Hot Take: We Overvalue our own players
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I’m seeing so many takes on Flory that make me feel like I’m taking crazy pills. He is fine and will get better but what he was last year is more than replaceable. He was downright bad down the stretch.
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I 100% agree with this. He was not very good the last 4 weeks or so. He is replaceable, but it would have been nice to keep for his potential. If he stays two more years, he will be a pretty good college player.
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@BShark I think most of us were in love with his upside. We haven’t always come out great living on a dream.
His upside was defense and rebounding.
On offense… realistically… he could go from being effective at 3-feet (dunks) to being effective around 7 to 8-feet.
I think we really liked the contrast he showed comparing him to Hunter. What would have to be addressed this coming year is all the offense we lose by losing Hunter!
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We said the same about Zuby.
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@BShark Oh come on now. A BEAST who averages 5.9 points and 5.4 rebounds per game is worth at least 3 mil. By those standards, my boss will surely up my pay to 837 billion per year.
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Flory was electric. Great determination and effort. I’ll take that x1000 any day of the week.
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Everyone who thinks Flory is a $3 million dollar player is betting against Bill and staff’s assessment of talent. Given the last 3 years, can you blame them?
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@approxinfinity said in Hot Take: We Overvalue our own players:
We said the same about Zuby.
I always liked Zuby. Said we should have kept him but not Udeh. Worth noting though that Zuby went off year 3 and KU is all in on next year for many reasons.
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Zuby bolted over competition for minutes. Flory bolted for money. I find one more troubling.
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Seeing possibly it’s between that Weasel Pearl and KU for Flory.-- Auburn or coming back? just talk but also heard possibly some tampering goin on with the hole Flory thing.
It a down to Ku & Auburn coming out of High School and lookie here— here we are again, Hearing right now Auburn is the one to beat if we want him back.
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Might be wise to recruit more sophomores and juniors than true freshman until the portal calms down. Maybe. Dunno
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@approxinfinity said in Hot Take: We Overvalue our own players:
Everyone who thinks Flory is a $3 million dollar player is betting against Bill and staff’s assessment of talent. Given the last 3 years, can you blame them?
Dang this sounds like something I would have said lol I’m wearing off on you and that’s not good! Only enough room for 3-4 negative guys not the owner of the site too now!
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Also what if Flory just wants to be at Auburn
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What if other transfers would want to play at KU if we had Flory?
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I just dont get writing off Florys importance or value. His departure is devastating imo. And looking at his per game stats over the year is not an accurate metric of value.
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I agree. He played the most minutes for a freshman big at KU since Cliff Alexander in 2014. He’s only been playing the sport 3-4 years and would seem to be in the early stages of reaching his full potential. He can be developed into an NBA talent in 1-2 years I believe.
Personally, I think his departure is not just about money but that’s me. I seem to remember we put a together a sizeable NIL deal to get him to KU in the first place and figured we would have done a lot to try and keep him here given the promise shown as a freshman. If another program is willing to pay him above what KU feels they are comfortable paying then that’s certainly an issue. We’ll have to wait and see who has the last laugh.
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My thoughts on Flory… if we had a quality GM… none of this was necessary. They could have renegotiated his NIL contract and he would never have to be in this mess. He would have received a big bump in his money and would have kept his Jayhawk family love in perfect shape. It also makes his image look like he isn’t all about money, which might help him at the next level. Maybe I’m wrong… maybe players need to get out there and get offers to determine their best money.
