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Their offense is just horrendous. None of those prospects will look good in it so I really don't know which ones actually aren't really any good and which are just on the wrong team.
 
Osh Kosh Bosh said:
Karl Towns a long lost third Gasol brother with that over the shoulder pass. I love it, :smokin

If anyone could go undefeated it's this team.
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Osh Kosh Bosh said:
Beautiful high low touch pass by Towns.

Not a single Duke guard could have made that post entry pass.
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Osh Kosh Bosh said:
Doubling Karl Towns seems like a bad idea, he's an excellent passer, great vision.
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Karl Towns Passing

Kentucky was everything we were promised and more on Tuesday night, when they ran No. 5 Kansas out of the gym in a 72-40 game that wasn't as close as the final score indicated. They were bigger, longer and more athletic at just about every position on the floor - Kansas is plenty big for a college team, but Kentucky made them look like a bunch of little kids. That's what happens when you start 6'6, 6'6, 6'9, 7'0, 7'0.

There are more than enough accolades to go around, but the guy I want to focus on today is Karl-Anthony Towns. While he only played 19 minutes, he still managed to rack up 9 points, 8 rebounds, 4 blocks and 3 assists and it seemed like he was in the middle of every Kentucky run. The guy is a 7'0 250 with a 7'3 wingspan and he has the speed, skill and athleticism to play as a PF full-time. There are few things he can't do on a basketball court.

What really jumped out to me on Tuesday was his passing ability. Towns is a guy you can run offense through out of the high post or the low post - he's so big that he demands a double team and he has a great feel for where everyone else is on the court. Watch how he doesn't rush things in this play, even when he is facing a triple team. He is patient, he plays under control and he waits until Andrew Harrison is wide open to pass the ball.

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Just as important, he is so much taller than the defenders that he can pass over them with absolute ease. When Towns is moving the ball around the court, Kentucky is operating on a different plane than any college team (and most NBA teams). That's why it is so nice to be able to run offense through a 7'0 - no matter what else is going on in the game, you can always slow the ball down, throw it inside and get a good shot.

Kentucky really went to another level in last year's NCAA Tournament when Julius Randle started to look to pass, instead of hunting for his own shot. That's how they beat Wichita State - Randle had 6 assists, most of them to three-point shooters. When your best player is looking to pass, it opens up the game for everyone else and puts the defense in an impossible bind. You blow out teams by giving shooters rhythm 3's.

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Towns is the glue that holds the rest of the team together. A big guy who can defend, shoot and pass makes everyone better, so no matter what type of line-up Calipari uses, as long as he has Towns out there, Kentucky will be able to defend and score against anyone. They can go super-size upfront with Towns creating offense out of the high post at the 4 and they can go "small ball" with Towns playing as the 5 in a 4-out set.

There really is no ceiling for how good he can become. Towns may not put up a bunch of stats this season because of the platoon system, but he is why Kentucky has a chance to do something really historic this season. If 2014 is like 2012, it's because Karl Towns is Anthony Davis. Here's what should really worry every other team in the country - he's already bigger than Davis and AD didn't do stuff like this in college:

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Sir, I am kindly going to ask you to get the **** out of here with that. That's just silly. Jay Bilas said it best: "[Towns] is a guy who makes it really easy to play with him and really difficult to play against him."
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Such a simple pass, yet so effective. Seems like most of these prospects are all skill with 0 fundamentals and low IQ.
 
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This year I feel like we actually have some high basketball IQ on the floor with just about any lineup. Towns, Ullis and Lyles are all super intuitive. They may be freshmen but they can move the other pieces around to make them look much better than they are.
 
UCLA needs Brandon Ingram more than Jaylen Brown. I think Ingram stays more than one year.
 
I'll be interested to see if Miller can get his offense up to snuff without Johnson around. Pitts is probabably better than York but neither good enough to not just play Stan and RHJ together or just play RHJ at the 4 and squeeze out one of the bigs. Basically, Nick Johnson was really damn good.

Irvine can play though. Nelson is going to have a hell of a career.

Also Not sure how OU blew that game.
 
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Ricardo Malta said:
You know damn well Arizona fans don't actually talk basketball. They only come through when Arizona goes on a little run throughout the season then get quiet around losses or the offseason.

Soon...:hat
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True, it doesn't get more funny style than Zona fans
 
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Stan played pretty passive compared to last game.

TJ taking too many shots for my liking but Sean keeps letting him rock

RHJ gets after it, I like him off the bench instead of starting
 
Really impressed with Ohio sts talent, think their leaps and bounds better from last year.....will be fun as hell to watch
 
GUNNA GET IT said:
Stan played pretty passive compared to last game.

TJ taking too many shots for my liking but Sean keeps letting him rock

RHJ gets after it, I like him off the bench instead of starting
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Might make sense with the weak wing depth on the bench, but the kid might be the best player on the team. 
 
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