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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-20-2014, 06:11 PM:

Parker seems like a good guy and wish him well in the NBA.

NEW YORK — Make no mistake, Jabari Parker wants his friend Jahlil Okafor and his former Duke teammates to win the NCAA championship this season, but the Bucks rookie thinks John Calipari’s platoon system at Kentucky will work.

Calipari has said he plans to play as many as 10-12 players 20 minutes each in order to “feed” all of his guys and help them reach the NBA.

“Some of them [at Kentucky] will want to play more because they were All-Americans in high school, the best players on their team, so obviously they’re going to [want to] play more but I think it’s going to work,” Parker said Monday at shootaround before the Bucks played the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

“It worked out for them last year with all that talent.”

A year ago, Kentucky reached the NCAA championship game before losing to Shabazz Napier and UConn, while Parker and Duke were bounced in their first game by Mercer in what turned out to be Parker’s last collegiate game.

Asked how he would’ve reacted had Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski used a platoon system with Parker, he said he wouldn’t have loved the idea.

“I [would feel] real upset but you almost have to accept it because it’s for the betterment of the team and their method kind of worked last year,” Parker said.

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