Among John Calipari’s dilemmas this season is this: Kentucky has four big men capable of productive play, but he prefers a three-man rotation of “bigs.”
What to do? Calipari has taken a look at EJ Montgomery playing a wing.
“He’s still with the three in the rotation,” Montgomery said of Reid Travis, PJ Washington and Nick Richards. “He’s just playing me at ‘three’ a little bit so I can get more minutes.”
Montgomery, a 6-foot-10, 225-pound freshman and arguably the lightest on his feet among UK’s “bigs,” said he was comfortable playing the wing. But the move to the perimeter includes the “bigger challenge” of defending a smaller, quicker opponent.