John Wall perplexed that people believe Kentucky could compete with NBA teams

No different than 2012 Alabama playing the 2012 Bucs. Alabama would lose badly.

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Most normal people should be perplexed as to how some college kids who don't have the resources, training, etc as an NBA team (even a shitty one) could compete with them.

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Just to slightly play devil's advocate, it could be somewhat POSSIBLE in basketball, as well as baseball. Football, there is a less than 0% chance, it would be impossible.

Basketball...5 guys, non-contact, who knows..it would take all 5 pros having their worst game ever and all 5 college guys playing out of their minds.


BUT, to sum up, no I don't think it would ever really happen. Maybe once in a couple hundred tries...maybe.

If you gave a team 100 tries, they could do it once. The strategy would just be to jack up threes and hope you were hot one night. Most games, you would lose by 30, but that one game would be magical. Just like in the NCAA tournament, it is possible for a vastly inferior teams to beat a great one (15 vs. 2). It just takes an incredible shooting night from one team combined with a terrible one from the other.

Agree. I don't think it would happen, but I do think basketball would be the most likely.

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I wouldn't necessarily call basketball non contact.

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what I meant was that with football it's mano e mano, you could be looking at a 35 year old grown arse man with 10+ years NFL experience going up against a 21 year old. An NFL team would just physically overpower, dominate, and manhandle college kids. Basketball you're not matched up like that.

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Good. Cause anybody who competed at a higher level than high school at any sport knows these are ALWAYS absurd comparisons. Football, basketball, soccer, tennis, badminton, whatever.

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I played baseball at a decent JUCO program. Played at a state championship caliber high school program. Just the difference in level of play between JUCO and very good high school baseball is a large jump. As Wall said, its a different game. It's more intense. It's the same with baseball. Everybody has pitchers that throw 90... not just a few - and this is JUCO ball.

It's also why I laugh at people claiming college baseball in a league like the SEC is subpar. We're still talking about the top 2% of high school baseball players.

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No different than 2012 Alabama playing the 2012 Bucs. Alabama would lose badly.

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Um, yes, it's completely different. We are talking about 9 1st-2nd round quality players, never has Alabama had an entire team of 1st round guys. You can't compare the two sports.

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Do you know how much talent was on the 2011-2012 Alabama teams, when this was being thrown about? Enough to ask Pete Carroll the question in a press conference.

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Kentucky has a starting 5 of first round talent. There weren't anywhere near 22 first rounders on that team.

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But Alabama's entire 2011 defense is in the NFL and either starting or a major contributor. The entire 2012 offensive line is on a two deep in the NFL. There were 9 total first round picks on those teams.

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That all said, I'm willing to bet majority of the them are stronger and faster after spending time in an NFL training program that doesn't have the restrictions like you do in college.

It's the same with basketball. Look at the difference in Anthony Davis' strength from when he was at UK to his first year in the NBA.

ETA: Either way, the UK vs. NBA should've been a moot point after their Bahamas trip anyway. Those national team guys are typically guys who are no longer playing in the NBA or didn't make it from overseas. And all of those games were competitive and they lost to the Dominican National team who was the best of the bunch by a long shot.