Adou Thiero has a commitment to defense and the weight room

(Photo: UK Athletics)One of the newest members of the Kentucky Basketball program, Adou Thiero arrived on campus in early June as one of the three incoming freshmen on the team. A late-bloomer in his high school class, Thiero didn’t receive his scholarship offer to Kentucky until March of this year, only a few months before he moved into the Lodge.

He was unranked when John Calipari extended the invitation.

Thiero has since made a bigger name for himself as a member of On3’s fifth-best recruiting class but he still doesn’t carry the expectations of UK’s two other freshmen, Cason Wallace and Chris Livingston, two five-star McDonald’s All-Americans. Wallace and Livingston are at Kentucky to…