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posted 09-01-2019 05:53 PM
This week’s decision by five-star center N’Faly Dante to commit to Oregon over Kentucky for the upcoming basketball season makes John Calipari’s lineup decisions a little more interesting.
Had Dante chosen Kentucky, it would have given the Wildcats four players that could fit into the traditional roles of power forward or center. Instead, UK will have just three such players on its roster: junior center Nick Richards, sophomore power forward EJ Montgomery, and graduate transfer power forward Nate Sestina.
Calipari’s track record suggests that, had he landed Dante, he would have gone with a four-man rotation of bigs in those two spots, despite possessing a glut of talented guards and wings in a game that is increasingly focused on such players.
Without Dante, simple math suggests that Calipari will almost certainly need to play a little small ball — possibly a lot of small ball — during the 2019-20 season. Even if everyone stays healthy and no one gets into foul trouble, the trio of Richards, Montgomery and Sestina won’t be playing 80 minutes per game.
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