Florida blows first game of SEC Tournament to Arkansas

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Hudson could come back and work on his defensive skills, but kids don’t think like that, especially going into a defenseless league like the NBA.

Hudson is 21 turning 22 in May. If he comes back another year, he is at least as likely to go undrafted as improve his stock.

Players make lots of bad decisions like I wont go to such and such school because someone else has my number. Any player going when they will be drafted is not making a bad decision. The only real issue is to get an objective evaluation of your prospects of being drafted.
 

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Would not be mad about picking him up. Especially since he has 2 years remaining

I am of two minds about 2 years remaining being a good thing or not. The great thing about these graduate transfers is you fill up your last remaining slot with them and then still have that slot to recruit next year.

Essentially Barry and Koulechov cost UF nothing in terms of lost opportunities. Wyatt Walker would mean UF could sign one less player next year.
 

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UK Tenn in a good game coming down to the end. Tenn just hit one of the luckiest 3s I've seen to pull within 1 pt
 

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I am of two minds about 2 years remaining being a good thing or not. The great thing about these graduate transfers is you fill up your last remaining slot with them and then still have that slot to recruit next year.

Essentially Barry and Koulechov cost UF nothing in terms of lost opportunities. Wyatt Walker would mean UF could sign one less player next year.

Flip side is I wish we had both Barry and Egor another year lol
 

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Kentucky is the SEC Champ and we handled them both times. Sheez.
 

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Flip side is I wish we had both Barry and Egor another year lol

Wyatt Walker is listed 6'9" 240 lbs. Back of the envelope calculations based on Barry and Koulechov's numbers and how much they fell off coming to UF suggest Walker would be about at 8.5 points per game and 7.8 rebound per game guy in about 23 minutes per game of play for UF.

Of course the caveat with all of these guys is the something about their quickness, defense etc that would cause them not to translate to high D1 at all.
 

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I’m not so sure he’s a one and done, and even if he is, he’s make us much better and would be able to give Cheese breaks
Hes a lottery pick. But you're, right. We could definitely use him.
 

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I like White. As the season has gone on, I give him a ton of credit. He's done the best he can with what he has. The biggest criticism would be his recruiting. He needed a pg this year and didn't sign one. Chiozza isn't a starter. He's a solid backup who is at his best providing a spark off the bench. While the 2014-15 season had awful pg play, I still think it better than what Chiozza provides. He's the worst to me since the early Kruger years. Thankfully, Egor graduates. As far as Hudson goes, he has one more year. If I were White, I'd tell him to go. I wouldn't want to put up with his selfish play any longer.


Actually he had one committed for nearly two years but he jilted White for all the "advantages" at Kentucky at the last minute. Mr. Alexander was spotted by White and his staff way before anyone else knew who he was and UF pounced on him and got his commitment. Once he became a high profile prospect, then Calipari descended upon him and he dumped us like a bad habit.
 

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Wyatt Walker has experience. If his injury has no lingering effect, he'll very likely outperform Gak, potentially our best "big man" ?? Darn it ! That will be bad for us.
 

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Wyatt Walker has experience. If his injury has no lingering effect, he'll very likely outperform Gak, potentially our best "big man" ?? Darn it ! That will be bad for us.
That's 4 bad knees and 4 good knees. Can we switch them around and get two healthy centers?
 

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I did not watch one minute of the SEC title game. I turned it on pregame. Bad enough having two royal cocksuckers on the sidelines, but to have to endure Schlongie V giving Cheatapari head for two hours was too much to ask. I watched Davidson/Rhode Island instead, a dandy game.
 

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Wyatt Walker is listed 6'9" 240 lbs. Back of the envelope calculations based on Barry and Koulechov's numbers and how much they fell off coming to UF suggest Walker would be about at 8.5 points per game and 7.8 rebound per game guy in about 23 minutes per game of play for UF.

Of course the caveat with all of these guys is the something about their quickness, defense etc that would cause them not to translate to high D1 at all.
Well, canyon barry was the sec 6th man of the year and egor has been a very solid player for us so i don't how they didn't translate to high d1 players. Second of all footspeed isn't that important for a big man, I'd bet this kid is every bit as fast as erik murphy. The kid was putting up solid numbers as a true freshman. Regardless of how that translates in your math, he was a true freshman,he can get better. If healthy, he'd be the best big man we have.
 

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Well, I said all along, we had no business being in that SEC tournament. From the looks of coach & players, I don't think UF should sign up for it next year either.
 

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Well, canyon barry was the sec 6th man of the year and egor has been a very solid player for us so i don't how they didn't translate to high d1 players. Second of all footspeed isn't that important for a big man, I'd bet this kid is every bit as fast as erik murphy. The kid was putting up solid numbers as a true freshman. Regardless of how that translates in your math, he was a true freshman,he can get better. If healthy, he'd be the best big man we have.

1. I did not say that Barry and Koulechov did not translate. They clearly did. I said the worry is that one of these guys from a middle or low major team will come in and it will just be too big of a step up. I am of course certainly not hoping for that.

2. I think the Erik Murphy analogy is pretty good, but Walker is not an outside shooter so they are very different players.
 

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1. I did not say that Barry and Koulechov did not translate. They clearly did. I said the worry is that one of these guys from a middle or low major team will come in and it will just be too big of a step up. I am of course certainly not hoping for that.

2. I think the Erik Murphy analogy is pretty good, but Walker is not an outside shooter so they are very different players.

1. I apologize, i misunderstood you.

2. I didn't look at the percentages but he was hitting 3s and had a pretty smooth stroke. I think the kid could be more versatile than murphy .
 

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1. I apologize, i misunderstood you.

2. I didn't look at the percentages but he was hitting 3s and had a pretty smooth stroke. I think the kid could be more versatile than murphy .
Sign him up.
 

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1. I apologize, i misunderstood you.

2. I didn't look at the percentages but he was hitting 3s and had a pretty smooth stroke. I think the kid could be more versatile than murphy .

No problem and I did not look at this video clip:



either. I have looked at it now and was surprised to see a highlight 3 since according to his stats at ESPN he was 0-4 as a Frosh from the arc, 2-6 as a Soph from the arc and 0-0 in the two games he played this year before his injury.

He certainly appears to be an excellent passer with excellent vision from the post. The clip shows a lot of blocks, but again according to ESPN he has never quite averaged a block a game.
 

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DublW has what UF needs. White's crummy if he doesn't recruit this guy convincingly.

1) WW is an inside "presence" -- the kind UF can't seem to attract out of H.S.

2) You can see that Walker plays "big-man" style = gets the ball and forces his defenders back toward the basket, then scores or passes for layup assists.

3) WW causes defenses to collapse inside because they fear our "inside guy" will score. This opens paths for a driver to score.

4) *** He's got two years eligibility remaining and high likelihood of staying for both.(build around that some)

5) per game 11 points ('16-'17 seasons) 6 rebs ; not static stats = inside presents from our "inside presence"

6) he's adept at dribbling & crafty at passing assists.

7) ** among the tall trees, Wyatt does not back down = it isn't futile to pass it in to WW (like with Hayes or Gak.)

8) he's got full experience ... against enough respected teams.

9) It's a position we've been a black hole with the last several years.!!
 

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