Bovada relesed the odds for the next championship ↗. Hint, best odds are not KU or Nova...
On another KU note, Josh Jackson gets a haircut...
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I would put some money on Nevada right now with their odds. That's going to be a really really good team next season.
Zion is simply a player from another planet. With that signing, Duke comes up high on my radar screen, too.
The question will be how Coach K uses Zion. Will he let him takeover games?
Duke is going to be talented but young and inexperienced, not exactly the foundation for a championship team.
@JayHawkFanToo Marcus bolden will still be riding the pine there, right?
Probably. He really fell out of favor with Coach K; he would have started just about everywhere else.
drgnslayr said:
The question will be how Coach K uses Zion. Will he let him takeover games?
Hopefully he uses him just like Kruger used Trae Young.
If he does, he would run out of gas by the time Conference play starts...at 270 he is on the heavy side for a 6’-6”Player.
Williamson is heavy, but if you look at him, he isn't carrying baby fat. He's probably the most muscular player I have seen coming out of HS in some time. Could he afford to get into better shape? Sure. But his athleticism is off the charts already, and he moves with an ease that's really impressive.
@JayHawkFanToo you didn’t get it
@justanotherfan he is injury prone
There is a huge difference between HS and Division I. Where he could overpower just about all HS players he faced he will not be able to do quite the same against the much bigger college players and it will take a much heavier toll on his endurance. As @Crimsonorblue22 mentioned, he has been injury prone and no doubt his weight contributed to it; he was not selected for the US team because he apparently is injured again. No way he averages 35 mpg like Young did.
With the players Duke has coming in there are several players that can take over games such as Barrett and Reddish who both are ranked ahead of him and even Tre Jones, whereas OU had just Young. As far as playing time, I just don’t see him playing the 35 mpg that a Young played considering than in his Sr. year in HS Zion averaged only 23 mpg.
@JayHawkFanToo he was being sarcastic.
@JayHawkFanToo I don't think Zion showed up, don't know if he is hurt.
Zion was in the original list of candidates...how he could not be? But he was not in the list of the 32 original players since he was “...no longer able to participate” according to the USA Men’s under 18 web site." target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2018/05/mu18-tc-starts.aspx) ↗
The injury appears to be the hand/thumb one he suffered at the McDonald All-American game that required a cast and apparently is not fully healed or else a new one.
He played 20, 26, 35, and 19 games in HS with his junior year being the healthiest and his senior year the least healthy.
I’d still take him.