It's like 10 months. He's grown up enough to withstand it, and to understand what it means for his (and his family's) future.
He can play for a soulful team at the YMCA anytime he wants after that.
Milan Momcilovic commits to Kentucky
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He can play for a soulful team at the YMCA anytime he wants after that.
What happened to Matt and Wayne? Are they still with ISU, or were they shown the door?
The UK signing helps his pocket book- but going to the BYU of the SEC dies not help Milan's draft stock. His draft stock is hurt by his lack of defense and that is not going to improve under Mark Pope.
Momcilovic did a solid job putting ball on the floor this past season vs. his frosh/soph years. Kid works his game and improves y-o-y. He was a solid Cyclone and sounds like TJ & Momcilovic were very clear with each other when Momcilovic looked at the NBA what his future as a Cycone was.
New era of college hoops and players get paid to play. So why shouldn't a 20ish kid jump for a bigger paycheck. People on this board do it all the time in their jobs! And most people on this board aren't looking at a multi-million dollar bump over their current situation!
Kentucky has had their struggles since Pope was hired. But Pope's system could be a good fit for Momcilovic with more motion, cutting & screens in halfcourt offense.
He wasn't going somewhere to improve, he is what he is, he was going somewhere to get a fat payday
I interpret Pope's comment as just another way of saying to shoot more. Most players will shoot a lower percentage if they shoot more because they're likely taking more contested shots, shots off the dribble, etc. I hope Milan does well.
Ok, but he had the 4th most attempts in all of college basketball last year. 2nd most at the high major level. Only Honor Huff of West Virginia had more at the high major level.
What are we talking about? Saunders attempted 170 3’s in 25 games. 6.8 attempts per game. Milan attempted 279 3’s in 37 games. 7.5 attempts per game.
I guess Saunders did have slightly more field goal attempts, in general, per game (12 FGa/game vs 11 for Milan), but he also averaged more minutes per game.
It's just coach speak. TJ was trying to get Milan to shoot as much as possible too. He had the green light to shoot whenever he wanted. Pope is trying to do the same thing with a little different message. At the end of the day it's up to Milan to pull the trigger. Not everything that Pope and Milan says this year is some kind of referendum on what Milan did at ISU.
It's word for word what TJ told Milan last year. "I don't care if your percentage goes down, I want more shots". He just happened to raise his percentage on more shots.
Matt wrote checks to players, Wayne had an in with 1 of the 5 families. Of course no, but they were employed under JP.
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I mean, putting any kind of responsibility on JP for Wayne Morgan is pretty silly. He fired him within six months of getting the job at ISU.
Correct. Milan was absolutely freaking fantastic last year. Overall, he was factually very clutch and level'd up in every way he could have. Last season will be objectively remembered as one of the greatest shooting seasons in CBB history.
I hope Milan's season will be remembered as one of the greatest shooting seasons ever. Unfortunately, it seems that some can't talk about his season without making reference to his sub-par performance under very difficult conditions in the Tennessee game. Yes, I wish he had gone on a scoring rampage like at the end of the first half of the Kentucky game (quite ironic now), but I will consider myself to have been very fortunate to be able to see Milan's epic season. It is going to be fun to talk about it years from now after no one comes close to his performance for a few decades.
This. We can’t spend the next 9 months butthurt over every little thing that Pope or Milan says, and regard it as a slight against ISU or TJ.
It’s basic coach speak media interview type stuff. I
