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Remember when Rivals ranked Skal Labissiere #1 over Ben Simmons?
Posted on 2/2/16 at 10:45 pm
Posted on 2/2/16 at 10:45 pm
That was good times.
Hindsight is 20/20, but wow! Any Kentucky fans ready to eat crow about this guy yet? Too lazy to search back, but there were UK fans galore praising rivals for "seeing past the Simmons hype."
Seriously though, Skal is averaging about 8 and 3. Not that there's anything wrong with that for a very good freshman. Just nowhere near Simmons and could never hope to be.
Hindsight is 20/20, but wow! Any Kentucky fans ready to eat crow about this guy yet? Too lazy to search back, but there were UK fans galore praising rivals for "seeing past the Simmons hype."
Seriously though, Skal is averaging about 8 and 3. Not that there's anything wrong with that for a very good freshman. Just nowhere near Simmons and could never hope to be.
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 10:46 pm
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Posted on 2/2/16 at 10:46 pm to David, Larry David
My favorite comment was an MSU fan saying Simmons can't dribble with his head up 
Posted on 2/2/16 at 10:49 pm to memphisplaya
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My favorite comment was an MSU fan saying Simmons can't dribble with his head up
I remember that! I think I replied
ETA: Yeah that guy was arguing that Malik Monk was a much better player, and said Simmons can't dribble with his head up. He even watched both players' mixtapes.
Another guy said Simmons was an unreal athlete but raw. I disagree with both parts of that evaluation.
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 2/2/16 at 10:52 pm to David, Larry David
Yea Skal isn't even in the ballpark with Ben
Huge miss on rivals part
Huge miss on rivals part
Posted on 2/2/16 at 10:52 pm to David, Larry David
Skalabrine
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:11 pm to David, Larry David
Who is that guy who is a Bama football fan but a UK basketball fan? RTR? He was crowing about how skalabrine was better before the season.
Rivals basketball rankings are a joke.
Rivals basketball rankings are a joke.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:19 pm to David, Larry David
It's hard to understand how they fricked that up. It's not like Simmons all around talent and polish is hard to recognize. Just watch him for a minute and then you know
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:35 pm to David, Larry David
Rivals is a total joke on all aspects
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:43 pm to genro
Rivals is afraid they'll be late to the party on the next big thing. Simmons was a known commodity. Skal picked up a lot of steam towards the end of the recruitment period (much like Karl Anthony Towns, who is actually good), so they jumped into the inexplicable hype.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:47 pm to REG861
A lot of the Skal hype came from rivals. He outplayed Simmons at one camp and some people overreacted. They forgot that Simmons had been dominating for years.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:48 pm to REG861
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Who is that guy who is a Bama football fan but a UK basketball fan?
RTR America
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:36 am to REG861
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Who is that guy who is a Bama football fan but a UK basketball fan?
Most of them are the same
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:43 am to Jrv2damac
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RTR America
I was hoping that was a joke
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:46 am to rockiee
He's from Kentucky and attended Alabama. Sorry to disappoint
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:49 am to genro
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Sorry to disappoint
Why would I be disappointed?
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:51 am to David, Larry David
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Skal is averaging about 8 and 3
It's that much? I've watched probably 6 or 7 UK games this year and I don't think I've seen him surpass 5 points or 2 boards a single time.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:56 am to rockiee
You were hoping he was just a frontrunner? 
Posted on 2/3/16 at 1:01 am to genro
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You were hoping he was just a frontrunner?
I mean he still could be if he exclusively roots for Bama in football and Kentucky in basketball. It doesn't really matter though, I'm not going to try and tell someone who they shouldn't or should root for in college sports. I still find it very odd though.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 9:22 am to David, Larry David
Scout also has Labissiere as their number 1. They were both wrong.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 9:26 am to David, Larry David
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Any Kentucky fans ready to eat crow about this guy yet?
More than one service picked Skal (it was pretty evenly split at one point). And those are guys who get paid to evaluate players.
As far as the Simmons hype, he's very good. I don't know that anyone rationally denied that. But even as good as he is, the "next Lebron" hype was still ridiculous.
It's sad that some LSU fans have such a complex about it though. If he's legitimately going to be that good of a pro player, it doesn't matter much what a preseason service projected him as in the draft.
ETA: All that said, I'm certainly not sad to likely have him back a second season. He has a nice jumper and with some work in the weight room still has a decent ceiling.
This post was edited on 2/3/16 at 9:29 am
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