Kentucky basketball has found its next ELITE point guard Lamont Butler! | Kentucky Wildcats Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- Mark Pope and Kentucky basketball have found their next elite point guard in San Diego State transfer Lamont Butler.
On today's episode of Locked On Kentucky, Lance Dawe discusses the latest news surrounding Kentucky Wildcats' guard Lamont Butler. According to Butler, he will start a point guard for the Wildcats this upcoming college basketball season. How will this effect Kentucky's rotation? Why is Butler the perfect starting option for UK?
Dawe also breaks down Kentucky's entire rotation, specifically their frontcourt - where Brandon Garrison isn't getting enough attention.
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Whatever Pope thinks best. I’m just glad KY now has an actual X’s and O’s coach that’s creative. Should be a great season
I agree with you 💯 we're just not going to see some great offense 👍 other teams are gonna find out what 1996 defense was all about.
our offense last year was actually really good, i don't think that was calipari offense though, welsh (assistant) was running the offensive plays for us. Whoever was running our defense needed to be fired immediately though
My starting 5 is Butler at Pg, Robinson at Sg, Brea at Sf, Carr at Pf, and Willaims at C
I think that would be the overall best starting lineup. We have a lot of tools so i think it will depends on the other team we are playing aswell, really looking forward to the Xs and Os
Garrison might start over williams, if he has a breakout season you have to remember hes young but with potential.
Lamont Butler is the player I thought from the start would be the starting Pg since we got him honestly, but yeah I'm definitely excited to see him run the point if so.
I agree. Carr is more likely to play the 4. Williams starts and Garrison gets a hefty amount of minutes at the 5. I think even Williams realizes the amount of playing time a talent like Garrison Will inevitably get. That’s why he almost decommited shortly after Garrison committed.
I think he has several options on who starts and who plys what position. That was his goal all along and he succeeded. I'm really growing on this team and really realizing what a great move we made in hiring Pope.
Assuming the team meshes, there should be as much or more offense as the 2023-24 teams for UK and BYU. Defense should be significantly better. Overall the athleticity of players should be better than BYU was, and probably on a par with what UK was.
The latter is because of a bunch of physically mature fifth year players vs 19-20 year-olds.
So, if they do mesh, and we get better game prep and in-game adjustments, plus an offense designed to be hard to defend...
My guess is this team should be top 15 in Kenpom adjusted offense AND defense. That should equate to what,maybe 23-8 or so, and at least a 5-seed, maybe a 3-seed.
My expectations are to not go out in March by being unprepared for a decidedly inferior team.
It’ll be tough to have a better offense than that BYU team. They had one of the most amazing offenses I’ve ever seen. They just had a bad first game in the tournament.
@@theoptimist9605 I don't remember who BYU lost to in the tournament, but I saw that team in their conference tournament. That team got red hot at the right time. It really wasn't surprising they beat BYU at that time, it was the pretty good team that suddenly got in a groove, and for two weeks could beat anybody.
@@keithgraham9547 Well said. I completely agree.
23 /8
11-7 SEC record would be a real accomplishment.
11-7 should be the absolute floor.
SEC basketball season is gonna be tough …. There is several good teams this coming season
Alabama especially. its not like the old days anymore where Kentucky dominated the SEC, but it better prepares us for the tournament.
SDSU played Butler mostly at the 2 because: A) he simply had to be a starter, B) they had another legit PG on the roster who was a very competent starter, and C) nobody else on the roster worthy of starting at the 2 ahead of him. But he is a natural PG and should be fine there.
Teams play guys out of their natural position out of necessity all the time. As Lance has discussed concerning Ansley Almonor, FDU played him at Center despite the fact that he was only 6'7", even though he is a natural PF.
Lets go cats 😊 💪😺💙🤍🏀🔥🔥
Bold prediction time Andrew Carr will be the leading scorer but only slightly and the rotation will be match up based.
Personally I'd set up Butler at pg and Brea Robinson and Carr providing space on offense and Amari at 5 with my main bench guys being Double O, Kerr, and Garrison. The Freshmen and Almanor being change of pace pieces and foul trouble pieces. But ill reserve judgment on how Pope does it until around January when we get down to the nitty gritty portion of the season.
