. Just because a team has a ton of talent does not mean that is wins every single time. Sure maybe 99% of the time. Sure if they are playing a series, there is no chance. But your talking 1 game. 1 night. 1 opportunity in which anything can happen. Do I have to list every single amazing upset in the history of sports here to get the concept that "no chance" at all is ridiculous?
You make it sound like talent is the only issue at hand here. When it's clearly not. There's also the gap in coaching, the gap in mentality(professionals vs amateurs), the gap in experience, the gap in physical maturity, mental maturity, etc. Also, any hypothetical scenario would mean playing in a fair setting. That is, assuming NBA team takes it seriously, are in game shape, and familiar with the rules if it's college rules. Something that many earlier international games by team USA were not.
Van Gundy: Kentucky can't top Wiz http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7...-wildcats-defeating-washington-wizards-absurd
Kentucky does not an 18 year old Lebron James or 18 year Old Shaq on their team so they have no chance
No single college team could ever challenge the historically worst of NBA teams. It's a completely different beast.
That U of H squad wouldn't stand a chance against any nba team. Dream would've fouled out in the 1st half.
He's not being serious, he's just being "funny". He's sarcastically over exaggerating how good kentucky is, while making fun of two of the nba's worst teams.
Charlotte would probably win, but you guys are overestimating the talent difference. It's not inconceivable to think that all of Kentucky's starters will be at least rotation players next year. They are all projected 1st round picks. Davis and MKG will probably be starting. Really shorthanded teams don't usually lose by 30 to the worst team in the league. Maybe Kentucky loses by 10 or 15, but 30 is a bit much. They could keep a game close, and possibly win if things line up right.
Stan Van Gundy said it best. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...am-is-absurd/2012/03/28/gIQARU2OhS_story.html
That for sure, when you get drafted to the NBA you dont become an almighty and powerful god who could never lose to a player or team that is not in the NBA. There is also a huge difference between an NBA player and an NBA star, and even if a team has "13 NBA Players" only around 8 get significant minutes, so it is totally possible a team with only "4 NBA players" could beat a team with 13 if one of the team with only 4 was an NBA star.
To clarify i am not saying Kentucky could beat one of those teams, but i am saying that the some of the best college teams in history could.
