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When you've got a system like Kentucky's, where you recruit with the expectation that several players will apply for the draft every spring...what do you do when they don't?
Kentucky could have seen Julius Randle, James Young Willie Cauley-Stein, Marcus Lee, Dakari Johnson, Alex Poythress and the Harrison twins jump ship.
Only Randle and Young went. The Harrisons announced Friday that they would return. The rest appear to be staying as well.
They also have Trey Lyles and Karl Towns, ranked the #1 power forward and the #4 center in the class of 2014 respectively, coming for the fall.
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Devin Booker and Tyler Ulis, highly regarded guards, are also on the way.
So who sits? John Calipari has seven guys for the frontcourt, and of those, we're not sure anyone other than Poythress and Willis are very well suited to play small forward.
You're probably looking at Johnson, Cauley-Stein, Lyles and Towns at a minimum splitting minutes at center and power forward. Willis and Poythress might be able to go at small forward.
But what if either of them are a liability, particularly on defense?
It's back to the queue at power forward if so.
Look, there are worse problems than having half your team be really talented guys who are taller than 6-9 (Poythress is 6-8, but he's still a power player).
Any coach would enjoy the talent.
But when the promise of your system is to get people to the NBA quickly, and your minutes are limited by the internal competition on your team...that's a very different kind of challenge, both for coaches and players.
It's going to be fascinating to see how UK deals with chemistry and how guys accept sitting.
Because some of them will have no choice.