During the 2017 preseason, college basketball prognosticators liked what they saw in the Cats, with one exception — Kentucky’s outside shooting ability. The players laughed it off in interviews. “Are you serious?” was a common response to the question. The players proved the prognosticators wrong by shooting over 35 percent during the season.
Eight minutes after the Diallo news broke and four minutes before he confirmed it on Twitter, we heard that question about next year’s team for the first time: “Can anybody on Kentucky’s team shoot?”
Steve Jones of The Courier-Journal was the first to ask it, but he will not be the last.