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Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Hoops Dawg

Hoops Dawg — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:01:07 +0000

Let’s hope we can call him Swiss swish!

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Decatur Dawg

Decatur Dawg — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:00:06 +0000

Swiss Miss has to be a better shooter than Brantley.

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Hoops Dawg

Hoops Dawg — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:52:13 +0000

I’ve heard that Forte ( the SF) is pretty darn strong and quite the scorer. If true, he seems to be exactly what we need (and he has 3 years of remaining eligibility). Chip Towers in the AJC is also reporting that Fox is to add a 3-point specialist from Switzerland who will be joining the team as a walk on next year. This guy has international experience and, as a walk on, can’t be much worse of a gamble than our recent 3-point specialist. To me, the roster looks quite a bit better than it did several days ago.

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Mazel Dawg

Mazel Dawg — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:50:38 +0000

Fox added a 4th yesterday. He is a 6’7″ SF JUCO. The recruiting class is complete. It is quite underwhelming.

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:36:27 +0000

He has a number of videos on you tube. He can dunk, make 3′s and has a post up jumper. All against high school teams. His team won the state championship in their division. He seems to have some talent. What bothers me is that he was only recruited by small colleges. Remember, Brantley was brought in as a shooter. We know how that worked out.
I hope that Thornton would return healthy. He must be talented to be Mr. Basketball in Ga. I have never seen it. He is a favorite of Fox’s and he played him many minutes even though he was not healthy. Wasn’t fair to Thornton. Let’s hope we are not in for a repeat performance.

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by hoopdawg

hoopdawg — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:13:57 +0000

ESPN has him as a 2-star, and he is not rated on Rivals or Scout. I watched some of his highlights – he is a 6’6″ wing who looks pretty thin, but he has some nice athleticism. His ESPN profile claimed he had some range as well.

Geno’s only other offer listed at this point was from Florida Gulf Coast U – the team that just made that deep run into this year’s NCAA Tournament.

He sounds like another project.

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Hoops Dawg

Hoops Dawg — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:58:33 +0000

Color me crazy maybe, but I believe that if Thornton’s rehabed knees permit nearly a full range of movement, he’ll score better than we’ve seen thus far. I don’t think that the man has been right physically since he enrolled at UGA. Anybody know much of anything about the new small forward Fox just signed?

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:06:42 +0000

The most glaring weakness last year was the inability of the bigs to make layups or to catch and score. With the freshmen being better-that may not be enough.Will the year to year improvement of the returning guys make up for the loss of KCP’s 18 pts per game? Remember, we counted on Nemi and Donte improving-they didn’t or regressed. And Fox expects Thornton back. That means a lot of minutes and no scoring. Hard to be optimistic that next year will be better.

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Decatur Dawg

Decatur Dawg — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:29:24 +0000

I do think that Mann may be a real star.

If we could somehow bring in a bruising power forward from JUCO that would be huge.

Comment on Kentavious-Caldwell Pope leaving after two years at UGA for NBA Draft by Michael

Michael — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:27:46 +0000

I’m optimistic about Mann really becoming a force for UGA, much like Sundiata. He has a year of experience and learned a lot with increased playing time throughout the season. Hopefully in the offseason he gets a little stronger and works on his game. Mann really has a strength of getting to the free throw line, something we haven’t really seen since Gaines and Woodbury. Houston Kessler was a redshirt this year, I’m sure he needed to get stronger in the lower body. We will see what he has next season.