I think the best offensive line up would be 1 Krissa, 2 Brea, 3 Jackson, 4 Almonor, 5 Carr
I love that line up for offense but I like that line up with butler at point to start
@@goldenroberts4624 I really like Butler too. I think he's gonna shock a lot of ppl on how good he really is. His first step is so fast. If you haven't seen it already...go watch his highlight tape on RUclips. I can't remember the exact title of the video. But it's something like Kentucky Lamont Butler highlights
That's their best offensive lineup without a doubt....but (unfortunately) if that's the team on the floor, that means they're likely behind and playing catch-up.
No way Almonor starts
Williams starts at the 5 and Carr at the 4.
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Snag it with one hand and hit me at second Mint! Hooooooooo Hitmen!!!
@@rdsacra That UK baseball game reminded me of Deuce and mint up the middle. Best SS in softball 00 throws it to 13 for a double play. Black and Gold was our mode.If i pitched better we would have won state. I played my last game with you. I retired as you are my hero, and retired at 27 because of what we had and Will always have=memories legends.
Picture playing Arkansas with Butler guarding DJ Otega on Davis and Williams on Aido I think Carr and Adou is a bad defensive matchup for both teams but Jaxson would school Karter all game so would Koby Billy Richmond would be playing that game more because his defense well Billy could play more than Karter all year because his defense I love Boogie but Butler would hold him to 4 points 1 assists and 3 turnovers I’m not acting like we’re a top 10 team at this moment but I think we dominate Arkansas
Butler would destory DJ, DJ already has trouble getting to the rim, Calipari freshman are hyped up coming in but always fall short when they finally start playing, our veteran team will take them on easily. We have a coach that actually has a system in place rather than letting a bunch of 5 stars do whatever they want and looking lost while doing so. My opinion were at least a top 15 team.
Yeah that’s kind of my point, I do think DJ will Be better this year but Butler will not give him any space and really teams learned to just let him shoot he might hit a couple if he gets more consistent shooting he can be good Butler would shut him down he already locked up Davis, I’m not Saying Arkansas won’t have a decent season but we’re just a bad matchup for Arkansas they don’t have enough shooting most of his players won’t have a clear role Cal won’t be able to figure out a rotation I think he has 3 really good bigs but he won’t know how to play them Z is a bad matchup for Williams or Garrison but the team just doesn’t have enough and we will have an identity by the time SEC play starts with a clear rotation we have everything a top 10 team needs from defense to shooting experience physicality length basketball IQ I have us preseason top 15 really Alabama is the only team with a better roster on paper in the SEC to me Arkansas might have more talent but the way the team is formed just doesn’t make sense Florida Auburn Tennessee A&M all have less or same amount of talent as us they just have players returning I think we could finish anywhere from 1st to 5th in the SEC it’s just about chemistry
Hot Take: Otega Oweh is our best player this season and one of the best in the SEC
I believe Popes system will make players shine…. Most players will get between 10 and 15 minutes a game … Pope likes to keep players fresh when he can and I believe he will have better conditioning similar to Patino 😉⛹️♂️🏀
I believe the wildcats end up shooting 45% from 3PT at the end of this season to last years I believe it was 41.2% from ESPNs Stats. I see them losing in the semi-finals as well as much as i hate to say it. I would be very pleased with that turnout however, compared to first round eliminations
Minutes the Elite clickbait in the title I think Butler starts the season at point. I'm not convinced he stays there but we will see.
Something is Very Wrong! We “stole” Coach Pope from BYU, but now BYU has become a Blue Blood with a top 5 recruiting class and we’re ranked number 40 in recruiting. What went Wrong???
BYU is not a blue blood. Wtf? Popes class is just fine. He will sign a top 4 or 5 class for next season. He basically had less than a month to hire a staff and get a whole new roster. BYU has a billionaire booster also and we have nothing close to that. Head to head UK would beat them by double digits.
@@904tc I just don’t see how we can compete with powerhouse universities like BYU moving into the future. It feels like our best days are now behind us.
@@theoptimist9605 i feel much better now than i did with Calipari.
There's a huge difference between Bold and Stupid... THAT PREDICTION WAS STUPID!!! shoulda got a 1 outta 10
"Elite" ?
Natty or failure! No excuses